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Le premier défi de la démocratie est de donner le «goût de l'avenir» (Alexis de Tocqueville), de générer l'enthousiasme qui poussera les jeunes d'esprit à progresser d'eux-mêmes vers de nouvelles quêtes de sens et de savoir, à renouveler peut-être surtout, dans le contexte des nouvelles connaissances et d'une prise de conscience accrue des richesses des différentes cultures, les questions que l'on appelle «ultimes et les plus hautes»,...
44) Sea and Sardinia
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Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It reveals his response to a new landscape and people and his ability to transmute the spirit of place into literary art. Like his other travel writings the book is also a shrewd inquiry into the political and social values of an era which saw the rise of communism and fascism. On one level an indictment...
45) Heretics
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Heretics by G. K. Chesterton
Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word "orthodox." In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. It was the kingdoms of the world and the police and the judges who were heretics. He was orthodox. He had no pride in having rebelled against them; they had rebelled against him. The armies with their cruel...
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First published in 1883, 'Nature Near London' presents an authentic illustration of the idyllic countryside to be found near London, England. This volume constitutes a must-read for all lovers of nature writing. Contents include: 'Woodlands', 'Footpaths', 'Flocks Of Birds', 'Nightingale Road', 'A Brook', 'A London Trout', 'A Barn', 'Wheatfields', 'The Crows', 'Heathlands', 'The River', 'Nutty Autumn', 'Round A London Copse', 'Magpie Fields', 'Herbs',...
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John Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies, first published in 1865, stands as a classic nineteenth-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. Although widely popular in its time, the work in its entirety has been out of print since the early twentieth century. This volume returns Sesame and Lilies to easy availability and reunites the two halves of the work: Of Kings' Treasuries, in which Ruskin critiques, Victorian manhood, and Of Queens'...
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When Jerome K Jerome and his friend decide to attend the Oberammergau Passion Play, an Easter pageant that is performed in Oberlin, Germany once every decade, they turn the trip into a vacation. From London to Germany, the pair plan a cross-continent trip, excited to sight-see and experience different cultures. However, the friends run into conflict before they even take off, unsure what to pack. While they sort through contradicting advice from others,...
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Twenty-one philosophers join forces to investigate the implications of the Jurassic Park franchise for our lives, our values, and our future. Human beings live and thrive by modifying nature, but when do the risks of changing nature outweigh the likely benefits? If it's true that 'Life will find a way,' should we view any modified or newly reconstituted life as a hazard? The new scientific information we could gain by bringing back T. Rex or other...
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Este libro hace un repaso histórico de la vida del conquistador mongol y la construcción de este imperio que pronto se convirtió en el más extenso de la historia. El autor, primero, analiza las relaciones entre las poblaciones nómadas y las sedentarias, con una atención especial en el caso chino. Después, procura exponer los elementos claves para entender la superioridad militar de los pastores nómadas sobre los agricultores sedentarios de...
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Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) is the giant imagination behind so much recent popular culture-both movies directly based on his writings, such as Blade Runner (based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and The Adjustment Bureau plus cult favorites such as A Scanner Darkly, Imposter, Next, Screamers, and Paycheck and works revealing his powerful influence, such as The Matrix and Inception....
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After he was handed an old broken-down bamboo fly rod, Frank Soos waited several years before he cautiously undertook its restoration. That painstaking enterprise becomes the central metaphor and the unifying theme for the captivating personal essays presented here.
With sly wit and disarming candor, Soos recounts fly-fishing adventures that become points of departure for wide-ranging ruminations on the larger questions that haunt him. Coming to...
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There's a fresh coating of snow on the ground outside our cabin as I look to see who's coming to the fourteen feeders, we keep filled with black oil sunflower seeds year-round. So, begins “A Year of Moons: Stories from the Adirondack Foothills”, a collection of essays by award winning author Joeseph Bruchac. The collection is a reflection on the rhythms of the land, the lunar cycles of the year, the plants and animals that surround us, and the...
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Descubra los movimientos, obras y autores fundamentales del patrimonio literario de la humanidad. Aprenda a distinguir épocas y estilos, conozca la esencia de los textos más representativos de manera entretenida y rigurosa, aprenda a disfrutar y comprender mejor las obras que interpretan el mundo que nos rodea. Una completa panorámica del tesoro cultural de las letras universales.
¿Qué tiene que ver el vino con el nacimiento del teatro? ¿Qué...
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How do people sense God's presence in created things?
Seeing God Everywhere is an anthology of essays on nature and the sacred, which address that question. Written by an impressive list of spiritual leaders and thinkers, these essays explore the question from many different perspectives. Reading these essays enriches our inner lives and enlivens our contemplative imaginations. Surely, this is the "deepest" ecology possible! As a special bonus, at...
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Isabelo's Archive reenacts El Folk-Lore Filipino (1889), Isabelo de los Reyes's eccentric but groundbreaking attempt to build an archive of popular knowledge in the Philippines. Inspired by Isabelo's ghostly project, this collection mixes essays, vignettes, extracts, and notes on Philippine history and culture... Blending the literary and the academic, wondrously diverse in its range, it has many gems to offer the reader.
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À l'heure des fake news et de la quantité grandissante d'informations mises à notre disposition, la nécessité de faire preuve d'esprit critique n'a jamais été aussi grande. Mais qu'est-ce que cela signifie, faire preuve d'esprit critique ? Peut-on développer cette faculté et si oui, comment ? Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de proposer une réflexion sur l'esprit critique, ainsi que sa pratique au niveau individuel et sociétal. Un dialogue y...
58) Faces Of You
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Light is seen from a distance, hide me in your close now, but one day I will open the door, one day I will shine. Faces Of You is wrote with my ex-husband, my first love in mind.
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Descubra la historia de uno de los imperios más duraderos en la historia del mundo, el otomano, desde su formación por el guerrero musulmán turco, Osmán, a comienzos del siglo XIV hasta su desaparición oficial en 1922. La lucha contra el Imperio hispánico de Solimán I el Magnífico y Selim II, el sistema del millet, el genocidio armenio y los Jóvenes Turcos. Conozca la historia de un imperio musulmán que duró aproximadamente desde 1299 hasta...
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Pourquoi s'intéresser au développement et à l'évaluation de la réflexivité en santé? L'acquisition de compétences professionnelles ne peut se traduire uniquement par l'assimilation de connaissances ou l'intégration de techniques à reproduire. Cela demande la mise en relation des apprentissages réalisés autant dans les stages et les cours pratiques que dans les cours théoriques. Cela suppose des moments de réflexion sur ses anticipations,...
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