Author: Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron File Type: pdf Fougeret de Monbron (17061760) was a minor French writer known in Parisian literary circles in the 1740s and 1750s for his spoof of Voltaires Henriade, entitled La Henriade travestie (1745). He is generally considered the model for LUI in Diderots fragmented novel the Neveu de Rameau, written some time after 1761. In addition to this, his travel memoirs, Le Cosmopolite (1750), are a recognized source of Voltaires Candide (1759). Today, Monbrons novel on prostitution Margot la ravaudeuse (1753) (or Margot, the stocking darner) is his best known work. Widely read in France (where it has appeared in four separate editions since 1990), and moreover translated since the eighteenth century into other European languages, Margot has never been adequately made available to English-speaking readers. Professor Langilles new translation brings Margot la ravaudeuse for the first time to students of eighteenth-century literature, and most especially to those interested in that intriguing sub-genre known as prostitution narrative.
Author: David J. Yount
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This book argues against the common view that there are no essential differences between Plato and the Neoplatonist philosopher, Plotinus, on the issues of mysticism, epistemology, and ethics. Beginning by examining the ways in which Plato and Plotinus claim that it is possible to have an ultimate experience that answers the most significant philosophical questions, David J. Yount provides an extended analysis of why we should interpret both philosophers as mystics. The book then moves on to demonstrate that both philosophers share a belief in non-discursive knowledge and the methods to attain it, including dialectic and recollection, and shows that they do not essentially differ on any significant views on ethics.Making extensive use of primary and secondary sources, Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology and Ethics shows the similarities between the thought of these two philosophers on a variety of philosophical questions, such as meditation, divination, wisdom, knowledge, truth, happiness and love. **
Author: Isabel Hoving
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Why do we find so many references to nature and the environment in the many Caribbean literary texts that try to come to terms with the contemporary age of globalization? Even when these novels and poems do not seem to be concerned with environmental issues at all, they abound with fragrant, creepy or dark references to flowers, insects, trees, gardens, and mud. This book discusses a range of Anglophone and Dutch-language Caribbean literary texts to propose an answer. It shows that some writers evoke nature to question oppressive notions of what is natural, and what is not, when it comes to race, gender, and desire. Other writers choose to counter the destructive dichotomies of wildnessorder, natureculture, naturehuman that marked colonialism. Instead, they represent the environment as a field of interconnectedness, marked by intense semiotic interaction, in which human beings are also implicated. But writing about nature can also be a means to reconnect with the very foundations of life itself. In the most dramatic cases, references to nature evoke an extra-discursive space that then functions to subvert existing discourses. That space may even mark the site of the annihilation of discourse, or of the self. These texts suggest that, in times of globalization, it is only the dark, queer turn to matter that will free the path to imagining human existence in a new way. The books proposal to understand some of these fascinating texts as an effort to relate to the mind-baffling, explosive real is inspired by postcolonial trauma theory, posthumanism, and new materialism. However, Caribbean literature is a layered practice, that does much more than merely explore the worlds materiality. It works simultaneously as cultural critique, counter-discourse, and as the manipulation of affect. This book therefore brings together ecocriticism with Caribbean and postcolonial studies, the study of globalization, trauma theory, the study of gender and sexuality, posthumanism and new materialism, to bring out the full complexity of these wise texts. Thus, it hopes to show its readers their extraordinary innovative potential.
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
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From the Book Jacket What is Knowledge? What is Truth? And what is the Secret? If you knew the answers youd understand all. Fortunately for you, theyre right in your hands. For having codified the axioms and the route to exteriorization and Operating Thetan, Ron provided it all in the Scientology Auditors Handbook-The Creation of Human Ability. Amongst those breakthroughs, the importance of one factor stood above all-Communication. Contained in that word is no less than the magical formula which leads all the way out and which set a new direction for auditing at every level. In just that regard, Ron returned to Book One and in the framework of the problems addressed therein, applied the most advanced discoveries to their resolution. Here, then, is both the Second Book of Dianetics and the milestone Unification of Dianetics and Scientology as a combined whole-with the Complete Manual of Communication the complete description of the Awareness Unit-first revealed in Book One and now from the vantage of exterior ability the new approach to all auditing and living-the accent on increasing ability, rather than deleting inability the most complete description of the A-R-C Triangle-unveiled as no less than a mathematical formula to resolve any question, any problem and life itself the Secret and its answer-revealing the source of all Entrapment and, in turn, providing the key that unlocks every barrier the Communication Formula-containing the anatomy and component parts of a cycle of communication and which, in use, is no less than a universal solvent the Two-way Cycle of Communication-crucial to all auditing success and even more important in living all that and so much more-from the foreverness of the physical universe to the insidious role of silence that sticks one on the track, and from the anatomy of the communication lag to the singular process that creates a One-shot Clear. In summary, heres the one book that stands as the linchpin not only to auditing, but to virtually all of freedom itself.
Author: Maarten 't Hart
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Enkele weken uit het leven van een, in de wetenschap geslaagde bioloog, wiens zelfgezochte eenzaamheid enerzijds deerniswekkend is en anderzijds leidt tot een bepaalde vorm van geluk.
Author: Joseph L. Locke
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I too am not a bit tamedI too am untranslatable I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own studentsan accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond. Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual voices. The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in the history of the United States, while also looking for the common threads that help us make sense of the past. Without losing sight of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. The fully peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two print volumes designed for the U.S. history survey. Volume II opens in the Gilded Age, before moving through the twentieth century as the country reckoned with economic crises, world wars, and social, cultural, and political upheaval at home. Bringing the narrative up to the present,The American Yawp enables students to ask their own questions about how the past informs the problems and opportunities we confront today. **
Author: Spike Walker
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When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from Americas most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fishermans worst nightmare has become a Coast Guard crews desperate mission. As the crew of the La Conte begin to die one by one, those sworn to watch over them risk everything to pull off the rescue of the century.Spike Walkers memoir of his years as a deckhand in Alaska, Working on the Edge, was hailed by James A. Michner as masterful . . . will become the definitive account of this perilous trade, an addition to the literature of the sea. In Coming Back Alive, Walker has crafted his most devastating book to date. Meticulously researched through hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the survivors, this is the true account of the La Contes final voyage and the relationship between Alaskan fishermen and the search and rescue crews who risk their lives to save them.**
Author: Stuart Sim
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Is absolute belief making a comeback? Recently the public has accepted unquestioningly certain political, economic, and scientific theories, and for sceptical people, this is a deeply worrying trend. Stuart Sim outlines the history of scepticism in both Western and Islamic traditions from the Enlightenment to today. He argues that we need less belief and more doubt-an engaged scepticism that replaces dogmatism. Addressing contemporary debates surrounding terrorism and fundamentalism, Sims suggests that scepticism can play a greater role in public and political life.
Author: Marangraphics Development Group
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Produced by the award-winning maranGraphics Group, Maran Illustrated Guide to Weight Training is a valuable resource for all readers, regardless of age or fitness level. Clear, step-by-step instructions walk the reader through each exercise from beginning to end, while photographs and illustrations show you the targeted muscles for each exercise and how to help prevent injury. Thorough topic introductions and useful tips provide additional information and advice to enhance the readers weight training experience and help meet their individual needs. Maran Illustrated Guide to Weight Training is packed with information useful to readers who are just beginning to make weight training a part of their health regime. For readers who have been weight training for some time, the book is ideal as a refresher course on proper form and will present new exercises that even experienced weight trainers can add to their routines.** Produced by the award-winning maranGraphics Group, Maran Illustrated Guide to Yoga is a valuable resource for all readers, regardless of age or fitness level. Instead of describing the myriad ways to perform each pose, Maran Illustrated Guide to Yoga shows the reader the best way, while the full-color photographs and clear, step-by-step instructions walk the reader through each pose from beginning to end. Thorough topic introductions and useful tips provide additional information and advice to enhance the readers yoga experience and help meet their individual needs. Maran Illustrated Guide to Yoga is packed with essential information including warm-up poses, breathing exercises, seated poses, chair poses, standing poses, bends, relaxation poses, practice sequences and much more. This book is an invaluable guide for beginners who wish to familiarize themselves with the basics of yoga without having to participate in classes, or as a refresher course for individuals wishing to become reacquainted with yoga. Maran Illustrated Guide to Yoga costs less than the price of one private yoga lesson and will be a permanent resource that can be accessed at any time.**