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19101) Bordeaux et l'Aquitaine
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Pas toujours très connue, l'Aquitaine, avec son centre de gravité autour de Bordeaux a été une plaque tournante au IVe siècle, avec la christianisation de notables de la région de Bordeaux, qui étaient en lien avec Ambroise, Jérme, Augustin, Martin de Tours, avec la présencde Sulpice Sévère, l'auteur de la vie de Martin de Tours, de Prosper d'Aquitaine, de Paulin de Nole, de Victorius d'Aquitaine. Une région et des auteurs à découvrir.
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A Study Guide for Richard Wright's "Bright and Morning Star," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
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On August 21, 2004, Marilyn Jansma stopped to pay toll on a Chicago highway. Kevin Jansma played blocks with their son, Trey, on the living room floor. A car mechanic, spent from an all-night birthday celebration, left work and fell asleep at the wheel.
FRAMES presents a real-life tragedy and its hopeful end by allowing the central characters to speak for themselves. Firsthand accounts stand side by side, forming an elegant and complex narrative...
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Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works from around the globe, have historically tended to depict mobility as a masculine phenomenon. The presence of such genres in women's writing, however, poses a rich and unique body of work. This volume examines the texts of Francophone women who have experienced or reflected upon the experience of transnational...
19105) Global Rhetorics of Science
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With this volume, the field of rhetoric of science joins its sister disciplines in history and philosophy in challenging the dominance of Euro-American science as a global epistemology. The discipline of rhetoric understands world-making and community-building as interdependent activities: i.e., if we practice science differently, we do politics differently, and vice versa. This wider aperture seems crucial at a time when we are confronted with the...
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El volumen recoge una serie de artículos que reflexionan sobre la arquitectura universitaria de Fernando Moreno Barberá, en su contexto histórico, político y socio-cultural. Se analizan las transformaciones en los paradigmas de la arquitectura y las artes plásticas, en la época de los años cincuenta y sesenta, coetánea a la arquitectura académica de Moreno Barberá y los antecedentes y los modelos de la arquitectura racional y moderna. Se...
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Like its predecessors in the ‘Durvile True Cases’ series, After the Force features true cases and investigations, this time by police officers who have served in municipal, provincial, and federal police services. Stories in this anthology are by people who have been passionate about their work in law enforcement and who generously explain what it was about their work that led them to choose a career or specific way of life "after the force."...
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A Study Guide for Lucille Clifton's "Climbing," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
19109) La transfiguration
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EditorialComme les fêtes de Noël (CPE n° 115) et de l'Épiphanie (CPE n° 80) sont indissociables, celles de Pâques (CPE n° 93) et de la Transfiguration le sont également, quoique d'une autre manière, du fait qu'à la Transfiguration le Christ manifeste déjà sa gloire de Ressuscité pour aider ses disciples à passer l'épreuve de la Passion. C'est pourquoi nous avons choisi, dans ce numéro, de nous attacher à la fête de la Transfiguration,...
19110) A Course in Miracles
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A Course in Miracles (often called just "the Course") is a self-study course for retraining the mind that is spiritual, rather than religious, in its perspective. Although it uses Christian terminology, it is ecumenical in its approach, and its underlying ontology is reminiscent of ancient refrains, echoing the world's most hallowed traditions. The Course is pragmatic in its method, and its aim is a peaceful mind: "Knowledge is not the motivation...
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This authoritative dictionary is designed to help readers expand vocabulary and language skills to reach appreciative levels and then exceed that! Hence, pick up the various ways to explain the meaning of idioms, phrases, and proverbs, besides interpreting figurative language, such as metaphors and similes. The volume is composed of four separate sections: 1. Idioms, 2. Phrases, 3. Proverbs, and 4. Metaphors and Similes. Key Features include Sentences...
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This book is based on extensive research in assessment and treatment of patients with functional disorders and provides a thorough background to functional disorders as well as the etiology, classification and treatment of the disorders. The book primarily targets clinicians in primary care, non-psychiatric specialties and other health care professionals. The chapters combine research and clinical experience and also provide techniques that can be...
19113) Master the Clerical Exams
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Peterson's Master the Clerical Exams provides test preparation for those seeking public- and private-sector clerical positions. This essential test-prep guide includes tips on how to score high on many of the most widely used exams for jobs with federal, state, and local governments; an overview of the civil service test-taking process; and subject reviews of all test areas. Master the Clerical Exams offers readers:
9 practice tests covering all...
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The need for informed analyses of health policy is now greater than ever. The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, socio-cultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care. Integrating perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and public health, this volume illuminates the relationships between justice and health...
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An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki.
Over the past year, a group of high school students have held weekly discussions in the basement conference room of a publishing house in San Francisco. Tasked with finding the best, most revealing, honest, and astonishing writing of the last twelve months, they pored over hundreds...
19116) Small Means and Great Ends
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"Small Means and Great Ends" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
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A Study Guide for Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
19118) Topical Memory System
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Use the Topical Memory System, developed by The Navigators, to improve your knowledge of the Bible, deepen your walk with God, and memorize verses that will carry you through the hard times of life. Learn more about God and His character as you memorize His Word. The e-book version of this product contains the following: Course workbook explaining the Topical Memory System (TMS) Virtual verse "cards" for 60 Bible verses in multiple Bible versions...
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The helpful advice, prayers, and devotions included in this manual aid anyone who finds himself serving the church and helping others in those tough situations when "you don't know what to say." Pastoral care in the church is not limited to pastors and other designated church leaders. Many parishioners perform services in the name of the church, and this book is a great guide for them. It includes helpful advice and tips on visiting the suffering,...