Author: Marsilio Ficino
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This is the first English translation ever of Marsilio Ficinos underground classic of the Italian Renaissance, THE BOOK OF LIFE. Long suppressed because of Ficinos approach to images, demons & planets in relation to mental health, The Book of Lifetold politicians, thinkers, businessmen & artists of the Italian Renaissance the secrets of food, the pleasures of life, the antidotes to depression & a lot of other things that had been lost for centuries. In this charming & exact translation, Ficinos Book of Life is the Renaissance as you never heard it before!
Author: Suzanne Scanlon
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A series of fragmentary tales tells the story of Lizzie, a young woman who, in her early twenties, unexpectedly embarks on a journey through psychiatric institutions, a journey that will end up lasting many years. With echoes of Sylvia Plath, and against a cultural backdrop that includes Shakespeare, Woody Allen, and Heathers, Suzanne Scanlons first novel is both a deeply moving account of a life of crisis and a brilliantly original work of art. **About the Author Suzanne Scanlons writing has appeared in The Iowa Review, The American Scholar, DIAGRAM, and many other places. She has worked as an actress in New York and, more recently, in Chicago, where she now lives.
Author: Allessandro Carlucci
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bspan box-sizing inherit orphans 2 widows 2Winner of the prestigiousa href=httpwww.gramscitorino.itpremi-sormanipremio-gramsci.html box-sizing inherit overflow-wrap break-word word-wrap break-word word-break break-wordGiuseppe Sormani International Prizeafont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2for the best monograph on Antonio Gramsci (4th edition, 2012-2017).fontspanspan orphans 2 widows 2spanbp Segoe UI, serif 13pxbr box-sizing inherit orphans 2 widows 2span orphans 2 widows 2Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is one of the most translated Italian authors of all time. After the Second World War his thought became increasingly influential, and remained relevant throughout the second half of the century. Today, it is generally agreed that his Marxism has highly original and personal features, as confirmed by the fact that his international influence has continued to grow since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.spanspan box-sizing inherit orphans 2 widows 2Gramsci and Languagesspanspan orphans 2 widows 2offers an explanation of this originality and traces the origins of certain specific features of Gramscis political thought by looking at his lifelong interest in language, especially in questions of linguistic diversity and unification.span
Author: Emmanuelle Loyer
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Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete Claude Levi-Strauss (19082009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us. In this award-winning biography, historian Emmanuelle Loyer recounts Levi-Strausss childhood in an assimilated Jewish household, his promising student years as well as his first forays into political and intellectual movements. As a young professor, Levi-Strauss left Paris in 1935 for Sao Paulo to teach sociology. His rugged expeditions into the Brazilian hinterland, where he discovered the Amerindian Other, made him into an anthropologist. The racial laws of the Vichy regime would force him to leave France yet again, this time for the USA in 1941, where he became Professor Claude L. Strauss to avoid confusion with the jeans manufacturer. Levi-Strausss return to France, after the war, ushered in the period during which he produced his greatest works several decades of intense labour in which he reinvented anthropology, establishing it as a discipline that offered a new view on the world. In 1955,Tristes Tropiquesoffered indisputable proof of this the world over. During those years, Levi-Strauss became something of a French national monument, as well as a celebrity intellectual of global renown. But he always claimed his perspective was a view from afar, enabling him to deliver incisive and subversive diagnoses of our waning modernity. Loyers outstanding biography tells the story of a true intellectual adventurer whose unforgettable voice invites us to rethink questions of the human and the meaning of progress. She portrays Levi-Strauss less as a modern than as our own great and disquieted contemporary. **
Author: Emer O'Sullivan
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Childrens literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, merchandising tie-ins, novelizations, and multimedia texts, and its genres include adventure stories, drama, science fiction, poetry, and information books. The Historical Dictionary of Childrens Literature relates the history of childrens literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, books, and genres. Some of the most legendary names in all of literature are covered in this important reference, including Hans Christian Anderson, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter, J.K. Rowling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, and E.B. White.**
Author: Martin Heale
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Although hundreds of dependent priories were founded across medieval Europe, they remain little studied and much misunderstood. Usually dismissed as just administrative units, many were in fact genuine religious houses set up for spiritual reasons. This study charts for the first time the history of the 140 or so daughter houses of English monasteries, which have always been overshadowed by the French cells in England, the so-called alien priories. The first part of the book examines the reasons for the foundation of these monasteries and the relations between dependent priories and their mother houses, bishops and patrons. The second part investigates everyday life in cells, the priories interaction with their neighbours and their economic viability. The unusual pattern of dissolution of these houses is also revealed. The experience of daughter houses sheds a great deal of light on the world of the small religious house, and suggests that these shadowy institutions were far more central to medieval religion and society than has been appreciated. MARTIN HEALE is Lecturer in Late Medieval History, University of Liverpool.ReviewA major contribution to this important and neglected segment of historiography. Maps, an impressive bibliography and an index give additional value to this significant volume. REVUE DHISTOIRE ECCLESIASTIQUE(The author) has expanded the scope of and enriched late medieval English monastic studies. SOUTHERN HISTORY An extremely thorough and clear account of the history and everyday life of the hitherto little-studied area of English dependent priories. REVIEWS IN RELIGION AND THEOLOGY Enhanced as it is by the inclusion of sophisticated figures, tables, maps and five detailed appendices, (this book) clearly embodies a radical reappraisal of the positioning, functions and significance of the dependent cells within English monastic history. (.) It may be regarded as something of a pioneering enterprise. HISTORY About the AuthorMartin Heale is Lecturer in Late Medieval History, University of Liverpool.
Author: Stephen Rippon
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The varied character of Britains countryside and towns provides communities with a strong sense of local identity. One of the most significant features of the southern British landscape is the way that its character differs from region to region, with compact villages in the Midlands contrasting with the sprawling hamlets of East Anglia and isolated farmsteads of Devon. Even more remarkable is the very English feel of the landscape in southern Pembrokeshire, in the far south west of Wales. Hoskins described the English landscape as the richest historical record we possess, and in this book Stephen Rippon explores the origins of regional variations in landscape character, arguing that while some landscapes date back to the centuries either side of the Norman Conquest, other areas across southern Britain underwent a profound change around the 8th century AD.