Jerusalem in the Time of the Crusades: Society, Landscape and Art in the Holy City Under Frankish Rule
Author: Adrian J. Boas File Type: pdf Adrian Boass combined use of historical and archaeological evidence together with first-hand accounts written by visiting pilgrims results in a multi-faceted perspective on Crusader Jerusalem. Generously illustrated, this book will serve both as a scholarly account of this citys archaeology and history, and a useful guide for the interested reader to a city at the centre of international and religious interest and conflict today.**
Author: Bob den Uyl
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Een gretige selectie uit Bob den Uyls rijke oeuvre, waaronder het beroemde verhaal Opkomst & Ondergang van de Zwarte Trui en het nog niet eerder in boekvorm gepubliceerde Katendrecht als droom en De duur van de wereld. Als ik aan Bob den Uyl denk en ik denk vaak aan hem zie ik het aandoenlijke gezicht van iemand die het pijnlijk genot van de berusting ondergaat- Jan Siebelink Droefheid en humor, een ideale combinatie. Remco Campert Den Uyl pijnigt zijn lezer met de trage ontrafeling van illusies, maar troost hem met zijn meesmuilende humor. Tommy Wieringa
Author: Gregory D. Smithers
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A thought-provoking piece of scholarship that sheds light on the complex history of slave breeding in America. Smitherss book will be hotly debated in the profession.Michael L. Ondaatje, University of Newcastle, Australia As engaging as it is compelling, bold, and captivating, Smitherss Slave Breeding pulls the reader through its pages with heart-wrenching exposition of the dark and ugly chapter of what could rightly be characterized as the sexual zeitgeist of American national history.Tunde Adeleke, Iowa State University For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the sexual practices and marital status of enslaved African Americans to reproduce new generations of slaves for profit. In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. By placing African American histories and memories of slave breeding within the larger context of Americas history of racial and gender discrimination, Smithers sheds much-needed light on African American collective memory, racialized perceptions of fragile black families, and the long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and children of color. **
Author: Gavin Andrews
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Few countries can provide adequate health services for all the mentally ill, yet none have developed a rational system to decide who should be treated. This innovative book considers ways to resolve this dilemma. The questions are clear What should the criteria be for deployment of scarce treatment resources? How do we determine and apply such criteria? What are the ethical implications? In this pioneering work, an international team of eminent psychiatrists, epidemiologists, health administrators, economists and health planners examine these questions. This volume is divided into four parts Part I. Unmet Need Defining the Problem Part II. Unmet Need General Problems and Solutions Part III. Unmet Need in People with Specific Disorders and Part IV. Unmet Need Specific Issues. **
Author: Toni Pape Érik Bordeleau
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Nocturnal Fabulations is an essay in intercessing. This is not a book that is simply about Apichatpong Weerasethakul, though it does engage his work in detail. It is a book that deeply questions what else might be at stake in setting up the conditions for collaboration across two genres - cinema and writing. This collective project byErik Bordeleau, Toni Pape, Ronald Rose-Antoinette and Adam Szymanski is animated by a shared curiosity in the pragmatics of fabulation and its speculative gesture of bringing forth a people to come. In an encounter with Apichatpongs cinematic dreamscape, the concepts of ecology, vitality and opacity emerge to articulate an ethos of fabulation that deframes experience, recomposes subjectivity and unfixes time. **
Author: William S. Allen
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Maurice Blanchots writings have played a critical role in the development of 20th-century French thought, but the implicit tension in this role has rarely been addressed directly. Reading Blanchot involves understanding how literature can have an effect on philosophy, to the extent of putting philosophy itself in question by exposing a different and literary mode of thought. However, as this mode is to be found most substantially in the peculiar density of his fictional writings, rather than in his theoretical or critical works, the demand on readers to grasp its implications for thought is rendered more difficult. Blanchot and the Outside of Literature provides a detailed and far-reaching explication of how Blanchots works changed in the postwar period during which he arrived at this complex and distinctive form of writing.****ReviewIn earlier books on Holderlin and Heidegger, Adorno and Blanchot, and, more recently, the Marquis de Sade, William Allen has shown himself to be an exceptionally tough-minded, scrupulous, and resourceful commentator, given to elucidating some unusually challenging material with probing independence of view. This absorbing and thought-provoking new book is no different. Building on the arguments set out in Allens previous volumes, it deploys a lucid and incisive intelligence in attending to the distinctive qualities of Blanchots fictional and philosophical writings. It is a work all readers of modern philosophy and literature will ponder at length. Leslie Hill, Emeritus Professor of French Studies, University of Warwick, UKAbout the Author William S. Allen (PhD, University at Warwick) is an independent researcher and a librarian at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Ellipsis Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Holderlin, and Blanchot (2007), Aesthetics of Negativity Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy (2016), and Without End Sades Critique of Reason (Bloomsbury, 2017).