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La souffrance comme identité

Cet ouvrage montre brillamment comment en monde juif, depuis les fondations bibliques elles-mêmes, la souffrance, ses représentations et sa ritualisation ont façonné au fil des siècles l'histoire d'un peuple et d'une religion, et plus encore l'idée que ce peuple et cette ...

Dictionnaire de l'extrême gauche

Mai 68 est bien loin. Les gauchistes d'autrefois se sont effacés au profit des "alter" et des "anti" d'aujourd'hui, et les sans-logis, les sans-papiers ou les sans-travail sont les nouveaux damnés de la Terre... et de l'utralibéralisme. L'extrême gauche se ...

Dictionnaire de l'extrême droite

A l'extrême droite, plus qu'ailleurs, les mots sont des armes pour le combat politique. Ces mots sont particuliers : soit parce qu'ils sont inventés pour fustiger un ennemi (" Ripoublique ", "établissement", "sidaïques"), soit parce qu'ils prennent un sens spécial dans la bouche des ...

L'aigle et la synagogue

Napoléon, les juifs et l'État

On sait quelle #uvre pionnière a accomplie la Révolution française en établissant une stricte égalité juridique entre tous les hommes, en donnant aux protestants et aux Juifs la totalité de leurs droits civiques, et le Code civil, promulgué en 1804 par le Premier Consul, passe ...

Lexique bilingue des termes juridiques

français-espagnol

Ce lexique juridique bilingue (français-espagnol) s'adresse aux étudiants de l'enseignement supérieur inscrits dans les cursus de Droit, de L.E.A., de A.E.S. ou A.E.I. dans lesquels s'intègrent des matières juridiques enseignées en espagnol (droit commercial, droit civil ...

La ponderación en el Estado de necesidad

Agents of Empire

spanish ambassadors in sixteenth-century Italy

Historians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the outbreak in 1618 of the Thirty Years' War, Spanish domination of Italy was so complete that one can refer to the period as a "pax hispanica ...

The troubled pregnancy

legal wrongs and rights in reproduction

Mason looks at the legal response to those aspects of the troubled pregnancy which require or involve medico-legal intervention. The unwanted pregnancy is considered particularly in the light of the Abortion Act 1967, s.1(1)(d) and the related action for so-called wrongful birth ...

Rome

This pocket-size reference draws on the vast treasures of this ancient civilization to illustrate the remarkable achievements of one of the great empires of the West, from the traditional date of Rome's founding - 754 B.C. - until the fall of the Western Empire in ...

The Pythagorean theorem

a 4000-year history

By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics, one remembered from high school geometry class by even the most math-phobic students. Well over four hundred proofs are known to exist, including ones by a twelve-year-old Einstein, a young ...

Mesopotamia

assyrians, sumerians, babylonians

This beautifully illustrated guide to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, is the perfect companion for travelers and armchair travelers alike. It provides a concise survey of three ancient cultures that have often been misunderstood, both because of ...

Nietzsche and Rée

a star friendship

Presents intellectual partnership of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Paul Ree (1849-1901). This work combines biography with philosophy to give an account of a friendship that made contributions to modern thought before it ended in intellectual differences and a painful breakdown of personal relations

The history of canadians peoples

Surveys the social, cultural, political and economic history of Canada

Comparing and classifying lagislatures

Recent years have witnessed substantial work in the legislative studies field. But what do we know about legislatures today and are there clear criteria for comparing and classifying them? This is a new review of the state of our knowledge of parliament and tackles key ...

Medieval dress and fashion

Illuminated manuscripts are widely regarded as beautiful works of art in their own right, but if examined closely, they also reveal a wealth of information about the people depicted within them. Often these images are taken at face value, and assumed to depict everyday clothing ...

Rorty's politics of redescription

Richard Rorty is among the most cited, influential and notorious of recent philosophers. This book seeks to take Rorty seriously as a social and political philosopher, and to argue that his work is not as flippant, as frothy, or as easily dismissed as his opponents ...

An introduction to Early Medieval Wester Europe, 300-900

the sword, the plough and the book

Studying the period of European history, 300-900 AD, this comprehensive textbook is the first to combine the last twenty-five years of research in an accessible manner for undergraduate students. It is unique in combining an account of the historical background of the period with discussion ...

Starting and running

a successful consultancy. How to build and market your own consulting business

Consulting has become an increasingly viable and growing working option for many individuals. This book is designed to help those new to consulting to carve out a successful career, and to aid those already in the arena to grow their business. Laid out in a ...

Estimating risk

a management approach

Andy Garlick's book explores the role of quantitative techniques in modern risk management. Risk management has grown in importance in most organisations in the last 20 years, but in many remains at the level of an intuitive or gut-feel approach. Andy argues that this ...

Talent is never enough

discover the choices that will take you beyond your talent

Outlines the 13 crucial things you can do to maximise your natural talents and become a "Talent-plus" person.