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Book The Routledge History of Happiness

Download or read book The Routledge History of Happiness written by Katie Barclay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmatched in originality, breadth, and scope, The Routledge History of Happiness features chapters that explore the history, anthropology, and psychology of happiness across the globe. Through a chronological approach that ranges from the Classical and Postclassical to the twenty-first century, this volume balances intellectual-history treatments and wider efforts to deal with relevant popular culture and experience, including consumerism. It explores how and why the history of happiness has emerged in recent decades, as well as psychological and social science approaches to happiness, with a history of how relevant psychological research has unfolded. Chapters examine early cultural traditions concerning happiness, including material on Buddhist and Chinese traditions, and how they continue to influence ideas about happiness in the present day. Overall, each section emphasises wide geographical coverage, with particular attention paid to East Asia, Latin America, Europe, Russia, and Africa. The Routledge History of Happiness is of great use to all undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in the global history of emotions.

Book Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde Freinet

Download or read book Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde Freinet written by Scott G. Bruce and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of Cluny as he and his entourage crossed the Alps en route from Rome to Burgundy. Ultimately, the abbot was set free, but the audacity of this abduction outraged Christian leaders and galvanized the will of local lords. Shortly thereafter, Count William of Arles marshaled an army and succeeded in wiping out the Muslim stronghold. The monks of Cluny kept this tale alive over the next century. Scott G. Bruce explores the telling and retelling of this story, focusing on the representation of Islam in each account and how that representation changed over time. The culminating figure in this study is Peter the Venerable, one of Europe's leading intellectuals and abbot of Cluny from 1122 to 1156, who commissioned Latin translations of Muslim texts such as the Qur'an. Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet provides us with an unparalleled opportunity to examine Christian perceptions of Islam in the Crusading era.

Book Samuel Barber

Download or read book Samuel Barber written by Barbara B. Heyman and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable resource on Samuel Barber's complete oeuvre-more than 100 published and nearly twice as many unpublished compositions-with an abundance of information on song texts, first performances, genesis of composition, duration, revisions, editions, arrangements, selected discography of historical and contemporary recordings, and detailed description of the hundreds of holograph manuscripts, sketches, drafts, and significant publisher's proofs founded in libraries and private collections throughout the United States. Illuminating quotations drawn from Barber's letters and diaries will be of special interest not only to scholars but conductors, composers, performers, and the general music enthusiast.

Book Les hymnes pascales d Ephrem de Nisibe

Download or read book Les hymnes pascales d Ephrem de Nisibe written by Gerard Rouwhorst and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material /G.A.M. ROUWHORST -- LES HYMNES PASCALES ET LA CINQUIEME HYMNE DE IEIUNIO D'EPHREM /G.A.M. ROUWHORST -- DE CRUCIFIXIONE /G.A.M. ROUWHORST -- DE RESURRECTIONE /G.A.M. ROUWHORST -- DE IEIUNIO V /G.A.M. ROUWHORST -- LA DOUZIÈME DÉMONSTRATION D'APHRAATE /G.A.M. ROUWHORST -- LE VINGT ET UNIÈME CHAPITRE DE LA DIDASCALIE /G.A.M. ROUWHORST.

Book Ill Seen Ill Said

Download or read book Ill Seen Ill Said written by Samuel Beckett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Sakwa's Russian Politics and Society is the most comprehensive study of Russia's post-communist political development. It has, since its first publication in 1993, become an indispensable guide for all those who need to know about the current political scene in Russia, about the country's political stability and about the future of democracy under its post-communist leadership. For this second edition, Richard Sakwa has updated the text throughout and restructured its presentation so as to emphasize the ongoing struggle for stability in Russia over the last five years. This edition includes the full text of the constitution of 1993; new material on recent elections, the new parliament (State Duma and Federation Council), the development of the presidency and an evaluation of the country's political evolution during the 1990s; up-to-date details on the development of a federal system and on local government; and a thoroughly updated bibliography.

Book Persephone Unbound

Download or read book Persephone Unbound written by Catherine Perry and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best understood in terms of a Dionysian aesthetics, her work is sensual, erotic, and playful, but also reflective, violent on occasion, and always marked by a tragic under-current that becomes magnified with time. Beyond the prominent place she held in the world of French letters, Noailles' lifelong commitment to artistic creation invites a reconsideration of her work."--BOOK JACKET.

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  • Publisher : TheBookEdition
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 193 pages

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Book Comment C est

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  • Author : Samuel Beckett
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780815337676
  • Pages : 832 pages

Download or read book Comment C est written by Samuel Beckett and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the English and French texts and a complete record of the genesis of each. Besides Comment C'est How It Is, O'Reilly has included L'Image and an excerpt from Comment C'est that was published later in another volume.

Book The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington  K G  During His Various Campaigns in India  Denmark  Portugal  Spain  the Low Countries  and France

Download or read book The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington K G During His Various Campaigns in India Denmark Portugal Spain the Low Countries and France written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Du C  ur de la Nuit    la Fin Du Jour

Download or read book Du C ur de la Nuit la Fin Du Jour written by Susan Boynton and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of the various articles in this book are four customaries, compiled over the course of nearly a hundred years beginning at the end of the tenth century, that describe daily life and liturgy at the abbey of Cluny. Two principal objectives motivated the creation of the present volume of essays : first, to bring out the unequaled richness of these monastic customaries for scholars, primarily medievalists in all disciplines; and second, to facilitate the use of these sources, which can be challenging at first sight. Drawing upon the multiple disciplines needed to account for the full range of information presented by the customaries, the editors have brought together varied and complementary approaches to these multifaceted documents. Among the principal themes common to the studies in this volume are the genesis and transmission of the customaries, the relationship between texts and practice, and the evidence they offer for the function of monastic spaces as well as for the ritualization of communal life.

Book 1811 1812

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  • Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1852
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 834 pages

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Book Dictionnaire anglais fran  ais et fran  ais anglais  anglais fran  ais

Download or read book Dictionnaire anglais fran ais et fran ais anglais anglais fran ais written by Ebenezer Clifton and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours

Download or read book Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours written by Verne, Jules and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington  During His Various Campaigns in India  Denmark  Portugal  Spain  the Low Countries  and France

Download or read book The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington During His Various Campaigns in India Denmark Portugal Spain the Low Countries and France written by Arthur Wellesley of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations

Download or read book Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations written by Anthony Lejeune and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the answer for anyone who comes across a foreign-language quotation in a newspaper article or a book and isn't quite sure what it means. Here are famous sayings, in five European languages--Latin, French, German, Italian, and Spanish--accompanied by their translations into English and cross-indexed for easy reference. Just what did Mussolini say about making the trains run on time? Did Marie-Antoinette really tell the poor to eat cake? Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations includes more than 3,000 entries, chosen by five editors, each one widely read in the language concerned. The majority of entries were included because they are familiar, those an English reader would be most likely to encounter. Literary quotations, political quotations, poetic thoughts, pungent comments, polished epigrams, shrewd perceptions--by everyone from Cicero to Sartre, from Michelangelo to Picasso.

Book Peninsula

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1852
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 848 pages

Download or read book Peninsula written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: