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Book Edgar and Brigitte

Download or read book Edgar and Brigitte written by Rosemarie Bodenheimer and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consummate story of change and adjustment, integration and melding

Book Paving the Way

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herma Hill Kay
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2021-04-13
  • ISBN : 0520378954
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book Paving the Way written by Herma Hill Kay and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first wave of trailblazing female law professors and the stage they set for American democracy. When it comes to breaking down barriers for women in the workplace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name speaks volumes for itself—but, as she clarifies in the foreword to this long-awaited book, there are too many trailblazing names we do not know. Herma Hill Kay, former Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law and Ginsburg’s closest professional colleague, wrote Paving the Way to tell the stories of the first fourteen female law professors at ABA- and AALS-accredited law schools in the United States. Kay, who became the fifteenth such professor, labored over the stories of these women in order to provide an essential history of their path for the more than 2,000 women working as law professors today and all of their feminist colleagues. Because Herma Hill Kay, who died in 2017, was able to obtain so much first-hand information about the fourteen women who preceded her, Paving the Way is filled with details, quiet and loud, of each of their lives and careers from their own perspectives. Kay wraps each story in rich historical context, lest we forget the extraordinarily difficult times in which these women lived. Paving the Way is not just a collection of individual stories of remarkable women but also a well-crafted interweaving of law and society during a historical period when women’s voices were often not heard and sometimes actively muted. The final chapter connects these first fourteen women to the “second wave” of women law professors who achieved tenure-track appointments in the 1960s and 1970s, carrying on the torch and analogous challenges. This is a decidedly feminist project, one that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg advocated for tirelessly and admired publicly in the years before her death.

Book The Resurrectionist of Caligo

Download or read book The Resurrectionist of Caligo written by Wendy Trimboli and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a murderer on the loose, it’s up to an enlightened bodysnatcher and a rebellious princess to save the city, in this wonderfully inventive Victorian-tinged fantasy noir. “Man of Science” Roger Weathersby scrapes out a risky living digging up corpses for medical schools. When he’s framed for the murder of one of his cadavers, he’s forced to trust in the superstitions he’s always rejected: his former friend, princess Sibylla, offers to commute Roger’s execution in a blood magic ritual which will bind him to her forever. With little choice, he finds himself indentured to Sibylla and propelled into an investigation. There’s a murderer loose in the city of Caligo, and the duo must navigate science and sorcery, palace intrigue and dank boneyards to catch the butcher before the killings tear their whole country apart. File Under: Fantasy [ Straybound | Royal Magic | A Good Hanging | Secret Sister ]

Book Guide to the Archival Materials of the German speaking Emigration to the United States after 1933  Volume 3

Download or read book Guide to the Archival Materials of the German speaking Emigration to the United States after 1933 Volume 3 written by John M. Spalek and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire of Law

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  • Author : Kaius Tuori
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-04-02
  • ISBN : 1108483631
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book Empire of Law written by Kaius Tuori and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of exiles from Nazi Germany and the creation of the notion of a shared European legal tradition.

Book Homeland Earth

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  • Author : Edgar Morin
  • Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Homeland Earth written by Edgar Morin and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 1999 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Edgar Morin, one of the leading figures in European thought, challenges us to think differently about our past, our present, and our future. Morin points to the development of a planetary culture that is not homogenizing or fragmented, and the need to recognize complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity as potential sources of creativity, learning, and transformation. Given the uncertainty of our journey, Morin presents "complex thought" as a way to overcome the "crisis of the future," and stresses the importance of solidarity.

Book The Self destruction of the West

Download or read book The Self destruction of the West written by Damien François and published by Editions Publibook. This book was released on 2007 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voilà désormais plus de 10 000 ans que la civilisation occidentale s'est installée et voilà 10 000 ans qu'elle viole le sens même de la nature : la vie. En s'appropriant sans concession ce qui l'entourait, l'homme de l'Ouest a vu son horizon ployer sous la charge de la destruction qu'il lui avait lui-même réalisée. Sommes-nous des lycanthropes ou des vampires? Ces monstres si terrifiants qui sortent de notre imagination sont-ils en réalité la copie de notre comportement dévastateur? Prédateurs, nous pompons sans remords les énergies qui nous entourent. Jusqu'où ira-t-on?.

Book Divided Natures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kerry H Whiteside
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2002-02-01
  • ISBN : 0262250632
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Divided Natures written by Kerry H Whiteside and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Kerry Whiteside introduces the work of a range of French ecological theorists to an English-speaking audience. He shows how thinkers in France and in English-speaking countries have produced different strains of ecological thought and suggests that the work of French ecological theorists could lessen pervasive tensions in Anglophone ecology. Much of the theory written in English is shaped by the debate between anthropocentric ecologists, who contend that the value of our nonhuman surroundings derives from their role in fulfilling human interests, and ecocentric ecologists, who contend that the nonhuman world holds ultimate value in and of itself. This debate is almost nonexistent among French theorists, who tend to focus on the processes linking nature and human identity. Whiteside suggests that the insights of French theorists could help English-language theorists to extricate themselves from endless debates over the real center of nature's value. Among the French theorists discussed are Denis de Rougemont, Denis Duclos, René Dumont, Luc Ferry, André Gorz, Félix Guattari, Bruno Latour, Alain Lipietz, Edgar Morin, Serge Moscovici, and Michel Serres. The English-language theorists discussed include John Barry, Robyn Eckersley, Robert Goodin, Tim Hayward, Holmes Rolston III, and Paul Taylor.

Book Hold My Place

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  • Author : Cassondra Windwalker
  • Publisher : Black Spot Books
  • Release : 2022-01-25
  • ISBN : 1645480321
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Hold My Place written by Cassondra Windwalker and published by Black Spot Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Helen Kay Chapbook Award-Winning poet Cassondra Windwalker, an unsuspecting librarian falls head-over-heels for a married man, but when she finds herself caught up in a whirlwind romance, she discovers her new husband's past wives have all met early deaths—and some aren't ready to let go yet. Obsession never dies. When librarian Sigrun falls head-over-heels for the sophisticated and very married Edgar Leyward, she never expects to find herself in his bed—or his heart. Nevertheless, when his enigmatic wife Octavia dies from a sudden illness, Sigrun finds herself caught up in a whirlwind romance worthy of the most lurid novels on her bookshelves. Sigrun soon discovers Octavia wasn't Edgar's first lost love, or even his second. Three women Edgar has loved met early deaths. As she delves into her beloved's past through a trove of discovered letters, the edges of Sigrun identity begin to disappear, fading into the women of the past. Sigrun tells herself it's impossible for any dark magic to be at play—that the dead can't possibly inhabit the bodies of the living—but something shadowy stalks the halls of the Leyward house and the lines between the love of the present and the obsessions of the past become increasingly blurred—and bloody. Mixing lyrical prose with simmering terror, Hold My Place is a modern gothic horror worthy of Shirley Jackson's nightmares and Daphne DuMaurier's dangerous lovers. "Hold My Place is a dark, sensuous tale about obliterating love, and Windwalker's superb prose fairly drips with beauty. You simply must read this haunting book." —Mercedes M. Yardley, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Little Dead Red "Sinister undertones steadily build into a genuine sense of doom...as thought-provoking as it is harrowing." —Publishers Weekly "With ethereal prose [Hold My Place]'s departure from genre tropes will make it a favorite with gothic-horror and dark-romance readers." —Booklist "A satisfying blend of romance and ghost story.... Hold My Place is anything but ordinary or predictable, despite its firm roots in the horror world." —Midwest Book Review "Brimming with muted eroticism, Hold My Place is a dark romance novel punctuated by longing, lingering spirits and love without end." —Foreword Reviews

Book Marguerite

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  • Author : Marina Kemp
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2020-03-24
  • ISBN : 1984877836
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Marguerite written by Marina Kemp and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this haunting novel, a young nurse forms an unlikely connection with the elderly man she cares for, and finds herself confronting the guilt she carries from her past Marguerite Demers is twenty-five when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint Sulpice to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier--once one of the most powerful men in the village, now dying alone in his large and secluded house surrounded by rambling neglected gardens. Manipulative and tyrannical, Jerome has scared away all of his previous caretakers. It's not long before the villagers have formed opinions of Marguerite. Brigitte Brochon, pillar of the community and local busybody, finds her arrogant and mysterious and is desperate to find a reason to have her fired. Glamorous outsider Suki Lacourse sees Marguerite as an ally in a sea of small-minded provincialism. Local farmer Henri Brochon, husband of Brigitte, feels sorry for her and wants to protect her from the villagers' intrusive gossip and speculation (but Henri has a secret of his own that would scandalize his neighbors, if only they knew). The sudden arrival of Jerome's three sons will upend the rhythm of their days, changing their lives forever. Set among the lush fields and olive groves of southern France, and written in clear prose of luminous beauty, Marguerite is an unforgettable novel that traces the ways in which guilt can be transformed, and how people can unexpectedly find a sense of redemption.

Book A Bibliography for the Study of French Literature and Culture Since 1885

Download or read book A Bibliography for the Study of French Literature and Culture Since 1885 written by Sheri Dion and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book U C  Davis Law Review

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  • Author : University of California, Davis. School of Law
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 852 pages

Download or read book U C Davis Law Review written by University of California, Davis. School of Law and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book You Can Have My Back  Vol  3  light novel

Download or read book You Can Have My Back Vol 3 light novel written by and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is revealed that Leorino is the reincarnation of Ionia, and he and Prince Gravis finally understand each other’s feelings. However, the mastermind secretly communicating with the enemy country is on the move again, and the footsteps of war are approaching...

Book An Ibero American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics

Download or read book An Ibero American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics written by Zélia M. Bora and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics is a critique of the realities of the pandemic in the Ibero-American world and its intertwined relationship with the environment. Through a critical gaze into the history of the region as it has evolved through periods of socio-environmental and cultural conflicts, the book chronicles multiple experiences of how people managed to negotiate multiple crises on a daily basis by often clinging to their age old cultural and healing practices, as well as the humanistic representation of such experiences in various fictional and nonfictional writings. The contributors expose the biopolitics around COVID-19 and its effects particularly on marginalised populations and the environment in an effort to consider the complexity of the pandemic in its multiple dimensions. They evaluate it through climatic, socioeconomic, political, scientific, and cultural lenses that they argue shaped the realities of the pandemic. They also take a close look at the use and effects of language in virtual spaces, implying it has the ability to construct/mis-construct reality in this postmodern world, arguing there is a need for a new environmental ethic post-pandemic.

Book UCD Law Review

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  • Author : University of California, Davis. School of Law
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 928 pages

Download or read book UCD Law Review written by University of California, Davis. School of Law and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shifting Protracted Conflict Systems Through Local Interactions

Download or read book Shifting Protracted Conflict Systems Through Local Interactions written by Tamra Pearson Pearson d’Estrée and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the evolution of theoretical and practical approaches to intervening in protracted conflicts, following the work of Herb Kelman. Interactive problem solving, as developed by Kelman and others, sought to increase understanding about the microprocesses of international relations. Kelman early on emphasised the centrality of an interactive approach for constructing new identities, new narratives, and new ways forward. Transforming conflict systems requires strategic attention to the interactions between agents of change that provide stability or induce shift. This volume on interactive conflict approaches includes both critical reflections and new ideas from scholar-practitioners who have developed, revised, and expanded these approaches. Contributors take up important issues, from the shape and likelihood of solutions in intractable conflicts to how individuals can exist in realities with seemingly irresolvable inner and outer conflicts. The volume represents the best of current thinking about how the mechanisms, theoretical framework, and application of interactive problem solving should be moved into the twenty-first century context of increasing complexity, increasing uncertainty, and increasing polarisation. This book will be of interest to students of peace studies, conflict resolution, and international relations.