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Book Africa Since 1935

    Book Details:
  • Author : Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780520067035
  • Pages : 1076 pages

Download or read book Africa Since 1935 written by Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hardcover edition of volume 8 was published in 1994. This paperback edition is the eighth and final volume to be published in the UNESCO General History of Africa. Volume 8 examines the period from 1935 to the present, and details the role of African states in the Second World War and the rise of postwar Africa. This is one of the most important books in the entire series, and as such, it is an unabridged paperback.

Book Ancient Rome from the Earliest Times Down to 476 A D

Download or read book Ancient Rome from the Earliest Times Down to 476 A D written by Robert F. Pennell and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Talk about Cinema

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean-Baptiste Thoret
  • Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9782080200969
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Talk about Cinema written by Jean-Baptiste Thoret and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From classicism to comedy, Kubrick to the Coen Brothers, this practical and instructive guide offers a straightforward approach to film in an accessible format: a perfect read for novices and experts alike. A fresh, engaging, and beautifully illustrated volume, Talk About Cinema is the ideal companion for those looking to gain a deeper understanding of cinema today. The main genres of contemporary cinema are clearly defined and exemplified, and chapters on major dates, turning points, and "firsts" since the turn of the twentieth century allow the reader to contextualize different cinematic movements. From Postmodernism and Expressionism to Teen Movies, Westerns, and Science Fiction, all the major trends and styles of recent times are explored and provide a detailed picture of the contemporary cinematic landscape. The portraits of thirty eminent contemporary filmmakers offer valuable insight into the creative and stylistic processes of some of the greatest names in world cinema, while a chapter on twenty seminal works from the last century details those films that have proved inspirational in shaping cinema as we know it today, such as The Twilight Zone, Scarface, and Night of the Living Dead. Hundreds of screenshots and original photographs of legendary actors and directors on set and on screen provide snapshots of their glamorous world, and an easy-to-use glossary ensures that the reader is never overwhelmed by jargon. If you want to understand and discuss film-related topics, Talk About Cinema effortlessly synthesizes a wealth of pertinent facts and ideas into a fun, didactic, and readable volume.

Book Saint Cicero and the Jesuits

Download or read book Saint Cicero and the Jesuits written by Robert Aleksander Maryks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this commanding study, Dr Maryks offers a detailed analysis of early modern Jesuit confessional manuals to explore the order's shifting attitudes to confession and conscience. Drawing on his census of Jesuit penitential literature published between 1554 and 1650, he traces in these works a subtly shifting theology influenced by both theology and classical humanism. In particular, the roles of 'Tutiorism' (whereby an individual follows the law rather than the instinct of their own conscience) and 'Probabilism' (which conversely gives priority to the individual's conscience) are examined. It is argued that for most of the sixteenth century, books such as Juan Alfonso de Polanco's Directory for Confessors espousing a Tutiorist line dominated the market for Jesuit confessional manuals until the seventeenth century, by which time Probabilism had become the dominating force in Jesuit theology. What caused this switch, from Tutiorism to Probablism, forms the central thesis of Dr Maryks' book. He believes that as a direct result of the Jesuits adoption of a new ministry of educating youth in the late 1540s, Jesuit schoolmasters were compelled to engage with classical culture, many aspects of which would have resonated with their own concepts of spirituality. In particular Ciceronian humanitas and civiltà, along with rhetorical principles of accommodation, influenced Jesuit thinking in the revolutionary transition from medieval Tutiorism to modern Probabilism. By integrating concepts of theology, classical humanism and publishing history, this book offers a compelling account of how diverse forces could act upon a religious order to alter the central beliefs it held and promulgated. This book is published in conjunction with the Jesuit Historical Institute series 'Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Iesu'.

Book A Pilgrim s Journey

Download or read book A Pilgrim s Journey written by Joseph N. Tylenda and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Ignatius of Loyola was a man who saw above and beyond his century, a man of vision and calm hope, who could step comfortably into our era and the Church of our time and show us how to draw closer to Christ. Ignatius' autobiography spans eighteen very important years of this saint's 65-year life...from his wounding at Pamplona (1521) through his conversion, his university studies and his journey to Rome in order to place his followers and himself at the disposal of the Pope. These critical years reveal the incredible transformation and spiritual growth in the soul of a great saint and the events that helped to bring about that change in his life. This classic work merits a long life. Apart from providing a splendid translation of the saint's original text, Father Tylenda has included an informative commentary which enables the modern reader to grasp various allusions in the text-and to gain a better view of a saintly man baring his soul.

Book Early Modern Cartesianisms

Download or read book Early Modern Cartesianisms written by Tad M. Schmaltz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new comparative study considers the impact of Descartes's thought on early modern philosophy, theology and science. This consideration reveals that competing Cartesianisms emerged in the Netherlands and France during a period dating from the last decades of Descartes's life to the century or so following his death in 1650.

Book Jean Jaur  s

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoffrey Kurtz
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2015-06-10
  • ISBN : 0271065826
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Jean Jaur s written by Geoffrey Kurtz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Jaurès was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of the twentieth century, but he is little remembered today outside of France, and his contributions to political thought are little studied anywhere. In Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy, Geoffrey Kurtz introduces Jaurès to an American audience. The parliamentary and philosophical leader of French socialism from the 1890s until his assassination in 1914, Jaurès was the only major socialist leader of his generation who was educated as a political philosopher. As he championed the reformist method that would come to be called social democracy, he sought to understand the inner life of a political tradition that accepts its own imperfection. Jaurès's call to sustain the tension between the ideal and the real resonates today. In addition to recovering the questions asked by the first generation of social democrats, Kurtz’s aim in this book is to reconstruct Jaurès’s political thought in light of current theoretical and political debates. To achieve this, he gives readings of several of Jaurès’s major writings and speeches, spanning work from his early adulthood to the final years of his life, paying attention to not just what Jaurès is saying, but how he says it.

Book Pr  histoire africaine

Download or read book Pr histoire africaine written by Colette Roubet and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy

Download or read book Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy written by J. B. Schneewind and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The essays range across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Kant and his relation to earlier thinkers.

Book The Autobiography of St  Ignatius

Download or read book The Autobiography of St Ignatius written by Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Night Journey From Rome

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  • Author : Clark Butterfield
  • Publisher : Chick Publications
  • Release : 2020-12-03
  • ISBN : 0758913516
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Night Journey From Rome written by Clark Butterfield and published by Chick Publications. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978 the Lord called a priest, Clark Butterfield, out of the Roman Catholic system. God gave him a mission to write this autobiography before he went home to be with his Saviour. Butterfield graciously reveals to both Roman Catholics and Christians the teachings of the Vatican and how they differ from God's holy word. NIGHT JOURNEY FROM ROME is tactful, compassionate, and candid. Any honest reader will be touched and enlightened by its contents. This is a beautifully written book for your library, and one you could put into the hands of Roman Catholics or Christians. The contrast between scripture and the teachings of Rome is very clearly explained. - Jack T. Chick

Book Rome Behind the Great War

Download or read book Rome Behind the Great War written by John Alfred Kensit and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Unwilling Vestal

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  • Author : Edward Lucas White
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-07-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book The Unwilling Vestal written by Edward Lucas White and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Unwilling Vestal" is a historical romance novel that brings us back to the times of the Roman Empire, in the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It tells the story of a young girl from a noble family who refuses the proposed marriage of a rich Roman and chooses to be a Vestal virgin for 30 years instead. Brinnaria, the main character, hates her role, but she is in love with the young nobleman Caius Almo, whom she dreams of marrying after her 30-year service as a Vestal Virgin. Meanwhile, the girl gets into the turbulence of political intrigues, brings mighty friends and enemies, has to save the life of her lover, who became a gladiator, and finds her way into the cruel world of Roman politics.

Book Rome and its environs

Download or read book Rome and its environs written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brief History of Rome

Download or read book Brief History of Rome written by Joel Dorman Steele and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Galileo s Early Notebooks

Download or read book Galileo s Early Notebooks written by Galileo Galilei and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Act   of Corinth  Or  The Convert of Saint Paul

Download or read book Act of Corinth Or The Convert of Saint Paul written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: