Download or read book Pierre Et Jean written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre et Jean marked a turning point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the pyschological novel. It is recognized as a classic study of filial jealousy and is also notable for its evocation of the Normandy coastline captured by the Impressionists.

Download or read book The Well of Being written by Jean-Pierre Weill and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting, visually arresting, “extraordinary children’s book for adults...that peers into the depths of the human experience and the meaning of our existence.” (Brainpickings.org).

Download or read book Moving Forward written by Karine Jean-Pierre and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Moving Forward arrives at a moment when inspiration, insight, and optimism are in short supply. Karine Jean-Pierre delivers all three in abundance.” —Stacey Abrams, author of Lead from the Outside “Karine Jean-Pierre illuminates her path to insider status so others can follow in her footsteps.”—Essence “Jean-Pierre inspires us to get involved in politics—every single one of us, no matter where we are from or who we are.”—The Atlantic Most political origin stories have the same backbone. A bright young person starts reading the Washington Post in elementary school. She skips school to see a presidential candidate. In middle school she canvasses door-to-door. The story can be intimidating. It reinforces the feeling that politics is a closed system: if you weren’t participating in debate club, the Young Democrats and Model UN you have no chance. Karine Jean-Pierre’s story breaks the mold. In Moving Forward, she tells how she got involved, showing how politics can be accessible to anyone, no matter their background. In today’s political climate, the need for all of us to participate has never been more crucial. This book is her call to arms for those who know that now is the time for us to act.

Download or read book Pierre the Penguin written by Jean Marzollo and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pierre, an African penguin living at the California Academy of Sciences, begins to lose his feathers, the zoo staff is at a loss as to what to do. The lack of feathers causes Pierre to lose warmth, making him afraid to swim in the zoo pool. And the other penguins start to shy away, giving Pierre the "cold" shoulder. Unfortunately, heaters and medications fail to correct the situation. But one rainy day, inspiration strikes a biologist named Pam. While walking her dog in the rain, Pam notes that her pet wears a raincoat. Could a "raincoat," or wet suit, help Pierre? A tiny neoprene wet suit is designed especially for Pierre. But will it work? Told in rhyme by noted I SPY author Jean Marzollo, this true story of veterinary ingenuity charmingly comes to life. Jean Marzollo has written more than 100 children's books, including the award-winning I SPY series. With a graduate degree from Harvard, she has taught school, written books about teaching and parenting, and was the editor of Scholastic's Let's Find Out kindergarten magazine for 20 years. Jean lives in upstate New York. Nationally known for her many award-winning children's books that feature exotic flora and fauna, Laura Regan's artwork has been used to raise funds for many wildlife organizations. She is the illustrator of A is for Anaconda: A Rainforest Alphabet. Laura lives in the Bay Area in California.

Download or read book Jean Pierre Jeunet written by Elizabeth Ezra and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the popular and critically acclaimed director of films such as Amélie, Delicatessen, A Very Long Engagement, Alien Resurrection, and City of Lost Children. Jeunet's work exemplifies Europe's engagement with Hollywood, while at the same time making him a figurehead of the critically overlooked, specifically French tradition of the cinema of the fantastic. Having garnered both commercial success and critical esteem in genres such as science fiction, fantasy, romantic comedy, and the war epic, Jeunet's work nevertheless engages with key aspects of French history and contemporary French culture. This study analyzes the director's major films, including those he made with Marc Caro, and his early short works. Elizabeth Ezra brings a new perspective to the study of Jeunet's work, uncovering instances of repressed historical trauma involving France's role in Algeria and the Second World War. The book includes a commentary by Jeunet himself on his career and corpus of films.

Download or read book Abandonment to Divine Providence written by Jean-Pierre De Caussade and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is to be found in the simplest of our daily activities and especially through total surrender to whatever is His will for each of us. That is the message of this 18th-century inspirational classic by Jean-Pierre de Caussade. Its encouragement to ""live in the present moment,"" accepting everyday obstacles with faith, humility and love, has guided generations of believers to holiness and spiritual peace. This special volume of the famous spiritual treatise also includes the many insightful letters of Father de Caussade on the practice of self-abandonment. These numerous letters provide a great additional source of wisdom and practical guidance for how to grow in abandonment and to deepen our union with God in our daily lives. De Caussade shows that this practice of self-abandonment to God's will is the key to attaining true peace and virtue, and that it is readily available to all people - from beginners to those well advanced in the spiritual life. He also shows how to determine what God's will is for us. He reveals that it is not extraordinary feats that God expects for our growth in holiness, but rather heroic attention to every detail in our lives and humble acceptance of our daily lot in life as coming from His hand. The rich spiritual lessons in this book have stood the test of time, offering real and practical assistance to all people because its message is simple and clear, one that the reader will find to be a rare treasure of inspiration and direction to be referred to again and again.

Download or read book The Mark of the Sacred written by Jean-Pierre Dupuy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of religion and violence “forces us to reexamine some of our most cherished self-images of modern liberal democratic societies” (Charles Taylor). Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls “enlightened doomsaying,” has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of religion and reason that has set us on this course. In denial of our sacred origins and hubristically convinced of the powers of human reason, we cease to know our own limits: our disenchanted world leaves us defenseless against a headlong rush into the abyss of global warming, nuclear holocaust, and the other catastrophes that loom on our horizon. Reviving the religious anthropology of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Marcel Mauss and in dialogue with the work of René Girard, Dupuy shows that we must remember the world’s sacredness in order to keep human violence in check. A metaphysical and theological detective, he tracks the sacred in the very fields where human reason considers itself most free from everything it judges irrational: science, technology, economics, political and strategic thought. In making such claims, The Mark of the Sacred takes on religion bashers, secularists, and fundamentalists at once. Written by one of the deepest and most versatile thinkers of our time, it militates for a world where reason is no longer an enemy of faith. “The Mark of the Sacred is one of those rare books . . . which, in an enlightened well-organized state, should be printed and freely distributed in all schools!” —Slavoj Žižek

Download or read book Natural Recipes for Perfect Skin written by Pierre Jean Cousin and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using pure, fresh ingredients, these tempting cosmetic recipes are a natural and fun way to establish and maintain good skin condition. The recipes offer a wide range of treatments for all ages and skin types, from day-to-day cleansing, toning and nourishing to healing remedies.

Download or read book In the Footsteps of Jesus written by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the latest archaeological and historical discoveries, this guide illustrates the people and events that shaped the life of Jesus, from his birth in Bethlehem to his death in Jerusalem.

Download or read book Honor Among Thieves The Cinema of Jean Pierre Melville written by Andrew Dickos and published by Contra Mundum Press. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honor Among Thieves profiles Melville's eventful life & discusses his cinema as an essential body of work in our reckoning of postwar European cinema.

Download or read book Pierre and Jean written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roland, former Parisian jewellers, have retired to Le Havre, where they live happy days. They have two sons: the eldest, Pierre, in his late thirties, brown, thin and nervous, tormented by big plans and subject to unexpected discouragement, has just obtained his degree in medicine. Jean, her five-year-old, fat, blond, placid younger son, has just graduated from law school. They both came to rest after their successful studies.They were both considering settling in and coveting the young and beautiful widow of a wealthy captain, Mrs. Rosémilly.During a family fishing trip with Mrs. Rosémilly, the two brothers, to seduce the young woman, engaged in fierce rowing competition. The reader discovers that under an appearance of union and affection, a real rivalry exists between the two brothers.That same evening, on their return from this sea trip, they learned that Marshal, an old friend of the family, had just died in Paris and that he was leaving all his fortune to Jean. At the port, Pierre congratulates his brother on his new fortune, but he feels an irrepressible inner feeling of jealousy.This jealousy, fuelled by the insinuations of the pharmacist Marowsko, to whom he has just informed the news ("it will not look good"), and the thoughts of a girl from the brewery ("it is no wonder he looks so little like you") soon turns into an obsessive suspicion: What if Jean was Marshal's natural son?Pierre, very shocked, disrupts the happy family meal.He goes out to sea, but is very affected by the suspicions raised by the remarks of his relatives. He fails to understand why only John inherited Marshal's fortune, even though he had known him since he was a child.The fog forces him to go home. He then began a "meticulous investigation" to unravel this mystery. He then remembers that when John was born, the portrait of Marshal was taken off the wall.He asks his mother where the portrait of Marshal is. He lets her know that he knows everything. A trip to Trouville, from which he hopes for a diversion, unfortunately did not change his mind. His mother's attitude towards the portrait, and the similarity he notes between Marshal and his brother, transform doubt into "intolerable certainty".Unhappy, tortured by this secret and by the remorse that makes him ashamed of himself, Peter torments his mother. On the occasion of a trip to the beach, he declared himself to Mrs Rosémilly, who did not remain indifferent to his advances.Jean has moved into a new apartment, which makes Pierre jealous. The two brothers quarrel. Peter, in anger, revealed the truth to his brother without hesitation: "You are the son of a man who left you his fortune". Their mother, who is in the next room, certainly hears this horrible confession.Jean's mother confirmed this secret to him: "You are not Roland's son". She wants to leave forever, but Jean begs her to stay. Mother and son reconcile.Pierre wanted to leave and decided to embark as a doctor on a transatlantic liner.Mr. Roland does not suspect the tragedy that is taking place in his family, so in this last chapter we find the same protagonists as at the beginning of the novel. Only Pierre is missing. All this group was gathered in the same boat to greet the departure of La Lorraine, on board which Pierre began a new "life of a vagrant convict".

Download or read book The Wraparound Universe written by Jean-Pierre Luminet and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-03-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What shape is the universe? Is it curved and closed in on itself? Is it expanding? Where is it headed? Could space be wrapped around itself, such that it produces ghost images of faraway galaxies? Such are the questions posed by Jean-Pierre Luminet in The Wraparound Universe, which he then addresses in clear and accessible language. An expert in bl

Download or read book Evolve written by Jean-Pierre Weill and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a picture-book about freedom. With watercolors and simple words, it retells the biblical stories of Adam, Cain, and Abraham, as developmental stages on the journey to the self. It invites us to co-author our lives, that we may celebrate the sanctity of the individual.

Download or read book Black Brown Beige written by Franklin Rosemont and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection documents the extensive participation of people of African descent in the international surrealist movement over the past 75 years.

Download or read book On the Origins of Cognitive Science written by Jean-Pierre Dupuy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the fundamental role cybernetics played in the birth of cognitive science and the light this sheds on current controversies. The conceptual history of cognitive science remains for the most part unwritten. In this groundbreaking book, Jean-Pierre Dupuy—one of the principal architects of cognitive science in France—provides an important chapter: the legacy of cybernetics. Contrary to popular belief, Dupuy argues, cybernetics represented not the anthropomorphization of the machine but the mechanization of the human. The founding fathers of cybernetics—some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, including John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, and Walter Pitts—intended to construct a materialist and mechanistic science of mental behavior that would make it possible at last to resolve the ancient philosophical problem of mind and matter. The importance of cybernetics to cognitive science, Dupuy argues, lies not in its daring conception of the human mind in terms of the functioning of a machine but in the way the strengths and weaknesses of the cybernetics approach can illuminate controversies that rage today—between cognitivists and connectionists, eliminative materialists and Wittgensteinians, functionalists and anti-reductionists. Dupuy brings to life the intellectual excitement that attended the birth of cognitive science sixty years ago. He separates the promise of cybernetic ideas from the disappointment that followed as cybernetics was rejected and consigned to intellectual oblivion. The mechanization of the mind has reemerged today as an all-encompassing paradigm in the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science. The tensions, contradictions, paradoxes, and confusions Dupuy discerns in cybernetics offer a cautionary tale for future developments in cognitive science.

Download or read book The Wisdom of Pierre Charron written by Jean Daniel Charron and published by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a reevaluation and a reinterpretation of Pierre Charron (1541-1603)--in particular La Sagesse--and of the impact of his writings. Jean Daniel Charron sheds new light upon this great figure in French literature, and argues that he should be considered more important and original than previously thought.

Download or read book The Pyramids of Giza written by Jean Pierre Corteggiani and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pyramids of Giza are the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that still stands today. Defying the centuries, these gigantic tombs, built more than 4,500 years ago by three great pharaohs of the 4th Dynasty, have long been objects of wonder, speculation and mystery, but it was not until the archaeological discoveries of the 19th century that a true picture of their fascinating history began to emerge. This pocket-sized, profusely illustrated book separates fact from fiction to tell the ongoing story of the Great Pyramids.