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  • The Future of Rome

    Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Visions

    How was the future of Rome, both near and distant in time, imagined by different populations living under the Roman Empire? It emerges from this collection of essays by a distinguished international team of scholars that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians had strikingly different answers to that question, revealing profound differences in their conceptions of history and historical time, the ... Read more

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  • Reconsidering Roman power

    Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions and reactions

    Edited by Katell Berthelot ...
    Series series Collection de l'École française de Rome
    Among the imperial states of the ancient world, the Roman empire stands out for its geographical extent, its longevity and its might. This collective volume investigates how the many peoples inhabiting Rome’s vast empire perceived, experienced, and reacted to both the concrete and the ideological aspects of Roman power. More precisely, it explores how they dealt with Roman might through their ... Read more

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  • Legal engagement

    The reception of Roman law and tribunals by Jews and other inhabitants of the Empire

    Series series Collection de l'École française de Rome
    The Roman empire set law at the center of its very identity. A complex and robust ideology of law and justice is evident not only in the dynamics of imperial administration, but a host of cultural arenas. Citizenship named the privilege of falling under Roman jurisdiction, legal expertise was cultural capital. A faith in the emperor’s intimate concern for justice was a key component of the ... Read more

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  • From Research to Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

    Series series IACAPAP
    From Research to Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health has been shaped to reflect the mental health needs of children and adolescents in low and middle income countries of the world. It also includes chapters on topics based on research and practice in high income countries which may have lessons and implications universally. The first section of the book takes a child and adolescent ... Read more

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  • Common Sense

    How to Exercise It

    We often associate ancient Japanese culture with a complex code of decorum and comportment, but as this volume demonstrates, people in that era also had a keen appreciation for common sense. Famed shogun warrior Yoritomo-Tashi dispenses down-to-earth philosophy and practical advice about how best to maintain poise and careful thought in even the most challenging of circumstances. ... Read more

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  • Jews and Their Roman Rivals

    Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel

    How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the TorahThroughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the Hellenistic kingdoms. Jews and Their Roman Rivals shows how the Roman Empire posed a unique challenge to Jewish thinkers such as Philo, Josephus, and the ... Read more

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  • Help! I'm Not Me

    Carol Royce begins life as a male then one day following an accident fully realises that she is trapped in the wrong sex. With great humour and pathos along the way her story leads to comment on the state of humanity. Her quest to be the woman she feels she really is takes her down many exciting and dangerous paths. She has been a father to two families and a mother to one in communal ... Read more

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  • The Discovery of Alcohol

    Alcohol is an important factor in modern civilizations, the source of great revenues to states, and of immense wealth to those who deal in products containing it. While wine, beer, hydromel, etc., have been in use from prehistoric times, the active principle common to them which produces the pleasant excitement and the disgusting intoxication, and which is concentrated in spirituous liquors, ... Read more

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  • SCARS TO STARS

    Insights Toward Interdependence - Evolving Mystical Humanis UU - A Memoir of Head, Heart, and Soul

    How did a devout Catholic girl from a LA mill town become a Mystical Humanist Unitarian Universalist, and what does that mean anyway, at least to her?“Dr. Dolly” shares her emotional journey—torn from Catholicism by a young love crisis, jumping from daily news editor to innovative Existential journalism teacher, world traveling writer-photographer, professor, communication consultant, later ... Read more

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  • PERFECTLY SQUARE

    A Fantasy Fable for All Ages

    This amusing little multigenerational storybook uses geometric shape characters and colorful art to deal with timely, yet timeless, human issues: diversity, change, creativity, and teamwork.Squareland enjoys a simple, uniform, conflict-free life of “perfect squares”—until expectations are stunningly upended by change. Suddenly Squares must deal with foreign creatures: Triangles, Rectangles, ... Read more

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    This book aims at combating the Hostility Theory which claims that the Christians in the pagan Roman Empire had no images and rejected them as idolatrous. Did the early Christians, during the first three centuries, 33–313, have images in their churches or places of worship and homes? If they did not, was that because they thought that all images were idols or close to being idols? Did they think ... Read more

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  • Idols in the East

    European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450

    Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols in the East, Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still ... Read more

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