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The cynic's breviary: Maxims and anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

Enriched edition. Insightful Aphorisms and Witty Anecdotes from an Enlightenment Cynic

by Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort, Jared Covington ...

Translated by William G. Hutchison ...

In "The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort," the reader is invited to explore a treasure trove of sharp-witted maxims and poignant anecdotes that encapsulate the essence of 18th-century Enlightenment thought. Chamfort employs a concise, aphoristic style that merges philosophy with satire, reflecting on themes such as human folly, social hypocrisy, and the nature of ... Read more

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In "The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort," the reader is invited to explore a treasure trove of sharp-witted maxims and poignant anecdotes that encapsulate the essence of 18th-century Enlightenment thought. Chamfort employs a concise, aphoristic style that merges philosophy with satire, reflecting on themes such as human folly, social hypocrisy, and the nature of
... Read more
Canadian Literary Bundle

Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy / Robertson Davies / Mazo de la Roche

by Nicholas Maes, Heather Kirk, Anne Cimon, André Vanasse ...

Series series Quest Biography
Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s literary heritage. Canadian letters have a prominent place in world literature, and its renown can be traced to authors such as these. Profiled are: pioneer chronicler of the wilderness Susanna Moodie, renowned novelist Robertson Davies, Quebec fiction writer ... Read more

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Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s literary heritage. Canadian letters have a prominent place in world literature, and its renown can be traced to authors such as these. Profiled are: pioneer chronicler of the wilderness Susanna Moodie, renowned novelist Robertson Davies, Quebec fiction writer
... Read more
The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women

Enriched edition.

by Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de Condorcet, Lucas Finch ...

Translated by Alice Drysdale Vickery ...

In "The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women," Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, provides a groundbreaking discourse on gender equality and women's rights during the Enlightenment era. Written with a clarity and precision that marks Condorcet's philosophical style, the essay advocates for women's suffrage, education, and their rightful place in civic life. This seminal ... Read more

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In "The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women," Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, provides a groundbreaking discourse on gender equality and women's rights during the Enlightenment era. Written with a clarity and precision that marks Condorcet's philosophical style, the essay advocates for women's suffrage, education, and their rightful place in civic life. This seminal
... Read more
Unfinished Justice: Volume One — United States

by Nicolas De Lacroix, SPG ...

Volume 1: United States508 pages. Five unsolved cases. Questions that refuse to disappear.A killer leaves dismembered victims across Cleveland. A man is shot in a town filled with witnesses, yet no one is convicted. An axeman terrorizes New Orleans. A Hollywood director is found dead. A hotel room becomes the setting for a baffling murder.In Unfinished Justice: United States, Nicolas De Lacroix ... Read more

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Volume 1: United States508 pages. Five unsolved cases. Questions that refuse to disappear.A killer leaves dismembered victims across Cleveland. A man is shot in a town filled with witnesses, yet no one is convicted. An axeman terrorizes New Orleans. A Hollywood director is found dead. A hotel room becomes the setting for a baffling murder.In Unfinished Justice: United States, Nicolas De Lacroix
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Le Général Curély. Itinéraire D'un Cavalier Léger De La Grande Armée (1793-1815)

by Général Baron Jean-Nicolas Curély ...

Le général Curély. Itinéraire d'un cavalier léger de la Grande Armée (1793-1815), publié d'après un manuscrit authentique par le général Thoumas. Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1887, in-16, X-436 p., portr.« Malgré son titre, il s'agit bien de mémoires sur les campagnes de 1805, 1806, 1807 et 1809. La Russie, l'Allemagne, Waterloo sont également évoqués dans un panorama complet qui ne s'élève jamais au ... Read more

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Le général Curély. Itinéraire d'un cavalier léger de la Grande Armée (1793-1815), publié d'après un manuscrit authentique par le général Thoumas. Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1887, in-16, X-436 p., portr.« Malgré son titre, il s'agit bien de mémoires sur les campagnes de 1805, 1806, 1807 et 1809. La Russie, l'Allemagne, Waterloo sont également évoqués dans un panorama complet qui ne s'élève jamais au
... Read more
Le miracle de l'écriture

Boostez votre écriture, améliorez votre productivité, créez votre plan d'action

by Nicolas Forgue ...

Pourquoi le miracle de l'écritureVous avez envie d'écrire sur tout et n'importe quoi mais vous ne savez pas comment vous y prendre, vous avez envie d'écrire mais vous avez un grand nombre de freins qui vous empêche de mener à bien des projets d'écritures. Vous pensez que l'écriture est uniquement pour les experts et les professionnels. Vous écrivez mais n'avez pas de productivité et n'arrivez ... Read more

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Pourquoi le miracle de l'écritureVous avez envie d'écrire sur tout et n'importe quoi mais vous ne savez pas comment vous y prendre, vous avez envie d'écrire mais vous avez un grand nombre de freins qui vous empêche de mener à bien des projets d'écritures. Vous pensez que l'écriture est uniquement pour les experts et les professionnels. Vous écrivez mais n'avez pas de productivité et n'arrivez
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Husserl and the Promise of Time

Subjectivity in Transcendental Phenomenology

by Nicolas de de Warren ...

Series series Modern European Philosophy
This book provides an extensive treatment of Husserl's phenomenology of time-consciousness. Nicolas de Warren uses detailed analysis of texts by Husserl, some only recently published in German, to examine Husserl's treatment of time-consciousness and its significance for his conception of subjectivity. He traces the development of Husserl's thinking on the problem of time from Franz Brentano's ... Read more

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This book provides an extensive treatment of Husserl's phenomenology of time-consciousness. Nicolas de Warren uses detailed analysis of texts by Husserl, some only recently published in German, to examine Husserl's treatment of time-consciousness and its significance for his conception of subjectivity. He traces the development of Husserl's thinking on the problem of time from Franz Brentano's
... Read more
German Philosophy and the First World War

by Nicolas de Warren ...

How did the First World War, the so-called 'Great War' - widely seen on all sides as 'the war to end all wars' - impact the development of German philosophy? Combining history and biography with astute philosophical and textual analysis, Nicolas de Warren addresses here the intellectual trajectories of ten significant wartime philosophers: Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Ernst Cassirer, Hermann Cohen, ... Read more

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How did the First World War, the so-called 'Great War' - widely seen on all sides as 'the war to end all wars' - impact the development of German philosophy? Combining history and biography with astute philosophical and textual analysis, Nicolas de Warren addresses here the intellectual trajectories of ten significant wartime philosophers: Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Ernst Cassirer, Hermann Cohen,
... Read more
T.K.V. Desikachar

A question of transmission

by Claude Maréchal, Sriram Sriram, Malek Daouk, Bernard Bouanchaud, François Lorin, Hellfried Krusche, Marina Margherita, Raghu Ananthanarayanan, Peter Hersnack, Frans Moors, Simone Tempelhof Moors, Martyn Neal, Laurence Maman, Lakshmi Ranganathan, Michel Nicolas, Lucia Almini, Michel Alibert, Elisabeth Petit-Lizop, Mekhala Desikachar ...

Early on the morning of August 8, 2016, Sri T.K.V. Desikachar, son of the great yogi Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, passed away in Chennai, in the Tamil Nadu, a province of southern India.Those whose written accounts are compiled here were his personal students for many years. Some of them, Indians, taught alongside him at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram for 20, 30, or 40 years. Others, ... Read more

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Early on the morning of August 8, 2016, Sri T.K.V. Desikachar, son of the great yogi Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, passed away in Chennai, in the Tamil Nadu, a province of southern India.Those whose written accounts are compiled here were his personal students for many years. Some of them, Indians, taught alongside him at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram for 20, 30, or 40 years. Others,
... Read more
Optimising breeding of dairy cows

Leveraging genetics for more sustainable production

by Dr Dylan Dragon Metzel, Dr Rieko Simone Wilford, Dr Henrique Alberto Mulim, Dr Jorge Hidalgo, Professor Luiz F. Brito, Dr Hinayah Rojas de Oliveira, Professor Chad Dechow, Dr Hannah Kelley, Dr Harvey Blackburn, Professor Mike Coffey, Dr Matthew Barden, Professor Georgios Oikonomou, Dr John B. Cole, Professor Albert De Vries, Dr Giulio Visentin, Dr Emanuele Dolfi, Dr Simona Belperio, Dr Giorgia Antenucci, Dr Roberta Petti, Dr Giovanni Niero, Professor Peter Hansen, Professor Matthew Lucy, Dr Peter Amer, Dr Tim Byrne, Professor Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos, Dr Venkatesh K. Murali, Dr Alison Van Eenennaam, Dr Nicholas Werry, Dr Yansen Chen, Dr Hadi Atashi, Dr Nicolas Gengler, Professor Luca Fontanesi, Dr Matteo Bolner, Dr Samuele Bovo, Dr Oscar González-Recio, Dr Marina Martínez-Álvaro, Dr Massimo Bionaz, Professor Juan J. Loor, Dr Grum Gebreyesus, Dr Gareth Difford, Professor Christian Maltecca, Dr Jicai Jiang, Dr Francesco Tiezzi, Dr Bayode O. Makanjuola, Dr Christine F. Baes, Dr Filippo Miglior, Dr Didier Boichard, Aurélien Capitan, Dr Lisa Rienesl, Dr Stefan Hörtenhuber, Dr Johann Sölkner, Professor Haja Kadarmideen, Dr Daniela A. L. Lourenco, Dr Matias Bermann, Dr Andres Legarra, Dr Ignacy Misztal, Dr Maria Frizzarin, Dr Clement Grelet ...

Series Book 186 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Dairy cow breeding continues to face several monumental challenges, namely the need to balance production and non-production traits with consumer expectations surrounding animal health, welfare, resilience and sustainability. At the same time, there is a growing body of phenotypic and genetic data which, when combined with state-of-the-art analytical techniques, can improve the precision and ... Read more

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Dairy cow breeding continues to face several monumental challenges, namely the need to balance production and non-production traits with consumer expectations surrounding animal health, welfare, resilience and sustainability. At the same time, there is a growing body of phenotypic and genetic data which, when combined with state-of-the-art analytical techniques, can improve the precision and
... Read more
Rising Powers, Institutions and Elites

Brazil, China, Russia, Turkey

Edited by Nicolas Monceau, Daniel Bourmaud ...

Series series Science Politique - Université de Bordeaux
Emerging countries have increasingly acquired a crucial importance in the international area over the last few decades. Their growing influence in the international system and their roles as rising powers in the political, economic and military spheres have been largely analysed and have raised intense debates. However, the relations between their emergence as new dominant powers at an ... Read more

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Emerging countries have increasingly acquired a crucial importance in the international area over the last few decades. Their growing influence in the international system and their roles as rising powers in the political, economic and military spheres have been largely analysed and have raised intense debates. However, the relations between their emergence as new dominant powers at an
... Read more
The Same Sea

by Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange ...

The Same Sea is Amos Oz's most adventurous and inventive novel, the book by which he would like to be remembered. The cast of characters ranges from a prodigal son to a widowed father who has taken in his son's enticing young girlfriend, who in turn sleeps with her boyfriend's close friend. The author himself receives phone calls from his characters, criticizing the way he portrays them in his ... Read more

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The Same Sea is Amos Oz's most adventurous and inventive novel, the book by which he would like to be remembered. The cast of characters ranges from a prodigal son to a widowed father who has taken in his son's enticing young girlfriend, who in turn sleeps with her boyfriend's close friend. The author himself receives phone calls from his characters, criticizing the way he portrays them in his
... Read more

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