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En donnant mes soins à cette nouvelle édition des romans, nouvelles et récits, que j’ai déjà offerts au public, d’anciennes questions se sont souvent représentées à mon esprit, et je me demandais s’il serait possible de mettre un frein à la fureur que l’on a de lire des romans ; si...

Há muitos livros sobre o Talmud, mas são poucos os que possibilitam aos leitores a experiência de participar de uma discussão talmúdica e perceber a magia que se estabelece quando estes debates, ocorridos há muitos séculos e preservados intactos nos volumes desta grande obra, se revitalizam...

Existe uma forma judaica de se estudar a Torá? SIM, e é isto o que esta obra nos apresenta, através da tradução literal do comentário de Rashi sobre uma das porções semanais da Torá ("Shofetim", Deuteronômio 16:18-21:9), acrescida de notas explicativas e ampliada por comentários...

Computer engineer Dave Hansen is transported from Earth to a world where the rules of science and physics are replaced by the rules of magic. Hanson was summoned to help save the world's sky from collapsing. The sky is a literal dome that arches above the world, with the sun and stars not massive...

Just as the life force of a young green sprout pushes upward to open a crack in the sidewalk, so does the Divine Field of Energy within us break through our walls to expose us to the Sunlight of Love and the Joy of Life. Thus the many challenges we face are but part of the unveilings of the seeds...

A young man’s steady, workaday world is thrown off-kilter after he meets a penniless wanderer who inspires him to battle his vices and clear a path towards personal freedom.

Dès l’Antiquité, le débat sur l’infinité de l’univers ne concerne pas seulement les astronomes, mais il est aussi lié à la question de l’ordre cosmique et de la place de l’homme dans la nature. Au cours du Moyen Age, la théorie de la pluralité des mondes permet de s’interroger...

The book interrogates the experience of being young and becoming adult in rural Bangladesh, in a context of profound processes of socio economic change. Throughout South Asia, new educational opportunities and an increase in the age at which girls and boys get married are opening new spaces for young...

La fotografía y otras manifestaciones artísticas como fuente documental para la historia

Poor people in developing countries need water for many purposes: for drinking, bathing, irrigating vegetable gardens, and watering livestock. However, responsibility for water services is divided between different government agencies, the WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and irrigation sub-sectors,...

There is an increasing amount of literature on various aspects of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. While appreciating this scholarship, this volume highlights some of the omissions and concerns to make a quality addition to the ongoing discourse on the intersection of gender with peace...

When two police officers investigate a small town bank robbery, they discover a lot more that what they normally would suspect. Not only is the cash gone but the employees and customers have been drained of blood. 

In the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant postcolonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish “colonial legacy.” Those supposed legacies included...

A man trying to uncover a mystery, and warn everyone. They think he is crazy, he doubts his own sanity, and at the end he discovers a shocking truth about himself. Sometimes what you look is closer than you think.