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The Gospel According to Luke

The Gospel According to Luke

Emily Maguire

Praise for Emily Maguire 'Emily Maguire ... invites the reader to slide into the skins of her beautifully flawed characters and share in their human weaknesses. Be prepared to be absorbed ...' GOOD READING MAGAZINE '[Maguire's] prose is  ...
Smoke in the Room

Smoke in the Room

Emily Maguire

Provocative, honest, brimming with sexual tension and crackling with intelligence, this sensational novel cements Maguire's place as one of Australia's best young writers. PRAISE FOR EMILY MAGUIRE "At the heart of .
Pouvoirs, contestations et comportements dans l'Europe ...

Pouvoirs, contestations et comportements dans l'Europe ...

Bernard Barbiche

... Jean-Michel BOEHLER Jean-Pierre BOIS MarcBOMPAIRE Marie-Odile BONARDI Marie-Noëlle de BONNEVILLE Pierre BOTINEAU François et Ghislaine BOUGARD-NOYÉ Josiane BOURGUET-ROUVEYRE Monique BOUSCARLE Claude ...
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's ...

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's ...

Elisabeth de Feydeau

An alternate perspective on the world of Marie Antoinette, told through the story of her personal and exclusive perfumer Jean-Louis Fargeon, documents how he faithfully served Marie for fourteen years until the Revolution swept across ...
Art and Eloquence in Byzantium

Art and Eloquence in Byzantium

Henry Maguire

In particular, Maguire shows that the literary embellishments of the sermons and hymns of the church nourished the imaginationas of artists.
Venezuela, 1948-1951, [numbers 27290-31583].

Venezuela, 1948-1951, [numbers 27290-31583].

Bassett Maguire

This collection of field books documents Bassett Maguire's botanical collecting in Venezuela in 1948-1951 on New York Botanical Garden expeditions, with co-collectors including H.R. Kunhardt, Jr., Louis Politi, Bassett Maguire, Jr., Richard ...
Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine ...

Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine ...

Catherine Keyser

Jean Marie Lutes observes that modern women writers who began their ca- reers as journalists to prove their professionalism ultimately “grappled with the bodyconscious legacy of women's journalism.” Jean Marie Lutes, Front Page Girls: ...
The Image of the Nation: The History of Folklore Collecting ...

The Image of the Nation: The History of Folklore Collecting ...

Jean Marie Maguire

Autobiographies written by Blasket Islanders, which are great folklore documents, include Tomás O Crohan''s The Islandman, Maurice O''Sullivan''s Twenty Years a- Growing, Micheál O''Guiheen''s It''s a Pity Youth does not Last and Peig Sayer''s, Peig Peig is undoubtedly one of the most influential, and widely-read, Irish books of the twentieth century." Micheál O'' Guiheen, Peig Sayers son, described a visit from the collector Robin Flower, there to gather stories from his mother, one ...
Venezuela, Colombia, New Jersey, Brazil, Panama, Dominican ...

Venezuela, Colombia, New Jersey, Brazil, Panama, Dominican ...

Bassett Maguire

The notebook also contains a few pages of accounts. Blank pages were removed when the notebook was rebound. The Maguire field books also have their own volume numbering scheme; this is Vol. 37.
Towards an Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Life Course

Towards an Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Life Course

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René Levy, Paolo Ghisletta, Jean-Marie Le Goff, Dario Spini, Eric Widmer ... appreciate now. Rene ́ Levy, Paolo Ghisletta, Jean-Marie Le Goff, Dario Spini and Eric Widmer (Editors) Lausanne/Geneva This page intentionally left blank LIST OF ...
Ceramic Art from Byzantine Serres

Ceramic Art from Byzantine Serres

Dēmētra Papanikola-Bakirtzē

In the volume's first essay, Eunice Dauterman Maguire and Henry Maguire discuss the aesthetics and design of Byzantine pottery, as well as its relationship to the ceramic traditions of the Near East and Western Europe, particularly Italy.
Image and Imagination in Byzantine Art

Image and Imagination in Byzantine Art

Henry Maguire

The twelve studies contained in this second collection by Henry Maguire are linked together by a common theme, namely the relationship of Byzantine art to the imaginary.
Princesses and Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity

Princesses and Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity

Emily Maguire

Wrong, argues Emily Maguire. Society today is most comfortable to categorise women as Princesses (in need of protection) or Pornstars (peoples whose major duty is to be attractive and turn on men).
Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography

Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography

Emily Maguire

Singling out the work of Lydia Cabrera as emblematic of the experimentation with genre that characterized the age, Maguire constructs a series of counterpoints that place Cabrera's work in dialogue with that of her Cuban contemporaries.
Livres hebdo

Livres hebdo

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R E l JEAN-MARIE MULLER Preface de Bernard Clavel Gandhi l'insurgé L' épopée de la marche du sel 14,5 x 22,5 - 300 pages ISBN 2 226094083 120F SOCIÉTÉ LILIANE BINARD JEAN-LUC CLOUARD Le Drame de la pédophilie État des ...
Rhetoric, Nature and Magic in Byzantine Art

Rhetoric, Nature and Magic in Byzantine Art

Henry Maguire

Professor Maguire here studies three distinct but interrelated topics - first, the connections between Byzantine art and rhetoric, as illustrated by the imagery of both Church and State, and by ekphrastic descriptions of works of art, ...
Acta geographica

Acta geographica

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Le Conseiller Xavier-Marie Bordet, représentant le Maire Jean Tibéri, lit l' allocution de celui-ci devant nos sociétaires dans les salons de l'Hôtel de Ville. ( Photo Udofia) Madame le Ministre Alice Saunier-Séïté et le Président Jean Bastié ...
Maurice Halbwachs et les sciences de son temps

Maurice Halbwachs et les sciences de son temps

Marie Jaisson

C'est l'ensemble de ces aspects de l'histoire des sciences humaines qu'abordent les contributeurs de ce dossier : Marie Jaisson, Jean-Christophe Marcel, Olivier Martin, Laurent Mucchielli, Philippe Steiner, et Christian Topalov.
Socialistes à Paris: 1905-2005

Socialistes à Paris: 1905-2005

Laurent Villate

De gauche à droite: Patrick Bloche, Tony Dreyfus, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, Véronique Carrion- Bastok, lean-Marie Le Guen, Serge Blisko, Christophe Caresche. XIXe, 29: Alain Billon XXe, 30: Michel Charzat XXe, 31:Jean-Paul ...
Your Skirt's Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice

Your Skirt's Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice

Emily Maguire

Young women have a lot of questions. In Your Skirt's Too Short: Sex, Power, Choicea revised young adult edition of her book Princesses and Pornstars, Emily Maguire ignites discussion on issues relevant to teenagers.
Pierre Harmignie, numéro 17: prêtre : théâtre

Pierre Harmignie, numéro 17: prêtre : théâtre

Jean Louvet

... Maryse Vekeman et Régine Verly ...et Les Disciples de Chénier (Gilly) : Marie- Christine Bois, Maryline Depasse, Luc Devriese, Marc Duray, Alfred Durieux, Marc Durieux, Emelyne Lauwereys, Jean-Claude Lauwereys, Simon Lauwereys,  ...
All the Way

All the Way

Marie Darrieussecq

But who cares, Solange will get to do it, go all the way, whatever it takes. Marie Darrieussecq's All the Way is a brilliant and hilarious picture of an adolescent girl. Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France.
Practical Jean: A Novel

Practical Jean: A Novel

Trevor Cole

Bad Marie meets Arsenic and Old Lace in this darkly humorous story of a woman whose overpowering love for her friends moves her to murder each and every one of them.
Marie Hagerty

Marie Hagerty

Marie Hagerty

"The Marie Hagerty exhibition displays a range of canvases and collages of bold colour and robust shapes in which the viewer is confronted with the dualities of reality and abstraction in beautifully expressive ways.
L'empire de l'argent: essai sur l'essence de la mondialisation

L'empire de l'argent: essai sur l'essence de la mondialisation

André Gauron

Kenneth Lay (Enron), Bernie Ebbers (Worldcom), Dennis Kozlowski (Tyco), Jean-Marie Messier (Vivendi Universal).
The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox ...

The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox ...

Colleen Gray

Gray focuses on the social, administrative, political, and spiritual dimensions of the lives of three Congr gation superiors - Marie Barbier, Marie-Jos phe Maugue-Garreau, and Marie Raizenne.

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