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In Lucifer's Legacy, physicist and broadcaster Frank Close explores the origins of asymmetry from life to the Universe at large. He asks whether this multitude of examples can be traced back to a single act that took place at the origin of our Universe. Inspired by a chance meeting with Lucifer in the Tuilerie gardens in Paris, Close takes the reader on a sweeping tour of asymmetry in the world around us, from the development of human embryos to the mysterious Higgs boson. His tour culminates in the research now underway in Switzerland, where scientists are preparing an experiment to recreate the Big Bang and hope to resolve the mystery of original asymmetry. Lucifer's Legacy describes the possible outcomes of this experiment, and assesses their implications for our understanding of the Universe.

This volume presents an expertly curated selection of paintings, portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes, from among the masterpieces of the world-renowned Louvre museum-from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Eugène Delacroix's July 28 : Liberty Leading the People. Iconic works by painterly masters such as Sandro Botticelli, Hieronymus Bosch, Caravaggio, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Jacques Louis David are reproduced in this collection of twenty-one high-quality, easily detachable prints, to be displayed alone or grouped together to create your very own Louvre at home. Charles Delaville's text on the back of each print provides the keys to understanding the work of art and the artist's life. Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Director of Interpretation and Cultural Programs at the Louvre, contributes a foreword.

Renowned to this day for its Sanctuary of Apollo, the island of Delos was a flourishing trading port in antiquity that drew both Greeks and foreigners to its shores for commercial purposes. Many exotic deities - some hailing from the east and others, introduced by the Italian community, from the west - were worshipped on the island. Among these foreign divinities, the Egyptian gods figured prominently, and their first appearance can be dated to the 3rd century BC. The spread of Egyptian-Greek cults beyond the Nile Valley favoured the worship of the goddess Isis. While the goddess was the object of great devotion on Delos as elsewhere, it was actually the god Sarapis who was at the centre of a pantheon forming a triad with Isis and Anubis, joined by Harpocrates, Ammon and Osiris.

This study investigates Sudermann's plays from a socio-historical and literary-historical perspective. His plays are a response to a crisis of marriage. That crisis had its roots in the Romantic period and came to a head when the conservative Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch was introduced in 1900. Of particular significance is Es lebe das Leben (1902). The manuscripts of this play reveal that here Sudermann moved from a Realist treatment of marital difficulties to an exploration of the crisis of the realist literary system and a search for a Modernist treatment of divorce. His plays on marriage, divorce, courtship and the problems of single men and women constitute a sustained attempt to modify or at times radically to challenge the presentation of marriage in the Realist literary system.

The Cambridge Planetary Handbook is an invaluable reference text, bringing together key facts and data on the planets and their satellites, discoverers and researchers. It summarizes many centuries' worth of data, from the earliest observations of the planets through to the most recent space probe findings. The author discusses the history, mythology and theories of the objects in our solar system, and provides a comprehensive information section with accurate and up-to-date data on the planets. The book contains excellent photographs and explanatory illustrations, along with numerous historical drawings from Galileo, Huygens, Herschel and other astronomers. This book is a must for all astronomy enthusiasts, as well as academic researchers, students and teachers. Those unfamiliar with the sky will find this is a user-friendly guide written in clear, non-technical language.

This book forms the complement to the first volume published in 2000. The preface contains some remarks about the transmission of the text as a supplement to the first volume. Then follow the critical edition of books VI-X, and the indices for the whole text. The complete edition gives access to the longest and most important work from Aristotle's zoology, De historia animalium, in the Latin translation by William of Moerbeke. This version was part of the standard university curriculum in the late-medieval West. The bilingual indices give access to the richness of the translator's vocabulary and provide an indispensable tool for the study of his translation method. Except for De partibus animalium, all of Moerbeke's translations from the Aristotelian zoological corpus are now available in critical editions.

An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew the city well or who would like to discover its many other facets. The forgotten café where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara used to meet, a tribute to the city's ghosts, a mammoth in the metro, a cave transformed into a shrine, an underground parking lot with mosaics dating from 1930, a Baroque altarpiece made from papier mâché, a village based on the principles of Thomas More's Utopia, secret masterpieces of colonial art in rooms only open around two hours a week, the largest roof garden in Latin America, the photo on which the Oscar statuette is modelled, the first building in the world faced with a material that can trap urban smog, a road surface designed for praying as you walk ...

Foreign Devils investigates representations of exile in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1956 through the films of Peter Lorre, Béla Lugosi, and Conrad Veidt. This book dispels the assumption that by virtue of its hegemonic, reactionary, and exclusionary modes of representation, otherness is excluded from or only obliquely alluded to in classical Hollywood cinema. This book contends that Hollywood uses European émigré actors to speak of the experience of exile and the often-futile exilic attempts at integration into the host nation. This original, cross-disciplinary study incorporates a number of research interests in film studies – specifically Hollywood cinema, exile and émigré filmmakers, the Golden Age of the studio system, the Universal Horror cycle, and Poverty Row filmmaking. Foreign Devils combines the close reading of key texts with a theoretical framework that encompasses body theory and theories of space and nation with historical accounts of immigration to the United States and American concepts of nationhood through the symbolism of blood and death studies. Film studies students and academics, both undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as scholars in other disciplines, and anyone with an interest in Hollywood cinema, Central European culture in the 1930s-1950s, and European emigration to the United States will benefit from reading this book. Foreign Devils is also a valuable resource for courses in Hollywood filmmaking, émigré film, exile, Central European culture, nationalism studies, and Jewish studies.

During the last few years, gay and lesbian rights have reached the European Union human rights agenda and different instruments to combat discrimination have been adopted, which have had major implications for the gay and lesbian communities all over Europe, This volume focuses on less known and less studied aspects of these accomplishments. Its originality lies both in the multidisciplinary nature and the international approach of this project ; researchers from different universities throughout Europe (Brussels, Leiden, Stockholm, Athens, Ljubljana, Budapest, Bucharest, Paris and Krakow) and from different disciplines (law, political science, sociology and journalism) have contributed to this volume. Through case studies and theoretical reflection, the articles collected here aim at reinforcing the existing interest for the topic as well as offering an academic look at the subject, with a view to fostering scientific dialogue and contributing to the development of this field of research. The book is structured in three different parts, covering a broad spectrum of issues, among which : legal achievements on outlawing discrimination on sexual orientation within the European Union, the evolution of same-sex partnership and marriage, the accomplishments in the candidate countries. By providing a comprehensive overview of the aforementioned topics, this book can be appreciated by different categories of readers, from those interested in human rights to those working in the specific field of non-discrimination or studying the evolution of norms.

Parents who come from different language backgrounds often hope that their children will be able to speak the languages of both their parents. In families where this is the goal, the ‘one parent-one language' approach (Ronjat, 1913) is widely used. The ‘one parent-one language' approach is relatively effective in promoting active bilingualism among young children in a society where there is little support for the minority language. However, there is a general perception that maintenance of the minority language into middle childhood and beyond is difficult as during this period children's contacts with the outside world expand and the input in the majority language increases. This book examines the sociolinguistic environment and the nature of parental input for children from Japanese-Australian families, who have been exposed to Japanese and English through the ‘one parent-one language' approach in Australia. The research on which the book is based identifies factors which account for successful and unsuccessful cases of Japanese language maintenance of children from those families. The major part of this study involves discourse analysis of the conversations between four Japanese mothers and their primary school aged children based on audio-recordings over a period of 21 months. This qualitative approach is complemented by a quantitative study interviewing 25 Japanese mothers about their children's language experience.

Eminent tastemaker Axel Vervoordt recounts the pivotal moments in his life that formed the foundation of his guiding philosophy and signature aesthetic. Axel Vervoordt is one of the world's foremost tastemakers. Revered for his discerning eye in art and interior design through a career that has spanned more than fifty years, he is renowned for his captivating minimalist interiors. An iconic figure at the most prominent international art fairs and exhibitions, he incarnates a singular philosophy for how to live with style. In Stories and Reflections, Vervoordt recounts stories about the people who have influenced him most throughout his life - his family, friends, artists, colleagues, clients, and unforgettable mentors - in this memoir that is personal, funny, insightful, and permeated with humility, wisdom, and lessons learned. He reflects on the key moments in his life from childhood to the present - Rudolf Nureyev's visit to the Vervoordt's new castle, his youthful acquisition of a Magritte, discovering Japanese Gutai art, his legendary Venice exhibitions, and insights gained from artists such as Cy Twombly, Anish Kapoor, and musician Mstislav Rostropovich. He details his greatest successes, as well as his personal regrets, while offering first-hand insight into the work that has forged his reputation. A larger-than-life and inspiring man, this book offers snapshots from his life, which paint an overall portrait of his guiding philosophy.

E. A. Seguy was one of the foremost French designers of the first third of the twentieth century. He produced many splendid albums of designs over a long and distinguished career. This book reproduces in full color 40 plates from the two color portfolios called Les fleurs et leurs applications décoratives [c. 1902] - one of the high points in Art Nouveau design. The 40 plates included here contain 166 decorative Art Nouveau patterns. Lacy and delicate interpretations of flowers ranging from arum and arrowhead to water lily and wisteria, these patterns offer such color combinations as a blue-petaled flower with green leaves on a mustard background, salmon-colored flower with robin's-egg-blue leaves on a beige field, and royal-blue flowers with golden leaves on golden stems silhouetted in light blue-green on a deep blue-green field. The colors in this volume are strong and bold, prefiguring such later influences as Persian art and the Ballets Russes. Twenty of the plates in the original portfolios contained ordinary realistic renderings of 30 plants, and they have been omitted from this volume. The wide variety of flat designs are perfect for textiles, wallpapers, and packaging, and offer many ideas for mosaics, stained glass, rugs and bookbindings. Containing borders, circular designs, repeats, allovers, and "spots," this collection has something to interest everyone in the graphics field.

On the Mont Saint-Michel, sinister rascals have stolen the milk teeth lost by the children. With the help of privateers from Saint-Malo, the Little Mouse and his companion will try to unmask them and set out to get these unscrupulous pirates.

Depuis qu'elle a été frappée par la foudre, l'enquêtrice lilloise Mila Fratelli reçoit les conseils d'une présence énigmatique venue d'une autre dimension. Epaulée par Christophe et Erwan, ses coéquipiers de la police scientifique, Mila tente de résoudre l'affaire non élucidée des étudiants retrouvés noyés dans la Deûle. Bientôt, Mila soupçonne Eric, un jeune handicapé.

From September 2011 to December 2013 the Luigi Sturzo Institute in Rome along with the Centre of European Studies planned a series of international scientific meetings to study one highly important political subject : the commitment of Christian Democrats on an international level. This project has been organised thanks to the support of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, and the International Labour Organisation. Internationalism is a Key Element for the Christian Democrat Identity. In fact, CD is a political movement of thought and action whose roots lie in a specific ideology : to use the German word Weltanschauung, it is based on a particular framework of ideas and beliefs that leads the party to interpret the relationship between men and nations from an international point of view, ensuring the human being a central place in every social policy. The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, wrote in a Message to these Meetings : "We can consider ourselves very lucky that 50 years ago forward-thinking personalities founded the World Union of Christian Democrats. From then on, the world, through globalisation, has been deeply changed. Events that take place in other continents immediately impact on our lives. We will be able to protect ourselves from terrorism, achieve economic and social security, and defend our environment only through common global action. This is the task of our generation : to overcome these global challenges. [...] Our parties and our political organisations share a common Christian ideal of man. This ideal, grounded on the inalienability of human dignity, is at the core of one important value : to this man has linked a social and economic model that combines economic success and social responsibility." Her message clearly shows the need to use historical knowledge, to return to and explore a rich and challenging past as well as to develop a reflection on and a course of action for the present and the future.

L'arthrite juvénile idiopathique (AJI) est l'arthrite chronique la plus courante chez les enfants dans le monde. L'objectif est de décrire une série de 120 enfants atteints d'AJI diagnostiqués et recrutés dans les services de pédiatrie de 5 wilayas, Sétif et les wilayas avoisinantes, durant la période du 1 janvier 2012 au 31 décembre 2018. La prédominance est féminine (54, 2%), l'âge moyen au diagnostic est de 7, 46 ± 3, 77 ans avec un âge de début de la maladie d'environ 6, 69 ± 3, 65 ans et un délai diagnostique relativement tardif d'environ 9, 34 ± 13, 05 mois. Les formes oligoarticulaires sont les plus fréquentes. Le taux annuel moyen d'incidence de l'AJI à Sétif durant l'étude prospective est de 3, 88/100 000 enfants et celui de la région Est est de 2, 00 pour 100 000 enfants. Le taux de prévalence de l'AJI à Sétif entre 2016-2017 est de 11, 25/100 000 enfants de moins de 16 ans, celui de la région Est d'étude est de 5, 80/100 000 enfants de moins de 16 ans. Le traitement était basé sur les AINS, les antirhumatismaux modificateurs de la maladie, l'aspirine, les glucocorticoïdes, la rééducation fonctionnelle et la biothérapie. L'évolution à une année est marquée par 31, 1% de rémission.

Un perroquet et un canard, tous deux rares et protégés, disparaissent du célèbre zoo de New-York. Parviendront-ils à les retrouver ? - A parrot and a duck, both rare and protected, disappear from the Central Park zoo in New-York. Will our heroes find them ?

Loin de l'image Instagram parfaite que l'on se fait souvent les premiers mois (et parfois les premières années) avec bébé ne sont pas toiujours faciles. On se sent vite démunie et seule dans ce nouveau rôle de maman et face à ce tout-petit en constante évolution, qui nous oblige à nous adapter en permanence. La Cool Baby Academy, c'est tout un tas d'outils simples pour t'aider à apaiser ton bébé... et donc à t'apaiser aussi ! Baby yoga, routines, rotation des jouets, réflexologie, activités apaisantes et même hypnose, tu auras enfin toutes les clés pour vivre cette période en toute sérénité !

Comment a-t-il été possible de construire la Sécurité sociale en 1946 dans un pays où la population dépendait de tickets de rationnement pour se nourrir alors qu'aujourd'hui nous ne serions pas capables de l'étendre dans un pays qui a rarement été aussi riche ? Ce livre propose une histoire des transformations de la protection santé en France de 1789 à nos jours, à travers le prisme des conflits qui l'ont façonnée. Au cours de la Révolution de 1789, alors que les débats sur la place de l'Etat et du capital dans la protection santé se déroulent dans des termes très contemporains, l'Etat refuse de procéder à des réformes d'envergure. Les mutuelles naissent alors comme forme d'auto-organisation malgré les interdits et la répression. Par crainte de leurs velléités révolutionnaires, l'Etat se réapproprie l'esprit des mutuelles par une série de loi à partir de 1852. C'est avec la Première Guerre mondiale que naît véritablement l'Etat social : la conduite et les conséquences de cette "guerre totale" renforcent le rôle de l'Etat dans la société, et son besoin de prendre soin comme de contrôler la population. L'Etat social en France n'est pas le produit de la bienveillance parlementaire mais celui de la guerre. Après 1945, deux logiques en germe depuis un siècle s'affrontent directement : d'un côté, des militants cégétistes issus de la Résistance mettent en place en quelques mois un système de sécurité sociale autogéré par les intéressés, dans la tradition de la "Sociale" initiée par la Commune de Paris ; de l'autre, dès 1946, l'Etat cherche à mettre la main sur la "Sécu" contre le pouvoir populaire. Bientôt, il va modifier les principes de l'institution - de "chacun cotise selon ses moyens et reçoit selon ses besoins" à "chacun paye selon ses moyens et reçoit selon son niveau de risque" . Au gré des réformes, l'Etat social renforce un capitalisme politique où la proximité entre élites politiques et économiques impose des politiques souvent en contradiction avec les aspirations populaires. Si les dépenses de santé ne baissent pas, elles sont de plus en plus contraintes (nouvelle gestion publique) et changent de nature. Au nom de la lutte contre les déficits - c'est l'invention du "trou de la Sécu" -, la politique de ciblage des dépenses vers les plus pauvres et les plus malades ouvre un espace pour l'épanouissement des alliés politiques de l'Etat (médecine libérale, complémentaires santé) et pour le capital (cliniques, industrie pharmaceutique). La pandémie a mis en lumière toute l'absurdité de ces évolutions et l'impérieuse nécessité reprendre le pouvoir sur la sécurité sociale.

Un ouvrage indispensable pour les fans de Jean-Claude Van Damme et les amateurs du cinéma d'action. Icône du film d'arts martiaux suite au triomphe de Bloodsport, Jean Claude Van Damme est la représentation même du rêve américain : grâce à son courage et son travail acharné, il est passé du statut d'immigré sans papiers à celui de star de cinéma. Toutefois, la carrière de l'acteur belge a connu de véritables turbulences, le chaos (dépendance à la drogue, dérapages médiatiques...) succédant au triomphe. Un vrai grand écart entre gloire et déchéance. JCVD a néanmoins toujours su rebondir en se réinventant à l'écran à travers des réalisateurs talentueux ou des projets originaux. Dans cet ouvrage enrichi de photographies de tournage inédites et de nombreux entretiens exclusifs récents (notamment les réalisateurs Sheldon Lettich (Full Contact), Peter Hyams (Timecop) et Peter McDonald (Légionnaire), les acteurs Dennis Chan (Kickboxer), Damian Chapa (Street Fighter) et Paulo Tocha (Bloodsport), les scénaristes Chuck Pfarrer (Chasse à l'homme), Lawrence Riggins (Replicant) et Christopher Cosby (Bloodsport) ou encore les producteurs Dimitri Logothetis (Kickboxer Vengeance) et Mike Leeder (La Vengeance sous la peau), l'auteur analyse la carrière de Jean-Claude Van Damme et sa dualité quasi permanente (personnalité bipolaire, doubles rôles au cinéma...). LES POINTS FORTS - Le premier ouvrage qui analyse l'intégralité de la filmographie de l'acteur/artiste martial Jean-Claude Van Damme pour en dégager tout l'intérêt thématique et esthétique. - Suite à un gros travail de recherche très argumenté, l'auteur explore le célèbre parcours du Belge à Hollywood, du succès jusqu'aux polémiques. - Une préface signée Sheldon Lettich, ami et fidèle collaborateur de JCVD depuis les années 1980 (il a signé le scénario de Bloodsport et a réalisé Full Contact et Double Impact, deux films culte de l'acteur belge). - De multiples photographies inédites ou rares provenant des collections personnelles de Sheldon Lettich et David Worth (directeur de la photographie de Bloodsport et réalisateur de Kickboxer). - Des interviews inédites et récentes de nombreux collaborateurs de JCVD (réalisateurs, chorégraphes des combats, cascadeurs, scénariste, directeur de la photographie...) qui proposent différents points de vue sur leur travail avec la star de Timecop. - Un livre qui permet aussi de faire un bilan sur l'évolution du cinéma d'action américain, des années 1980 jusqu'à aujourd'hui, à travers la carrière de JCVD à Hollywood. - Un ouvrage de 290 pages indispensable pour les fans de l'acteur et les amateurs du cinéma d'action. - Un livre dédié à ceux qui ont grandi avec les films de JCVD et qui ont beaucoup souffert en essayant de faire le " grand écart facial "...

Mila-Rose est la princesse du royaume de Trevion. A dix-sept ans, elle apprend qu'elle est fiancée depuis sa naissance au prince du royaume voisin. Mila se retrouve donc enchaînée à un destin qu'elle n'aurait pas choisi. Le prince Naythan de Chander est loin d'être son idéal et l'attitude froide et distante de ce jeune homme n'aide pas Mila à s'en faire un ami. Déterminée à trouver son propre bonheur, inconsciente des véritables problèmes de son royaume et poussée par ses passions, Mila tentera de trouver une issue à ses fiançailles.

The purpose of this book is to evaluate the functioning of the management by results (MbR) reform in the Finnish public administration, especially from the point of view of parliamentary steering and auditing : how the relations between the parliamentary actors and public administration have developed since the reform. The question is analysed using documents and expert interviews. The book indicates that the shift to the MbR system has meant in many cases a shift to a new, more flexible way to steer the administration. However, the reform is not yet complete from the point of view of parliamentary steering and auditing. The information on the realization of the civil service agencies' and state institutions' result targets could be forwarded more effectively to the ministries. Thus far the management reform insufficiently enables the realization of parliamentary steering and auditing.

Desert Isles & Pirate Islands examines the development of the island theme in nineteenth-century English juvenile fiction. The earliest island stories, Robinsonnades designed to teach both piety and natural history, gave way in mid-century to adventure stories with their primary emphasis on excitement and entertainment. By the end of the Victorian era, while elements of the Robinsonnade still featured in adventure fiction, the island story accommodated other traditions. It was particularly in the periodicals known as 'penny dreadfuls' that the island story became a lively and often lurid tale of pirates and their buried treasure. The book contains a detailed 505-item bibliography of stories on the island theme appearing in England from 1788 to 1910. Sixty-five illustrations reproduced from contemporary children's books and periodicals depict typical characters, situations and motifs in this fiction.

The subject of foreign assistance in education for developing countries has gained increasing importance in the last twenty years. The fact that the efforts of both donors and recipients of assistance have not been entirely satisfying has resulted in repeated appeals for intensified scientific investigation into this area. This study represents a response to those appeals from the point of view of an educationist from a recipient country (Sierra Leone).Using historical and field investigations, case studies of three representative agencies were conducted between 1988 and 1989 : a multilateral (UNESCO), a bilateral (British) and a private (Baptist Church).The results indicate that both the approach and goals of aid agencies as well as the degree of involvement of target groups leave a lot to be desired. On the basis of these results, recommendations are made for future cooperation.

For almost fifty years, trees have marked the career of Michael Kenna, a photographer known and recognised for the virtuosity of his technique. An essential link with the earth, sky, air, light, silence, and reflections, Kenna pays tribute to them by taking their portrait. Pictorial, dreamlike, graphic, romantic, hazy, poetic, the artist celebrates these great lords of nature. The photographer, a tireless wanderer, travels the world, from France to New Zealand, to the United States, criss-crossing Japan, to immortalise trees and forests. From dense woods to light-filled canopies, to tiny trees isolated in majesty within idyllic white landscapes, beauty is offered to us in the range of species photographed as much as in the variation of compositions. Exclusively in black and white, these photographs unfurl through the seasons, giving rhythm and emphasis to time.

Un plan d'action de santé permet de mettre en oeuvre les activités d'une stratégie de santé. En Afrique de nombreuses maladies sévissent malgré les plans d'action de santé demandés d'être mis en oeuvre par l'OMS. Beaucoup de questions restent sans réponses sur la prise en charge des personnes vivant avec le VIH/SIDA : qu'est ce qui fait la particularité des systèmes de santé pour que les indicateurs de prise en charge des personnes vivant avec le VIH/SIDA (PVVIH/SIDA) soient aussi faibles ? Comment les rendre plus performants et plus équitables ? Une étude a été menée avec comme population d'intérêt les PVVIH/SIDA de la Région de l'Ouest-Cameroun, c'est-à-dire les personnes pour qui dans le dicton populaire "vaincre ou mourir" , le mot "vaincre" peut être substitué par "consommer les services de santé" et ce dicton devient "consommer les services de la santé ou mourir" . Les résultats obtenus n'ont pas reflété les attentes telles que le voudraient les nombreuses actions de santé déployées par le Gouvernement de la République du Cameroun pour améliorer le confort de vie des PVVIH/SIDA. Porter le Plan d'action du Projet sur trois ans coûtera 389 500 US$ (environ 233 700 000 F. CFA)

Picture a resolute heroine from a seventeenth-century French romance who has been unknowingly teleported to mid-eighteenth-century Britain. Equipped with her worldview fashioned by the beliefs and values of those romances, how would she navigate this unfamiliar world ? Would her journey be a seamless progression from one comically ridiculous error to the next ? How would she assess the morals and customs of her newfound society, and how would its members perceive her ? In The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox embarks on this imaginative experiment. Her Cervantean parody fosters a dynamic reading experience, swinging between complicity and detachment. It projects an image of the parodied romances but also of the social world of eighteenth-century Britain. Encouraging readers to contemplate the fluid interplay between fiction and the real, the novel prompts reflection on the disparities between the social norms of both realms. This study takes a multifaceted approach to Lennox's novel, situating the work in its literary-historical context and examining the narrative features aligning it both with realist novels and romances. Additionally, it analyses key themes and provides summaries of characters and chapters. The study also offers a selection of texts that shed light on the debates accompanying the transition from an older codification of prose fiction to a new contender : the realist novel. The overarching objective is to showcase The Female Quixote's significance in shaping the modern novel's early history.

Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as ‘other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men : the same qualities and abilities pertaining to the domains of parenthood, intellect and morals are ascribed by writers to women as well as to men. There are two voices, however : a traditional, ideal voice and an individual, realistic voice. This creates a duality of representations of women, which recurs across literary genres and reflects a duality of mentality. How can we interpret the paradoxical information about Roman women given by the male-authored texts ? How does this duality of mentality inform us about gender roles and gender hierarchy ? This work analyses well-known, as well as overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal and sheds new light on Roman views of women and their abilities, on the notions of private and public and on conjugal relationships. In the process, the famous sixth satire of Juvenal is revisited and its topic reassessed, providing further insights into the complex issues of gender roles, marriage and emotions. By contrasting representations of women across a broad spectrum of literary genres, this book provides consistent findings that have wide significance for the study of Latin literature and the social history of the late first and early second centuries.

GIROLAMO CARDANO was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe. He was also a leading astrologer of his day, whose predictions won him access to some of the most powerful people in sixteenth-century Europe. In Cardano's Cosmos, Anthony Grafton invites readers to follow this astrologer's extraordinary career and explore the art and discipline of astrology in the hands of a brilliant practitioner. Renaissance astrologers predicted everything from the course of the future of humankind to the risks of a single investment, or even the weather. They analyzed the bodies and characters of countless clients, from rulers to criminals, and enjoyed widespread respect and patronage. This book traces Cardano's contentions career from his first astrological pamphlet through his rise to high-level consulting and his remarkable autobiographical works. Delving into astrological principles and practices, Grafton shows how Cardano and his contemporaries adapted the ancient art for publication and marketing in a new era of print media and changing science. He maps the context of market and human forces that shaped Cardano's practices-and the maneuvering that kept him at the top of a world rife with patronage, politics, and vengeful rivals. Cardano's astrology, argues Grafton, was a profoundly empirical and highly influential art, one that was integral to the attempts of sixteenth-century scholars to understand their universe and themselves.

The historiography concerning The War of the Jews by Flavius Josephus has underlined the various aspects (economic, social, political, religious) of the Roman-Jewish conflict from 66 to 73 AD. A study of the Jew's vision of himself and the Other, the Roman, makes it possible to see this conflict from the point of view of the conquered. Analysis of the events which, from 6 to 66 AD, resulted in the opening of hostilities, suggests that the Jewish-Roman conflict was also a conflict of mentalities. The Jewish mentality implies a concept of war which contributed to the development of the divisions and schisms between the supporters of full-scale war against Rome (the Zealots) and the non-belligerents (Rabbi Yohanan ben Zaccaï and the Yavne School, Flavius Josephus). Furthermore, the discourse of Flavius Josephus is Jewish discourse. So far as certain options are concerned, such as his rejection of the war against Rome on the one hand, and his hatred of the Zealots on the other, a literal reading of that discourse shows that they are in the direct line of Jewish tradition as represented by RYBZ and his Yavne School. Josephus can be taken literally ; the interest of his writing lies in its presentation of an internal cohesion and in the light that throws on the points of convergence and divergence in the same Pharisaic options. Finally, Josephus' text leads us to reconsider the problem of his 'betrayal'.