How I stopped snoring.. Exercises to treat snoring and sleep apnea
Extraits
Généralités médicales
How I stopped snoring.. Exercises to treat snoring and sleep apnea
We don't talk about it and avoid the tension generating subject. Snoring makes us laugh or even cry. We very much want to get rid of it. There are ways to fight it. You will find an inventory of them herein, complete with advice on how to improve them, but that's not all ! This book sets forth a natural and original manner of curing snoring and sleep apnea. It's an actively engaging method as opposed to others which confine the snorer to a passive role (drugs, surgery, etc.), proposing exercises by which the snorer strengthens and activates his oral cavity and refines its sensations. Validated by numerous doctors, physical therapists and practitioners of alternative medicine, this book can be read on different levels : by those who are just discovering their snoring problem as well as by those who are well aware of it but haven't yet found a satisfactory solution.
08/2016
Littérature étrangère
How to Stop Time
Tom Hazard vient de postuler pour devenir protesaeur d'histoire dano un collège londonien. Il de tient résolument à l'écart des autres. Car Tom a un secret. Il est atteint d'anagérie, une condition qui survient à la puberté et provoque un vieillissement extrêmement plus lent que la normale. Il doit donc tout taire pour ne pas éveiller les soupçons et risquer de devenir un objet d'étude scientifique ou, pire, d'être tué. Il renonce ainsi, chaque bois que le danger se précise, à la vie qu'il s'est construite, recommençant tout a zéro ailleurs. C'est ainsi qu'il a dû abandonner sa fille, atteinte du même mal que lui. Depuis lors, il n'a qu'une idée en tête : la retrouver, morte ou vivante. Mais voilà qu'il en en train de tomber amoureux de Camille, une simple mortelle — lui qui sait que l'envie de se rapprocher d'elle en la pire chose qui puisse lui arriver...
03/2019
12 ans et +
Show Stopper Tome 1
Londres, 2045. La société est divisée en deux clans. Les Bâtards, réduits à l'état d'esclaves, n'ont aucune valeur. Les Purs forment l'élite qui a accès à tous les privilèges. Le Cirque de l'horreur est leur divertissement préféré. Ils attendent avec délectation l'accident mortel qui leur procurera le grand frisson. Ben, fils de ministre, assiste à sa première représentation et tombe sous le charme d'Hoshiko, la funambule star du spectacle. Mais derrière l'éblouissement et le faste de l'arène, il découvre l'horreur. Trouvera-t-il le courage de résister pour mettre fin au carnage ?
11/2019
12 ans et +
Show Stopper Tome 2 : Show Stealer
Depuis qu'ils ont fait exploser le Cirque de l'horreur, Ben et Hoshiko sont en fuite. Lorsqu'ils sont rattrapés par la police, Ben se rend pour sauver ses amis, qui se réfugient dans le ghetto - un quartier violent et malfamé où la résistance s'organise. Alors qu'Hoshiko peine à trouver des alliés, Ben, lui, est conduit au coeur du nouveau Cirque, plus terrifiant que jamais. Car sa mère, assoiffée de pouvoir, est prête à tout pour devenir premier ministre : rallier publiquement son fils à sa cause... ou le sacrifier. En plein sprint politique, c'est une autre course contre la montre qui attend Hoshiko : sauver Ben avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.
06/2020
Spiritisme
Orion Recall - Version anglaise
"Greetings, beloved peoples of the One. Welcome to the sacred and consecrated space from which I now address you : the space where the 12 An Master Crystals of Orion reside. The time has come for you to remember who you are and learn about your galactic heritage. Many of you have fought in the great wars that began on Orion. That's why you need to learn the truth-so you can free yourselves from the past and turn your full attention to the Plan that brought you here to this planet called Earth. These Memoirs will help you understand". Are you one of the volunteers living on this magnificent planet working to bring an end to the great conflicts between the evolved and devolved forces-conflicts that originated in Orion's solar systems and converged to Earth millenniums ago ? Find out how it all began, from when a Messenger from the 24 Elders first gave instructions to the High Council of Sirius to the moment when Plan Earth Rising was put into action. The path you take matters now more than ever because your conscious choices determine how your individual and collective solar beings are integrated. This integration is the key to activating your beloved planet as one of the twelve galactic libraries, the one on which everything depends. This book is a summons to the volunteer souls : Remember Mintaka. Remember the reason you are here at the start of a major new evolutionary cycle-for your sphere of life and for the entire Galactic Federation.
10/2022
Yaoi/homosexualité masculine
I Don't Know How to Love
Aimi est un étudiant à la fac qui prend et jette les filles les unes à la suite des autres. Il accepte de sortir avec n'importe quelle personne qui le lui demande, tant qu'on respecte ses conditions : ne pas être possessif et le laisser fréquenter qui il veut à côté. Kaede, un étudiant plus jeune que lui, l'entend rompre avec sa petite amie du moment et décide immédiatement de tenter sa chance en lui demandant de sortir avec lui. Aimi, fidèle à ses principes, accepte. Mais Kaede est bien différent de toutes ses ex-petites copines, et Aimi ne comprend absolument pas ses réactions... au point qu'il se demande si Kaede est véritablement amoureux de lui ! Et la situation ne manque pas de le perturber...
01/2024
Poésie
Epilepsy: the invisible pain
They say life is a long stretch of a calm river, but not for everyone ! She was for me until the day when everything rocked, the day my destiny was changed dramatically. People do not realize how life can be so sweet and so beautiful. They complain all day long for trivialities. They are not even aware that they have before their eyes the most beautiful wealth : the luck and happiness of living in good health. I was rich before. Now I am poor because my child has an incurable disease, that has currently no hope of being healed. As a parent, how can we accept that ? , How to continue living carrying the bundle of pain in my head ? , How to overcome this feeling of helplessness ? When I started speaking to my heart, I didn't know myself that this was the beginning of a new life : a rebirth as a poet. When I learnt that my 7-year-old daughter was suffering from the Dravet Syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy, this was like an earthquake in my life. Then, I needed to write in order to express my sorrow and my pain. Words and rhymes came naturally to my mind. This was obvious that poetry would be my survival weapon.
01/2019
12 ans et +
How to save a life
J'ai appris de la manière la plus difficile qui soit à quel point les étiquettes vous collent à la peau. Laura avait déjà pris " loyale " et le professeur m'avait proposé " lumineuse ". Cela resta, même pendant mes années de lycée. Comme si je ne serais jamais rien d'autre que ce mot. Jusqu'à ce que tout change. Lamentable Lia. Lugubre Lia. Lia, la lâche. Lia, la loser. Maintenant, le choix semble infini, mais je ne veux pas que ces mots me résument. Me définissent. Mon nom est Lia Stanton. Et voici mon histoire.
10/2018
Anglais apprentissage
How to write in English
Si la qualité de l'anglais des étudiants laisse à désirer, c'est parce que non seulement ils maîtrisent mal les principes fondamentaux de la grammaire, mais aussi parce qu'ils n'ont à leur disposition qu'un vocabulaire limité. De plus, ils ignorent souvent que, pour bien s'exprimer, il faut d'abord avoir bien compris la question qui leur est posée. Cet ouvrage leur est destiné, ainsi qu'à tous ceux qui ont à s'exprimer en anglais sur les sujets d'actualité. Il se compose tout d'abord d'une partie méthodologique constituée de deux chapitres : le premier, rédigé en français, a pour but d'expliquer la nature des épreuves auxquelles les étudiants sont confrontés ; le second, rédigé en anglais, aborde les critères linguistiques sur lesquels ils sont jugés.
Cette partie méthodologique est suivie d'un index des difficultés, d'un vocabulaire de l'argumentation et de listes de mots composées à partir des fautes commises par les étudiants, qu'ils soient anglicistes ou non. Des exercices d'entraînement avec leurs corrigés viennent compléter l'ouvrage.
08/2002
Réalistes, contemporains
No sleep till Shengal
Dans la lignée de Kobane Calling, un nouvel ouvrage de Zerocalcare dans la veine documentaire, qu'il a conçu au retour d'un séjour en Irak, afin de mettre en lumière la situation critique de la minorité yézidie, aspirant à l'indépendance et mettant en place des principes de vie démocratique extrêmement avant-gardiste. On y retrouve son mélange unique de témoignages poignants et précis et d'un humour salvateur qui ne cesse d'interroger le rôle et le regard de l'Occident au Proche-Orient.
02/2023
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
WHY SEX MATTERS. A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
Why are men, like other primate usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to maximize their reproductive success and seek resources to do so.
Low begins by reviewing the fundamental arguments and assumptions of behavioral ecology: selfish genes, conflicts of interest, and the tendency for sexes to reproduce through different behaviors. She explains why in primate species-from chimpanzees and apes to humans-males seek to spread their genes by devoting extraordinary efforts to finding mates, while females find it profitable to expend more effort on parenting. Low illustrates these sexual differences among humans by showing that in places as diverse as the parishes of nineteenth-century Sweden, the villages of seventeenth-century China, and the forests of twentieth-century Brasil, men have tended to seek power and resources, from cattle to money, to attract mates, while women have sought a secure environment for raising children. She makes it clear, however, they have not done so simply through individual efforts or in a vacuum, but that men and women act in complex ways that involve cooperation and coalition building and that are shaped by culture, technology, tradition, and the availability of resources. Low also considers how file evolutionary drive to
acquire resources leads to environmental degradation and warfare and asks whether our behavior could be channeled in more constructive ways.
Why Sex Matters is a compelling work of biology, sociology, and anthropology and a penetrating study of the deep motivations that underlie individual and social behavior.
01/2000
Droit européen des affaires
Lobbyst. Revelations from the EU Labyrinth, 2e édition
I feel the need to enlighten the public on the way the European Union functions, or rather malfunctions. For most readers, this could come as a great shock : how can one imagine that the legislator no longer legislates and that he delegates his legislative power to obscure cenacles called "trilogues" ? Today, being a lobbyist is considered to be bad. A defender of business, of multinationals, of capitalism, ... and by extension of pesticides, intensive agriculture and junk food. That is the image ! The aim of this book is not to correct this image, but to provide elements of appreciation and to give a form of objectivity to the debate. Daniel Guéguen is the longest serving EU lobbyist. He is the former head of the European sugar lobby and then of the European farmers unions. Now a consultant, he is at the heart of the lobbying issues that make the news. Longtime professor in the United States, notably at Georgetown and Harvard. Now at the College of Europe. Multi-author, editorialist, blogger, Daniel Guéguen remains a convinced pro-European, but fiercely critical of an opaque, bureaucratic and, to put it bluntly, anti-democratic system.
12/2023
Anglais apprentissage
Tales from Longpuddle
Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks fora ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy's tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.
07/2010
Religion
Corporatism and the Stability of Capitalist Democracies
This dissertation treats a problem which originally stems from Marxist political economic thinking : why do representatives of the working-class compromise with representatives of the capitalist class on major socio-economic topics on a national level, and what do such compromises look like ? The author establishes the claim that macro-economic compromises between organized classes are both likely to result and unstable in their nature. It is shown how the state may act as an actor supporting the establishment of an institutionalized class compromise and how it may try to prevent the breakdown of it. After elaborating these claims in a dynamic macro-economic model, the author describes developments of class compromises in post World War II Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands to illustrate the theory.
02/1991
Couple, famille
Tout se joue avant avant 6 ans. How to parent
Comment devenir parent et donner les bonnes clés à son enfant. On ne possède pas automatiquement la sagesse et l'efficacité nécessaires dans l'art d'être parent. C'est un métier qui s'apprend "sur le tas". Toutefois, pour éviter de commettre des erreurs, il est utile de bien connaître le chemin que tous les enfants parcourent jusqu'à leur complet épanouissement. Il importe donc d'aider l'enfant - sans le contraindre ni le forcer - à exploiter au mieux ses aptitudes et sa personnalité. Dans ce guide, l'auteur nous fait partager avec beaucoup de chaleur et de tendresse son expérience de parent et de psychologue.
01/2019
Guides pratiques
Tajikistan
With its bounty of wildflower meadows, bubbling hot springs and mountains that beg to be climbed, Tajikistan is an outdoor lover's wonderland. Its high plateaus and unforgiving peaks harbour a bewildering array of flora and fauna, including the famed Marco Polo sheep and even rarer snow leopard. But its history and culture are just as rich as its landscape, home to Silk Road forts, a Sleeping Buddha and the last speakers of the Sogdian language, not to mention ancient Panjakent - cited by many as "the Pompeii of central Asia". Comprehensively updated for this third edition and now in ful colour, Bradt's Tajikistan is packed with practical advice and local detail, making it an essential handbook for any visitor.
02/2021
Non classé
How Judaism reads the Torah, III
Writing with Scripture, the ancient sages of Judaism made use of Scripture by making Scripture their own, and making themselves into the possession and instrument of Scripture as well, a reciprocal process in which both were changed, each transformed into the likeness and image of the other. This they did by effecting their own selections, shaping a distinctive idiom of discourse, all the while citing, responding to, reflecting upon, Scripture's own words in Scripture's own context and for Scripture's own purpose : the here and now of eternal truth. And the rabbis of the first six centuries A.D. through the compilation presented here not only wrote with Scripture, but set forth a statement that was meant to be coherent and proportioned, well-crafted and well-composed. Since the statement concerned the distinctively-theological question of God's and Israel's relationship with one another, we must classify the writing as theological and find out how, in the compilation before us, their theological structure accomplished the authorship's goals. This anthology aims at doing just that. It presents a complete account of how the classical Midrash-text treat a theme of urgent interest to the world today : how Judaism writes with Scripture about the issues of religion that confront all the faithful.
09/1993
Réussite personnelle
50 exercices de Ho'oponopono
Le Ho'oponopono est une pratique ancestrale hawaïenne de résolution de conflit au sein d'un clan. Le Ho'oponopono qui signifie " rectifier, redresser " afin de restaurer l'harmonie, a été récemment revisité par Morrnah Simeona, guérisseuse et chamane hawaïenne et utilisé comme concept de développement personnel. Le processus spirituel de transformation fondé sur quatre notions clefs, "Désolé, pardon, merci , je t'aime", conduit l'individu à prendre conscience de sa responsabilité dans l'orientation de sa vie et plus largement sur son environnement.
07/2021
Tourisme étranger
Moroccan tracks Volume 11. The sagho djebel
The Sagho djebel is the eastern extension of the Anti-Atlas, a volcanic mountain with granitic mamelons, basaltic organs, chaos of black shales, pink sandstones... at the gates of the Sahara. As far as the eye can see, large wild, arid spaces. A desolate land made for the lonely DPM. And for a thousand miles around, silence is the only companion. Absolute plenitude and the desire to take to the track. From flat expanses to rolling hills, from sharp relief to steep canyons : pure, original nature. The character is strong, rustic but the heart is soft. The colours are soft and gentle. Ochre, pink, brown, violet, the colour chart stretches in a gradation of shimmering pastels, sometimes accompanied by an overwhelming heat. Eldorado in the heart of the desert, rare are the oases ; modest green spots in the infinitely large, they are the reminders that we are on African soil. The wild charm of the Sagho is due to its exceptional geology : high cliffs and steep peaks, tabular escarpments and deep canyons in the middle of which caravans of camels and mules circulate. When you arrive on these immense plateaus, the lunar horizon is so vast that you want to go everywhere at once to see if it is really as beautiful elsewhere ! The Sagho also surprises by the richness of its lights : limpid like those of the nearby Sahara, or sometimes in half-tone, as in the neighbouring Dades valley. The Sagho is also the Morocco of the last Berber nomads, descendants of the ancient lords Aït Atta. In autumn, after leaving the snows of the High Atlas, they set up their dark wool tents on the slopes of the jebel until spring. They can neither read nor write, but they are sure of their way through the Atlas Mountains and the Moroccan desert. In the Sagho, they have built houses of unbaked stone, dug wells, planted almond trees, grown wheat, barley and various vegetables. Others built herds of goats and sheep, and caravans of camels. Most of them are now sedentary, semi-nomadic or nomadic...
08/2022
Monographies
Hardy's Wessex. The landscapes that inspired a writer
This fascinating book tells the story of Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Accompanying a multi-venue exhibition, it explores Hardy's life and work. Internationally-acclaimed writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is best known for his evocative depictions of the West Country landscape and its people, a region that he called 'Wessex'. What is less well-known is that this landscape also inspired him in many other aspects of his life, from campaigning for animal welfare to questioning the way society viewed women. This publication accompanies a blockbuster, multi-venue exhibition of the largest collection of Thomas Hardy memorabilia ever to be displayed at once. Hardy was born in the West Country, a few years after Queen Victoria came to the throne, and spent most of the rest of his life among its landscapes and people. When he turned writer, these landscapes and people re-emerged as his 'partly-real, partlydream country' of Wessex, in novels like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure. 'Hardy's Wessex' now conjures up a range of mental images : from raging seas on the coast to haunting ancient monuments, Victorian towns packed with life to peaceful hillsides grazed by sheep. However, through Hardy's 87-year life span, the West Country changed dramatically. Ideas of the role of women, humans' responsibility to animals, the realities of war, love and courtship, superstition, social structure, religion and how people related to the world around them altered fundamentally. Through his stories and campaigning, Hardy was keen to show not only the rural idyll, but also the tensions and diffi culties that lay beneath these views. These dramatic landscapes were the lens through which Hardy presented his worldview to his readership. From the tragedy of a woman saying farewell to her sailorlover on the end of Portland Bill, to a shepherd losing his flock and facing ultimate ruin on the chalky hills. The landscapes shape his characters, whose stories in turn convey his messages of social change to his readers. This publication will explore the impact that Wessex had on Hardy's works, and how living there shaped his views on the often divisive social issues of the period. Uniting beautiful landscape imagery with a selection of personal items from Hardy's life, this book will show you the man behind the literature.
06/2022
Humour
Steve Gianakos How to Murder Your Pet
Malaise dans l'animalisme... How to Murder Your Pet est un manuel de pur sadisme qui décrit vingt-quatre modes sophistiqués de mise à mort d'un animal domestique. L'humour à rebrousse-poil de cette série nage à contre-courant de l'époque et s'adresse à un public avisé : tout ceci n'est drôle que considéré avec distance. Bien sûr, n'essayez surtout pas de reproduire ces expériences à la maison ! Subversion ultime, la cruauté envers les animaux reste un parfait tabou, probablement l'un des bastions les plus défendus de la moralité. C'était vrai en 1978 quand Steve Gianakos a dessiné cette série, ça l'est encore plus aujourd'hui que la commission des lois de l'Assemblée nationale a reconnu aux animaux la qualité " d'êtres vivants doués de sensibilité " et que la cause animale est prônée dans tous les programmes politiques (sans d'ailleurs qu'aucun canard ou chaton ne s'insurge de la récupération ! ). En outre, How to Murder Your Pet ne met pas à mort un simple animal, mais un animal de compagnie de surcroît ! Humour noir garanti... Au fil des dessins au trait dans lequel Gianakos exerce toute son habileté graphique et percutante, la série décrit des pratiques aussi barbares que drôles, se délectant de subtilités cruelles. Les sophistications de Sade sont revisitées version american way of life : tout le catalogue du confort moderne y passe - grille-pain, frigo, sèche-chemise, voiture, etc. - autant d'objets qui constituent, on l'oublie souvent, des armes par destination.
11/2022
Art contemporain
How to disappear. Edition bilingue français-anglais
La Collection Lambert, conçue autour d'artistes issus des révolutions esthétiques des années 1960, est traversée de part en part des gestes novateurs qui s'écartent d'une subjectivité et d'une expressivité jugées suspectes pour leur préférer l'essence de formes minimales et exigeantes, la poésie d'une apparition fugace dans des salles baignées de lumière, la spiritualité de l'empreinte discrète laissée sur la toile par un pinceau imbibé de blanc. L'exposition "How to disappear" reprend ces formes d'apparence fragile, comme suspendues dans l'espace et le temps, dont la force vitale s'impose dans la discrétion, permettant à tout ce qui les entoure d'exister aussi.
10/2021
Non classé
Debating National Security
The nature of security in the contemporary world is changing rapidly. Superpower detente, the progress and further prospects of arms control, the collapse of East European communist regimes, and German unification, to name but the most spectacular features, present unprecedented challenges not only for political decision-makers, but also for the mass publics in democratic societies. What are the trends of public opinion on these issues and how do they reflect these changes ? By what factors are pertinent public attitudes shaped and what structures do emerge ? How can they be reliably assessed and meaningfully analyzed ? Which demands flow from the dynamics of public opinion that have to be taken into account in security policy making ? These are the key questions addressed by the twelve contributions to this volume. Combining longitudinal and comparative approaches they cover the public dimension of the national security debate in seven Western nations : Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States.
04/1991
Autres éditeurs (A à E)
Petit Renne et l'ours qui n'a pas sommeil
EDITION BILINGUE ANGLAIS-FRANCAIS DE PETIT RENNE A PEUR DE TOUT __________________________Little Reindeer is walking through the forest when he meets a young bear. "I can't get to sleep ! " says the unhappy bear. Luckily, Little Reindeer knows just how to help. En chemin dans la forêt, Petit Renne rencontre un jeune ours qui n'arrive pas à dormir. Heureusement, Petit Renne ne manque pas de ressources... !
06/2022
Science-fiction
Docteur Sleep
Danny Torrance, le petit garçon, qui, dans Shining, sortait indemne de l'incendie de l'Overlook Palace, est devenu un adulte. Alcoolique et paumé comme l'était son père, il est maintenant aide-soignant dans un hospice où, grâce aux pouvoirs surnaturels qu'il n'a pas perdus, il apaise la souffrance des mourants. On le surnomme Docteur Sleep. Lorsqu'il rencontre Abra, une fillette de 12 ans pourchassée par un étrange groupe de voyageurs, Danny va retomber dans l'horreur. Commence alors une guerre épique entre le bien et le mal... Point de normalité chez King, juste un voile d'apparences jeté sur la réalité du monde et un sillon, approfondi de livre en livre. Clémentine Goldszal, Les Inrockuptibles. King prouve encore une fois qu'il est un conteur diabolique, capable de nous éblouir avec de la poudre de perlimpinpin comme de nous faire toucher la réalité la plus poisseuse. Cécile Mury, Télérama.
03/2015
Archéologie
Fantastic Beasts in Antiquity. Looking for the monster, discovering the Human, Textes en français et anglais
Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented mysterious and intriguing creatures populating their world. During Antiquity, every culture had its own strange creatures, that mixed the forms of one or more animal, plant and human species in an infinite number of more-or-less fanciful combinations. Griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, pygmies, werewolves, winged monsters and unspeakable hybrids, fantastic beasts abound in the imagination of many populations throughout Antiquity. Most of them continue to live, sometimes transformed, through fairy tales, literature, movies and videogames. Faced with the abundance and variety of the ancient fantastic bestiary, the questions that come to mind are : Where do fantastic beasts come from ? How do they appear in different cultures ? What is their history, how did they survive until now ? And above all, what are fantastic beasts ? This book will explore these questions through the lens of archaeology, art history, philology and philosophy. The result is a hybrid book, precisely like the fantastic animals that constitute its object, a book which offers different approaches of analysis while being aware that our means are often vain to capture these elusive figures, which ultimately are more like us than they seem. Man, like Oedipus, will often prove to be more monstrous than the Sphinx...
02/2021
Non classé
How Judaism reads the Torah I / II
Writing with Scripture, the ancient sages of Judaism made use of Scripture by making Scripture their own, and making themselves into the possession and instrument of Scripture as well, a reciprocal process in which both were changed, each transformed into the likeness and image of the other. This they did by effecting their own selections, shaping a distinctive idiom of discourse, all the while citing, responding to, reflecting upon, Scripture's own words in Scripture's own context and for Scripture's own purpose : the here and now of eternal truth. And the rabbis of the first six centuries A.D. through the compilation presented here not only wrote with Scripture, but set forth a statement that was meant to be coherent and proportioned, well-crafted and well-composed. Since that statement concerned the distinctively-theological question of God's and Israel's relationship with one another, we must classify the writing as theological and find out how, in the compilation before us, theirtheological structure accomplished the autorship's goals. This anthology aims at doing just that. It presents a complete account of how the classical Midrash-text treats a theme of urgent interest to the world today : how Judaism writes with Scripture about the issues of religion that confront all the faithful.
10/1993
Religion
Conjugal Chastity in Pope Wojtyla
Conjugal Chastity in Pope Wojtyla explains how Karol Wojtyla, philosopher, theologian, and Pope, tried to show how the sexual act, within the context of marriage, is an expression of love. After explaining how love as goodwill is the foundation of conjugal love, the correct relationship between love and justice is clarified. The negative dimension of the personalistic norm of Wojtyla is then critically examined. Conjugal love is explained in terms of conjugal beneficience based on conjugal benevolence. This love leads to total self-giving in each conjugal act. The procreative meaning of the conjugal act seems to be its most formal element (the soul of the act, so to speak); the unitive element is described as an essential property of this act, something which necessarily flows from the conjugal act which is open to life. Chastity is the virtue that allows sexuality to be integrated into a love which is truly personal and reflects Trinitarian Love.
09/2010
Religion
Differential effects of early and late nocturnal sleep on the consolidation of declarative and nondeclarative memory
Nocturnal sleep apparently promotes the translation of labile short-term memories into more stable long-term memories. The present studies suggest that the sleep-related consolidation of hippocampus-mediated memories benefits primarily from early nocturnal sleep. A reduced activation of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors and a neocortico-hippocampal 'off-line' mode during this part of sleep may be of particular relevance for this phenomenon. In contrast, non hippocampus-mediated memories benefit primarily from late nocturnal sleep. In addition to a critical amount of REM sleep, other, yet unknown factors may contribute to the consolidation of non hippocampus-mediated memories during late nocturnal sleep.
10/1997
Informatique
UNDERSTANDING NETWORKED APPLICATIONS
This one-of-a-kind, class-tested textbook introduces the possibilities arising from the convergence of computing and communications technologies to students who don't have an information technology background. By combining the appropriate technical detail with illustrative examples, nontechnical issues, review sections, discussion items, and exercises, it empowers students to envision how networked computing applications con support individuals, groups, and organizations. Whether students are preparing for careers in business, information management, education, low, or public policy, no other book equips them with the broad understanding needed to effectively exploit these powerful technologies. Features. Thoroughly explains the use of networked computing in collaboration, information retrieval, education, business, and e-commerce. Covers a brood range of subjects including applications - their acquisition, the supporting technical infrastructures (architecture, security, databases, middleware, network, and communications), and performance - as well as important industry, economic, and policy issues. Provides supplementary materials via a companion Web site, links to other relevant Web sites, and additional resources for instructors.
11/1999
