| Author | : Margo Sorenson |
| Publisher | : Regal House Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2018-10 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781947548206 |
A fictional celebration of Italian life and culture where seventeen-year-old Alessandra returns for the summer to Italy, where she grew up. While confronting organized crime in the picturesque small town of Positano and babysitting a rebellious twelve year old, Alessandra loses her heart to a handsome Italian boy who hides secrets of his own.
| Author | : Helen Rodnite Lemay |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1992-10-14 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780791411445 |
Womens Secrets provides the first modern translation of the notorious treatise De secretis mulierum, popular throughout the late middle ages and into modern times. The Secrets deals with human reproduction and was written to instruct celibate medieval monks on the facts of life and some of the ways of the universe. However, the book had a much more far-reaching influence. Lemay shows how its message that women were evil, lascivious creatures built on the misogyny of the works Aristotelian sources and laid the groundwork for serious persecution of women. Both the content of the treatise and the reputation of its author (erroneously believed to be Albertus Magnus) inspired a few medieval scholars to compose lengthy commentaries on the text, substantial selections from which are included, providing further evidence of how medieval men interpreted science and viewed the female body.
| Author | : Peter Lock |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 2016-05-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317100603 |
This is the first full translation of Marino Sanudo Torsello's Secreta fidelium Crucis to be made into English. The work itself is a piece of crusading propaganda following the fall of Acre in 1291, written between 1300 and 1321, but it includes much of historical relevance along with interesting observations on the early history of Jerusalem and the Crusader Kingdom. The translation is based upon the text edited by Jacques Bongars in 1611. There is an introduction that contextualises the book, its author, his sources and his audience. The notes provide essential information to clarify internal textual references and allusions, as well as the role of Biblical references in Sanudo's grand design. The index is designed to make this detailed text usable and accessible. In this, his major work, Sanudo advocated the conquest of Egypt as the means to regain Jerusalem for the Latins and worked through his points with considerable detail alongside references to 13th-century Mediterranean history, especially involving Louis IX of France and Charles of Anjou, king of Naples. Books I and II give considerable detailed discussion of the concept, plan and costs of his proposed crusade. Book III provides an outline history of the crusades and the crusader states. It is derived from a wide-reading of other sources especially of William of Tyre, and, for events after 1184 on the Eracles, the letters of James of Vitry, and Sanudo's own experiences in the east. Throughout, the work contains a staggering amount of cartographical, ethnographical, geographical, and nautical information, as well as numerous unique insights into historical events and personalities of the late 13th century, not only in Outremer but in Western Europe.
| Author | : Ph D Gail Marlow Taylor |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2015-03-24 |
| Genre | : Alchemy |
| ISBN | : 9781507778791 |
Over a thousand years ago, the Persian physician and chemist Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi presented his students with a book of alchemy instructions called the Kitab al-Asrar or Book of Secrets. For over seven hundred years this systematic text on managing chemicals, equipment, and procedures was copied and imitated throughout Europe. Using historian Julius Ruska's authoritative German translation, this book presents al-Razi's Book of Secrets in English for the first time and analyzes it from the perspective of a modern scientific laboratory. The Kitab al-Asrar offers a view into the understanding of chemistry and procedure organization in the tenth-century Islamic world. Yet a careful reading yields even more than that. As a laboratory manual, it gives intriguing clues into Persian culture under the Abbasid caliphate: the relationship of teacher and student; attitudes toward safety, labor, and quantification; tools and logical problem-solving; commerce and the availability of luxury goods; and the value of the written word. This is the Kitab al-Asrar.
| Author | : William Richard Morfill |
| Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022-10-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781015543928 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
| Author | : Anne Dufourmantelle |
| Publisher | : Fordham University Press |
| Total Pages | : 103 |
| Release | : 2021-01-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0823289249 |
“This urgent book” by the renowned French philosopher “will open new perspectives on a world marked by the rise of Wikileaks, Big Data, and social media” (Michael Moon, Emory University). In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle champions the value of what remains hidden, private, veiled, or just out of sight. For Dufourmantelle, the secret is not a code to be cracked or a firewall to be penetrated but a dynamic and powerful entity that permits relation and that ensures our humanity. Through etymologies and case studies, personal history and incisive social commentary, In Defense of Secretsreturns us to this foundational phenomenon. Dufourmantelle tracks the secret from the Inquisition to the present, illuminating its power and importance through art and literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sociology. For her, the secret is on the side of nature, not science; organic growth, not technology; love’s generosity, not knowledge’s grasp. An ethics of the secret, she tells us, means listening sensitively, respecting the secret in its essence, unafraid of it and open to what it has to say. Finalist, French-American Foundation Translation Prize
| Author | : Henning Mankell |
| Publisher | : Annick Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781550378009 |
Based on a real-life land mine victim, this middle reader novel tells a story of recovery, hope and coming of age of an African girl who loses her legs to a land mine.
| Author | : Constantino de Pisa |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9789004092884 |
The "Liber secretorum alchimie" is an attempt to introduce alchemy into Aristotle's science: manipulating metals, astronomy, astrology, geography and even theology are combined in these lecture notes taken by a 13th century medical student to make a fascinating review of themes which were hotly debated in medieval Italian university circles.
| Author | : Wen Wen Tsao |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2017-11-28 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781981204441 |
Thank you, who are brave enough to challenge this fiction. YOU will be the author of it because you have to use all your imagination to understand it. Try not to be misled by the words which are translated from Chinese by Google Translate, which is quite nice by the way. Try to read beyond the words. This fiction cannot be meaningful without your imagination and experiences. You will be the one that solves all the puzzles lost in translation in the fiction, and the one that makes it a unique one that is meaningful to you only. You are writing it while reading it. Words can tell you something only after you process them in your mind. You are the only one that can tell you something. This story is about a big secret of a normal man who cannot tell who he really is and who tries very hard to fit into the world. Living in two different identities seems the only one choice for him. When the story goes, it becomes a common situation for everyone nowadays. It seems very normal now in the internet world for people to have two different identities: one is for the internet, the other one behind the screen. Although secrets are supposed to be hidden deep down in the mind, we also know that what a relief it can be if the secrets can be revealed and known by someone. Using Google translate might be a good way for people to tell their secrets out loud. When the secrets are translated by you, they become yours. It is the fun part of telling secrets. We all have our own secrets, so that we can understand others'. More, the day has come for people to re-think the function of language. When the world is getting smaller because of the internet and all kinds of communication systems, there seems to be a call for some kind of universal language in the world, and a call for us to think that communication should be made by our love and concerns for each other instead of words or languages, which become more ambiguous when there are too much information in the world and when people are getting less patient. What we need now is less talking, but more listening. Trying to understand each other beyond words may be the key for communication nowadays.
