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Saladin(Reprint)
by Anne-Marie Eddé, Jane Marie Todd, Anneand#8211, Marie Eddand#233
Paperback, 704 Pages, Published 2014 by Belknap Press: An Imprint Of Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-28397-8, ISBN: 0-674-28397-X

"Working simultaneously on two levels, Saladin represents the best kind of biography―a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date of an age that made the man. Unlike biographies that focus on Saladin’s military exploits, especially the recapturing of Jerusalem from European Crusaders in 1187, Eddé’s narrative draws on an incredible array of contemporary sources to develop the fullest ..."

The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945
(European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
by Olivier Wieviorka, Jane Marie Todd
Hardcover, 512 Pages, Published 2019 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-18996-5, ISBN: 0-231-18996-6

"In just three months in 1940, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France fell to the Nazis. The German occupation of Western Europe had begun―but a brave few rose up in defiance. National resistance has long been celebrated in remembrances of World War II, depicted as making significant contributions to the defeat of Nazi Germany. However, the so-called army of shadows drew heavily on the support of London and Was ..."

Reading and Writing in Babylon
by Dominique Charpin, Jane Marie Todd
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2010 by Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-04968-0, ISBN: 0-674-04968-3

" Over 5,000 years ago, the history of humanity radically changed direction when writing was invented in Sumer, the southern part of present-day Iraq. For the next three millennia, kings, aristocrats, and slaves all made intensive use of cuneiform script to document everything from royal archives to family records. In engaging style, Dominique Charpin shows how hundreds of thousands of clay tablets testify to the history of an ancient ..."

The Anti-Semitic Moment
A Tour of France in 1898
by Prof Pierre Birnbaum, Jane Marie Todd
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05206-9, ISBN: 0-226-05206-0

"In 1898, the Dreyfus Affair plunged French society into a yearlong frenzy. In Paris and provincial villages throughout the country, angry crowds paraded through the streets, threatening to attack Jews and destroy Jewish-owned businesses. Anger about the imagined power of Jewish capital, as well as fears of treason and racial degeneration, made anti-Semitism a convenient banner behind which social and political factions could fall in lin ..."

Radicalization
Why Some People Choose the Path of Violence
by Farhad Khosrokhavar, Jane Marie Todd
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by New Press, The
ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-268-7, ISBN: 1-62097-268-9

"In the wake of the Paris, Beirut, and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, fears over homegrown terrorism” have surfaced to a degree not seen since September 11, 2001—especially following the news that all of the perpetrators in Paris were European citizens. A sought-after commentator in France and a widely respected international scholar of radical Islam, Farhad Khosrokhavar has spent years studying the path towards radicalization, focus ..."

The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting(1st Edition)
by François Jullien, Jane Marie Todd, Franand#231
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41531-4, ISBN: 0-226-41531-7

"In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, The Great Image Has No Form explores the “nonobject”—a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings. François Jullien argues that this nonobjectifying approach stems from the painters’ deeply held be ..."

Flesh Made Word
Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination
by Aviad M. Kleinberg, Jane Marie Todd
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2008 by Belknap Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02647-6, ISBN: 0-674-02647-0

" In the fourth century a new narrative genre captured the imagination of the faithful—the moving accounts of the lives of Christian saints. Willing to die gruesome deaths or endure constant suffering, saints conveyed a powerful message: God was still present in the world. He continues to manifest His powers and communicate His messages through His special friends—the saints. What kind of Christianity do we find in these stories? In this ..."

The Forbidden Image(1st Edition)
An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm
by Alain Besançon, Alain Besanã§On, Jane Marie Todd
Hardcover, 423 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04413-2, ISBN: 0-226-04413-0

" Philosophers and theologians have long engaged in intense debate and introspection over the representation of the deity, its possibilities and its proscriptions. The Forbidden Image traces the dual strains of “iconophilia” and iconoclasm, the privileging and prohibition of religious images, over a span of two and a half millennia in the West.Alain Besançon’s work begins with a comprehensive examination of the status of the image in Gre ..."

The Infinite Desire for Growth
by Daniel Cohen, Jane Marie Todd
Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2018 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17253-8, ISBN: 0-691-17253-6

"Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come--is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population has seen no increase in purchasing power over the last thirty years and the situation is not much better elsewhere. The Infinite Desire fo ..."

We Are All Cannibals(Reprint)
And Other Essays (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought & Cultural Criticism (Hardcover))
by Maurice Olender, Jane Marie Todd, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Claude LéviStrauss
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2017 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-17069-7, ISBN: 0-231-17069-6

"On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own custom barbarism," said Montaigne. In these essays, Claude Lévi-Strauss shows us behavior that is bizarre, sho ..."

The Latest Catastrophe(1st Edition)
History, the Present, the Contemporary
by Henry Rousso, Jane Marie Todd
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16523-3, ISBN: 0-226-16523-X

"The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today’s historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This book reflects on the concept and practices of what is called “contemporary history,” a history of the present time, and identifies special tensions in the field ..."

Art of the Defeat, France 1940-1944(1st Edition)
by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, Serge Guilbaut, Jane Marie Todd
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2009 by Getty Research Institute
ISBN-13: 978-0-89236-891-4, ISBN: 0-89236-891-8

"This is an unflinching and honest portrayal of how numerous artists and their works were used during the German occupation of France. "Art of the Defeat" provides an unflinching an honest look at the art scene in France during the German occupation of World War II. Beginning with Adolf Hitler's staging of the armistice at Rethondes, it offers a survey of Nazi and Vichy artistic policies, key events and organizations, and individual acts ..."

Colette(Updated)
(European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
by Professor Julia Kristeva, Jane Marie Todd, Juliette Kristeva
Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2004 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12896-4, ISBN: 0-231-12896-7

"Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her death, this intellectual biography of Colette -- the final volume of Julia Kristeva's trilogy "Female Genius" -- will be considered a major breakthrough in understanding one of the great creative minds of the twentieth century.Colette (1873-1954) was a prolific novelist who celebrated sexual pleasure and invented a language for it at a time when women writers were inhibited about dealing with ..."

Algeria, 1830-2000(1st Edition)
A Short History (Cornell Classics in Philosophy)
by Benjamin Stora, Jane Marie Todd, William B. Quandt
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2004 by Cornell University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-8916-7, ISBN: 0-8014-8916-4

"Foreword by William B. QuandtA particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty International notes that since 1992, in a population of 28 million, 80,000 people have been reported killed, and the actual total is almost certainly higher. This terrible war overshadows Algeria's long and complex history and its prominence on the world economic stage―second in size among African nations, Algeria has the lo ..."

Henry Miller, Happy Rock(1st Edition)
by Gilberte Brassai, Jane Marie Todd
Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07139-8, ISBN: 0-226-07139-1

"In a world like this one, it's difficult to devote oneself to art body and soul. To get published, to get exhibited, to get produced often requires ten or twenty years of patient, intense labour. I spent half my life at it! And how do you survive during all that time? Beg? Live off other people until you're successful? What a dog's life! I know something about that! You're always recognized too late. And today, it's no longer enough to ..."

Descartes(1st Edition)
His Life and Thought
by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis, Jane Marie Todd
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by Cornell University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-8627-2, ISBN: 0-8014-8627-0

"Geneviéve Rodis-Lewis is uniquely qualified to celebrate René Descartes. This major intellectual biography illuminates the personal and historical events of Descartes's life, from his birth and early years in France to his death in Sweden, his burial, and the fate of his remains. Concerned not only with historical events but also with the development of Descartes's personality, Rodis-Lewis speculates on the effect childhood impressions ..."

Nocturne(1st Edition)
Night in American Art, 1890-1917
by Jane Marie Todd, Hélène Valance
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22399-6, ISBN: 0-300-22399-4

"A beautifully illustrated look at the vogue for night landscapes amid the social, political, and technological changes of modern America The turn of the 20th century witnessed a surge in the creation and popularity of nocturnes and night landscapes in American art. In this original and thought-provoking book, Hélène Valance investigates why artists and viewers of the era were so captivated by the night. Nocturne examines works by artist ..."

Secularism and Freedom of Conscience
by Jocelyn Maclure, Charles Taylor, Jane Marie Todd
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2011 by Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05865-1, ISBN: 0-674-05865-8

"Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income inequalities or the paths to sustainable development. In this wide-ranging analysis, Jocelyn Maclure and Charles Taylor provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of the two main principles of secularism—equal respect, and freedom of conscience—and its two operative modes—separation of Church (or mosque or temple) and State, and State neutrality vis-à-vis r ..."

Affirmative Exclusion(1st Edition)
Cultural Pluralism and the Rule of Custom in France
by Jean-Loup Amselle, Jane Marie Todd
Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2003 by Cornell University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-8747-7, ISBN: 0-8014-8747-1

"Jean-Loup Amselle explores the issue of multiculturalism by delving into the history of France's confrontation with ethnic difference. Amselle analyzes France's relationship to Egypt, Algeria, and Senegal to show how ideas about difference and assimilation played out in French colonial policies and how these same tensions continue to be problematic as France grapples with cultural pluralism.Amselle's book has timely and wide-ranging imp ..."

Conversations with Picasso(1st Edition)
by Jane Marie Todd, Gilberte Brassai
Paperback, 412 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07149-7, ISBN: 0-226-07149-9

"Henry Miller called Brassaï (born Gyula Halasz) "The Eye of Paris." As a photographer, journalist, and author of photographic monographs and literary criticism, he had an uncanny ability to capture the Paris art world of the mid-20th century. Conversations with Picasso, originally published in 1964, is a collection of Brassaï's memoirs, resurrected from scraps of paper he stored in a huge vase each night after his talks with the famous ..."

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