The Boy Called Incerto
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The Boy Called Incerto
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Author : Christine Marano
language : en
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-11-12
The Boy Called Incerto written by Christine Marano and has been published by Covenant Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-12 with Literary Collections categories.
A foundling is left on the back porch of the home of a loving, devoted teacher, Miss Angelisa. Soon this gift from heaven becomes a nightmare. The foundling is placed in an old school building reminiscent of the dreadful Russian orphanages. It is from there that the foundling is abducted and sold on the Baby Black Market. Pain, sorrow, and despair become Angelisa’s companions for the rest of her life while searching for this baby. Later, this search, this quest for the abducted foundling, becomes a most daunting responsibility for Angelisa’s sons and a recently met stranger, not only to find to find the baby, but also to find his birth mother.
Metatheater And Modernity
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Author : Mary Ann Frese Witt
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013
Metatheater And Modernity written by Mary Ann Frese Witt and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque is the first work to link the study of metatheater with the concepts of baroque and neobaroque. Arguing that the onset of European modernity in the early seventeenth century and both the modernist and the postmodernist periods of the twentieth century witnessed a flourishing of the phenomenon of theater that reflects on itself as theater, the author reexamines the concepts of metatheater, baroque, and neobaroque through a pairing and close analysis of seventeenth and twentieth century plays. The comparisons include Jean Rotrou's The True Saint Genesius with Jean-Paul Sartre's Kean and Jean Genet's The Blacks; Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion comique with Tony Kushner's The Illusion; Gian Lorenzo Bernini's The Impresario with Luigi Pirandello's theater-in-theater trilogy; Shakespeare's Hamlet with Pirandello's Henry IV and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Moli re's Impromptu de Versailles with "impromptus" by Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, and Eug ne Ionesco. Metatheater and Modernity also examines the role of technology in the creating and breaking of illusions in both centuries. In contrast to previous work on metatheater, it emphasizes the metatheatrical role of comedy. Metatheater, the author concludes, is both performance and performative: it accomplishes a perceptual transformation in its audience both by defending theater and exposing the illusory quality of the world outside.
Incerto 4 Book Bundle
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Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-01-26
Incerto 4 Book Bundle written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-26 with Business & Economics categories.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumes—Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and the expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes, updated with more than 50 percent new material—are now together in one ebook bundle. ANTIFRAGILE “Startling . . . richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides.”—The Wall Street Journal Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. What is crucial is that the antifragile loves errors, as it incurs small harm and large benefits from them. Spanning politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine in an interdisciplinary and erudite style, Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. THE BLACK SWAN “[A book] that altered modern thinking.”—The Times (London) A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random and more predictable. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows that black swan events underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives, and yet we—especially the experts—are blind to them. FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS “[Fooled by Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther’s ninety-five theses were to the Catholic Church.”—Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker Are we capable of distinguishing the fortunate charlatan from the genuine visionary? Must we always try to uncover nonexistent messages in random events? Fooled by Randomness is about luck: more precisely, about how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill—the markets—Fooled by Randomness is an irreverent, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining exploration of one of the least understood forces in our lives. THE BED OF PROCRUSTES “Taleb’s crystalline nuggets of thought stand alone like esoteric poems.”—Financial Times This collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb’s major ideas in ways you least expect. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical views of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.
Incerto 5 Book Bundle
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Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Incerto 5 Book Bundle written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Business & Economics categories.
The landmark five-book series—all together in one ebook bundle The Incerto is an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision making when we don’t understand the world, expressed in the form of a personal essay with autobiographical sections, stories, parables, and philosophical, historical, and scientific discussions, in non-overlapping volumes that can be accessed in any order. The main thread is that while there is inordinate uncertainty about what is going on, there is great certainty as to what one should do about it. This ebook bundle includes: FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS THE BLACK SWAN THE BED OF PROCRUSTES ANTIFRAGILE SKIN IN THE GAME
The Journal Of Roman Studies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Journal Of Roman Studies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Inscriptions, Latin categories.
Includes proceedings of the society, report of the council, lists of members, etc.
Bullettino Dell Istituto Di Diritto Romano
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
Bullettino Dell Istituto Di Diritto Romano written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Roman law categories.
Bullettino Dell Istituto Di Diritto Romano
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Author : Università di Roma. Istituto di diritto romano
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
Bullettino Dell Istituto Di Diritto Romano written by Università di Roma. Istituto di diritto romano and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Roman law categories.
Singing Games In Early Modern Italy
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Author : Paul Schleuse
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-08
Singing Games In Early Modern Italy written by Paul Schleuse and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-08 with Music categories.
In Italy during the late cinquecento, printed music could be found not only in the homes of the wealthy or the music professional, but also in lay homes, courts, and academies. No longer confined to the salons of the elite, music took on the role of social play and recreation. Paul Schleuse examines these new musical forms through a study of the music books of Italian priest, poet, and composer, Orazio Vecchi. Composed for minor patrons and the wider music-buying public, Vecchi's madrigals took as their subjects game-playing, drinking, hunting, battles, and the life of the street. Schleuse looks at how music and game-playing allowed singers and performers to play the roles of exemplary pastoral characters and also comic, foreign, and "rustic" others in ways that defined and ultimately reinforced social norms of the times. His findings reposition Orazio Vecchi as one of the most innovative composers of the late 16th century.
The Church Of England And Christian Antiquity
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Author : Jean-Louis Quantin
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-02-12
The Church Of England And Christian Antiquity written by Jean-Louis Quantin and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-12 with History categories.
Today, the statement that Anglicans are fond of the Fathers and keen on patristic studies looks like a platitude. Like many platitudes, it is much less obvious than one might think. Indeed, it has a long and complex history. Jean-Louis Quantin shows how, between the Reformation and the last years of the Restoration, the rationale behind the Church of England's reliance on the Fathers as authorities on doctrinal controversies, changed significantly. Elizabethan divines, exactly like their Reformed counterparts on the Continent, used the Church Fathers to vindicate the Reformation from Roman Catholic charges of novelty, but firmly rejected the authority of tradition. They stressed that, on all questions controverted, there was simply no consensus of the Fathers. Beginning with the 'avant-garde conformists' of early Stuart England, the reference to antiquity became more and more prominent in the construction of a new confessional identity, in contradistinction both to Rome and to Continental Protestants, which, by 1680, may fairly be called 'Anglican'. English divines now gave to patristics the very highest of missions. In that late age of Christianity - so the idea ran - now that charisms had been withdrawn and miracles had ceased, the exploration of ancient texts was the only reliable route to truth. As the identity of the Church of England was thus redefined, its past was reinvented. This appeal to the Fathers boosted the self-confidence of the English clergy and helped them to surmount the crises of the 1650s and 1680s. But it also undermined the orthodoxy that it was supposed to support.
The Satire Of Seneca On The Apotheosis Of Claudius Commonly Called The Apocolocyntosis
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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
The Satire Of Seneca On The Apotheosis Of Claudius Commonly Called The Apocolocyntosis written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with Satire, Latin categories.