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Littérature générale (romans), Intrigue amoureuse contemporaine , Intrigue amoureuse
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Harlequin Medical Romance – July &‘25 – Box Set 1 of 2Harlequin Medical Romance brings you a collection of three…
new titles, available now! Enjoy these stories packed with pulse-racing romance and heart-racing medical drama.This Harlequin Medical Romance box set includes:SECOND CHANCE IN SANTIAGOBy Tina BeckettWhen Viviani was sixteen, she was forced to say a gut-wrenching goodbye to her childhood sweetheart, Cristóbal. So, saying &“hello&” to surgeon Cris again twenty years later—as her new colleague!—is totally unexpected. He can still set Nurse Vivi alight with one look, but they&’re no longer naïve teenagers. Love is the last thing Vivi is looking for after her ex-fiancée&’s cheating and single dad Cris is clear he doesn&’t do dating anymore. So, why is a second chance still so tempting…?ONE NIGHT TO SYDNEY WEDDINGBy JC HarrowayArriving in Sydney, English doctor Gigi Lane has left her broken engagement, her best friend&’s betrayal and a heap of hurt behind her. A hot fling with a stranger is exactly what she needs! Only when she takes up her temporary stint as an ED doc does she discover she&’ll be working with her heartthrob hookup, surgeon Dante Scott—and she&’s pregnant with his baby! With only two months until her visa expires, Dante tells her there&’s only one acceptable solution…and it starts at the altar!ER DOC'S SOUTH POLE REUNIONBy Juliette HylandRecovering romantic Dr. Sam Miller has already experienced a lifetime&’s worth of heartbreak. So, he&’s replaced ill-fated crushes with adrenaline rushes! Until landing his dream job at the South Pole brings him face-to-face with Dr. Forrest Wilson, his college boyfriend. Their break-up left them both shattered…still, Sam can&’t bring himself to ice him out. But when Forrest is determined to re-claim his place in Sam&’s life, can he let himself be tempted—and believe that his ex will fight for their forever?
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Intrigue amoureuse contemporaine , Intrigue amoureuse, Intrigue amoureuse à sensations
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Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous,…
strong women and brave, powerful men?COLTON REUNIONby Addison FoxPhotographer Paige Barnes feels conflicted about her assignment shooting a layout at Mariposa. Ten years ago, Adam Colton broke her heart when he left her to run his family&’s exclusive resort. Now, she finds the longing she thought she&’d tamed is still blazing. And for Adam, seeing Paige again sparks a tsunami of regret and desire. But when a series of accidents make it clear Paige is being targeted, Adam must protect the woman he still loves. And overcoming their past is essential to protecting their future.DECODING DANGERby Kacy CrossSpecial ops veteran Paxton Pierce has made it clear that he has no interest in being Veronica Lang&’s bodyguard. Fieldwork would only stir up the memories he wanted to escape when he moved into tech. But when a man from her father&’s past pulls a gun on her, every instinct in Paxton&’s body tells him to protect her—even if that means following her on a perilous hunt for hidden treasure. His training should keep her safe… Unless the undeniable heat between them becomes a deadly distraction.COLD CASE RECKONINGby Kimberly Van MeterSparks fly when former lovers BIA agent Shilah Parker and private investigator Brannon Ventura are thrown together to reinvestigate a 25-year-old murder case. One especially personal for Brannon, who believes his biological father was wrongly convicted of the crime. But uncooperative police and local townsfolk create challenges at every turn—complications which pale in comparison to their lingering feelings. Until they uncover a corrupt secret society with Shilah in their crosshairs. They must confront their painful past to find justice—and a second chance at love.LEGACY OF SECRETSby Kenna ScottOn a routine job, firefighter Sean Harrington feels less heat from the blazing building than he does from rescuing the red-hot woman trapped there. She&’s ATF Special Agent Casey Anderson, almost a double for his missing sister Sylvia. Unbeknownst to Sean, his sibling disappeared after discovering criminal activity at the Harringtons' winery. Teaming up with Casey, the pair&’s hunt for Sylvia plunges them into a deadly world of cartel conspiracies, betrayals and murder. But it&’s their own histories of burned relationships—familial and romantic—that threaten what's building between them.Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection!
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Littérature générale (romans), Intrigue amoureuse contemporaine , Intrigue amoureuse
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She&’s a little edgy. He&’s a lot of sunshine. Love&’s about to catch them completely off gourd…A spicy, small town, fall…
romance you can read in one sitting!Textile artist Sadie Fox did not sign up for this. When she agreed to come home to Pea Blossom, Indiana, it was to care for her father&’s beloved pumpkin patch. The deal was that—just for the summer—she would grow a ginormous pumpkin, win the Indiana State Fair's pumpkin contest and finally win back her father&’s (grudging) respect.Instead, a horde of wild hogs destroyed the. entire. patch. Which is precisely when the annoyingly sexy, sunshiny next-door neighbor shows up.Josh Thatcher is a tech millionaire who traded in the office for growing gourds, including experimental squash hybrids. And for the life of her, Sadie can&’t understand what he sees in her sweary, tattooed, prickly self—or why he&’s offering to help his biggest competitor. But a storm-fueled kiss proves there&’s definitely something growing between them.Maybe it&’s just attraction. Maybe it&’s more. Whatever it is, it&’s already bigger than Sadie&’s fast-growing pumpkin…or the secret that Josh has been hiding.Afterglow Books are bold, fast-paced romances you can read in one sitting. Don&’t miss any of these other fun titles…Not So Fast by Karen BoothDestination Weddings and Other Disasters by M.C. VaughanMs. V's Hot Girl Summer by A.H. Cunningham
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Aventure (récits), Littérature générale (romans), Intrigue amoureuse à sensations, Intrigue amoureuse contemporaine , Intrigue amoureuse
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A hospitality pro reluctantly agrees to plan her mom&’s beach wedding with help from her crush-worthy high school bully in…
this witty, spicy enemies-to-lovers romance.Sun, sea, sand…and her high school nemesis.This destination wedding is about to take a detour. There are millions of men in Los Angeles, and somehow Julia Stone&’s mother just got engaged to the worst possible option. Not that there&’s anything wrong with her future stepfather. It&’s his son who&’s the problem. Event planner Carson Miller is six-plus feet of lean muscle and irresistible charm, and ten years ago he made Julia&’s life hell. Paired with Carson to organize the last-minute Belize wedding, Julia doesn&’t intend to let him off the hook for past bad behavior. If only there weren&’t surprising new feelings in the mix, like undeniable heat… Carson claims he made mistakes; he&’s a different person than he was back then. Julia&’s response: prove it. Now, in between wedding planning, zip-lining and exploring waterfalls, they&’re having fun falling hard and wondering if this paradise can last once the party&’s over… From showing up to glowing up, the characters in Afterglow Books are on the path to leading their best lives and finding sizzling romance along the way. Don&’t miss any of these other fun titles…Belize DreamsBook 1: Romancing Miss StoneBook 2: Destination Weddings and Other Disasters
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Littérature générale (romans), Intrigue amoureuse contemporaine , Intrigue amoureuse
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If any place can turn two best friends into lovers, it&’s Venice. Well, only if you don&’t have a dreamy…
tour guide like Lorenzo… For LA chef Daisy Hogan, this trip to Venice is the start of her new life—inspiration for her California restaurant, saying yes to stability and basically fulfilling all her dad&’s dreams. But then the trip goes sideways, and she&’s left in the most romantic city in the world with her best friend, Jeremy. He&’s stable, reliable. If she wants to salvage the future she planned, maybe she should fall for her friend? So they agree to a friends-to-lovers project. What could go wrong? Enter Lorenzo Fontana, hotel concierge by day, violinist in his dreams. He gave up music for a practical life in the city he loves, and to keep his job, he&’s vowed to be Daisy and Jeremy&’s personal guide to romance. Only he&’s not supposed to be feeling this personal about their project… With racing hearts, longing glances and gondola rides, Daisy begins questioning the project, her plans and even her future. Is it possible to live a life where the dreams she&’s fulfilling are her own? From showing up to glowing up, the characters in Afterglow Books are on the path to leading their best lives and finding sizzling romance along the way. Don&’t miss any of these other fun titles…Never Date a Roommate by Paula OttoniNot So Fast by Karen BoothLove and Other Hollywood Endings by Susannah Erwin
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Acteurs (biographies), Biographies, Arts et divertissement
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A Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer""This is the biography of Clint Eastwood we've been waiting for." — Sir Christopher Frayling, author…
of Sergio LeoneFrom the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, a revelatory portrait of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in movie history and an imposing icon of American culture for six decades.C-L-I-N-T. That single short, sharp syllable has stood as an emblem of American manhood and morality and sheer bloody-minded will, on-screen and off-screen, for more than sixty years. Whether he’s facing down bad guys on a Western street (Old West or new, no matter), staring through the lens of a camera, or accepting one of his movies' thirteen Oscars (including two for Best Picture), he is as blunt, curt, and solid as his name, a star of the old-school stripe and one of the most accomplished directors of his time, a man of rock and iron and brute force: Clint.To read the story of Clint Eastwood is to understand nearly a century of American culture. No Hollywood figure has so completely and complexly stood inside the changing climates of post–World War II America. At age ninety-five, he has lived a tumultuous century and embodied much of his time and many of its contradictions.We picture Clint squinting through cigarillo smoke in A Fistful of Dollars or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; imposing rough justice at the point of a .44 Magnum in Dirty Harry; sowing vengeance in The Outlaw Josey Wales or Pale Rider or Unforgiven; grudgingly training a woman boxer in Million Dollar Baby; and standing up for his neighbors despite his racism in Gran Torino. Or we feel him present, powerfully, behind the camera, creating complex tales of violence, morality, and humanity, such as Mystic River, Letters from Iwo Jima, and American Sniper. But his roles and his films, however well cast and convincing, are two-dimensional in comparison to his whole life.As Shawn Levy reveals in this masterful biography—the most complete portrait yet of Eastwood—the reality is richer, knottier, and more absorbing. Clint: The Man and the Movies is a saga of cunning, determination, and conquest, a story about a man ascending to the Hollywood pantheon while keeping one foot firmly planted outside its door.
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Littérature générale (romans), Histoire (romans), Oeuvres littéraires (romans)
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"The Californians is an absolute pleasure from end to end, a thrilling, century-spanning, wholly American tale of art and money,…
family and land, treasure and time....A brilliant read for fans of Anthony Doerr, Dana Spiotta, and Don DeLillo.” -- Matt Bell, author of AppleseedFor fans of Trust and North Woods, a daring novel that spans 100 years of American history, from the early days of cinema to the rise of digital community art, about parents and children, the drive to create even in times of crisis, and the inheritance of grand western dreams.It’s 2024, and Tobey Harlan—college dropout, temporary waiter, recently dumped—steals from the wall of his father’s house three paintings by the venerated and controversial artist Di Stiegl. Tobey’s just lost everything he owns to a Northern California wildfire, and if he can sell the paintings (albeit in a shady way to a notorious tech bro) he can start life anew in a place no one will ever find him. It's a risky move, but his father barely seems to like them--as long as Tobey can remember the artworks lived in the shadows of a hallway or partially obscured by furniture. Still, Di Stiegl has always been a touchy subject in his household, and he doesn't quite know why. A hundred years before, Klaus Aaronsohn—German-Jewish immigrant, resident of the Lower East Side—inveigles his way into a film studio in Astoria, Queens. In love with silent cinema, Klaus will restyle himself Klaus von Stiegl, a mysterious aristocratic German film director. In true Hollywood fashion, he will court fame, fortune, romance, and betrayal, and end his career directing Brackett: a radical, notorious 60s-era detective show.Weaving between them is the story of Diane “Di” Stiegl: Klaus’s granddaughter and the woman whose art seems to haunt Tobey's father, who claws out a career as an artist in gritty 1980s NYC. As America yields the presidency to a Hollywood cowboy, as Diane’s grifter father and free-spirited mother circle in and out of her life, Diane will reflect America’s most urgent and hypocritical years back to itself, uneasily finding critical adoration as well as great fame and wealth.A dazzling novel for readers of Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter and The Candy House by Jennifer Egan, The Californians is an ambitious and sweeping journey across a century. Nuanced and textured, gloriously funny, a critical portrait of the collective American consciousness that has brought us to today, it showcases Brian Castleberry as an inventive, stylish storyteller and a sharp observer of the human condition.
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Littérature générale (romans), Fantômes et horreur (récits), Sensations (romans à)
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'I was enticed from the first line' OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, author of My Sister, the Serial KillerThis feminist howl-of-a-debut is going…
to crawl right under your skin'An outstanding debut' NEW YORK TIMESSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDSNEW YORK TIMES BEST HORROR BOOK OF THE YEARSPOTIFY 'BREAKOUT' AUTHOR OF THE YEARJi-won's life is in disarray. Her father's affair has ripped the family to shreds, leaving her to piece their crappy lives back together.Then her mother's new white boyfriend enters the scene, bragging about his knowledge of Korean culture. As he swaggers around their claustrophobic apartment ogling her teenage sister, Ji-won's grip on reality begins to slip.She finds herself growing obsessed with his brilliant blue eyeballs, resolving to do the one thing that will save her family - and curb her cravings...'Smartly written... A writer to watch' BIG ISSUE'Darkly funny' FERN BRADY, author of Strong Female Character'Monika Kim has written a novel every library needs to own' LIBRARY JOURNAL
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Littérature générale (romans), Oeuvres littéraires (romans)
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Two sisters examine what they owe each other and what they are willing to sacrifice to make their dreams come…
true—from a New York Times bestselling author whose writing has been called &“witty, heartfelt&” (New York Times), "lively [and] intelligent&” (People). What would you give up for the person you love most? What would you expect in return?Mia and Cricket have always been close. The gifted daughters of a young single mother, the &“Lowe girls&” are well-known in the small Maine town they call home. Each sister has a role to fill: The responsible and academically minded Mia assumes the position of caregiver far too young, while Cricket, a bouncing ball of energy and talent, seems born for soccer stardom. But the cost of achieving athletic greatness comes at a steep price.As Mia and Cricket grow up, they must grapple with the legacy of their mother&’s secret past while navigating their own precarious future. Can Mia allow herself to fall in love at the risk of repeating a terrible history? Will Cricket&’s relentless chase of a lifelong goal drive her sister away? When does loyalty become self-sabotage?A sharply observed and tender portrait of sisters, love, and ambition, Spectacular Things is a sweeping story about the impossible choices we&’re forced to make in pursuit of our dreams.
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Détente (romans), Littérature générale (romans)
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Get ready for best friend fun with the perfect book for little truck lovers! Babies and toddlers will love seeing…
all their favorite diggers, tractors, forklifts, and other vehicles playing so nicely together!As with every book in the beloved Where Do Diggers... series, a variety of kid trucks celebrate friendship, joy, and construction! From diggers to cherry pickers, from snow plows to pumper trucks, and more—all the vehicles enjoy playing, caring, and sharing with their friends. Imagination and exuberance fills the pages. Children who can't get enough trucks will love all the books in the bestselling Where Do... series.Where Do Diggers Say I Love You?Where Do Diggers Hunt for Easter Eggs?Where Do Diggers Trick or Treat?Diggers Love Their Mommies!Diggers Love To Go To School!Diggers Love Their Daddies!
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Policiers (romans), Procédures policières (romans)
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Step into the shoes of a detective and investigate the most mysterious crime of your career.There's been a murder at…
Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn—with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. But that balcony can be accessed only through a locked door, the key is missing and everyone in Elysium is now a suspect.Gather the evidence and examine the clues. Choose who to interview next, and who to accuse as your prime suspect. But remember that every decision you make has consequences—and some of them will prove fatal . . . Do you have what it takes? Can YOU solve the murder?
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Animaux (récits), Produits dérivés de films ou d’émission de télévision
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A collection of nine Sesame Street stories based on the Furry Friends Forever Mysterious Mysteries featuring Elmo and his adorable…
puppy, Tango! Each story can be read in five minutes or less, so it's perfect for bedtime—or anytime!A hardcover collection of nine Sesame Street Furry Friends Forever Mysterious Mysteries stories that each take just five minutes to read! In each story, Elmo learns playful problem-solving and pet-care skills with his puppy Tango. Even when the going gets "ruff," this furry friendship is destined to be forever! The story themes highlight Sesame Street's mission to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. Sesame Street fans ages 3 to 7 will love these stories that are perfect for bedtime or anytime.Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, aims to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder through its many unique domestic and international initiatives. These projects cover a wide array of topics, which address specific needs, such as girls' education, financial empowerment, and autism. Sesame Street is the most trusted name in early learning.
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Europe (histoire), Religion, Essais et documents généraux
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Winner of an Honorable Mention in the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards given by the Association of American PublishersBetween 1618 and 1750,…
sixteen people—nine women and seven men—were brought to the attention of the ecclesiastical authorities in Venice because they were reporting visions, revelations, and special privileges from heaven. All were investigated, and most were put on trial by the Holy Office of the Inquisition on a charge of heresy under various rubrics that might be translated as "pretense of holiness."Anne Jacobson Schutte looks closely at the institutional, cultural, and religious contexts that gave rise to the phenomenon of visionaries in Venice. To explain the worldview of the prosecutors as well as the prosecuted, Schutte examines inquisitorial trial dossiers, theological manuals, spiritual treatises, and medical works that shaped early modern Italians' understanding of the differences between orthodox Catholic belief and heresy. In particular, she demonstrates that socially constructed assumptions about males and females affected how the Inquisition treated the accused parties. The women charged with heresy were non-elites who generally claimed to experience ecstatic visions and receive messages; the men were usually clergy who responded to these women without claiming any supernatural experience themselves. Because they "should have known better," the men were judged more harshly by authorities.Placing the events in a context larger than just the inquisitorial process, Aspiring Saints sheds new light on the history of religion, the dynamics of gender relations, and the ambiguous boundary between sincerity and pretense in early modern Italy.
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Politique et gouvernement
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The essays in this volume examine democracy’s development in the United States, demonstrating how that process has shaped—and continues to…
shape—the American political system.Scholars of American politics commonly describe the political development of the United States as exceptional and distinct from that of other advanced industrial democracies. They point to the United States as the longest-lived and most stable liberal democracy in history. What they often fail to mention, though, is that it took considerable time to extend democracy throughout the country.The contributors to this volume suggest that it is intellectually fruitful to consider the U.S. case in comparison to other countries. They argue that the development of democracy is ongoing in America; that even with a written constitution grounded in liberal democracy, the meaning and significance of U.S. democracy are still evolving. This volume shows that democratization and the pursuit of democracy are processes affected by multiple and continuing challenges—including such issues as citizenship, race, institution building, and political movements—as patterns and practices of politics and governance continue to change.This innovative approach contributes significantly to comparative democratization studies, a field normally confined to Latin America and former communist countries. The U.S. case is a unique reference point for students of American political development and comparative democratization.
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Histoire, Arts et divertissement
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Classic film noir offers more than pesky private eyes and beautiful bad girls—it explores the quest for the not-so-attainable American…
dream.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLDesperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own name (Somewhere in the Night)—this gallery of film noir characters challenges the stereotypes of the wise-cracking detective and the alluring femme fatale. Despite their differences, they all have something in common: a belief in self-reinvention. Nightmare Alley is a thorough examination of how film noir disputes this notion at the heart of the American Dream.Central to many of these films, Mark Osteen argues, is the story of an individual trying, by dint of hard work or, more often, illicit enterprises, to overcome his or her origins and achieve material success. In the wake of World War II, the noir genre tested the dream of upward mobility and the ideas of individualism, liberty, equality, and free enterprise that accompany it.Employing an impressive array of theoretical perspectives (including psychoanalysis, art history, feminism, and music theory) and combining close reading with original primary source research, Nightmare Alley proves both the diversity of classic noir and its potency. This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance.
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Affaires et économie
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A vigorous call for rethinking the field of business history.Business history needs a shake-up, Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson argue,…
as many businesses go global and cultural contexts become critical. Reimagining Business History prods practitioners to take new approaches to entrepreneurial intentions, company scale, corporate strategies, local infrastructure, employee well-being, use of resources, and long-term environmental consequences.During the past half century, the history of American business became an unusually active and rewarding field of scholarship, partly because of the primacy of postwar American capital, at home and abroad, and the rise of a consumer culture but also because of the theoretical originality of Alfred D. Chandler. In a field long given over to banal company histories and biographies of tycoons, Chandler took the subject seriously enough to ask about the large patterns and causes of corporate success. Chandler and his students found the richest material for theorizing about the course of business history in large companies and their institutional structures and cultures. Meantime, Scranton and others found smaller firms, those specializing in batch work as opposed to mass-produced goods, far closer to the norm and more telling.Scranton and Fridenson believe that the time has come for a sweeping rethinking of the field, its materials, and the kinds of questions its practitioners should be asking. How can this field develop in an age of global markets, growing information technology, and diminishing resources? A transnational collaboration between two senior scholars, Reimagining Business History offers direction in forty-four short, pithy essays.
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Critiques
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Twenty years after Stephen Nichols transformed the study of medieval literature, leaders in the field pay tribute to his work…
and expand on it.In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term "new medievalism" to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period. While the old approach focused on formal aspects of language, this new approach was historicist and moved beyond a narrow focus on language to examine the broader social and cultural contexts in which literary works were composed and disseminated. Within the field, this transformation of medieval studies was as important as the genetic revolution to the study of biology and has had an enormous influence on the study of medieval literature. Rethinking the New Medievalism offers both a historical account of the movement and its achievements while indicating—in Nichols’s innovative spirit—still newer directions for medieval studies.The essays deal with questions of authorship, theology, and material philology and are written by members of a wide philological and critical circle that Nichols nourished for forty years. Daniel Heller-Roazen’s essay, for example, demonstrates the conjunction of the old philology and the new. In a close examination of the history of the words used for maritime raiders from Ancient Greece to the present (pirate, plunderer, bandit), Roazen draws a fine line between lawlessness and lawfulness, between judicial action and war, between war and public policy. Other contributors include Jack Abecassis, Marina Brownlee, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Andreas Kablitz, and Ursula Peters.
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Religion, Sciences et technologies
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How was Darwin’s work discussed and debated among the same religious denomination in different locations?Using place, politics, and rhetoric as…
analytical tools, historical geographer David N. Livingstone investigates how religious communities sharing a Scots Presbyterian heritage engaged with Darwin and Darwinism at the turn of the twentieth century. His findings, presented as the prestigious Gifford Lectures, transform our understandings of the relationship between science and religion.The particulars of place—whether in Edinburgh, Belfast, Toronto, Princeton, or Columbia, South Carolina—shaped the response to Darwin’s theories. Were they tolerated, repudiated, or welcomed? Livingstone shows how Darwin was read in different ways, with meaning distilled from Darwin's texts depending on readers' own histories—their literary genealogies and cultural preoccupations. That the theory of evolution fared differently in different places, Livingstone writes, is "exactly what Darwin might have predicted. As the theory diffused, it diverged." Dealing with Darwin shows the profound extent to which theological debates about evolution were rooted in such matters as anxieties over control of education, the politics of race relations, the nature of local scientific traditions, and challenges to traditional cultural identity. In some settings, conciliation with the new theory, even endorsement, was possible—demonstrating that attending to the specific nature of individual communities subverts an inclination to assume a single relationship between science and religion in general, evolution and Christianity in particular. Livingstone concludes with contemporary examples to remind us that what scientists can say and what others can hear in different venues differ today just as much as they did in the past.
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Peuples autochtones (histoire), Etats-Unis (histoire), Peuples autochtones
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The interactions between Indians and Europeans changed America—and both cultures.Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the…
birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the land and society. In New Worlds for All, Colin G. Calloway explores the unique and vibrant new cultures that Indians and Europeans forged together in early America. The journey toward this hybrid society kept Europeans' and Indians' lives tightly entwined: living, working, worshiping, traveling, and trading together—as well as fearing, avoiding, despising, and killing one another. In some areas, settlers lived in Indian towns, eating Indian food. In the Mohawk Valley of New York, Europeans tattooed their faces; Indians drank tea. A unique American identity emerged.The second edition of New Worlds for All incorporates fifteen years of additional scholarship on Indian-European relations, such as the role of gender, Indian slavery, relationships with African Americans, and new understandings of frontier society.
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Histoire, Sciences et technologies
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How have Americans confronted, managed, and even enjoyed the risks of daily life?Winner of the Ralph Gomory Prize of the…
Business History Conference“Risk” is a capacious term used to describe the uncertainties that arise from physical, financial, political, and social activities. Practically everything we do carries some level of risk—threats to our bodies, property, and animals. How do we determine when the risk is too high? In considering this question, Arwen P. Mohun offers a thought-provoking study of danger and how people have managed it from pre-industrial and industrial America up until today. Mohun outlines a vernacular risk culture in early America, one based on ordinary experience and common sense. The rise of factories and machinery eventually led to shocking accidents, which, she explains, risk-management experts and the “gospel of safety” sought to counter. Finally, she examines the simultaneous blossoming of risk-taking as fun and the aggressive regulations that follow from the consumer-products-safety movement. Risk and society, a rapidly growing area of historical research, interests sociologists, psychologists, and other social scientists. Americans have learned to tame risk in both the workplace and the home. Yet many of us still like amusement park rides that scare the devil out of us; they dare us to take risks.