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Death to silence =
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ISBN: 1518501575 1518502547 9781518501579 9781518502545 1558852034 9781558852037 Year: 1997 Publisher: Houston Arte Publico Press

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"Poems of death, sexuality, poetics, protest, witness, and exile by Argentine-born (1950) poet raised in Chile and now living in the US. Brief introduction by Alicia Galaz-Vivar Weldon describes poems; short biographical notes for author and translator. Literal, at times overly literal, translations"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.


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Griffin on human rights
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ISBN: 0191760994 0191645990 9780191645990 1322154112 9781322154114 9780199668731 0199668736 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, NY

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This volume presents responses to the work of James Griffin, one of the most significant contributors to the contemporary debate over human rights. Leading moral and political philosophers engage with Griffin's views - according to which human rights are best understood as protections of our agency and personhood - and Griffin offers his own reply.


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Correspondance avec Francis Vielé-Griffin, 1891-1931
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ISBN: 2729702806 2729713042 Year: 1986 Publisher: Lyon

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Figure majeure du Symbolisme, le poète franco-américain Francis Vielé-Griffin est un des maîtres vers qui se tourna, en 1891, le jeune auteur des Cahiers d’André Walter. Pendant plus de vingt ans, l’amitié, l’estime et l’admiration réciproques, un commun idéal esthétique firent de Gide et de Vielé les compagnons de plusieurs aventures, depuis les Entretiens politiques et littéraires, où Vielé publia Le Traité du Narcisse, jusqu’à La Nouvelle Revue Française où Gide tint à faire sa place au grand poète de La Clarté de vie et de La Lumière de Grèce, – en passant par L’Ermitage, où Vielé consacra publiquement ce rôle de « directeur de nos consciences », de « contemporain capital » dira-t-on plus tard, que Gide allait assumer pendant si longtemps dans les lettres françaises. L’édition intégrale de leur Correspondance est un document important pour l’histoire littéraire de cette époque.


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Primordial truth and postmodern theology
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ISBN: 0585055009 9780585055008 1438404948 Year: 1989 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press,


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The problem of evil and the power of God
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ISSN: 18761518 ISBN: 1283161680 9786613161680 9004205616 9789004205611 9789004205604 9004205608 Year: 2011 Volume: 8 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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The problem of evil can be defined theoretically as the apparent inconsistency between, on the one hand, belief in the existence of a perfectly good and omnipotent God and, on the other hand, the existence of evil. This book discusses four different solutions to this problem, provided by Richard Swinburne, Keith Ward, David Griffin and Johan Hygen, with the goal of finding the most coherent solution. The author makes several suggestions for improvement and concludes that there is a coherent answer to the problem of evil. While the focus is on Christian approaches to the problem, many of the approaches and solutions are applicable to other religions as well.


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At Home in Exile : A Memoir
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ISBN: 1760464279 1760464260 9781760464271 Year: 2021 Publisher: Acton, ACT : ANU Press,

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This is a story of a girl's construction of her identity, and of her family’s search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background. We follow Helga through an adventurous childhood in Iran, whose vast open spaces her mother called 'my spiritual home’. Her engineer father worked on a grand scale, designing and laying roads and railways, and tunnelling through mountain ranges. Then came the invasions of World War II, and the family, half-German, half-Austrian, found themselves on a long voyage to Australia, designated enemy aliens. They were interned for nearly five years in the dusty Victorian countryside. On their release at the end of the War, stranded in Melbourne, they sought another home. The children were dispatched to convents, and at the Academy of Mary Immaculate, Helga found a temporary homeland, in faith. Everyday life in the Australia of the late 1940s and early 1950s is freshly seen by this feisty, loving migrant family. Through their eyes, we encounter a strange place, Australia, as if for the first time. Helga’s development from a thoughtful, sensitive child to a self-possessed young woman, wrestling with her faith and with how to live a decent life, is vividly recounted.


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As affecting the fate of my absent husband
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ISBN: 1282865714 9786612865718 0773575162 9780773575165 9780773577343 0773577343 9780773534797 0773534792 Year: 2009 Publisher: Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press

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The tragic fate of the lost Franklin expedition (1845-48) is a well-known part of exploration history, but there has always been a gap in the story - a personal account that begs to be told. In As affecting the fate of my absent husband, Erika Behrisch Elce has collected the poignant letters of Sir John Franklin's wife, Jane, which provide a vital new perspective on the tragedy. From her optimistic requests to whaling ships to her persistent demands for Admiralty aid, Lady Franklin played a crucial role in the search for her husband. Her correspondence with British prime ministers, members of Parliament, lords of the Admiralty, and a US president presents a private, domestic side to a national tragedy and sheds new light on what Sir John Franklin's disappearance meant to England, its public, and its sense of itself as an imperial power. With comprehensive annotations, a descriptive timeline, and an introduction that outlines the significance of Lady Franklin's contribution to the "Arctic debate," As affecting the fate of my absent husband is a convincing portrait of the surprisingly disruptive effects - on both the public consciousness and the government bureaucracy - of a single, eloquent, voice of dissent. As affecting the fate of my absent husband is essential reading not only for anyone interested in Victorian adventure and the Arctic but as an introduction to one of the most fascinating women of the nineteenth century.


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Bronze monsters and the cultures of wonder
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ISBN: 1477323635 1477323627 1477323619 9781477323625 9781477323618 Year: 2021 Publisher: Austin University of Texas Press

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"Due to their proximity, the interactions between Greece and the Near East were regular throughout antiquity, but the period of the 8th/7th centuries BCE is generally called the "Orientalizing Age" (from the Greek perspective) because of the marked influence that the Near East had on Greek thought, myth, and art during this time. Many of the mythological monsters we today think of as Greek had their origins to the east, including the griffin, a hybrid creature usually composed of the body, tail, and rear legs of a lion and the head, wings, and sometimes talons of an eagle. During this period, griffins were frequently included as protomes on Greek cauldrons, that is, an adornment featuring the head of a creature along the rim of the huge vessel. These griffin cauldrons have been discovered over much of the Mediterranean region, from Cyprus to Burgundy and the Loire valley of France, especially in sanctuaries of all sizes and elite tombs. Papalexandrou explores the 7th century as a time of wonder and radical innovation in the material and visual cultures of the Mediterranean with the griffin cauldrons as his case study, examining the possible reasons for their popularity, how and by whom they were used, their religious significance, and how they traveled across the region"--


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Sharing the burden?
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ISBN: 1442668385 9781442668386 9781442647503 1442647507 9781442615595 1442615591 1442668393 Year: 2015 Publisher: Toronto Buffalo London

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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO's middle powers have been pressured into shouldering an increasing share of the costs of the transatlantic alliance. In Sharing the Burden? Benjamin Zyla rejects the claim that countries like Canada have shirked their responsibilities within NATO. Using a range of measures that go beyond troop numbers and defense budgets to include peacekeeping commitments, foreign economic assistance, and contributions to NATO's rapid reaction forces and infrastructure, Zyla argues that, proportionally, Canada's NATO commitments in the 1990s rivaled those of the alliance's major powers. At the same time, he demonstrates that Canadian policy was driven by strong normative principles to assist failed and failing states rather than a desire to ride the coattails of the United States, as is often presumed. An important challenge to realist theories, Sharing the Burden? is a significant contribution to the debate on the nature of alliances in international relations. --Provided by publisher.

Evil revisited : responses and reconsiderations
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ISBN: 0585056927 9780585056920 0791406121 079140613X 1438404832 Year: 1991 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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