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Homosexuality --- Literature and medicine --- AIDS (Disease) in literature. --- Metaphor. --- AIDS (Disease) --- Same-sex attraction --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Medicine and literature --- Medicine --- Social aspects --- France --- Civilization. --- Infectious diseases. Communicable diseases --- Sociology of literature

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"It is a living museum of a long-gone Jewish life and, supposedly, a testimony to the success of the French model of social integration. It is a communal home where gay men and women are said to stand in defiance of the French model of social integration. It is a place of freedom and tolerance where people of color and lesbians nevertheless feel unwanted and where young Zionists from the suburbs gather every Sunday and sometimes harass Arabs. It is a hot topic in the press and on television. It is open to the world and open for business. It is a place to be seen and a place of invisibility. It is like a home to me, a place where I feel both safe and out of place and where my father felt comfortable and alienated at the same time. It is a place of nostalgia, innovation, shame, pride, and anxiety, where the local and the global intersect for better and for worse. And for better and for worse, it is a French neighborhood."-from My Father and I Mixing personal memoir, urban studies, cultural history, and literary criticism, as well as a generous selection of photographs, My Father and I focuses on the Marais, the oldest surviving neighborhood of Paris. It also beautifully reveals the intricacies of the relationship between a Jewish father and a gay son, each claiming the same neighborhood as his own. Beginning with the history of the Marais and its significance in the construction of a French national identity, David Caron proposes a rethinking of community and looks at how Jews, Chinese immigrants, and gays have made the Marais theirs. These communities embody, in their engagement of urban space, a daily challenge to the French concept of universal citizenship that denies them all political legitimacy. Caron moves from the strictly French context to more theoretical issues such as social and political archaism, immigration and diaspora, survival and haunting, the public/private divide, and group friendship as metaphor for unruly and dynamic forms of community, and founding disasters such as AIDS and the Holocaust. Caron also tells the story of his father, a Hungarian Jew and Holocaust survivor who immigrated to France and once called the Marais home.

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Abandon progressif de la traction vapeur, électrification des lignes, adoption du moteur diesel, trains à grande vitesse... Pour l’historien des techniques, et notamment pour celui qui s’intéresse à l’histoire des chemins de fer, le mode de traction est un indicateur privilégié, révélateur des grands choix technologiques d’une époque. Grâce à sa solide érudition en matière d’histoire ferroviaire, Clive Lamming restitue l’évolution du matériel roulant de la SNCF dans le cadre de son contexte historique et l’explique en fonction des spécificités de la grande entreprise publique. Au-delà de la description détaillée du matériel et d’une histoire technicienne de la traction, les conditions d’exploitation du réseau français sont ici analysées en fonction de l’époque et à l’échelle de l’ensemble du système ferroviaire. Les processus de décision sont quant à eux replacés dans le cadre technique, économique et humain qui les a engendrés. L’un des mérites de l’ouvrage est de révéler pour la première fois l’importance de la composante humaine dans ces processus de décision. Ainsi, on mesure à quel point l’héritage de la culture technique propre à la SNCF pèse dans la conception du matériel nouveau et dans les principaux choix. Justice est finalement rendue aux grands ingénieurs de la direction du Matériel tels André Chapelon, Jean Dupuy, Marcel Garreau ou Fernand Nouvion… qui, par leur compétence et leur engagement per­sonnel, ont largement contribué au renouvellement de la science ferroviaire dans le monde.

Railroads --- Chemins de fer --- Economic aspects --- History --- Aspect économique --- Histoire --- Société nationale des chemins de fer français --- Aspect économique --- Société nationale des chemins de fer français --- French railways --- Iron horses (Railroads) --- Lines, Railroad --- Rail industry --- Rail lines --- Rail transportation --- Railroad industry --- Railroad lines --- Railroad transportation --- Railway industry --- Railways --- Communication and traffic --- Concessions --- Public utilities --- Transportation --- Trusts, Industrial --- History. --- Technological innovations --- Société nationale des chemins de fer français. --- Société nationale des chemins de fer francais --- technologie --- SCNF --- chemin de fer --- histoire du rail --- histoire des transports

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We often think of the army as an institution whose members are required to blindly obey all orders they receive. However, this perception is inaccurate. Disobedience is a fundamental professional obligation of members of the military and overrides the obligation to follow commands. But what is the extent of this obligation? Are soldiers obligated to participate in what they consider to be an illegal war, or should they be allowed to enjoy a right to selective conscientious objection? Should soldiers obey a legal order that, if followed, would facilitate the perpetration of war crimes by a third party? How should soldiers act if they are ordered to follow a lawful order that could result in immoral consequences? Should soldiers be allowed to refuse to obey what can be labeled as suicidal orders? Based upon the nature of soldiers’ professional obligations, this book tries to offer answers to these important questions. The author turns to a number of different case-studies, including conscientious objections, duty to protect in genocidal situations such as Rwanda and Srebrenica, suicidal orders in wars, as well as retribution and leniency towards war criminals, as a way of assessing the different legal and ethical implications of disobedience in the military. Jean-François Caron is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, where he teaches Political Theory.

Politics and war. --- Security, International. --- Peace. --- Military and Defence Studies. --- International Security Studies. --- Conflict Studies. --- International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict. --- Collective security --- International security --- International relations --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- War --- War and politics --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- Peace-building --- Security, International --- Political aspects --- International humanitarian law. --- Humanitarian conventions --- International humanitarian law --- War (International law)

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This Pivot updates the ideas of the famous political philosopher from the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli, for the 21st century, using case studies from the West and from Kazakhstan to demonstrate the utility of Machiavelli's ideas for contemporary political life. In truth, Machiavelli's ideas have never lost their value. Although "Machiavellian" as an adjective tends to describe amoral cynicism in contemporary usage, Machiavelli's ideas were deeply ethical and oriented towards achieving long-term goals. Contemporary readers may be put off by medieval language and examples, misled into believing Machiavelli speaks to a different age; and yet the author here explores how Machiavellian strategy can be of value— ethical as well as practical—in the 21st century. Jean-François Caron is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University where he teaches Political Theory.

Machiavelli, Niccolò, --- Comparative literature. --- Russia—Politics and government. --- Leadership. --- Comparative Literature. --- Russian and Post-Soviet Politics. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- History and criticism --- Europe --- Strategic planning. --- European Politics. --- Business Strategy and Leadership. --- Goal setting (Strategic planning) --- Planning, Strategic --- Strategic intent (Strategic planning) --- Strategic management --- Planning --- Business planning --- Gay culture Europe --- Politics and government.