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In Burning the Midnight Oil, word-wrangler extraordinaire Phil Cousineau has gathered an eclectic and electric collection of soulful poems and prose from great thinkers throughout the ages. Whether beguiling readers with glorious poetry or consoling them with prayers from fellow restless souls, Cousineau can relieve any insomniac's unease. From St. John of the Cross to Annie Dillard, Beethoven to The Song of Songs, this refreshingly insightful anthology soothes and inspires all who struggle through the dark of the night. These ""night thoughts"" vividly illustrate Alfred Nor
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"This striking monograph celebrates the beauty of Paris, Brassaï's muse throughout his career. Hungarian-born photographer Brassaï dedicated more than fifty years of his artistic creation to capturing his adoptive city in all its facets. From winsome children playing in the public gardens to an amorous couple on an amusement park attraction, from opera and ballet stars to prostitutes and vagrants, and from cobblestone alleyways to ephemeral graffiti, his photographs embody the very essence of Paris. In an interview shortly before his death in 1984, he explained how Paris had served as an infinite source of inspiration and had reigned as the unifying theme that characterized each phrase of his artistic work"--Amazon.com, viewed April 17, 2014.
Photography, Artistic. --- Night photography --- Brassaï, --- Paris (France) --- Social life and customs
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Ploegenstelsel --- Shift systems --- Travail par relais --- nachtarbeid en arbeid op zaterdagen, zon- en feestdagen --- sociale wetgeving --- Night work --- Belgium --- PXL-Healthcare 2016 --- arbeidsrecht --- zorgsector
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Mysticism --- 248.2 --- 248.2 Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme --- Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Christian spirituality
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Before primatologist Patricia Chapple Wright became the world's foremost expert on lemurs, she was enchanted by another primate-Aotus, the owl monkey, or "monkey of the night." But along her journey to discover the behavior of these unique nocturnal creatures, Wright finds more than she expected about family, human nature, and herself. It all starts in a New York City pet shop when Wright and her husband buy an owl monkey whose lively and rambunctious ways soon lead the young couple to South America to acquire him a mate. But while Wright's monkey family is growing, her own begins to fall apart when her husband leaves her and her daughter. Undeterred by her lack of academic experience, Wright sets out as a single mother to study primate behavior in the wild, including a year at a research station in the remote jungles of Peru. There she encounters jaguars, poisonous snakes, army ants, and massive floods that threaten her and her daughter's lives, as well as moments of great clarity and beauty. From New York City in the 1960s to the depths of the Amazon in the 1970s and 80s, this story of one woman's transformation from Brooklyn housewife to an accomplished scientist will captivate fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. High Moon Over the Amazon is a thrilling memoir of adventure, inspiration, and of falling in love with a species not so unlike our own.
Night monkeys --- Titis (Mammals) --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Vertebrates --- Callicebus --- Teetees --- Titi monkeys --- Pitheciidae --- Aotes --- Aotus --- Douracoulis --- Douroucoulis --- Owl monkeys --- Nyctipithecidae --- Behavior --- Research --- Wright, Patricia C.,
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Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others. In These Kids, Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering the voices and viewpoints of students at a "last chance" high school in California, she tells the story of students who have, in fact, been left behind. Detailing a youth-led participatory action research project that she coordinated, Nygreen uncovers deep barriers to educational success that are embedded within educational discourse itself. Struggling students internalize descriptions of themselves as "at risk," "low achieving," or "troubled"-and by adopting the very language of educators, they also adopt its constraints and presumption of failure. Showing how current educational discourse does not, ultimately, provide an adequate vision of change for students at the bottom of the educational hierarchy, she levies a powerful argument that social justice in education is impossible today precisely because of how we talk about it.
Evening and continuation school students --- Evening and continuation schools --- Failure (Psychology) in adolescence. --- High school dropouts --- Secondary school dropouts --- Dropouts --- High school students --- Adolescent psychology --- Continuation schools --- Evening colleges --- Evening schools --- Factory schools --- Night-schools --- Continuing education --- Education, Compulsory --- Education, Secondary --- Public schools --- Schools --- Technical education --- Evening students --- Night school students --- Students --- Psychology.
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Auf "angemaßte Heiligkeit" und Mordversuche lautete die Anklage in einem Inquisitionsprozess, der 1859 bis 1862 skandalöse Zustände im römischen Frauenkloster Sant Ambrogio ans Licht brachte. Mögliche Tatmotive waren Machtkämpfe, Eifersucht und die Vertuschung sexueller Beziehungen. Historiker, Theologen, Religionswissenschaftler und ein Psychiater ordnen den Fall in seine Zusammenhänge ein. Sie liefern einen Überblick über Heiligkeit in Religion und Kirche, zeichnen historische Unterscheidungen von "falscher" und "angemaßter" Heiligkeit nach und nehmen das 19. Jahrhundert als Zeitalter des Spiritismus und der Privatoffenbarungen in den Blick. Dabei geht es nicht zuletzt um die Verschränkung von Heiligkeit, Macht und Geschlechterrollen - und damit um ein dringendes Desiderat der Forschung. Beiträge von: Arnold Angenendt, Claus Arnold, Joachim Demling, Klaus Große Kracht, Stefanie Knauß, Norbert Lüdecke, Elke Pahud de Mortanges, Wolfgang Reinhard, Monique Scheer, Bernhard Schneider, Wolfgang Speyer, Klaus Unterburger, Otto Weiß, Hubert Wolf, Gabriella Zarri.
Mysticism --- Holiness --- Catholics --- Catholic Church --- Religious life --- Christians --- Holy, The --- Perfection --- Righteousness --- Sanctification --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Religious aspects --- Church history. --- Historisches Kolleg. --- history of religion.
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Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book’s metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature—from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the book’s complex history. Polemical issues are thereby given unprecedented and enlightening interpretations. Organized under the rubrics of Translating, Engaging, and Staging, these essays view the Nights corpus as a uniquely accretive cultural bundle that absorbs the works upon which it has exerted influence. In this view, the Arabian Nights is a dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema. While scholarly, the writers’ approach is also lively and entertaining, and the book is richly illustrated with unusual materials to deliver a sparkling and highly original exploration of the Arabian Nights’ radiating influence on world literature, performance, and culture.
Scheherazade (Legendary character) --- Arabian nights. --- Hikajat 1001 malem --- Hikayat 1001 malem --- Hikajat sariboe satoe malem --- Sariboe satoe malem --- Seribu satu malam --- Sen-ichiya monogatari --- Gafu issen ichiya monogatari --- Alf laylah wa-laylah --- Thousand nights and one night --- Thousand and one nights --- Alif laila --- Tysi︠a︡cha i odna nochʹ --- Tausendundeine Nacht --- Tisíc a jedná noc --- Hikayat sa-ribu satu malam --- I chʻien ling i yeh --- Book of the thousand nights and one night --- Mille et une nuits --- Book of a thousand nights and a night --- Thousand nights and a night --- Elef lailah ṿe-lailah --- Tales of the Arabian nights --- 1001 Nacht --- Mille e una notte --- Arabiyan naito --- One thousand and one nights --- 1001 nights --- Arabian nights entertainments --- Hazar ew mēk gisherner --- Cartea celor o mie și una nopți --- Mie și una nopți --- Cartea celor o 1001 nopți --- Elf leyle ve leyle --- Alf sakhar ve sakhar --- Scheherazade.
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