Cuban International Relations at 60 brings together the perspectives of leading experts and the personal accounts of two ambassadors to examine Cuba’s global engagement and foreign policy since January 1959 by focusing on the island’s key international relationships and issues. Thisbook’s first section focuseson Havana’s complex relationship with Washington and its second section concentrates on Cuba’s other key relationships with consideration also being given to Cuba's external trade and...

When Roman junior senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger has a chance to join a diplomatic mission to Alexandria, he welcomes the opportunity to temporarily elude his enemies in the Eternal City-even though it means leaving his beloved Rome. Decius is just beginning to enjoy the outpost's many exotic pleasures when the suspicious death of an irascible philosopher occurs, coinciding with the puzzling and apocalyptic ravings of a charismatic cult leader. Intrigued, Decius requests and...

Gentle Musings About Life is a quiet, intimate reflection on awakening, written on a late December evening when clarity rose unannounced and the heart finally felt light enough to speak. At seventy‑three, the author describes a growing happiness that did not arrive quickly or easily, but through years of loss, searching, and unexpected grace. What once felt essential has fallen away. Loneliness has dissolved into peace. The longing for someone to complete him has ended in the realization t...

While there are countless philosophical and psychological studies that focus on sources of the self, narcissism has found relatively little attention in a pre-Freudian context. The Self as Muse fills this gap by examining various aspects of narcissism and their significance for the outpouring of creativity in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature.In many Eighteenth-century works of the period narcissism refers to the creation of an idealized image of the ...

Folk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while folk musicians re-worked ancient ballads using electric guitars and drum kits. From Dylan to Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson and Steeleye Span, the fusion of old and contemporary created a powerful new style: folk-rock. Since then, new and experimental folk fusions have continued, involving anyth...

Il libro di Roberto Celada Ballanti presenta una forma narrativa trainante e coinvolgente, tanto da rendere le soste necessarie nella lettura nuovi incipit imprevedibili: non nel divagare, bensì nel ritorno arricchito dalle parole che il lettore riteneva di aver smarrito, nell’offrirsi via via di altri concitati, mai sommessi, capannelli discorsivi, con se stessi e con gli altri numerosi autori che l’autore ha saputo raccogliere lungo la via, ponendo loro le domande che forse mai costoro r...

Bridging the Great Divide: Musings of a Post-Liberal, Post-Conservative Evangelical Catholic represents a pivotal moment in the life of the Catholic community. As the Church seeks to maintain its unique witness, nurture the faithful, and evangelize, a new generation of American Catholics has emerged. No longer the 'next generation,' these new leaders came of age after the Second Vatican Council and, like many others, no longer find compelling the battles between the liberals and conservati...

This book is about the contribution of women to the lives of famous artists. Although women have given so much to these artists, this selfless contribution has been largely overlooked by art historians. In trying to redress such a huge imbalance, I have focused mainly on male painters. As a retired psychiatrist, I could not write about these artists, and the women who were their intimate partners, without considering their psychopathology. In writing about this I have struggled to avoid ja...

Writing was the central passion of Emerson’s life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in “The Poet,” “The American Scholar,” Nature, “Goethe,” and “Persian Poetry,” less well known are the many pages in his private journals devoted to the relationship between writing and reading. Here, for the first time, is the Concord Sage’s energetic, exuberant, and unconventional advice on the idea of writing, focused and distilled by the preeminent Emerson biographer at work t...

Ein tragischer Autounfall raubte Blake Caldwell die geliebte Frau und seinem Sohn die Mutter. Sechs Jahre vergehen. Blake wird zum Alpha eines kleinen Rudels ernannt und zieht nach Montana. Er ist nicht auf der Suche nach Liebe und erwartet schon gar nicht, dass sein Wolf durchdreht, als er Robert begegnet. Er hat seinen wahren Schicksalsgefährten gefunden ... was nun? Robert Sanna hat einen Fehler nach dem anderen gemacht, wie zum Beispiel mit der Frau des Mannes zu schlafen, in den er se...

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.