Il s'agit d'une étude originale sur les livres d'emblèmes français du XVIe siècle : Alison Saunders met surtout en valeur l'aspect vécu et quotidien de l'emblème. Elle analyse la conception de celui-ci, et le rôle qu'y jouaient le poète et l'imprimeur. Puis elle s'attache à son utilité sociale : là, elle constate une remarquable diversité : l'emblème français pouvait être une pure création intellectuelle, mais aussi une source d'information, et souvent il inspirait même une leçon morale. A...

L'importance de l'emblème (genre multi-média et pan-européen) comme reflet de la culture européenne aux seizième et dix-septième siècles est aujourd'hui de plus en plus reconnue. Bien que le style emblématique se manifeste dans plusieurs arts plastiques (parmi lesquels la peinture, la broderie, l'architecture - permanente ou éphémère - et l'art sépulcral) ce sont les livres qui codifient et concrétisent le mieux la combinaison de mots et d'image qui constitue l'emblème.La contribution fran...

Spiritual Entrepreneurship: Navigating Success With SoulUnlock the secrets to harmonising business success with spiritual fulfilment. Spiritual Entrepreneurship: Navigating Success With Soul offers an enlightening journey into the integration of spiritual principles with entrepreneurial endeavours.In this transformative book, nine seasoned business owners and spiritual practitioners share their unique stories, insights, and practical advice on how to infuse...

Qu’il se présente sous la forme d'un manuscrit ou d'un incunable, ou encore sous une forme électronique, qu'il soit illustré de gravures sur bois ou sur cuivre, Le livre demeure... Ainsi que le démontre l'ensemble des contributions offertes à Alison Saunders par ses amis et collègues, l'objet livre constitue dans sa matérialité le coeur de toute étude d'histoire et critique littéraire. S'attachant plus particulièrement à l'étude des livres d'emblèmes, ce recueil d'articles forme un outil e...

Highly readable, well-illustrated, and easy to understand, Gabbe's Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies is an ideal day-to-day reference or study tool for residents and clinicians. This 8th Edition of this bestselling text offers fast access to evidence-based, comprehensive information, now fully revised with substantial content updates, new and improved illustrations, and a new, international editorial team that continues the tradition of excellence established by Dr. Steven Gabbe. ...

Articles in this issue include: "Low Back Pain: Health Care Dilemma, “Anatomic and Biomechanical Principles of the Lumbar Spine, “Diagnosis of Low Back Pain: Imaging and Electrodiagnostics, “Axial Low Back Pain: Disc, Posterior Element, Sacroiliac Joint as Pain Generators, “Radicular Pain, “Myofascial Pain and Referral Patterns, “Osteoporosis and Compression Fracture, “Exercise for Low Back Pain, “Pharmacologic Treatment for Low Back Pain, “Complementary and Alternative Medicine T...

You're in Prison tells the story of Dave, a man with a learning (intellectual) disability, when he is sent to prison. The book tells the story in pictures to help people with learning disabilities and difficulties or who struggle with written English, to understand a bit about life in prison. Sharing the story with someone else, or with a group, may help a person cope with the experience of being in prison.

Dementia is a massive and increasing global problem, with the current prevalence anticipated to double every 20 years as people live longer. Neuroimaging in dementia is recommended by most clinical guidelines and its role has traditionally been to exclude a mass lesion, rather than to support a specific diagnosis. All radiologists will be aware of a steady rise in the number of requests for brain imaging in old people, but what can imaging reliably tell us and what kind of imaging should w...

"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find a source of companionship, inspiration, and advice.The concept of solastalgia comes ...

A Voice for Earth is a collection of poems, essays, and stories that together give a voice to the ethical principles outlined in the Earth Charter. The Earth Charter was adopted in the year 2000 with the mission of addressing the economic, social, political, spiritual, and environmental problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.Part 1 of the book, "Imagination into Principle," comprises Steven C. Rockefeller's behind-the-scenes summary of how the language ...

With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century’s accumulation of environmental deprivations. Arranged chronologically from 1974 to the present, the works have been culled from The Georgia Review, long considered an important venue for nonfiction among literary magazines published in the United States.The essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples of what was then...