This Census of Rabelais Copies reflects the digital revolution in library cataloguing, incorporating a complete rechecking for early Rabelais copies, notably in the Worldcat database. Every copy recorded has been further verified in the catalogues of the individual libraries concerned. Alongside numerous corrections and additions to the 1987 publication, based on excellent bibliographical and more general scholarship, this Census increases the total number of known copies of Rabelais, date...

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...

Cette nouvelle bibliographie donne la liste de tous les exemplaires de toutes les éditions des oeuvres de Rabelais parues avant 1626 et que l'on a pu repérer. Sont étudiés aussi les ouvrages édités par Rabelais et les ouvrages proto-rabelaisien ou apocryphes. Chacune de ces 148 éditions (identifiées et décrites selon les normes de la bibliographie dite "anglo-saxonne") est étudiée en détail. L'importance de chaque édition pour la transmission, le développement et la corruption des textes r...

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...

Over the past twenty years, the debate between neutrality and perfectionism has been at the center of political philosophy. Now Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays in Liberal Theory brings together classic papers and new ideas on both sides of the discussion. Editors George Klosko and Steven Wall provide a substantive introduction to the history and theories of perfectionism and neutrality, expertly contextualizing the essays and making the collection accessible to everyone inter...

A Victorian Scrapbook is a remarkable, and essential, part of any good collection of erotic literature.Stephen Rawlings is an expert on all things Victorian - when it comes to sexuality in that era - both here and abroad. And within this volume you can read correspondence between Ladies of the day concerning female correction. You can also read about how a girl would be prepared for punishment. Many other erotic matters are also covered in the letters and anecdotes.

A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls presents a comprehensive overview of the historical development of all major aspects of analytic philosophy, the dominant Anglo-American philosophical tradition in the twentieth century.Features coverage of all the major subject areas and figures in analytic philosophy - including Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, Gottlob Frege, Carnap, Quine, Davidson, Kripke, Putnam, and many othersCo...

Liberated women meet liberated men for a week of fun, sex and no commitments every so often but Kathy had plans to make this particular week a little bit different … Each of the six women (closet masochists all) is asked to sign a document agreeing to be submissive to the men for the whole seven days.Each of the men is asked to be masterful. When both sides sign up, the stage is set for a week of sex and fun for the men and much torment for the women – everything from electrically ...

You can find information on starting your own business almost anywhere - on television, on the radio, on the Internet, in books, etc. But have you ever really thought about why you should start your own business? Whether you have or not, this book "Habits for Success - Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today" gives you compelling reasons to do so. It goes into great detail on the benefits and advantages of being an entrepreneur. Even if you do not want to pursue your own business beca...