Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, outward manifestation of inner malice--villainy--in French culture (1463-1610). In pre-modern France, villainous offences were countered, if never fully contained, by intersecting legal and literary responses. Combining the methods of legal anthropology with literary and historical analysis, this study examines villainy across juridic...

Discover a world of gentle healing with "Natural Remedies for Joint Pain in Dogs: Holistic Approaches to Alleviate Discomfort and Improve Mobility" by Jonathan Patterson. This essential guide invites you into a compassionate journey toward...

- T. VIGLIANO, "Le pantagruélisme est-il un paganisme ? Rabelais et l'amour des ennemis" ;- E. M. MACPHAIL, "Rabelais and the Circulation of Commonplaces in Renaissance Humanism" ;- R. CAPPELLEN, "Rabelais entre bibliophilie et lecture érudite : sur un exemplaire du Tiers Livre de 1552" ;- J. PATTERSON, "Rabelais's Uncommon Villains : A Reinterpretation of Quart Livre 45-7 ;- F. ROUGET, "Avantage Saint-Gelais : retour sur l'attribution de l'“Enigme en prophétie”...

This indispensable guide to ship stability covers essential topics such as flotation and buoyancy, small angle, large angle and longitudinal stability, water density effects, bilging, ship resistance, and advanced hydrostatics. Each chapter has a comprehensive list of aims and objectives at the start of the topic, followed by a checklist at the end of the topic for students to ensure that they have developed all the relevant skills before moving onto the next topic area.The book fe...

Getting into the Game: Sports Programs for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder will help families, clinicians and coaches support children with autism in taking their first steps into sport and recreation.Participation in individual and team sports plays an important part in children's development and promotes growth in a number of areas. As well as the obvious health benefits, sport also provides the perfect backdrop to teach young people with autism about rules, strategy and teamw...

Having very little brain can be a blessing. Or a curse!The Hundred Acre Wood has been part of the consciousness of the world for a very long time. For most of the history of the world, it existed on the fringes of awareness, just there, in the corner of your eye. In the early days of the Twentieth Century, a well-meaning fellow by the name of Alan Milne recorded some of the adventures of the denizens of that fell place, though he did brighten the real stories a bit...

What's the big deal about baptism? Jesus commands his disciples to be baptized, and it’s a glorious picture of a person’s union with Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. Still, many Christians feel unclear about the topic, having more questions than answers. This short work provides a biblical explanation of baptism. What is it? Who should be baptized? Why is it required for church membership? And how should churches practice baptism?

A city under siege by invisible killers turns to a team of heroes for salvation.A father, accused and desperate, will risk everything to uncover the truth and save his daughter.A retired Navy SEAL is drawn back into a web of corruption, where his fight for justice becomes deeply personal.In a world of dark magic, a private investigator must outwit and old flame and a new enemy.A retrieval consultant, caught in a deadly game, must untangle a web of secrets th...

How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and of traditions that form identities of many kinds.Cornbread Nation 7, edited ...

In a trenchant work of nonfiction, the #1 New York Times bestselling author identifies a series of self-inflicted wounds on our body politic that have led to the current moment, and shows us how we can undo the harm“A modern-day Tocqueville, Richard North Patterson marshals an immense amount of research to show, incisively and readably, why we are now in danger of losing our democracy—and how we can recover from ou...

HUMANITY AMONG THE STARS What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars? Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of the future, from some of the finest science fiction writers in the field. The fourteen startling stories in this anthology feature the work of Greg Egan, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Karl Schroeder, Pat Cadigan, Karen Lord, Ellen Klages, Adam Roberts, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Kathleen An...

Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges—from both the left and the right. The election of Donald Trump to the US presidency, only months after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, signaled a dramatic shift in the politics of the rich democracies.In Anti-System Politics, Jonathan Hopkin traces the evolution of this shift and argues that it ...