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Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London
Vols. for 1846-55 include Proceedings at meetings of the society.
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Sexe, mensonges et politique - Ces obsédés qui nous gouvernent
À l'examen de leur vie privée, un constat s'impose : bien des politiques sont des séducteurs parfois plus fidèles à leurs promesses qu'à leur femme, quand bien même ils n'ont pas le profil d'un Casanova. Ainsi, Staline empestait la vodka, Mussolini était petit, Bokassa cruel, Berlusconi porte moumoute, Giscard n'en porte pas... Oui, mais tous ont un philtre d'amour irrésistible : le pouvoir, " aphrodisiaque absolu " selon Henry Kissinger.Tout le monde a son talon d'Achille. Le leur, c'est le sexe. Et leur devise tient en un seul mot : séduire. Pierre Lunel dresse le portrait sans concession de quelques-uns des modernes héritiers d'Henri IV (58 maîtresses avouées) et de Napoléon...
Architecture for the Shroud
The famed linen cloth preserved in Turin Cathedral has provoked pious devotion, scientific scrutiny, and morbid curiosity. Imprinted with an image many faithful have traditionally believed to be that of the crucified Christ "painted in his own blood," the Shroud remains an object of intense debate and notoriety yet today. In this amply illustrated volume, John Beldon Scott traces the history of the unique relic, focusing especially on the black-marble and gilt-bronze structure Guarino Guarini designed to house and exhibit it. A key Baroque monument, the chapel comprises many unusual architectural features, which Scott identifies and explains, particulary how the chapel's unprecedented geomet...
Life and Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 98)
This volume presents the earliest and most important life of Gregory Thaumaturgus, preached by St. Gregory of Nyssa, and all the works that can be attributed to Gregory Thamumaturgus himself. It includes his Address of Thanksgiving to his teacher Origen; his Christian adaptation and interpretation of the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes; his regulations restoring order in the Christian community after an invasion by the Goths; a remarkable treatise on God's ability to suffer and another on the Trinity; and two small texts that may or may not have been written by him.
