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Un soir de première, Marc Herman est contraint de quitter sa loge quelques instants avant son entrée en scène. Il est emmené, de force et les yeux bandés, jusqu’à Monsieur P***, personnage mystérieux qui lui impose un dilemme qui va bouleverser le reste de son existence. On lui propose de participer à une émission de télé-réalité. Un concept d’un genre nouveau, qui repousse les limites de la décence et s’enracine dans les trente dernières années. S’il accepte, il prend le risque de voir étalés des épisodes peu glorieux de sa carrière, volés par d’indiscrètes caméras. S’il refuse, c’est sa réputation qui en souffrira irrémédiablement, après sa mort. Ac...
Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism explores the discursive formation of the commandments as a generative matrix of Jewish thought and life in the posttalmudic period, correlating the diverse domains of jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, pietism, and kabbalah.
Ghosts, doppelgängers, and a man who turns into a tree: a startling fiction debut that strives to articulate the Asian immigrant body.
From a young writer quickly becoming the quintessential foreign correspondent for a new generation, comes the compelling, tragicomic account of the centuries old quest for gold in South America.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
This work focuses on the conception of God of the medieval Jewish philosopher and legal scholar, Hasdai Crescas (1340-1410/11). It demonstrates that Crescas’ God is infinitely creative and good and explores the parallel that Crescas implicitly draws between God as creator and legislator.
No Birds of Passage explores the remarkable business success of three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes: the Bohras, Khojas, and Memons. Often stereotyped as “Westernized” and as Hindus in all but name, these groups are better seen as having developed a distinctive Muslim capitalism, in which religious and commercial prerogatives are inseparable.