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Established in 2008,AmberleyPublishingis home of the ever-popular colour local history series Through Time, Amberleyis an independent publisher of books on a rich variety of history and heritage.
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MedicineApril 2023The malleable body
Surgeons, artisans, and amputees in early modern Germany
by Heidi Hausse
This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the writings of craft surgeons and learned physicians to follow the heated debates that arose from changing practices of removing limbs, uncovering tense moments in which decisions to operate were made. Importantly, it teases out surgeons' ideas about the body embedded in their technical instructions. This unique study also explores the material culture of mechanical hands that amputees commissioned locksmiths, clockmakers, and other artisans to create, revealing their roles in developing a new prosthetic technology. Over two centuries of surgical and artisanal interventions emerged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body - that it was malleable.
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November 2016Fabeln
by Jean La Fontaine, Marc Chagall
Der legendäre Kunsthändler Ambroise Vollard beauftragte Marc Chagall 1926, die berühmten Fabeln Jean de La Fontaines zu illustrieren.1930 wurden die Bilder in namhaften Galerien in Paris, Brüssel und Berlin gezeigt und in Privatsammlungen auf der ganzen Welt verkauft. Erst in den neunziger Jahren versuchte man, die verstreuten Gemälde wieder als großen Werkzyklus im Pariser „Grand Palais“ zu versammeln und einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit vorzustellen. Die Insel-Bücherei macht alle Bilder dieser Ausstellung, 43 farbige Gouachen, zusammen mit den Fabeln erstmalig in einer deutschen Ausgabe zugänglich – ein fabelhaftes Vergnügen!
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January 2022The True Christian Life
Thomistic Reflections on Divinization, Prudence, Religion, and Prayer
by Ambroise Gardeil, OP, Matthew Levering, Matthew Minerd
Although not well-known in the English-speaking world, Fr. Ambroise Gardeil, OP (1859-1931) was a Dominican of significant influence in French Catholic thought at the turn of the 20th century. Conservative theologians like Frs. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP, Michel Labourdette, OP, Jean-Hervé Nicolas, OP and many others hailed him as a careful expositor of the supernaturality of faith, a defender of the theological nature of rational apologetics, and a spiritual master. In his controversial Le Saulchoir: Une école de théologie, Fr. Marie-Dominique Chenu, OP praised Fr. Gardeil as an important Dominican initiator of reforms in historical theology, presenting the latter as a kind of precursor to one of the streams of what is now referred to historically as the “Nouvelle Théologie.” And one cannot read the words of Fr. Gardeil’s contemporary Fr. Antoine Lemonnyer, OP, without hearing echoes and re-echoes of common cause regarding our lofty spiritual vocation, resounding within the halls of the Saulchoir. With such a broad appeal, it is no surprise that in private correspondence, a young Yves Simon, writing to Jacques Maritain, referred to Fr. Gardeil as “The Great Gardeil.” The True Christian Life provides a thorough and stirring introduction to Fr. Gardeil’s work in spiritual theology. The volume was originally published posthumously through the collaboration of Fr. Gardeil’s nephew, Fr. Henri-Dominique Gardeil, OP and Jacques Maritain. Fr. Ambroise, prior to beginning work on his masterpiece on spiritual experience, La Structure de l'âme et l'expérience mystique, drafted nearly eight-hundred pages that would have set forth a full presentation of moral-ascetical theology. While drafting this massive work, his reflection on the soul’s receptive capacity for grace led him to the two-volume study, La Structure, and he never was able to finish his original designs for a comprehensive study of the Christian moral-spiritual life. Soon after his death, his nephew gathered several essays from the Revue thomiste and Revue de Jeunes, along with a complete-but-unpublished study on prayer. Drafting a lengthy introduction on the basis of Fr. Ambroise’s unpublished notes, Fr. Henri-Dominique assembled a volume of moral / spiritual theology that sets out the principles of many important themes: divinization through grace, Christian prudence /conscience, the virtue of religion, devotion, and prayer. In his In memoriam written after the passing of Fr. Gardeil, Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange emphasized Fr. Gardeil’s ability to meditate on a given topic’s central principles, like someone who sees the highest peaks that give structure to the entire mountain range of theology. In this volume, the reader will find a clear and rhetorically striking presentation of the central mysteries of the spiritual life, presented with stirring and beautiful rhetoric by a theological master from the Thomist tradition.
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1981150 Delicious Squares
by Jean Paré
This is Company's Coming's highly successful first title, both a national and international bestseller with more than one million copies sold. This book includes dozens of recipes for squares/bar cookies that will delight your family and guests.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2yfmpRq
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2016Smokin' Eh
Hot and Cold Smoking
by Ted Anderson, Jean Paré and James Darcy
Using equipment such as backyard BBQs (grills) or more specialized smokers, Anderson describes techniques and tips to help develop your own smoking style. Locally available woods bring different flavour notes to the smoke and wild berries have long been used in slathering sauces. First Nations traditions of smoking fish, fowl, and wild game have provided a rich heritage of preserving meat and adding flavour with smoke combined with using marinades and brines to increase flavour.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/32Rpfue
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2017Campfire Cooking
by Jeff Morrison, Jean Paré and James Darcy
Many recipes for camping including snacks, mains, sides, and desserts; make-ahead recipes; recipes for hiking and backcountry camping with limited ingredients; and recipes for the campground that are easily prepared and cooked in the outdoors. From yummy fireside nachos to campfire lasagna and from cheesy pull-apart garlic bread to Dutch Oven cobbles and a new variation on the camping favourite—S'mores!To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/32Rpfue
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September 2021THE BEAST WITHIN HER
Marie has left her native countryside, and has taken a summer job in a Parisian brasserie. Staying with her parents’ friends, the husband regularly abuses her. So, she silences her shame and her pain, which leads the beast inside her to grow...
by Camille Lysière
Marie has just graduated from high school. She leaves her hometown and takes a summer job in a Parisian brasserie. During her stay, she is hosted by a couple, her parents’ friends. He is a shadowy journalist. She is a frustrated housewife. Marie, who dreams of a future in literature, is honored to have Olivier take an interest in her. He enjoys chatting with her, he takes her seriously. Marie feels important when he invites her to his office for a private chat. But this beautiful relationship gradually goes off track. There is that one time by the library when he holds onto her a little longer than necessary. Should she have said or done something?Since then, Olivier comes to her room to talk. The first time he sits on the bed, imploring. The next time, she struggles, but it is not enough. And every other night he comes back. Marie is devastated. Had she seduced Olivier in spite of herself? So she silences her shame and her pain, which leads the beast inside her to grow. Marie is not alone. In 2009, she is experiencing what other 17-year-old women like her have experienced in another times. Claudine in 1937, Isabelle in 1973 and Amandine in 1990. Travelling through time, this striking novel gives us the same story: the tragedy and the arbitrary nature of rape that shatters destinies.
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2019Pressure Cooking for the Instant One Pot
by Wendy Pirk, Ashley Billey, Jean Paré, James Darcy
Multi-cookers are taking the country by storm…and with good reason. With a multi-cooker, you get a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer and yogurt maker all in one handy appliance. However, as nice as it is to have five or more appliances in one, the real superstar of this kitchen workhorse is undoubtedly the pressure cooker. Be honest. Did you really buy the multi-cooker for its steaming or rice cooking function? It’s all about the pressure, baby! Learning to master the pressure cooker, however, can seem a little daunting. Thankfully, our latest collection of recipes, Pressure Cooking for the Instant One Pot, is here to help. In these pages we present a wide variety of dishes, from soul-satisfying comfort foods to innovative soon-to-be favourites, specifically crafted to cook your meals to perfection under pressure.
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2014The Essential Guy's Cookbook
by Jeff Morrison, Brad Smoliak, Jean Paré and James Darcy
The essential recipes in this entertaining cookbook celebrate the wonderful enthusiasm that men have for their special cuisine, including recipes for Bigger Is Better, BBQs and Smoking, Sandwiches, Burgers and Hotdogs, Game Day, Wild Game, Date-Night Dinners, Breakfast Specials, Comfort Food, Bacon, Cooking with Booze, Recipes with Little or No Cleanup, Late-Night Snacks, Entertaining with Success, Camping, the Wide World of Guy Pastas, Desserts to Wow—and so much more!To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2yfmpRq
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Food & beverage technologySeptember 2020Food Process Engineering and Technology
by Aakash Pare & B.L.Mandhyan
"Food Process Engineering focuses on the design, operation and maintenance of chemical and other process manufacturing activities. The development of "Agro Processing" will spur agricultural diversification. There are several benefits of promoting small scale agro-processing units rather large scale for the promotion of rural entrepreneurship. Appropriate post harvest management and value addition to agricultural products, in their production catchments, will lead to employment and income generation in the rural sector and minimize the losses of harvested biomass. Adoption of suitable technology plays a vital role in fixing the cost of the final product and consequently makes the venture, a profitable one. It is observed that imported agro-processing machines or their imitations are used for preparing food products. Actually, the working of these machines should be critically studied in context of the energy input and the quality of the finished product."
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History of Art / Art & Design StylesJune 2010A Real Van Gogh
How the Art World Struggles With Truth
by Henk Tromp
In 1928, after eleven years of extensive research and editing, Dr. Jacob Baart de la Faille finally finished the first catalogue raison of Vincent van Gogh's work. Soon after, however, de la Faille discovered that he had mistakenly listed dozens of forged works as genuine in the catalog. He quickly set out to set the record straight but was met with strong resistance from art dealers, collectors, critics, politicians, amongst others - all of whom had self-interested reasons to oppose his corrections. To this day, the international art world struggles to separate the real Van Goghs from the fake. A Real Van Gogh begins with the story of de la Faille and moves into the late decades of the twentieth century, outlining the numerous clashes over the authenticity of Van Gogh's works while simultaneously exposing the often bewildering ramifications for art critics and scholars when they bring unwelcome news.
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The Chagall Atlas
by NIENKE DENEKAMP
The Chagall Atlas follows Jewish artist Marc Chagall, whose personal and artistic life collided with world history more than once. Born in the 19th Century in anti-Semitist Czarist Russia, Chagall travelled to 20th Century Paris, where Cubism and Fauvism were about to change art forever. During World War I, he was ‘stuck’ in his hometown Vitebsk, right at the Eastern Front of a war that seamlessly merged into the Russian Revolution. Chagall could literally see the Revolution unfold from the window of his office in St. Petersburg. Chagall spent the twenties and thirties in Berlin and Paris, trying not to think about World War II that loomed over Europe. His spectacular escape from Vichy France to the US, where Chagall and his family spent the war along with other exiled artists, is a fantastic story in its own right. After the War, Chagall settled in the South of France, where he lived next door to Picasso and Matisse. But it wasn’t until later in life, against the backdrop of the Cold War and the foundation of the State of Israel, that he fully came into his own as an artist.
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Art Styles Not Defined by DateNovember 2013De wereld vanuit een luchtballon
by Robert Verhoogt
The invention of the hot air balloon in 1783 caused a sensation which would last for more than a century. The great aeronaut Jean-Pierre Blanchard and his fellow pioneers were followed by many others, whose lift-off attracted masses of people again and again. The subsequent “balloon mania” created a new element in cultural history: the third dimension, reflected in the literary and visual arts as well as in high culture and popular imagination. Scenes from a Balloon skilfully endeavours to reconstruct the sensation the balloon caused in cultural history of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century in Europe and the United States. After Thomas Baldwin produced the first image from a balloon in 1785, reproduction of remarkable prints, paintings, and photographs gained widespread popularity. Balloons inspired well-known photographers and artists, including Nadar, Spelterini, Goya, Manet, Daumier, and Redon, but they also led to a wealth of arts & crafts and popular souvenirs. The adventures of Blanchard, Nadar and other balloonists were a source of inspiration for popular writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, and Mark Twain.
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Trusted Partner
FictionTHE SECRET CALLED ERICH ŠLOMOVIČ
by SLAVKO PREGL AND LEON POGELŠEK
THE SECRET IS CALLED ERICH ŠLOMOVIČ (Skrivnost se imenuje Erich Šlomovič) Bata, a Belgrade antique dealer who does not speak any foreign languages, chooses young Leon from Ljubljana as his assistant for deals around Europe. Bata seems to be someone who will introduce the ambitious art student into the society of elite gallerists and high earnings. This promise becomes even more tangible when in an old villa in Zagreb, whilst buying a magnificent Vienna book case, they come across a dusty catalogue of Šlomovič’s exhibition, in which there is a list of French Impressionist paintings, and others from Modigliani to Renoir, from Kandinsky to Picasso, etc. The paintings disappeared one night in 1939 when two trains collided on their way to an exhibition in Belgrade and since then their fate has been shrouded in mystery. Occasionally they appear on the art market or in articles at home and abroad, even a film has been made about them … In Pregl’s novel, however, the story about the “secret of the Šlomovič” collection, full of lies, twists, deceptions, humour, hedonism and eroticism, is for the first time told by a player who created it from within.
