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Man On a String

Wolfe, Michael

Harper&Row

The Chinese fire drill

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

This book focuses on the ways in which military technology, political and social trends, and shifting frontiers shaped the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life as embodied in the “wall,” an image at once intensely physical and deeply symbolic. It traces the evolution of towns across much of what is today France from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century when the walls began to come down, opening up new, ultimately revolutionary possibilities for urban life. This long-term perspective on town fortifications—how they were built, the contests to control them, and how they shaped the lives of people both inside and outside them—in the end tell us much about the making of France.

Walled Towns and the Shaping of France: From the Medieval to the Early Modern Era

History

Europe

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Hadj - C Format Export Only

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

"Paris is worth a Mass." So said Henri IV on his conversion to Catholicism, according to cynics, and the motives behind the act have been the stuff of history ever since. The Conversion of Henri IV reclaims the religious significance of this momentous event in the development of the French monarchy and early modern political culture.Michael Wolfe offers an in-depth account of the political, diplomatic, and theological dimensions of the 1593 conversion of the Protestant Henri de Navarre. Where others have emphasized the ideological aspects of the conflict sparked by the conversion, Wolfe situates the controversy within contemporary ideas about confessional change and practice, as well as the historical traditions that defined what it meant to be French. Using pamphlets, sermons, letters, and memoranda, he traces the conversion crisis as it unfolded in the minds of the king's subjects and as it affected their loyalties and actions during the last religious wars. In this analysis, the public response to Henri IV's conversion reveals a great deal about contemporary notions of personal piety and the Church, political ideals and the state, as well as social identity and obligations.Joining the history of mentalite with that of political and religious behavior, Wolfe also pays close attention to the impact of military and political developments. This approach helps explain the fundamental role of Henri IV's conversion in the establishment and acceptance of Bourbon absolutism in the last two centuries of the ancien regime.While not denying the political importance of Henri IV's conversion, this book underscores the profound religious implications of the event. It puts religion back into the Wars of Religion and thereby enhances our understanding of the rise of the early modern French state.

The Conversion of Henri IV: Politics, Power, and Religious Belief in Early Modern France (Harvard Historical Studies)

Americas

Harvard University Press

The Hadj, or sacred journey, is the pilgrimage to the house of God at Mecca that all Muslims are asked to make once in their lifetimes. One of the world’s longest-lived religious rites, having continued without break for fourteen hundred years, it is, like all things Islamic, shrouded in mystery for Westerners. In The Hadj, Michael Wolfe, an American who converted to Islam, recounts his own journey a pilgrim, and in doing so brings readers close to the heart of what the pilgrimage means to a member of the religion that claims one-sixth of the world’s population. Not since Sir Richard Burton’s account of the pilgrimage to Mecca over one hundred years ago has a Western writer described the Hadj in such fascinating detail.

The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca

Religion & Spirituality

Islam

GROVE PRESS

This work covers everything necessary to build a competitive, advanced compiler for parallel or high-performance computers. It starts with a review of basic terms and algorithms such as graphs, trees and matrix algebra. Methods focus on analysis and synthesis, where analysis extracts information from the source program. The various restrictions and problems caused by different languages commonly used in such machines are shown.

High-Performance Compilers for Parallel Computing

Computers & Technology

Programming

Pearson

The 10 essays here are the result of a conference devoted to the study of medieval technology in April 1995. Taken together, they aim to help dispel the common misconception that medieval people somehow had to toil in a world bereft of technical innovation and ingenuity. The authors of the papers, all experts in their fields, show the Middle Ages not only to be a time of considerable technological development, but also the ways in which the technologies of building construction, manufacture and metallurgy were shaped by broader forces of culture, social identity, political ambition and the local environment.

Technology and Resource Use in Medieval Europe: Cathedrals, Mills and Mines

SMITH, ELIZABETH

Routledge

A convert to Islam describes his pilgrimage to Mecca, recounting his preparations for the trip, the significance of the pilgrimage, and his journey across Muslim North Africa

The Hadj: An American's Journey to Mecca

Travel

Travel Writing

Atlantic Monthly Pr

Invisible Weapons

Literature & Fiction

United States

Creative Arts Book Co.

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