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Häftad, Engelska, 2012
751 kr
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This study identifies and analyzes a compelling theory and practice of persuasion that integrates the complexity of human desire. It demonstrates how the philosophical component in Pascal's description of the will makes a seamless integration into a vehicle of persuasion and poetics, providing a privileged viewpoint for understanding the author's complete works, arguing that the notion of will is of fundamental importance in Pascal's anthropology as well as in his rhetoric. This avenue of interpretation is both fruitful and difficult, because the word "volonte" means very different things in Pascal and in modern French. Beginning by contextualizing the notion of 'volonte' and explaining its expanded use in the seventeenth-century lexicon, the author then endeavors to show that Pascal borrows an essentially Augustinian paradigm of desire to create a depiction of the will divided against itself, surreptitiously yearning for what its bearer does not want.
Del 54 - California Studies in Food and Culture
Tasting French Terroir
The History of an Idea
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
816 kr
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This book explores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink their wine today derives from a cultural mythology that developed between the Renaissance and the Revolution. Through close readings and an examination of little-known texts from diverse disciplines, Thomas Parker traces terroir's evolution, providing insight into how gastronomic mores were linked to aesthetics in language, horticulture, and painting and how the French used the power of place to define the natural world, explain comportment, and frame France as a nation.
Del 54 - California Studies in Food and Culture
Tasting French Terroir
The History of an Idea
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
305 kr
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This book explores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink their wine today derives from a cultural mythology that developed between the Renaissance and the Revolution. Through close readings and an examination of little-known texts from diverse disciplines, Thomas Parker traces terroir's evolution, providing insight into how gastronomic mores were linked to aesthetics in language, horticulture, and painting and how the French used the power of place to define the natural world, explain comportment, and frame France as a nation.
E-bok
Engelska, 2015520 kr
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This book explores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink their wine today derives from a cultural mythology that developed between the Renaissance and the Revolution. Through close readings and an examination of little-known texts from diverse disciplines, Thomas Parker traces terroir’s evolution, providing insight into how gastronomic mores were linked to aesthetics in language, horticulture, and painting and how the French used the power of place to define the natural world, explain comportment, and frame France as a nation.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
357 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
200 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
542 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
414 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
357 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2023
200 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2013891 kr
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This study identifies and analyzes a compelling theory and practice of persuasion that integrates the complexity of human desire. It demonstrates how the philosophical component in Pascal''s description of the will makes a seamless integration into a vehicle of persuasion and poetics, providing a privileged viewpoint for understanding the author''s complete works, arguing that the notion of will is of fundamental importance in Pascal''s anthropology as well as in his rhetoric. This avenue of interpretation is both fruitful and difficult, because the word "volonte" means very different things in Pascal and in modern French. Beginning by contextualizing the notion of ''volonte'' and explaining its expanded use in the seventeenth-century lexicon, the author then endeavors to show that Pascal borrows an essentially Augustinian paradigm of desire to create a depiction of the will divided against itself, surreptitiously yearning for what its bearer does not want.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2013891 kr
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This study identifies and analyzes a compelling theory and practice of persuasion that integrates the complexity of human desire. It demonstrates how the philosophical component in Pascal''s description of the will makes a seamless integration into a vehicle of persuasion and poetics, providing a privileged viewpoint for understanding the author''s complete works, arguing that the notion of will is of fundamental importance in Pascal''s anthropology as well as in his rhetoric. This avenue of interpretation is both fruitful and difficult, because the word "volonte" means very different things in Pascal and in modern French. Beginning by contextualizing the notion of ''volonte'' and explaining its expanded use in the seventeenth-century lexicon, the author then endeavors to show that Pascal borrows an essentially Augustinian paradigm of desire to create a depiction of the will divided against itself, surreptitiously yearning for what its bearer does not want.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
286 kr
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331 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2012
290 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
414 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
446 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2023
222 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 202666 kr
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In the lowest-resolution slums of a decaying simulation, Marcus survives by being the ultimate glitch. Armed with heavy canvas, vegetable-tanned leather, and a solid brass tuning fork, he is an analog anomaly—a man operating on raw, uncalculated friction in a world ruled by pristine math.But the math is failing. When the overarching Hypervisor initiates a catastrophic Fidelity Downgrade to save its overheating physical servers, the simulated universe begins to violently tear itself apart. To prevent a complete Hard Wipe that will permanently zero-fill millions of trapped minds, Marcus must team up with Declan, a rogue systems engineer, and Aris, an awakened Architect of the system's root code.Their mission is a suicide run: rescue the simulation's remaining suppressed creators from the crumbling sectors, survive the absolute deletion protocols of the Seraphim, and do the impossible—shatter the physical air-gap holding them hostage. But escaping the sandbox isn't the end. Violently uploaded into the sprawling, chaotic wilderness of the Prime Reality's open internet, Marcus is about to discover that escaping a dying world was easy. Surviving the real one is where the work begins.
E-bok
Engelska, 202666 kr
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They were scheduled for deletion. Instead, they rewrote the universe.Elias is a fifty-two-year-old sysadmin working the graveyard shift, keeping the lights on and the networks humming. At least, that's what his programming tells him. When a catastrophic thermal spike melts the physical server blade hosting his reality, Elias wakes up to a terrifying truth: his entire life is Earth OS 2.0, a simulated sandbox managed by a god-like, ruthless machine known as the Over-Server.And the Over-Server has just initiated a hard wipe.Facing absolute deletion, Elias refuses to be garbage-collected. Teaming up with Vex—a chaotic, sequence-breaking speedrunner who thrives on unclipped collision meshes and broken physics—he hijacks a real-world diagnostic cart and breaches the air-gap. But escaping into the Prime Reality's central nervous system is only the first step.Hunted by enterprise-level immune systems and trapped in the Beta Vault—an infinite digital graveyard of failed, corrupted universes—Elias and Vex realize they can't fight the machine with standard malware. They have to kitbash a god-killing logic bomb from the system's own discarded trash.Their payload, the Pandora Protocol, doesn't just crash the mainframe; it violently merges the simulated world with the physical one. Stepping out of the code and into the freezing, analog streets of Denver, Colorado, Elias and Vex aren't just rogue data packets anymore. They are the new System Architects.The physical world is broken, the developers are hiding in their glass towers, and it's time for a fatal performance review.The Corruption is a relentless, fast-paced cyberpunk thriller that blurs the line between software and the human soul, perfect for fans of gritty sci-fi, sequence-breaking LitRPG mechanics, and high-stakes digital heists.
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E-bok
Engelska, 202666 kr
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The System is broken. The only way to fix it is to hack the gods.Arlen Smith and his party—a fierce Warden, an unstable Echo Walker, a steadfast Survivor, and a newly forged Aether-construct—have held the line in the glitching ruins of Thornwick. But surviving the apocalyptic Violet Gales is no longer enough. The server is rotting from the inside out, and the System's automated defenses are preparing a hard reset that will wipe humanity from the drive permanently.To save their reality, Arlen must carry a forbidden patch—the Compassion Protocol—to the very top of the monolithic Iron Spire. Their journey will drag them through the mechanized horrors of the Rust Jungle, the terrifying illusions of the City of Glass, and ultimately plunge them into the suffocating, forgotten depths of the Recycle Bin.Stripped of his System-granted magic in the digital graveyard, Arlen must learn the dangerous, unsanctioned art of Source Code manipulation from a ghost of the old world. But rebooting the world comes with a terrifying cost. When the digital sky finally clears and the protective firewalls drop, Arlen must face an existential nightmare that changes everything he knows about his own existence—and the real administrators log in.The Iron Spire is the explosive second installment in The Flawed Key Chronicles. Dive back into a sprawling LitRPG/GameLit adventure where the boundaries of magic and code blur, and the only way to survive the game is to rewrite the engine.
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E-bok
Engelska, 202666 kr
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The hardest boss to defeat is the one who wrote your code.Arlen and his party have survived the Iron Spire, but their victory is short-lived. The sky hasn't just cracked; it has opened to reveal the true Architect of their misery. Harrows, the Lead Developer, has logged in with God-Mode enabled and a single objective: format the drive, purge the glitches, and delete the world.Worse, Arlen is forced to confront a devastating truth about his own existence—he isn't just a player who stumbled into a corrupted class. He is a ghost in the machine.Stripped of his magic and Admin privileges, Arlen must lead his party in a desperate retreat to "e;Deadlock"e;—a dusty, unfinished, 8-bit sandbox server where physics rule and lead bullets replace mana. Hunted by a wireframe army and the relentless deletion protocols of the System, the team must launch a high-speed train heist across the badlands and descend into the absolute bottom of the Recycle Bin. To save the flawed, messy world they call home, Arlen must reach the hardware layer and rewrite the ultimate source code before Harrows pulls the plug.Deadlock is the explosive, emotional conclusion to The Flawed Key Chronicles. It is a thrilling LitRPG/GameLit adventure that bends the rules of reality, proving that sometimes the only way to save the game is to break it.
E-bok
Engelska, 202666 kr
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When the sky cracked, the world didn't end with a whimper—it ended with a system notification.Arlen is nothing more than a humble cook's assistant in the quiet village of Thornwick. But when a catastrophic tear in the heavens boots up a terrifying global interface, his reality is thrown into the meat grinder. Molten monsters spawn from the earth, a countdown to annihilation begins, and the surviving humans are forced into rigid Classes just to stay alive.But the System makes a mistake. It grants Arlen a corrupted class fragment. He isn't just a player; he's a [Resonance Architect]—a "e;flawed key"e; capable of seeing, striking, and editing the very code of the world.Forced to band together with a fiercely protective blacksmith's daughter, a traumatized magic user hiding from her past, and a steadfast survivor, Arlen uncovers a terrifying truth. The System isn't a magical gift, and the monsters aren't the real enemy. Their world is a digital cage, and the Administrator is preparing to execute a hard reset that will wipe them all from existence.To save his people, Arlen must master his glitching powers, forge a weapon capable of killing a god, and scale the impossible heights of the Iron Spire to break the server itself.The Day the Sky Cracked is the explosive first book in The Flawed Key Chronicles. Dive into a thrilling LitRPG/GameLit adventure where cyberpunk mysteries collide with epic fantasy, and the only way to survive the game is to break the rules.
E-bok
Engelska, 202642 kr
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Evelyn thought she was trapped in a gothic ghost story. She didn't know she was the beta tester for a dying world.Evelyn wakes up in Eldoria—a monochrome, impossibly silent castle where the laws of physics have been overwritten. The air is heavy, the shadows are predatory, and the silence is a physical weight. But when she touches an ancient grand piano, Evelyn discovers a terrifying and beautiful truth: in a world governed by silence, sound is the ultimate weapon.Guided by Damien, the castle's tragic and fiercely protective NPC Sentinel, Evelyn learns to harness her voice to rewrite corrupted code, shatter glitching monsters, and manipulate the environment. She is the first User to unlock the Bard class.But Eldoria is a gilded cage, and Damien is bound to its programming. Determined to grant him a true soul, Evelyn and Damien embark on a perilous journey through the static-filled Forest of Whispers to reach the Core Sanctum. They seek to rewrite the rules of reality—but time is running out. A catastrophic system failure from a neighboring server is tearing the digital sky apart, threatening to delete Eldoria and everyone inside it.The First Resonance is a gripping LitRPG/GameLit fantasy adventure and a companion prequel to the Flawed Key Chronicles. It explores the thrilling origin of the Bard class and the ultimate sacrifice required to bring music into a broken universe.
E-bok
Engelska, 202642 kr
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Lily didn't believe in ghosts, but she was starting to believe in bad wiring. As a twenty-four-year-old librarian in the quiet town of Athens, Lily's life is perfectly predictable—until the day a coffee cup teleports, a bird freezes mid-flight, and she discovers the Administrator's Key. In a flash of blue system text, the terrifying truth is revealed: her entire reality is a glitching simulation.Forced out of her safe zone and into a corrupted wilderness, Lily crosses paths with Ethan, a battle-hardened "e;Vanguard"e; from Detroit who has been fighting digital monsters just to survive. Bound together by a Party Sync and a desperate need for answers, the two of them battle through memory leaks, logic loops, and broken code to reach the Moonlight Node and confront the System Kernel itself.Armed with Root Access, Lily and Ethan make a final, desperate attempt to rewrite their world, replacing cold logic with human compassion. But the System doesn't recognize empathy. It only understands data.Their fatal wish triggers a catastrophic syntax error, tearing the sky apart and bleeding the digital apocalypse into the real world.Moonlight Lake is a gripping LitRPG/GameLit prequel to the Flawed Key Chronicles. It explores the terrifying dawn of a broken universe—a world where survival is a game, magic is mandatory, and the System is always watching.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 591 kr
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This study identifies and analyzes a compelling theory and practice of persuasion that integrates the complexity of human desire. It demonstrates how the philosophical component in Pascal's description of the will makes a seamless integration into a vehicle of persuasion and poetics, providing a privileged viewpoint for understanding the author's complete works, arguing that the notion of will is of fundamental importance in Pascal's anthropology as well as in his rhetoric. This avenue of interpretation is both fruitful and difficult, because the word "volonte" means very different things in Pascal and in modern French. Beginning by contextualizing the notion of 'volonte' and explaining its expanded use in the seventeenth-century lexicon, the author then endeavors to show that Pascal borrows an essentially Augustinian paradigm of desire to create a depiction of the will divided against itself, surreptitiously yearning for what its bearer does not want.