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Francis Picabia. catalogue raisonné / by Picabia, Francis,1879-1953,artist.(CARDINAL)125380; Camfield, William A.,writer of added commentary.(CARDINAL)172245; Calté, Beverley,writer of added commentary.(CARDINAL)334686; Clements, Candace,writer of added commentary.(CARDINAL)334687; Pierre, Arnauld,writer of added commentary.(CARDINAL)334688;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-412) and indexes."This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonné of Francis Picabia (1879-1953), one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in the 1890s to his Cubist and abstract paintings of 1912-14, which constitute landmarks in the history of modern art. This volume allows for new critical and scientific readings of his work and piques interest in his lesser-known pieces. Along with illustrations of each featured work, the book includes an introduction, chronology, bibliography, list of exhibitions, and indices."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Catalogues raisonnés.; Picabia, Francis, 1879-1953;
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Charlie Wilson's war [videorecording] / by Adams, Amy.(CARDINAL)543271; Beatty, Ned.(CARDINAL)348263; Blunt, Emily.(CARDINAL)784786; Crile, George.My enemy's enemy.(CARDINAL)793400; Goetzman, Gary,1952-(CARDINAL)344955; Hanks, Tom.(CARDINAL)318707; Hoffman, Philip Seymour,1967-2014.(CARDINAL)807249; Nichols, Mike.(CARDINAL)343587; Puri, Om.(CARDINAL)785829; Roberts, Julia,1967-(CARDINAL)365167; Slattery, John,1962-(CARDINAL)545521; Sorkin, Aaron.(CARDINAL)370861; Stott, Ken,1955-(CARDINAL)541495; Participant Productions.(CARDINAL)283472; Playtone (Firm)(CARDINAL)541614; Relativity Media.(CARDINAL)551892; Universal Pictures (Firm)(CARDINAL)318695; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)344011;
Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; editors, John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen ; music, James Newton Howard ; costume designer, Albert Wolsky ; production designer, Victor Kempster.Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Ned Beatty, Emily Blunt, Om Puri, Ken Stott, John Slattery, Denis O'Hare, Jud Tylor.In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support needed to defeat the Soviet Union. Ultimately, Charlie learns that while military victory can be obtained, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow. Based on a true story.Adult.MPAA rating: R; for strong language, nudity/sexual content and drug use.DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Drama.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Film adaptations.; Historical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Wilson, Charles, 1933-2010; United States. Congress; Fund raisers (Persons); Legislators; Comités; Feature films.;
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Behind the lines : WWI's little-known story of German occupation, Belgian resistance, and the band of Yanks who saved millions from starvation : beginnings, 1914 / by Miller, Jeff,1952-author.(CARDINAL)726757;
August 1914, Invasion -- September 1914, Beginnings of hunger and retaliation -- October 1914, Stumbling toward organization -- November 1914, Coming together -- December 1914, Uncertainty prevails.During World War I, the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) initiated, organized, and supervised the largest food and relief drive the world has ever seen. Working in concert with its counterpart in Belgium, the Comite National, the CRB fed and clothed for four years more than 9 million Belgians and northern French trapped behind German lines. Young, idealistic Americans volunteered to go into German-occupied Belgium to guarantee the food would not be taken by the Germans. They had to maintain strict neutrality in what they said and did as they watched the Belgians suffer under the harsh German regime. Covering August 1914 through December 1914, this nonfiction book follows a handful of CRB delegates, a twenty-two-year-old Belgian woman, two U.S. diplomats, the head of the CRB, and a Belgian businessman and a Belgian priest who team up to fight the German occupation. It is a story that few have heard.--
Subjects: Commission for Relief in Belgium.; World War, 1914-1918; International relief;
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The way of the Bodhisattva : a translation of the Bodhicharyāvatāra / by Śāntideva,active 7th century,author.(CARDINAL)514497; Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho,Dalai Lama XIV,1935-writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)153713; Comité de traduction Padmakara.(CARDINAL)824891;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219).Treasured by Buddhists of all traditions, The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. This text has been studied, practiced, and expounded upon in an unbroken tradition for centuries, first in India, and later in Tibet. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, it outlines the path of the Bodhisattvas--those who renounce the peace of individual enlightenment and vow to work for the liberation of all beings and to attain buddhahood for their sake. This version, translated from the Tibetan, is a revision by the translators of the 1997 edition. Included are a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a new translator's preface, a thorough introduction, a note on the translation, and three appendices of commentary by the Nyingma master Kunzang Pelden.
Subjects: Mahayana Buddhism;
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A chariot to freedom : guidance from the great masters on the Vajrayana preliminary practices / by Zhe-chen Rgyal-tshab Padma-ʼgyur-med-rnam-rgyal,1871-1926,Author(DLC)n 95041214 ; Comité de traduction Padmakara,Translator(DLC)no2005040004;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 673-688) and index.Foreword / by Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche -- Foreword / by Pema Wangyal -- Translators' Introduction -- A Chariot to Freedom: Part I: The Virtuous Beginning, Comprising an Explanation of How the Teachings Should Be Presented and Received: 1. Attitude -- 2. Conduct -- 3. The Benefits of Teaching the Dharma and Listening to It -- Part II: The Virtuous Middle, Comprising an Explanation on Training One's Being through the Four Common Practices for Turning the Mind: 4. Preliminaries to Beginning a Session -- 5. Reflecting on the Difficulty of Finding the Freedoms and Advantages -- 6. Reflecting on Death and Impermanence -- 7. Reflecting on Actions, Cause, and Result -- 8. Reflecting on the Sufferings of Cyclic Existence -- Part III: The Virtuous Ending, Comprising an Explanation of the Main Preliminaries for the Path of the Diamond Vehicle: 9. Taking Refuge -- 10. Arousing the Mind Set on Enlightenment -- 11. The Meditation and Recitation of Vajrasattva -- 12. The Mandala Offering -- 13. The Instruction on the Guru Yoga -- Concluding Remarks -- Concluding Poem -- Colophon -- Appendix 1: Structural Outline of A Chariot to Freedom -- Appendix 2: Prayer to the Lord of the Victorious Ones (gTso rgyal ma) -- Appendix 3: Confession Prayer -- Appendix 4: The Seven-Line Prayer -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography."A unique commentary on the preliminary practices of Vajrayana Buddhism, from a beloved Nyingma master. A Chariot to Freedom presents the preliminary practices that form the foundation of the Vajrayana Buddhist path. In order to receive the proper empowerments and instructions from a qualified master, one must first make specific preparations, which in most traditions consists of a five-stage process of purifying the mind. Supported by the writings of the greatest teachers of the past and passages from Buddhist classical literature, Shechen Gyaltsap Gyurme Pema Namgyal (1871-1926) explains in depth the five practices of taking refuge, arousing bodhichitta, Vajrasattva purification, mandala offering, and Guru Yoga. Drawing from the original words of the Buddha in the sutras and from the later treatises of masters such as Nagarjuna, Shantideva, and Guru Padmasambhava, Shechen Gyaltsap's commentary reads like a carefully selected anthology of Buddhist teachings that reveal the preliminary practices of Vajrayana Buddhism. Shechen Gyaltsap explains why each practice is beneficial and provides profound and eminently useful guidance for practitioners, while simultaneously transmitting the wisdom of generations of Buddhist masters"--.
Subjects: Tantric Buddhism; Tantric Buddhism; Meditation; Spiritual life;
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Manual Joslin para la diabetes : un programa para el manejo de su tratamiento / by Beaser, Richard S.(CARDINAL)769588; Hill, Joan V. C.(CARDINAL)389902; Joslin Diabetes Center.(CARDINAL)769587; Joslin Diabetes Center.Joslin Education Committee.(CARDINAL)372281;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-322) and index.
Subjects: Diabetes; Diabetes; Spanish language materials.;
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Rembrandt van Rijn : catalogue / by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn,1606-1669.(CARDINAL)148453; Lazarev, Viktor Nikitich,1897-1976.(CARDINAL)142749; Gosudarstvennyĭ muzeĭ izobrazitelʹnykh iskusstv imeni A.S. Pushkina.(CARDINAL)134055;
Includes bibliographical references (page 10).
Subjects: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669;
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El hombre en busca de sentido / by Frankl, Viktor E.(Viktor Emil),1905-1997,author.(CARDINAL)147109; Freire, José Benigno,author of preface.; Container of (expression):Frankl, Viktor E.(Viktor Emil),1905-1997.Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager.Spanish.; Comité de Traducción al Español (Firm),translator.;
Includes bibliographical references.El doctor Frankl, psiquiatra y escritor, suele preguntar a sus pacientes aquejados de multiples padecimientos: Por que no se suicida usted? Y muchas veces, de las respuestas extrae una orientacion para la psicoterapia a aplicar: a este, lo que le ata a la vida son los hijos; al otro, un talento, una habilidad sin explotar; a un tercero, quizas, solo unos cuantos recuerdos que merece la pena rescatar del olvido. Tejer estas tenues hebras de vidas rotas en una urdimbre firme, coherente, significativa y responsable es el objeto con que se enfrenta la logoterapia. En esta obra, Viktor E. Frankl explica la experiencia que le llevo al descubrimiento de la logoterapia. Prisionero, durante mucho tiempo, en los desalmados campos de concentracion, el mismo sintio en su propio ser lo que significaba una existencia desnuda. Como pudo el que todo lo había perdido, que habia visto destruir todo lo que valia la pena, que padecio hambre, frio, brutalidades sin fin, que tantas veces estuvo a punto del exterminio, como pudo aceptar que la vida fuera digna de vivirla? El psiquiatra que personalmente ha tenido que enfrentarse a tales rigores merece que se le escuche, pues nadie como el para juzgar nuestra condicion humana sabia y compasivamente. Las palabras del doctor Frankl alcanzan un temple sorprendentemente esperanzador sobre la capacidad humana de trascender sus dificultades y descubrir la verdad conveniente y orientadora.In this work, a Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry. This work has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 the author, a psychiatrist labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the stories of his many patients, he argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. His theory, known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos (meaning), holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Frankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil), 1905-1997.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Internment camp inmates; Logotherapy.; Meaning (Psychology); Nazi concentration camp inmates; Psychologists; Autobiografías.; Biografías.; Campos de concentración; Significación (Psicología);
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