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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: The penitential state -- Louis the Pious (778-840) -- A boy who became a king -- Adolescentia -- The conquest of Aachen -- Dynasty -- Scapegoats and rebels -- Intermezzo -- 833 and all that -- Restoration -- The last years -- Ninth-century narratives -- The court and its narratives -- The message from inside : annals -- Imperial imagery : Einhard -- A bishop's view : Thegan -- The corridors of power : the Astronomer -- Poetic praise : Ermold the Black -- With hindsight : Nithard on Louis the Pious -- Looking back in anger : Radbert on Wala -- Admonitio, correptio, increpatio -- Criticising rulers -- The watchman in the house of Israel -- The vocabulary of admonition and sin -- Royal admonition -- Admonition from beyond the grave -- From admonitio to increpatio -- The wages of sin (828-829) -- Scapegoats : Matfrid and Hugh -- Clades : the offended deity -- The winter assembly of 828-829 -- Letters from the palace -- A penitential synod : Paris, 829 -- Purity and danger (830-831) -- The reputation of the palace -- The one and only queen -- Sexual slander -- Purity and danger -- Rebellion and restoration -- Scandal and satisfaction (832-834) -- An unexpected visitor -- Debates on the Field of Lies -- Public sin and public penance -- The bishops argue their case -- The case against the bishops -- Some observations on 833 and ritual -- Turning the tables -- Epilogue: The penitential state after Louis the Pious…”

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“…Just as importantly, it is also about the ordinary but fundamental practices of everyday life that we might take for granted, such as cooking food and keeping the house and body clean.Tracing the development of such practices, from prehistoric times to the age of the pyramids, the book reveals unsuspected connections between distant regions, and provides new insights into the workings of societies we have come to regard as remote from our own. …”

“…Contesting the popular term 'quality TV,' 'Transgressive Television' provides original work on TV series as diverse as 'Twin Peaks', 'The Sopranos', 'Breaking Bad', 'The Wire', 'House of Cards', 'Homeland', and many others…”

“…Everything we do involves forecasts about how the future will unfold. Whether buying a new house or changing job, designing a new product or getting married, our decisions are governed by implicit predictions of how things are likely to turn out. …”

“…Created originally to be read out-loud, in what he called"writings-lectures", these essays were presented in the house of his friend Eduardo Hamuy to a selected group of people. …”

“…Beginning with his installation as Director in 1997, he unfolds the events that led up to 9/11: his declaration of war on Al Qaeda in 1998, CIA operations inside Afghanistan, the worldwide operational plan to fight terror, his warnings to White House officials in the spring and summer of 2001, and the plan for a response laid down just six days after the attack. …”

“…Other notable matters described are the end of the war with the Aetolian League and Manlius Vulso's campaign in Asia Minor, the censorship of the elder Cato, and the fatal quarrel in the Macedonian royal house. This commentary, conceived on the same scale as Briscoe's earlier commentaries on Books 31-33 and 34-37, aims to elucidate historical, literary, textual, and linguistic aspects of Livy's narrative. …”

“…A family transplanted from the 1940's into the present day would certainly be stunned by a fundamentally different world: instead of gathering in the living room for a shared evening of radio, they would be scattered around the house to indulge their individual interests on one of a hundred cable channels; instead of a society with rigid racial and ethnic divisions, they would see people of different ethnicities in passionate embraces; and they would see a very different set of values reflected across the board. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Harvey -- Heritage, rhetoric, identity : critical reflections on the Carrickmines Castle controversy / Tadhg O'Keeffe -- Ireland and the house of invented memory / Hugh Maguire -- Remembering the creameries / Maura Cronin -- The tourism nexus : national identity and the meanings of tourism since the Irish Civil War / Eric E. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Urban design and sustainability in the developing world / Roger Zetter and Georgia Butina Watson -- Urban form and transformation -- Cultural sustainability and development : drukpa and burman vernacular architecture / Regina Mapua Lim -- Rebuilding the identity of the city in history : the historic centre of Bethlehem-Palestine / Jane Handal -- Urban conservation in Mexican colonial cities : The historic centre of Morelia / Norma Rodrigo-Cervantes -- Involving local communities in the conservation and rehabilitation of historic areas in Mexico City: the case of Coyoacan / Yanet Lezama-López -- Value-led heritage and sustainable development : the case of Bijapur, India / Anwar Punekar -- Urban planning and sustainability in South Africa / Koyi Mchunu -- Designing people-based environments -- Development control and urban reform : the case of Belem, Brazil / Jose Julio Lima -- Urban change in residential layouts in Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia / Mohammed Edrees -- Sustainable urban form : environment and climate responsive / Silvia de Schiller, Ian Bentley and Georgia Butina Watson -- Collaborative public open space design in self-help housing : Minas-Polvorilla, Mexico City / Luis Gabriel Juárez-Galeana -- Community involvement in planning and managing -- Sustainable open space in Mexico / Ana Maria Maldonado-Fuse…”