Bernard: 3655 books

Aubertin d'Avalon En cette fin du xiie siècle, où s'invente un monde nouveau, comment Aubertin d'Avalon, bâtisseur de cathédrale et maître sculpteur, peut-il deviner que la mission que lui ont confiée les Templiers va le jeter sur les routes de l'Orient, faire de lui un pèlerin de la Flamme...

Bernard Lonergan devoted much of his life's work to developing a generalized method of inquiry, an integrated view which would overcome the fragmentation of knowledge in our time. In Topics in Education Lonergan adapts that concern to the practical needs of educators. Traditionalist and modernist...

The period during which Bernard Lonergan delivered the eleven lectures in this volume was one of important transition for him: he was moving rapidly toward a new conception of theology and its method; and he was on the verge of what is now recognized as a major breakthrough in his thought on method,...

Centuries after his work as a preacher, philosopher, and spiritual guide, Meister Eckhart remains one of the most widely-read mystics of the Western tradition. Yet as he has come to be studied more closely in recent decades, a number of different Eckharts have emerged. This volume reviews and synthesizes...

The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of historical and recent results on concentration inequalities for sums of independent random variables and for martingales. The first chapter is devoted to classical asymptotic results in probability such as the strong law of large numbers...

The renowned Christian theologian Bernard Lonergan was also a professor, teaching courses on theological method at universities in Canada, the United States, and Italy. This volume records his lectures and teaching materials, thus preserving and elucidating his intellectual development between the...

Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984) was a noted Canadian philosopher and theologian. He devoted his life to articulating a generalized method of inquiry and its implications, not only for the human and natural sciences, but also for a better world and a higher quality of human life. His own clear vision...

A companion to Philosophical and Theological Papers 1958-1964 (Volume 6 in the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan series), this anthology contains Lonergan's lectures on philosophy and theology given during the later period of his life, 1965-1980. These papers document his development in the discipline...

Read the controversial play that caused an international sensation when it was first performed. George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession takes a frank and matter-of-fact look at the world's oldest profession and makes an explicit link between the second-class citizenship that has been foisted upon women for thousands of years and the persistence of prostitution as an occupation.

Paradoxes of the Infinite presents one of the most insightful, yet strangely unacknowledged, mathematical treatises of the 19th century: Dr Bernard Bolzano’s Paradoxien. This volume contains an adept translation of the work itself by Donald A. Steele S.J., and in addition an historical introduction,...

J’ai reçu de M. Bernard Lazare, le 29 mai 1897, la mission de rechercher si l’écriture d’un document que j’appellerai X, commençant par les mots : « Sans nouvelles m’indiquant que », et finissant par ceux-ci : « Je vais partir en manœuvres », est attribuable à l’ex-capitaine Alfred...

En vacances estivales dans le Cap Sizun, l’héritier d’un magnat de l’industrie pharmaceutique tombe sous le charme d’une jeune guide... Morgane n’est pas de son milieu, mais il la fait accepter par ses parents. Pour les fiançailles, chaque invité repartira avec une figurine en...

Plongée dans la double vie d'un jeune dealer assassiné. Le chien d’un promeneur découvre au Corniguel, le corps d’un jeune homme, lardé de coups de couteau et enfoui sous un tas de sable non loin de la Péniche, la nouvelle boîte de nuit à la mode. La victime, Jérémy Fontan, 23...

Atmosphère pesante à Quimper... La mort d'un huissier peu apprécié sème le branle-bas sur Quimper et sa région. Le crime est-il l'œuvre d'un proche offensé, d'un concurrent irrité, d'une victime bafouée ? Et pourquoi Paul Capitaine est-il écarté de l'affaire, pourquoi tous les témoins...