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The Physiology of Marriage (1829) is a book length essay by French writer Honoré de Balzac. Written from the point of view of an author who has overheard scandalous conversations between two women, The Physiology of Marriage is both a critique of the institution of marriage and a satirical attempt to scientifically explain the cause and frequency of marital infidelity. The essay was an early success for Balzac, gaining him a reputation as a talented writer and creative critic of contemporary French society.The essay consists of a series of meditations that approach marriage through a variety of scientific, philosophical, and anecdotal methods. Arguing that marriage is an institution that runs counter to human nature, the author uses questionable mathematics to calculate the number of married women in France who are likely to seek out affairs in order to feel a passion denied to them. Describing the likely signs of marital infidelity¿standoffishness, a change in dress, lack of romance¿he claims that French men have grown far too accepting of their wives¿ affairs. Rather than reject the institution altogether¿he sees it as integral to upholding the social order¿the author suggests that young women be allowed a certain amount of freedom to explore their romantic inclinations and to prepare themselves for the banality of married life. The Physiology of Marriage finds satire in treating seriously and scientifically the often hidden and always complex matters of the heart, as well as through its suggestion that women, not men, are to blame for the proliferation of infidelity in France.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Honoré de Balzac¿s The Physiology of Marriage is a classic of French literature reimagined for modern readers.

Welfare Words analyses a number of keywords and phrases commonly used by policy-makers, news-outlets and wider society, when referring to social policy, welfare reform and social work in the present-day culture of neoliberal capitalism.

In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb.

"In 2002, decades into the country's civil war, the Colombian government initiated elite-financed security taxes equivalent to an additional one percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP)-a major achievement in a region notorious for stagnant tax-to-GDP ratios (Everest-Philips 2010).2 More surprising than the sharp increase in yearly tax revenue is that the government did so by extracting from the wealthiest taxpayers and that these taxpayers evsupported the tax. Charles Tilly (2009, xiii) observed that taxation, "constitutes the largest intervention of governments in their subjects' private life." Colombia's government not only generated this revenue, but did so from the best politically-connected echelon of society, a group that has historically been able to resist taxation (Atria 2015; Bogliaccini and Luna 2016; Centeno 1997; 2002; Fairfield 2015; Kurtz 2009; 2013; Saylor 2014; Soifer 2009; 2015; Schneider 2012)"--

Looking at Christian and Muslim schools in urban Tanzania, this book explores how transformations in the country's educational sector, and students', parents' and teachers' quests for a "good life" in the neoliberal context, have affected their school and professional trajectories.

During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. Exploring early modern French uses of the word 'politique' and the statesman who practised this art, this book investigates questions of language and of power over the course of a tumultuous century.

Offers a rich discussion between four leading scholars who have studied the history of Confederate memory and memorialization. Through this dialogue, we see how historians explore contentious topics and provide historical context for students and the broader public.

The years 1992 and 2000 marked the 500-year anniversary of the arrival of the Spanish and the Portuguese in America and prompted an explosion of rewritings and cinematic renditions of texts and figures from colonial Latin America. Cannibalizing the Colony analyzes a crucial way that Latin American historical films have grappled with the legacy of colonialism. It studies how and why filmmakers in Brazil and Mexico ¿the countries that have produced most films about the colonial period in Latin America ¿appropriate and transform colonial narratives of European and indigenous contact into commentaries on national identity. The book looks at how filmmakers attempt to reconfigure history and culture and incorporate it into present-day understandings of the nation. The book additionally considers the motivations and implications for these filmic dialogues with the past and how the directors attempt to control the way that spectators understand the complex and contentious roots of identity in Mexico and Brazil.