1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972222503321

Autore

Gerassi John

Titolo

Talking with Sartre : conversations and debates / / edited and translated by John Gerassi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

9780300151084

030015108X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GerassiJohn

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Electronic books

PHILOSOPHY / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- November 1970 -- December 1970 -- January 1971 -- March 1971 -- April 1971 -- May 1971 -- October 1971 -- December 1971 -- January 1972 -- February 1972 -- March 1972 -- April 1972 -- May 1972 -- June 1972 -- October 1972 -- November 1972 -- May 1973 -- June 1973 -- November 1973 -- November 1974 -- Farewell.

Sommario/riassunto

What would it be like to be privy to the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers? John Gerassi had just this opportunity; as a child, his mother and father were very close friends with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and the couple became for him like surrogate parents. Authorized by Sartre to write his biography, Gerassi conducted a long series of interviews between 1970 and 1974, which he has now edited to produce this revelatory and breathtaking portrait of one of the world's most famous intellectuals. Through the interviews, with both their informalities and their tensions, Sartre's greater complexities emerge. In particular, we see Sartre wrestling with the apparent contradiction between his views on freedom and the influence of social conditions on our choices and actions. We also gain insight into his perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the disintegration of colonialism. These conversations add an intimate dimension to Sartre's more abstract ideas. With remarkable rigor and intensity, they also provide a clear lens through which to view the major conflagrations of the past century.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967812303321

Autore

Hill Richard <1901-1996.>

Titolo

A Black corps d'élite : an Egyptian Sudanese conscript battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863-1867, and its survivors in subsequent African history / / Richard Hill and Peter Hogg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 1995

ISBN

0-87013-926-6

0-585-37025-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HoggPeter C

Disciplina

972/.07

972.07

Soggetti

Sudanese - Mexico - History - 19th century

Mexico History European intervention, 1861-1867 Participation, Sudanese

France Relations Egypt

Egypt Relations France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations, Maps, Plans; Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Summary Concordance of Military Ranks obtaining in 1863-1867; Some Contemporary Ottoman Honorifics; 1. Background to the Egyptian Sudanese Presence in Mexico; 2. The Voyage to Veracruz; 3. Acclimatization, 1863; 4. War in 1864; 5. War and Weariness in 1865; 6. Mutiny of the Relief Battalion in the Sudan; 7. A Diplomatic Confrontation: the Government of the United States versus the Sudanese Battalion; 8. War in 1866; 9. The Mission Completed; 10. The Voyage Home; 11. The Veterans from Mexico in African History

Appendix 1 . The Contrôle Nominatif (Battalion Nominal Roll) with Brief Records of ServiceAppendix 2. Other Sources Used; Index

Sommario/riassunto

For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India



Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese were imported from Africa in the hopes that they would better survive the tropical diseases that so terribly afflicted European soldiers. In both cases, the Africans did indeed fulfill these expectations. The mixture of cultures embodied by this event has piqued the interest of several historians, so it is by no means unkn

3.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIOPUV0824337

Autore

Liu, Jiming <1962- >

Titolo

Multi-agent robotic systems / Jiming Liu, Jianbing Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton [etc.], : CRC, c2001

ISBN

084932288X

Descrizione fisica

XVII, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Collana

International series on computational intelligence

Altri autori (Persone)

Wu, Jianbing

Disciplina

629.8

629.892

Soggetti

Automi

Collocazione

SALA DING 629.8                   LIU.mu

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia