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With the theory of secularization increasingly contested as a plausible development at a global scale, this book focuses on the changing significance of the religious element within a context of complex diversity. This concept reflects the rationale behind the deep transformations that have taken place in the dynamics of social change, giving way to a recombination of social, political and cultural cleavages that overlap and compete for legitimacy at a national and supranational level. Far from disappearing with modernization, new forms of religious diversity have emerged that continue to...

This is a sweet and magical story about a little boy and his pet cloud named Harold. We have all seen shapes in the sky, but this young boy looks up and finds a special cloud that becomes his friend for life. The two play and share adventures, and the cloud is a reassuring presence. The boy learns that he can count on Harold for support, and that even though he may go away for a little while, as people in our lives sometimes do, their connection assures that Harold will always come back to him. This book speaks to a child's sense of wonder, imagination, friendship, and the ability to...

The work of Cellini that attracts Eric the most is the "Nymph of Fontainebleau" bas-relief in bronze. The nymph is Diana, goddess of hunting.

Cellini carved a firm, slender, supple body; the smooth modeling of the physique is set off by tight parallel folds of drapery and volutes representing water. The austere beauty of the face recalls antique sculpture, yet this stylized nude is redolent of sensuality.

Eric compares the beauty of the carved goddess to that of Venus painted by Botticelli. The body shapes are elegant; the physical beauty captures the concepts expressed by the...

This book provides a guiding thread between the distant fields of fluid mechanics and clinical cardiology. Well rooted in the science of fluid dynamics, it drives the reader across progressively more realistic scenarios up to the complexity of routine medical applications. Based on the author’s 25 years of collaborations with cardiologists, it helps engineers learn communicating with clinicians, yet maintaining the rigor of scientific disciplines.

This book starts with a description of the fundamental elements of fluid dynamics in large blood vessels. This is achieved by...