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Successful essayist, columnist, writing instructor, and editor Estelle Erasmus will show you how to find your voice, write stellar pieces, and get published.

Rassie Erasmus has been called a genius. He’s been called reckless. All his life, he’s done things differently. Now, with his trademark candour, Rassie talks openly about his adventures and misadventures. Listeners will enjoy the behind-the-scenes information about interactions and controversies and previously untold stories from a truly maverick life.

'The Praise of Folly', written in Latin in 1509 and spoken by the goddess Folly (who champions a lively enjoyment of life), was a bold satire on (in the cautious contemporary environment) not only Western classical traditions but also the Catholic Church. Dedicated to More himself, Erasmus wittily challenged entrenched views in so forthright (and humanist) a style that it could have brought him in direct conflict with the papacy. Fortunately the pope, Leo X, enjoyed the humour and the challenge!

Rassie Erasmus has been called a genius. He’s been called reckless. All his life, he’s done things differently. Now, with his trademark candour, Rassie talks openly about his adventures and misadventures at the pinnacle of world rugby, both as player and coach. From his role in Nick Mallett's record-breaking Springbok team of the late 1990s, to the devastating injuries that cut short his playing career, to his revolutionary coaching career, Rassie is an essential window into one of the most successful figures of modern rugby.

The Praise of Folly is a hilarious satirical essay on various superstitions and irrational beliefs held by European society and the Roman Catholic Church at the time of Desiderius Erasmus. The narrator is Folly and her attendants include Philautia (Self Love), Kolakia (Flattery), Lethe (Forgetfulness), and Anoia (Imbecility).

In "Praise of Folly", also translated as "The Praise of Folly", is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in June 1511. Inspired by previous works of the Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli De Triumpho Stultitiae, it is a satirical attack on superstitions, other traditions of European society and on the Western Church. Erasmus revised and extended his work, which was originally written in the space of a week while sojourning with Sir Thomas More at More's house in Bucklersbury in the City of London.

This fourth and final volume of The Equilibrist series is a compilation of all poems, essays, and fables of the first three books. A precious craft of artful verses that are straightforward easy to understand. Through art that speaks to all, the author seeks to elicit emotions while provoking reflection.

Growing up in a world of antique book stores with antiquarian as mentors; terminally ill Professor Erasmus Cromwell-Smith takes his students back in time to the years of his youth, on a magical journey of discovery, filled with life lessons....

En este tercer libro de la trilogía El Equilibrista, el profesor Cromwell-Smith, a través del manto de la poesía, lleva a sus alumnos por ultima vez a su pasado. Junto a temas de profundo significado existencial, tales como: El perdón, la virtud, la coherencia, la adversidad, la reciprocidad, la curiosidad y la serenidad entre otros.

Nicolas Tosh is a math prodigy. In the late 70s, he develops a series of discrete algorithms that enable seamless communications "to" and "from" the brain. "Thoughts" replace voices as a communication medium, the brain's memory banks become easily downloadable, and every "live" thought, image, and sound can be captured through Tosh's mathematical constructs. To ensure neutrality and a safe haven for his operations, he builds a data center in Zermatt, Switzerland to host a global neural network and a state-of-the-art quantum computer....

El profesor Erasmus Cromwell-Smith, quien creció entre libros antiguos y con anticuarios como mentores, lleva a sus alumnos al pasado, a los años de su juventud, en un viaje mágico de descubrimiento lleno de lecciones de vida. En el camino, visitan, con la poesía como alfombra mágica, la tierra de los sueños, la esperanza, la inspiración y la alegría, entre otros.

Listen to live mini-coaching moments focused on helping people connect with themselves and others by speaking their truth with kindness and compassion, and listening through new filters. Get new scripts for stuck situations, hear new ways of responding to old relationship dynamics and become inspired to learn more about how tools like mindfulness, self-regulations, boundaries, nonviolent communication and empathic self-leadership can help you have more meaningful relationships with others.

Erasmus Cromwell-Smilh tackles a full circle of life with subjects like Perseverance, Grit, Kindness, Discipline, Impetus, Tenacity, Greatness, etc., in this fifth and final volume of The Orloj, a compilation of all poems, essays, and fables.

Hakkımda ne derlerse desinler, (zira, deliliğin en deli olanlar tarafından bile her gün nasıl ayaklar altına alındığını bilmez değilim) tanrısal tesirlerimle tanrılar ve insanlar üzerine sevinç saçan gene ben, yalnız benim; öyle ya, bu kalabalık toplantıda ben görünür görünmez, söz söylemeye hazırlanır hazırlanmaz canlı emsalsiz bir neşenin çehrelerinizde birdenbire parladığı görülmedi mi?

Bij Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB) wordt veel onderzoek gedaan naar maatschappelijke en gedragswetenschappelijke vraagstukken. Door middel van deze podcast serie maken we deze kennis toegankelijk voor geïnteresseerde burgers, bestuurders, professionals, studenten en collega onderzoekers. De diversiteit van de faculteit reflecteert zich in de varieteit aan onderwerpen die op deze podcast serie te vinden is. [incl DPECS Podcast serie met verhalen over wetenschappelijke ontwikkelingen bij psychologie en pedagogische wetenschappen) At Erasmus School of Social and ...

In deze tweedelige podcast van het Erasmus Commodity & Trade Centre kijken we naar de verduurzaamingsuitdagingen van vandaag en morgen door terug te blikken op 25 jaar liberalisatie in de elektriciteitsmarkten van Nederland en Europa. We gaan in gesprek met tafelgasten die direct betrokken waren bij de start van de Nederlandse elektriciteitsmarkt en nu nog actief zijn in de energiemarkten. Wat was de aanleiding voor een vrije elektriciteitsmarkt? Hoe is dat verlopen? Kunnen we met het oog op de huidige uitdagingen hiervan leren? En wat is hun visie op de toekomst van de elektriciteitsmarkten?

Through the wicked streets of Paris, the young wizards must find six statues representing each of the human virtues of respect, selflessness, tolerance, and the human flaws of indifference, arrogance, and deafness. Only after they successfully master them will they earn the clues that will show them how to fix Lyon's astrological clock.

Young Erasmus Cromwell-Smith II’s adventure happens inside of Venice’s San Marco Square’s astrological clock. Exactly a year after his first quest in Prague’s astrological clock, together with the same band of five harlequin-dressed youngsters, he experiences a city filled with wizards, enchanters, witches, conjurers, and an evil gnome. The youngsters seek clues in order to reach the mysterious the church of St. Giorgio Maggiore across Venice’s basin and become “young wizards”.

En esta cautivadora secuela se entretejen el arte y la poesía junto a una memorable reconstrucción de la vida del profesor Erasmus Cromwell-Smith. Una vez más, desviándose de su programa de clases, Cromwell-Smith lleva a sus estudiantes hacia el apasionante período de su existencia en el cual vivió con el amor de sus vida, Victoria Emerson-Lloyd, mientras estudiaba en Harvard. La joven pareja conoce dueños de librerías de libros antiguos a lo largo de Nueva Inglaterra, quienes se convierten en sus mentores de por vida.

In this third book of The Equilibrist Series, professor Cromwell-Smith, through the mantle of poetry, takes his students one last time to his past, through subjects of profound existential meaning like forgiveness, virtue, coherence, resilience, reciprocity, curiosity, serenity and joy, among others. The eminent pedagogue revisits the long period of his life when Victoria Emerson-Lloyd, the love of his life and him were apart, and the real reasons why she left him in the first place.