In 1778, the year of his death, Voltaire annotated the edition of the 'Eloge et Pensees de Pascal' published by Condorcet two years earlier. The 'Pensees', a masterpiece abandoned by Pascal himself, provided both its editors of the eighteenth century with the starting-point for a series of reflections on the great questions of life, death, faith and morality. The present edition reproduces Pascal's text accompanied by Condorcet's notes and Voltaire's comments on those notes. The whole constitutes a kind of conversation of three voices that illustrates the many points of divergence (and more rarely of convergence) between the trio of thinkers.

geog.123 fifth edition is the perfect course to inspire and motivate your geography students. In response to teacher feedback, the resources have been thoroughly revised and updated to provide even stronger preparation for further study. Through new chapters and new spreads, more subject terminology, greater use of GCSE-style command language, and a whole page exam-style questions at the end of every chapter, students are able to build solid foundations in knowledge and skills, giving them the confidence to progress. The course retains the engaging approach that students love, with a unique combination of rigour and accessibility that has made it the number one course for ages 11-14. geog.123 provides a three-year curriculum aligned to the KS3 Programme of Study, which ensures that students know more and remember more, whilst also motivating them and helping them to gain confidence. Kerboodle provides accompanying online support, including digital versions of the Student Book and Teacher Handbook, a comprehensive package of assessment materials ranging from interactive auto-marked quizzes to exam-style assessment papers, and materials to support learning-at-home. The Teacher's Handbooks provide help with planning and vital support for non-specialists teaching at Key Stage 3. The course also includes fill-in workbooks, suitable for use in class or at home.

geog.123 is a three-book course for the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3. This fifth edition matches the Programme of Study while meeting new teaching and learning needs for greater preparation for GCSE study. geog.123 combines a rigorous approach to content with a light touch, making it the most effective and engaging Key Stage 3 course available. Easy-to-use double-page spreads feature clearly-written objectives, student-friendly language, illustrated step-by-step explanations, up-to-date case studies and place-based examples, and high-quality photos, maps, and diagrams. Each students' book has a glossary and full index. geog.3 includes coverage of rocks, resources, economic activity, development, tectonics, Russia, and the Middle East. Each students' book is supported by online lesson plans and presentations, online resources including animations, videos, and worksheets, online assessment materials, an online student book, a teacher's handbook, and a workbook.

geog.123 is a three-book course for the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3. This fifth edition matches the Programme of Study while meeting new teaching and learning needs for greater preparation for GCSE study. geog.123 combines a rigorous approach to content with a light touch, making it the most effective and engaging Key Stage 3 course available. Easy-to-use double-page spreads feature clearly-written objectives, student-friendly language, illustrated step-by-step explanations, up-to-date case studies and place-based examples, and high-quality photos, maps, and diagrams. Each students' book has a glossary and full index. geog.2 includes coverage of GIS, population, urbanisation, weather and climate, global warming, coasts, and Asia, and China. Each students' book is supported by online lesson plans and presentations, online resources including animations, videos, and worksheets, online assessment materials, an online student book, a teacher's handbook, and a workbook.

geog.123 is a three-book course for the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3. This 4th edition has been specially written to match the new Programme of Study. geog.3 includes coverage of international development, natural resources, economic activity, rocks, soils and weathering, earthquakes and volcanoes, Russia, and the Middle East. geog.123 combines a rigorous approach to content with a light touch, making it the most effective and engaging Key Stage 3 course available. Easy-to-use double-page spreads feature clearly-written objectives, student-friendly language, illustrated step-by-step explanations, up-to-date case studies and place-based examples, and high-quality photos, maps, and diagrams. Each Student Book has a glossary and full index. Answers to the 'Your turn' questions can be found in the geog.3 Teacher's Handbook. Supported by Kerboodle, which includes online lesson plans and presentations, animations, interactive activities, and differentiated worksheets, and assessment materials; an online Kerboodle Book; a Teacher's Handbook; a Workbook; and a Workbook Answer Book.

geog.123 is a three-book course for the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3. This 4th edition has been specially written to match the new Programme of Study. geog.123 combines a rigorous approach to content with a light touch, making it the most effective and engaging Key Stage 3 course available. geog.2 includes coverage of GIS, population, urbanisation, weather and climate, coasts, Asia, and Southwest China. Easy-to-use double-page spreads feature clearly-written objectives, student-friendly language, illustrated step-by-step explanations, up-to-date case studies and place-based examples, and high-quality photos, maps, and diagrams. Each Student Book has a glossary and full index. Answers to the 'Your turn' questions can be found in the geog.2 Teacher's Handbook. Supported by Kerboodle resources including lesson plans and presentations, animations, differentiated worksheets, online assessment materials, and an online Student Book; a Teacher's Handbook; a Workbook; and a Workbook Answer Book.

'le christianisme est etrange' - Pascal, Pensees
Pascal's assertion that 'Christianity is strange', provides the theme for Richard Parish's exploration of Catholic particularity, as it was expressed in the writing of the French seventeenth century. This was a period of quite exceptional fertility in a range of genres: apologetics, sermons, devotional manuals, catechisms, martyr tragedies, lyric poetry, polemic and spiritual autobiography. Parish examines a broad cross-section of this corpus with reference to the topics of apologetics, physicality, language, discernment, polemics and salvation; and draws evidence both from canonical figures (Pascal, Bossuet, Fenelon, St Francois de Sales, Madame Guyon) and from less easily-available texts.
Parish aims to consider all those distinctive features that the heritage of the Catholic Reformation brought to the surface in France, and to do so in support of the numerous ways in which Christian doctrine could be understood as being strange: it is by turns contrary to expectations, paradoxical, divisive, carnal and inexpressible. These features are exploited imaginatively in the more conventional literary forms, didactically in pulpit oratory and empirically in the accounts of personal spiritual experience. In addition they are manifested polemically in debates surrounding penance, authority, inspiration and eschatology, and often push orthodoxy to its limits and beyond in the course of their articulation.
This volume provides an unsettling account of a belief system to which early-modern France often unquestioningly subscribed, and shows how the element of cultural assimilation of Catholic Christianity into much of Western Europe only tenuously contains a subversive and counter-intuitive creed. The degree to which that remains the case will be for the reader to decide.

In Moliere's famous satire, Tartuffe, a religious hypocrite, tries to get title to his friend's estate by sending him to jail. The play proved both controversial and influential. In this student edition the French text is supplemented by a useful English introduction and notes on the text.