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The World’s Worst Wildfires (World's Worst Natural Disasters Ser.)
by Tracy Nelson MaurerWind blows dry, tall grass. A storm brews. Lightning strikes the ground, and soon, flames spread across the grassland. It’s a wildfire!
Uneven Bars: Tips, Rules And Legendary Start (Gymnastics Ser.)
by Tracy Nelson MaurerEver wonder what it takes to be an uneven bars champion? Find out the tips and tricks to spinning, tucking, and sticking an uneven bars routine, as well as the legends that have shaped the sport into how we know it today.
Vaulting: Tips, Rules, And Legendary Stars (Gymnastics Ser.)
by Tracy Nelson MaurerVaulting takes a lot more than just a run and jump onto a springboard. It requires preparation, practice, and understanding of this unique event. A gymnast that dedicates her time and effort could one day see her name next to one of the great vaulting legends. Here gymnasts will learn what it takes to be successful.
The Catholic Calumet
by Tracy Neal LeavelleIn 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the other symbolized their shared attachment to Catholicism. The priest who documented this exchange also reported with excitement how the Illinois recited prayers and sang hymns in their Native language, a display that astonished the residents of New Orleans. The "Catholic" calumet and the Native-language prayers and hymns were the product of long encounters between the Illinois and Jesuit missionaries, men who were themselves transformed by these sometimes intense spiritual experiences. The conversions of people, communities, and cultural practices that led to this dramatic episode all occurred in a rapidly evolving and always contested colonial context.In The Catholic Calumet, historian Tracy Neal Leavelle examines interactions between Jesuits and Algonquian-speaking peoples of the upper Great Lakes and Illinois country, including the Illinois and Ottawas, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Leavelle abandons singular definitions of conversion that depend on the idealized elevation of colonial subjects from "savages" to "Christians" for more dynamic concepts that explain the changes that all participants experienced. A series of thematic chapters on topics such as myth and historical memory, understandings of human nature, the creation of colonial landscapes, translation of religious texts into Native languages, and the influence of gender and generational differences demonstrates that these encounters resulted in the emergence of complicated and unstable cross-cultural religious practices that opened new spaces for cultural creativity and mutual adaptation.
Kalecki's Principle of Increasing Risk and Keynesian Economics (Routledge Studies In The History Of Economics Ser.)
by Tracy MottKalecki was one of an important generation of Cambridge economists. Here, Tracy Mott's impressive book examines the relationship of Kalecki's economics to different economic areas and its relationship to major alternative schools, such as Keynes and Marx. Mott looks at Kalecki's 'principle of increasing risk' and how it gives the way in which the reproduction and expansion of wealth can bring a coherent unity to economic analysis. In so doing, it makes sense out of the fundamental conclusions of Keynesian economics on the underemployment of labour and capital.
Rethinking Capitalist Development: Essays on the Economics of Josef Steindl (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy #Vol. 50)
by Nina Shapiro Tracy MottThis collection honours the work of the eminent economist Josef Steindl. Steindl's work is illuminated through a critical appraisal of its central constructs with a focus on its relevance to current economic conditions. This collection charts the thinking of one of the leading economic theorists of the twentieth century.
I Am the New Black
by Anthony Bozza Tracy MorganThe outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian. Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose turbulent personal life often mirrors that of his fictional alter ego? Is he Chico Divine, the life of the party--any party, anytime, anywhere--getting ladies pregnant everywhere he goes? Or is he a soulful, tender family man who emerged from a hardscrabble ghetto upbringing and, against all odds, achieved superstardom, raised a solid family, prevailed over a collection of lethal bad habits, and is still ascending new heights and coming into his own? The answer is: Tracy Morgan is all that. And a bag of potato chips with a 50 cent; soda. When he was just a boy living in the Tompkins Projects in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, being funny was about survival. With the right snap, Tracy could shut down the playground bullies who picked on him and his physically disabled older brother. And with a wild enough prank, he could exact revenge on whoever stole his Pumas at the community pool. Later, being funny was about escape--from the untouchable sadness of his father's death, from the desperation of the drug dealer's trade, from the life-and-death battles waged on the streets of the South Bronx in the age of crack. But these days being funny is about living his dream--a dream born in the comedy clubs of Harlem and realized on shows like Martin and Saturday Night Live, where he was a cast member for seven years, and in movies like The Longest Yard and Half-Baked. With brutal honesty and his trademark take-no-prisoners humor, Tracy tells the story of his rise to fame, with all its highs and its many lows--from the very public battles with alcohol and diabetes that threatened both his career and his life to the private and poignant end of his twenty-year marriage. In his singularly warped and brilliant way he muses on family, love, sex, race, politics, ambition, and what it takes to bring the funny. Hilarious, inspiring, searing, and touching, I Am the New Black is a fascinating peek inside the minds of one of the most compelling and defining comedians of our time. From the Hardcover edition.
Oops! How to Rock the Mother of All Surprises
by Tracy MooreReady or not, here comes baby! Talk about a bump in the road. Whether you were waiting until "the right time" to have kids or hoped and pleaded the day wouldn't come, you'll breathe a sigh of relief when you flip through Oops! In this collection of humorous essays, Jezebel. com blogger Tracy Moore shares her personal experiences with jumping headfirst into motherhood--without a clue what she was doing. Unexpectedly pregnant at thirty-three, Moore's life completely changed when she had to give up her beloved cigarettes and cold deli meats and quickly learn how to care for the little bundle of (ahem) joy growing inside her. Her honest advice will help you cope with all the changes and feelings that will occur on your way to parenthood. From stockpiling baby supplies in just a few months to being the lone sober one at a party, this book answers all your questions and braces you for the unexpected.
Oops! How to Rock the Mother of All Surprises: A Positive Guide to Your Unexpected Pregnancy
by Tracy Moore"Ready or not, here comes baby!Talk about a bump in the road. Whether you were waiting until "the right time" to have kids or hoped and pleaded the day wouldn't come, you'll breathe a sigh of relief when you flip through Oops! In this collection of humorous essays, Jezebel.com blogger Tracy Moore shares her personal experiences with jumping headfirst into motherhood--without a clue what she was doing. Unexpectedly pregnant at thirty-three, Moore's life completely changed when she had to give up her beloved cigarettes and cold deli meats and quickly learn how to care for the little bundle of (ahem) joy growing inside her. Her honest advice will help you cope with all the changes and feelings that will occur on your way to parenthood.From stockpiling baby supplies in just a few months to being the lone sober one at a party, this book answers all your questions and braces you for the unexpected.
Finding his Child
by Tracy MontoyaIt had been six long months since his beautiful daughter had disappeared. When another girl was kidnapped in the Washington State woods, Detective Aaron Donovan was convinced the two crimes were related. After joining the search-and-rescue team, Aaron was forced to work with top-notch tracker Sabrina Adelante. . . and try to ignore the attraction they'd shared before his world had been shattered. Offering up his military sniper skills, the group soon uncovered some helpful clues. But then Sabrina nearly became a madman's next victim, and Aaron wondered how he could possibly get close to another woman he cared about when he might just lose her. Then again, how could he afford not to?
House of Secrets
by Tracy MontoyaSEE NO EVILThe house was impossible to stay away from, but he couldn't tell the beautiful woman inside why. For P.I. Joe Lopez didn't remember why....HEAR NO EVILThen the memories came flooding back, and if not for professor Emma Jensen Reese, Joe would have walked away...forever.SPEAK NO EVILBut once the shots rang out, connecting him and Emma in life and nearly in death, Joe was determined to learn what really happened in that house more than twenty years ago. Even as someone else was hell-bent on keeping the past buried....
I'll Be Watching You
by Tracy MontoyaIt might have been four years since Detective Daniel Cardenas had last seen Addy Torres, but she'd never been far from his thoughts. . . or his fantasies. Then, as a vicious stalker's latest target, the stunning recluse needed the relentless protection only Daniel could provide. But the more Addy turned to his strong arms seeking safety, the more he wanted to ease her pain and give her the release they'd both craved for far too long. As he watched and waited for a killer to make his next move, Daniel fought every urge and kept his hands to himself. Until one fateful night changed everything. . .
Next of Kin
by Tracy MontoyaTHEIR SECOND CHANCEAs if discovering a dead body in the university library and becoming a killer's next target weren't stressful enough, librarian Celia Viramontes's bodyguard was none other than Detective Danny Rodriguez, the man who'd stolen-and broken-her teenaged heart. Could she now trust him with her life?COULD BE THEIR LAST...For Danny, being with Celia 24/7 was like a dream-and a nightmare. Every time he looked at her, Danny was reminded of the tough choices he'd made in the past, choices that had hurt Celia to the core. But if a criminal thought he'd control whatever happened between them in the future, he was wrong...dead wrong.
Shadow Guardian
by Tracy MontoyaTHE BEAUTY...He was the best in the business and Sadie Locke refused to settle for the protection of anyone other than Patricio Rodriguez. She was being stalked by a madman who wouldn't rest until he'd succeeded in frightening her to death. And she was afraid he just might win....AND THE BODYGUARDHis past prevented him from letting anyone in; his future was too unpredictable for him to fall for his famous client. Besides, Patricio had learned long ago that nothing good came from mixing business with pleasure. But the look in Sadie's eyes tempted him to make the same mistake twice, damn the consequences.
Telling Secrets
by Tracy MontoyaAs an experienced search-and-rescue tracker, Alex Gray had solved his share of mysteries. But beneath his cool Lakota demeanor, Alex was running from his own dark secrets. . . including a traumatic family history that connected him to a killer. Now someone from his past had returned to play a deadly game. And only one woman could help him. . . Sophie Brennan knew that Alex was the key to stopping the string of murders plaguing the Washington mountains. But as the authorities questioned her credibility, she had to resist the almost mystical connection she shared with Alex. For hiding in the shadows, someone was waiting to silence her whispered warnings. . . forever.
Literary Influence and African-American Writers: Collected Essays (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture #Vol. 10)
by Tracy MishkinFirst published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Jenkins Administrator's Guide: Install, manage, and scale a CI/CD build and release system to accelerate your product life cycle
by Calvin Sangbin Park Lalit Adithya Samuel Gleske Tracy MirandaBuild and manage a production Jenkins instance, complete with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and Docker Hub, Jenkins Configuration as Code, Shared Libraries, Script Security, and optimization guidesKey FeaturesSet up production-grade Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines with GitHub and Docker Hub integrationsManage, protect, and upgrade a production Jenkins instance regardless of its size and the number of usersScale a Jenkins instance using advanced optimization tips, tricks, and best practicesBook DescriptionJenkins is a renowned name among build and release CI/CD DevOps engineers because of its usefulness in automating builds, releases, and even operations. Despite its capabilities and popularity, it's not easy to scale Jenkins in a production environment. Jenkins Administrator's Guide will not only teach you how to set up a production-grade Jenkins instance from scratch, but also cover management and scaling strategies.This book will guide you through the steps for setting up a Jenkins instance on AWS and inside a corporate firewall, while discussing design choices and configuration options, such as TLS termination points and security policies. You'll create CI/CD pipelines that are triggered through GitHub pull request events, and also understand the various Jenkinsfile syntax types to help you develop a build and release process unique to your requirements. For readers who are new to Amazon Web Services, the book has a dedicated chapter on AWS with screenshots. You'll also get to grips with Jenkins Configuration as Code, disaster recovery, upgrading plans, removing bottlenecks, and more to help you manage and scale your Jenkins instance.By the end of this book, you'll not only have a production-grade Jenkins instance with CI/CD pipelines in place, but also knowledge of best practices by industry experts.What you will learnSet up a production-grade Jenkins instance on AWS and on-premisesCreate continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines triggered by GitHub pull request eventsUse Jenkins Configuration as Code to codify a Jenkins setupBackup and restore configurations and plan for disaster recoveryPlan, communicate, execute, and roll back upgrade scenariosIdentify and remove common bottlenecks in scaling JenkinsUse Shared Libraries to develop helper functions and create new DSLsWho this book is forThis book is for both new Jenkins administrators and advanced users who want to optimize and scale Jenkins. Jenkins beginners can follow the step-by-step directions, while advanced readers can join in-depth discussions on Script Security, removing bottlenecks, and other interesting topics. Build and release CI/CD DevOps engineers of all levels will also find new and useful information to help them run a production-grade Jenkins instance following industry best practices.
Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
by Ellen Schrecker Anne Bernays Kelli Dunham Lise Menn Kathryn Temple Merle Froschl Mimi Schwartz Alice Goode-Elman Penelope Dugan Melanie K Finney Raquel Ramkhelawan Maxine Marshall Lauren Vanett Alice Derry Michele Neff Hernandez Elisa Clark Wadham Deborah E Kaplan P. C. Moorehead Edie Butler Debby Mayer Sonia Jaffe Robbins Barbara Marwell Maggie Madagame Roni Sherman Ramos Doris Friedensohn Nancy H Womack Joan Michelson Tracy Milcendeau Andrea Hirshman Molly A McEneny Heather Slawecki Kathleen Fordyce Patricia Life Nancy Shamban Susanne Braham Alice Radosh Parvin Hajizadeh Jean Y Leung Joan Gussow Carrie L West Christine Silverstein Tara SabharwalBecoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words. Some were widowed young, while others were married for decades. Some cared for their late partners through long terminal illnesses, while others lost their partners suddenly. Some had male partners, while others had female partners. Yet each of these women faced the same basic dilemma: how to go on living when a part of you is gone. Widows’ Words is arranged chronologically, starting with stories of women preparing for their partners’ deaths, followed by the experiences of recent widows still reeling from their fresh loss, and culminating in the accounts of women who lost their partners many years ago but still experience waves of grief. Their accounts deal honestly with feelings of pain, sorrow, and despair, and yet there are also powerful expressions of strength, hope, and even joy. Whether you are a widow yourself or have simply experienced loss, you will be sure to find something moving and profound in these diverse tales of mourning, remembrance, and resilience.
Katherine Mansfield and Germany: Influences, Interactions, Afterlives (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
by Janet M. Wilson Tracy MiaoKatherine Mansfield and Germany is the first study of Mansfield's encounter with Germany and all things German: language, culture, society. This crucial area of her life and art has been relatively neglected, even though Germany held Mansfield in its thrall all her life, as myriad associations found in her fiction, notebooks, and letters confirm. Her immersion in the German language and culture was formative, influencing her early poetry and experimental prose writing, and as stories published in her first book In a German Pension (1911) show, was an important foundation for her cosmopolitan, (post)colonial modernism.The 13 essays here offer insights onto the German intellectual and artistic heritages of the early 20th century that influenced Mansfield: Nietzsche in philosophy, the music of Wagner, the German Minnesänger and poetry, Heine's lyric verse, and German folk lore and fairy tales. They study the educational and romantic avenues to this heritage; her passion for the world of music through the Beauchamp family circle, her study of the cello, intense relations with the musical Trowell family, her "long[ing] for German" at Queen's College in London, because taught by the charismatic Walter Rippmann, and her crucially important seven-month stay in 1909 in the Bavarian spa town of Wörishofen, where she wrote the satires of In a German Pension. Mansfield's start as a professional writer is considered through biographical, psychoanalytical, and literary-critical readings: these include her literary responses to Bavarian culture, her fraught personal circumstances, her antipodean modernist practice of transposing New Zealand perspectives onto the "Germanic" narrative space, her use of Sekundenstil, her satire of Bavarian patriarchal attitudes, and her adaptations of Märchen. There are historical readings of Wörishofen and Rotorua as spa towns renowned for alternative health cures, of Mansfield's publications in the New Age in 1910 in light of debates about women's emancipation and accelerating Anglo-German tensions prior to World War One, while her German legacy is approached through a study of translations of her stories made under Nazi socialism and the German Democratic Republic.In examining the enduring impact of German literature, philosophy, and music on Mansfield's artistic and intellectual development, this volume expands knowledge of the diversity of the continental landscapes that shaped her world view.Katherine Mansfield and Germany will be of principal interest to Katherine Mansfield scholars. It will also attract a broader readership, primarily of academics, especially scholars working in modernist studies, and graduate students interested in trans-national modernism, and crossovers between German and English literary, musical, and historical studies. This includes members of the public in Germany and elsewhere with an interest in Mansfield's contintental, specifically German associations and influences.
Dress to Express
by Tracy Mcwilliams?Why do some women exude confidence and look great in their clothes and others never feel good about how they look, no matter what they wear? And why do we claim we have "nothing to wear" when our closets are bursting with choices? Clothing and dressing anxiety -- what Tracy McWilliams calls closet trauma -- occurs because we lack a clear sense of self and we have not defined the image we wish to express.
Wrestling with the Angel
by Tracy McnultyWrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspective. It argues for the enabling function of formal and symbolic constraints in sustaining desire as a source of creativity, innovation, and social change.The book begins by calling for a richer understanding of the psychoanalytic concept of the symbolic and the resources it might offer for an examination of the social link and the political sphere. The symbolic is a crucial dimension of social coexistence but cannot be reduced to the social norms, rules, and practices with which it is so often collapsed. As a dimension of human life that is introduced by language-and thus inescapably "other" with respect to the laws of nature-the symbolic is an undeniable fact of human existence. Yet the same cannot be said of the forms and practices that represent and sustain it. In designating these laws, structures, and practices as "fictions," Jacques Lacan makes clear that the symbolic is a dimension of social life that has to be created and maintained and that can also be displaced, eradicated, or rendered dysfunctional. The symbolic fictions that structure and support the social tie are therefore historicizable, emerging at specific times and in particular contexts and losing their efficacy when circumstances change. They are also fragile and ephemeral, needing to be renewed and reinvented if they are not to become outmoded or ridiculous. Therefore the aim of this study is not to call for a return to traditional symbolic laws but to reflect on the relationship between the symbolic in its most elementary or structural form and the function of constraints and limits.McNulty analyzes examples of "experimental" (as opposed to "normative") articulations of the symbolic and their creative use of formal limits and constraints not as mere prohibitions or rules but as "enabling constraints" that favor the exercise of freedom. The first part examines practices that conceive of subjective freedom as enabled by the struggle with constraints or limits, from the transference that structures the "minimal social link" of psychoanalysis to constrained relationships between two or more people in the context of political and social movements. Examples discussed range from the spiritual practices and social legacies of Moses, Jesus, and Teresa of Avila to the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière. The second part is devoted to legal and political debates surrounding the function of the written law. It isolates the law's function as a symbolic limit or constraint as distinct from its content and representational character. The analysis draws on Mosaic law traditions, the political theology of Paul, and twentieth-century treatments of written law in the work of Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Pierre Legendre, and Alain Badiou. In conclusion, the study considers the relationship between will and constraint in Kant's aesthetic philosophy and in the experimental literary works of the collective Oulipo.
Multiple Listings
by Tracy McmillanWhat would you do if your ex-con father suddenly came to visit...indefinitely? Family drama ensues when Nicki's dad unexpectedly wants to move in with her, her son, and her boyfriend in this comedic novel from successful TV writer Tracy McMillan.Nicki Daniels owns a home appraisal business, but real estate is her true passion: she lives for open houses and really knows her way around a floor plan. And especially at this juncture of her life, real estate has come to signify the stability she is trying to build with her teenage son, Cody, and her much younger boyfriend, Jake. She's finally ready to find the perfect house for the three of them and work on a new business venture with Jake that she thinks will jump-start their lives together. Meanwhile, Ronnie, a longtime inmate at a nearby correctional facility, is getting some good news for once--there was a mistake in his sentencing, and he's eligible to get out of prison. Ronnie decides his best option to avoid homelessness is to move in with his estranged daughter: Nicki. Even though they haven't spoken in years, her door is always open to him, right? Imbued with wit and profound insight into relationships, Multiple Listings speaks poignantly--and often hilariously--about the ties that bind families of all types together.
Why You're Not Married . . . Yet: The Straight Talk You Need to Get the Relationship You Deserve
by Tracy McmillanThis paperback edition includes an exclusive conversation between Bill and Giuliana Rancic, hosts of NBC's Ready for Love, and Tracy McMillan, one of its expert matchmakers. This new relationship show features three of America's most eligible guys searching for their soul mates. If you're looking to get married and you're not, there's most likely a very good reason: you. Hey, you're certainly not a bad person! You just haven't yet become the woman you need to be in order to have the partnership you want. That's where this book comes in. Based on her wildly popular Huffington Post article, Tracy McMillan's Why You're Not Married . . . Yet dishes out no-holds-barred practical wisdom for women hoping to head down the aisle. And this new edition features even more candid advice and sisterly insight. McMillan points out the behaviors that might be in your blind spot and shows you how to adjust them to get the relationship you deserve. Do any of these chapter headings sound familiar? * You're a Bitch: How defensiveness can hide behind a tough exterior, and why being nice is never a sign of weakness. * You're a Liar: How to stop lying to men--and get honest with yourself--about the kind of relationship you really want. * You're Selfish: The big secret about marriage: It's about giving something, not getting it. A funny, insightful guide, Why You're Not Married . . . Yet will change your life and the way you think about relationships, and it may very well lead you down the aisle. "Very wise . . . Give this book to every single girlfriend [you] have."--Marie Claire "Equal parts BFF, boot-camp instructor, and relationship guru, Tracy McMillan will change the way you think about yourself and your relationships. This book is for every woman out there who wants to have a great marriage."--Ricki Lake't so much about getting a husband as it is about shifting your perspective on being a wife. Here's a funny, insightful guide to becoming a more loving woman and creating a more loving marriage--even if you're already partnered. It's a book that will change your life and the way you think about relationships, and it may very well lead you down the aisle.
Face to the Village: The Riazan Countryside under Soviet Rule, 1921-1930
by Tracy McdonaldIn the summer of 1924, the Bolshevik Party called on scholars, the police, the courts, and state officials to turn their attention to the villages of Russia. The subsequent campaign to 'face the countryside' generated a wealth of intelligence that fed into the regime's sense of alarmed conviction that the countryside was a space outside Bolshevik control. Richly rooted in archival sources, including local and central-level secret police reports, detailed cases of the local and provincial courts, government records, and newspaper reports, Face to the Village is a nuanced study of the everyday workings of the Russian village in the 1920s. Local-level officials emerge in Tracy McDonald's study as vital and pivotal historical actors, existing between the Party's expectations and peasant interests. McDonald's careful exposition of the relationships between the urban centre and the peasant countryside brings us closer to understanding the fateful decision to launch a frontal attack on the countryside in the fall of 1929 under the auspices of collectivization.
Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
by Tracy McNultyWrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspective. It argues for the enabling function of formal and symbolic constraints in sustaining desire as a source of creativity, innovation, and social change.The book begins by calling for a richer understanding of the psychoanalytic concept of the symbolic and the resources it might offer for an examination of the social link and the political sphere. The symbolic is a crucial dimension of social coexistence but cannot be reduced to the social norms, rules, and practices with which it is so often collapsed. As a dimension of human life that is introduced by language—and thus inescapably "other" with respect to the laws of nature—the symbolic is an undeniable fact of human existence. Yet the same cannot be said of the forms and practices that represent and sustain it. In designating these laws, structures, and practices as "fictions," Jacques Lacan makes clear that the symbolic is a dimension of social life that has to be created and maintained and that can also be displaced, eradicated, or rendered dysfunctional. The symbolic fictions that structure and support the social tie are therefore historicizable, emerging at specific times and in particular contexts and losing their efficacy when circumstances change. They are also fragile and ephemeral, needing to be renewed and reinvented if they are not to become outmoded or ridiculous. Therefore the aim of this study is not to call for a return to traditional symbolic laws but to reflect on the relationship between the symbolic in its most elementary or structural form and the function of constraints and limits.McNulty analyzes examples of "experimental" (as opposed to "normative") articulations of the symbolic and their creative use of formal limits and constraints not as mere prohibitions or rules but as "enabling constraints" that favor the exercise of freedom. The first part examines practices that conceive of subjective freedom as enabled by the struggle with constraints or limits, from the transference that structures the "minimal social link" of psychoanalysis to constrained relationships between two or more people in the context of political and social movements. Examples discussed range from the spiritual practices and social legacies of Moses, Jesus, and Teresa of Avila to the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière. The second part is devoted to legal and political debates surrounding the function of the written law. It isolates the law's function as a symbolic limit or constraint as distinct from its content and representational character. The analysis draws on Mosaic law traditions, the political theology of Paul, and twentieth-century treatments of written law in the work of Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Pierre Legendre, and Alain Badiou. In conclusion, the study considers the relationship between will and constraint in Kant's aesthetic philosophy and in the experimental literary works of the collective Oulipo.