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Game of Thrones, des livres de George R.R. Martin à la série HBO

Né en 1948 aux États-Unis, George R.R. Martin écrit au départ pour créer de nouvelles histoires mettant en scène les super-héros Marvel, puis pour tuer le temps, alors qu'il peine à trouver un emploi dans le secteur du journalisme. Petit à petit, il devient un auteur confirmé de nouvelles de science-fiction. Après avoir commencé une carrière comme scénariste de séries télévisées, il commence, au début des années 1990, à rédiger une saga de type fantasy, intitulée A Song of Ice and Fire et traduite en français sous le titre Le Trône de Fer.

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Le trône de fer : les livres de la saga A Song of Ice and Fire de George RR Martin

Le trône de fer est une immense saga d’héroïque fantasy qui s’inspire de la série des Rois maudits de Maurice Druon. C’est au début des années 1990 que Georges R.R. Martin commence à écrire Le trône de fer, le premier volume est publié en 1996. En 2007, la chaine de télévision HBO acquiert les droits d’adaptations. L’auteur lui-même participe à sa production et écrit le scénario d’un épisode par saison. 

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L'attractivité des librairies, malgré Amazon ou Netflix

Blâmons internet, blâmons les GAFA, blâmons le commerce du livre d’occasion… il n’empêche que les librairies demeurent, et parviennent à tirer leur épingle du jeu. Si les Français sont accusés de moins lire, comment les libraires parviennent-ils à capter l’attention du public, et inciter à franchir le pas de leur établissement ?

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Team AlexandriZ : pirates de livres ou distributeurs de savoir ?

La Team était spécialisée dans la diffusion d’ebooks, spécifiquement de romans transformés en version numérique. L’une de leurs grandes marottes était d’ailleurs de procéder à la numérisation d’ouvrages que les éditeurs ne commercialisaient pas en format ebook. Mais ils étaient aussi qualifiés, en regard du Code de la propriété intellectuelle, de pirates.

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Les 5 Terres : une saga médiévale où règnent les animaux

Cinq continents abritent les peuples qui occupent Les 5 Terres : autant d’espèces dont les luttes de pouvoir ont forgé les relations. Félins, reptiles, herbivores, primates ainsi qu’ours et loups, qui se partagent un territoire, chacun a affiné avec le temps des savoir-faire. Leurs terres, reflets de leurs coutumes autant que de leur passé, font cohabiter les êtres… mais n’enfouissent pas les rivalités.

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Courir ou mourir : Le Labyrinthe, la saga de James Dashner

Depuis la publication du premier livre en 2009, la saga Le Labyrinthe (titre original : The Maze Runner), écrite par James Dashner, a marqué une génération d'adolescents et jeunes adultes par son intrigue captivante, ses personnages attachants et sa représentation métaphorique des défis de l'adolescence. Cette saga dystopique a séduit des millions de lecteurs à travers le monde et a inspiré une série de films à succès.

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Anglais apprentissage

Lord Jim

A hundred years ago a seaman's life was full of danger, but Jim, the first mate on board the Patna, is not afraid of danger. He is young, strong, confident of his bravery. He dreams of great adventures - and the chance to show the world what a hero he is. But the sea is no place for dreamers. When the chance comes, on a calm moonlit night in the Indian Ocean, Jim fails the test, and his world falls to pieces around him. He disappears into the jungles of south-east Asia, searching for a way to prove himself, once and for all...

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Romance sexy

Him

Jeune et ambitieuse, Kate est discrète et séduisante. Promise à un bel avenir, elle a tout pour réussir. Séparée depuis peu, elle souhaite se reconstruire lorsqu'un voyage professionnel à Paris vient bouleverser ses plans. Accompagnée de son patron Dan et de ses collègues Cynthia et Jeff, elle perd le contrôle. Choisira-t-elle la passion ou l'amour ?

11/2021

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Actualité médiatique internati

Unboss the Boss. How to empower your team for more profitability

The contented boss of a flourishing group, Alexandre Gérard took a hit in the crisis of 2009. He promptly decided to revolutionize his management style by basing it on a fundamental principle : a contented employee is more effective than an infantilized one whose every move is scrutinized. Learning to trust, to share information and decision-making with his team members, he channeled the creativity of all and in the process did away with all marks of hierarchy. An important figure in the liberated business arena, here Alexandre Gérard tells the story of his "great leap, " of the people he met who inspired him and of the stages in the process-not forgetting its pitfalls... . Above all, there is the necessary and profound transformation of the boss himself. An inspiring book that aims to put people back at the center of the system.

09/2023

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Anglais apprentissage

A Christmas carol

An unkind, mean, lonely old man gets a surprise when he reaches the front door of his home on the night before Christmas. As he looks at the door knocker, lit turns into a face - the face of a friend who pas been dead for many years ! This is just the beginning of a long night in which Ebenezer Scrooge talks to pis dead friend, and meets three other ghosts. The first two show him Christmas in the post and the present. The third lets him see what might happen in the future. Find out what Scrooge saw, and whether or not lit made him change his ways.

09/1997

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Monographies

Titian : Sources and Documents

Hugely ambitious, Titian : Sources and Documents includes all known documents about Titian and his work dating from his lifetime, and all known references to him in contemporary publications. The relevant section of each text is transcribed in full, preceded by a short summary in English, with extensive annotation and, where necessary, a commentary. The intention of this incredible work of scholarship is to provide a comprehensive survey of the surviving historical evidence about Titian and his career. Titian was one of the most famous, successful and long-lived of Renaissance painters. Much of his output was for rulers or institutions whose archives have been in large part preserved, and many of his family papers have also survived. In addition, he was mentioned in more than a hundred and sixty different publications in his lifetime. Although hundreds of the documents about him and his work have been published, usually in specialised publications based on material in a single archive, there have only been two attempts to provide an overview of the entire body of documents and early published references to him, the first by Crowe and Cavalcaselle in 1877, the second by Adolfo Venturi in 1928. These publications were necessarily selective and included transcriptions of only a small part of the material which was used. The collection, amounting to over two thousand nine hundred items, includes not only texts specifically about Titian himself, but also those concerning his siblings and children, his principal assistants and the other members of the Vecellio family already active as painters before his death, as well as inscriptions on paintings and prints. In addition to texts dating from Titian's lifetime, the collection includes all biographical material published before 1700 and all other texts that could realistically be thought to reflect first- or second-hand anecdotal information about him. The particular strengths and limitations of the principal early printed sources and the circumstances in which they were produced are discussed in a substantial introduction, which also includes an overview of the main archival collections consulted in the preparation of the book. Most of these are in Italy, but others are in Spain, Austria and Germany. New transcriptions are provided for the great majority of the documents that have previously been published, and many hitherto unknown documents have been included. Consideration is given also to documents now known only via secondary sources, and to fake documents, of which a significant number were produced in the past two centuries.

04/2023

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Histoire internationale

Perfect fundamental values and the development of Africa. From African Renaissance to Illumination

This book is the result of fundamental research on the thorny issue of Africa's development. It demonstrates that the development of human societies is first and foremost a resultant of true, perfect and eternal knowledge, a process of conversion of the soul to the True, the Good and the Beautiful, before becoming a quest for material and financial means. To acquire this knowledge, one must resort to all knowledge that deals with life and man, beginning with that of God who is the source of this authentic knowledge. Man, made in the image of God, if he goes back to this source, finds the universal fundamentals of perfect knowledge which open to him the path of complete and eternal knowledge. This enables him to launch victoriously into development. All human cultures have this opportunity to resort to the original sources of knowledge : Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and animism. This true and perfect knowledge sets the man in the certainties that renew his intelligence and make him a new, perfect and creative being of development. All the people who have developed have gone through this salutary way. Africa cannot be an exception to this golden rule. With the assistance of CERCUDE and OVAFOPAC.

02/2020

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