Silex and the City
Extraits
12 ans et +
The Mortal Instruments - La cité des ténébres Tome 6 : La cité du feu sacré
Les Ténèbres s'abattent sur les Chasseurs d'Ombres tandis que le chaos et la destruction se répandent dans le monde Obscur. Clary, Jace, Simon et leurs compagnons font face au plus terrible démon qu'ils n'aient jamais affronté : Sebastian, le frère de Clary. Rien ne semble pouvoir l'arrêter, mais s'il subsiste une chance, elle se trouve au coeur du royaume des démons... Pour les Chasseurs d'Ombres, entre vies sacrifiées et amour détruits, la quête s'annonce plus difficile que jamais.
06/2015
Mondes fantastiques
The Mortal Instruments - La cité des ténébres Tome 4 : La cité des anges déchus
Alors que Simon s'adapte difficilement à sa condition de vampire, Clary et Jace filent le parfait amour... ou presque. La guerre est terminée. Clary rentre à New York pour s'entraîner à devenir Chasseuse d'Ombres. Mais les tensions se ravivent avec les Créatures Obscures, des Chasseurs d'Ombres sont assassinés... Les deux camps se préparent à une nouvelle confrontation et se disputent Simon, un vampire aux nombreux pouvoirs. Ils ne reculeront devant rien. Au risque pour Clary de perdre tous ceux qu'elle aime... y compris Jace.
09/2023
Photographes
End Time City. Michael Ackerman, Edition revue et augmentée
Edition revue et augmentée du fameux livre éponyme publié vingt ans plus tôt qui inscrivait Michael Ackerman parmi les figures majeures de la photographie, Plongée au coeur de Bénarès, ville la plus sacrée de l'hindouisme qui accueille des pèlerins venus mourir ici pour effacer leurs péchés et mettre un terme au cycle des renaissances, End Time City nous immerge dans un monde hallucinatoire. Michael Ackerman nous conduit dans une folle déambulation parmi les étroites rues de la cité sainte qui mènent aux ghats et aux aires de crémation. Saturées de poussière, peuplées de présences fantomatiques aux regards intenses, les images d'Ackerman restituent un monde à la limite du rêve éveillé, où la sensation de simultanéité passé-présent semble tangible. Le temps paraît encapsulé : le photographe saisit la fureur et le bruissement du monde. Ses images parlent de transformation : venus se décharger du fardeau du temps et de la mortalité, femmes et hommes se mêlent aux chiens errants, surgissent au détour d'une ruelle, nous regardent de la profondeur d'une maison. L'état fiévreux qui règne ici, empreint à la fois de lenteur et d'une folie agitée, donne à voir la vanité du monde. L'expérience intime du photographe se fait expérience de l'universel. Femmes et hommes sont unis dans un même mouvement d'errance au fil des rues. Nous sommes à la fois tout prêt de la mort comme de la vie. Le présent ouvrage offre un nouvel editing réalisé par l'artiste. Revisitant ses archives accumulées lors de ce voyage en Inde réalisé dans les années 1990, le photographe fait ici un pas de côté : le changement de format, de concept graphique et l'introduction d'images inédites offrent au lecteur un nouvel opus. Edition revue et augmentée du fameux livre éponyme publié vingt ans plus tôt qui inscrivait Michael Ackerman parmi les figures majeures de la photographie, le présent ouvrage offre un nouvel editing réalisé par l'artiste. Revisitant ses archives accumulées lors de ce voyage en Inde réalisé dans les années 1990, le photographe fait ici un pas de côté : le changement de format, de concept graphique et l'introduction d'images inédites offrent au lecteur un nouvel opus.
10/2021
Documentaires jeunesse
Paris au fil du temps
Who made Paris the way it is ? What were the major phases of its construction ? How did Paris adapt to modern times and its growing population ? Discover the Gallo-Roman city of Lutetia, explore the filthy alleys of medieval Paris, admire the royal squares classical era, join the crowds in the Belly of Paris, stroll down the spacious Haussmanian boulevards... This book is an invitation to wander through the different eras that have made Paris the city it is today. With flaps that fold down, panels that open up, wheels to turn, mini-books to flip through, and panoramas to behold on every page !
05/2015
BD jeunesse divers
Bienvenue en Grand Silex Tome 1 : Vive la récré !
Zora et Ding-Dong sont des grands... en Grand Silex !
03/2021
Histoire internationale
Accomplices
This volume asserts that there was tacit cooperation in the Nazi extermination of the Jewish population of Europe by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Second World War. Although the Allies publicly recognized the Nazi massacre of the Jews in the London Declaration of December 17, 1942, the policies they pursued allowed the genocide to continue. They did so, the author claims, in three ways : (1) refusal to publicly and personally speak about and against the Nazi extermination of the Jews ; (2) refusal to commit even one soldier, one plane, or one warship to any forcible opposition to the "Final Solution" throughout the Second World War ; and (3) obstruction of Jewish escape from Hitler's Europe. This book explores the motivation for the policies Churchill and Roosevelt pursued.
06/2011
Récits de voyage
Venise. Vues dessinées, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Venise, Vues dessinées est une?invitation à découvrir la Sérénissime à travers?une suite de 64 dessins inspirés des védutistes des?XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Planches panoramiques des merveilles?architecturales de la Cité des Doges, intérieurs ancestraux foisonnants?de détails, cadrages insolites dans les ruelles... Vincent Brunot nous entraîne?à sa suite dans une promenade à la fois poétique et documentaire dans les divers quartiers de cette ville unique, si riche d'histoires et de rêves, mais à la fois si fragile... /Views of Venice is an invitation to discover "La Serenissima" through a set of 64 drawings inspired by the vedutisti of the 18th and 19th centuries. Panoramas of the architectural wonders that proliferate across the city of the Doges, ancestral interiors rich in detail, original compositions in the alleyways... Vincent Brunot gives us a guided tour, both poetic and descriptive, around the di erent parts of this unique city, rich in history and reverie, but also sensitive and threatened./ " Quand je commence à dessiner, le temps se ge et, au l des heures, l'animation des lieux berce mon travail, mais c'est une Venise intemporelle?qui apparaît sur la feuille : celle de Guardi et de Canaletto, avec ses perspectives inchangées depuis des siècles, ou celle des premières photographies qui, avec leur long temps de pose, ne retenaient ni les passants ni les touristes... " Vincent Brunot/ "While drawing, I'm oblivious to time. Ambient?life ows through my work. But with Venice, what appears on the paper is timelessness. This is the Venice of Guardi and Canaletto, with perspectives that have remained unchanged down the centuries. It's also that of the rst photographs, which, with their long exposure time, captured neither passers- by nor tourists..." Vincent Brunot
10/2021
Histoire ancienne
Greek, Roman and Byzantine Lamps from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. Acts of the 5th International Lychnological Congress
Avec près de 25 articles — hors préfaces et introduction —, ce volume offre un imposant recueil de recherches dédiées au luminaire antique, mais aussi de l'âge du bronze (Komnos) et de la période médiévale (décoration et illumination des églises byzantines, matériel des récentes fouilles urbaines de Timisoara). Malgré le fait que le congrès, matérialisé par le présent volume, s'est tenu dans la 'capitale' culturelle de la Transylvanie, Sibiu, seules deux recherches novatrices proviennent du territoire de la Roumanie actuelle : une analyse des importations et des copies grecques du 3e s. apr. J.-C. découvertes à Tomis (aujourd'hui Constanta), ainsi qu'un inventaire des lampes du castrum de Micia, en Transylvanie méridionale. En revanche, quel florilège de lampes inédites de sites Italiens, d'Agrigente à Lucera, de Pompéi et Cumes à Ostie et Musama jusqu'à la septentrionale Mediolanum (Milan)! Le monde égéen n'est pas en reste, avec des études consacrées à Nea Paphos, Rhodes, Corinthe et Salonique, complétées, pour la mer Noire, sur les importations hellénistiques d'Olbia. Le Sud de la Méditerranée livre deux recherches du plus haut intérêt sur Beit Natif et sur Antioche. Deux études françaises viennent compléter le tableau : la publication du corpus complet du Musée de Saint-Omer ainsi qu'une étude typologique des lampes découvertes à Lyon. Last but not least une comparaison entre l'iconographie et les sources littéraires romaines concernant les objets d'éclairage révèle de nombreuses surprises. L'importance de ce volume est sans aucun doute de dévoiler autant de lampes inédites issu de sites mineurs méconnus que, au contraire, de cités aussi célèbres que rarement traitées sous l'aspect des lampes et des objets en général.
07/2019
Beaux arts
New worlds
"New Worlds" presents a selection of five outstanding nautical atlases known as portolan charts, or "portalans".These historic documents are the work of eminent scholars from Majorca, Lisbon, Le Havre, and Amsterdam. Cartographers by trade, and sometimes also skilled illuminators, they mapped what was the most probable imago mundi for their time, each exemplar crafting a fascinating visual chronicle. Jean-Yves Sarazin, head of Charts and Maps at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, scrutinizes thèse charts or atlases, and situates them in the great history of European discoveries and voyages from the early 14th to the late 17th century, from the Portuguese reconnaissance of the coasts of Africa, through the adventures of Columbus,Vespucci, and Magellan, to the Dutch voyages in the Pacific and Australia.The book's many colour reproductions are alive with picturesque details: camel caravans in the heart ofAsia, Portuguese andArab ships sailing in the Indian Ocean, wild beasts or chimaera, countless exotic plants, naval battles, and not least the frequent strangeness of the indigenous people.
10/2012
Musique classique
Violoncelle et piano, Vol. 3. Le Course en traîneau, Introduction et valse mélancolique, Fêverie au bord de mer, Deux âmes au ciel
Jacques Offenbach was not only a composer of inexhaustible imagination, but also a virtuoso cellist. Even after his first years in Paris, he liked to perform as a musician again and again. To mark his 200th birthday in 2019, the Offenbach Edition Keck OEK publishes original compositions by the 'Mozart of the Champs-Elysées' for 'his' instrument plus piano accompaniment. The pieces are suitable for amateur studies and concert performances alike - not only in the anniversary year ! Some of them were already available in older separate editions, some of them have been unpublished until now. In the present edition, they are published in three volumes according to their musical relation, based on the multiple award-winning editorial standards of the OEK. Vol. 1 contains dance-like pieces (Tarantelle / Trois Andante / Marche chinoise), Vol. 2 baroque-style parodies (Musette / Chant des mariniers galants d'après Rameau / Tambourin d'après Rameau) and Vol. 3 Romantic character pieces (La Course en traineau / Introduction et valse mélancolique / Rêverie au bord de mer / Deux âmes au ciel). Instrumentation : cello and piano
07/2024
Histoire de l'art
Titian, the Della Rovere Dynasty, and His Portrait of Guidobaldo II and his Son. Edition
Le portrait Klesch, par Titien, de Guidobaldo II avec son fils Francesco Maria représente le duc d'Urbino dans ses pleins pouvoirs de commandant suprême des troupes papales avec son héritier à ses côtés. Ce rare double portrait en pied vient seulement d'être attribué à Titien après avoir entrepris des analyses et une restauration minutieuses qui révèlent une belle peinture au style "non finito" avec de superbes touches d'empâtement totalement typiques au maître. Tout ceci est illustré et développé dans ce nouveau livre. Titian provided portraits for the greatest men and women of Europe, Charles V and Philip II of Spain primary among them. For years the Klesch portrait was dismissed as a workshop product - partly because poor condition hid its true quality, but also because it was not believed that Titian could have deigned to create one for Guidobaldo, whose father Guidobaldo della Rovere (1514-1574) and family had a long history of patronizing the artist. Recent research, however, has thrown Guidobaldo's geopolitical significance into relief. He was supreme commander of Venice, the Papal States and then Spain. He sent thousands of soldiers to the major conflicts of his day, particularly the defense of Malta (1565) and the Battle of Lepanto (1571) and his engineers were sought throughout Europe for their ingenuity. In this volume full of new research, Ian Verstegen reveals that Guidobaldo was not peripheral but central to Italian politics and was regarded at several points in history as a key figure who could bring peace or who could influence major conflicts on the Italian peninsula, particularly the War of Siena, and then Pope Paul IV's offensive war against Spain. Anne-Marie Eze gives the first comprehensive examination of the painting's provenance, outlining the portrait's vicissitudes and reception at different moments in its near 500-year history, reexamining received wisdom about its past ownership, and presenting new documentary evidence to expand on and fill gaps in our knowledge of its whereabouts. Finally, Matthew Hayes and Ian Kennedy reflect on the technique, date, recent conservation, and authorship of the painting, proving it to be a masterpiece that only the great Titian could have created.
11/2021
Monographies
FERRANDI Paris : Fruits and Nuts. Recipes and Techniques from the Ferrandi School of Culinary Arts
100 years of technical and gourmet savoir faire from an exceptional culinary school in paris. Discover the essential kitchen skills for cooking with fruits and nuts-how to peel pineapples, blanch almonds, segment citrus fruit, prepare a fruit crown, make quince jelly-through 40 culinary techniques that are explained in more than 150 step-by-step illustrated instructions. Prepare more than 75 recipes-Kumquat Cake, Black Forest Gâteau, King Crab with Pomelos, Watermelon Granita, Raisin Swirls, Poached Oysters with Pomegranate-including both sweet and savory dishes that range from simple to sophisticated to unforgettable. With more than 375 photographs, this book includes everything you need to know for preparing and cooking with fruits and nuts from a world-class culinary institution.
10/2021
Généralités
Women's voices. echoes of life experiences in the alps and the plain (17th -19th centuries). Actors, Networks, and Socio-Cultural Activities
The volume is centred on the voices of women belonging to various generations, religious faiths and social classes, and presents a range of possible life courses for women in the Alps during the ancien régime and the early 19th century. Focusing on complex lived experiences that have emerged froma gender-conscious reading of the sources, the contributions illustrate how migration led women to take on roles of responsibility, or to follow their husbands in their careers as artists, traders and businessmen. There also emerges a widespread literacy that is combined with practical skills andknowledge marked by biological, legal and religious preconceptions : features that permeated the communities studied, where ties of family, religion and patronage prevail upon the dichotomy of public sphere/private sphere.
10/2023
Science-fiction
Superstitions en Transylvanie. Extraits choisis de The Land Beyond the Forest
Pendant deux ans, l'auteur britannique Emily Gerard (1849-1905) se livre à une enquête sur les croyances et légendes de la mystérieuse région où son mari militaire fut envoyé. Vampires, esprits, sorcières, démons et autres créatures fabuleuses et terrifiantes font partie du quotidien. L'auteur décrit les innombrables stratagèmes permettant de les combattre et d'éviter les mauvais sorts, mais aussi les croyances fantasques attachées aux gestes les plus banals, tout en peignant avec humour, affection et nostalgie un pays qu'elle a appris à aimer. Son travail aura une influence majeure sur la littérature fantastique que nous connaissons. Si la Transylvanie est aujourd'hui associée au plus célèbre des vampires, c'est que Bram Stoker s'est largement inspiré de ces recherches pour écrire Dracula.
10/2018
Anglais apprentissage
Acacia thorn in my heart
I started writing "Acacia thorn in my heart" after reading the book of a white South African woman about her childhood in the same region as mine but relating a completely different experience. She had maids, her father drove her to school and she played with real toys. I lived in the heart of the country, away from everything and had to walk five miles to go to school. I was born in Natal. My father rented a plot of land from a white owner to do market gardening. Although Indian families tended not to educate daughters, our parents decided that education was a priority for us. Despite financial difficulties, they were able to send us to school. We had to get up at five o'clock in order to catch the school train. In winter, as we were scantily clad, we shivered all the way to the station.
09/2001
Romance sexy
Hot in the City Tome 1 : Le front de libération des petites culottes
Une note, une paire de culottes et un rendez-vous. Lorsque les efforts de Quinn pour caser sa meilleure amie tournent mal, elle se retrouve avec un rendez-vous à l'aveugle complètement fou. L'homme mystérieux pourrait-il être son âme soeur ? Rien ne vaut une aventure, et au moins, elle va s'amuser. #Comédieromantique #Rendezvousàl'aveugle #Pompier
01/2023
Beaux arts
Wrinkles of the City. Des rides et des villes, Edition bilingue français-anglais
The Wrinkles of the City ou comment rendre compte de l’histoire de grandes métropoles du monde à travers le visage de leurs habitants les plus âgés. Pour ce projet commencé il y a huit ans, JR a photographié et collé sur les murs de Carthagène, Shanghai, Los Angeles, La Havane, Berlin et Istanbul, les portraits de ceux qui incarnent la mémoire de ces villes souvent marquées par les cicatrices de l’histoire, l’expansion économique et les mutations socioculturelles.
12/2015
Anglais apprentissage
Commercially speaking. Workbook
Commercially Speaking is an elementary to pre-intermediate level course in language and communication skills for students on vocational courses. It will be especially useful to those working towards a qualification to help them find work in a commercial environment where they will need to use some English. There is a strong focus on commercial correspondence and telephoning skills, which are practised within a realistic framework designed to reflect the situations students will meet on entering the workplace. This Workbookfollows the syllabus of the Student's Book, with greater emphasis on reading and writing tesks, and activities which can be carried out for homework or as extension activities in the classroom. Material from authentic sources is included where appropriate. Answers to Workbook exercises are included at the end of the corresponding unit in the Teacher's Book. The complete course comprises the Student's Book, this Workbook, a Teacher's Bookwith a complimentary diskand photocopiable progress tests, and one audio cassette.
01/1999
Littérature française
Land's end
Photographe professionnelle reconnue, Julie tente depuis des années de se réaliser dans tous les domaines de sa vie, malgré un traumatisme d’enfance qui la hante. Elle décide de tout quitter du jour au lendemain pour partir s’installer dans un endroit des plus reculés d’Angleterre : Land’s End. Cette aventure lui réservera bien des surprises… Une histoire de burn-out, de changement de vie radical, sur fond de spiritualité, de questionnement personnel, de voyage, de nature.
10/2019
Musique
Second hand band
Groupe d'occasion Etat : Neuf Second Hand Band c'est une conversation entre deux époques : 2015, leur 1er groupe, et 2022, leur version actualisée. Entre ces deux périodes, chacun est allé parfaire son élocution à grand renfort de voyages et d'apprentissage, et revient enrichir la conversation avec de nouvelles couleurs en gardant le même plaisir de jouer ensemble. Ils cultivent sur ce disque leur goût pour le jazz, le rock, le blues, la funk et des inspirations du Portugal, d'Espagne, d'Irlande et d'Inde en invitant Leïla Taïga sur un titre.
09/2023
Archéologie
Klimonas. Un village néolithique pré-céramique ancien à Chypre, Textes en français et anglais
Klimonas An Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic Village in Cyprus Un village néolithique pré-céramique ancien à Chypre Klimonas is the oldest Mediterranean island village. Occupied ca. 8 800 cal BC, it postpones by several centuries the Neolithic presence in Cyprus, at that time located more than 80 km offshore. The village extended over more than 5, 500 mC, facing the sea, 2 km from the famous pre-pottery site of Shillourokambos and near rich flint outcrops. Excavations (2009-2016) revealed that it was composed of circular or oval earthen buildings 3-6 m in diameter, notched into the slope, modestly fitted out and organised around a semi-buried 10 m communal building. The construction techniques, the abundance of either knapped or polished stone material, together with ornaments, symbolic objects, and plants and animal remains, as well as the 52 radiometric dates, point to the end of the Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA). The presence of a communal building, rebuilt numerous times over the course of several decades, also points to the same conclusion. The villagers gathered seeds and fruits and cultivated wild starch and einkorn, recently imported from the continent. They primarily hunted small endemic wild boar, the only large mammal species attested on the island at that time and, secondarily, birds. They did not eat fish or marine shellfish. Domestic dogs, mice and cats brought from the continent also lived in the village. The remains of this cultivator-hunter community testify to the early extension of the Near Eastern Neolithic and to unsuspected seafaring skills, substantially improving our knowledge of the Neolithic transition in the Mediterranean. Klimonas est le plus ancien village insulaire de Méditerranée. Occupé autour de 8 800 av. n. è. , il recule de plusieurs siècles le début de la présence néolithique à Chypre, à cette époque déjà située à plus de 80 km du continent. Le village s'étendait sur 5 500 mC au moins, face à la mer, à 2 km du célèbre site pré-céramique de Shillourokambos et au contact de riches sources de silex. Les fouilles (2009-2016) ont montré qu'il était composé d'édifices de terre crue (bauge) de 3 à 6 m de diamètre, circulaires ou ovalaires, encochés dans la pente, modestement aménagés, organisés autour d'un bâtiment communautaire semi-enterré de 10 m de diamètre. Les techniques de construction, l'abondant mobilier de pierre taillée, le macro-outillage, les parures et objets symboliques, les restes de plantes et les ossements animaux, tout comme les 52 datations radiométriques renvoient à la fin du Néolithique pré-céramique A levantin (PPNA). La présence d'un bâtiment communautaire, plusieurs fois reconstruit en quelques décennies, le confirme. Les villageois pratiquaient la cueillette et cultivaient l'amidonnier et l'engrain sauvages, récemment importés du continent. Ils chassaient un petit sanglier endémique, seule espèce de grand mammifère attestée sur l'île à cette époque, et, secondairement, des oiseaux. Poissons et coquillages marins n'étaient pas consommés. Des chiens domestiques, des souris et des chats de souche continentale vivaient dans le village. Les vestiges de cette communauté d'agriculteurs-chasseurs témoignent de l'extension précoce du premier Néolithique du Proche-Orient et d'une maîtrise insoupçonnée de la navigation. Il enrichit de manière substantielle nos connaissances sur la transition néolithique en Méditerranée.
07/2023
Sciences de la terre et de la
The genetics and breeding of Taro (Clolocasia esculenta(L.) Schott)
Taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott) is an ancient and important root crop and more than 400 million people include taro in their diets. It is grown as a root crop, as a leafy vegetable and sometimes as an ornamental in a wide range of environments. This publication gives general information about Colocasia esculenta and some basic data on related root crop species. It deals with taxonomy, botany, origin and distribution, genetic resources, reproductive biology and problems associated with genetics and breeding. The final goal is to help to revitalize agricultural production, not only of taro, but also of other aroid root crop species.
01/2000
Monographies
Upper Crust : Homemade Bread the French Way. Recipes and techniques
An introduction to the French art of baking bread-including ingredient selection, levain cultivation, and bread-making techniques-with more than one hundred illustrated recipes. The humble baguette is the quintessential staple of French cuisine, but the country has a vast and diverse bread-baking tradition. With an introduction to the history of French bread, guidelines to help the home baker select the right ingredients - grain and flour varieties, water, salt, and levain-this book details the step-by-step techniques and fundamentals of bread making : from feeding the levain, kneading and preparing the dough, and baking, to more than 100 recipes. Eighteen expert bakers and pastry chefs share the sweet and savory recipes that have forged the French bakery's enviable reputation-from rounds of rustic pain de campagne or loaves of olive and oregano bread to regional favorites like fougasse or the Basque taloas tortillas. A new generation of bakers has expanded the classic French repertoire to include original creations-such as charcoal-sesame baguettes ; matcha swirl bread ; buckwheat and seaweed rolls ; and fig, hazelnut, and honey rye bread. In their French style, they also reinterpret heritage breads from across the world-including pita, focaccia, bagels, cheesy Georgian khachapuri, Swedish crispbread, and Indian chapati. Additional bread-based recipes include "surprise bread" finger sandwiches, croque monsieur, onion soup with cheese croutons, and desserts such as French toast and kouign-amann. For each recipe, pictograms indicate the level of difficulty, time and material required, and whether a recipe is gluten-free. This is the ultimate reference book for baking homemade bread the French way.
11/2021
Non classé
Chaos, Control, and Consistency:- The Narrative Vision of Wolfgang Koeppen
Wolfgang Koeppen's critical and popular reputations stem largely from his literary success in the 1950s, a success which has overshadowed the author's activities in the earlier years of his career. It is in the interest of redressing this imbalance that the present study has been undertaken. It traces a consistent line of development from Koeppen's journalistic activities in the Berlin of the 1930s, through his earliest creative writing, and on, in this light, to the post-war publications for which he is most famous. It is thus possible to place the whole of Koeppen's career within the social and literary context of sixty years of German history.
06/1993
Non classé
Educational Alternatives and the Determination of Earnings in Brazilian Industry
The major objective of the study reported in this book was to determine the effects of alternative forms of education on the earnings distribution of factory workers employed in an industrializing area. The data were collected from life-history interviews conducted in northeastern Brazil and were analyzed using a variety of statistical approaches, including path-analytic techniques. The findings provide a basis for better understanding education/labor market relationships and for using education (both in-school and extra-school) as an effective instrument for individual and societal development.
12/1993
Non classé
The Arrest of Ships in German and South African Law
The study compares ship arrest in German and South African law. It shows that in certain fields South African and German provisions do not deviate or are at least substantially similar. This fact makes the application of both laws easier for litigants and lawyers, either for South Africans in Germany or Germans in South Africa. The book contains a selection of articles, forms, paragraphs and sections applicable in the case of ship arrest.
03/1991
Architecture
The Turkish Boudoir of Marie Antoinette and Joséphine at Fontainebleau
Ten years apart, Marie Antoinette gives to Fontainebleau two jewels made by the greatest artists of her time : the Turkish boudoir (1777) and the silver boudoir (1786). In these homes of retirement, the queen escapes the label of the Court and combines a fancy Orient with the expression of the most extravagant novelties. The craze for turqueries did not fade in the early nineteenth century and the Empress Joséphine moved a few years later in this women's shelter offering a new sparkle to this universe of the Thousand and One Nights. She had a sumptuous and atypical furniture, which combines mahogany and gilded bronzes with lamé fabrics, embroidered and fringed with gold. After a painstaking restoration, the graceful carved, painted and gilded paneling of Marie Antoinette's boudoir is once again the setting for Joséphine's luxurious furniture. Nestled in a corner of the ancestral castle of Fontainebleau, the Turkish boudoir is the only decoration of its kind preserved in France and one of the most exceptional sets of furniture created for Joséphine.
03/2023
Non classé
Stages of Exile
This book brings together twelve specially commissioned essays that showcase current research on Spanish Republican exile theatre and performance, including work by some of the foremost scholars in the field. Covering a range of periods, geographical locations and theatrical phenomena, the essays are united by the common question of what it means to ‘stage exile', exploring the relationship between space, identity and performance in order to excavate the place of theatre in Spanish Republican exile production. Each chapter takes a particular case study as a starting point in order to assess the place of a particular text, practitioner or performance within Hispanic theatre tradition and then goes on to examine the case study's relationship with the specific sociocultural context in which it was located and/or produced. The authors investigate wider issues concerning the recovery and performability of these documentary traces, addressing their position within the contemporary debate over historical and cultural memory, their relationship to the contemporary stage, the insights they offer into the experience and performance of exile, and their contribution to contemporary configurations of identity and community in the Hispanic world. Through this commitment to interdisciplinary debate, the volume offers a new and invigorating reimagination of twentieth-century Hispanic theatre from the margins.
09/2011
Sciences de la terre et de la
SATELLITES OF THE OUTER PLANETS. Worlds in their own right, Second Edition
"Rothery does an excellent job of synthesizing the research inspired by the Voyager missions into a coherent description of outer solar system geology." -Jonathan I. Lunine, Sky & Telescope
"A highly readable, respectably accurate and complete nontechnical summary of planetary satellites for general and scientific audiences."
-Paul M. Schenk, Icarus
"Rothery brings these satellites to life."
-David Hughes, New Scientist.
"The depth and authority of the treatment of physical geological processes makes this a good introduction to the outer satellites for undergraduate students, while the clarity of the text ensures that things do not become too complicated for less expert readers."
-Lionel Wilson, Times Higher Eduation Supplement.
Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of this acclaimed geological guide to the outer solar system includes results and close-up color and black-and-white images from both the 1995-1999 Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Voyager space probe. Rothery explains the geological aspects of the major satellites of the outer planets, from Jupiter to Neptune and the Pluto-Charon system. In particular he shows how tectonic and volcanic processes, driven by heat from within, have shaped the rigid outer layers of these worlds. Rothery also discusses the similarities and differences among them and the ways in which they resemble Earth-like planets.
01/1999
Sciences politiques
Africa : 50 years of independence
The International Development Policy Series is a key reference source on international cooperation and development policies. It is published in English and in French by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studios in Geneva. The Series includes articles and in-depth pieces by authors from both industrialised countries and the South in order to offer readers a rich diversity of perspectives. It also draws on the expertise of international actors based in Geneva and illuminates the policy debates and negotiations that take place in the city.
03/2010
