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Beaux arts
Bourdichon's Boston Hours
This absorbing book explores the crown jewel of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's collection of rare books and manuscripts : Jean Bourdichon's Boston Hours. As court artist to King François I of France, Bourdichon produced paintings, books and even parade floats for the sovereign and his entourage. This publication accompanies the museum's first ever exhibition dedicated to this spectacular illuminated manuscript. Painter to two kings, Jean Bourdichon remains today one of the most celebrated artists of the French Renaissance. By age twenty-four, he was already serving as "peintre du roy, " a title which Bourdichon held for the rest of his life. His illustrious career at the French royal court led to a wide range of commissions- from portraits to wall maps to stained glass-but he is remembered principally for astonishing illuminated manuscripts. The peerless Grandes Heures for Queen Anne of Brittany remains the touchstone of this group which includes some of the most lavishly painted books of hours ever produced. One of these masterpieces-Bourdichon's Boston Hours-in the collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is the subject of this book. Bourdichon's only intact book of hours in the United States was acquired by Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1890 and became the crown jewel of her collection of rare books and manuscripts. Leading scholars Nicholas Herman and Anne-Marie Eze explore its history in depth, shedding new light on the book's patronage and provenance- from the shelves of a wealthy Catholic landowner in Lincolnshire to the shop of a Venetian art and antiques dealer. This book is the latest in the Gardner's Close Up series, each installment focusing on an individual, outstanding work of art in the collection. This publication is the first dedicated to this rare treasure, and precedes an exhibition opening in summer 2022.
09/2021
Sociologie
South Asian Technospaces
This book provides perspectives on how South Asian – often, more specifically, Indian – diasporas inhabit techno-mediated environments through their economic and socio-cultural activities. The themes examined include religion, caste, language, and gender in online communities and call centers, and the roles of these factors in the global economy, Bollywood online and offline, digital music, websites for arranging marriages, and so on. The book attempts to map "South Asia" in relation to global technospaces produced through and as a consequence of economic globalization efforts.
04/2008
Littérature anglo-saxonne
Les chants d'amour de Wood Place
Lauréat du National Book Critics Circle Award de fiction. Un des dix meilleurs livres de l'année pour le New York Times. Sur la liste du National Book Award. Le roman qui a bouleversé l'Amérique enfin traduit. Une fresque historique magistrale. L'histoire puissante d'une famille africaine-américaine, de l'esclavage à aujourd'hui. Depuis l'enfance, Ailey passe ses étés dans la petite ville de Chicasetta, en Géorgie, là où la famille de sa mère vit depuis l'arrivée de leurs ancêtres esclaves. Ailey s'est toujours battue pour son identité, combat compliqué par des traumatismes transgénérationnels, ainsi que par des murmures de femmes - ceux de sa mère, Belle, de sa soeur, Lydia, et d'une longue lignée matriarcale - qui poussent Ailey à accomplir ce qui leur a été refusé. Pour se réconcilier avec qui elle est, Ailey embarque pour un voyage dans le passé de sa famille, dévoilant les récits poignants de générations d'ancêtres - autochtones, Africains, Européens - dans le Grand Sud. Ce faisant, Ailey doit apprendre à accepter son héritage, une histoire d'oppression et de résistance, de servitude et d'indépendance, de cruauté et de résilience qui cristallise l'identité même des Etats-Unis. Lauréat du National Book Critics Circle Award de fiction. Sur la liste du National Book Award.
09/2023
Ethnologie
Clashing Cultures. Annang Not(with)standing Christianity – An Ethnography
Clashing Cultures is an anthropological study of the Annang, an ethnic people of Southern Nigeria. The book provides a succinct historical and ethnographic description of the impacts of various cultural and religious influences upon the Annang people and the transformations that have taken place as a result. The consideration of Christianity's influence on the Annang is part of the broader historical and anthropological picture. Although it is an academic work, Clashing Cultures is also a living text. It reflects the evolving culture of the Annang regarding issues such as marriage, male/female roles and supernatural beliefs. The book deals with ritual as a practice that produces meaning, by means of images and metaphors in an unfolding drama. It looks at how the Annang extract meaning from themselves, their bodies, their gestures, their actions in social, spatial and historical contexts. The book creates a "time-oriented anthropology" in which local processes are mirrored in the context of larger ones.
12/2001
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
Sociologie
Marital Separation in Contemporary Ireland
This book is based on detailed interviews with a group of Irish women who have experienced marital separation. It links the women's accounts with literature on the values and beliefs about marriage, women and family which were prevalent when they were growing up in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s. The book chronicles their young adult years, the early stages of their marriages and the events and processes which led to their separations. It explores the women's emotional reactions at the time of separating, the types of support which they found beneficial and the personal, social and financial consequences of having separated. Although the book is written from a sociological perspective, the combination of theory and practical insights make it accessible to a wide variety of readers. It aims to generate discussion and deepen understanding of an area into which there has been minimal research in Ireland and which poses a range of important questions for future researchers, practitioners and policy-makers.
12/2015
Non classé
Practice and Problems in English Grammar and Usage
This book aims to bridge the gap between theoretical and didactic grammar by familiarizing students with traditional terminology and notorious problem areas of English grammar - often otherwise ignored or neglected - and presenting them with a range of carefully chosen practice questions including challenging translation exercises for German students. Because it is often not simply ungrammaticality, but a certain un-Englishness, oddness, or awkwardness that marks students' English, this book is also a workbook on usage and style. A grammatical workbook and textbook in one, it has the unique advantage that almost all practice questions can be answered on the basis of information provided within the book and as a result can be used for individual study as well as school and university work. It will greatly help reinforce students' knowledge of grammar and give students the much needed practice and training in not only grammatically correct, but stylistically appropriate and natural English usage.
10/1991
Non classé
Priscilla, (White) Queen of the Desert
Written for an international audience, Priscilla, (White) Queen of the Desert speaks to the current crisis in queer rights and representation in the context of colonial nations. Focusing on issues of identity, but exploring concerns as wide ranging as morality, same-sex marriage, state sanction, families, and history, this book will appeal to students, activists and academics alike. Asking hard questions of queer rights movements, and the identity politics that often inform them, the book calls for a sustained engagement with the theorisation of queer racial identity and queer race privilege.
09/2006
Sciences de la terre et de la
The Extended Organism. The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures
Can the structures that animals build-from the humble burrows of earthworms to towering termite mounds to the Great Barrier Reef-be said to live ? However counterintuitive the idea might first seem, physiological ecologist Scott Turner demonstrates in this book that many animals construct and use structures to harness and control the flow of energy from their environment to their own advantage. Building on Richard Dawkins's classic book The Extended Phenotype, Turner shows why drawing the boundary of an organism's physiology at the skin of the animal is arbitrary.
01/2000
Livres 0-3 ans
Don't tickle the bear !
Little children just won't be able to resist touching the soft patches to hear the animal sounds in this delightful book.
11/2020
Histoire internationale
Each Child Is My Only One
In Each Child Is My Only One : Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi's Wife, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach (1883–1942), last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg and its surroundings, describes her childhood in the lively household of a rabbi's family with nine children, focusing on the special personality of her mother, Lotte Carlebach, née Preuss (1900–1942). The book starts with the history of the Preuss family, goes on to describe the marriage of Lotte to Joseph Carlebach, and portrays in detail their dynamic family life – until their deportation with their four youngest children to a Latvian concentration camp in 1942. The book is composed of two main parts. In the first section the reader learns about the events up to 1938, both inside and outside the Carlebach home ; the second section covers the years 1938–1941, in which there was a lively correspondence mainly between the mother and those of her children who succeeded in emigrating from Nazi Germany. This part concludes with several testimonies portraying the special personalities of Rabbi Carlebach and his wife and their devotion to the unfortunate who benefited from their unbounded assistance and altruism during the Holocaust. Many photographs are included in the book, several of them taken by Lotte Carlebach herself. The book is a unique and personal testimony about Jewish life in Germany during the years of persecution that relentlessly led to the conflagration of the Holocaust.
05/2014
Mathématiques
LEVY PROCESSES AND INFINITELY DIVISIBLE DISTRIBUTIONS
Lévy processes are rich mathematical objects and constitute perhaps the most basic class of stochastic processes with a continuous time parameter. This book is intended to provide the reader with
comprehensive basic knowledge of Lévy processes, and at the same time serve as an introduction to stochastic processes in general. No specialist knowledge is assumed and proofs are given in detail.
Systematic study is made of stable and semi-stable processes, and the author gives special emphasis to the correspondence between Lévy processes and infinitely divisible distributions. All serious students of random phenomena will find that this book has much to offer.
01/1999
Anglais apprentissage
Jazz chants for children
This delightful, beautifully illustrated book, designed especially for children, uses chants, songs, and poems to teach conversational American English. Each two-page unit consists of a chant, song, or poem, which focuses on a grammatical structure, and a related picture activity. The chants, songs, and poems all highlight situations that children continually encounter. The picture activities include puzzles, mazes, and matching games.
An accompanying cassette contains ail the chants, songs, and poems recorded by the author and a group of children.
A Teacher's Edition is also available and contains reduced Student Book pages and detailed suggestions for presentation.
01/1979
Littérature française
Le Hollandais Volant a touché terre / The Flying Dutchman has landed
Ce livre est en français à gauche. Ce livre est un roman d'amour, enfin, en quelque sorte ; plutôt une quête. Un homme recherche une femme en Russie. Le mythe du Hollandais Volant court en parallèle à l'histoire, qui elle, est bien d'aujourd'hui. This book is in English on the right pages. This book is a novel, a love story, a kind of ; I could qualify it as a quest. A man searches for a woman in Russia. The myth of the Flying Dutchman runs in parallel with the story, which is very much in today's world.
11/2014
Religion
Revelation and Theology
This book examines the theological epistemologies of two of this century's most prominent theologians, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Barth. Both theologians responded to modernist theologies by drawing from the best of their own traditions. Both tried to reinstate theology as a true science which takes its object, namely, the revelation of God in Jesus Christ, seriously. They therefore make excellent conversation partners. This book closely traces their arguments as they seek to formulate their understanding of theological knowledge and theological science from a christological and trinitarian perspective, based on the concrete self-disclosure of God in Jesus Christ.
11/1999
Non classé
Cultural Democracy and Ethnic Pluralism
This book presents a wide variety of approaches to and attitudes towards multiculturalism on the level of language, on the level of education and on the level of policy making. Several of the chapters refer specifically to Australia, since that country has taken the bold step of defining what it understands by the term 'multicultural'. This book, however, also takes the reader to Europe, South-Africa, Canada and Japan. Without exception the authors embrace a humanistic approach to sociology, which includes the notion of cultural core values and the desirability of creating an overarching framework of shared values in multicultural states.
08/1997
Non classé
Rethinking East-Central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
This book reconstructs fundamental aspects of family organization across historical Poland-Lithuania, one of the largest political entities in early modern Europe. Using a plethora of quantitative measurements and demographic microsimulation, the author captures and elucidates the complex patterns of leaving home and life-cycle service, marriage and household formation, along with domestic group structures and living arrangements among different subpopulations of Poland-Lithuania, highlighting a variety of ways in which these patterns were nested in their respective local and regional contexts. By showing that at the end of the 18th century at least three distinct family systems existed in the Polish-Lithuanian territories, Szo ? tysek challenges a number of orthodoxies in the ‘master narratives' on the European geography of family forms of F. Le Play, J. Hajnal, P. Laslett, and their followers. Volume two of the book contains an extensive bibliography along with a thorough archival documentation of the census-like microdata used in the book, and provides detailed information on their quality and further technicalities pertaining to data analysis.
01/2016
Littérature érotique et sentim
Redwood Tome 6 : Logan
En tant que seule fille de sa fratrie, et princesse des Redwood, Cailin Jamenson a toujours dû lutter contre les limites qu'on a voulu lui imposer. A présent, l'arrivée d'un nouveau loup parmi les siens menace tout ce pour quoi elle s'est battue. Logan a fui sa propre meute, et peine à faire confiance à ses nouveaux alliés, cherchant à tout prix à affirmer son indépendance. Mais lorsqu'une tragédie frappe la meute, ces deux âmes rebelles devront faire face ensemble à leur sort. Car la bataille qui s'annonce pourrait mettre fin à la guerre entre les loups... s'ils n'y laissent pas la vie. " J'adore tous les loups de la meute Redwood et j'anticipe avec plaisir l'histoire de chaque frère. Une excellente série que tous les fans de bit-lit aimeront ! " Book Vixen " Des métamorphes sexy comme on les aime ! " Under the Covers Book Blog " Un roman de bit-lit sexy et bourré d'action ! " TBQ Book Palace
06/2020
Droit des affaires
Compliance Monumental Goals
This book takes practical topics for using this notion to find new solutions in many sectors and difficult situations, such as Crisis or International Competitive Confrontation.
04/2023
Littérature française
Un thé à la cardamome
Environ 129 pages au format Ebook. Sommaire interactif avec hyperliens. Pourquoi a-t-on brutalement assassiné Nirmal, le vieux vendeur d'épices avec lequel Fabio s'était noué d'amitié ? Pourquoi a-t-on gravé un symbole sur la paume de sa main ? Enquête policière et histoire d'amour interdit prennent l'allure d'un voyage initiatique haletant lorsqu'elles nous guident à travers une Inde à la fois envoûtante et secrète. L'enquête de Fabio sur la mort de l'un de ses amis l'emmènera bien plus loin qu'il ne pensait et ouvrira son coeur à une connaissance dont il ignorait jusqu'à la nature.
09/2019
Science-fiction
Plume, l'intégrale
Plume, sirène intrépide et peu loquace, se passionne depuis toujours pour le monde terrestre. Toutefois, suite à d'anciennes querelles, son peuple fuit les va-pieds autant que possible. Rien ne semble pourtant pouvoir la retenir. Plume souhaite en découvrir toujours plus sur cet univers inconnu qui l'attire sans cesse. Ses escapades la conduiront à faire des rencontres incroyables, qui changeront sa vie de manière définitive. Malgré les difficultés qu'elle affrontera, parviendra-t-elle à trouver l'équilibre entre terre et océan ? Cette version papier comprend : - Un Noël Océan (paru dans The Christmas codex) - Plume, merveille de l'océan (paru en ebook) - Plume, entre Terre et Océan (texte inédit)
04/2019
Critique littéraire
French industrial studies. a bibliography and guide. A bibliography and guide
The heart of the book is a bibliography of over 1, 000 items, classified by means of a detailed index, bearing on major research projects undertaken in France since 1945 in the areas of industrial sociology, labour relations, organisational behaviour, management and of theoretical contributions in these fields. This information is supplemented by a list of research institutes and an explanatory introduction which gives a brief history of modern French industrial studies and provides criteria for judging the utility of items. The book is unique as a source of informations for teachers, researchers and students who propose to introduce a comparative element into their work.
01/1977
Gastronomie en langue étrangèr
Exquisite French Cuisine. The ABC to turn French in 60 recipes
EXQUISITE French Cuisine HOW TO MASTER FRENCH COOKING, AND BECOME AA CHEF WITH 60 ESSENTIAL RECIPES Discover how to prepare a caramel, a bechamel sauce or an onion confit, and experiment recipes such as cheese soufflé and filet mignon in a crust, or regional specialties such as bouillabaisse or gratin dauphinois. And for the gourmets, dive into the preparation of a mirabelle plum tart or à creamy chocolate mousse. What a way to combine quality with pleasure ! You will find everything you need to delight your guests in this book. Bring a little piece of France home with this book of traditional recipes for all lovers of French cuisine.
06/2023
Informatique
DREAMWEAVER 2 H.O.T HANDS-ON TRAINING. CD-Rom included
Do you like to learn by doing? Do manuals leave you craving for real-world examples? Are you looking for concrete training that goes beyond theory and reference materials?
Learn Dreamweaver by following classroom-proven exercises that will teach you to build sophisticated web pages. This book is geared toward people who have never written HTML or those who would like to switch from coding by hand to a visual HTML editor.
Complete with insider tips, illustrated with detailed graphics, and accompanied by a CD-ROM that's loaded with guided exercises, demo software and QuickTime movies, this book ensures that you'll learn all the key features of Dreamweaver 2.
12/1999
Littérature étrangère
Le libraire de Wigtown
En 2001, Shaun Bythell rachète la librairie de Wigtown, une petite ville du sud-ouest de l'Ecosse dont il est originaire. Il n'a alors aucune expérience dans le commerce des livres. Grâce à des efforts continus, The Book Shop est désormais la plus importante librairie de livres d'occasion de toute l'Ecosse. Membre fondateur du Wigtown Book Festival qui attire désormais des milliers de visiteurs, il est à l'origine de nombreuses initiatives en faveur de la promotion de la lecture. II adore pêcher et faire du vélo. Surtout pour se rendre au pub. Libraire de Wigtown est son premier livre.
04/2018
Non classé
Southern Sudan
Southern Sudan is little known to the world - especially in terms of its economic development. This book fills that gap of knowledge to some extent. Due to the persistence of war conditions (since 1955), economic analysis has been done together with the resultant dictates of war and destruction in the area. The sources of data and methodology have of necessity transcended conventional economics embracing political, social, etc. aspects. This multidisciplinarity in approach has enabled the author to provide the foundations for future development of Southern Sudan. The book thus offers a state of the art analysis of the war consequences on society, subsistence and their accompanying economic structures.
04/1994
Droit
Good Law
The purpose of the book is to provide a list of technical criteria for good law. The word "technical" is used in contradistinction to moral criteria for good law.
12/1982
Coloriage, gommettes et autoco
Mandalas Liberty
64 pages de mandalas façon liberty, motifs fleuris aux traits fins et raffinés. Un " Art Book " à créer avec son style et ses couleurs : une activité créative et relaxante !
07/2024
Mathématiques
Galois Theory. 1998, 2nd edition
This text offers a clear, efficient exposition of Galois Theory with complete proofs and exercises. Topics include: cubic and quartic formulas, Fundamental Theory of Galois Theory; insolvability of the quintic; Galois's Great Theorem (solvability by radicals of a polynomial is equivalent to solvability of its Galois Group); and computation of Galois groups of cubics and quartics. There are appendices on group theory, ruler-compass constructions, and the early history of Galois Theory. This book provides a concise introduction to Galois Theory suitable for first-year graduate students, either as a text for a course or for study outside the classroom.
This new edition has been completely rewritten. Proofs are now clearer because more details are given and because the exposition has been reorganized (for example, the discussion of solvability by radicals now appears later in the book). The book now begins with a short section on symmetry groups of polygons in the plane, for there is an analogy between symmetry groups of polygons and Galois groups of polynomials. This analogy can serve as a guide to help readers organize the theoretic definitions and constructions. Several new theorems have also been included; for example, the Casus Irreducibilis.
12/1998
Non classé
Revolution's Urban Landscape
What are the implications of "change" as assessed from a Revolution's discourse point of view ? Did Revolution in its Eastern European mode "happen" only to make its once heroic agents "vulgar banana eaters" (Slavoj Zizek)? To what extent is/was Revolution part of the globalization process (Americanization)? The answer of this book is that it constituted a series of occurrences of both contingency and continuation. It is Romanian Revolution as a metonymic and creative space, incorporating the Event (here the city of Bucharest, December 1989-1990), the Memory (refiguration of identities), the Contact zone (the street as a public place), and the Local-Global (the East-West dialectics) that Revolution's Urban Landscape discusses in much detail. Through combining and analysing materials from both the local cultural field and the international press (witness reports, journalistic documentation, travelogues, fiction, academic publishing, graffiti, etc.), Raoul Granqvist demonstrates a number of aspects of Revolution's self-reflexivity, vitality and amorphousness. The Romanian book industry, through its absorption and introduction of new areas of popular reading (such as the American romance), embodies, this book explains, the basic instincts of Revolution towards openness and interaction.
11/1999
