Visual Aids in the Productions of the First Piscator-Bühne 1927-28
Extraits
Littérature française
Letter to tita. Volume 1
Letter to Tita is a concentrate of wisdom that lets out important information on the wealth of the dying African cultural heritage. This first volume conveys a nostalgic description of a daily atmosphere of Zilan-village, "that large village buried away in the equatorial forest", before the intrusion of foreign habits and customs, "at that time" when nature and man still lived in mutualism.
03/2013
Mathématiques
Graph Theory. Second Edition
This book is a concise, yet carefully written, introduction to modern graph theory, covering all its major recent developments. It can be used both as a reliable textbook for an introductory course and as a graduate text : on each topic it covers all the basic material in full detail, and adds one or two deeper results (again with detailed proofs) to illustrate the more advanced methods of that field. This second edition extends the first in two ways. It offers a thoroughly revised and updated chapter on graph minors, which now includes full new proofs of two of the central Robertson-Seymour theorems (as well as a detailed sketch of the entire proof of their celebrated Graph Minor Theorem). Second, there is now a section of hints for all the exercises, to enhance their value for both individual study and classroom use.
01/2000
Religion
Je suis n. Disciples de Jésus en terre d'islam, ils racontent
""Je suis n"? Qu'est-ce que cela signifie ? Lorsque les combattants de l'Etat islamique sont arrivés au nord de l'Irak, ils ont commencé à marquer les maisons des chrétiens ou leurs églises de la lettre "noun" en arabe (ce qui correspond à "n" en français). Cette simple lettre était à elle seule une accusation aux conséquences terribles : elle déclarait que les occupants du lieu étaient des "nazaréens", des personnes qui suivaient Jésus de Nazareth."" Ils viennent d'Egypte, d'Iran, du Nigeria, d'Asie centrale, de Syrie, du Pakistan et d'autres contrées lointaines... Ils s'appellent Ali, Jamil, Amina, Hussein, Suleiman, Nadia... Tous, ils persévèrent dans la foi au milieu d'un environnement hostile à l'Evangile. Loin de notre confort et de notre tranquillité, ils sont prêts à payer le prix pour demeurer fidèles à Celui qui a changé leur vie. Des témoignages saisissants, qui nous encouragent mais aussi nous bousculent et nous interpellent."
01/2018
Littérature française
Maana Barma ge 1
"Maana barma ge" is a collection of traditional stories and fables told by the Bagirmi people of central Chad. They are published in the original Bagirmi language, preserving the unique oral and dialectic character of each story as it was told. They are i
06/2017
Non classé
Frontier and Utopia in the Fiction of Charles Sealsfield
This study examines the work of Charles Sealsfield (1793-1864), the Moravian-American writer, whose fiction marked the first serious literary treatment of America in the German language. More specifically, Sealsfield's work is discussed in the light of his experience in America and, above all, in the light of his change of identity from Karl Anton Postl - Moravian monk to Charles Sealsfield - American writer. It employs two concepts - frontier and utopia - to show how Sealsfield was influenced by the antebellum tradition in America, and how he, in turn, used the governing myths and symbols of his time to create an important statement about the relationship between ideology and power in the Age of Jackson.
12/1986
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
Archéologie
Etudes sur l'histoire et l'archéologie de Lydie de la période proto-lydienne à la fin de l'Antiquité. Textes en français et anglais
Lydia, lying between the Aegean coast and the Anatolian plateau, has been associated since Antiquity with the Pactolus river, which carried gold from the Tmolus mountain, and with the wealth of Croesus. Populated by Lydians and Maeonians, and marked by the presence of Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines, it has attracted the attention of researchers since the end of the 18th century. This book aims to cover the chronology of Lydian studies from the protohistoric period to the beginning of the Byzantine period and to bring together the contributions of international researchers and scholars from a wide range of disciplines that includes history, archeology, epigraphy, and numismatics, and from different perspectives. The various studies discuss society, social structures, military aspects, economy, religion, arts, architecture, and material culture. This diachronic approach makes it possible in particular to question continuity and discontinuity between the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, as well as with those that preceded them.
02/2023
Non classé
A Life of Her Own
This study reconstructs Brittain's feminist theory, which mainly refutes assumptions made about women, supports companionate marriage, and demands the communal reorganization of child care and domestic work to enable a married woman to work outside her home. It compares her theory to her five novels. Doing so, it uncovers revealing feminist 'flaws', above all that marriage remains, the sine qua non for a woman's happiness. The study describes Brittain's way to the top as a formidable obstacle race, in which she constantly had to fight the men she loved, her children, her parents, and resulting domesticity in order to find time to write "the book of the decade". She reached her goal with the publication of Testament of Youth in 1933.
11/1996
Non classé
Music, Poetry, Propaganda
Offering new perspectives on the role of broadcasting in the construction of cultural memory, this book analyses selected instances in relation to questions of French identity at the BBC during the Second World War. The influence of policy and ideology on the musical and the poetic is addressed by drawing on theoretical frameworks of the archive, memory, trauma and testimony. Case studies investigate cultural memories constructed through three contrasting soundscapes. The first focuses on the translation of ‘Frenchness' to the BBC's domestic audiences ; the second examines the use of slogans on the margins of propaganda broadcasts. In the third, the implications of the marriage of poetry and music in the BBC's 1945 premier of Francis Poulenc's cantata setting of resistance poems by the surrealist poet Paul Eluard in Figure humaine are assessed. Concentrating on the role of the archive as both narrative source and theoretical frame, this study offers a new approach to the understanding of soundscapes and demonstrates the processes involved in the creation of sonic cultural memory in the context of global conflict.
04/2012
Histoire internationale
National Socialism in Oceania
In today's security-conscious environment, the loyalties and allegiances of migrant communities are increasingly being brought into question. Drawing on the collected knowledge of a number of Australian experts investigating interwar issues of security, surveillance and civic rights from the perspective of migration studies, this book aims, through the examination of individuals and groups in Oceania who were targeted for potential subversion or believed to hold National Socialist sympathies (including local National Socialists, Italian-Australians, Russian exiles, members of the right-wing movements the New Guard and Australia First), to consider how issues of security were regarded at another critical point in world history and what lessons we may learn from that period today. This book examines a variety of motives for embracing National Socialism and investing hope in the Third Reich. Attitudes shifted over time from enthusiasm to scepticism and disappointment. But, most importantly, beyond support and opposition, there was a surprising level of disengagement and indifference from sister movements on the radical right. This groundbreaking study defies easy answers and previously-held understandings, and will stimulate debate and further research.
04/2010
Anglais apprentissage
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (S.L. Clemens)
A central work in the national canon, an inspiration for some of the greatest American writers of our century, and the first literary masterpiece in multi-voiced, regional vernacular, Huckleberry Finn is, as Walter Blair observed, unique in being held in the highest esteem by critics and at the same time prodigiously popular in the United States and throughout the world . This study explores the peculiar dynamics of space and time in Huck Finn before shifting to an analysis of the fate of illusion, one of the enduring themes in Twain. Emphasis is placed throughout on the subtlety and complexity of Twain's artistic vision, which projects a world of doublings, reversals, instability, and paradox, drawing all the while on the tremendous evocative force of the river, which, like Huck himself in T. S. Eliot's words, has no beginning and no end .
07/1997
Shonen/garçon
The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World - Tome 4
Connaissant désormais la situation de Mabel, Seika décide d'affronter Kyle en finale du tournoi d'arts martiaux. Face à ce maître du mauvais oeil, Seika invoque ses yôkai en espérant mettre rapidement fin au combat. Alors qu'il a l'avantage, voilà que le corps de Kyle se transforme subitement...
02/2024
Shonen/garçon
The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World - Tome 3
Un an s'est écoulé depuis l'attaque des démons et Seika est désormais en deuxième année. Un beau jour, la principale lui demande de représenter l'école lors d'un tournoi d'arts martiaux. Elle en profite pour lui présenter l'autre participante, une nouvelle élève du nom de Mabel Crain. Pensant d'abord à , refuser, il se résout finalement à participer, autant intrigué par l'étrange aura entourant la nouvelle élève que par la conduite de la principale...
10/2023
Shonen/garçon
The reincarnation of the strongest exorcist in another world Tome 2
Seika est parvenu à repousser le démon qui a lancé l'assaut lors de la cérémonie d'accueil des nouveaux élèves. Ayant découvert à cette occasion qu'Amyu est le fameux " héros ", il décide de se rapprocher d'elle, mais celle-ci le repousse. C'est alors qu'ils se retrouvent à devoir participer ensemble à une cérémonie de l'école. En se dirigeant vers un sanctuaire dans la forêt, ils tombent sur un étrange cercle magique qui les envoie instantanément dans un donjon inconnu...
04/2023
Shonen/garçon
The reincarnation of the strongest exorcist in another world Tome 1
Avec ses sortilèges parfaitement maîtrisés et ses nombreux yôkai, vivre dans un autre monde sera un jeu d'enfant ! A l'agonie après avoir été trahi par ses camarades, Haruyoshi, le plus fort des onmyôji, ces maîtres de la science naturelle et de l'occultisme, tente une technique secrète de réincarnation en espérant trouver le bonheur dans sa prochaine vie. L'entreprise est une réussite, sauf qu'il s'est réincarné dans un autre monde ! Appartenant désormais à une illustre famille spécialisée dans l'étude de la magie, lui-même n'a malheureusement aucun pouvoir. Néanmoins, armé de ses puissantes techniques d'onmyôji, il se dit qu'il n'a peut-être pas besoin de magie... Qui a besoin de magie... Quand on est un puissant exorciste ?
04/2023
Shonen/garçon
The reincarnation of the strongest exorcist in another world Tome 5
Pendant les vacances d'été, Seika est envoyé au royaume d'Astéria à la place de son père pour enquêter sur un dragon. Après avoir établi une première hypothèse, il entreprend de descendre sous la montagne dans laquelle le monstre a élu domicile. Yifa, qui est restée au château, reçoit de son côté une demande en mariage enflammée de la part du prince Cécilio... Et voilà qu'en plus, il se met en tête de l'affranchir de son statut d'esclave ? !
05/2024
Non classé
She’s Leaving Home
This collection of essays, written by scholars from all over Europe, explores the cultural meanings of women leaving home. Although all the chapters analyse writings in English, the volume aims to put the narrative element of home-leaving into a European context by investigating travel in various directions : from England to somewhere abroad, from the (former) colonies to the (former) imperial centre or simply within a psychic space. The female figures discussed in the volume leave home for various reasons – to go into exile, to challenge orthodox conceptions of femininity, to travel for pleasure or out of curiosity – but ultimately each of them has to face questions of the definitions of home, belonging and otherness. Consequently, the essays in this collection focus on how the cross-cultural encounters implicated in discourses of race, gender, nation and religion affect female identity. The ‘protagonists' of these narratives range from mythical heroines to early modern Protestant refugees to fictitious and historical figures from the past 200 years. The discussion throughout is informed by contemporary theories of gender, literary and cultural studies.
06/2011
Antiquité - Généralités
The Italians on Delos
During the second century and into the early first century BC, the island of Delos was home to the largest port of transit in the eastern Mediterranean. As such, it welcomed many Italian traders who prospered among its cosmopolitan population for some fifty or so years. The many buildings, statues, paintings and inscriptions unearthed since 1873 by the French School at Athens have made it possible to trace out the life of this disparate yet influential community.
11/2021
Poésie
Bahareh
The author, like a painter, paints the poetic portrait of his first muse, Bahareh !
07/2022
Non classé
Research on Psychotherapeutic Approaches
Subject of this volume is the summing up of the 1st European Conference On Psychotherapy Research, which was organized by the "SPR" in Trier (FRG) in September 1981. The first volume was dedicated to methodology in psychotherapy research. The chapters of this volume are : Selected papers on psychoanalysis ; client-centered psychotherapy : An overview ; selected papers on cognitive psychotherapy ; selected papers on psychosomatic ; selected papers on psychotherapy for severe disoders.
12/1983
Non classé
The Anglo-Welsh Dialects of North Wales
This book is the first major study of the English spoken in North Wales. It presents a full description of the English speech of the native 60-plus age group in the counties of Gwynedd and Clwyd. It includes a comprehensive analysis of the vowel sounds and non-standard consonant sounds of northern Anglo-Welsh, together with exhaustive descriptions of non-standard lexis and morphology and syntax. It forms part of the survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects and can be seen as a companion to Volumes 1 and 2 of that survey. The book also contains a short atlas section, etymologies of non-standard lexis, and cross-references to the main national surveys of regional spoken English and Welsh in England and Wales.
06/1991
Non classé
The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates
The articles which are published in this volume investigate, on the basis of selected cases of mainly European winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, the meaning of the Prize and the award in the Prize winner's own countries. The case studies, which are mainly of a biographical nature, offer a varied picture with regard to the reactions of public opinion in the respective countries. They consent, however, in so far as the immediate impact of the award was only limited and of short duration.
05/1994
Non classé
An Anthology of Czech Literature
Old Czech Literature is one of the big unknowns of verbal art in Europe, familiar only to a small number or experts. Here, for the first time within such a frame, the attempt is made to offer a significant selection in both the original and English interlinear translation. This selection spans all the major genres of fiction of Czech medieval (pre-Hussite) literature. All the texts (complete or in excerpts) are introduced and annotated. Introductory bibliographies help the student and interested reader to obtain further information.
08/1991
Non classé
Fast Darkness III: Moonwords. Sextet for flute, clarinet, piano and string trio. flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello. Partition et parties.
Fast Darkness III is the last part of the trilogy Fast Darkness, 2020-2022. Written in 2022, it is a 16 minutes long virtuosic, wild, and overgrown exploration. Fast gestures, drawn by a sharp pen and loaded with excited energy inform the listener of a large universe that they are enveloping. Just like an entangled climbing branch may give a sense of the house it is climbing on, the energy-laden gestures in Fast Darkness III, reveal the presence of the universe they are enveloping. This revelation never comes to be heard in the piece, but hopefully, it is an after-effect of it. Chaya Czernowin Instrumentation : flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello
03/2023
12 ans et +
The Book of Ivy Tome 2 : The Revolution of Ivy
Condamnée à l’exil pour ses crimes, Ivy se retrouve seule au-delà de la barrière qui protège les siens d’un monde hostile, dévasté par l’arme atomique des décennies plus tôt. Trahie par sa famille, abandonnée par Bishop, elle doit quitter Westfall et s’enfonce dans la nature sauvage et découvre qu’elle est habitée. Cette année, mon tour est venu. Mais la ville où elle est née se tord dans les convulsions d’un coup d’Etat, et le chaos ne tarde pas à régner. C’est un Bishop différent qui débarque dans le camp où Ivy s’est réfugiée, un Bishop qui a découvert, entretemps, plus d’une vérité. Il est temps pour la jeune fille de décider ce qu’elle compte faire : se venger ou faire la révolution ? Le deuxième et dernier tome de la série The Book of Ivy clôt une saga dystopique où survie en milieu hostile, complots meurtrier et manipulations politiques se mettent en travers du chemin d’un duo à l’alchimie saisissante. Découvrez l’aventure finale d’Ivy, assassin devenue survivante !
11/2015
Histoire internationale
Marriage as Political Strategy and Cultural Expression
Marriage as Political Strategy and Cultural Expression is the first comprehensive study of Mongolian royal marriages from World Empire (1206-1279) to the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) in Asia. This study examines the Mongolian royal family's marriage strategies and the political implications of these royal marriages, specifically, the intermarriages between the Mongolian royal house and its allies, including the Onggirat, the Oirat, and other Mongol peoples as well as the Uighur State and Korea in Central and East Asia. This book concludes that the short lifespans of Mongol royalty after Khubilai Khan were the result of consanguineous marriage and inbreeding – genetic factors that contributed to the collapse of the Mongol dynasty.
06/2008
Critique littéraire
Correspondance 1920-1927
Romain Rolland (1866-1944) et Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) : deux écrivains humanistes, symboles d'une "Europe des esprits" humiliée par la Grande Guerre. Les années 1920 incarnent l'espoir d'un monde meilleur et consacrent leur fortune littéraire : L'Ame enchantée, le cycle du Théâtre de la Révolution, la biographie sur Gandhi pour Romain Rolland ; les essais biographiques Trois Maîtres, Le Combat avec le démon, ou La Confusion des sentiments pour Stefan Zweig. Au-delà de l'amitié qui les lie, Rolland et Zweig partagent une même conscience du danger face aux nouvelles idéologies de l'Europe d'après-guerre, où violences et assassinats politiques revêtent déjà un caractère antisémite. Leurs lettres inédites témoignent de cette atmosphère délétère, hantée par les démons du nationalisme, soulignant par contraste l'attraction des deux intellectuels pour la révolution russe et les sagesses orientales. D'une richesse inouïe, cette correspondance nous entraîne dans l'entre-deux-guerres, avec en toile de fond la montée des totalitarismes et l'engrenage qui mena l'humanité d'un conflit à un autre.
09/2015
Non classé
Church, State, and Religious Dissent
Seventh-day Adventism, a young American-based denomination, encountered strenuous opposition when it first reached Europe in the second half of the 19th century. This was especially true in Austria, where traditional allegiance to Roman Catholicism, linked with a strong emphasis on cultural continuity, constituted the tenor of social life. The book not only describes the history of Adventism in Austria but also examines its relationship to the Austrian political and religious milieu. The study may furnish valuable insights to stimulate further discussion of church-state relationships and provides a basis for continuing investigation of the dynamics involved in encounters of minority religions with hostile socio-cultural settings.
04/1993
Beaux arts
SISLEY. Edition en anglais
Alfred Sisley is now recognized as one of the great landscape painters of the nineteenth century, and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement. He divided his time between France and England, and the 55 colour illustrations in this book include the celebrated snow scenes of the Paris suburbs, his views of the flooded Seine at Port-Marly and his paintings of the colourful regattas on the Thames which Kenneth Clark described as embodying 'the perfect moment of Impressionism'. Richard Shone has completely updated his essay, first published in 1979, and selected new colour plates and added extensive commentaries on the illustrations to make this book an ideal introduction to the work of Alfred Sisley.
Richard Shone is Associate Editor of The Burlinglon Magazine. His publications include Bloomsbury Portraits (1976, revised 1993), Walter Sickert (1988) and Sisley (1992), all published by Phaidon.
01/1994
Beaux arts
Tiepolo in Milan. The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto
Tiepolo in Milan : The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto brings together preparatory drawings and paintings, as well as documentary photographs, to commemorate an extraordinary fresco cycle by the Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Painted for Palazzo Archinto in Milan, the frescoes were destroyed in a bombing during World War II. The catalogue accompanies an exhibition at The Frick Collection. In 1730-31, Tiepolo undertook his first significant project outside the Veneto, frescoes for five ceilings in Palazzo Archinto in Milan. The paintings were commissioned by Count Carlo Archinto (1670-1732), likely in honor of the marriage of his son, Filippo, to Giulia Borromeo. Tiepolo's mythological and allegorical scenes-Triumph of Arts and Sciences ; Apollo and Phaëton ; Perseus and Andromeda ; Juno, Fortune, and Venus ; and Nobility-were painted in some of the largest rooms of the palazzo. Unfortunately, the palazzo was bombed during World War II and its interior completely destroyed. Only a series of black-and-white photographs, taken between 1897 and the late 1930s, preserves the frescoes' appearance, but a number of preparatory drawings and paintings provide precious information, including three painted sketches (Triumph of Arts and Sciences, the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon ; Apollo and Phaëton, Los Angeles County Museum ; and Perseus and Andromeda, The Frick Collection). Three drawings from the British Museum in London, the Museo Civico in Trieste, and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum in Helsinki are the only related graphic works. These-along with other drawings and prints by Tiepolo and some books- have been reunited for the first time in order to bring to life these extraordinary works of art. On view at The Frick Collection from April 16 to July 14, 2019, the exhibition is curated by Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick, with Andrea Tomezzoli, Professor at the University of Padua, and Denis Ton, Curator of the Musei Civici in Belluno. Included in the publication are essays on Tiepolo's work in Palazzo Archinto (Salomon), on the role of the frescoes in Tiepolo's career (Tomezzoli), on the intellectual world of the Archinto family (Ton), and on the architectural history of the palace (Kluzer).
04/2019
