The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman de Ernest J Gaines
Extraits
Non classé
Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics
The present volume is a collection of studies devoted to major issues in contemporary syntax and semantics : in particular, argument structure, ellipsis, negation and scope. The papers included, which represent a number of formally rigorous contemporary frameworks, bring out new facts from a large variety of languages as well as novel solutions to a broad range of analytic puzzles. Part One illustrates the major ways in which argument structure is used and conceptualized. Part Two provides new perspectives on ellipsis, applying concepts and tools developed for focus, questions and quantification. Part Three introduces a number of novel proposals for the representation of scope, considerably enlarging the empirical domain of scope relations. These studies are unusual in that they combine an enthusiasm for detailed syntactic and semantic data and a serious concern for formal rigor. They discuss data from a wide variety of languages, including Japanese, Bulgarian, French, Greek, English, Italian, German, Hungarian, Inuit and Western Austronesian languages. The main themes of the book include negation, argument structure, ellipsis, indefinites, telicity, presuppositions, modality and quantification.
10/1997
Non classé
Style and Rhetoric in Bertrand Russels's Work
A thorough examination of Bertrand Russell's language is the object of this study. Since this is the first major analysis of his writing style, examples taken from a wide spectrum of his writings are examined. Structurally the investigation begins by treating individual vocabulary and then moves on to larger structural units, covering such areas as figurative language and description. The final chapter deals with his rhetoric, discussing his methods of persuasion and the logic of his arguments. This careful analysis of his writings is significant in that it sheds new light on interesting aspects of Russell's character.
12/1983
Monographies
Towards the Sun. The Artist - Traveller at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Bien qu'il y ait eu des monographies sur les artistes voyageurs britanniques du XVIIIème et du début du XIXème siècles, il n'existe aucune enquête de ce que l'écrivain Henry Blackburn décrivait de "voyage artistique" un siècle plus tard. A partir de 1900, le "Grand Touriste" est devenu un globe-trotteur muni d'un appareil photo et, malgré le développement de la photographie instantanée, l'enregistrement visuel immédiat en huile et aquarelle reste le plus répandu. Kenneth McConkey's exciting new book explores the complex reasons for this in a series of chapters that take the reader from southern Europe to north Africa, the Middle East, India and Japan revealing many artist-travellers whose lives and works are scarcely remembered today. He alerts us to a generation of painters, trained in academies and artists' colonies in Europe that acted as crèches for those would go on to explore life and landscape further afi eld. The seeds of wanderlust were sown in student years in places where tuition was conducted in French or German, and models were often Spanish, Italian, or North African. At fi rst the countries of western Europe were explored afresh and cities like Tangier became artists' haunts. Training that prioritized plein air naturalism led to the common belief that a well-schooled young painter should be capable of working anywhere, and in any circumstances. At the height of British Imperial power, and facilitated by engineering and technological advance, the burgeoning tourism and travel industry rippled into the production of specialist goods and services that included a dedicated publishing sector. Essential to this phenomenon, the artist-traveller was often commissioned by London dealers to supply themed exhibitions that coincided with contracts for colour-illustrated books recording those exotic parts of the world that were newly available to the tourist, traveller, explorer, emigrant, or colonial civil servant. These works were not, however, value-neutral, and in some instances, they directly address Orientalism, Imperialism, and the Post-Colonial, in pictures that hybridize, or mimic indigenous ways of life. Behind each there is a range of interesting questions. Does experience live up to expectation ? Is the street more desirable than the ancient ruin or sacred site ? How were older ideas of the 'picturesque' reborn in an age when 'Grand Tours' once confi ned to Italy, now encompassed the globe ? McConkey's wideranging survey hopes to address some of these issues. This richly illustrated book explores key sites visited by artist-travellers and investigates artists including Frank Brangwyn, Mary Cameron, Alfred East, John Lavery, Arthur Melville, Mortimer Menpes, as well as other under-researched British artists. Drawing the strands together, it redefi nes the picturesque, by considering issues of visualization and verisimilitude, dissemination and aesthetic value.
11/2021
Informatique
Foundation Course for Advanced Computer Studies
In the modern world, computer systems are playing a greater and greater part in everyday life. From office work, to entertainment, to providing information, the personal computer is quickly becoming a more integral part of the home. However, most PC users have no idea how most of the parts which make up their computer work internally. I am one of those who find that the framework provided by the school curriculum in the United Kingdom is of great assistance in planning lessons and learning plans but the curriculum does not plan out the work for us. We therefore need to invest a lot of time and effort into developing schemes of work that will suit the people we are going to teach. For me, it is a fantastic opportunity to employ our imagination and creativity to make lessons useful and interesting for children of different abilities. It is why I wrote this book. This book is a foundation course for Advanced Computer Studies and designed as a blueprint to teach users with a basic knowledge of computer science. Computer science is a subject that combines the use of technology which is ICT (Information Communication Technology) and the creation of technology. To use ICT (the subject about how to use technology to communicate information) more effectively, we need to know how technology works. Computing or computer science will create a generation of young people able to work at the forefront of technology change. It is the umbrella term for the subject that comprises 3 elements : computer science, information technology and digital literacy. It is helpful to think of these as the foundations, applications and implications of digital technology. The new focus on computer science will provides a well-defined and rigorous academic discipline and a unique lens through which pupils can understand the world. Children must therefore be taught computing if they are to be ready for tomorrow technology challenges. Our ingenuity to invent new means of communicating with each other, our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries however still a lot remain to be done with the arrival of quantum computing. A more rigorous approach to computer science teaching will help compete across the full spectrum of digital industries. This can only be achieved by equipping ourselves with the foundation skills, knowledge and understanding of computing do the necessity to introduce "computational thinking" at school via the new national curriculum (programmes of study and targets), the 2014 national curriculum that introduces computing which will replace ICT.
11/2015
Sociologie
Polish Psychological Verbs at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface in Cross-linguistic Perspective
This book is a comparative study of Polish psychological verbs. The analysis concentrates on the lexicon-syntax interface of psych verbs, and constitutes an argument in favour of its strong dependence on event structure. The aim of this study is to show that the class of Polish psych verbs, as in many other languages, is not uniform. The analysed subclasses are differentiated on the basis of their causation and stativity. The marriage of those semantic traits and their structural representation is possible only if it is performed via event structure configuration, a layer which appears to underlie the conceptualisation of events.
04/2005
Non classé
Métissage in New France and Canada 1508 to 1886
This book deals with métissage in New France and Canada in the period 1508 to 1886. Métissage is understood as a syncretistic process of cultural, social and political encounter and mixture of ethnic groups that resulted from mixed marriages and relationships. Those led to the rise of the Métis people in North America, which were distinguished as French-speaking Métis and English-speaking Halfbreeds. The process of mixture began in 1508, when first Indians were shipped to France with the intention to use them as multipliers of French culture on their return to the colony. In 1886, the Act of Savages legally distinguished between "Indians" and "Metis", thus marking the beginning of a mixed-blood identity in Canada that was differentiated from neighbouring Whites, Indians and Inuit. The theoretical approach of the history of concepts is employed in the longue durée to show the variance throughout four centuries.
08/2009
Sociologie
Representations of Africa in American and Caribbean Studies N° 1 Dédembre 2021. 1
" "Africa has always shed its light onto the Americas. Although all the contributions highlight the representations of Africa or Africans in American and Caribbean Studies, they also underscore a common humanistic concern ; whether on society, culture or environment. Africa is known to be the craddle of humanity and the main inspirational source to a lot of world authors, especially the American and Caribbean ones". Pr Louis Mendy
02/2022
Non classé
Decision-Making and Limited Resources
What happens when advanced students of English for general purposes suddenly find themselves as beginning students of English for special purposes ? What happens in interlanguage when such students are faced with the obligation of constructing a viable currency for the market ? What happens when the learner-actor attempts to understand for meaning in texts for the professions ? What happens at the point where interlanguage and reality meet ? Such encounters constitute genuine moments of opportunity. They are essentially the moments of truth that will determine the actual potential of the learner-interlocutor as interactor with the text - and with reality itself. Literacy is at stake - and professional competence. Actor performance cannot be seen as a simple function of resources alone, but is to be seen as a function of a complexity of factors such as mother-tongue and linguistic distance, bilingualism and market competition, acquisition and learning, language used in the operations, and lexical currency status. The book is an empirical study against the background of the new competition of today's service economy and the requirements of the interaction imperative in the business world of today. And it is set in a dual linguistic environment.
11/1999
Religion
The Poetics of Intimacy and the Problem of Sexual Abstinence- Revised Edition
This bold work asks whether traditional Christian sexual morality, with its emphasis on sexual abstinence outside of heterosexual marriage, is harmful. Appealing to sociological studies, anthropological theories, and contemporary theological ethics, Hartwig develops a model of sexual virtue around the concept of a poetics of intimacy and applies this model to particular challenges faced by the divorced, married couples, gay men and lesbians, single adults, and people with mental and developmental disabilities. He concludes that mandated long-term and lifelong sexual abstinence for those outside heterosexual marriage is not only harmful, but compromises many features of Christian morality.
03/2010
Anglais apprentissage
HAROLD PINTER. The Caretaker of the Fragments of Modernity, Etude de l'oeuvre de Pinter, anglais
Le présent ouvrage offre une analyse détaillée des œuvres de Harold Pinter, notamment The Caretaker, The Birthday Party et The Dumb Waiter, ceci afin de dégager les thématiques récurrentes, les procédés dramatiques et les intérêts philosophiques.
Cette étude est acccompagnée d'un glossaire bilingue de termes sur la dramaturgie et de concepts spécifiques à l'univers de Pinter, et d'un index des œuvres de l'auteur et de ses principaux inspirateurs.
10/1996
Anglais apprentissage
Encountering the Chinese. A Guide for Americans, Second Edition
To fathom the complex culture of China is a daunting task, but Hu Wenzhong and Cornelius Grove, in this substantially revised and updated edition of their popular book, have risen to the challenge. They provide a practical and sensitive cross-cultural analysis of Chinese culture along with insights into how best to communicate and interact with Chinese people. As the economic and diplomatie climate in China has changed, the frequency of contact between Chinese and Americans has increased in all areas : business, academic, scientific, professional, personal and cultural, making this book even more valuable. Relying on Hu's knowledge of his native Chinese culture and Grove's American perspective from his substantial experience in China, Encountering the Chinese will enable Westerners to establish more productive and rewarding relationships with the Chinese, both inside and outside the PRC. As in the first edition, the authors retain fondamental information on basic Chinese values, cultural norms, and mindsets and identify the cross-cultural factors that often lead to failed business negotiations, embarrassing faux pas and misunderstandings when Americans and other Westerners encounter the Chinese. In this second edition they have added a discussion of economic changes and the gradual demise of state-owned companies, and they give special attention to the shift among young urban professionals and businesspeople from traditional collectivist values toward individualism and a market economy mentality. There is also a new section for American women working in China.
01/1999
Non classé
Exceptions and Rules:- Brecht, Planchon and The Good Person of Szechwan
This book examines the Brechtian influence on Roger Planchon's three stagings of Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan (July 1954 ; October 1954 ; December 1958). The meaning of a Brechtian mise en scène is determined by an analysis of the Berliner Ensemble production of the same play (1957). A comparison of these stagings not only reveals the clash between the German and French theatrical traditions but the German mise en scène also provides a point of reference which underlines the similarities and differences between Planchon's and Brecht's staging methods.
12/1987
Droit européen des affaires
Lobbyst. Revelations from the EU Labyrinth, 2e édition
I feel the need to enlighten the public on the way the European Union functions, or rather malfunctions. For most readers, this could come as a great shock : how can one imagine that the legislator no longer legislates and that he delegates his legislative power to obscure cenacles called "trilogues" ? Today, being a lobbyist is considered to be bad. A defender of business, of multinationals, of capitalism, ... and by extension of pesticides, intensive agriculture and junk food. That is the image ! The aim of this book is not to correct this image, but to provide elements of appreciation and to give a form of objectivity to the debate. Daniel Guéguen is the longest serving EU lobbyist. He is the former head of the European sugar lobby and then of the European farmers unions. Now a consultant, he is at the heart of the lobbying issues that make the news. Longtime professor in the United States, notably at Georgetown and Harvard. Now at the College of Europe. Multi-author, editorialist, blogger, Daniel Guéguen remains a convinced pro-European, but fiercely critical of an opaque, bureaucratic and, to put it bluntly, anti-democratic system.
12/2023
Religion
Conjugal Chastity in Pope Wojtyla
Conjugal Chastity in Pope Wojtyla explains how Karol Wojtyla, philosopher, theologian, and Pope, tried to show how the sexual act, within the context of marriage, is an expression of love. After explaining how love as goodwill is the foundation of conjugal love, the correct relationship between love and justice is clarified. The negative dimension of the personalistic norm of Wojtyla is then critically examined. Conjugal love is explained in terms of conjugal beneficience based on conjugal benevolence. This love leads to total self-giving in each conjugal act. The procreative meaning of the conjugal act seems to be its most formal element (the soul of the act, so to speak); the unitive element is described as an essential property of this act, something which necessarily flows from the conjugal act which is open to life. Chastity is the virtue that allows sexuality to be integrated into a love which is truly personal and reflects Trinitarian Love.
09/2010
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
Littérature française
Gardens of Oceania
Oceania, particularly in Vanuatu, gardens are the evidence of an ancestral rural tradition in which food plants are at one and the same time an indispensable resource, the symbols of a community and the objects of baiter or trade. The ni-Vanuatu devote themselves with true passion to their gardens, within which they collect, select and diversify a rich botanical heritage. Perusing this abundantly illustrated work, the reader will discover the full diversity of Oceanian food plants as well as the many exotic species introduced by the great explorers of the 16th century. Each species is the subject of a detailed dossier that describes amongst other things the variability, morphology, mode of cultivation and production of the plant as well as its different uses. The CD-ROM that accompanies the book provides information in greater detail for the specialist : bibliographic references, details and descriptors of yams and taros, photos illustrating the morphological variability, and much more. With the aim of preserving this exceptional plant heritage to the greatest possible extent, this work will draw the attention of a wide public' to the gardens of Vanuatu, and to this Oceanian agriculture that combines a variety of multicultural contributions with great originality.
05/2010
Histoire ancienne
Rock and Ritual
This book is the outcome of the analysis and discussion of the links between ritual practices and some natural spaces, particularly caves, but also rockshelters and stones. The articles gathered in this volume show very diverse contexts and researches, mainly from Bronze Age to Roman times. They offer new perspectives about religious landscapes as well as the role of these spaces in territorial organisation. Several contributions try to reconstruct ritual movements, regulated religious itineraries and social practices, whereas others focus on the circulation inside caves and rockshelters, considering the multi-sensoriality of these natural spaces, linked also with the material offerings. Rock & Ritual volume is another evidence of the complexity and variability of ritual practices linked to natural spaces.
04/2022
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
Comics
Tales from the Crypt Tome 5
Anthologie de récits d'horreur, Tales from the crypt (anciennement The Crypt of Terror) était un bi-mensuel publié par EC Comics, le label indépendant américain de William Gaines, de 1950 à 1955. Trente numéros seront publiés,auxquels auront participé des auteurs comme Harvey Kurtzman, Johnny Craig, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, Bernie Kriegstein... Le présent volume rassemble les derniers numéros de la série, soit du 41 au 46. Un classique de la BD.
11/2018
BD tout public
Ernesto
Ernesto est un grand-père pas très bavard. Il vit à Tours, mais son accent ne trompe pas : on sait bien qu'il vient de l'autre côté des Pyrénées. Le franquisme lui a volé sa jeunesse... Ernesto tait ses blessures. Et la vie file à toute allure.L'Espagne, les oranges grosses comme des melons, les melons doux comme du miel... Un matin, tout l'appelle. Et avec son vieux copain Thomas, le combattant pour la République prend la route.
08/2017
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
Nietzsche and the End of Freedom
Nietzsche's writing is not some game of 'freeplay' and terms like 'intertextuality' are useless in discussing its influence. This study takes Nietzsche, then Kafka's Trial, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Heinrich Mann's Man of Straw, Rilke's Malte Laurids Brigge and Musil's Törless. It argues that Nietzsche mediates and modernises the dilemmas of Romanticism and that a properly differentiated account of his literary reception can illuminate the dynamics of German culture on the eve of the Great War.
07/1993
Religion
Leviticus
Whereas many books in this field deal with individual aspects or texts of the study of family laws, Leviticus : The Priestly Laws and Prohibitions from the Perspective of Ancient Near East and Africa examines extensively biblical texts, ancient Near Eastern text, and oral traditions from Africa. Thus, three different cultures converge : the world of the Hebrew Bible, the world of the ancient Near East, and the world of Africa. This volume examines in detail the history of the development of ancient laws in general and family laws in particular, especially the laws relating to marriages between close relatives. Furthermore, Johnson M. Kimuhu looks at prohibitions and taboos in Africa and the problems they pose with regard to the interpretation and translation of difficult biblical concepts into African languages. In that sense, Kimuhu provides an example of how to contextualize or integrate African traditions into the study of biblical Hebrew, and he also offers insights into the current debate on the study of kinship from the point of view of social/cultural anthropology and the Hebrew Bible legal system. Teachers, students, and researchers in biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern studies, African traditions, and social/cultural anthropology will find this book helpful in their quest to understand family laws, prohibitions, and taboos.
02/2008
BD tout public
Graines de bandits
Nous sommes en Amérique et le calendrier affiche 1973. Par ici, la modernité vient tout juste d'arriver. Pourtant, il suffit de s'éloigner de la ville de quelques centaines de kilomètres pour reculer de plusieurs décennies. Tout est contraste, tout est neuf ou inexploré, tout semble possible. C'est dans ce contexte que deux jeunes parents quittent la ville avec leurs deux fils pour s'installer en campagne dans le but avoué de fuir la modernité. Cependant, rien ne se passe comme prévu et le climat familial se détériore rapidement. La seule option pour les deux frères est de fuir. Fuir chaque jour les violences parentales vers les champs et les bois, pour s'inventer une autre existence. Dans ce petit village perdu, à force d'aventures, de mauvais coups et d'amours d'été, c'est toute la vie qui leur sera révélée.
08/2019
Poésie
Graines de corail
Graines de Corail est le titre retenu pour cette publication collective des Iliennes, qui font partie des Amis de la Poésie, club né au siècle dernier, un mois de janvier 1990, à Nouméa, en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Les rendez-vous mensuels avaient été fixés, depuis 30 ans au premier mercredi du mois, Baie de l'Orphelinat, au Piano Bar Paillard, une institution de la place consacrée à la musique et la chanson, désormais disparue du paysage au grand regret de ses aficionados. Elle réunissait les membres du Club qui vont et viennent au gré du flux et du reflux des vagues du Pacifique. Les rescapés ont été recueillis au Piano Blanc, chez Aline Mori, présidente de l'association depuis 2006, dans l'auberge espagnole de la poésie et de la musique pour partager un verre et l'amour inconditionnel des mots. S'y croisent des voix anciennes ou plus récentes qui ont traversé les océans pour faire souche, germer et se multiplier sur ces îles coralliennes, en colonies discrètes, en récif sous-marin. L'élément liquide, dans lequel nous baignons, enchante les coeurs et les âmes qui s'envolent au gré des alizés, en mots murmurés, soufflés, chauds et dorés, exaltés, célébrant l'ici et le maintenant, parfois l'ailleurs, nostalgies inspirées chevillées au corps sous le soleil exactement, dans l'immensité de l'Océan.
10/2020
Religion
Graines de conscience
L'un des plus grands Maîtres de l'Inde contemporaine : Sri
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981) poursuit ici une nouvelle série d'entretiens avec des chercheurs, qui venus à la suite de la publication en 1974 du livre " Je suis " viennent lui rendre hommage dans son modeste logement de Bombay. Graines de Conscience regroupe des dialogues échangés entre Maharaj et divers interlocuteurs sur une période s'échelonnant de Juin 1979 à avril 1980. A l'aide de mots coups de poing, pour lesquels il est bien connu, Sri Nisargadatta transmet un enseignement limpide : les racines de la souffrance sont dans le mental qui doit être libéré de ses habitudes déformantes et destructives. Les entretiens ont été recueillis par Jean Dunn, une des auditrices les plus fidèles de Maharaj, et collaboratrice du journal de l'ashram de Ramana Maharshi The Mountain Path.
01/1983
Littérature française (poches)
Graines de Tunisie
Pendant plusieurs années, Claudie Figier a enseigné le français en Tunisie. Une situation qui lui a offert de vivre de belles rencontres, de découvrir de nouvelles traditions et d'observer des rites jusqu'alors inconnus. Curieuse et sensible, profondément humaniste, elle met ici en mots la beauté de ces instants privilégiés dans des récits tout en finesse qui offrent le délicat portrait des mille et un visages de la Tunisie qu'elle a connue. Preuve qu'au-delà des barrières de langue et de culture, les hommes peuvent se tendre la main et vivre ensemble...
10/2014
BD jeunesse divers
Graines de cheffes
La famille de Cici vient de quitter Taïwan pour vivre à Seattle, et l'adolescente n'a qu'une idée en tête : pouvoir fêter le soixante-dixième anniversaire de sa grand-mère. Pour financer le voyage d'A-Má, elle va tenter de remporter le premier prix d'un concours de cuisine pour enfants. Il y a juste un problème... Cici ne sait cuisiner que la nourriture taïwanaise.
06/2021
Thèmes photo
Histoires de graines
De l'émergence de l'agriculture, il y a plus de 10 000 ans, aux questions que soulèvent les semences hybrides actuelles, en passant par la découverte des usages des graines à travers les cultures et les époques, l'ouvrage explore les enjeux de la diversité. La graine est une merveille d'apparence, une perfection de forme et de couleur. Elle possède une morphologie à la fois nécessaire et bizarre, propre à susciter l'étonnement, l'interrogation ou la contemplation. Choisies, éclairées et cadrées avec le plus grand soin, les graines photographiées par Thierry Ardouin, perturbent notre subjectivité de spectateur : elles deviennent des symboles qui, loin d'une image générique, interrogent notre rapport à l'origine. De l'émergence de l'agriculture, il y a plus de 10 000 ans, aux questions que soulèvent les semences hybrides actuelles, en passant par la découverte des usages des graines à travers les cultures et les époques, l'ouvrage explore les enjeux de la diversité. De la domestication à la commercialisation, les graines parlent de l'évolution de nos pratiques tant sociales que culturelles. Elles racontent la grande histoire des hommes : leur diffusion, acclimatation, réglementation font écho à la mondialisation, croissance des productions et acculturations de nos sociétés. Issues, pour la plupart des collections du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, ces graines sauvages ou cultivées venues du monde entier fascinent par leur beauté formelle : couleurs, textures, contours, apparences, elles captent le regard, interrogent nos perceptions. Accompagnées d'un corpus de textes signés de botanistes, ethnologues et ingénieurs agronomes, les images de Thierry Ardouin ouvrent des champs de réflexion sur l'avenir de nos sociétés et leur aptitude à imaginer demain. Comment consommer sans dégrader, produire sans appauvrir, vivre sans détruire ?
06/2022
Littérature française (poches)
Graines de héros
Jorge vit en Equateur. Tous les jours il plante des graines de kapokier là où une compagnie forestière américaine a eu l'autorisation d'exploiter l'or vert d'Amazonie. Pour chaque arbre déraciné, Jorge dépose une graine dans l'espoir de combattre la déforestation massive de son pays, mais un jour, le couperet tombe. Jorge et son père sont contraints de quitter leur maison en plein coeur de la forêt. Commencent alors trois histoires : Julien Sandrel, Laure Manel, Gavin's Clemente-Ruiz et Sophie Tal Men ont projeté Jorge trente ans plus tard, en France ; Aurélie Valognes, Lena Walker, Romain Puertolas et Lorraine Fouchet ont pris le chemin de l'exil avec le petit planteur de kapokier, le faisant traverser l'Equateur avec pour destination le volcan Cotopaxi ; quant à Baptiste Beaulieu, Serena Giuliano, Sophie Astrabie et Virginie Grimaldi, ils ont réveillé l'Esprit du Fleuve Napo et confronté Jorge à son destin.
08/2020
