Thaïs Cousigné
Extraits
Policiers
Trompe la mort
Pourquoi, lorsque Lia Parkman, cousine de Kristin Hollander dont les parents viennent d'être assassinés, demande à Scudder d'enquêter, celui-ci accepte-t-il alors que la police a clos le dossier et bien fait son travail ? Bien sûr, il y a que Scudder vient de perdre sa première femme, celle qu'il a abandonnée du temps où il buvait comme un trou. Il y a aussi qu'un de ses fils paraît se conduire comme lui à cette époque : il boit, il est incapable de garder un boulot et, plus grave, il pique dans la caisse. Culpabilité ? C'est indéniable, mais il y a plus. Lia Parkman est jalouse de sa cousine qui va hériter, mais elle n'en fait pas mystère et devant sa sincérité, Scudder est prêt à écouter. Plus sérieux encore, n'y aurait-il pas que la disparition des deux meurtriers est trop belle pour qu'on se contente des explications absolument convaincantes de la police ?
02/2002
12 ans et +
Moi, ma vie, ma mère en textos
Flora, 13 ans, et sa mère vivent ensemble. Enfin "vivent" tient davantage de l'expression que de la réalité car la mère passe sa vie en voyage d'affaires à l'autre bout du monde. Le père de Flora est aux abonnés absents depuis sa naissance... La mère est souvent loin du quotidien de sa fille, alors pour garder le contact, toutes les deux ont adopté un mode de communication par sms. C'est tout un quotidien qui se dessine ainsi... et puis il y a ce secret qui plane autour du père... Un jour, une grand-mère outre-Atlantique réapparaît et invite sa petite-fille en vacances à New York. Elle lui présente une cousine de son âge, Tessy. Une cousine... vraiment ? Flora découvre que sa mère lui a beaucoup menti. La réconciliation se fera tandis que Flora devra affronter ce père tant espéré et détesté à la fois... A partir de 11 ans.
05/2018
Policiers
On ne joue pas avec la mort
Cadre dans une société new-yorkaise, Anton va enfin concrétiser son projet de mariage avec Sophie, violoniste virtuose au caractère instable. Mais la lune de miel sur l'île d'Ischia tourne court, et Sophie rentre seule aux Etats-Unis, tandis qu'Anton attend un mystérieux rendez-vous. Il a le temps de penser à sa famille de voleurs, à sa cousine qui ne cesse de l'impliquer dans de dangereux trafics, à son désir de mener une vie "normale". Mais le peut-il ? Pourquoi a-t-il vu sa vie professionnelle imploser dans les semaines précédant son mariage ? Pourquoi lui a-t-on enlevé sa secrétaire et ses collaborateurs, et a-t-on relégué son bureau à l'entresol ? Pourquoi a-t-il accepté de tenir à nouveau un rôle dans la partie mystérieuse que joue sa cousine ? Sur son île italienne, Anton attend. Un messager est en route pour lui apporter les réponses... Mais pas celles qu'il espérait.
08/2013
Littérature française
La maison des Barthes
Une famille mal composée. Un enfant lourdement handicapé. Un père falot. Une mère possessive. Un drame... Familles, je vous hais ! disait André Gide.
03/2023
Non classé
Read Ancient African scripts from any current African language. Volume 2
The son of Douaouf, the brilliant, scribe of the early XIIth Dynasty Xty " Khety " said this : "The man continues to subsist after reaching the haven of death and his actions are beside him in a heap. " If regression is the main cause of the alarming situation of Africa and its tails the perceptibles consequences at all levels, the solution to this problem is eminently political. It inevitably involves the constitution of a pan-African State. For men, there is no unity without memory of the past. In fact, the construction of a federal state inevitably involves the restoration of African historical consciousness. There is no national and federal identity without a common language. The unification of Africa will only be possible if it takes the measure of its linguistic unification issue. To a lesser extent but like Cheikh Anta Diop in his book titled the Cultural Unity, I was animated throughout this heuristic by the idea that only the true knowledge of the past can maintain the consciousness and the feeling of a historical continuity essential to the consolidation of a nation for the purpose of building a multinational state in line with its past. Like Cheikh Anta Diop, I build my sureness on the legitimate idea that a people who lost a significant part of their historical memory must engage in the investigation of their past in every possible way. This investigation can take the contours of a reconnection with its past through so-called old languages. But a people can not live only with by merely repeating of what others tell them about themselves. The investigation through its linguistic past allows especially a direct knowledge of oneself. In addition to the fact that this knowledge simply highlights its weaknesses, it allows also to become aware by an introspective and therefore reflective of its real abilities and strengths. It structures being and the consciousness of being to resist any form of servile and degrading ideology. This quest for the past, not founded on blind passion but objectivity, nourishes a healthy ambition for a real universalism. To know one's past is already to project one's future. To know one's past is to give oneself the capacity to be able to bring to others in a perspective of giving and receiving. To know one's past is to refuse intellectual guardianship and wait-and-seeism. To know one's past is to be reborn.
05/2020
Non classé
Read Ancient African scripts from any current African language. Volume 1
The son of Douaouf, the brilliant, scribe of the early XIIth Dynasty Xty " Khety " said this : "The man continues to subsist after reaching the haven of death and his actions are beside him in a heap. " If regression is the main cause of the alarming situation of Africa and its tails the perceptibles consequences at all levels, the solution to this problem is eminently political. It inevitably involves the constitution of a pan-African State. For men, there is no unity without memory of the past. In fact, the construction of a federal state inevitably involves the restoration of African historical consciousness. There is no national and federal identity without a common language. The unification of Africa will only be possible if it takes the measure of its linguistic unification issue. To a lesser extent but like Cheikh Anta Diop in his book titled the Cultural Unity, I was animated throughout this heuristic by the idea that only the true knowledge of the past can maintain the consciousness and the feeling of a historical continuity essential to the consolidation of a nation for the purpose of building a multinational state in line with its past. Like Cheikh Anta Diop, I build my sureness on the legitimate idea that a people who lost a significant part of their historical memory must engage in the investigation of their past in every possible way. This investigation can take the contours of a reconnection with its past through so-called old languages. But a people can not live only with by merely repeating of what others tell them about themselves. The investigation through its linguistic past allows especially a direct knowledge of oneself. In addition to the fact that this knowledge simply highlights its weaknesses, it allows also to become aware by an introspective and therefore reflective of its real abilities and strengths. It structures being and the consciousness of being to resist any form of servile and degrading ideology. This quest for the past, not founded on blind passion but objectivity, nourishes a healthy ambition for a real universalism. To know one's past is already to project one's future. To know one's past is to give oneself the capacity to be able to bring to others in a perspective of giving and receiving. To know one's past is to refuse intellectual guardianship and wait-and-seeism. To know one's past is to be reborn.
05/2020
Lecture 9-12 ans
LES ENFANTS TILLERMAN. Tome 2
Cousine Eunice veut " placer " Maybeth et Sammy, les plus jeunes des enfants Tillerman. Plutôt que d'être séparés, les quatre frères et sœurs ont préféré se remettre en route. " Et si on allait chez grand-mère ? " Mais la vieille femme, que l'on dit un peu bizarre, ignore jusqu'à l'existence du quatuor !
04/1999
Lecture 9-12 ans
Les Enfants Tillerman Tome 2 : Chez Gram
Cousine Eunice veut " placer " Maybeth et Sammy, les plus jeunes des enfants Tillerman. Plutôt que d'être séparés, les quatre frères et soeurs ont préféré se remettre en route. Et s'ils allaient chez leur grand-mère ? Mais la vieille femme, que l'on dit un peu bizarre, ignore jusqu'à
l'existence du quatuor...
10/2010
Lecture 6-9 ans
Horrible Henri Tome 14 : Garçon d'honneur
Horrible Henri et son petit frère Paul Parfait ont été choisis par leur cousine pour être garçons d'honneur à son mariage. Déguisé en enfant sage, Horrible Henri est fou de rage. Mais vous pouvez lui faire confiance les yeux fermés, le garnement a déjà plein d'idées pour animer la journée. Vive les mariés !
04/2015
Bibliothèque rose
La Comtesse de Ségur Tome 11 : Un bon petit diable
Orphelin, Charles vit chez Mme Mac'Miche, une vieille cousine avare et féroce. Pour se venger de cette dernière, le jeune garçon imagine mille farces... Mais voilà qu'elle décide de se débarrasser de lui en l'envoyant dans une sinistre pension ! Il devra faire preuve de beaucoup de finesse afin d'y échapper...
12/2022
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
Guides étrangers
Thaïlande. Bangkok, Phuket, Ayuttahaya, Sukhothai, Chiang Mai
Des clefs pour comprendre : ... un territoire aux milieux singuliers, des rives du Mékong aux îles de la mer d'Andaman ; l'histoire de la Thaïlande ; son art de vivre coloré et foisonnant qui sait préserver ses traditions ; son architecture civile et religieuse, dont les temples rappellent les influences khmères, birmanes, indiennes, thaï... Des itinéraires a parcourir : Découvrir la Thaïlande en 5 circuits de visite ; flâner du palais royal de Bangkok à la fascinante maison-musée de Jim Thompson ; admirer l'artisanat des tribus montagnardes ; se prélasser sur les plages du Sud... Et un lexique français-thaï pour les mots et expressions utiles.
09/2019
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
Chronobiology & Chronomedicine- Basic Research and Applications
The time structure of living systems, which rules the autonomous temporal order of organisms as well as their coherence with the outer environment, has aroused considerable attention in biology and medicine since 1937, when a few European scientists gathered to establish this new field of research. This volume contains the Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Chronobiology, held in Marburg in 1986. It mirrors the great advances of chronobiology and chronomedicine in theory and practice up to the present. Distinguished scientists from European and other countries report on recent results in basic research and medical applications.
06/1987
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
Informatique
CALDERA OPENLINUX. Installation and configuration handbook, CD-Rom includes
This handbook is hands-down the best reference source for installing and troubleshooting OpenLinux. By providing concise pieces of information, this book, puts you right in position to get working quickly.
Author Gary Wilson provides an insightful, easy read for advanced users, computer systems administrators, or anyone else required to set up and maintain a Linux computer in a small to medium-sized office, including hobbyists looking to put Linux on their home computers.
The Caldera OpenLinux Installation & Configuration Handbook focuses on installing and reliably maintaining a comprehensive Internet solution, including a corporate mail server, Web server, and more on a small budget.
12/1999
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
Religion
Differential effects of early and late nocturnal sleep on the consolidation of declarative and nondeclarative memory
Nocturnal sleep apparently promotes the translation of labile short-term memories into more stable long-term memories. The present studies suggest that the sleep-related consolidation of hippocampus-mediated memories benefits primarily from early nocturnal sleep. A reduced activation of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors and a neocortico-hippocampal 'off-line' mode during this part of sleep may be of particular relevance for this phenomenon. In contrast, non hippocampus-mediated memories benefit primarily from late nocturnal sleep. In addition to a critical amount of REM sleep, other, yet unknown factors may contribute to the consolidation of non hippocampus-mediated memories during late nocturnal sleep.
10/1997
Non classé
The «Individualität» of August von Platen
Platen, in the critical imagination, is a classicistic formalist who hid his anguished life behind imitative art. This cliché - which originates in Heine's early caricature - has not been corrected because of a virtual absence of close analyses of the kind undertaken in this study. There is shown to be unsuspected continuity in experiments with lyric forms as different as Lied, ghasel, sonnet, ode, idyll and "Pindaric" hymn ; Platen appears as a decidedly confessional, even histrionic, writer in the wake of Byron, and his subjectivity proves strong and unrepentant enough to be comparable to Heine's own.
12/1983
Non classé
Autobiography: Self Into Form
"The autobiographical impulse" dominated German-language literature of the 1970's, finding its expression in autobiographies of crisis, women's coming-to-consciousness, and disrupted childhoods. This study examines the historical, sociological, political and literary-historical context for this phenomenon, and in so doing engages the critical international discussion of autobiography as a changing genre. Detailed analyses of works by Ingeborg Bachmann, Elisabeth Plessen, Christa Wolf and Peter Handke suggest new critical approaches to autobiographical form. The author provides an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, as well as a chronological table of autobiographical works of the decade.
12/1983
Non classé
A Concordance to Six Middle English Tail-Rhyme Romances
The six Middle English poems covered by this two-volume computerized concordance form a homogeneous group of non-cyclical tail-rhyme romances : Sir Eglamour of Artois, Le Bone Florence of Rome, Sir Isumbras, Octavian, The King of Tars, and Sir Tryamowr. In preparing the concordance, the relevant editions have been checked against the manuscripts and the texts re-edited according to a unified set of principles. In this KWIC (Key Word in Context) concordance the lexical material is given in full and homonyms have been distinguished. It can serve both literary (E.g. formulaic) and linguistic (e.g. syntactic) studies.
02/1993
Physique, chimie
Dictionary of chemical elements - Historical discoveries and applications
This dictionary is a guide, defining key terms of chemical elements in English, French and Arabic. Everything you need to know about chemical elements in a clear, one sentence definition and is followed by explanation and examples. The dictionary format makes it exceptionally easy to use. This dictionary has been deliberately designed to be for students - everything you need is in the dictionary, making it the ideal exam revision companion. For everyone else - basic ideas and concepts are introduced and simply explained and followed by straightforward explanation and illustrations to widen your understanding of the subject.
03/2017
Religion
The Rural Novel
Comparative in scope and theoretical rather than historical in approach, this study develops new methods for discussion of the rural novel, combining the insights of rural sociologists with those of theoreticians of fiction. The main focus of attention is the nexus of relationships between narrator, characters and community. While recognizing that conflicts of purpose often arise in the rural novel, which may aim both to record a supposedly real community and to suggest a model of social life, this study reaffirms the genre's value as a challenge to unthinking acceptance of a linear model of human progress.
12/1984
Religion
Roman Catholic/Pentecostal Dialogue (1977-1982): A Study in Developing Ecumenism
Vatican II opened the doors of the Roman Catholic Church for official theological dialogue with "separated brethren." The rise of the neo-Pentecostal movement and charismatic renewal caused the doors of the historical Pentecostals to open toward Christians in the mainline churches. This book discusses the historical precedents of the Vatican/Pentecostal Dialogue and reviews the ten-years Dialogue (1972-1982), with special attention given to the second five years. The implications of this Dialogue for ecumenism is also discussed. Volume Two contains all the documents from the second quinquennium, including the 16 theological papers and final report.
10/1987
Sociologie
«Peoples in Contact: Remembering the Past - Sharing the Future»
1992 - the quincentenary of the "discovery" of America by Columbus - for the participants of the Greifswald conference this did not mean to celebrate but to reflect on the effects and consequences of this clash of cultures. The conference dealt with questions and problems of intercultural relations, racism and multiculturalism in North America and Great Britain. Various papers analyze the achievements of minorities and their contributions to an increasing understanding of minority-majority relationships. Examples range from the general (Native American literature in the USA, women writers) to the specific (Canadian Métis, problems of Pakistani children in Lancashire).
12/1993
Littérature française
What Pig Are You Feeding?
Hello and welcome to this nice journey, More than anything I want the journey to show how easy and sane humor & fun are, they very often give us relief from the burden of Blessedness and Ugliness. We should laugh at the absurdity of it all. I'm afraid this book does not offer concrete solutions. However, I'm quite sure these nice reflections would help you spotting amazing cases and strange situations whenever you want to laugh at everything, whenever you want some relief, whenever you want humor... It's always worthwhile to wear a smile. All the best SalmaMichele
10/2016
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
Non classé
The Quest for Constitutionalism in Africa
Since the wave for national rule and independence from the colonial powers during the 1960's Africa's struggle for democratic rule has often been frustrated by an uneasy relationship between civil society and the military. This relationship has brought about grave human right abuses and lack of respect for the democratic values enshrined in constitutional rule. The end result was political instability and a retarded process of political development. This book, therefore, examines constitutional development in selected East Africa countries, the role of the army, the nationality question and constitutional accommodation and political parties, elections and political instability.
05/1994
Bijouterie, horlogerie
Cartier, arts de l'Islam et modernité
This catalogue of the "Cartier, Arts of Islam and Modernity" exhibition at the Louvre Abu-Dhabi (LAD) illustrates the influence of the artistic wonders of Islam on the sumptuous jewels of the House of Cartier, from the early 20th century to the present day. Manuscripts, arabesques, vases, tunics and mosaics provide a constellation of extraordinary and inspiring patterns. By creating masterpieces of emeralds and sapphires, Cartier pays glorious homage to the arts of Islam. This catalogue, which ends with pieces of contemporary jewellery, is a celebration of the conviction that cultural dialogue is an inexhaustible source of creation and beauty.
11/2023
Policiers
Goebius' Strange Model
A company elaborates in great secrecy a project, vital to its very survival. As the project develops, it leads the protagonists far beyond the originally envisioned simple business strategy, and brings them close to the forefront of the physical laws governing the behavior of the universe. Two intrigues intertwine... will they meet ? Or do they form the single-sided face of a Möbius strip ? "This novel is as unexpected as a UFO, and refreshing..." Cédric Villani, Fields Medal 2010. "This book is fascinating, I read it all at once..." Etienne Ghys, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.
01/2020
