Metaphor and God-talk
Extraits
Religion
Canonical Marriage Preparation in the Igbo Tradition in the Light of Canon 1063 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law
The Igboman who embraces Christianity wants to remain a Christian without rejecting his Igbo identity and culture. In view of this, there is an urgent need to foster and promote marriage preparation in Igboland as a way of rediscovering the Christian and traditional values of marriage as an institution. This aims at providing the ambience and opportunity for prospective couples to establish successful marriages and their stability in Igboland. In this regard, as an implementation to its renewed meaning and understanding of marriage, the Church recognizes the necessity for effective and adequate marriage preparation and pastoral care of marriage. The study attempts to give the influence of theological and canonical enrichments in the meaning and understanding of the matrimonial sacrament upon the legal provisions, guidelines and programs for marriage preparation in the Igbo dioceses of Nigeria.
12/2013
Non classé
Exiles in Print
The book provides a complementary view of modernism by investigating Anglo-American little magazines published in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Addressing symbolic and practical aspects of physical location and international themes in the little reviews, it highlights the infrastructure of modernism – networks, finances and genealogies. The authors link activities, strategies and negotiations with the creation of modernism as we know it, as magazine editors are shown to be highly conscious of their role as canon-makers. In this rendition, modernism is intrinsically linked with its agents and practices and pushes the dividing lines between narrow elite culture and wider readerships, as well as between cosmopolites and tourists.
12/2015
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
WHY SEX MATTERS. A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
Why are men, like other primate usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to maximize their reproductive success and seek resources to do so.
Low begins by reviewing the fundamental arguments and assumptions of behavioral ecology: selfish genes, conflicts of interest, and the tendency for sexes to reproduce through different behaviors. She explains why in primate species-from chimpanzees and apes to humans-males seek to spread their genes by devoting extraordinary efforts to finding mates, while females find it profitable to expend more effort on parenting. Low illustrates these sexual differences among humans by showing that in places as diverse as the parishes of nineteenth-century Sweden, the villages of seventeenth-century China, and the forests of twentieth-century Brasil, men have tended to seek power and resources, from cattle to money, to attract mates, while women have sought a secure environment for raising children. She makes it clear, however, they have not done so simply through individual efforts or in a vacuum, but that men and women act in complex ways that involve cooperation and coalition building and that are shaped by culture, technology, tradition, and the availability of resources. Low also considers how file evolutionary drive to
acquire resources leads to environmental degradation and warfare and asks whether our behavior could be channeled in more constructive ways.
Why Sex Matters is a compelling work of biology, sociology, and anthropology and a penetrating study of the deep motivations that underlie individual and social behavior.
01/2000
Anglais apprentissage
Elementary Language Practice
* Elementary level grammar clearly explained and practised
* Functional language developed and extended
* Language skills, including spelling, punctuation and word formation
* Consolidation and extension of vocabulary in common topic areas
* Grammar index and wordlist
* Ideal for self-study or classroom use
01/1999
Littérature française (poches)
D'enfer la voix
"En composant la première fois ton numéro, j'ai poussé une porte magique dans notre monde présent. Et j'ai entraîné mon ami d'enfance Noé. Tu nous a ouvert un espace inattendu. La vie a un sens en plus. Grâce à toi, on est maintenant des Class Angels. Et ton numéro circule entre les ados comme une traînée de poudre. Il nous relie tous. Il apporte à chacun un élan d'Amour dans sa vie. Waouh, c'est trop fort ! Et moi, j'aime ta voix ! Elle a bouleversé mon histoire. ". . Eva, héroïne de D'enfer la voix. Histoire humoristique de la vie quotidienne, aventure détonante afin de vous donner des élans chaque jour... où coïncidences significatives et synchronicités (comme les aime Jung ! ) prennent tout leur sens. Avec quelques clés de la pleine conscience et de la psychologie positive à vivre chaque jour. ____________________________________ Roman Feel-Good pour les 10/14 ans. Aventure quotidienne humoristique qui joue avec l'étonnement, l'optimisme et la joie de l'enfant intérieur, où les synchronicités sont bien présentes dans une série de rencontres et événements provoqués par un mystérieux numéro de mobile, 06 000 007. Dans un monde sens dessus dessous, bouleversé et bouleversant, D'enfer la voix souffle un bouquet de fraîcheur aux adolescents, comme un message à développer une entraide inconditionnelle, à se reconnecter à sa boussole intérieure, à sa nature profonde comme à la nature généreuse, et se nourrir de pépites de joie. Seul-e et ensemble. A l'intérieur de soi, comment vivre dans le calme intérieur quelles que soient les situations extérieures ? D'enfer la voix ouvre un chemin essentiel avec son héroïne Eva et ses amis, vers plus de conscience, de présence dans l'ici et maintenant, à l'écoute des signes, des synchronicités, du monde vibrant et conscient autour de nous, à sa magie que nous avons oubliée.
02/2020
Littérature étrangère
Qui sait ? Peut-être même que c'est bien...
Le récit limpide, presque consciencieux et documentaire et de la maladie et de la mort de la mère de l’auteur, atteinte d’un cancer du sein à l’âge de 54 ans. Le livre commence par une fin annoncée puis, au compte-rendu de la maladie se mêlent les souvenirs heureux d’une enfance à Berlin-Est dans les années 70-80, dans une famille d’intellectuels dont la mère, magique, documentariste aux studios de films de RDA, est le pilier. A travers une série de tableaux de souvenirs anodins, le récit pudique- que l’humour aussi garde de toute effusion sentimentale-, retrace la vie de la mère dont le père, un scientifique, juif, disparut en 1943 sans laisser de traces, sauf quelques gênes à risques qui expliquent le type particulièrement virulent de cancer du sein dont la mère est atteinte. La quête des origines, dans laquelle le fils a accompagné sa mère, trouve son terme in fine : la communauté juive de Berlin lui refusera une place dans le joli cimetière où elle aimait errer. Mais se dessine, surtout, le portrait d’une femme cultivant de ses ascendances les traditions essentiellement culinaires et dotée d’une joie de vivre qui affecte même sa pensée de la mort : «Qui sait ? Peut-être même que c’est bien… » dit-elle. Le lecteur est ainsi touché tour à tour par l’implacabilité du sort et la sollicitude du jeune homme qui prend en charge la maladie de sa mère tandis que les changements drastiques subis par le pays dans les deux dernières décennies défilent en toile de fond sur un mode proche du très acclamé “Good bye Lenin”. Cette «auto - non fiction» dont la simplicité d’écriture résiste à la gravité du thème, s’inscrit dans la lignée de grands textes comme Le Malheur indifférent de Peter Handke ou Le livre de ma mère d’Albert Cohen.
09/2011
Littérature française
Au revoir maman. Merci d'avoir joué le jeu
"Ma mère et moi, on n'a pas besoin de toi" dit une femme de 68 ans à sa soeur oubliant que sa mère est aussi la mère de sa soeur. En prenant possession de sa mère, cette femme illustre magnifiquement le rôle de la mère dans notre société et surtout la place qu'elle occupe dans notre vie. Pour Maurice Carême "Il y a plus de fleurs, pour ma mère, en mon coeur que dans tous les vergers. Plus de merles rieurs pour ma mère en mon coeur que dans le monde entier et bien plus de baisers pour ma mère en mon coeur qu'on en pourrait donner" . Pour A. Got "tout peut s'user... sauf la joue de la maman qui reçoit les baisers de son enfant" . Pour Charles Aznavour, Giorgio, le fils maudit est là lorsque la mamma va mourir. Pour Kendji Girac, la mère est "sa quête, elle est son Graal" . En sacralisant "la mère" , on la hisse au même niveau que Dieu en oubliant que c'est un être humain qui est pensé par ses mémoires cellulaires comme tous les êtres humains et qu'elle fait ce qu'elle peut avec ce qu'elle a reçu à la naissance. C'est la relation à sa mère que l'auteur vous livre. En une écriture douce, patiente, presque caressante, elle raconte sa vie auprès de cette femme qui ne pouvait pas l'aimer parce qu'elle n'était pas dégagée de ce qui lui était arrivé dans le passé. L'enjeu de cette lettre ouverte ? Expliquer que tout n'est pas aussi simple qu'on le dit, que l'Amour d'une mère pour son enfant n'est pas automatique, que les situations qu'elle a rencontrées peuvent l'empêcher d'exprimer ce qui était pourtant inné au départ mais aussi et surtout que cela a des conséquences énormes sur l'enfant qu'elle met au monde.
10/2018
Entre deux guerres
Les années trente en Touraine. Tome 1, Au nord de la Loire
Qui n'a pas rêvé de découvrir la vie de son village cent ans auparavant ? .. Revenir sur les pas de nos ancêtres, pousser les portes des commerces et métiers oubliés, se souvenir des noms de nos maires, médecins, curés, et de ceux et celles qui faisaient vivre nos villages dans les années trente. Du cantonnier à l'instituteur, en passant par le maire, le tambour-de-ville de Gizeux, le crieur-public de Semblançay, l'allume-feux de Cléré-les-Pins, le sonneur de Saint-Laurent-de Lin, personne n'est oublié dans cet inventaire exhaustif à la Prévert listant plus de 300 couturières et 560 épiciers. Chaque lecteur y retrouvera sans doute un de ses ancêtres ayant vécu au nord de l'Indre-et-Loire, car son patronyme figure sûrement dans cet ouvrage. Il y découvrira aussi de quelle commune était maire M. Maffray qui signera les pleins pouvoirs à Pétain, où vécurent les constructeurs de T.S.F. M. Pautré et M. Gody, où habitaient les héritiers des recettes de la Jouvence de l'abbé Soury, les descendants du créateur du célèbre petit LU. Dans les années trente en Touraine, afin d'obtenir une guérison, on se rend en pèlerinage dans une chapelle, on visite sources et fontaines listées dans cet ouvrage, on consomme l'apéritif fabriqué par Ernest Bourin à base d'écorces de quinquina dont la molécule a fait l'objet de débats passionnés dans le cadre de la pandémie de Covid-19 en 2020. Mais l'histoire de la Touraine est aussi jalonnée d'évènements dramatiques durant cette décennie : l'éboulement de Cinq-Mars-la-Pile en 1931 dont sera victime le général américain Dunlop ; celui de 1933 qui a fait trois morts à Rochecorbon ; et aussi l'accident d'aviation de Parçay-Meslay en 1939 avec ses neuf victimes. Avec cet ouvrage inédit, l'auteur nous permet de découvrir l'Indre-et-Loire de l'entre-deux-guerres et de retrouver des ancêtres ayant vécu cette période en Touraine.
04/2021
Non classé
Multicriteria Decision
This volume contains papers presented to the 14th meeting of the German Working Group "Multicriteria Decision" held on September 22-27, 1991 in Riezlern, Austria at the guesthouse of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main. The papers mainly focus at applications in structural optimization problems in engineering and other fields, presentation of software packages and decision systems, and theory of vector optimization and approximation and they aim at interchanging mathematical tools and ideas among mathematicians and engineers.
02/1993
Non classé
RoferonÎ-A in Chronic Viral Hepatitis
Chronic liver infection due to viral hepatitis B and C is a major public health problem. Worldwide, an estimated 750 million people are carriers of these two viruses. Alpha-interferons, such as RoferonI-A, are currently the therapy of choice in chronic viral hepatitis B and C. They are effective in preventing disease progression and life-threatening sequelae : liver cirrhosis, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, and variceal hemorrhage and/or hepatocellular carcinoma. On the other hand, discussion has been raised on the potentially enormous cost impact of these genetically engineered drugs in the treatment of an already costly disease. This study identifies and evaluates the long-term clinical and economic effects of RoferonI-A treatment in chronic viral hepatitis B and C over a time period of 10 to 20 years. Clinical and epidemiological data, as well as the detailed health care resource use and cost assessment, reflect the clinical and economic reality in Germany in 1993. A Markov model is used to predict the long-term clinical benefits of RoferonI-A therapy in terms of reduced morbidity and mortality. Based on this, direct costs, savings, and cost-effectiveness are analysed, including : RoferonI-A therapy initiation and follow-up, physician services, laboratory services, medicotechnical services, drug therapy, hospitalization as well as surgical interventions (liver transplantations).
06/1994
Italie, Florence, Toscane
Italy : Umbria & The Marches
Framed by dramatic mountains and the sparkling Adriatic coast, the neighbouring regions of Umbria and the Marche offer historical and cultural interest to rival the rest of Italy. Lofty medieval hill towns and castles dot the landscape, where vines, truffles and olives grow ; in between nestle lakes, Roman ruins and exceptional art cities crammed with Renaissance masterpieces. Follow in the footsteps of St Francis in UNESCO-listed Assisi, admire Orvieto's magnificent duomo and go sailing on peaceful Lake Trasimeno. Visit Urbino's mighty Palazzo Ducale, hike the Grande Anello dei Sibillini and relax on San Benedetto del Tronto's palm-fringed Blue Flag beaches. Additional online content and updates at www.bradtguides.com/updades.
12/2021
Non classé
From Scarcity to Sustainability
For futures studies and environmentalism the late 1960s and early 1970s were a heyday period of great publicity, and much scientific interest was devoted to them. The study 'Limits to Growth', commissioned by the Club of Rome, has played an important role for the further advancement of these fascinating fields. Each of them in its own way deals with the long term prospects of humankind and desirable future paths of humanity and the globe. This investigation illustrates a very important phase in the development of these two areas and writes a history of ideas and a history of impact of the Limits to Growth debate and other activities of the Club of Rome. It includes information that has so far only been known to a very limited number of directly involved individuals and looks into very recent stages of the sustainable development debate and newest developments of more pragmatic and critical futures studies. For the purpose of this study some 100 interviews have been made worldwide with very well known and often influential individuals. Among them are : Sicco Mansholt, Alexander King, Jan Tinbergen, Robert Jungk, Saburo Okita, Lord Kennet, Johan Galtung, Barry Commoner and Philip de Seynes.
12/1991
Non classé
Dislocated Identities
This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century : Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas' writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition. Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas' writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland – always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists' identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas' writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus.
04/2012
Anglais apprentissage
Young Learners
Resource Books for Teachers give guidance on the key aspects of language teaching, and provide examples and discussion of actual classroom materials and techniques. This new primary sub-series, in a larger format, specifically addresses the needs of primary teachers, teacher trainers, and trainee teachers. Each book contains guidance for the teacher, 6o to 100 activities for primary children, and up to 20 photocopiable worksheets. The activities are explained clearly and simply, with aims, age range, and level clearly laid out. Young Learners is based on the principle that primary teachers of English have a much wider responsibility than the simple teaching of the language system. The English class is not only a place where children learn English ; it also forms part of their whole education. This book provides teachers with a rich source of ideas for English lessons. It contains ideas and materials for activities such as making posters, books, and cards ; making and playing with board games and puppets, as well as drama, songs, and stories. It includes helpful hints for teachers new to young Learners, for instance on the use of English in the classroom, and feedback from learners.
01/1993
Informatique
WEBCLASSES FROM SCRATCH. CD-Rom Includes
Jesse Liberty's WebClasses from scratch is designed to teach Web database programming in the context of building EmployeeNet, a robust and scalable human resources intranet application. This book is for you if you are a Visual Basic programmer who wants to make the transition to developing Web applications, a database programmer who wants to put his data on the Web, a Web designer and programmer who wants to write the server-side and client-side code to support your increasingly complex and powerful Web sites, or a Web developer who wants to apply object-oriented analysis and design and industry best-practices to your web development.
The Concept Web on the inside cover graphically represents the interrelationships between the Windows interNet Application architecture and the various technologies used to create the application.
- Design a database to effectively organize tables, create indexes, and support referential integrity
- Build a robust, maintainable, and scalable application using COM and ActiveX
- Use JavaScript- extensively for data manipulation and validation on the client side
- Utilize Microsoft's Distributed interNet Applications architecture (DNA) to build large-scale distributed application
- Connect the database and application by using ADO and ODBC
12/1999
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
Sociologie
Experiencing Same-Sex Marriage
This book provides an understanding of how the legal and cultural debates and advances and limitations on same-sex marriage are experienced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people, same-sex couples, and their social networks. Using data collected from hundreds of GLBT people, same-sex couples, and their social networks over the past decade, the book examines the following topics : same-sex marriages' impact on how GLBT individuals view their relationships and community ; same-sex couples' decision making regarding whether to marry or not ; the interactions between same-sex couples and members of their families-of-origin regarding same-sex marriage ; the same-sex marriage experiences of understudied members of the GLBT community ; and the interactions between same-sex couples and members of their social networks in locations with restrictions against legally recognized same-sex marriage. These findings are examined through the lens of the social scientific study of relationships. They are based on a communication studies perspective on personal relationships, and therefore emphasize communication concepts and theories relevant to the understanding of same-sex marriage experiences.
01/2014
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
Beaux arts
Magritte. Edition en langue anglaise
The paintings of the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte (1898-1967) have exerted an extraordinary fascination, particularly since the enormous increase in awareness and popularity of his work during the 1960s. Magritte shows us a world of silence and isolation in which familiar objects are altered or juxtaposed in 'impossible' combinations in order to create a sense of disorientation and the absurd. Many of his most memorable paintings date from his three prolific years 1927-30, when he lived near Paris and was in close touch with the writer André Breton and other French Surrealists.
In his pre-war painting, stylistic concerns were of secondary importance to Magritte, and for the most part he concentrated on the relation between objects and words or between the image of an object and the object itself. He deliberately cultivated a cold, unemotive, 'style-less' style. This quality renders the violence and macabre sexuality of some of his works all the more disturbing. His own 'impressionist' and critics keenly responsive to the later work of other masters of parody and allusion such as Picabia and de Chirico.
01/1984
Religion
Festschrift Günter Wagner
Günter Wagner, born 5 July 1928 in Jüterborg, Germany, studied theology in Hamburg and in Zurich, where he received a doctoral degree in 1960. From 1956 till 1958 he was employed as research assistant and representative of the German Free Churches at the Ecumenical Centre of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christlicher Kirchen" in Frankfurt. In 1958 he was appointed as instructor for New Testament Studies at the Baptist Theological Seminary, Rüschlikon, continuing as associate professor (1961), and professor of New Testament Studies (1965) for 35 years until his retirement in 1993. Günter Wagner is a member of numerous ecumenical committees and societies for biblical studies, and has taught as visiting professor and lecturer in Europe, America, and Africa. He is editor of "Exegetical Bibliographies" and co-editor of the book series "Die Kirchen der Welt" and the ecumenical journal Una Sancta ; he served on the editorial board of the exegetical journal "New Testament Studies". His publications of articles in biblical and exegetical journals and particularly his book on "Pauline Baptism and Pagan Mysteries" have established his scholarly reputation worldwide.
05/1994
Non classé
Brides on Sale
Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them "Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group". This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman "marries out" of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should "marry down" to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in women's educational and career opportunities. How these relationships are formed, how they impact gendered understandings of women and men, how families are constituted and relationships developed, and how they affect the children of these families and their education, are the issues explored in this book. It breaks new ground in our understanding of transnational and cross-border marriages by looking at the long-term effects of such marriages on communities, families, and individuals.
04/2015
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
Bijouterie, horlogerie
Le Guide de la joaillerie. Pour les vrais amateurs
With the promise of eternity, jewels bestow gifts of adornment and beauty on those who wear them. Their value is multifaceted : intrinsic, sentimental, magical, human. Since the dawn of time, these few grams of precious metals and gems have acted as distillations of the highest sentiments and catalysts of the lowest passions. Through its power and grandeur, jewelry has mirrored the human journey through the centuries, and French author and editor Fabienne Reybaud walks readers through all its facets while highlighting the world's most mythical stones and magnificent pieces, from the Hope Diamond to Elizabeth Taylor's La Peregrina pearl. Extensively illustrated with atelier images, original sketches and colorful photography, this volume covers everything jewelry enthusiasts need to know, including the club of five and the four Cs. It is accompanied by an essential glossary, the best museum collections to visit around the world as well as the budding designers to follow and a buyer's guide to investing in antique and vintage pieces.
11/2022
Anglais apprentissage
Drama with children
Resource Books for Teachers give guidance on the key aspects of language teaching, and provide examples and discussion of actual classroom materials and techniques. This new primary sub-series, in a larger format, specifically addresses the needs of primary teachers, teacher trainers, and trainee teachers. Each book contains guidance for the teacher, 60 to 100 activities for primary children, and up to 20 photocopiable worksheets. The activities are explained clearly and simply, with aims, age range, and level clearly laid out. Drama with Children provides practical ideas for introducing drama activities into the English class, including role play, mime, chants, puppets, and short plays. As well as developing speaking and pronunciation, drama helps children to develop self-confidence and express their imagination, personalities, and creativity. The book shows how activities can be integrated into day-to-day teaching, as well as providing inspiration for performances at open days or end-of-term shows.
01/1999
Histoire internationale
After The Last Ship
After the Last Ship illustrates the author's own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of ‘mixed race'. She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal in the 1960's and 1970's and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia. Further, the author shows the devastation that labels such as ‘half-caste', ‘canecos' and ‘monhe' can cause, when they eat at your flesh, your being, and your body. She sheds light on how identity and culture can serve as vehicles of empowerment, how experiences of belonging can germinate and take root post-diaspora.
04/2014
Monographies
Claude Gillot. Satire in the Age of Reason
This scholarly publication presents the work of the designer, painter and illustrator Claude Gillot (1673-1722). The first volume on the artist in English, it accompanies a major exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum that explores Gillot's inventive and highly original draftsmanship and places his work in the context of artistic and intellectual activity in Paris ca. 1700. The history of eighteenth-century French art under the ancien régime is dominated by great names. But the artistic scene in Paris at the dawn of the century was diverse and included artists who forged careers largely outside of the Royal Academy. Among them was Claude Gillot. Known primarily as a draftsman, Gillot specialized in witty scenes taken from the Italian commedia dell'arte plays performed at fairground theaters and vignettes of satyrs enacting rituals that expose human folly. The book will address Gillot's work as a designer, painter, and book illustrator, and advance a chronology for his career. Crafting a timeline for Gillot's life and work will clarify his relationship with his younger collaborators Antoine Watteau and Nicolas Lancret. Through an artistic biography and six chapters, each devoted to an aspect of his oeuvre, Gillot's role in developing quintessential rococo subjects is established. We follow Gillot from his start as the son of a decorative painter in the bishopric of Langres to his arrival in Paris in the 1690s, as the city and its secular entertainments flourished apart from the royal court at Versailles. Myriad opportunities awaited artists outside official channels, and Gillot built his career working in the theater and as a painter and designer long before seeking official academic status. His involvement with writers, playwrights, and printmakers helped define his sphere. Gillot's preference for theatrical subjects brought him critical attention, and also attracted talented assistants such as Watteau and Lancret. Gillot came to prominence around 1712 working at the Paris Opéra and as a printmaker and illustrator of books, lending his droll humor to satires. By 1720, Gillot was enlisted to design costumes for the last royal ballet, one of the final projects of his career. He died nine months after his most celebrated pupil, Watteau. The sale of his estate, which including his designs and many etched copper plates, provided material for printmakers and publishers and ensured Gillot's lasting fame among print connoisseurs. His oeuvre as a draftsman and painter, however, was largely forgotten until drawings and canvases began to emerge in the first half of the twentieth century.
03/2023
Beaux arts
Chronopoétique. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Né en Sologne en 1962, Olivier Leroi a suivi une formation de forestier à Meymac en Corrèze puis débuté très tôt un parcours artistique autonome avant d’intégrer, une quinzaine d’années plus tard, l’Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques, dirigé par Pontus Hulten. Eclairé par cette nouvelle expérience, il a travaillé le dessin, la sculpture et la vidéo dont le fil rouge est la relation au milieu. L’oeuvre, fondée sur l’économie du geste et sur une observation affinée qui se joue des échelles, s’apparente à une opération de dévoilement de la réalité dans ses dimensions sensibles et cognitives. Au cours de ses voyages, Olivier Leroi réalise des «oeuvres vécues» avec les habitants des lieux traversés et en témoigne par des photographies et des performances filmées : Première neige au pays dogon (Mali), El Zorro blanco (Mexique), La brigade de Chambord ou encore Bruno, l’âne et les papillons. Cet ouvrage a donc été conçu comme un voyage, on pourrait dire un «forage» dans une oeuvre qui se développe depuis une trentaine d’années. Born in Sologne in 1962, Olivier Leroi trained as a forest ranger in Meymac ire Corrèze then began his own artistic research before joining the Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques, under Pontus Hulten, fifteen years later. Enlightened by this new experience, he developed his artistry in drawing, sculpture and video, the common theme of which has always been our relationship to our environment. Founded on economy in application and a refined sense of observation that plays with scale, his work unveils the sensitive, cognitive and emotional dimensions of reality. During his travels, Olivier Leroi has created lived works with the inhabitants of the various places file has visited, and has recorded them in photography and filmed performances : Première neige au pays dogon (First snow in Dogon lands) (Mali). El Zorro blanco (White Zorro) (Mexico). La brigade de Chambord (The Chambord brigade) (Chambord, France), Un drapeau pour l’antarctique, base Dumont d’Urville (A flag for Antarctica, Dumont d’Urville base) (South Pole) Bruno, lune et les papillons (Bruno, thé donkey and the butterflies) (southern France). This work has been de vised as a journey or exploration of his work over the past thirty years.
10/2015
Guides pratiques
Val Briard en anglais Carnet 2022 Petit Futé
Do you know the Val Briard ? Probably if you are from the Ile-de-France. If you don't, that's unlucky ! The purpose of this book is to help you discover it. A fertile and largely wooded territory, the Val Briard is home to landscapes, where crops, forests and meadows alternate with streams and ponds. In addition, there are charming villages with medieval houses, listed churches and, in the countryside, romantic romantic farms and castles with their stone and brickwork, half-timber and gazebos. With its 21 communes and 27, 243 inhabitants, the Val Briard is an attractive area offering a high quality of rural life. It is also a green and sparsely urbanised area suitable for gentle tourism, where you can enjoy hiking, pleasant cycling routes and forest paths that are popular among horse riders.
02/2022
Couple, famille
Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Addiction
The concept of sexual addiction has gained increasing recognition in the academic and healthcare communities since the 1990s. It has also captured the attention of the media, where there has been much debate over whether it can truly be described as an addiction. What is certain is that many people struggle with out of control sexual behaviour, which takes over their lives and has harmful consequences for their relationships, careers and finances. The Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Addiction brings together a comprehensive range of perspectives on sexual addiction from a worldwide selection of scholars and therapists. It sets out to define sexual addiction and to study its causes from a range of different psychological perspectives. A series of presentations of sexual addiction are outlined, including internet sexual addiction and the relationship between paraphilias and sex addiction. The handbook considers both individual and group treatment strategies, drawing on a wide range of approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness and 12-step programmes. The book studies sex addiction in specific populations including women, adolescents and men who have sex with men. Finally, it considers some of the alternative discourses surrounding the concept of sexual addiction. This is the first comprehensive reference book to bring together global viewpoints on advances in research, theory and practice in one volume. This handbook provides an essential guide for academics and students of psychotherapy, counselling, nursing, addiction, sexualities, social work and health and social care, as well as professionals in practice and in training working with sexual addiction and related issues.
01/2021
Informatique
LEARN ACTIVEX DEVELOPMENT USING VISUAL C++ 6.0. CD-ROM included
Learn ActiveX Development Using Visual C++ 6.0 presents the basics of the Component Object Model, the ActiveX Template Library, and the Microsoft Foundation Classes, and explains how these technologies all work together to create cutting-edge components for modem applications and web pages. The text then covers the creation of several types of ActiveX controls in both ATL and MFC, and how to support Property Pages and events in both ATL and MFC. Finally, the author explores the mechanics of using ActiveX on the Internet.
Learn ActiveX Development Using Visual C++ 6.0 is the first in Wordware's series of ActiveX/COM-oriented books for Visual C++ programmers. While some of the information within these books overlaps to ensure that each book stands alone, each does focus on a specific ActiveX/COM-related technology. Look for these other titles: Learn OLE DB Development with Visual C++ 6.0 (1-55622634-9), Learn ActiveX Template Library Development with Visual C++ 6.0 (1-55622-633-0), and Learn Microsoft Transaction Server Development Using Visual C++ 6.0 (1-55622-629-2).
This book:
> Presents the basics of COM, ATL, and MFC.
> Shows how to create several types of controls in both ATL and MFC.
> Demonstrates Property Page and event support in ATL and MFC.
> Explores the use of ActiveX on the Internet.
> Includes a CD containing complete source code and projects; several third-party applications and utilities for creating HTML, CDF, OSD, and ASP files; and trial versions of Borland tools.
01/1999
