Back to the Light. Brian May Artwork
Extraits
Romance sexy
Back to you
Benjamin et Inès se connaissent depuis toujours. A l'adolescence, leur attirance mutuelle devient une évidence, laissant place à une histoire d'amour passionnée. Mais tout bascule lorsque Benjamin part sans donner d'explication. Deux ans plus tard, la jeune femme ne s'est toujours pas remise de cette rupture. Le pouvoir de son regard captivant et la sensation de sa peau contre la sienne sont toujours ancrés dans sa tête et dans son coeur. Alors, quand elle recroise Benjamin à l'occasion d'un mariage, Inès est plus perdue que jamais. Son premier amour est devenu un pompier attirant et sûr de lui... Et il semble bien décidé à la reconquérir. Mais Inès parviendra-t-elle à lui pardonner ? Ce roman est précédement paru sous le titre de Toi & Moi contre le reste du monde.
02/2022
Manga
Back to You
Sayako et Naohiko sont en couple depuis bientôt dix ans. Mais à cause de la routine, leur relation semble battre de l'aile. Entre leur vie intime peu épanouie et le manque d'attention de la part de son compagnon, Sayako commence à se poser des questions. Pourquoi Naohiko ne la demande-t-il pas en mariage, malgré des années de vie commune ? A-t-il peur de s'engager ? Un soir, tandis qu'elle doute, un étrange phénomène se produit : en descendant les marches d'un escalier, elle remonte le temps et retrouve un Naohiko encore lycéen...celui-là même dont elle était tombée amoureuse. S'agit-il d'un rêve, d'une illusion ou peut-être d'une nouvelle réalité ?
10/2020
Indépendants
Back to Japan
" J'ai peur évidemment, j'ai peur d'échouer, peur de me tromper... Mais plus que tout, j'aime sentir cette force quasi invincible à l'intérieur de moi, savoir que ma propre force suffit à me porter en avant. " Un road-movie graphique et initiatique sur le dépassement de soi et l'exploration au féminin. Back to Japan raconte l'exploit inédit de Mélusine Mallender, la seule aventurière à avoir parcouru en solo et à moto 22 500 km jusqu'au pays du Soleil-Levant. Un trio féminin épatant, donne vie à une héroïne hors du commun, déterminée et indépendante ! Une bande dessinée à découvrir dès 14 ans.
10/2022
Littérature française
Back to Blue
Quand un restaurateur étoilé lui demande de retrouver sa fille en fugue, la belle et fascinante Lolita, et de la ramener au bercail, Moretti, acteur raté reconverti en privé, jubile ! Mais comme les autres, il se laisse vite piéger par la sensualité sans bornes de cette jeune femme pour le moins directive. Cinq années ont passé. Le corps affreusement mutilé de Lolita vient d'être repêché au large de la petite île de Kos... Moretti se lance de nouveau sur la piste -posthume- de sa "Lolita d'enfer" ... Ce qu'il ignore c'est que Lolita filait elle-même, depuis quatre ans, un truand à qui elle entendait bien donner le coup de grâce pour l'avoir éconduite... Et si sa vengeance semblait bien huilée, c'était sans compter deux trouble-fête : Paula, une vieille dame tentant de lui redonner du coeur et Théodoros, marin au long cours bien décidé à lui offrir sa revanche. "Back to blue" est le huitième livre de C. SCHMINK et son premier polar. A déconseiller aux âmes prudes et sensibles !!
10/2012
Anglais apprentissage
Jefferson and Nature. An Interpretation
Jefferson and Nature is the first comprehensive study to take Jefferson completely at his word-his favorite word. Nature-the term and the many ideas associated with it-pervades Jefferson's life and writings. It sets hem apart from his colleagues in the American Enlightenment and provides the distinctive gateway to his thought and action. By no means consistent and at tunes apparently opportunistic in his use of the term, Jefferson nevertheless draws nearly every realm of life back to this essential word and idea. Charles Miller's book tells why this is so.
01/1993
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Don’t leave me
Jordan and Florence had made a promise never to part with each other, having managed to heal their past pains. Unfortunately, one day she will return to France, leaving Jordan, alone, in Boston. Their love, their carnal complicity in which they always found refuge and had fun in unusual places, cannot be ended on a whim. The death of a child, of a parent, suicide, disability, so many trials that will test their love, so that they admit they are nothing without the other. Will they succeed, knowing that when one is loved, one strength is increased tenfold when one encounters an obstacle ? Besides, distance is nothing when two people love each other so passionately, destiny is supposed to bring those who love each other together.
07/2022
Non classé
A Life of Her Own
This study reconstructs Brittain's feminist theory, which mainly refutes assumptions made about women, supports companionate marriage, and demands the communal reorganization of child care and domestic work to enable a married woman to work outside her home. It compares her theory to her five novels. Doing so, it uncovers revealing feminist 'flaws', above all that marriage remains, the sine qua non for a woman's happiness. The study describes Brittain's way to the top as a formidable obstacle race, in which she constantly had to fight the men she loved, her children, her parents, and resulting domesticity in order to find time to write "the book of the decade". She reached her goal with the publication of Testament of Youth in 1933.
11/1996
Littérature étrangère
The Night
The Night est un immense roman choral dont les voix multiples nous saisissent et nous plongent non seulement dans les ténèbres d'une ville, Caracas, et dans l'histoire d'un pays, le Venezuela, mais aussi dans les profondeurs de notre époque désorientée, imprévisible et violente. Les trois protagonistes - Miguel Ardiles, le psychiatre qui affronte quotidiennement la folie, Matías Rye, l'écrivain raté et drogué qui anime un atelier d'écriture, et Pedro Alamo, le publicitaire hanté par les mots et leurs combinaisons infinies - vont prendre la parole à tour de rôle, et leurs récits vont s'enchaîner et s'entremêler sans répit, sans temps morts, comme autant de rêves et de cauchemars durables. Un même thème parcourt en sourdine leurs histoires. Car si Miguel enregistre secrètement les paroles de ses patients, si Matías prend constamment des notes pour écrire un jour ce roman qui sera The Night, si Pedro enfin se perd dans les jeux de mots (principalement des anagrammes et des palindromes), c'est pour tenter de déchiffrer le mystère de la maladie qui les ronge et nous ronge : la présence du mal et son pouvoir sur nos vies. De plus, ils partagent tous une fascination obsessionnelle pour un certain Darío Lancini, ancien guérillero, poète et auteur mythique d'un ouvrage de palindromes, Oír a Darío . Sa rencontre sera l'occasion, lors du deuxième chapitre, d'un récit biographique riche en aventures, une formidable plongée dans les années 1950 à 1970, entre le Venezuela, la France et l'Europe de l'Est. Ce récit enchâssé alterne biographies d'auteurs, citations littéraires (de Mann à Neruda, en passant par Jarry, Aragon et García Márquez) et références à l'histoire de la guerre froide. Dominé par les engagements politiques et littéraires, par la fougue et l'esprit de liberté, il contraste fortement avec les deux autres parties du roman, ancrées dans un contexte contemporain de crise et de dégradation. Roman vivant, ambitieux, à l'imagination visionnaire et puissante, The Night engage sur la violence une réflexion à la fois d'une grande actualité et d'une grande profondeur, cherchant à travers la littérature, le crime et la psychiatrie, les racines d'un mal rampant. Le caractère aléatoire et éphémère de tout édifice, l'idée que le chaos mine toute tentative de construction est une des idées fortes du livre, exprimée par la métaphore du jeu Tetris qui structure secrètement la narration jusqu'à la fin. En plus d'une métaphore du texte lui-même, c'est aussi une forme d'interprétation de la réalité, parfaitement illustrée par les récits en miroir de la vie des trois protagonistes et de Darío Lancini. On a immédiatement envie de relire ce roman à multiples strates, dont la réussite tient à la rencontre rare d'une vision puissante de la littérature - et particulièrement du langage poétique - et d'une épaisseur existentielle. L'écriture issue de cette rencontre est forte, juste et très contemporaine. Carmen Balcells l'avait bien vu : Blanco-Calderón a un vrai talent.
05/2016
Beaux arts
Rembrandt. Edition en langue anglaise
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) transcends any period or social milieu: he is one of the world's great masters and though his works reflect the confidence of newly independent Holland, his vision extends fat beyond these narrow confines. A deeply perceptive artist (his many self-portraits show his continued interest in the study of human nature), he sought to go beyond superficialities, to endow his biblical paintings, historical narratives, genre scenes and portraits with psychological depths hitherto unknown in Dutch painting. Impatient with conventionally stiffly posed group portraits, he produced such masterpieces as The Night Watch, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp and The Staal Meesters, while his studies of Saskia, his wife, and his mistress Hendrickje Stoffels reveal his deeply sensuous, compassionate nature.
For this new, updated edition, Michael Kitson, Director of the Paul Mellon Centre in London, has revised his highly successful book in the light of the most recent scholarship on Rembrandt, making this the ideal survey of the career of a much-loved genius.
01/1992
Droit international
Hidden dividend distributions & hidden capital contributions, 2e édition. A technical guide
Luxembourg companies have a legal personality that is separate from that of their shareholder(s). Consequently, they may enter into agreements with their shareholders as they do with third parties. However, when the terms and conditions of those agreements do not adhere to the arm's length standard, tax adjustments may be required in accordance with the concepts of hidden dividend distribution and hidden capital contribution. Both concepts aim at a separation of the sphere of the company (which is itself subject to corporate income tax on its worldwide income) from that of its shareholders. As such, the concepts of hidden dividend distribution and hidden capital contribution are cornerstones of Luxembourg's transfer pricing rules. In addition, in the context of associated enterprises (in a group of companies), tax adjustments might be required under Article 56 of the Luxembourg Income Tax Law ("LITL"). Hence, a clear distinction must be made between agreements that adhere to the arm's length principle and agreements that, motivated by the shareholding relationship, shift advantages from the company to the shareholder or vice versa. Therefore, each contractual relationship between a company and its shareholder(s) must be considered. Luxembourg tax law does not provide for exhaustive definitions of hidden dividend distributions and hidden capital contributions. Both concepts have their origins in case law of the German Reich Tax Court (Reichsfinanzhof) and have been carefully extended and refined through the years by the German Federal Tax Court (Bundesfinanzhof). Since the publication of the first edition of this book back in 2011, the Luxembourg Courts had to decide in numerous cases involving both concepts. This book offers a one-of-a-kind, practical insight into the tax treatment of hidden dividend distributions, hidden capital contributions and triangular cases. Charts, case studies and checklists aid the reader in identifying and assessing the various cases in which hidden dividend distributions and hidden capital contributions may arise. A new chapter with practical case studies considers situations that may occur in the context of multinational groups, Luxembourg alternative funds and individual shareholders. Reading this thorough guide is indispensable for an in-depth understanding of the concepts of hidden dividend distribution and hidden capital contribution. Tax advisers, practitioners and tax students should gain substantially from the insights provided in this book.
01/2024
Non classé
From the village to presidential suite, my life journey
I did not intend to write a scholarly book, for I did not want to intellectualize my life. Nor did I wish to romanticize it. I wanted to describe it as I lived it, with emphasis on people. I wanted to express in this book the joy I experienced in giving generously of myself, my time, and my modest material possessions, to make others happy and to share the many gifts of life. I wanted also to share with those who aspire to become academic leaders the myriad lessons my upbringing, education, and professional life have taught me. I thought they might find these lessons learned useful, as they strive for successful careers and, more importantly, for rewarding personal and professional lives. Again, this book is a story, the story of my life, wherein the personal and the professional have intermingled and strengthened each other, making a better whole of my person, personality, aspirations, and talents. This unique alliance between the professional and the personal dimensions of my life, I am happy to say, always triumphed and accounted for the successes that so many good people helped me achieve. Without the guidance, advice, cooperation, and support of others, I am sure my life would not have been as fulfilling.
08/2022
Allemagne - Berlin
Soul of Berlin. A guide to 30 exceptional experiences
Berlin. We tried 1, 000 places and kept only 30.
The 'Soul of ' collection is a new approach to travel that's all about vagabonding around town, chance encounters and unforgettable experiences. Guides for those who want to unlock the hidden doors of a city, feel out its heartbeat and plumb every last nook and cranny to reveal its soul.
The world's smallest nightclub, an exceptional private collection of ancient Asian art, Berlin's best beaches, the most beautiful bike ride, a fabulous spa that'll make you feel like you're in Bali, exploring the city's underground spots, an ice cream shop that makes its own cones right in front of you, the city's best restaurants (not necessarily the ones you'd think), where to go kayaking just like in Venice, the best places to have lunch by the water, an outstanding burger, spending a night in a mattress workshop, some unique architectural curiosities and psychedelic metro stations . . .
06/2022
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
Littérature française
Handicapped
The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.
10/2020
Policiers
Sandinista. Tome 3
"There is a train at Version City Waiting for the rhythm mail If you can jump then jump right now She can pull you through to better days."
11/2017
Policiers
Jack Reacher Never go back
Des déserts glacés du Dakota du Sud jusqu'à son ancien bureau de la 110e unité de la police militaire de Washington DC, la route est longue, et particulièrement semée d'embûches. Mais après bien des péripéties, Jack Reacher se réjouit de bientôt pouvoir rencontrer son nouveau commandant en chef, le major Susan Turner. Après avoir expédié au tapis deux individus qui lui conseillaient fortement de filer s'il ne voulait pas être traduit en cour martiale, Reacher pousse enfin la porte du bureau de Susan pour y découvrir à la place un certain commandant Morgan. Ce dernier, après avoir informé Reacher que le major Susan Turner n'était plus là, lui apprend qu'il est accusé d'avoir tué un certain Rodriguez seize ans plus tôt, qu'il n'y a pas prescription et qu'il est rappelé en service actif. Pendant ce temps-là, un homme se faisant appeler " Romeo " ne cesse de téléphoner à un certain dénommé " Juliet " pour savoir ce qui arrive ou va arriver à Reacher. Ils se doutent que celui-ci va tout faire pour retrouver Turner qui, il vient de l'apprendre, a été déployée en Afghanistan la veille... sans y être jamais arrivée. Bel imbroglio. Et comme toujours dans les romans de Lee Child, ce n'est que le début des ennuis pour le justicier qui n'a peur de rien et arrive toujours à ses fins. Même lorsque, comme dans ce récit salué comme l'un des meilleurs de Lee Child, les mauvaises surprises s'enchaînent.
09/2016
Comédie romantique et humorist
Love On The Brain
Oui, c'était un colosse taciturne, maussade et sombre. Il était secret, introverti. Il avait un tempérament réservé et distant. Je ne pouvais exiger de lui qu'il m'apprécie, et n'en avais aucune intention. Toutefois, s'il pouvait être courtois, poli, même aimable avec tous les autres, il aurait pu faire un effort avec moi, aussi. Mais non - à l'évidence, Levi Ward me méprisait, et, face à une telle haine... Eh bien. Je n'avais d'autre choix que le haïr en retour. Comme une Jedi vengeresse aux cheveux violets rétablissant l'équilibre dans un univers d'hommes, Bee Königswasser vit selon une règle simple : Que ferait Marie Curie ? Si la NASA lui proposait de diriger un projet de neuro-ingénierie, Marie accepterait sans hésitation ! Mouais. Mais la mère de la physique moderne n'a jamais eu à co-diriger avec Levi Ward... son ennemi juré de fac. Séduisant et ténébreux (évidemment). Qui s'est toujours tenu à des années-lumière de distance d'elle. Pourtant, peu après son arrivée à Houston, Bee jurerait voir Levi s'adoucir pour devenir un allié... tout en la dévorant de ses yeux verts. Tous les neurones de Bee sont en ébullition ! Lorsqu'elle doit vraiment passer à l'action et mettre son coeur en jeu, seule une question compte : Que fera Bee Königswasser ? Le phénomène TikTok ! Le phénomène Goodreads ! Best-seller du New York Times " Avec son écriture émotionnellement brillante et sa plume pleine d'esprit, Hazelwood est la référence absolue de la comédie romantique. " Christina Lauren
Comédie romantique et humorist
Love On The Brain
Oui, c'était un colosse taciturne, maussade et sombre. Il était secret, introverti. Il avait un tempérament réservé et distant. Je ne pouvais exiger de lui qu'il m'apprécie, et n'en avais aucune intention. Toutefois, s'il pouvait être courtois, poli, même aimable avec tous les autres, il aurait pu faire un effort avec moi, aussi. Mais non - à l'évidence, Levi Ward me méprisait, et, face à une telle haine... Eh bien. Je n'avais d'autre choix que le haïr en retour. Comme une Jedi vengeresse aux cheveux violets rétablissant l'équilibre dans un univers d'hommes, Bee Königswasser vit selon une règle simple : Que ferait Marie Curie ? Si la NASA lui proposait de diriger un projet de neuro-ingénierie, Marie accepterait sans hésitation ! Mouais. Mais la mère de la physique moderne n'a jamais eu à co-diriger avec Levi Ward... son ennemi juré de fac. Séduisant et ténébreux (évidemment). Qui s'est toujours tenu à des années-lumière de distance d'elle. Pourtant, peu après son arrivée à Houston, Bee jurerait voir Levi s'adoucir pour devenir un allié... tout en la dévorant de ses yeux verts. Tous les neurones de Bee sont en ébullition ! Lorsqu'elle doit vraiment passer à l'action et mettre son coeur en jeu, seule une question compte : Que fera Bee Königswasser ? Le phénomène TikTok ! Le phénomène Goodreads ! Best-seller du New York Times " Avec son écriture émotionnellement brillante et sa plume pleine d'esprit, Hazelwood est la référence absolue de la comédie romantique. " Christina Lauren
05/2023
Thèmes photo
Paysages du Nord-Mayenne au printemps. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Une approche du paysage, non pas touristique, mais intimiste ; des panoramas, non pas à consommer, mais à découvrir par hasard, au détour de petites routes sinueuses. Une découverte en ralentissant son rythme habituel, réaliser la prise de vue à l'instant propice, être dans le kairos de la Grèce antique, en laissant le temps à un rayon de soleil de se glisser entre deux nuages, de manière, tout en étant baigné par la lumière, à s'intégrer dans tout ce qui vibre autour de nous, par toute cette nature, heureusement encore, exubérante. An approach to the landscape, not touristy, but intimate ; panoramas, not to be consumed, but to be discovered by chance, at the turn of small winding roads. A discovery by slowing down its usual place, taking the shot at the right time, being in the kairos of ancient Greece, allowing time for a ray of sun to slip between two clouds, so, while being bathed in light, to integrate into everything that vibrates around us, by all this, fortunatelu still, exuberant.
02/2021
Seinen/Homme
Give my regards to Black Jack T04
Les souvenirs des deux médecins du service de cancérologie sont loccasion pour Saitô de mieux appréhender la façon daccompagner une patiente en phase terminale. Lun de ces médecins a préféré rester détaché tandis que lautre était tombé amoureux de cette patiente incurable. Dans ce tome 4, découvrez la fin du stage de Saitô dans ce service qui laura fait mûrir et mieux fait prendre en compte la psychologie des patients.
09/2021
Seinen/Homme
Give my regards to Black Jack T06
Lhomme qui a provoqué un massacre dans une classe décole soutient quil a agit sous le coup de la folie, ce qui jette lopprobre sur toute la pratique psychiatrique et sur les patients. Mais aussi bien Saitô que les autres médecins commencent à douter du discours du tueur présumé. Saitô comprend alors que la santé nest pas quune affaire de patients mais aussi de politique. DERNIER TOME !
07/2022
Littérature érotique et sentim
Night Owl Tome 2 : Last Light
Last Night est le deuxième volet de la trilogie troublante où un partenariat d'écriture anonyme en ligne se transforme en une obsession passionnée incontrôlable. Matt Sky a disparu. Après une escalade en solo on a retrouvé une grande tache de sang, des lambeaux de vêtements d'alpinisme et la piste d'un animal dans la neige. Matt est présumé mort. Hannah, sa compagne d'écriture et de jeux amoureux sait que Matt est vivant. Après les funérailles de Matt, elle s'installe sur la côte Est avec sa famille. Nate et Seth Sky, les frères de Matt ont trouvé les derniers écrits de leur frère où il raconte les derniers jours de sa vie avec une précision déconcertante et scandaleuse. Seth veut absolument faire d'Hannah sa maîtresse. Cachés dans les bois, Matt et Hannah tentent désespérément de maintenir leur ruse et leur fusion amoureuse, mais leurs mensonges vont obliger Matt à se démasquer pour sauver Hannah qui tente d'échapper aux diffamations de Nate et de repousser les avances de Seth.
11/2015
Sociologie
Black Culture and Experience
Black Culture and Experience : Contemporary Issues offers a holistic look at Black culture in the twenty-first century. It is a collection of work that creates a synergy among authors and leads to a valuable resource on contemporary issues. Part One examines institutional, societal, and political issues like identity politics ; the Rooney Rule ; prosperity gospel ; inequality in the criminal justice system ; the American dream ; the future of Black and Africana studies ; and President Obama's double consciousness. Part Two investigates social, cultural, and community issues such as the Affordable Care Act ; Black women and obesity ; Black men's experience in marriage and relationships ; sexual decision making ; interracial relationships ; and cultural racism. Part Three explores media, pop culture, and technology issues including the rise of urban fiction ; hip hop and feminism ; race in Super Bowl commercials ; the construction of Black Diasporic identities ; Whiteness in Black-oriented films ; Black masculinity in Django Unchained ; and the power of Black Twitter. This anthology contains work from leading scholars, authors, and other specialists who have been brought together to highlight key issues in black culture and experience today. The goal is to help readers understand where we are and where we still need to go, what is working and what we still need to work on, what is right and what is still wrong.
09/2015
Sciences de la terre et de la
The Biomechanics of Insect Flight. Form, Function, Evolution
From the rain forests of Borneo to the tenements of Manhattan, winged insects are a conspicuous and abundant feature of life on earth. Here, Robert Dudley presents the first comprehensive explanation of how insects fly. The author relates the biomechanics of flight to insect ecology and evolution in a major new work of synthesis.
The book begins with an overview of insect flight biomechanics. Dudley explains insect morphology, wing motions, aerodynamics, flight energetics, and flight metabolism within a modern phylogenetic setting. Drawing on biomechanical principles, he describes and evaluates flight behavior and the limits to flight performance. The author then takes the next step by developing evolutionary explanations of insect flight. He analyzes the origins of flight in insects, the roles of natural and sexual selection in determining how insects fly, and the relationship between flight and insect size, pollination, predation, dispersal, and migration. Dudley ranges widely - from basic aerodynamics to muscle physiology and swarming behavior - but his focus is the explanation of functional design from evolutionary and ecological perspectives.
The importance of flight in the lives of insects has long been recognized but never systematically evaluated. This book addresses that shortcoming. Robert Dudley provides an introduction to insect flight that will be welcomed by students and researchers in biomechanics, entomology, evolution, ecology, and behavior.
01/2000
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
Sociologie
Cahiers du LLL n° 12 bis – Telepresence teaching (and learning). From the immersive to the virtual classroom
Hybrid or fully online ? Synchronous or asynchronous ? Unimodal, bimodal, comodal or multimodal ? The all-out development of distance learning has led to the creation of appropriate digital systems, either by using what was already in place (such as video conferencing classrooms and web conferencing software supporting virtual classrooms) or introducing innovative environments (such as immersive telepresence classrooms). To use these versatile, multi-functional technologies, teachers need to take a step back to enable them to adapt their teaching methods and offer learners a suitable environment that overcomes physical and geographical distances. As for students, the need to "be there" and "be together" while learning remotely has to be taken into account to maintain their commitment and ensure they continue to contribute, despite the fact they are apart. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the importance of the professional, collegial and friendship connections we have with those we usually meet face-to-face in a traditional classroom. Telepresence systems enable all these people to come together remotely (and synchronously) and make it possible to use active teaching methods, driven by the self-regulation of the learners. But what is telepresence ? Do teachers need any special training ? How do you attend lessons remotely ? How do participants learn in a telepresence setting ? What type of student assessment can be used in such an environment ? The result of international collaboration, this short guide looks at these questions from both a research and a practical perspective, inviting you to explore telepresence teaching and learning.
06/2022
Monographies
Fuseli and the Modern Woman. Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition devoted to a fascinating group of drawings by the Anglo-Swiss Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), one of eighteenth-century Europe's most idiosyncratic, original and controversial artists. Best known for his notoriously provocative painting The Nightmare, Fuseli energetically cultivated a reputation for eccentricity, with vividly stylised images of supernatural creatures, muscle-bound heroes, and damsels in distress. While these convinced some viewers of the greatness of his genius, others dismissed him as a charlatan, or as completely mad. Fuseli's contemporaries might have thought him even crazier had they been aware that in private he harboured an obsessive preoccupation with the figure of the modern woman, which he pursued almost exclusively in his drawings. Where one might have expected idealised bodies with the grace and proportions of classical statues, here instead we encounter figures whose anatomies have been shaped by stiff bodices, waistbands, puffed sleeves, and pointed shoes, and whose heads are crowned by coiffures of the most bizarre and complicated sort. Often based on the artist's wife Sophia Rawlins, the women who populate Fuseli's graphic work tend to adopt brazenly aggressive attitudes, either fixing their gaze directly on the viewer or ignoring our presence altogether. Usually they appear on their own, in isolation on the page ; sometimes they are grouped together to form disturbing narratives, erotic fantasies that may be mysterious, vaguely menacing, or overtly transgressive, but where women always play a dominant role. Among the many intriguing questions raised by these works is the extent to which his wife Sophia was actively involved in fashioning her appearance for her own pleasure, as well as for the benefit of her husband. By bringing together more than fifty of these studies (roughly a third of the known total), The Courtauld Gallery will give audiences an unprecedented opportunity to see one of the finest Romantic-period draughtsmen at his most innovative and exciting. Visitors to the show and readers of the lavishly illustrated catalogue will further be invited to consider how Fuseli's drawings of women, as products of the turbulent aftermath of the American and French Revolutions, speak to concerns about gender and sexuality that have never been more relevant than they are today. The exhibition showcases drawings brought together from international collections, including the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand, and from other European and North American institutions.
12/2022
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
No Right to Love You Tome 3 : Kennedy
Il y a trois ans, Kennedy a tout perdu. Alors, quand le label ne laisse aucun choix pour le retour de Ronan dans son groupe, les OC3, c'est la douche froide. Comment faire pour cacher sa peine, autant à ses frères qu'à celui qu'elle n'a jamais oublié ? Entre secrets, mensonges, fuites et non-dits seront-ils capables de dépasser leur propre démons pour avancer ?
02/2023
Sciences politiques
Putin, game master?
Has Vladimir Putin become the master of the game ? Why and how did the Russian President decide to attack Ukraine ? Did he seek to prevent Ukraine from associating with Europe ? Does he seek to reconstitute the USSR ? Did NATO promise not to expand east after 1990 ? Is the Nord Stream 2 project the sinews of war ? Is Ukraine's neutrality the only solution ? Has Russia ever lost or won the war ? ... Based on the files of the intelligence services and official reports, Jacques Baud thus reviews the events of the recent history of Russia, which led to the war with Ukraine ; it analyzes the various disputes between the West and Russia, and sheds light on the role that Putin plays today on the international scene. Jacques Baud is a former member of Swiss strategic intelligence, a specialist in Eastern European countries and head of United Nations peace operations doctrine. He was engaged in negotiations with top Russian military and intelligence officials right after the fall of the USSR. Within NATO, he participated in programs in Ukraine and in particular after the Maidan revolution in 2014 and 2017. He is the author of several books on intelligence, war and terrorism, and in particular Governing by fake news and The Navalny affair, published by Max Milo.
11/2022
Monographies
The Gregory Gift
Presenting for the first time the Alexis Gregory Gift to The Frick Collection, this exquisite publication provides illuminating insights into Gregory's magnificently eclectic collection, cataloging his fine and decorative works of art in detail. Twenty-eight works of art bequeathed to the Frick by Alexis Gregory range from Limoges enamels to Saint-Porchaire ware to pastels by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera. This remarkable gift has introduced new types of objects to the Frick : works in ivory and rhinoceros horn are the first of their kind to be held in the collection. Gregory's gift includes fifteen Limoges enamels, one of them produced in the workshop of Suzanne de Court, the only woman known to have led an enamel workshop in Limoges. Also part of the gift are a gilt-bronze sculpture, an ivory hilt, a pomander, ewers, saltcellars, and two clocks. Many of Gregory's objects came from such prestigious owners as the French royal collections and the Rothschilds. Included in the publication are commentaries on each gift. This lavishly illustrated publication accompanies an exhibition that will be on view at The Frick Collection February 16 through May 14, 2023.
02/2023
