I Know This Much Is True
Extraits
Seinen/Homme
The Fable Tome 5 . The silent-killer is living in this town.
Kojima débarque chez Misaki afin de la convaincre de travailler pour lui, allant même jusqu'à la menacer. Parallèlement, Sunagawa se plaint de Kojima auprès de son boss et demande à ce dernier d'agir pour remettre de l'ordre dans le clan. Devant le refus de Hamada, Sunagawa choisit alors d'engager un tueur à gages pour éliminer Kojima... De son côté, Satô fête son augmentation de salaire au restaurant avec Misaki. A la fin de ce repas, Ebihara lui demande de passer le voir à l'hôpital : il veut qu'il se rende à "la Réserve" pour vérifier si Kojima ne s'est pas emparé de l'arme qui y est entreposée. D'abord réticent, Fable finit par accepter...
12/2021
Romans, témoignages & Co
I was born for this
Un ex-libris inédit dessiné par Alice Oseman offert dans ce roman. Cette édition inclut un bonus sur Rowen et ListerLa vie d'Angel Rahimi, dix-huit ans, tourne exclusivement autour de The Ark, un boys band pop-rock qui cartonne dans le monde entier. En intégrant leur fandom, Angel devient amie avec Juliet et acquiert un sentiment d'appartenance incomparable. De son côté, Jimmy Kaga-Ricci, leader de The Ark, doit tout à son groupe. Bien qu'il ait réalisé son rêve, ces derniers temps les choses ne cessent d'aller de travers pour lui. Son anxiété sociale l'empêche de profiter pleinement et remet en question ses choix... Lorsque les univers d'Angel et Jimmy fusionnent de manière inattendue, tous deux seront confrontés à la réalité de l'autre. Et si la vie rêvée de star n'était qu'une illusion ? Et si la vie sans projecteurs n'était pas si fade ? Dans la limite des stocks disponibles. Uniquement sur le premier tirage.
01/2023
Comics
Escape This
Trouveront-ils la clé pour s'en sortir ? Quatre individus sans lien apparent, disséminés de par le monde, se retrouvent mystérieusement projetés dans la même pièce. Ici, les règles du jeu sont simples : ils ont une heure pour trouver comment en sortir. Sinon ils meurent. Bien qu'ils ne se connaissent pas, les prisonniers vont devoir mettre leurs ressources en commun pour résoudre les énigmes mortelles de cette escape room infernale et découvrir le lien qui les unit... Stéphane Betbeder et Federico Pietrobon nous plongent dans un huis clos angoissant et surnaturel, quelque part entre le mystère de Cube et l'horreur de Saw.
04/2018
Divers
Dirty Panties (English Edition)
Roxane is a young Parisian whose Bohemian life seems stuck in an endless loop of idle afternoons and wine-soaked nights with her roommate. Strapped for cash and novelty, she starts selling her used underwear online. Dirty Panties chronicles her first steps in this marketplace, from the creation of her online persona to the real-life rendezvous with shady customers. This new business soon impacts Roxane's daily life and the people around her. The world she has just stepped into might be much more bizarre than what she expected. Roxane's journey exploring her own appetite for transgression tackles such contemporary themes as sex work, consent and economic domination. How far will she go and where will this end ? Maybelline Skvortzoff's drawing is detailed and vivid and the story is in turn hilarious, awkward, touching and dark. Much like Phoebe Waller-Bridge's character in her TV series Fleabag, Roxane is at the same time completely clueless and determined to make it on her own in this world where everything can be bought and sold. Roxane vend ses culottes -- the original edition of Dirty Panties -- won the 2023 Artemisia award for best humor comic and has been shortlisted for many awards including the official selection of the 2023 Angouleme Festival.
01/2024
12 ans et +
Let it Snow
Une terrible tempête, un train bloqué dans la neige. Gracetown : tous les voyageurs descendent ! Gracetown, bourgade perdue au milieu de nulle part... Pourtant, Jeb, Jubilé et les autres vont y vivre le réveillon le plus insolite de leur vie. Dans un café bondé de pom-pom girls ou au détour d'une route enneigée, les rencontres inattendues se multiplient. Les couples se font, se défont et se refondent...
11/2019
Romance sexy
Let it snow
Kat n'a qu'une idée en tête : croiser Will le moins possible. Will, footballeur mondialement connu, n'a qu'un but : faire enrager Kat le plus souvent possible. Lorsque ces deux anciens meilleurs amis de lycée se retrouvent seule à seul, étincelles garanties ! Kat déteste Will plus que tout au monde. Dès qu'ils se voient, il la pousse dans ses pires retranchements. Que ce soit avec ses multiples conquêtes, sa réussite sportive, ses piques en tout genre, c'est clair : Elle. Ne. Le. Supporte. Pas. Leur bande d'amis et eux ont prévu de fêter Noël à Aspen et d'y rester quelques jours. Comble de malchance, Will et Kate se retrouvent coincés dans un maudit chalet, en pleine tempête de neige, les autres n'ayant pas réussi à les rejoindre à temps. Et si derrière leurs joutes verbales se cachaient des secrets qu'ils n'ont jamais osé s'avouer ?
12/2023
12 ans et +
You know I'm no good
Mia fait partie de celles que l'on appelle les "filles à problèmes". Mauvaises notes, soirées arrosées, garçons... Du moins, elle le réalise quand, après qu'elle a frappé sa belle-mère en plein visage, son père l'envoie à l'Institut Red Oak, un internat thérapeutique pour jeunes filles au fin fond du Minnesota. Là-bas, Mia commence à affronter son passé tumultueux, en compagnie de sa psy et de ses camarades qui traînent toutes leur lot d'erreurs en tout genre. Rapidement et malgré elle, Mia baisse la garde. Saura-t-elle accepter de se rendre vulnérable au point d'être perçue du monde telle qu'elle est vraiment ?
01/2021
BD tout public
Munch
Le peintre norvégien Edvard Munch est l'un des artistes les plus importants du XIXe siècle, un précurseur de l'expressionnisme. Ses expositions à Paris, Berlin et Oslo ont divisé la critique de l'art bourgeois, suscitant à la fois enthousiasme et polémique. Munch est l'un des artistes excentriques et noctambules du Berlin de la Belle Epoque. Cette ville a accueilli sa plus importante période créative, lui a fourni le matériau de légendes et anecdotes ayant nourri son oeuvre. Dans cet ouvrage visuellement superbe, déjà reconnu comme un chef d'oeuvre de la BD norvégienne, Steffen Kneverland, révèle le génie mélancolique de Munch et la vie de bohème dans sa réalité. N'utilisant que des sources écrites de l'artiste, de sa famille (correspondances, témoignages, etc.) et de ses contemporains, il nous plonge au tournant du siècle avec beaucoup d'humour, mêlant la vie d'Edvard Munch et la réflexion d'un auteur passionné.
09/2017
Monographies
Arts du Nigéria Central revisités. Mumuye et peuples environnants
In previous studies, Jan Strybol pointed out that sculpture in Northern Nigeria - contrary to what is generally assumed - flourished. Wood sculptures could be found just about everywhere, with the exception of a part of the Far North. In this study, the author first examines the sculptural traditions of a number of peoples in Central Nigeria, in particular from the Jos Plateau and from the valley of the Middle Benue to the source area of the Taraba River. These peoples can be described as non-centralized communities where mainly art in perishable materials was produced by part-time specialists, in contrast to the centralized empires in the South (Ife, Benin) where full-time specialists created complex works of art in durable materials (stone, bronze, iron). Perhaps the most well-known ethnic group in the Middle Benue region among aficionados of African art are the Mumuye. Since the end of the last century, the traditional rites of the Mumuye have rapidly disappeared as a result of the advance of the world religions and with them the Mumuye sculpture so much admired in Europe and America. In addition to wood sculpture, Jan Strybol also pays attention to objects in bronze, iron, terracotta and other materials. Until now, these art forms have been very underexposed and have now almost completely disappeared. Finally, the author also elaborates on some artistic achievements of a number of little-known residual groups within the Mumuye territory, which can boast a rich art tradition.
05/2023
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
Histoire de la musique
This Is How We Do It. 40 ans de R&B en 100 albums
Au milieu des eighties, le paysage musical noir américain est en pleine mutation. Le funk et la soul évoluent ; Michael Jackson et Prince deviennent des pop stars internationales ; une partie de la jeunesse se reconnaît davantage dans le hip-hop, en lien direct avec la réalité des quartiers noirs. De jeunes artistes sentent qu'ils peuvent faire la synthèse de toutes ces sensibilités, et cette musique prend le nom de R&B, terme générique utilisé depuis trente ans pour qualifier la musique populaire noire. Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, L. A. Reid & Babyface ou Teddy Riley sont les chefs de file de cette révolution qui débute avec les stars du new jack swing (Keith Sweat, Al B. Sure ! ), les boys bands élevés au gospel (Jodeci, Boyz Il Men) et les girl groups sexy (En Vogue, TLC). Mary J. Blige, R. Kelly, Alicia Keys, Pharrell Williams ou Beyoncé s'imposent dans le temps comme les nouveaux souverains de la great black music.
08/2021
Romans, témoignages & Co
All this time
Kyle et Kimberly forment le couple phare du lycée. Le jour où Kimberly annonce à Kyle sa décision de rompre, le monde du jeune homme s'effondre. Bouleversé, il perd le contrôle de sa voiture et se réveille le lendemain, à l'hôpital. Kimberly est morte. Il a tout perdu, même le goût de vivre. Jusqu'à rencontrer Marley, dans les couloirs de l'hôpital. La jeune fille est également en deuil, et porte une culpabilité qui l'écrase. Ensemble, les deux adolescents tentent de se reconstruire. Mais les apparences sont trompeuses, et le nouvel équilibre de Kyle pourrait bien ne pas résister à l'ouragan qui s'annonce...
02/2023
Suspense
This Book Kills
Elle a imaginé le crime parfait, quelqu'un l'a commis. La prochaine victime : c'est elle... Quand Hugh Henry Van Boren, l'un des élèves les plus populaires et les plus riches de la réputée Heybuckle School, est retrouvé mort, tout le monde s'interroge sur l'identité du coupable. Le lendemain, Jess Choudhary reçoit un message la remerciant d'avoir inspiré l'assassin. Découvrant alors que Hugh a été tué exactement de la même manière que le personnage de la nouvelle qu'elle a écrite, elle redoute que tout l'accuse. Le temps presse, et l'adolescente sait que si elle ne trouve pas la clé de ce mystère, elle connaîtra le même destin funeste que son camarade.
04/2024
Yaoi/homosexualité masculine
I Don't Know How to Love
Aimi est un étudiant à la fac qui prend et jette les filles les unes à la suite des autres. Il accepte de sortir avec n'importe quelle personne qui le lui demande, tant qu'on respecte ses conditions : ne pas être possessif et le laisser fréquenter qui il veut à côté. Kaede, un étudiant plus jeune que lui, l'entend rompre avec sa petite amie du moment et décide immédiatement de tenter sa chance en lui demandant de sortir avec lui. Aimi, fidèle à ses principes, accepte. Mais Kaede est bien différent de toutes ses ex-petites copines, et Aimi ne comprend absolument pas ses réactions... au point qu'il se demande si Kaede est véritablement amoureux de lui ! Et la situation ne manque pas de le perturber...
01/2024
Lectures graduées
Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman is a salesman who believes in the American Dream. He has spent his whole career on the road, going all over New England to sell products. At sixty, he is far from retiring : he needs to keep on working to earn money in order to pay his mortgage and loans. But he does not sell as much as he used to and struggles to make ends meet. His relationship with his elder son, Biff, is chaotic : he does not understand why his son does not live up to his expectations. Thus, they fight all the time. But at the heart of the tension between them lies a secret that only the two of them know... Death of a Salesman explores the depth and complexity of human relationships and shows what happens when a man gets lost in his own dreams.
08/2021
Anglais apprentissage
"On liberty" by John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), one of the most versatile thinkers of the nineteenth century, wrote on the newly emerging sciences of economics, politics and sociology. His Principles of Political Economy (1848) ran to many editions and is still read today, while his book on Utilitarianism (1863) is better known than the writings of Jeremy Bentham. On Liberty (1859) was written at a time when the Industrial Revolution, the rise of a sizeable middle class and its social influence, the growing democratisation of British politics raised questions about the place of individuals and the dangers of this new mass society. Mill placed much faith in this passionate and cogently argued plea for individual freedom, writing in his Autobiography : The liberty is likely to survive longer than anything else I have written... . The future was to prove him right, and his defence of freedom of thought and speech, of individuality and originality, later used to criticise the various instances totalitarianism in the twentieth century, is still relevant these days.
07/1997
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
Non classé
Nikolaj Gumilev and Neoclassical Modernism
Nikolaj Gumilev occupies a paradoxical place within the history of Russian modernism. Although he is well known as the founder of Acmeism and is regarded as an important poet and critic, much of his work is difficult to reconcile with prevailing concepts of modernism. The present study seeks to explain this marginal position by reinterpreting Gumilev's work within the broader context of a modernist aesthetic of order, or "neo-classical modernism." The term refers to an aesthetic line within modernism that sought to reconcile certain features of traditional rhetoric - in particular the triadic style system - with modernist strategies of innovation. Although primarily devoted to Gumilev, the study also touches on Russian and French writers adhering to comparable aesthetic values, among them Annenskij, Kuzmin, Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, Valéry and Gide.
03/1993
Tarots
Tarot Mucha
Un superbe tarot inspiré des plus belles illustrations d'Alphonse Mucha, figure de proue de style artistique de l'Art Nouveau. Alphonse Mucha est connu pour être l'une des figures les plus importantes du mouvement artistique de l'Art Nouveau, ayant consacré toute sa vie à cette philosophie artistique, avant même qu'elle ne devienne populaire. Ce tarot nous transporte dans son univers plein de grâce et de poésie, propre à cette époque du début du XXe siècle.
07/2022
Décoration
Gladky's Art Deco Patterns and Designs in Full Color
Architect, designer and world traveler, Serge Gladky was a major figure in the rise of the modernist aesthetic and the decorative style known as Art Deco. In that style, he created a series of compositions widely regarded as among the most inspired and innovative in modem design. Among them are intricate lattice works of geometric inspired motifs, bizarre compositions containing surreal animals and images, bold abstracts, mysterious collages of symbolic forms and shapes, whimsical Cubist-flavored constructions resembling heads, and much more.
This beautiful volume, faithfully reprinted in glowing full color from rare original French portfolios, contains over 60 of Gladky's finest designs. A landmark achievement in the evolution of a great international design style, the patterns are now available for the first time to artists and craftspeople for copyright-free use in design and craft projects.
Because of Gladky's far-ranging travels and studies throughout Asia and Eastern Europe, his designs and use of color brought a new and potent exoticism to the essentially Western European, Paris-centered Art Deco aesthetic. His striking originality and innovative conceptions are on display here, ready to delight and inspire artists, illustrators and craftspeople, who will find Gladky's work one of the most imaginative and beautifully wrought achievements in 20th-century design.
01/1989
Beaux arts
SISLEY. Edition en anglais
Alfred Sisley is now recognized as one of the great landscape painters of the nineteenth century, and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement. He divided his time between France and England, and the 55 colour illustrations in this book include the celebrated snow scenes of the Paris suburbs, his views of the flooded Seine at Port-Marly and his paintings of the colourful regattas on the Thames which Kenneth Clark described as embodying 'the perfect moment of Impressionism'. Richard Shone has completely updated his essay, first published in 1979, and selected new colour plates and added extensive commentaries on the illustrations to make this book an ideal introduction to the work of Alfred Sisley.
Richard Shone is Associate Editor of The Burlinglon Magazine. His publications include Bloomsbury Portraits (1976, revised 1993), Walter Sickert (1988) and Sisley (1992), all published by Phaidon.
01/1994
Physique, chimie
What is energy?
The word 'energy' was used to confuse me. I know that energy is. It is the capacity of a physical system to perform work, the ability to do work. Work is moving something against a force. I also know that without energy life cannot exist. At the same time, I could not picture Energy in my mind to better understand what it is. This book is design to given you a concrete understandasing of that energy is. Remember in reallity, no one can see, touch or observe energy. We can only constact the presence of energy by mouvement, motion and mesure it by its speed. We shall use this opportunity to introduce you to a pattern, the geometric shape torus that holds the key to the fuel of the future, to the world that works for everyone - Clean and universal energy. I consider the torus to be the best ever explanation of our evolutionary process. Evolution means to enfold, to roll out. The question is what the universe is rolling out ? I realised that we are not a mistake, we are simply mistaken. We have been blended to our brilliance, ignorance to our genius, unaware of our true power and magnificence. The Torus, the Zero Point Energy Field = Creation Story
01/2016
Tarots
This Might Hurt Tarot
Bienvenue dans le Chemin des Possibles ! Vous rêviez d'un jeu moderne, adapté à notre époque ? Un jeu qui dépoussière les idées préconçues et bouscule les codes ? Le "This Might Hurt Tarot" est fait pour vous ! Découvrez ici un jeu aux personnages, aux décors, aux paysages et aux scènes de vie de tous horizons. Tolérance, Amour, Bienveillance et Diversités sont autant de qualités qui le définissent. Terminé les idées archaïques empreintes de diktats ! Facile à lire et accessible, vous retrouverez la représentation de scènes familières emplies de symbolisme, qui vous permettront d'accéder à une analyse complète de vos tirages et seront une aide précieuse pour leurs interprétations. Ce jeu inspirant et percutant, aux dessins Modernes, Lumineux et Colorés, est un puissant révélateur de potentiels qui saura vous guider sur le chemin qui est le vôtre. Reprenez les rênes de votre vie et devenez qui vous êtes vraiment, au fond de vous ! Originaire du Maine, Isabella Rotman est une illustratrice carto¬oniste. Son oeuvre tourne principalement autour de l'océan, des sirènes, des émotions humaines, de la relation à la nature ou de la sexualité. Elle a été nominée pour le prix Ignatz du Jeune Talent Prometteur en 2017. Sa bande dessinée Like the Tide a été nominée dans la catégorie Outstanding Online Comic en 2020. Elle est la créatrice du This Might Hurt Tarot, un jeu moderne et queer de 78 cartes basé sur le célèbre Tarot Rider-Waite-Smith.
04/2022
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
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
Aurier, Symbolism and the Visual Arts
This is the first fully comprehensive study on the 19th-century poet and art critic, Albert Aurier (1865-1892), in the context of his age. Focusing on Aurier's pivotal role in the development of French Symbolist art and aesthetics, the book explores his contribution to contemporary and subsequent perceptions of Symbolism in art during a period which saw the rise of art criticism as a genre in its own right. Taking Aurier's writings on lesser-known artists such as Henry de Groux, Eugène Carrière and Jean-Jacques Henner, as well as those on Impressionism, and Van Gogh and Gauguin, the study shows how Aurier laid the foundation for the interpretation of Modernist art.
11/1999
Poésie
Epilepsy: the invisible pain
They say life is a long stretch of a calm river, but not for everyone ! She was for me until the day when everything rocked, the day my destiny was changed dramatically. People do not realize how life can be so sweet and so beautiful. They complain all day long for trivialities. They are not even aware that they have before their eyes the most beautiful wealth : the luck and happiness of living in good health. I was rich before. Now I am poor because my child has an incurable disease, that has currently no hope of being healed. As a parent, how can we accept that ? , How to continue living carrying the bundle of pain in my head ? , How to overcome this feeling of helplessness ? When I started speaking to my heart, I didn't know myself that this was the beginning of a new life : a rebirth as a poet. When I learnt that my 7-year-old daughter was suffering from the Dravet Syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy, this was like an earthquake in my life. Then, I needed to write in order to express my sorrow and my pain. Words and rhymes came naturally to my mind. This was obvious that poetry would be my survival weapon.
01/2019
Egypte
Italian Subalterns in Egypt between Emigration and Colonialism (1861-1937). Textes en français et anglais
Over the last years, we have witnessed a renewal in the studies on the Italian community which formed in Egypt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contrary to the historiographical paradigm that remained dominant for over a century, a novel approach - essentially based on a less ideological interpretation of archival sources - tends to provide a much more complex, less apologetic, and more horizontal reading of the dynamics within and among foreign/migrant communities. This work belongs to this "new" research wave. By rediscovering the originally Gramscian concept of "subaltern classes", it aims at re-centring the context in which the "subalterns" of Italian origin lived and acted as the focus of our interest. At once, it aims at both making such context relevant and disclosing its complexity. It privileges an approach that takes into account different and overlapping categories and social identities, with particular attention to the relationships with the many different local communities.
04/2021
Religion
Third World Tourism Research 1950-1984
Since the early fifties tourism to developing countries has dramatically increased and in many a developing country it is now a sector of vital importance. This increase has been reflected in an equally impressive rate of growth in scholarly output. Despite this, there are as yet no indexed guides providing in a single volume easy access to the rapidly expanding body of knowledge. This bibliography seeks to fill the gap. It covers a period of 35 years and comprises more than 2000 titles in English, French, German and Dutch, on tourism in the Third World and in richer countries such as Greece, Yugoslavia, Portugal and Spain. The titles are chronologically arranged according to the year of publication, and for each year in alphabetical order. To assist readers the titles are catalogued by three indexes : an author and editor index, a geographical index and a subject index.
01/1991
