Kingdom of the Wicked. Edition collector
Extraits
12 ans et +
The Wicked Deep. La malédiction des Swan Sisters
C'est une histoire de vengeance... Il y a près de deux siècles, Marguerite, Aurora et Hazel Swan, trois jeunes femmes belles, libres et indépendantes, furent accusées de sorcellerie par les habitants de la ville de Sparrow. Des pierres accrochées aux chevilles, les trois soeurs furent noyées. Exécutées. Depuis ce jour, chaque année au mois de juin, les soeurs Swan sortent des eaux de la baie pour choisir trois jeunes filles, trois hôtes. Dans le corps de ces adolescentes, Marguerite, Aurora et Hazel reviennent se venger. Et cette année encore, Penny le sait, alors que les touristes afflueront, on retrouvera des cadavres de jeunes hommes sur la plage... Car cette malédiction, rien ne semble pouvoir l'arrêter. Une fiction d'une force envoûtante aux frontières de la sorcellerie et de la magie. Etes-vous prêts à rencontrer les Swan Sisters.
04/2019
Policiers
Wicked game
Des yeux de glace se posent sur elle... Depuis toujours, Becca Sutcliff est amoureuse de Hudson. Malheureusement, celui-ci ne pense qu'à une seule femme : Jessie, son ex-petite amie, portée disparue depuis plus de vingt ans. Lorsqu'on retrouve des ossements dans les ruines de leur lycée, Hudson, Becca et leurs anciens camarades sont convaincus qu'il s'agit de Jessie, et le mystère s'épaissit. Jusqu'à ce que, sous forme d'inexplicables accidents, la mort vienne les trouver un à un. Becca, hantée par des visions de la défunte, est persuadée qu'une force maléfique est à l'oeuvre... Peut-être le tueur de Jessie, venu finir le travail ?
11/2014
Manga
Burning Hell & Kingdom of Gods
"Deux histoires en un seul volume ! BURNING HELL A l'époque d'Edo, une île déserte est le théâtre d'un affrontement sans merci entre un Japonais nommé Jû et un Coréen du nom de Han, deux criminels de la pire espèce. LE PAYS DES DIEUX Imun est le prince d'un royaume ravagé par de longues années de guerre et de famine. Seul et sans défense depuis qu'un groupe d'assassins a décimé sa garde rapprochée, le jeune garçon loue les services d'un brigand afin que celui-ci l'accompagne dans sa fuite. C'est le début d'un périple aussi palpitant qu'irréel !
11/2016
Monographies
Hilma af Klint. The Five Notebook 1
In 1896, Hilma af Klint and four other like-minded women artists left the Edelweiss Society and founded the "Friday Group", also known as "The Five". They met every Friday for spiritual meetings, including prayers, studies of the New Testament, meditation and séances. The medium exercised automatic writing and mediumistic drawing. Eventually they established contact with spiritual beings whom they called "The High Ones". In 1896, the five women began taking meticulous notes of the mediumistic messages conveyed by the spirits. In time, Hilma af Klint felt she had been selected for more important messages. After ten years of esoteric training with "The Five", aged 43, Hilma af Klint accepted a major assignment, the execution of The Paintings for the Temple. This commission, which engaged the artist from 1906 to 1915, changed the course of her life. In 1908, Rudolf Steiner, leader of the German Theosophical Society, held several lectures in Stockholm. He also visited af Klint's studio and saw some of the early Paintings for the Temple. In 1913, Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society, which af Klint joined in 1920 and remained a member for the rest of her life.
01/2022
Philosophie
«Phädon», or «On the Immortality of the Soul»
This is the first modern translation of Moses Mendelssohn's classic work of 1767, the Phädon. It includes Mendelssohn's own introduction and appendix, as well as footnotes and explanatory introduction by David Shavin. (Charles Cullen's translation of 1789 is the only other extant translation.) The "modern Socrates" of the German classical period, Mendelssohn has created a beautiful translation and elaboration of Plato's Phädo led to a revolution in thought, and a subsequent renaissance in Germany. The debt of the German classical period to ancient Greece is embodied in Mendelssohn's Phädon, as is the promise of the American Revolution. The translation and accompanying notes recapture Mendelssohn's unique marriage of depth of thought and breadth of appeal.
12/2006
Sociologie
National and European Law on the Threshold to the Single Market
The volume contains the reports and discussion papers presented at an English-German Colloquium in May 1992. Scholars and practicing lawyers from the United Kingdom and Germany deal with seven important fields of law : History of Environmental Law - Current Issues of Local Government - Immigration and Asylum - Towards European Private Law Principles - Product Safety and Product Liability - Social Security - The Single Market and the Legal Profession.
03/1993
Littérature étrangère
Richard III
King Richard
- A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse !
Catesby
- Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse.
King Richard
- Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
I think there be six Richmonds in the field; Five have I slain to-day instead of him.
A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse !
they pass on.
Le Roi Richard
- Un cheval ! Un cheval ! Mon royaume pour un cheval ! Catesby
- Retirez-vous, monseigneur ; je vous trouverai un cheval. Le Roi Richard
- Manant, j'ai misé ma vie sur un coup de dé et j'en veux courir la chance. Je crois qu'il y a six Richmond sur le terrain : j'en ai tué cinq aujourd'hui à sa place. Un cheval ! Un cheval ! Mon royaume pour un cheval !
Ils sortent.
Art contemporain
Barthélémy Toguo. Kingdom of Faith, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Barthélémy Toguo, né en 1967 au Cameroun, vit et travaille aujourd'hui entre Paris et Bandjoun au Cameroun. Il commence ses études à l'école des beaux-arts d'Abidjan en Côte d'Ivoire. Son apprentissage artistique débute avec la réalisation de copies des sculptures classiques européennes, jusqu'à ce que sa participation à un atelier de sculpture du bois en 1992 lui permette de modifier radicalement son travail. Il décide alors de poursuivre ses études en France, afin de connaître un autre type d'enseignement, et d'être plus libre dans ses recherches personnelles. Il suit les cours de l'école supérieure d'art de Grenoble et s'inscrit ensuite dans l'atelier de Klaus Rinke à la Kunstakademie de Düsseldorf. L'artiste commence à utiliser l'aquarelle en 1998 ; ce travail, naissant de ses multiples voyages et expériences, crée ainsi une sorte de journal de bord, de carnet de voyage. Il en réalise plusieurs séries Le travail de Barthélémy Toguo possède aussi une dimension politique. Il s'intéresse aux flux, de marchandises mais aussi d'êtres humains, ainsi qu'à ceux qui régulent ces flux. Barthélémy Toguo s'intéresse également à la présence de l'art en Afrique, et en particulier au Cameroun. Récemment, l'artiste s'est tourné vers le domaine du théâtre et de la mise en scène de l'espace.
10/2021
Comics Super-héros
Dawn of X Tome 14 : Dawn of X Vol. 14 (Edition collector). Edition collector
C'est la guerre. Le crossover Empyre n'épargne pas les X-Men ! Les mutants vont devoir défendre Krakoa dans une mini-série événement, ainsi que la Lune où la famille Summers est installée. En plus, Cable rencontre Deadpool, Wolverine retrouve Omega Red et l'équipe de Facteur-X doit enquêter dans le Mojovers. Avant de se lancer dans le crossover X of Swords en juin, les mutants participent à l'événement Empyre dans une mini-série en quatre épisodes que vous retrouverez dans ces deux tomes. Aux commandes : l'équipe scénaristique de DAWN OF X !
06/2021
Non classé
Covenant and Liberation
This book springs from the practical interaction of two absorbing interests : in covenant, thanks to many years of lecturing on the Scriptures, in which covenants provide a sure road from start to finish of the Bible ; and in liberation, an interest sharpened by more than a decade of working in a Lima parish with people struggling desperately to break free from the cycle of poverty, oppression and premature death. Theirs is part of the struggle for liberation throughout Latin America and many other parts of our global home. Reflecting with the poor on their situation in the light of the Scriptures has led to a fuller realization that covenant and liberation are two sides of the same coin - liberation is for covenant, and covenant is to consolidate and promote freedom as befits God's family. First comes a synthesis of the biblical covenants, indicating their continuity but also the unique characteristics of each one. Special attention is paid to the new covenant, often reflected in terms of kingdom, community, family and mutual love. Then it is indicated how new light may be drawn from such a central biblical theme in order to view correctly and share personally in today's liberation struggles.
01/1991
Beaux arts
Italian Maiolica and Other Early Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery
This is the first catalogue of the collection of early modern ceramics in the Courtauld. The pieces in the collection showcase brilliantly the skill of potters and pottery painters working at the time of Raphael and Titian. Maiolica is one of the most revealing expressions of Renaissance art. Its extraordinary range of colours retain the vividness that they had when they left the potter's kiln. Italian potters absorbed techniques and shapes from the Islamic world and incorporated ornament and subject matter from the arts of ancient Rome. This new approach to pottery making, combined with the invention of printing, woodcut and engraving, resulted in an extraordinary type of painted pottery, praised by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists for 'surpassing the ancient with its brilliance of glaze and variety of painting'. The collection boasts a magnificent group of vessels made during the high Renaissance, the golden age of Italian maiolica. It includes precious and delicate Deruta lustreware with imagery deriving from Perugino and Raphael, as well as vessels painted in a narrative style of pottery painting known as istoriato. Highlights include vessels depicting episodes taken from the first printed Bibles of the Renaissance. Istoriato maiolica flourished particularly in the lands of the Dukes of Urbino, who promoted this craft by sending painted pottery to prestigious patrons across Europe. Emblems and devices painted on the pottery help us understand that they were meant to be used and enjoyed by the elites in Renaissance society, such as the Medici and other great Tuscan families. The catalogue will include two recent gifts to the Courtauld, a rare tile of the famous patroness of the arts Marchioness Isabella D'Este, and a refined dish painted with the story of Diana and Actaeon. All major Renaissance pottery centres are represented in the collection, including Siena, Faenza and Venice, as well as splendid examples of the mysterious pharmacy jars made at the foot of the mountain of Gran Sasso in the town of Castelli d'Abruzzo. These achievements of the art of pottery in the early modern period are completed by fine examples of Ottoman pottery, as well as examples of Valencian lustreware. Sani's introductory essay on the Victorian collector Thomas Gambier Parry will shed new light on the development of this fascinating collection, making links between Gambier Parry's artistic practice and his collecting and revealing new insights into his taste as a collector. Each detailed entry uncovers a wealth of new information on the provenance of the pieces.
03/2023
Monographies
Gustave Moreau. The Fables
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) is one of the most brilliant and enigmatic artists associated with the French Symbolist movement. This book accompanies an exhibition of some of the most extraordinary works he ever made, unseen in public for over a century. Moreau's watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau's ' keen apprehension of the weird. ' There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour - many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau's storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau's visions. Prints after Moreau's Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau's response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine's canonical work, whose sources include Aesop's fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times.
08/2021
Fantasy
League of Legends : Ruination. Edition collector
Découvrez l'univers magique de La Ruine de Camavor, le récit épique d'un empire menacé par le déclin. Bienvenue à Camavor, contrée brutale à l'héritage sanglant, où la cavalerie de l'empire fait régner terreur et massacre. Kalista, générale des armées, a bien l'intention de changer les choses. Lorsque Viego, son jeune oncle narcissique, accède au trône, elle fait le serment, en tant que fidèle conseillère et confidente du roi, de tempérer son instinct destructeur. Cependant, ses plans sont contrariés quand un assassin frappe de sa lame empoisonnée Isolde, la femme de Viego, et lui inflige un mal incurable. A mesure que l'état de la reine se dégrade, Viego s'abîme dans la folie et le chagrin, et menace d'entraîner Camavor dans sa chute. Afin de sauver le royaume, Kalista tente une ultime manoeuvre : elle part à la recherche des Iles bénies qui, selon les rumeurs, renfermeraient le salut d'Isolde - à condition de parvenir à les trouver. Mais la corruption gangrène leur capitale, où un gardien assoiffé de vengeance espère piéger Kalista dans ses cruelles machinations. Elle va devoir faire un choix : rester loyale à Viego ou suivre la voie de la vertu. Car un simple acte de courage suffit parfois à percer les ténèbres les plus noires et sauver le monde. Fabrication premium dans la version collector : Edition reliée, grand format, jaspage noir avec une épée bleue sur la tranche, jaquette recto-verso, couverture avec dorure, concept art inédits et illustrations couleurs, tranchefile et signet !
05/2023
Vitraux, enluminures
Holy Hoaxes. A Beautiful Deception
Ce livre fascinant raconte l'histoire de la construction de la collection de faux et de contrefaçons de manuscrits enluminés appartenant à William M. Voelkle. A travers des essais approfondis et de belles illustrations, Voelkle retrace l'histoire de près de soixante-dix faux et contrefaçons. The book takes the reader on a journey that sheds light on the nature and detection of forgery of manuscript illumination. An engaging introduction by Christopher de Hamel raises tantalizing questions that touch on the very meaning of authenticity and our continuing fascination with forgery. Scientific analysis of pigments, the identification of sources, and the scrutiny of the materials all come into play in the unfolding story of the collection. An illustrated catalogue presents the group of nearly seventy fakes and forgeries that display astonishing breadth. They include not only the Spanish Forger and other Western European miniatures by Ernesto Sprega, Caleb William Wing, and Germano Prosdocimi, and others, but fascinating examples from the Christian East, from Ethiopia, from Mexico, and from Persia and India. Published here in its entirety for the first time, the Voelkle Collection is the only comprehensive one of fakes and forgeries of manuscript painting in private hands. Voelkle's fifty-year career at the Morgan Library & Museum was inextricably interwoven with the construction of the collection, which is detailed in the foreword. The personal narrative reveals the author as a collector and a scholar. As an enthusiastic collector, he pursues examples of forgery, marveling at the range of skills of deception. As a scholar, he disentangles the sources that served forgers and the chains of provenance that sometimes led to their exposure. Included also in the book is a comprehensive list of William M. Voelkle's publications.
04/2023
Techniques instrumentales
Wild Swans Suite. for violin and piano. violin and piano.
"Being Russian born I have a strong connection to the ballet scores of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and as a result in the Wild Swans, more than in any other work of mine, I allowed myself the freedom to roam through 200 years of musical genres, ranging from Hungarian Operetta through folk music and even including the influences of jazz and popular music, " says Elena Kats-Chernin. The full-length work, which premiered in Sydney in 2003, was written for choreographer Meryl Tankard after the two artists had already worked together for the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games, and became one of the composer's greatest successes. Many excerpts in various arrangements have a concert life of their own today - including the world-renowned Eliza Aria. Arranged by the composer in 2004 for violin and piano after the original orchestral version, the half-hour suite comprises ten characteristic movements : Green Leaf Prelude, Eliza Aria, Brothers, Wicked Witch (piano solo), Magic Spell Tango, Glow Worms, Darkness of the Forest, Eliza and the Prince, Mute Princess, Transformation. Instrumentation : violin and piano
05/2023
12 ans et +
The Book of Ivy Tomes 1 et 2 : Coffret collector en 2 volumes. The Book of Ivy ; The Revolution of Ivy
Il y a cinquante ans, une guerre nucléaire a décimé la population mondiale. Un groupe de survivants a fini par se former, et ce qui reste des Etats-Unis d'Amérique s'est choisi un président. Mais des deux familles qui se sont affrontées pour le pouvoir, la mienne a perdu. Aujourd'hui, les enfants des adversaires d'autrefois sont contraints de s'épouser lors d'une cérémonie censée assurer la paix. J'ai seize ans cette année, et mon tour est venu. Je m'appelle Ivy Westfall. Ma mission ? Tuer l'homme que je suis destinée à épouser... le fils du président.
11/2017
Histoire internationale
On the Border - The Otherness of God and the Multiplicity of the Religions
The Christian theology of religions at present faces a crisis. What precisely is the task of the theology of religions ? Does it merely consist in interpreting the non-Christian religions as steps, phases or contributions in the light of Christianity ? Has one from the theological side conceded the maximum to the non-Christian religions by acknowledging them as anonymous Christianity (Karl Rahner)? This study is an exploration on how one shall liberate the religion of the other from anonymity : how one shall leave the other with his/her own name. The model of thought employed in this study is gained through an analysis of the intercultural process of understanding, explained with instances from Africa and South America.
01/1994
Romance sexy
My wicked game
Elle pense pouvoir lui échapper. Elle représente un défi qu'il compte bien gagner. Annabelle est sérieuse, discrète et ne sort jamais des sentiers battus. Pour le plus grand plaisir de sa mère. Adam, barman la nuit, étudiant en musique le jour, est tout ce qu'elle exècre. Tatoué, arrogant, provocateur, mais surtout sexy en diable... La jeune femme pensait tout contrôler jusqu'au jour où elle se retrouve, un fameux matin, dans le lit du jeune homme. Décontenancée, elle le fuit et croit pouvoir l'oublier. Jusqu'à ce qu'elle apprenne qu'il est le fils de son beau-père et qu'ils vont devoir cohabiter. Doté d'une ténacité à toute épreuve et peu habitué à se voir refuser les faveurs de la gent féminine, Adam compte bien la faire succomber... Que la partie commence...
02/2021
Non classé
Islam in the West
This book studies the historical, religious and political concerns of the Iraqi Shi‘i community as interpreted by the members of that community who now live in the United Kingdom and Ireland, following the 2003-2010 war and occupation in Iraq. It opens up a creative space to explore dialogue between Islam and the West, looking at issues such as intra-Muslim conflict, Muslim-Christian relations, the changing face of Arab Islam and the experience of Iraq in the crossfire of violence and terrorism – all themes which are currently emerging in preaching and in discussion among Iraqi Shi‘a in exile. The book's aim is to explore possibilities for dialogue with Iraqi Shi‘i communities who wish, in the midst of political, social and religious transition, to engage with elements of Christian theology such as pastoral and liberation theology.
05/2013
Seinen/Homme
Valhallian the Black Iron Tome 1 . Edition collector
Un samouraï surdoué au coeur de la bataille du Valhalla ! Au XIIIe siècle, le Japon échappe de justesse à l'invasion mongole, en partie grâce aux talents de samouraï de Tetsujiro Soma. Sa puissance est telle qu'il est craint même de ses alliés... Ses exploits guerriers ne lui attirent ni reconnaissance, ni richesse. Une fois la menace repoussée, le guerrier maudit est renvoyé dans son domaine. Seul son fils, le fragile Takemaru, lui apporte bonheur et amour. Un jour, alors que Tetsujiro brave de nouveau la faim qui le démange pour lui offrir son repas, il ferme les yeux... et se retrouve l'instant suivant seul et désarmé dans une forêt inconnue... Pire, il est soudain attaqué par des légionnaires romains assoiffés de sang ! Le samouraï est sauvé de justesse par Hrist, une jeune fille ailée qui se présente comme sa valkyrie attitrée. C'est elle qui l'a mené ici, au Valhalla. S'il veut retrouver son fils, il doit l'aider dans sa révolte contre les forces qui dominent cette terre envahie de guerriers de tous temps et de tous lieux ! Les armées les plus puissantes de l'Histoire s'affrontent en plein coeur du Valhalla ! Toshimitsu Matsubara nous entraîne dans un récit épique au dessin et à la mise en scène vertigineuses !
02/2023
Shonen/garçon
Welcome to the ballroom Tome 6 . Edition collector
Qui sera la nouvelle partenaire de Tatara ? Décidé à progresser dans les règles de l'art, Tatara se reconcentre sur les bases de la danse. Il s'entraîne seul mais pour progresser, il a besoin de trouver une partenaire. Chinatsu Hiyama, sa camarade de classe, ne semble pus étrangère au milieu de lu danse... mais elle refuse de mettre les pieds sur la piste. Que cache donc son rejet ?
06/2023
Manga
The swordsman : Tomes 1 à 9. Edition collector
Fils d'une concubine, Dongsu se situe en bas de l'échelle sociale. Samaîtrise du sabre et de la lance sont ses seuls saluts jusqu'à ce que les opposants du Roi fassent assassiner son maître. Sa soif de vengeance, ainsi que son talent grandissant, lui attirent rapidement les faveurs du Roi. Ce dernier l'entraîne alors dans une lutte de pouvoir qui le rapproche du talentueux bretteur responsable de la mort de son maître.
03/2019
Aristote
De historia animalium. Translatio Guillelmi de Morbeka, Pars altera: lib. VI-X. Edition bilingue anglais-latin
This book forms the complement to the first volume published in 2000. The preface contains some remarks about the transmission of the text as a supplement to the first volume. Then follow the critical edition of books VI-X, and the indices for the whole text. The complete edition gives access to the longest and most important work from Aristotle's zoology, De historia animalium, in the Latin translation by William of Moerbeke. This version was part of the standard university curriculum in the late-medieval West. The bilingual indices give access to the richness of the translator's vocabulary and provide an indispensable tool for the study of his translation method. Except for De partibus animalium, all of Moerbeke's translations from the Aristotelian zoological corpus are now available in critical editions.
05/2021
Non classé
A Mirrour of Mutabilitie
Written in 1579 as an imitation of the Mirror for Magistrates, Munday's Mirrour of Mutabilitie is a collection of complaints by biblical characters whose unfortunate downfalls illustrate the vanity and mutability of human affairs. This work echoes the profound scepticism of its age, a legacy of the medieval contemptus mundi tradition. It underpins the view that Time is a destroyer, that human actions cannot be calculated positively, because life is temporal and full of accidents.This edition, the first one after the editio princeps of 1579, offers a text with the original spelling based on critical study of the 1579-edition, together with an introduction, textual notes, commentary and bibliography, designed to give scholars and students as much editorial assistance as they are likely to require.
01/1991
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
The Undergrowth of Science. Delusion, self-deception and human frailty
Walter Gratzer's themes in the stories he relates in The Undergrowth of Science are collective delusion and human folly. Science is generally seen as a process bound by rigorous rules, which its practitioners must not transgress. Deliberate fraud occasionally intrudes, but it is soon detected, the perpetrators cast out and the course of discovery barely disturbed. Far more interesting are the outbreaks of self-delusion that from time to time afflict upright and competent researchers, and then spread like an epidemic or mass-hysteria through a sober and respectable scientific community. When this happens the rules by which scientists normally govern their working lives are suddenly suspended. Sometimes these episodes are provoked by personal vanity, an unwillingness to acknowledge error or even contemplate the possibility that a hard-won success is a will o' the wisp; at other times they stem from loyalty to a respected and trusted guru, or even from patriotic pride; and, worst of ail, they may be a consequence of a political ideology which imposes its own interpretation on scientists' observations of the natural world. Unreason and credulity supervene, illusory phenomena are described and measured, and theories are developed to explain them - until suddenly, often for no single reason, the bubble bursts, leaving behind it a residue of acrimony, recrimination, embarrassment and ruined reputations.
Here, then, are radiations, measured with high precision yet existing only in the minds of those who observed them; the Russian water, which some thought might congeal the oceans: phantom diseases which called for heroic surgery; monkey testis implants that restored the sexual powers of ageing roués and of tired sheep; truths about genetics and about the nature of matter, perceptible only to Aryan scientists in the Third Reich or Marxist ideologues in the Soviet Union; and much more. The Undergrowth of Science explores, in terms accessible to the lay reader, the history of such episodes, up to our own time, in ail their absurdity, tragedy and pathos.
01/2000
Mondes fantastiques
So let them burn. Edition collector
Faron Vincent est capable d'invoquer le pouvoir des dieux. Cinq ans plus tôt, sa magie divine lui a permis de libérer son île de l'ennemi - l'empire de Langley et ses impitoyables dragons. A dix-sept ans, Faron est une légende pour son peuple et une nuisance pour les royaumes voisins. Toute puissante, la jeune femme pensait n'avoir plus aucune guerre à mener. Jusqu'à ce qu'elle découvre, lors d'un sommet international pour la paix, que sa soeur aînée, Elara, noue un lien sans précédent avec un dragon ennemi. Les dieux se montrent formels : pour briser ce lien, Faron devra tuer Elara...
02/2024
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Thinking about Physics
Physical scientists are problem solvers. They are comfortable "doing" science: they find problems, solve them, and explain their solutions. Roger Newton believes that his fellow physicists might be too comfortable with their roles as solvers of problems. He argues that physicists should spend more time thinking about physics. If they did, he believes, they would become even more skilled at solving problems and "doing" science. As Newton points out in this thought-provoking book, problem solving is always influenced by the theoretical assumptions of the problem solver. Too often, though, he believes, physicists haven't subjected their assumptions to thorough scrutiny. Newton's goal is to provide a framework within which the fundamental theories of modem physics can be explored, interpreted, and understood.
"Surely physics is more than a collection of experimental results, assembled to satisfy the curiosity of appreciative experts," Newton writes. Physics, according to Newton, has moved beyond the describing and naming of curious phenomena, which is the goal of some other branches of science. Physicists have spent a great part of the twentieth century searching for explanations of experimental findings. Newton agrees that experimental facts are vital to the study of physics, but only because they lead to the development of a theory that can explain them. Facts, he argues, should undergird theory.
Newton's explanatory sweep is both broad and deep. He covers such topics as quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, field theory, thermodynamics, the role of mathematics in physics, and the concepts of probability and causality. For Newton the fundamental entity in quantum theory is the field, from which physicists can explain the particle-like and wave-like properties that are observed in experiments. He grounds his explanations in the quantum field.
Although this is not designed as a standalone textbook, it is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and researchers. This is a clear, concise, up-to-date book about the concepts and theories that underlie the study of contemporary physics. Readers will find that they will become better-informed physicists and, therefore, better thinkers and problem solvers, too.
01/2000
Anglais apprentissage
LA VIERGE ET LE GITAN : THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY
When the vicar's wife went off with a young and penniless man the scandal knew no bounds. Her two little girls were only seven and nine years old respectively. And the vicar was such a good husband. True, his hair was grey. But his moustache was dark, he was handsome, and still full of furtive passion for his unrestrained and beautiful wife. Why did she go ? Why did she burst away with such an éclat of revulsion, like a touch of madness ? Nobody gave any answer. Only the pious said she was a bad woman. While some of the good women kept silent. They knew. The two little girls never knew. Wounded, they decided that it was because their mother found them negligible. The ill wind that blows nobody any good swept away the vicarage family on its blast. Then lo and behold ! the vicar, who was somewhat distinguished as an essayist and a controversialist, and whose case had aroused sympathy among the bookish men, received the living of Papplewick. The Lord had tempered the wind of misfortune with a rectorate in the north country. [...] "Lorsque la femme du pasteur s'enfuit avec un jeune homme sans le sou, le scandale ne connut pas de bornes. Ses deux fillettes n'avaient que sept et neuf ans respectivement. Et le pasteur était un si bon mari. Certes, il avait les cheveux gris, mais sa moustache était restée noire, il était bel homme et brûlait encore d'une passion furtive pour sa belle épouse immodeste. Pourquoi était-elle partie ? Pourquoi s'était-elle arrachée à lui, dans un tel éclat de dégoût, comme un grain de folie ? Personne n'apporta de réponse. Seules, les dévotes dirent que c'était une mauvaise femme. Cependant que certaines femmes de bien gardaient le silence. Elles comprenaient, elles. Les deux fillettes ne comprirent jamais. Blessées, elles jugèrent que c'était parce que leur mère les tenait pour quantité négligeable. Le vent du malheur qui est censé être bon à quelque chose balaya de son souffle les habitants de la cure. Puis, miracle, le pasteur, qui avait une certaine éminence comme essayiste et polémiste, et dont la situation avait su émouvoir certains intellectuels, fut nommé à la paroisse de Papplewick. Le Seigneur avait adouci l'ouragan du malheur par un bénéfice de recteur dans le nord du pays. " [...]
02/1993
Musique classique
Songs of Love. 12 Romances. 12 Lieder. Soprano (tenor) and piano.
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s, but her career petered out after 1920. Songs of Love was first published in 1904. No evidence survives of any public performance in Kashperova's lifetime although it is very likely that they were performed at her regular 'musical evenings at home on Tuesdays' mentioned in her Memoirs. The transparency of the piano writing strongly suggests that she would accompany herself singing. Kashperova, by all accounts, possessed a fine voice, and in the summer of 1906 she decided 'to learn from the artistry', as she put it, of the tenor Raimond von Zur-Mühlen who was widely celebrated for having developed (with Clara Schumann) the Lieder-Abend tradition. His summer-schools on the Baltic coast were frequented by aspiring singers from all over Europe, even Japan and India. Kashperova herself was responsible for the poetic lyrics of Songs of Love (in both Russian and German), which may well have emerged from her own bittersweet experience of life and love ; she was not to marry until 1916 at the age of forty-four. That Kashperova is the author of both the music and the lyrics of Songs of Love would suggest that they express very personal sentiments. Instrumentation : soprano (tenor) and piano
12/2023
Comics
Reign of X Tome 5 . Edition collector
Le roi en noir vient menacer le règne des mutants ! Knull ne laissera aucun mutant entraver son projet d'anéantissement de la Terre. Tandis que la station S.W.O.R.D. se trouve plongée au coeur d'une crise planétaire, Krakoa combat les forces du dieu des Symbiotes. Abigail Brand se prépare à mettre en place le Protocole V, qui pourrait radicalement changer la donne... Le conseil tente, quant à lui, de protéger les mutants de l'Outremonde, alors qu'Excalibur doit déterminer le véritable destin de Betsy Braddock. Pendant ce temps, Kitty Pryde et son équipage de Maraudeurs prennent la mer afin d'aider tous ceux qui sont dans le besoin. Cet album contient les épisodes Excalibur (2019) 18 et 19, S.W.O.R.D. (2021) 2 et 3, et King in black : Marauders (2021) 1.
01/2022
