Magus of the library Tome 1
Extraits
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
Manga
The ancient magus bride supplement 2
Chisé Hatori a 15 ans. Elle n'a ni famille, ni talent particulier, ni aucun espoir dans la vie. Un jour, elle est vendue à un sorcier, un non-humain dont l'existence remonte à la nuit des temps... Il la prend sous son aile pour faire d'elle sa disciple et lui annonce qu'à terme, elle deviendra son épouse. Alors, les aiguilles qui semblaient à tout jamais figées dans son coeur se mettent à tourner de nouveau, petit à petit... Découvrez un nouveau monde fantasy riche en pouvoirs, créatures et yôsei. Un manga succès qui a ensorcelé le Japon et prend brillament la relève de "Black Butler" et "Pandora Hearts". Adapté en animé !
05/2019
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
Manga
Library Wars Tome 10
Iku est passée agent chef, entre autres grâce à l'aide de Dojo. Alors que ses sentiments pour celui-ci grandissent peu à peu, elle est envoyée en mission dans la bibliothèque préfectorale d'Ibaraki, sa région natale ! Cependant, elle se retrouve dès son arrivée en butte au harcèlement des filles des Affaires générales, et pour couronner le tout elle reçoit la visite de ses parents, à qui elle cache toujours sa profession ! Un tome 10 comprenant une side story !
08/2014
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
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
Thèmes photo
The Big Book of Pussy. A Lilliputian Library of Labial Lovelines, Edition français-anglais-allemand
L'Origine du monde pour quelques pièces ! Gustave Courbet fut bien inspiré lorsqu'il intitula ainsi, en 1866, sa toile représentant l'entre-jambe foisonnant d'une dame voluptueusement alanguie. Nous venons tous d'une chatte et la moitié d'entre nous passent une bonne partie de leur vie à essayer d'y retourner - maintenant vous pourrez caler 150 des plus beaux specimens dans votre poche arrière.
01/2021
Shonen/garçon
By the grace of the gods Tome 1
Grâce à l'intervention de trois divinités, Ryôma Takebayashi, un employé japonais ordinaire, se retrouve réincarné après sa mort dans le monde étrange de Seilfall. Redevenu un jeune garçon, il décide de vivre en ermite dans la forêt et de se consacrer à l'étude des slimes, des petites créatures rondes dévorant tout ce qu'elles trouvent. Pour Ryôma, c'est le début d'une nouvelle vie calme et paisible dans ce monde de fantasy, entouré de ses slimes aux capacités insoupçonnées !
01/2023
Sonyun (shonen)
The return of the demonic master Tome 1
" Le Démon Rouge " : son nom fait frémir de peur tous ses ennemis, car il est l'homme le plus puissant de son univers. Mais une coalition de maîtres réussit à lui ôter la vie. Pourtant, ce n'est pas la fin pour lui : le voilà de retour dans son corps d'origine sur Terre. Réincarné dans sa toute première vie, comme un adolescent normal. Ou presque... Car Jinho a gardé tous ses pouvoirs de Maître des Démons. Mais, cette fois-ci, pas question de se laisser marcher sur les pieds ou de perdre les personnes qu'il aime. Et il comprend vite que les monstres existent aussi dans la vraie vie et que lui seul peut les arrêter...
09/2022
Critique littéraire
To catch the sun in the water
Marie was born around the end of World War II in a small village near Chaveniac-Lafayette where General Lafayette lived. It is the mountainous region of Auvergne known as the heart of France. Take Marie's hand and she will guide you through her humble childhood. Through her eyes you will see what it was like to live in the country in France. With Marie's many brothers end sisters you will participate in hay making, harvesting... At this time, they used traditional methods and tools. Her parents will demonstrate the making of bread, butter and cheese... It's here that you meet Mathias, a boy her age, who becomes her best friend. Later, their love story unfolds... Just after the war, it was a time when the French countryside was populated with farmers that still lived in economic self-sufficiency. In the story, the author makes these peasants from depths of France come alive. The feeling, the candor, and the authenticity of the book will remind you of the Little House on the Prairie
07/2001
Ethnologie et anthropologie
The Wolves Rise Again. New elites born out of chaos
The successive shocks that strike our time have acted as an indicator of men : the bland elites of yesteryear, suddenly rejected by the masses, went back silently into the void where they had first come from. This opportunist plutarchy, that maintained itself so far, thanks to the industry of lying, the targeted elimination of creative people, will soon be engulfed. Around these illusionists with no audience, the hidden alphas will begin to rise. Within a few months, alphas, forged in a new metal, invaded public space. How can it be explained ? In troubled times, the hierarchies of peacetime had left, suddenly, a place to the atomisation of individuals. Chaos then allows the individual alphas to rise to power. Like a pack of wolves, these alphas quickly take the lead of small human groups organising themselves into rival packs. The French Revolution is a striking example of this evolution : the masters of yesterday were relegated because of their unsuitability.
06/2022
Philosophie
Issues in the Philosophy of Language Past and Present
In the light of contemporary perspectives a good deal of traditional philosophical thought can be read as relating to the issue of 'Language versus Reality'. The chapters of this book vindicate this claim ; bringing together thinkers different both in temperament and interests like Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, Heidegger and Gadamer they suggest that some of their major tenets reflect conceptual assumptions concerning linguistic meaning and reference. In trying to both identify and elucidate the assumptions at stake the author shows, both historically and systematically, that some of the problems experienced in the past as well as much of our contemporary concern with the same issue form a continuous line and a common endeavour ; and they have not yet come to an end.
11/1999
Manga
Highschool of the dead Tome 1
La journée du 13 avril avait commencé comme une matinée ordinaire au pensionnat de Takashi. Mais, alors qu'il sèche les cours et s'apprête à faire une petite sieste sur le toit de l'établissement, il aperçoit devant le portail un professeur se faire dévorer par ce qui semble bien être un mort-vivant... Tout bascule alors dans l'horreur et le gore. Les films de Romero vous ont terrorisé ? Les séries des Resident Evil et Dead Rising trônent en bonne place dans votre ludothèque ? Shaun of the Dead vous a fait mourir de rire ? Alors, vous allez adorer Highschool of the Dead !
07/2009
Manga
The Empire of Corpses Tome 1
A la fin du XIXe siècle, une technologie révolutionnaire permettant de réinsuffler la vie se répand dans le monde entier. John Watson, jeune étudiant en médecine, est contraint d'entrer au service de la couronne britannique pour échapper aux travaux forcés. Il part alors pour la lointaine Asie dans l'espoir de redonner l'âme et la parole à son ami...
11/2018
Shonen/garçon
The World of Summoning Tome 1
Les invocateurs sont des êtres ayant la capacité de faire apparaître diverses "choses" et créatures en provenance d'autres mondes. C'est d'ailleurs au milieu de ses créatures venues de mondes parallèles qu'a grandi Tokoyo. Ce jeune garçon n'a qu'un seul rêve : devenir lui aussi invocateur ! C'est dans ce but qu'il rejoint l'Académie d'invocation, l'école spécialisée dans cette discipline. Alors qu'il souhaitait vivre la scolarité la plus normale possible, il se retrouve propulsé dans la classe des forces spéciales ! Il semblerait que sous ses airs simplets, Tokoyo dissimule un grand secret qui oblige l'Académie à lui réserver un traitement particulier... Un secret qui pourrait bien bouleverser notre monde... Le nouveau shônen fantastique de Yûki Kodama (BLOOD LAD)
09/2023
BD tout public
Stars of the stars Tome 1
Sept filles venues du monde entier sont convoquées à New York pour auditionner dans une prestigieuse école de danse. Parmi elles, Angoissette, la Juive new yorkaise névrosée, et Maurisse, la Noire française déjantée, sont très loin des petits rats de l’opéra... Le concours dégénère avant même que des extraterrestres viennent se mêler de la sélection ! L’enfer ressemblerait-il à un huit-clos de ballerines lancé sur orbite ? Le début d’une épopée cosmique et délirante, entre Fame et Star Trek.
09/2013
12 ans et +
The Book of Ivy Tome 1
Au nom de quoi seriez-vous prêt à tuer ? A la suite d'une guerre nucléaire dévastatrice, la population des Etats-Unis s'est retrouvée décimée. Un groupe de survivants a fini par se former, mais en son sein s'est joué une lutte de pouvoir entre deux familles pour la présidence de la petite nation. Les Westfall ont perdu. Cinquante ans plus tard, les fils et les filles des adversaires d'autrefois sont contraints de s'épouser, chaque année, dans une cérémonie censée assurer l'unité du peuple. Cette année, mon tour est venu. Je m'appelle Ivy Westfall, et je n'ai qu'une seule et unique mission dans la vie : tuer le fils du président que je suis destinée à épouser. L'objectif, c'est la révolution, et le retour au pouvoir des miens. Peu importe qu'un coeur de chair et de sang batte dans sa poitrine, peu importe qu'un innocent soit sacrifié pour des raisons politiques. Peu importe qu'en apprenant à le connaître, je fasse une rencontre qui change ma vie. Mon destin est scellé depuis l'enfance. Bishop doit mourir. Et je serai celle qui le tuera. Née pour trahir et faite pour tuer... Sera-t-elle à la hauteur ? Book of Ivy est le premier roman d'Amy Engel, à la fois suspense insoutenable, dystopie cruelle et histoire d'amour torturée.
03/2015
Shonen/garçon
Call of the night Tome 1
En une rencontre, la vie peut reprendre du mordant ! Impossible de résister à l'appel de la nuit !! La nuit où Kô Yamori, collégien et éternel insomniaque, décide de sortir se promener seul, il fait la rencontre de Nazuna Nanakusa, une jolie vampire. "Veille jusqu'à ce que tu sois satisfait de ta journée, garçon ! " La veillée de Kô seul avec elle va bouleverser son destin... Premier épisode d'une love story à la belle étoile !!
10/2022
Seinen/Homme
Classroom of the Elite Tome 1
Le lycée de haut niveau de Tokyo est l'un des établissements les plus réputés du pays qui se targue d'un taux d'embauche et de diplômés 100%. Les locaux sont-neufs, on y trouve de nombreux divertissements et les élèves sont libres de se coiffer comme ils veulent ou d'apporter leurs objets personnels dans l'enceinte. Dès leur rentrée, ils reçoivent l'équivalent de 100 000 yens sous forme d'une monnaie propre à l'école. En d'autres termes, un véritable paradis pour les jeunes élèves. Du moins, en apparence... Le rideau se lève sur une vie estudiantine apocalyptique encore jamais vue !
02/2024
Light novel
Classroom of the Elite Tome 1
De l'extérieur, le lycée de haut niveau de Tokyo semble être un lieu de rêve. Les élèves ont une liberté quasi-totale et son taux de réussite frôle les 100%. Cette prestigieuse école permet à ses élèves d'accéder aux meilleurs emplois et universités, à condition qu'ils gagnent, échange ou économisent suffisamment de points pour gravir les échelons ! Kiyotaka Ayanakôji se retrouve au plus bas de cette école, au sein de la classe D, celle des rebus et des méprisés. Accompagné de Suzune Horikita, une élève déterminée à rejoindre la classe A, Ayanokoji va devoir vaincre le système et la concurrence de cette école impitoyable !
02/2024
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
Droit
Constructing Reality
Is Lily-Julie just a projection of Nicholas's own desires ? Is reality just a projection of our own ideas ? The former is one of the central questions in John Fowles's novel The Magus ; the latter is the nucleus of constructivism. This study traces constructivist ideas and their transformation into narrative in The Magus. For long before constructivist theories were put forth, John Fowles confronts both the protagonist of his novel and the reader with the central constructivist theme : the construction of reality.
11/1999
BD tout public
Doctor Gachet's portrait
A picture named "Doctor Gachet's portrait" has been stolen a night from a museum. Immediately, the news offer the event and our heroes start the research after some clue that leads them to the thief. After travelling across some countries following his trace, they realize that a smuggling network is behind the robbery, led by minister Goring. Among their loot is an enormous amount of pictures stolen from private collectors, with the aim of transporting and hiding them beyond their frontiers.
01/2014
Non classé
The Concept of Man in Igbo Myths
In the vast silence of their isolation, the traditional Igbos have learnt the ways of living in harmony with nature. From their origin in distant time, they have kept a sacred perspective on the natural world. In our age, there is the need for traditional wisdoms to retain their validity and be intrinsic to our philosophic and scientific perceptions of the cosmos. We cannot do without their knowledge, their spiritual perspective, and their deep faith in the harmony of all nature. Ignoring these qualities has profound environmental implications. Global warming, environmental pollution, and the exhaustion of nature's resources are but a few of the symptoms of the nature's experiences as we continue to mistreat it in order to satisfy our own ends. This work helps us to realise that wherever we are, we are a part of nature. All the things around us are as presences, representing forces and powers of life that are not ours and yet are all part of us. Then we find them reflecting in ourselves, because we are nature, though not identical with it.
11/1999
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
Policiers
The poet assassin
Some mysterious graffiti on the walls of the Castillet, a crowned reptile in Saint Jean Cathedral, the Campo Santo defiled : these are some of the bizarre clues in Lieutenant Dominique d'Astié's latest investigation. Is there a link between their symbolism, the enigmatic poems strewn all over the streets of Perpignan and the bloody assassination of "King Arthur Pendragon" ? The young Parisian police officer, newest member of La Police Judiciaire de Perpignan, will need to brush up on the old Arthurian legends if she is to solve this very non-Catalan murder !
05/2012
Critique littéraire
Ancient Greek by Its Translators
When not familiar with the language itself, most readers over the centuries have had access to the ancient Greek texts only or mostly through (Latin or vernacular) translations. Such an approach is not only indirect and mediated, but also distorted and even impoverishing : meaning then prevails over the linguistic form and substance of the texts themselves. What do later or modern readers read when they read translated texts written in an ancient so-called dead language ? They read a given meaning - sometimes unfaithful, often inaccurate - dictated by a genuine understanding, the blind continuation of tradition, or an untold hidden intention. The complex range of significances conveyed by meaning simultaneously reflects the time and space (called synchrony) of when and where a text has been translated, the historical learning and linguistic skills of the translators, as well as their ideas and style. As a contribution to the perennial debate about translation (mere literary transliteration vs. creative transposition), this volume aims at analyzing some striking cases of various (literary or not) texts translated from ancient Greek showing how much for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aesthetics and ideology matter as much as - and often even more than - rigorous philology.
02/2022
BD tout public
Mages Tome 1 : Aldoran
Mages, la nouvelle série événement ! Sur les Terres d'Arran, suite à l'affaire "Lah'saa-Slovtan" , les Mages doivent désormais obéir à une nouvelle loi : être recensés et servir un seigneur humain ! S'il refuse, le mage est traqué par l'ordre des Ombres, emprisonné ou selon le cas, exécuté ! Tyrom, un vieil ermite, s'attache bien malgré lui à Shannon, une gamine espiègle de Castlelek. Cette cité indépendante est convoitée par le roi Gerald qui entend l'annexer à son royaume. Alors, quand Tyrom voit un mercenaire menacer Shannon, il s'interpose. L'instant d'après, la dépouille fumante du mercenaire git à ses pieds. Il ne comprend pas ce qu'il vient de se passer. Est-il un mage ? Et si oui, pourquoi a-t-il perdu la mémoire ?
06/2019
Mondes fantastiques
The Remnant Chronicles Tome 1 : The Kiss of Deception
La princesse Lia, première fille de la Maison Morrighan, est promise au prince de Dalbreck, un homme qu'elle n'a jamais rencontré. Une union aussi cruciale pour son royaume que terrifiante pour Lia. Pour échapper à ce destin tout tracé, la jeune fille s'enfuit le matin de ses noces. Aux confins de Morrighan, là où personne ne devrait la reconnaître, Lia croit avoir mis assez de distance entre elle et les intrigues de la cour. Alors, quand deux hommes font irruption dans sa nouvelle vie, elle ne se doute pas un instant que l'un deux est le prince éconduit et l'autre, un assassin envoyé pour la tuer. Car on n'humilie pas deux royaumes impunément, et la fugue de Lia a déclenché une crise qui pourrait bien s'étendre au-delà de Morrighan... Lia réussira-t-elle à éviter le pire sans y perdre son âme ?
09/2021
Humour
Sexymol Tome 1 : The Dark Side of the Loose
Quatre jeunes crétins dans le vent décident de fonder un groupe de rock avec la ferme ambition de devenir mondialement célèbres. Mais le vent en question souffle tellement fort que tout ne va pas aller si simplement, d'autant plus que nos joyeux compères n'ont jamais joué d'un seul instrument de musique de leur vie ! Du nom du groupe au choix du manager, du type de musique aux costumes de scène, les membres de Sexymol vont s'ébattre dans une cocasse tornade qui les mènera à la gloire... Ou pas. Bref, une BD qui décoiffe !
04/2024
