Stranger Things - Darkness on the Edge of Town - version poche
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Kenya. Tome 1, Apparitions
An ancient legend claims that in the foothills of Kilimanjaro, the roof of Africa, things as old as the world are buried, terrible things that mustn't be awoken...
10/2014
Science-fiction
The aumakua. The great white shark novel
Just as I finished grabbing it, a sharp pain suddenly was erupting on the inside edge of my lair ! Simultaneously, a tension as unbearable as it was horrifying blocked me trying to pull me towards the surface. The kanakäs had just intercepted me through this lethal decoy ! So, with all my mass and was arching my body with all my strength in the opposite direction, I was regained some slack on this terribly resistant link, feeling all the mass of the platform preventing me from probing like the dontokä before. However, I was determined to show them which of us would be most worthy of remaining in the Incompressible, when with a devastating lateral movement, I severed with a sharp blow the lethal and imperceptible tether ! By this counter blow, I was as if immediately ejected : the perfidious artifact still embedded in my lair lying painfully like a relic of this ubiquitous creature of the System.
09/2023
Littérature française
Sons of Fantasy
When we were children, we believed anything was possible... This book is a fantasy novel originally written for children. But, if you are a father or a mother, a teacher or a writer, if you still have some bits of fantasy in your soul... then, this novel is for you too. We all know how geniuses changed the world with their childlike Imagination, and how people use creative thinking to solve problems. This is a story about hope ; "Sons of Fantasy" shares the story of M. Alger, a father grieving for the loss of his dear wife, who left him with two beautiful kids. Norris and Socrates were adjusting to life without Mom... But things got more complicated when one of them was paralyzed because of a severe psychological trauma due to an overdose of fantasy... This family has a very interesting neighbor who lives a few feet away. He has a weird little hobby, reading books in the most unlikely places... He for example travelled to Romania and read "Dracula" by Bram Stoker in the Castelul Bran Castle, because it's said that the main character Dracula lived in it. And then all of a sudden he stopped travelling... He got a month ago a big long hat that belongs to the greatest witch that lived during the middle ages, "Moje Gayla". In fact, after being burned by the church, one of her relatives kept her belongings inside a wooden box... and in the twentieth century one of her grandchildren donated the box to "The Magic Square Museum" in London. Genius bought the hat at a public auction as an art relic to decorate one of his rooms. Could this weird neighbor be the reason of Socrates' psychological trauma ? Or maybe he is the one who will cure him ? And what has the hat to do with all this ?
08/2018
Comics
Stranger Things : De l'autre côté
Will Byers ne comprend pas dans quel monde il se trouve ni comment il est arrivé là, mais une chose est sûre : il n'est pas en sécurité. Sa famille et ses amis ont disparu, tandis qu'un terrible monstre rôde dans les ténèbres de cette réalité parallèle. Seule la voix de sa mère semble parvenir à traverser les dimensions, mais comment lui répondre ? Sait-elle au moins où il est ? Livré à lui-même, le jeune garçon va se raccrocher au souvenir des moments passés avec ses proches pour éviter de sombrer dans la folie... et tout faire pour échapper au Démogorgon. Plongez dans le cauchemardesque Monde à l'Envers et découvrez les événements vécus par Will dans cette histoire inédite, qui jette un éclairage nouveau sur la première saison de la série phénomène de Netflix.
07/2019
Agendas jeunesse
Agenda Stranger Things. Edition 2023-2024
Un bel agenda scolaire pour passer une année 2023-2024 effrayante dans le monde de Stranger Things !
05/2023
Comics divers
Stranger Things : La tombe d'Ybwen
Une histoire inédite et officielle qui jette un éclairage nouveau sur la série phénomène Stranger Things ! Juillet 1985. La bande d'Hawkins a survécu à la bataille contre le flagelleur mental, mais Will et Joyce sont toujours sous le choc après la mort de Bob Newby. Après avoir découvert une mystérieuse carte dans l'un des cartons de souvenirs de Bob, Will retrouve la bande pour enquêter. Mais une tempête de neige approchant, les garçons ont peur de le suivre. Lorsque Mike, Dustin et Lucas apprennent que Will s'est aventuré seul dans la tempête, ils s'empressent de partir à sa recherche pour le ramener. Mais quand ils le retrouvent, il est trop tard pour faire demi-tour. Ils n'ont pas d'autre choix que de suivre les indices qui les mènent dans une grotte pleine de pièges et de mystères. Retrouvez les héros de la série Netflix à succès pour une nouvelle aventure pleine de mystères et de danger, et découvrez ce qui se cache dans les profondeurs de la tombe d'Ybwen.
07/2023
Espagne
Secret Seville
Far from the crowds and the well-worn clichés, Seville still has many hidden gems it only reveals to locals and visitors who head off the beaten track. An essential guide for those who thought they knew Seville well or are seeking to discover another side of the city. Why is there a stone relief of Grace Kelly on the wall of Seville Town Hall and how can you track down the railway from the Ibero-American Expo of 1929 ? Where might you find the legacy of Christopher Columbus' son, a medieval Jewish cemetery in a car park, the oddest of barbershops, forgotten souvenirs from the Guadalquivir steamboats, Masonic symbols in a church, the last remaining vestiges of the Andalusian pavilions from the '29 Expo, a little-known Modernist electric power station, an example of the Nazi Enigma machine, a collection of Chinese and Japanese art in a Renaissance mansion or the pillars of a medieval synagogue ?
04/2022
Histoire de France
Protestant resistance (version poche)
Strategically located between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, criss crossed by major communication axis joining north to South ant east to West, the South of France has always been a melting pot of people and ideas... No wonder then that as soon as the Reformation started, it received and enthusiastic welcome in many of the towns and villages and soon swept most of the Southern half of France. In many of these villages, the descendants of the Cathars and the Vaudois had been living quietly and were among the first to join the new churches. However, challenging the spiritual, and in some cases the secular, power of Rome wasn't without danger ; soon the "heretics" were being persecuted, harassed and burned with their seditious books. As the French Kings (with the notable exception of Henry IV), sided with the Pope, a culture of resistance developed and has remained to this day. This book shows the clear link and shared ideas between the Huguenots who fought Louis XIVth and their descendants who hid Jewish children and fought nazi occupation forces. Richar Maltby, retired Professor of History at King's School in Canterbury and the author of a successful illustrated history of Canterbury takes us through the villages, towns and hideouts of the Huguenots and follows the Renaissance to WWII. His well-researched and well-illustrated book describes how the influence of the Bible and protestant theology permeated a whole civilization with a strong love for freedom and rejection of oppression.
07/2018
Histoire de la philosophie
Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism
The twelve lessons forming this volume were originally issued in the shape of monthly lessons, known as "The Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism" during a period of twelve months beginning with October 1904, and ending September 1905. We have been told, so often, that we must take certain things "on faith, " and that it was "no use bothering our minds concerning them, " but this is only a partial statement of truth, for the Intellect does give us a reliable report concerning the real nature of things. . ". New Thought proponents at the turn of the twentieth century sought to use mysticism to unleash the forces of the universe in themselves. One of the most influential thinkers of this early "New Age" philosophy promises here, in this 1904 book, to show the reader "to see with the clear vision of the Spirit" and how to "achieve the peace of the awakened and conscious soul". As the yogi reminds us, "No occult teaching is ever wasted-all bears fruit in its own good time". With this significant document of the New Thought movement back in print, now may be the time. Content : Lesson I. Light On The Path Lesson II. Some More Light On The Path Lesson III. Spiritual Consciousness Lesson IV. The Voice Of Silence Lesson V. Karma Yoga Lesson VI. Gnani Yoga Lesson VII. Bhakti Yoga Lesson VIII. Dharma Lesson IX. More About Dharma Lesson X. Riddle Of The Universe Lesson XI. Matter And Force Lesson XII. Mind And Spirit American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862-1932)-aka Yogi Ramacharaka-was born in Baltimore and had built up a successful law practice in Pennsylvania before professional burnout led him to the religious New Thought movement. He served as editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905, and as editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored dozens of New Thought books-including The Philosophies and Religions of India, Arcane Formula or Mental Alchemy and Vril, or Vital Magnetism-under numerous pseudonyms, some of which are likely still unknown today.
10/2022
Suspense romantique
Days of darkness
Les jours sombres ne sont que le début de la fin. Le Monde est silencieux. Plus le moindre signe de vie en surface. Terrés depuis cinq ans au coeur de la Spyrale, Gary et ses collègues ont réappris à vivre dans ce complexe hi-tech. Ils ne manquent de rien, sauf l'essentiel, la liberté. Celle de courir dans les prés, celle de sentir l'air frais sur le visage, ou de se dorer sous le soleil. Pourtant, tout n'est pas si triste, puisque leur nouvelle vie s'est enrichie de Thomas. Les jours s'écoulent sans perspective, monotones, ennuyeux mais chacun y met du sien dans des routines quotidiennes, juste pour tenir le coup. Les questions n'ont jamais cessé de perturber Gary. Que se passe-t-il à l'extérieur ? Toute vie a-t-elle vraiment cessé d'être ? Ou juste l'humanité ? Et puis... les questions laissées en suspens par le groupe terroriste Sorrow n'ont, à ce jour, aucune réponse. Dans cet ultime tome des Chroniques de Gary Gardner, François Panier nous dévoilera une fin surprenante et vraisemblable, proche de nos quotidiens, ce qui nous pousse au questionnement. Gary n'avait pas tort, tout était là, sous ses yeux, les éléments de la résolution finale de cette saga étaient à portée de main, depuis le début, en 2006, lorsque tout a commencé, mais cela ne rendra pas le suspens moins palpitant pour autant, car des bouleversements, il y en aura encore. Pourra-t-il enfin vivre, avec sa famille, avec ses amis, loin d'une vie formatée par d'autres ? Rien n'est moins sûr...
07/2021
Anglais apprentissage
Heart of darkness
Le capitaine Marlowe, qui commande un bateau destiné au commerce de l'ivoire, remonte le fleuve Congo pour s'enfoncer avec son équipage au coeur d'une Afrique primitive et sauvage. Sur sa route, il croise le mystérieux Kurtz, chef d'un comptoir perdu dans une jungle étouffante et entouré de ses hommes, cour cruelle et violente. L'expédition de Marlow devient alors un hallucinant voyage aux sources de la folie et du Mal...
09/1996
Fantasy
Hope of darkness
Séléna est une jolie jeune fille brillante et altruiste. Cependant, elle a une existence bien morne : sa famille la rejette comme une pestiférée et personne n'ose vraiment l'aimer ni la comprendre. Un jour, d'étranges phénomènes viennent bousculer sa triste routine. Avec ses amis, elle découvre un monde au-delà de la perception du commun des mortels...
05/2022
Science-fiction
Things from the Flood
"The Loop" est fermée. La vie revient à la normale lorsque la campagne pastorale est soudainement inondée par les eaux sombres de l'immense installation souterraine abandonnée. Des rumeurs se sont répandues dans les salles de classe et les cours d'école, des histoires sur l'inondation et sur la façon dont elle a apporté quelque chose avec elle. Une chose est claire : le passé n'est pas prêt d'être oublié. Dans ce nouvel ouvrage, Stålenhag continue les histoires de Tales From The Loop, souvenirs d'une enfance nordique imprégnée de machines et de créatures étranges d'autres dimensions. Dans Things From The Flood, il déplace son attention des années 80 aux années 90, la décennie de grands changements lorsque le monde extérieur est vraiment venu en Scandinavie.
12/2021
Sciences de la terre et de la
SATELLITES OF THE OUTER PLANETS. Worlds in their own right, Second Edition
"Rothery does an excellent job of synthesizing the research inspired by the Voyager missions into a coherent description of outer solar system geology." -Jonathan I. Lunine, Sky & Telescope
"A highly readable, respectably accurate and complete nontechnical summary of planetary satellites for general and scientific audiences."
-Paul M. Schenk, Icarus
"Rothery brings these satellites to life."
-David Hughes, New Scientist.
"The depth and authority of the treatment of physical geological processes makes this a good introduction to the outer satellites for undergraduate students, while the clarity of the text ensures that things do not become too complicated for less expert readers."
-Lionel Wilson, Times Higher Eduation Supplement.
Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of this acclaimed geological guide to the outer solar system includes results and close-up color and black-and-white images from both the 1995-1999 Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Voyager space probe. Rothery explains the geological aspects of the major satellites of the outer planets, from Jupiter to Neptune and the Pluto-Charon system. In particular he shows how tectonic and volcanic processes, driven by heat from within, have shaped the rigid outer layers of these worlds. Rothery also discusses the similarities and differences among them and the ways in which they resemble Earth-like planets.
01/1999
Terreur
Le Cycle de Providence, tome 4. Intégrale Lovecraft
Le Cycle de Providence et autres récits horrifiques rassemble l'ensemble des nouvelles se déroulant dans des lieux aussi emblématiques que Dunwich, Innsmouth, Kingsport ou Arkham, qui se situent dans cette étrange Nouvelle-Angleterre fantasmée par Lovecraft. Textes de Lovecraft contenus dans ce volume La Rue (The Street) Le Terrible Vieillard (The Terrible Old Man) De l'au-delà (From Beyond) L'Image dans la maison (The Picture in the House) Herbert West - Réanimateur (Herbert West - Reanimator) L'Innommable (The Unnamable) Le Festival (The Festival) La Maison abandonnée (The Shunned House) Le Modèle de Pickman (Pickman's Model) La Couleur tombée du ciel (The Colour out of Space) L'Abomination de Dunwich (The Dunwich Horror) Celui qui chuchotait dans les ténèbres (The Whisperer in Darkness) Le Cauchemar d'Innsmouth (The Shadow Over Innsmouth) La Maison de la sorcière (The Dreams in the Witch House) Le Monstre sur le seuil (The Thing on the Doorstep) Celui qui hantait les ténèbres (The Haunter of the Dark)
09/2022
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
Informatique
LEARN ACTIVEX DEVELOPMENT USING VISUAL C++ 6.0. CD-ROM included
Learn ActiveX Development Using Visual C++ 6.0 presents the basics of the Component Object Model, the ActiveX Template Library, and the Microsoft Foundation Classes, and explains how these technologies all work together to create cutting-edge components for modem applications and web pages. The text then covers the creation of several types of ActiveX controls in both ATL and MFC, and how to support Property Pages and events in both ATL and MFC. Finally, the author explores the mechanics of using ActiveX on the Internet.
Learn ActiveX Development Using Visual C++ 6.0 is the first in Wordware's series of ActiveX/COM-oriented books for Visual C++ programmers. While some of the information within these books overlaps to ensure that each book stands alone, each does focus on a specific ActiveX/COM-related technology. Look for these other titles: Learn OLE DB Development with Visual C++ 6.0 (1-55622634-9), Learn ActiveX Template Library Development with Visual C++ 6.0 (1-55622-633-0), and Learn Microsoft Transaction Server Development Using Visual C++ 6.0 (1-55622-629-2).
This book:
> Presents the basics of COM, ATL, and MFC.
> Shows how to create several types of controls in both ATL and MFC.
> Demonstrates Property Page and event support in ATL and MFC.
> Explores the use of ActiveX on the Internet.
> Includes a CD containing complete source code and projects; several third-party applications and utilities for creating HTML, CDF, OSD, and ASP files; and trial versions of Borland tools.
01/1999
Récits de voyage
Stay wild. Cabins, rural getaways and sublime solitude
Leave the city behind you, switch off, reconnect with yourself and nature, and fall in love with the world again. Stay Wild presents the finest selection of treehouses, cabins, houseboats, yurts, shepherds huts and tipis from around Europe, alongside a series of features on connecting with nature (and the positive impact that has on well-being and quality of life give), slow travel, and things like the joy of treehouses or sitting around the campfire. The places will be drawn from their portfolio and each will be presented with several inspiring images and a descriptive text.
05/2021
Thrillers
Death Games - (Looking for Sally II). (Looking for Sally II)
At the end of a deadly roadtrip, Charlie sets out on a frantic search for her father left for dead, following a trail of breadcrumbs laid by an increasingly vicious demon on the verge of incarnation. The countdown is on as Sally embarks on a dangerous experiment and the death toll keeps on rising... A gory, disturbing thriller that takes us deeper and deeper into the darkness of the human psyche. Readers discretion is advised.
12/2021
Manga
Brynhildr in the darkness Tome 16
Lorsqu'il était enfant, Murakami passait son temps avec une fille nommé Kuroneko. Celle-ci croyait en l'existence des aliens et un jour, elle décida de lui prouver. Mais un accident arriva : Murakami est grièvement blessé et Kuroneko meurt. Les années passent, sans que Murakami ne puisse oublier son amie et continue de chercher des preuves quant à l'existence des aliens.
07/2019
Mouvements artistiques
Frank Auerbach. The Charcoal Heads
Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, Frank Auerbach : The Charcoal Heads presents a remarkable series of hauntingly beautiful largescale drawings by the artist. The catalogue includes a new piece of writing on one of the drawings from critically acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. This catalogue explores one of Frank Auerbach's most remarkable bodies of work - a series of large-scale portrait heads made in charcoal, produced during his early years as a young artist in postwar London. Auerbach (b. 1931) spent months on each drawing, working and reworking them during numerous sessions with his sitters. This prolonged and vigorous process of creation is evident in the finished drawings, which are richly textured and layered. Auerbach would sometimes even break through the paper and patch it up before carrying on. His heads thus emerge from the darkness of the charcoal with burning vitality, born of an artistic as well as a physical struggle with the medium. The process of repeated creation and destruction, of which these images bear the visible scars, speaks profoundly of their times, as people rebuilt their lives after the ruination and upending of the war. The exhibition will be the first time Auerbach's extraordinary drawings, made in the 1950s and early 1960s, have been brought together as a comprehensive group. They will be shown together with a selection of paintings he made of the same sitters ; for the artist, painting and drawing have always been deeply entwined. The accompanying catalogue - by Deputy Head of The Courtauld Gallery, Barnaby Wright, and with an essay by one of the greatest contemporary voices in the English language, Colm Tóibín - is the first publication to explore in depth this magnificent series. Tóibín spent several hours one afternoon in front of Auerbach's Self-Portrait (1958), which features on the front cover of the book, looking closely and taking notes. His essay is an account of his experience and offers new insights into the work and the nature of self-portaiture.
03/2024
Archéologie
Fantastic Beasts in Antiquity. Looking for the monster, discovering the Human, Textes en français et anglais
Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented mysterious and intriguing creatures populating their world. During Antiquity, every culture had its own strange creatures, that mixed the forms of one or more animal, plant and human species in an infinite number of more-or-less fanciful combinations. Griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, pygmies, werewolves, winged monsters and unspeakable hybrids, fantastic beasts abound in the imagination of many populations throughout Antiquity. Most of them continue to live, sometimes transformed, through fairy tales, literature, movies and videogames. Faced with the abundance and variety of the ancient fantastic bestiary, the questions that come to mind are : Where do fantastic beasts come from ? How do they appear in different cultures ? What is their history, how did they survive until now ? And above all, what are fantastic beasts ? This book will explore these questions through the lens of archaeology, art history, philology and philosophy. The result is a hybrid book, precisely like the fantastic animals that constitute its object, a book which offers different approaches of analysis while being aware that our means are often vain to capture these elusive figures, which ultimately are more like us than they seem. Man, like Oedipus, will often prove to be more monstrous than the Sphinx...
02/2021
Cinéma
Stranger Things. Dans l'envers du décor
Des choses étranges se sont produites... Lorsque la première saison de Stranger Things arriva sur Netflix en plein coeur de l'été 2016, la série reçut un accueil triomphal à travers le monde et fut saluée par la critique. Elle remporta par la suite cinq Ernmy Awards, mais son succès fut surtout le résultat d'un bouche-à-oreille sans précédent, transcendant les générations. Les spectateurs se sont intimement identifiés aux personnages. A présent, les fans peuvent plonger au coeur du monde - ou des mondes - d'Hawkins, comme jamais auparavant. Rassemblant des clichés en couleurs inédits et d'incroyables illustrations, le livre officiel Stranger Things : dans l'envers du décor vous emmènera au coeur des coulisses des deux premières saisons de la série, et même au-delà. A l'intérieur, vous trouverez : - des commentaires exclusifs et une introduction par les créateurs de la série, Matt et Ross Duffer ; - des interviews des acteurs, notamment Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard et David Harbour ; - des détails sur la conception de la série, des ébauches de scénarios au casting des acteurs ; - le détail du processus créatif des frères Duffer, commenté par les membres de l'équipe - des costumiers aux scénographes en passant par les compositeurs et les spécialistes des effets spéciaux ; - des informations détaillées sur les objets et références culturelles qui ont inspiré la patte visuelle et l'ambiance de la série ; - une carte d'Hawkins contenant des annotations sur le réseau du Monde à l'Envers ; - le disque de code morse que Onze utilise, avec lequel vous pourrez déchiffrer les messages cachés contenus dans ce livre ; - un aperçu de la saison 3 ! Riche d'éléments inédits, cet ouvrage est un indispensable pour toutes celles et tous ceux qui ont adoré Stranger Things.
10/2019
Comics divers
Stranger Things Tome 4 : Colo de sciences
Le phénomène Stranger Things arrive chez Mana Books ! Dustin passe ses vacances d'été dans une colonie scientifique au milieu des bois, et pour la première fois depuis longtemps, il est loin d'Hawkins et de ses amis. Tout en étant confronté à une bande de petits intellos despotiques qui cherche à l'intimider, il doit faire face à une menace bien plus importante : une sinistre silhouette masquée vient perturber le camp. Quand les moniteurs commencent à disparaître les uns après les autres, Dustin comprend qu'il ne pourra pas résoudre ce mystère seul. Mais arrivera-t-il à se mettre sur la même longueur d'onde que Suzie et les autres adolescents ? Situé entre les saisons 2 et 3 de la production originale Netflix, cet épisode propose un hommage nostalgique aux films d'horreur de série B.
06/2021
Non classé
The Dictionary of Acronyms and Abbreviations in Applied Linguistics and Language Learning
This dictionary is two things in one : an alphabetical compilation of acronyms and abbreviations together with their full forms and an inverted index, which gives the user thematic access to the information contained in the data base. The more than 13.000 entries are an attempt to lighten the burden of language teachers and applied linguists, translators and interpreters, librarians and administrators, whose job it is to mediate in and between language communities in daily or intermittent contact with the scourge of acronyms and abbreviations. A range of additional features distinguishes this dictionary from its competitors : More than 1200 addresses (if the acronym stands for an organization/institution); more than 3000 bibliographic references to the concepts behind the short forms ; ample crossreferencing to related entries ; a listing of new word coinages on the basis of acronyms.
10/1991
Non classé
Ruling Class Men
What is it like to be a master of the universe ? The authors have researched the desires and fears of the world's most powerful men. The Murdochs, Packers, Kennedys, Agnellis and other men like them, directly determine the fates of thousands and influence the future of the world like no other people. Described as ‘sacred monsters' by one of their own, they are carefully created to be what they are and to enjoy shaping the world in their own likeness. To learn about these often reclusive men, the authors extended the life-history technique to interrogate autobiographies, diaries and biographies and have created a composite picture, a collective portrait, of tycoons over three generations. The book carefully explores the childhoods, schooling, work and play, sexual activities, marriages and deaths of the wealthiest men who have ever lived. It exposes the nature of ruling-class masculinity itself.
02/2007
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
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
Littérature française
Running in the dark
Everything starts when the General de Gaulle is kidnaped during the 1968's events. After that, the humanity will live in the darkness for years. The Markovic case disturbed the Pompidou period ; the assassination of former Chah and Direct Action's leaders marked an Iranian revolution ; the flights of 9/11 in New York ; the treason of Saddam Hussein by a rejected admirer ; the elimination of terrorists by unknown volunteers ; the murder attempts on Russian and American presidents ; the risk of a cataclysm from an attack of a US Navy nuclear aircraft carrier... All those tragic and deadly events, passed through the author's fictional filter, are an opportunity to thousands twists that question and take...
06/2020
Littérature érotique et sentim
Bewitched by the Darkness. Intégrale
Méfiez-vous des apparences. Derrière mon charme se cachent de funestes envies. Derrière mes yeux, ce ne sont pas les fenêtres de mon âme qui s'ouvriront à vous, mais bien les portes de mon enfer. Pourtant, elle, jeune et fragile, l'a deviné au premier regard... alors pourquoi ne s'enfuit-elle pas ? Pour quelle raison ai-je décidé de l'épargner ? Que me vaudra cette décision ?
12/2019
