Stranger Things. Darkness of the Age of Town
Extraits
12 ans et +
Stranger Things. Runaway Max
Dans ce prequel à la série emblématique Netflix, vous découvrez l'histoire de Max Mayfield avant son arrivée dans l'étrange ville d'Hawkins lors de la saison 2. Pourquoi a-t-elle déménagé dans cette petite ville de l'Indiana, et comment a-t-elle pu y retrouver la notion de " chez-soi " ? Le passé de la rouquine surnommée MadMax est loin d'avoir révélé tous ses secrets... des bons comme des plus sombres... Vous en apprendrez un peu plus sur son histoire, mais également sur celle de son frère Billy Hargrove (interprété par Dacre Montgomery), qui s'est illustré dans la série par sa personnalité des plus complexes...
06/2019
Comics divers
Stranger Things : La brute
Prolongeant la première saison de la série phénomène de Netflix, cette nouvelle histoire ravira les fans de tout âge ! James et Troy - les petites frappes qui terrorisaient Mike, Lucas, Dustin et Will - tentent de percer le mystère des facultés psychiques d'Onze dans ce récit terrifiant ! Troy fait des cauchemars à propos de cette dernière depuis qu'elle l'a humilié devant toute l'école et qu'elle lui a cassé le bras.
Impuissant et anxieux, il est déterminé à prouver que ce qui s'est passé avec elle n'était qu'une mise en scène et que ses prétendus " super-pouvoirs " sont une supercherie. C'est alors que James et lui vont faire la rencontre des Démo-chiens... Prolongeant la première saison de la série phénomène de Netflix, cette nouvelle histoire ravira les fans de tout âge !
Impuissant et anxieux, il est déterminé à prouver que ce qui s'est passé avec elle n'était qu'une mise en scène et que ses prétendus " super-pouvoirs " sont une supercherie. C'est alors que James et lui vont faire la rencontre des Démo-chiens... Prolongeant la première saison de la série phénomène de Netflix, cette nouvelle histoire ravira les fans de tout âge !
02/2021
Science-fiction
Stranger Things - Suspicious Minds
1969. Etudiante sur le petit campus d'une université de l'Indiana, Terry est bien loin des soubresauts qui secouent le pays, profondément divisé par la guerre du Vietnam. Mais quand elle apprend qu'on recherche de jeunes cobayes pour une étude gouvernementale menée dans la petite ville de Hawkins, elle se retrouve embarquée dans un projet inquiétant – nom de code MKUltra. Camionnettes aux couleurs sombres, laboratoire caché au fond des bois, substances hallucinogènes administrées par des chercheurs muets comme des tombes... Terry, jeune et idéaliste, est bien décidée à lever le voile sur les manigances de l'inquiétant Dr Brenner. Car derrière les murs du Laboratoire National de Hawkins, l'ampleur de la conspiration dépasse tout ce qu'elle aurait pu imaginer. Pour relever le défi, il lui faudra l'aide des autres cobayes, devenus ses compagnons d'armes... à commencer par une fillette aux pouvoirs sidérants dont le nom est un simple chiffre, Huit. Terry et le Dr Brenner vont dès lors se livrer une guerre d'un genre nouveau, dont le champ de bataille n'est autre que le cerveau humain... Vous aimeriez savoir comment Onze a bien pu venir au monde ? Stranger Things – Suspicious Minds lève le voile sur les événements qui précèdent la célèbre série des frères Duffer, et suit les péripéties de la mère de la jeune héroïne, embrigadée dans un effrayant programme de manipulation mentale.
Romans, témoignages & Co
Stranger Things. Rebel Robin
Le lycée est un monstre qui dévore tout le monde autour de Robin. Découvrez l'histoire de ce nouveau personnage adulé de la série Stranger Things, interprété par Maya Hawke ! C'est l'heure de la rentrée, et la bande d'amis de Robin a pris sa décision : cette année, ces éternels exclus vont s'intégrer. Ils se mettent en couple, parlent jour et nuit de la fac et de leurs futures carrières, et surtout ils sont obsédés par la nécessité d'accéder à une forme de " normalité " . Robin connaît ça par coeur - elle joue la comédie depuis des années, dans l'espoir que personne ne la remarquera, elle la joueuse de cor polyglotte sarcastique à la permanente ratée. Il y a pourtant un aspect de sa personnalité qui, elle le sait bien, ne cadre pas avec cette image soigneusement contrôlée, une chose dont elle vient juste de prendre conscience : Robin aime les filles. Comment pourrait-elle être elle-même dans la minuscule ville de Hawkins ? Robin est convaincue qu'il n'y a qu'un seul moyen, pour elle, de faire l'expérience de la vraie vie : s'échapper en Europe pour l'été - nom de code du projet : Opération Croissant. Mais elle n'a ni l'argent, ni l'autorisation de ses parents, ni personne avec qui partager cette aventure... D'autant qu'il lui faudrait bien plus que tout cela pour espérer quitter Hawkins en un seul morceau. Saupoudré de références à vos personnages préférés de Stranger Things, ce prequel raconte l'histoire d'une fille qui découvre que, au fond, elle ne doit se faire accepter que d'une personne : elle-même.
06/2021
Mondes fantastiques
Stranger Things : Suspicious Minds
Respire... Tournesol... Arc-en-ciel... La préquelle de la série événement Stranger Things, exclusivement en roman ! 1969. Etudiante sur le petit campus d'une université de l'Indiana, Terry est bien loin des soubresauts qui secouent le pays, profondément divisé par la guerre du Vietnam. Mais quand elle apprend qu'on recherche de jeunes cobayes pour une étude gouvernementale menée dans la petite ville de Hawkins, elle se retrouve embarquée dans un projet inquiétant - nom de code MK Ultra. Camionnettes aux couleurs sombres, laboratoire caché au fond des bois, substances hallucinogènes administrées par des chercheurs muets comme des tombes... Terry, jeune et idéaliste, est bien décidée à lever le voile sur les manigances de l'inquiétant Dr Brenner. Car derrière les murs du Laboratoire National de Hawkins, l'ampleur de la conspiration dépasse tout ce qu'elle aurait pu imaginer. Pour relever le défi, il lui faudra l'aide des autres cobayes, devenus ses compagnons d'armes... à commencer par une fillette aux pouvoirs sidérants dont le nom est un simple chiffre, Huit. Terry et le Dr Brenner vont dès lors se livrer une guerre d'un genre nouveau, dont le champ de bataille n'est autre que le cerveau humain... Vous aimeriez savoir comment Onze a bien pu venir au monde ? Stranger Things - Suspicious Minds lève le voile sur les événements qui précèdent la célèbre série des frères Duffer, et suit les péripéties de la mère de la jeune héroïne, embrigadée dans un effrayant programme de manipulation mentale.
06/2022
Sciences politiques
Scripture and Midrash in Judaism
The rabbis of late antiquity produced a score of exegesis of the Hebrew Scriptures of Ancient Israel ("the Old Testament"), in which they took various approaches to the study and interpretation of what they called "the written Torah". These exegesis, called collectively "Midrash", form an important part of "the oral Torah", that is, the tradition of Sinai formulated and transmitted for memorization and ultimately written down by the ancient sages in the first six centuries A.D. These three volumes present large selections of the Midrash-documents of ancient Judaism, in the translation of Jacob Neusner, who has now translated into English nearly all of the Rabbinic literature of late antiquity. The selections are organized by type, so that readers see the various ways in which, in form and in intellectual program, the documents of Midrash-compilation were formulated and set forth. In this way, the vast body of biblical exegesis put forth by Judaism in its formative age is made available to the contemporary reader.
03/1994
Tourisme étranger
Moroccan tracks Volume 11. The sagho djebel
The Sagho djebel is the eastern extension of the Anti-Atlas, a volcanic mountain with granitic mamelons, basaltic organs, chaos of black shales, pink sandstones... at the gates of the Sahara. As far as the eye can see, large wild, arid spaces. A desolate land made for the lonely DPM. And for a thousand miles around, silence is the only companion. Absolute plenitude and the desire to take to the track. From flat expanses to rolling hills, from sharp relief to steep canyons : pure, original nature. The character is strong, rustic but the heart is soft. The colours are soft and gentle. Ochre, pink, brown, violet, the colour chart stretches in a gradation of shimmering pastels, sometimes accompanied by an overwhelming heat. Eldorado in the heart of the desert, rare are the oases ; modest green spots in the infinitely large, they are the reminders that we are on African soil. The wild charm of the Sagho is due to its exceptional geology : high cliffs and steep peaks, tabular escarpments and deep canyons in the middle of which caravans of camels and mules circulate. When you arrive on these immense plateaus, the lunar horizon is so vast that you want to go everywhere at once to see if it is really as beautiful elsewhere ! The Sagho also surprises by the richness of its lights : limpid like those of the nearby Sahara, or sometimes in half-tone, as in the neighbouring Dades valley. The Sagho is also the Morocco of the last Berber nomads, descendants of the ancient lords Aït Atta. In autumn, after leaving the snows of the High Atlas, they set up their dark wool tents on the slopes of the jebel until spring. They can neither read nor write, but they are sure of their way through the Atlas Mountains and the Moroccan desert. In the Sagho, they have built houses of unbaked stone, dug wells, planted almond trees, grown wheat, barley and various vegetables. Others built herds of goats and sheep, and caravans of camels. Most of them are now sedentary, semi-nomadic or nomadic...
08/2022
Littérature française
Gardens of Oceania
Oceania, particularly in Vanuatu, gardens are the evidence of an ancestral rural tradition in which food plants are at one and the same time an indispensable resource, the symbols of a community and the objects of baiter or trade. The ni-Vanuatu devote themselves with true passion to their gardens, within which they collect, select and diversify a rich botanical heritage. Perusing this abundantly illustrated work, the reader will discover the full diversity of Oceanian food plants as well as the many exotic species introduced by the great explorers of the 16th century. Each species is the subject of a detailed dossier that describes amongst other things the variability, morphology, mode of cultivation and production of the plant as well as its different uses. The CD-ROM that accompanies the book provides information in greater detail for the specialist : bibliographic references, details and descriptors of yams and taros, photos illustrating the morphological variability, and much more. With the aim of preserving this exceptional plant heritage to the greatest possible extent, this work will draw the attention of a wide public' to the gardens of Vanuatu, and to this Oceanian agriculture that combines a variety of multicultural contributions with great originality.
05/2010
Non classé
Brides on Sale
Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them "Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group". This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman "marries out" of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should "marry down" to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in women's educational and career opportunities. How these relationships are formed, how they impact gendered understandings of women and men, how families are constituted and relationships developed, and how they affect the children of these families and their education, are the issues explored in this book. It breaks new ground in our understanding of transnational and cross-border marriages by looking at the long-term effects of such marriages on communities, families, and individuals.
04/2015
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
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
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
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
Littérature française
My Ulster haven
1989, a 23-year-old French woman, an English student with a burdensome family background, leaves for Northern Ireland. She's on her way to start her French assistant job. She discovers this unknown part of Ireland, so underestimated and still plunged into civil war. There, she settles down and blossoms until she decides she actually wants to live there. An unexpected event will bring her back to France in 1991, but the link with this country will carry on until the Brexit announcement in 2016, and well beyond. An intimate journey to the core of Irish History, that reaches the depths of its wars, its men, its women, a journey at the very heart of the past. "A page of history - and of my history - is turning and it throws me off."
02/2022
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes & Specimen Lists from H.M.S. Beagle
Two long sets of scientific notes were made by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. Those transcribed here are concerned with natural history, and although in 1839 he drew on them quite extensively in writing his famous " Journal of Researches ", neither they nor his geology notes have previously been published. He was a superb observer, and recorded vividly and accurately his first impressions of the appearance and behaviour of the wide range of animals, from ants to ostriches, encountered during his travels. Often he performed little experiments on the creatures that he captured, and he was never happy until he had exhaustively explored the why and wherefore of every one of his observations. During the long periods on board ship, he carried out a thorough analysis of hitherto unrecognised features of the internal anatomy of a variety of marine invertebrates, and made elegant pencil drawings of them under his dissecting microscope. The volume also includes his lists of 1 500 specimens preserved in Spirits of Wine, and some 3 500 not in Spirits, with impeccably accurate cross references to the main notes. Although his notes were made strictly for his own use, and were often highly technical, they were well written throughout, and contain many highly readable passages. Only towards the very end of the voyage were his first doubts about the immutability of species consciously pressed, but here are to be found the first seeds of his theory of evolution, and of the important new fields of behavioural and ecological study of which he was one of the principal founders.
01/2000
Histoire internationale
After The Last Ship
After the Last Ship illustrates the author's own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of ‘mixed race'. She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal in the 1960's and 1970's and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia. Further, the author shows the devastation that labels such as ‘half-caste', ‘canecos' and ‘monhe' can cause, when they eat at your flesh, your being, and your body. She sheds light on how identity and culture can serve as vehicles of empowerment, how experiences of belonging can germinate and take root post-diaspora.
04/2014
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
Non classé
German-Irish Corporate Relationships
The book addresses the question of whether, in an age of internationalisation and globalisation, cultural differences are still relevant to German-Irish corporate relationships ? The first three chapters establish the theoretical framework for the analysis by exploring the notion of culture, profiling the business cultures of both countries, and examining existing approaches to the study of parent company-foreign subsidiary relationships. In the following three chapters, using interviews carried out with two sample groups (fifteen German parent companies and fourteen of their Irish operations ; seven Irish parent companies and nine of their German operations), the parent companies in both groups are examined to see whether they demonstrate characteristics which are in keeping with their national business cultures. Their foreign operations are then analysed as is the parent company-foreign subsidiary relationship to determine whether any parent company influences are visible. The general approaches adopted by the two groups of parent companies to their foreign operations are compared and contrasted. Finally differences in national attitudes and values are identified and their impact assessed.
02/2004
Anglais apprentissage
Tales from Longpuddle
Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks fora ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy's tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.
07/2010
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
Sciences politiques
The Structure of Political Communication in the United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany
Political Communication in The United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany differs in terms of what the peoples expect to take issue with, how they are prepared to talk about them, which choices they can make to solve problems and, finally, whom or which organizations they delegate to resolve them. This comparative media study of The Economist, Time and Der Spiegel attempts to extract the differences in politics of the three societies.
11/1987
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
Livres 0-3 ans
YAOUNDÉ BABA SCARED?....ME?....NO WAY!
YAOUNDE BABA SCARED ? ... ME ? ... NO WAY ! YAOUNDE goes off in search of his little goat, BEEE, who, in spite of the young boy's watchful eye, has gone missing. On the way he meets ZOULÏA, a friendly mouse, and ARWANE, a little ant, who help him to find the little goat. Their search will lead them to an isolated hill where a very strange creature lives - a creature capable of transforming itself into unimaginably frightening shapes and forms to scare away anybody who dares to set foot on its steep hill. In order to find BEEE, YAOUNDE and his two friends will have little choice. They will have to cross its territory and confront this incredible and terrifying creature. 6 to 10 Years.
10/2017
Non classé
The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates
The articles which are published in this volume investigate, on the basis of selected cases of mainly European winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, the meaning of the Prize and the award in the Prize winner's own countries. The case studies, which are mainly of a biographical nature, offer a varied picture with regard to the reactions of public opinion in the respective countries. They consent, however, in so far as the immediate impact of the award was only limited and of short duration.
05/1994
Autres langues
Chinese Breeze : Our Geese Have Gone (Niveau 2 - 500 mots). Edition en anglais-chinois, 2nd edition
Twenty-five years ago, people in my village did not know that wild geese should be protected from hunting. My grandfather was the best of the hunters, selling the geese in town to pay for my schooling. One day, as he hunted, an eagle attacked the flock of geese, injuring the lead goose. My grandfather drove the eagle off and brought the lead goose home to tend to its wounds. Soon, the goose's mate joined it, and my grandfather, hunter of wild geese, found himself with two new companions...
01/2018
Récits de voyage
The White Darkness
Comme souvent dans les récits de David Grann, un homme est dévoré par son idéal. Ce personnage d'un autre temps se nomme Henry Worsley. The White Darkness raconte son extraordinaire histoire. Celle d'un militaire britannique fasciné par l'exemple d'Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) et par ses expéditions polaires ; un homme excentrique, généreux, d'une volonté exceptionnelle, qui réussira ce que Shackleton avait raté un siècle plus tôt : relier à pied une extrémité du continent à l'autre. Une fois à la retraite, il tentera d'aller encore plus loin en traversant l'Antarctique seul, sans assistance, au péril de sa vie. Le récit magnifique d'un homme animé par une quête d'impossible. Journaliste au New Yorker, David Grann est l'auteur de La Cité perdu de Z et Le Diable et Sherlock Holmes, disponibles chez Points. Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj
10/2022
Littérature étrangère
The White Darkness
"L'homme se sentait comme un grain de poussière dans le néant gelé. Tout autour de lui, il voyait la glace s'étendre jusqu'aux confins de la Terre : de la glace blanche et de la glace bleue, des langues et des saillies de glace. Il n j, avait pas de créatures vivantes en vue. Pas un phoque ni même un oiseau. Rien, à part lui. Il avait du mal à respirer et à chaque expiration la buée gelait sur son visage : un lustre de cristaux pendait à sa barbe ; ses sourcils étaient durcis par le givre, tels deux spécimens préservés dans la glace ; chaque fois qu'il battait des paupières, ses cils craquelaient. Si tu prends l'eau, t'es mort, se répétait-il fréquemment. Il faisait près de moins quatre degrés, mais la sensation de froid était renforcée par le vent, lequel soulevait parfois un nuage aveuglant de particules de glace qui le fouettait et le désorientait tant qu'il basculait, ses os s'entrechoquant à l'impact contre le sol."
Anglais apprentissage
A multitude of Sins. Richard Ford
A sequel to Rock Springs and Women with Men, the collection of short stories entitled A Multitude of Sins was published in 2001 and immediately achieved worldwide recognition. If this series of ten short stories seems to feature adultery, it would be a major mistake to believe that the stories can be reduced to what is actually a side issue or a pretext to something else, sometimes of much greater importance. As often with great writers, Richard Ford tackles several other topics along with the sin of unfaithfulness which is a base camp from which to go further up into the knowledge of human deficiency, lack and want. Pondering these sins, Richard Ford lays them all bare while often unveiling the issue of the story right from the beginning, instead of cautiously preserving it as a last chance literary trick to pull it off at the fast moment. Showing insight through observation, his writing is deceptive in as much as it seems natural and easygoing when it requires close analysis and several successive readings to yield up its literary and humane secrets. The comparison some critics have made to Chekhov is not overblown and Agregation students, certainly among the most perceptive readers in the world, should naturally enjoy both reading and studying A Multitude of Sins, pleasure and scholarship being complementary, not antagonistic. The exclusive interview of Richard Ford at the end of the book will certainly be appreciated by Agregation students, who will thus be able to finish off their knowledge of Ford's works.
11/2007
Cinéma
Stranger Things ; Hawkins. Annuaire 1985
L'année 1984-85 ne s'annonçait pas différente des autres à Hawkins, et pourtant, des choses incroyables se sont produites : dans ce livre sont retranscrits tous les grands moments de l'année grâce aux témoignages de tous ceux qui en ont été les héros.
06/2019
Mondes fantastiques
Stranger Things : le pop-up
EXPLOREZ LA VILLE D'HAWKINS ET LE MONDE A L'ENVERS COMME JAMAIS GRACE A CE SPLENDIDE LIVRE ANIME. Ce pop-up officiel recrée en trois dimensions les moments cultes des quatre premières saisons de la série Netflix, Stranger Things. Retrouvez Onze, Mike, Dustin, Lucas et Will dans leurs aventures, redécouvrez le château Byers, le centre commercial Starcourt et le Palace Arcade, grâce à de nombreux dépliants. Mais prenez garde aux pop-up géants des créatures qui essaieront de vous sauter dessus et hanteront vos rêves. Ce superbe ouvrage, en édition limitée, est un incontournable pour tous les fans de la série ! 5 Pop-up géants et 29 dépliants en 3D !
10/2022
