The Dungeon of Black Company Tome 2
Extraits
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
Livres 3 ans et +
Big Blacky & Big Whity : Au pays des cigales. Edition français-anglais-espagnol
Sous le chant des cigales, la famille de Big Blacky et Big Whity profite des richesses de la côte varoise. Elle reviendra dans ce beau pays, qui est déjà un peu le sien ! Con el canto de las cigarras, la familia de Big Blacky et Big Whity disfruta de las riquezas de la costa de Var. Regresará a este hermoso país, ¡que ya es un poco suyo ! With the song of cicadas, Big Blacky and Big Whity's family enjoys the Var coast riches. She will come back to this beautiful country, which is already a little bit her own !
06/2019
Autres éditeurs (A à E)
Une journée en famille Tome 5 : En famille à Londres
En compagnie de la licorne, la famille de Big Blacky et de Big Whity découvre avec curiosité la capitale anglaise et ses spécialités... La familia de Big Blacky y Big Whity descubre con gran interés la capital inglesa y todas sus especialidades en companía del unicornio... In the company of the unicorn, Big Blacky and Big Whity's family discovers the English capital and its specialities with curiosity... Gemeinsam mit dem Einhorn entdeckt die Familie von Big Blacky und Big Whity die Sehenswürdigkeiten der britischen Hauptstadt...
09/2023
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
Littérature érotique et sentim
Company of Killers Tome 2 : A la recherche d'Izabel
Des cendres de Sarai renaîtra Izabel. Bien déterminée à rester aux côtés de l'assassin qui l'a libérée, Sarai entreprend seule de régler ses comptes avec un ancien démon au sadisme répugnant. Mais sa témérité lui fait voir la mort de très près... Elle impose alors à Victor un ultimatum : l'aider à devenir une tueuse comme lui ou la laisser se débrouiller seule à ses risques et périls. Afin de la protéger, Victor accepte de l'entraîner. Il reste à la jeune femme toutefois un dernier test à passer qui risque d'anéantir tous ses efforts et qui remettra en question toute la confiance qu'elle a placée en Victor Faust...
09/2018
Littérature française
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba)
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba) This book is dedicated to the unique One who has assumed a form and name to lead the play of universal existence. He throbs in our loving heart ; He breathes in our living soul. He sings in our fervent spirit and he thinks in our purified mind. That infinite Ancient One from his supernal height, bends towards us to embrace us in his love, and to feed our soul with the nectar of his bliss. Blessed are they that have the mind to know him, the heart to feel him and the love to live in his consciousness ! He may have been born to human parents in Poona, studied in a college, played cricket, left home, have seen great souls, sat alone silent, spoken in gestures, written books - but that is not his history. Many live such a life ; many scholars write books ; many saints sit in contemplation ; many monks leave home for mountain resorts ; but they cannot be one like him. Millions of bulbs challenge in vain the darkness of night. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. We have seen monks, yogins and saints. Some live alone for peace. Some open Ashrams and collect donations to run them. Some comercialise their name and form. Some display miracles to surprise human minds ; some offer boons ; some predict the future ; some curse you when you do not offer them what they want. Some seek pleasure and treasure. But who seeks God and finds God in the self to awaken God-awareness in other men and women ? Who says "I am God and you are God too"? Who rises above the prattle of words, the rattle of weapons and battle of ideologies to the lofty peace of supersonic silence and pours his blessings from the dizzy height of the soul in tune with God ? Who is he that embraces all in the heart and awakens the soul which has none of the human creations of caste, religion, race, pedigree nor colour ? Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
07/2017
Romans, témoignages & Co
The Black Kids
Un roman engagé et universel. 1992, Los Angeles s'embrase. Des policiers blancs viennent d'être acquittés alors qu'ils ont passé à tabac Rodney King, un homme noir. Ashley, 17 ans, se pensait jusqu'ici hors d'atteinte. Fille d'une famille noire aisée, fréquentant un lycée huppé, elle ne s'est jamais sentie victime d'injustices ou de discriminations raciale... Ou peut-être que si ? Une histoire d'amour naissante, des secrets dévoilés et une atmosphère de fin du monde lui ouvrent les yeux : elle, qui a toujours oscillé entre communauté noire et blanche sans jamais trouver sa place, réalise qu'elle doit cesser d'être une simple observatrice.
06/2021
Romans, témoignages & Co
The Black Flamingo
Je suis le flamant noir. Le flamant noir, c'est moi. J'essaye de me trouver. Ce livre est un conte de fées dans lequel JE SUIS le prince et la princesse. JE SUIS le roi et la reine. Ce livre est un conte de fées dans lequel je suis maudit et béni par les autres. Au bout du compte, je suis la fée qui trouve sa propre magie. Alors qu'il s'interroge sur son identité, Michael écrit des poèmes dans un carnet dont il nous livre certaines pages. Elles se mêlent à un récit dans lequel il nous laisse entrevoir ses moments de vie, de doute, de douleur et de joie, depuis sa première Barbie à l'école primaire jusqu'à sa première expérience amoureuse à l'université. Peu à peu, on assiste à l'éclosion d'une écriture humaine et sensible. Avec la délicatesse d'un poète, la musicalité d'un chanteur, la passion d'un acteur - tout le talent d'un Drag Artist - Michael crie au monde : vous seul avez le pouvoir de décider qui vous êtes !
10/2022
Littérature française
The Star of snows
Written during the black decade of Algeria, this narrative of apprenticeship is freely inspired by a real fact arisen in Kabylia during the childhood of the author. Its electrical wire is the friendship of a child and an eccentric whom some tolerate and whom others would want to send to the asylum. By his side, the child is going to learn to listen to the music of trees and to look at the world with the eyes of the heart. This tale, at the same time naive and grave, invites us to wonder about the cogs of the mechanics of the scapegoat. It is dedicated to all the children of the world who closely or remotely were next to the rejection and to the intolerance.
08/2016
Science-fiction
Black Rose Tome 1 : Dawn ot the dead
Dawn O'Neal adolescente qui mène une vie tranquille à Oxford, en Angleterre. Orpheline de père, elle vit seule avec sa mère qui est artiste peintre. La jeune fille est en dernière année de lycée mais à peine l'année a-t-elle commencé qu'elle se fait renvoyer de son établissement après une violente dispute avec une de ses camarades. Elle se retrouve à Condover, une petite ville près de la frontière galloise. Mais la jeune fille se rend vite compte que quelque chose ne tourne pas rond : ses nouveaux camarades semblent la connaître alors qu'ils ne l'ont jamais vue de leur vie et son entrée à Condover High School marque le début d'une période remplie de vertiges et d'hallucinations. De plus, sa directrice la fait surveiller par son majordome et tient des propos étranges. Mais pourquoi ? Une des camarades de Dawn la prend très rapidement en grippe, soutenant qu'elle cache quelque chose. Dawn sympathise tout de même avec quelques personnes de sa classe, dont Genesis, avec qui elle partage sa chambre à l'internat.
05/2017
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
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
Seinen/Homme
Valhallian the Black Iron Tome 3
Un samourai ? surdoué au coeur de la bataille du Valhalla ! Pour retrouver son fils, Tetsujiro accepte de devenir le guerrier de Hrist et de libérer les midgardiennes capturées par les légions romaines que dirige le cruel général Crassus. Ces soldats ont été invoqués par une valkyrie supérieure il y a fort longtemps... Depuis, la paix n'est plus qu'un lointain souvenir pour les habitants de Midgard. En parvenant à tuer Hraesvelg, l'aigle avaleur de cadavres, le samourai ? gagne le respect de Guan Yu Yunchang, qui accepte de le rejoindre avec ses guerriers errants... Mais, pour espérer vaincre l'armée de Ka ? ra, Tetsujiro va également devoir s'allier avec d'autres combattants... dont Kubilai Khan, l'empereur des Mongols, et ennemi juré des Japonais. Les armées les plus puissantes de l'Histoire s'affrontent en plein coeur du Valhalla... Toshimitsu Matsubara nous entraîne dans un récit épique au des- sin et à la mise en scène vertigineuses !
07/2023
Seinen/Homme
Valhallian the Black Iron Tome 4
Un samouraï surdoué au coeur de la bataille du Valhalla ! Pour retrouver son fils, Tetsujiro accepte de devenir le guerrier de Hrist et de libérer les midgardiennes capturées par les légions romaines que dirige le cruel général Crassus. Ces soldats ont été invoqués par une valkyrie supérieure il y a fort longtemps... Depuis, la paix n'est plus qu'un lointain souvenir pour les habitants de Midgard. En parvenant à tuer Hraesvelg, l'aigle avaleur de cadavres, le samourai ? gagne le respect de Guan Yu Yunchang, qui accepte de le rejoindre avec ses guerriers errants... Mais, pour espérer vaincre l'armée de Ka ? ra, Tetsujiro va également devoir s'allier avec d'autres combattants... dont Kubilai Khan, l'empereur des Mongols, et ennemi juré des Japonais. Les armées les plus puissantes de l'Histoire s'affrontent en plein coeur du Valhalla... Toshimitsu Matsubara nous entraîne dans un récit épique au dessin et à la mise en scène vertigineuses !
09/2023
Seinen/Homme
Valhallian the Black Iron Tome 1
Un samouraï surdoué au coeur de la bataille du Valhalla ! Au XIIIe siècle, le Japon échappe de justesse à l'invasion mongole, en partie grâce aux talents de samouraï de Tetsujiro Soma. Sa puissance est telle qu'il est craint même de ses alliés... Ses exploits guerriers ne lui attirent ni reconnaissance, ni richesse. Une fois la menace repoussée, le guerrier maudit est renvoyé dans son domaine. Seul son fils, le fragile Takemaru, lui apporte bonheur et amour. Un jour, alors que Tetsujiro brave de nouveau la faim qui le démange pour lui offrir son repas, il ferme les yeux... et se retrouve l'instant suivant seul et désarmé dans une forêt inconnue... Pire, il est soudain attaqué par des légionnaires romains assoiffés de sang ! Le samouraï est sauvé de justesse par Hrist, une jeune fille ailée qui se présente comme sa valkyrie attitrée. C'est elle qui l'a mené ici, au Valhalla. S'il veut retrouver son fils, il doit l'aider dans sa révolte contre les forces qui dominent cette terre envahie de guerriers de tous temps et de tous lieux ! Les armées les plus puissantes de l'Histoire s'affrontent en plein coeur du Valhalla ! Toshimitsu Matsubara nous entraîne dans un récit épique au dessin et à la mise en scène vertigineuses !
02/2023
Monographies
Gustave Moreau. The Fables
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) is one of the most brilliant and enigmatic artists associated with the French Symbolist movement. This book accompanies an exhibition of some of the most extraordinary works he ever made, unseen in public for over a century. Moreau's watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau's ' keen apprehension of the weird. ' There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour - many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau's storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau's visions. Prints after Moreau's Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau's response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine's canonical work, whose sources include Aesop's fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times.
08/2021
12 ans et +
The Book of Ivy Tome 2 : The Revolution of Ivy
Condamnée à l’exil pour ses crimes, Ivy se retrouve seule au-delà de la barrière qui protège les siens d’un monde hostile, dévasté par l’arme atomique des décennies plus tôt. Trahie par sa famille, abandonnée par Bishop, elle doit quitter Westfall et s’enfonce dans la nature sauvage et découvre qu’elle est habitée. Cette année, mon tour est venu. Mais la ville où elle est née se tord dans les convulsions d’un coup d’Etat, et le chaos ne tarde pas à régner. C’est un Bishop différent qui débarque dans le camp où Ivy s’est réfugiée, un Bishop qui a découvert, entretemps, plus d’une vérité. Il est temps pour la jeune fille de décider ce qu’elle compte faire : se venger ou faire la révolution ? Le deuxième et dernier tome de la série The Book of Ivy clôt une saga dystopique où survie en milieu hostile, complots meurtrier et manipulations politiques se mettent en travers du chemin d’un duo à l’alchimie saisissante. Découvrez l’aventure finale d’Ivy, assassin devenue survivante !
11/2015
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
Sciences politiques
A Morbid Democracy. Old and New Populisms
The crisis of democracy in Europe and the inability of the political parties and élites to adequately meet the challenges of globalisation exposes the increasingly fragmented middle classes to the temptations of Euroscepticism, and, in some cases, xenophobia. This appears to be a portrait of contemporary reality, but the current crisis has deep roots. The Spanish thinker José Ortega y Gasset described the pathologies of the mass man and of the nascent democratic system as far back as the beginning of the twentieth century, in a significant text entitled Una democracia morbosa, which appears to foreshadow the present state of affairs. The crisis of the average man, the degradation and devaluation of culture appear to be the distinctive traits of the new, post-ideological democracy of our times, known as "audience democracy". The political parties, faced with this profound crisis, in some cases seek dangerous shortcuts through demagogic and rhetorical use of the term "people", while the charismatic figure of the leader gains in prestige as a reference model. Resentment, caused by lack of representation of the just demands of the citizens, can turn to anger and destabilise the institutions of democracy. There is therefore an urgent need for an inclusive Europe with a renewed welfare system, based around the citizenry and not the masses.
09/1987
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
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
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
XXe siècle
Victory will be next ! A Diary, 6th June - 10th August 1944
The story takes place in Brittany, focussing on Rennes and Redon, i.e. about 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the D-Day landing beaches in Normandy, about fifteen minutes by plane as the crow flies. The months of June and July 1944 were very difficult for the allied troops. They relentlessly fought to block German reinforcements coming from the West and the South, which resulted in constant bombing and machine-gunning of the rear boundary of the front line, the area where we were living. As civilians, we did not take part in the fighting and everyday life alternated between calm periods, on the verge of being "normal", and tragic moments of great tension. ''Victory will be next ! " is a set of notes written at that moment in time, day by day, by a fifteen-year-old boy. They are, obviously, fragmented, even a little naive, But they are nonetheless a testimony of a snapshot of history within the larger picture of WWII. They should be taken as such.
03/2021
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
Guides étrangers
Northern Tanzania. Safari Guide. Serengeti - Kilimanjaro - Zanzibar
Home to some of the continent's finest national parks, northern Tanzania is the Africa you have always dreamed about. Head into the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater in search of the endangered black rhino, look for tree-climbing lions in the Serengeti and marvel at a host of dazzlingly colourful birds at Lake Manyara. Yet northern Tanzania is so much more than just a wildlife destination. It is also home to cultural wonders such as the mysterious Kondoa Rock Art and the region's last paractising hunter-gatherers, as well as Africa's most active volcano, fiery Ol Doinyo Lengai. Fully updated for this fourth edition, Bradt's Northern Tanzania is an invaluable travel companiion. Join Africa experts Philip Briggs and Chris McIntyre on an unforgettable journey across the vast plains and breathless peaks of this wonderful region.
07/2017
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
Comics
The power of the Dark Crystal Tome 2
Un univers culte de la fantasy refait surface Les pires craintes de Jen et Kira se sont réalisées : le Crystal a été brisé une fois de plus. Les terribles Skeksis sont de retour, prêts à récupérer leur tyrannique dominance sur le monde. Mais alors qu'une guerre s'engage entre eux et les Gelfing, Jen tente de retrouver les responsables de la destruction du Crystal. De leur côté, Thurma et Kensho, en fuite et livrés à eux-mêmes, doivent se serrer les coudes alors que leur voyage les mène aux contrées sauvages de Thra. De nombreuses menaces les attendent avant l'arrivée à Fireling, loin sous la surface de la planète. Alors que Dark Crystal refait surface à travers une nouvelle série diffusée sur Netflix, ce comics vous propose de continuer à explorer le monde merveilleux imaginé par Jim Henson : probablement l'un des plus fascinants univers de fantasy jamais créés.
10/2019
Shonen/garçon
By the grace of the gods Tome 2
Après un accord passé avec trois divinités, Ryôma Takebayashi, un salarié japonais, se retrouve réincarné en enfant dans un autre monde. C'est alors qu'il commence à étudier les slimes qu'il a apprivoisés et met à profit leurs capacités pour savourer pleinement sa nouvelle et paisible existence. Mais les expériences de sa vie antérieure vont également lui être très utiles ! Voici le récit de son quotidien tranquille et amusant entouré de gens bienveillants dans un monde de fantasy !
01/2023
Religion
Cross and Crown in Barbados
During the late 19th century, Caribbean society was generally controlled by the local plantocracy and the colonial administration of the Europeans. Barbados was so much the pride of the British colonies in the Caribbean that it was called "Little England". The life-blood of the society, the Black labouring classes, reaped very little of the social and economic benefits from the Sugar industry which the White planter-class owned and controlled. The Church was also controlled by the planter-class, and it functioned effectively to sustain a pattern of rigid social containment, and to work consistently for the maintenance of the status quo. Political religion in Barbados was therefore an engine of social control of the poor Blacks by the rich Whites. Cross and Crown together created "peace" and poverty.
12/1983
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
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