To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts Tome 4
Extraits
Rome
Domitianè - Kaiè Latomia (Umm Balad). Le praesidium et les carrières
Un fortin romain du désert Oriental d'Egypte au coeur de l'exploitation de la diorite verte. Les fouilles (ministère des Affaires étrangères/Ifao) menées à Domitianè/Kainè Latomia (Umm Balad) en 2001-2003 viennent préciser nos connaissances sur l'occupation du désert Oriental d'Egypte à l'époque romaine. Ce site, implanté dans le massif du Porphyritès, possède un gisement de "granito verde fiorito di bigio " (diorite), dont la tentative d'exploitation a entraîné, sous Domitien, la construction par l'armée d'un petit fortin qui a servi de base de vie aux ouvriers des carrières. Quoique très mutilée, l'inscription de la porte indique une date de construction vers 88-92. Ce premier état ne semble pas pouvoir aller au-delà du début du règne de Trajan. Le praesidium fut sans doute abandonné par la suite, jusque vers 146. Il ne fut réoccupé alors que pour une brève période de temps, avant d'être de nouveau abandonné. L'examen des deux carrières apporte quantité d'enseignements quant à l'organisation des travaux d'exploitation mais les scénarios que nous pouvons établir sur leur histoire respective restent en grande partie spéculatifs. La mise en service de Kainè Latomia se solda finalement par un échec, dû probablement à une mauvaise qualité de la pierre. Toutefois quelques blocs furent envoyés à Rome où ils furent d'abord employés pour la décoration de la domus Flavia sur le Palatin. -- The excavations (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs/IFAO) carried out at Domitianè/Kainè Latomia (Umm Balad) in 2001-2003 have added to our knowledge of the occupation of the Eastern Desert of Egypt in Roman times. This site, located in the Porphyrites massif, has a rock deposit of "granito verde fiorito di bigio" (diorite), the attempted exploitation of which led to the construction of a fortlet by the army under Domitian. It served as a base for the quarry workers. Although very mutilated, the gate inscription indicates a date of construction around 88-92. This early state does not seem to go beyond the beginning of Trajan's reign. The praesidium was probably abandoned thereafter, until around 146, when it was reoccupied only for a short period of time, before being abandoned again. The examination of the two quarries provides a lot of information about the organisation of the exploitation works, but the scenarios that we can establish about their respective histories remain largely speculative. The commissioning of Kainè Latomia finally ended in failure, probably due to the poor quality of the stone. However, some blocks were sent to Rome where they were first used for the decoration of the Domus Flavia on the Palatine.
07/2024
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 française
Sunflower at the eclipse
Like ink to a paper so does a word to the brain On the face it draws its temper and on the back lays its stain Lamentation is a hefty hamper only to those who can't bear the pain When the whim unleashes its thunder there is no time for restrain Then set the quill for plunder and the hand to be morally slain Between the lines lurks the gender what is left is meant to be plain.
10/2017
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
Beaux arts
New worlds
"New Worlds" presents a selection of five outstanding nautical atlases known as portolan charts, or "portalans".These historic documents are the work of eminent scholars from Majorca, Lisbon, Le Havre, and Amsterdam. Cartographers by trade, and sometimes also skilled illuminators, they mapped what was the most probable imago mundi for their time, each exemplar crafting a fascinating visual chronicle. Jean-Yves Sarazin, head of Charts and Maps at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, scrutinizes thèse charts or atlases, and situates them in the great history of European discoveries and voyages from the early 14th to the late 17th century, from the Portuguese reconnaissance of the coasts of Africa, through the adventures of Columbus,Vespucci, and Magellan, to the Dutch voyages in the Pacific and Australia.The book's many colour reproductions are alive with picturesque details: camel caravans in the heart ofAsia, Portuguese andArab ships sailing in the Indian Ocean, wild beasts or chimaera, countless exotic plants, naval battles, and not least the frequent strangeness of the indigenous people.
10/2012
BD tout public
I am GooGol - The Great Invasion
Their arrival was heralded as a new beginning for the human race. Humans were no longer alone in the cosmos. Instead, they were suddenly thrust into an arena much larger than they were ready to deal with. In an age of technological advancement, Toughware and the wiki implants were the culmination of the first successful blending of human and alien technology. Suddenly, anyone with a wiki implant could ride the data streams. Hackers became celebrities as the neural landscape became the world's playground. And for a special few, a startling side effect was discovered. Fearing the worst, the Lambda Initiative was created to police wiki infractions and to protect the fabled Lambda Time Travel Restrictions. Anyone, human or alien, attempting to bypass the Lambda Protocols was subject to prosecution under this new law. To enforce this law, the G-Men were created. Culled from specialists with military and law enforcement experience, the G-Men sought out Lambda Protocol violators with swift and violent response. With wiki crimes on the rise and a growing anti-alien movement gaining strength, something had to be done. The government needed a solution, but they weren't sure what to do. And then they discovered a teenage girl living in Brazil with a special affinity for traversing and moulding the data stream. They had discovered the first Googol. And the world was about to change.
12/2010
Seinen/Homme
The Witch and the Beast Tome 3
Les corps mutilés de plusieurs victimes auraient été découverts sur les terres éloignées du Troisième continent. Pour Guido et Ashaf, c'était enfin l'occasion d'affronter une sorcière, mais dès leur arrivée, ils sont confrontés au Cercle des Chevaliers sacrés, un corps armé passé expert dans la traque des sorcières. Une lutte féroce pour capturer cette ensorceleuse s'engage alors entre les deux organisations !
09/2021
Seinen/Homme
The Witch and the Beast Tome 2
"Même sans lever la malédiction... nous sommes plutôt redoutables." La ville de Haiden est secouée par une série de tueries qu'une sorcière semble perpétuer par frivolité, au point que les journaux surnomment cette affaire "le jeu de la sorcière". Un jour, le commissariat central reçoit un préavis de massacre, comme pour ridiculiser l'incapacité de la police à mettre un terme à ces violences répétées. Pour Guido et Ashaf, dépêchés spécialement pour résoudre l'affaire, c'est une véritable déclaration de guerre ! Parviendront-ils à arrêter la folie meurtrière de cette sorcière d'une effroyable cruauté ?
07/2021
Seinen/Homme
The Witch and the Beast Tome 9
Guido et Ashaf quittent Horrencia Seth après avoir terrassé la Reine de la Nuit ! Ils s'offrent un répit de courte durée en visitant une cité reconnue pour l'artisanat occulte. Toupies qui virevoltent éternellement, billes qui reviennent toujours à l'envoyeur... Mais leur insouciance s'estompe vite lorsque Guido perçoit quelque chose d'étrange se dégager d'un magasin d'antiquités reculé. Y trouveront-ils un indice pouvant les mener jusqu'à Angela ?
02/2023
Seinen/Homme
The Witch and the Beast Tome 10
Dix jours ont passé depuis l'assaut d'Angela et de sa coalition de sorcières pour récupérer l'artefact défendu au fort des Chevaliers sacrés... Ashaf a alors confié à Guido la charge de cette graine devenue enfant ; isoler cette étrange petite créature est vitale pour la stabiliser car elle absorbe et se nourrit de toutes les énergies occultes... Pendant ce temps, Oakleave invite le colonel Matt Cooger à rencontrer le dirigeant des Bourreaux, la faction souterraine de la congrégation internationale des Saintes Eglises...
05/2023
Seinen/Homme
The Witch and the Beast Tome 1
Dans ce monde où des événements surnaturels entraînent parfois des ravages, Ashaf et Guido sont tous deux envoyés par l'Ordre de l'Echo Noir, dont la mission est d'éviter les débordements causés par la sorcellerie. Si Ashaf, magicien affable et chevronné, accomplit ses tâches de bonne grâce, Guido semble nourrir un dessein plus personnel lié à une sorcière en particulier... Avec la vengeance pour moteur, cette bête enragée ne pourra être entravée dans sa chasse !
05/2021
Seinen/Homme
The Witch and the Beast Tome 6
En remontant la piste laissée par la sorcière Angela, Ashaf et Guido se rendent dans un univers parallèle des "Abysses" ! Mais ce quatrième sous-sol baptisé Horrencia Seth est peuplé de vampires, des créatures plus que jamais attachées à l'étiquette de leur caste et qui abhorrent tout ce qui s'y soustrait. Des renforts envoyés par l'Ordre interviennent pour les aider dans ce nouveau monde. Mais ces émissaires versés dans les coutumes des buveurs de sang vont les mêler sans tarder à un incident diplomatique...
05/2022
Yaoi/homosexualité masculine
Like the Beast Tome 14
Aki, adorable yakuza, et Ueda, policier un peu pervers, sont en couple depuis plus d'un an, et follement amoureux l'un de l'autre. Un jour, Ueda reçoit un appel : son grand-père a été admis à l'hôpital et demande à le voir ! Ueda décide d'y aller et emmène Aki avec lui. Là-bas, une grosse surprise attend Aki... En bonus dans ce volume, Ueda qui ne peut pas s'empêcher d'être jaloux, l'évolution de la relation entre Yamase-sempai et son petit ami Kisaragi, sans oublier l'apparition d'Ayato, la star du porno !
02/2022
Manga
Like the Beast Tome 9
Ueda, policier de son métier, est en couple avec Aki, un adorable yakuza. Mais lorsqu'Aki décide de venir en aide à un de ses amis qui a peur d'être assassiné par un gangster, il se retrouve impliqué dans une dangereuse affaire, et Ueda réalise qu'il ne pourra pas toujours le protéger de tout...
11/2017
Yaoi/homosexualité masculine
Like the Beast Tome 15
Aki Gotôda, adorable yakuza, et Tomoharu Ueda, policier de quartier, sont en couple depuis plus d'un an et continuent à filer le parfait amour. Mais Aki est très choqué lorsqu'il apprend que Yamase, le collègue policier d'Ueda, en couple depuis trois mois avec Kirasagi, n'a toujours pas fait l'amour avec lui ! Avec son ami Ayato, acteur de films X, il décide de prendre les choses en main et de lui donner des conseils pour leur première nuit ensemble... Une initiative qu'Ueda n'approuve pas du tout ! Lorsque le grand moment arrive, Yamase est incroyablement nerveux... Comment se passera sa première fois ?
03/2023
Yaoi/homosexualité masculine
Like the Beast Tome 13
Aki Gotôda, adorable yakuza, et Tomoharu Ueda, policier de quartier, sont en couple depuis plus d'un an et très heureux. Mais un jour, un bébé du nom de Tomoharu débarque dans la maison des Gotôda ! C'est le bébé d'un membre du clan Gotôda, que sa femme lui a laissé avant de repartir chez ses parents. En attendant qu'elle revienne, c'est donc Aki qui se charge de s'occuper de Bébé Tomoharu... Et qui de mieux pour l'aider dans cette tâche que celui qui porte le même prénom que le bébé ?
05/2021
Non classé
A Life of Her Own
This study reconstructs Brittain's feminist theory, which mainly refutes assumptions made about women, supports companionate marriage, and demands the communal reorganization of child care and domestic work to enable a married woman to work outside her home. It compares her theory to her five novels. Doing so, it uncovers revealing feminist 'flaws', above all that marriage remains, the sine qua non for a woman's happiness. The study describes Brittain's way to the top as a formidable obstacle race, in which she constantly had to fight the men she loved, her children, her parents, and resulting domesticity in order to find time to write "the book of the decade". She reached her goal with the publication of Testament of Youth in 1933.
11/1996
Livres 0-3 ans
The discovery of magic
Queen Vispa and King Dungammei are the beloved rulers of their respective kingdoms. The two territories live in harmony, sharing a temple that crosses their mutual border, but they pray to different gods and have little in common outside of geography. The monarchs seem an unlikely pair, but when each violates the rules of the temple - one by entering the temple as a woman, and the other by praying to the other kingdom's god - both find themselves abandoned by their people, deciding soon after to declare the approval and presence of both gods in their hearts, as well as their love for each other. The King and Queen's subjects also abandon the shared temple, leaving it to the disobedient pair and building separate temples in their own territories. The monarchs' happy life together is, however, short-lived, as Queen Vispa dies upon giving birth to their child Delarai. The King is urged to repent and return to his kingdom. He complies, leaving princess Delarai with Magi, a nurse from a remote village, to raise her. Delarai rows up in near isolation, far from other people, spending most of her time among flowers and animals of the beautiful temple garden. Meanwhile, battles rage between the two kingdoms following the King's return. Delaware, a son begotten to the King and his next wife, gets badly wounded some years later in an attempt to stop the fighting. On his deathbed, the Prince insists on being taken to the forbidden temple to be buried there. The King, though ill himself, agrees to fulfill his son's dying wish. It is there where Delarai, having become quite an expert at herbal remedies, comes to their aid, preparing a special potion while praying to the temple's two gods in her nurse Magi's native language. As Delarai completes the life-saving act of curing the Prince, she tries to call for Magi, but the word that leaves her lips is "magic". Those who witness the event soon spread the word, and Delarai becomes recognized across both kingdoms as the creator of magic. The King, however, succumbs to old age, imparting his last kernel of wisdom unto his daughter : the two temple gods are one and the same. With this knowledge and their newfound inner strength, Delarai and Delaware unify the two kingdoms, and live happily ever after.
09/2021
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
Critique littéraire
Ancient Greek by Its Translators
When not familiar with the language itself, most readers over the centuries have had access to the ancient Greek texts only or mostly through (Latin or vernacular) translations. Such an approach is not only indirect and mediated, but also distorted and even impoverishing : meaning then prevails over the linguistic form and substance of the texts themselves. What do later or modern readers read when they read translated texts written in an ancient so-called dead language ? They read a given meaning - sometimes unfaithful, often inaccurate - dictated by a genuine understanding, the blind continuation of tradition, or an untold hidden intention. The complex range of significances conveyed by meaning simultaneously reflects the time and space (called synchrony) of when and where a text has been translated, the historical learning and linguistic skills of the translators, as well as their ideas and style. As a contribution to the perennial debate about translation (mere literary transliteration vs. creative transposition), this volume aims at analyzing some striking cases of various (literary or not) texts translated from ancient Greek showing how much for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aesthetics and ideology matter as much as - and often even more than - rigorous philology.
02/2022
Anglais apprentissage
Acacia thorn in my heart
I started writing "Acacia thorn in my heart" after reading the book of a white South African woman about her childhood in the same region as mine but relating a completely different experience. She had maids, her father drove her to school and she played with real toys. I lived in the heart of the country, away from everything and had to walk five miles to go to school. I was born in Natal. My father rented a plot of land from a white owner to do market gardening. Although Indian families tended not to educate daughters, our parents decided that education was a priority for us. Despite financial difficulties, they were able to send us to school. We had to get up at five o'clock in order to catch the school train. In winter, as we were scantily clad, we shivered all the way to the station.
09/2001
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
Sociologie
The Fakir's Travels
Advising people to take this attitude or that are a waste of time. Those who see or/and are aware realise also that it is none of their business to goad and advise others. Our job at best can be to answer questions by the light of our knowledge but in no way can anyone be dogmatic about it. Let us all be first aware of - Do we know ? What do we know ? How do we know that we know ? To me it is the part where we first accept that there is room for change for the better in us. Then we observe ourselves. And finally we try to bring in the change in ourselves with our will with sincerity and objectivity.
04/2014
Thèmes photo
The Big Book of Breasts. Volume 2, Edition français-anglais-allemand
The Big Book of Breasts was an immediate best seller when it debuted in 2006. Its 396 pages introduced readers to the top naturally bountiful nude models of the 1950s, '60s and '70s, amazingly mammiferous beauties including Joan Brinkman, Virginia Bell, Roberta Pedon, Mary Waters, Margaret Middleton, Keli Stewart and many more. The one and only complaint was that there was no biographical information on these curvaceous cuties, no lists of their magazines and films to give readers a more intimate connection. We listened, and The Bigger Book of Breasts answers ! Not only are there more pages with all new photos of your favorite big breast models of the '50s through '70s, there are also personal profiles for each and every one. Which model married comedian Richard Pryor ? Who inspired Russ Meyer's first film ? Where are those free Mary Waters loops ? And yes, Roberta Pedon is alive and well ! Further updating the "Bigger" theme, we added the 12 most incredible, natural, and provocative breast models of today, gathered from across the world by Berlin-based photographer, Bernd Daktari Lorenz. Nadine Jansen, Milena Velba, Luna Amor, Valory Irene, Miosotis Claribel and the incredible Hitomi Tanaka prove breasts are bigger than ever, and bigger is beautiful, for both breasts and books. Wrap it up with stunning photos of our original cover girl Kelly Madison and The Bigger Book of Breasts is a bigger treat for all.
10/2023
Shonen/garçon
The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting Tome 4
La Voie du Babysitter !
04/2023
Non classé
Cognitive Perspectives on Language
The papers collected in the present volume show that the terms cognitivism and cognitive, so common in present day linguistic discourse, do not refer to a single theoretical mode or approach to language. Firstly, the papers show that cognitivism is a lively research area accommodating a wide spectrum of approaches. Secondly, they address a number of issues ranging from grammaticalization, event structure, semantic representation, equivalence, image schematic representations and lexicography to poetry, metaphor, metonymy, and national mentality. Some of the contributions deal with the linguistic phenomena in one language, while others take up a cross-linguistic approach.
11/1999
Manga
The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms
Cachée au milieu de la forêt, la prestigieuse école de magie "Wttzdoms" accueille les animaux de toutes races, dotés d'intelligence. En son sein, ils étudient, vivent et découvrent même l'amour sous toutes ses formes !
06/2020
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
Shojo/fille
Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost Tome 4
Belle, la fiancée de la Bête, se réveille enfin de son long sommeil. Belle la couturière se résout donc à enfouir définitivement ses sentiments pour le Prince Cyril mais voilà que l'autre Belle les révèle au grand jour ! De son côté, la Médium convainc le Roi de prendre une décision qui lui permettra de mettre la touche finale à sa vengeance...
10/2023
Seinen/Homme
The Tunnel to Summer - The Exit of Goodbyes : Ultramarine Tome 4
Un matin d'été, Kaoru Tôno entend parler d'une intrigante légende urbaine. Un tunnel connu sous le nom d'Urashima permettrait d'exaucer tous les voeux. Et si ce lieu pouvait permettre au jeune lycéen de retrouver celle qui lui était si chère ? Alors que Hanashiro et Kaoru décident de se plonger dans leur dernière exploration du tunnel, ce dernier apprend que Hanashiro a reçu une proposition qui lui permettrait de réaliser son rêve, et elle tarde à faire un choix pour son avenir. Devant l'hésitation de son amie, Kaoru prend une terrible décision... Découvrez le dénouement poignant de cette saga estivale oscillant avec douceur et finesse entre romance et fantastique, pour dévoiler un final profondément humain. Découvrez un formidable récit teinté de douceur et de mystères dans le dernier tome de cette adaptation du light novel de Mei Hachimoku, détenteur du prix spécial du jury et du grand prix Gagaga au Japon ! " Les dessins parviennent à nous transmettre toute la puissance de cette histoire pleine de mystères". Melty. fr "Portée par le dessin efficace de Koudon, cette adaptation du light novel de Mei Hachimoku et Kukka, offre au lecteur une atmosphère à la fois estivale et fantastique, légère et pesante". Coyote Mag "C'est prenant, drôle, touchant et un rien flippant. ". . Picsou Magazine
12/2023
