Walk me to the corner
Extraits
Sociologie
Cahiers du LLL n° 12 bis – Telepresence teaching (and learning). From the immersive to the virtual classroom
Hybrid or fully online ? Synchronous or asynchronous ? Unimodal, bimodal, comodal or multimodal ? The all-out development of distance learning has led to the creation of appropriate digital systems, either by using what was already in place (such as video conferencing classrooms and web conferencing software supporting virtual classrooms) or introducing innovative environments (such as immersive telepresence classrooms). To use these versatile, multi-functional technologies, teachers need to take a step back to enable them to adapt their teaching methods and offer learners a suitable environment that overcomes physical and geographical distances. As for students, the need to "be there" and "be together" while learning remotely has to be taken into account to maintain their commitment and ensure they continue to contribute, despite the fact they are apart. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the importance of the professional, collegial and friendship connections we have with those we usually meet face-to-face in a traditional classroom. Telepresence systems enable all these people to come together remotely (and synchronously) and make it possible to use active teaching methods, driven by the self-regulation of the learners. But what is telepresence ? Do teachers need any special training ? How do you attend lessons remotely ? How do participants learn in a telepresence setting ? What type of student assessment can be used in such an environment ? The result of international collaboration, this short guide looks at these questions from both a research and a practical perspective, inviting you to explore telepresence teaching and learning.
06/2022
Droit
Activation Policies for the Unemployed, the Right to Work and the Duty to Work
Since the 1990s and the 2000s, Western social protection systems have experienced a turn towards activation. This turn consists of the multiplication of measures aimed at bringing those who are unemployed closer to participation in the labour market. These measures often induce a strengthening of the conditions that must be met in order to receive social benefits. It is in this well known context that the authors gathered in this book decided to take a closer look at the relationship between activation policies for the unemployed and the right and the duty to work. If activation measures are likely to increase transitions towards the labour market, we can also make the assumption that they may, particularly when they are marked with the seal of coercion, hinder or dramatically reduce the right to freely chosen work. In such circumstances, the realisation of the "right to work", which is often stated to be the aim of those who promote activation, tends in practice to be reduced to an increasing pressure being exerted on the unemployed. In this case, isn't it actually the duty to work that is particularly reinforced ? After an historical and philosophical perspective on the issue, this assumption is confronted with the developments observed in the United States and in France, and then with the guidelines laid down in international human rights instruments. What follows is a discussion of two alternatives to the dominant activation model : the basic income guarantee and the employment guarantee.
06/1987
Sociologie
Moral Talk Across the Lifespan
Grounded in path-breaking research but written in an accessible, engaging style Moral Talk Across the Lifespan explores how our most fundamental moral commitments are shaped by crucial conversations with family members, romantic partners, and friends. Taking a lifespan approach, the authors demonstrate that moral growth is a continual process, one stimulated by transitions (e.g., leaving home for university) and disruptive events (serious illness). With chapters penned by leading relationship scholars, the volume contributes original thinking, data, and innovative theoretical pathways for researchers. For instructors it explores pressing moral questions encountered by students in their own relationships with romantic partners, friends, parents, and other family members. When is revealing a secret the right thing to do ? Is revenge ever a worthy response to an insult or sleight ? Why are young adults persuaded to accept some of their parents' values but not others ? Is there a right (or wrong) way to support a parent facing a terminal illness ? Moral Talk Across the Lifespan offers a stimulating blend of social science research and moral reflection. It is a key text for courses in Relational Communication, Family Communication, Interpersonal Communication, and Communication Ethics.
06/2015
Manga
The beast is next to me
Kanato est un garçon tout ce qu'il y a de plus banal qui a repris la supérette familiale, tandis que Shin, son voisin et ami d'enfance, vient d'une riche famille et travaille à présent dans une société d'élite. Bien que le comportement hésitant de Kanato semble énerver son ami au plus haut point depuis qu'ils se connaissent, le soir où il a le coeur brisé, Shin l'embrasse en lui promettant qu'il le fera oublier celui qu'il aimait depuis si longtemps.
05/2017
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
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
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
Monographies
Loire's castle
Discover their history, the technical feats that went into their construction and all their secrets. From Amboise to Clos Lucé, from Chambord to Chenonceau, from Blois to Villandry, each of these sublime castles conceals unsuspected treasures ! Discover them off the beaten track, with cultural, historical and sometimes even unusual information... Explore the history, big and small, of these landmarks of French history. Discover their secrets and mysteries, and follow our guide to admire their most unusual and sumptuous corners.
03/2024
Manga
Blue Corner
Reggae est un boxeur mystérieux et mutique qui a débuté sa carrière un jour d'avril 1975 en poids légers et qui, depuis, traîne sa carcasse sur les rings de seconde zone. Pour son 33e match, il perd une nouvelle fois par K. -O. , mais ce soir-là, le hasard a placé dans la salle Mister Dangelo, ancien champion du monde en poids mi-lourds, et aujourd'hui organisateur de rencontres. Ce dernier voit alors en Reggae un boxeur hors normes, doté d'un coup de poing exceptionnel. Il décide donc d'acheter le contrat de Reggae à son club actuel pour pouvoir le placer sur des rings plus prestigieux, avec des primes bien plus importantes...
05/2018
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
Religion
Metaphor and God-talk
This volume contains a selection of the papers originally delivered at the 25th LAUD-symposium on 'Metaphor and Religion'. The essays in this volume analyse the metaphorical nature of religious language from a variety of perspectives. The concept of metaphor has been developed by the sustained attention of theologians, philosophers, linguists and literary theorists for more than two millennia. The last twenty years have witnessed a renewed and intensified interest in this powerful dynamism of thought. The present contributions offer a survey of the most adhered-to theories of metaphor. They elaborate on their significance for religious language : next to analogy as a philosophical and theological tool, interactionist, pragmatist and cognitivist theories are used to shed light on the peculiarity of human efforts to talk and think about the transcendent.
11/1999
Guides gastronomiques
Paris. Restaurants d'antan et de toujours, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Simples bistrots ou établissements prestigieux, les restaurants "historiques" de Paris ne se résument pas à une carte, aussi savoureuse soit-elle. En passant leur seuil, le convive d'aujourd'hui sent encore la présence de ceux qui l'ont précédé : forts des Halles, maquignons des abattoirs de La Villette, demi-mondaines des boulevards, encyclopédistes des Lumières où affairistes de la place de la Bourse. Leurs ombres peuplent toujours de merveilleux décors sur lesquels le temps n'a pas eu de prise. Simple bistros or famous institutions, Paris's "historic" restaurants are more than their menus, however enticing these may be. When today's diners walk through their doors, they sense that they join a long line of predecessors who vary according to the district : the market workers at Les Halles, the livestock dealers at the La Villette abattoirs, the ladies of ill repute on the boulevards, the erudite writers of the Enlightenment, or the bustling businessmen at the Place de la Bourse. Their shadows still lurk in the splendid décors on which time has no hold.
05/2023
Livres 3 ans et +
Penelope at the Louvre
Penelope and Grandpa visit the Louvre Museum : the Mona Lisa, the mummies, the Venus de Milo... Penelope wants to see everything ! And what if she gives a pen to the Egyptian scribe... Penelope is full of good ideas... Would you like to help ? It's easy to do with the magic tabs.
01/2009
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
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
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
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
Romance sexy
Say Yes to the Boss
Embrasser mon boss ? Jamais ! A 27 ans, Mona Vargas est encore célibataire, au grand désespoir de sa mère. Chaque dimanche, c'est le même refrain : cette dernière cherche à lui coller un mec dans les pattes ! Alors quand son boss, Hugo Capelli, aussi horripilant que sexy, lui demande de jouer sa fausse fiancée et de l'accompagner à la garden-party organisée par son ex, elle décide d'accepter. A une condition : qu'il consente lui aussi à se faire passer pour son petit ami auprès de sa famille. Avec lui, pas d'ambiguïté, puisqu'ils n'ont rien en commun ! Il est aussi sûr de lui, arrogant et égocentré qu'elle est désintéressée et dévouée. Et de toute façon, c'est son patron ! Mais ça, c'est sur le papier...
04/2022
Suspense
The Last One to Die
Elle pensait vivre le meilleur été de sa vie... ce sera peut-être le dernier. Niamh, 17 ans, a travaillé comme une dingue pour pouvoir se payer des cours d'été dans la plus grande école d'art dramatique de Londres. Elle s'imagine découvrir une ville accueillante mais se heurte à une ambiance glaçante : de nombreuses jeunes filles, dont ses nouvelles amies, se font violemment agresser. Toutes ont le même profil, celui de Niamh... qui va se retrouver au coeur du plus effrayant des films d'horreur ! Un thriller haletant sur fond de légendes urbaines.
09/2021
BD tout public
Welcome to the Death Club
Vous avez été choisis, vous faites partie des rares élus, Winshluss vous invite à faire un tour dans son fameux Club de la Mort ! Fouillez dans votre poche, trouvez-y votre billet et lancez-vous dans les dédales de cette fête foraine macabre où l'effroi le dispute au sarcasme. Guidé au milieu des attractions par la grande faucheuse en personne, vous ricanerez en choeur des tableaux qu'elle fera apparaître devant vous, compilant les vanités et les rêves médiocres d'une humanité en sursis, obèse et pourrissante... Mais ce sera votre visage décomposé et grouillant de vers que vous croiserez au détour de la galerie des glaces ! Vous vous consolerez de voir que vos compagnons de train fantôme n'auront pas meilleure mine que vous, avatars disneyens ou pantins de série B rescapés d'un film de zombies projeté un soir de panne de climatisation dans un cinéma de Tijuana. Mais avant même de pouvoir échanger avec eux quelques phalanges, vous serez entraîné par votre amie jusqu'au grand huit, où vous apprécierez de ne plus avoir d'estomac. Pour vous remettre de vos émotions, la grande parade des horreurs vous montrera avec une précision "entomologistique" vos semblables bouffer, vivre et s'accoupler dans un grouillement de cafards. La Camarde, qui n'est guère plus qu'un exterminateur d'insectes, les réduira en bouffie pour votre seule distraction dans un bouquet d'éclaboussures ! Ne vous restera plus qu'à vous diriger avec elle vers la buvette où, devant un verre de mort aux rats, vous regarderez les néons s'éteindre et les portes du club se refermer, heureux d'avoir encore une bouche pour rire... et des yeux pour pleurer.
01/2010
Manga
Descendants. Rotten to the Core
Afin d'être punis, tous les pires méchants de l'histoire sont désormais prisonniers de l'île de l'Oubli, un endroit sans magie dont il est impossible de s'échapper. C'est pourquoi les enfants de Maléfique, la Méchante reine. Jafar et Cruelle d'Enfer n'ont jamais pu s'aventurer à l'extérieur de l'île... jusqu'à aujourd'hui ! Invités dans le parfait royaume d'Auradon, ils vont en effet se retrouver à devoir aller dans la même école que les enfants de nos héros Disney préférés. Mais Mal, Evie, Jay et Carlos auront surtout pour tâche d'exécuter le plan machiavélique de leurs parents pour que ces derniers puissent répandre la terreur à nouveau. Nos jeunes adolescents rebelles vont-ils suivre les traces de leurs horribles parents ou choisiront-ils d'écouter la bonté de leur coeur et de sauver le royaume ?
10/2018
12 ans et +
Love letters to the dead
Tout a commencé par une lettre... Une simple rédaction demandée par un prof : écrire à un disparu. Laurel a choisi Kurt Cobain, parce que sa grande soeur May l'adorait. Et qu'il est mort jeune, comme May. Si elle ne rend jamais son devoir, très vite le carnet de Laurel se remplit de lettres à Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger... A ces confidents inattendus, elle raconte sa première année de lycée, sa famille décomposée, ses nouveaux amis, son premier amour. Mais avant d'écrire à la seule disparue qui lui tient vraiment à coeur, Laurel devra se confronter au secret qui la tourmente et faire face à ce qui s'est vraiment passé la nuit où May est décédée.
10/2015
Photographes
Jerusalem. To the Last Path
A la fin des années 1990, David Sauveur est un photojournaliste habitué aux chaos de l'histoire, reconnu internationalement. Lorsqu'il découvre Jérusalem, c'est pour d'autres raisons : non plus dénoncer la violence des hommes, mais sentir vibrer leur besoin de beauté. Pendant cinq ans, par une immersion méditative dans l'épaisseur de la cité millénaire, il recueille au Polaroid la matière de To The Last Path ("Vers le dernier chemin"). Naît une série de photographies subtiles, tout en lenteur et délicatesse, portées par une rare intelligence de la pluralité et des contradictions de la ville aux trois religions. Ce livre, accompagné d'un texte de l'historien Vincent Lemire, présente pour la première fois l'oeuvre de David Sauveur, dont une agression en août 2011 a interrompu la carrière.
01/2022
Bijouterie, horlogerie
Le Guide de la joaillerie. Pour les vrais amateurs
With the promise of eternity, jewels bestow gifts of adornment and beauty on those who wear them. Their value is multifaceted : intrinsic, sentimental, magical, human. Since the dawn of time, these few grams of precious metals and gems have acted as distillations of the highest sentiments and catalysts of the lowest passions. Through its power and grandeur, jewelry has mirrored the human journey through the centuries, and French author and editor Fabienne Reybaud walks readers through all its facets while highlighting the world's most mythical stones and magnificent pieces, from the Hope Diamond to Elizabeth Taylor's La Peregrina pearl. Extensively illustrated with atelier images, original sketches and colorful photography, this volume covers everything jewelry enthusiasts need to know, including the club of five and the four Cs. It is accompanied by an essential glossary, the best museum collections to visit around the world as well as the budding designers to follow and a buyer's guide to investing in antique and vintage pieces.
11/2022
Romance sexy
Too Hot to be the Boss
Entre pression et tentation, un jeu dangereux qui peut tout détruire sur son passage... Anna, jeune femme carriériste, vient enfin d'obtenir la promotion qu'elle convoitait depuis des années. Un concours de circonstance ? Peut-être, mais pas seulement. Ces dernières années, elle a tout sacrifié pour ce boulot : son temps, son énergie et une bonne partie de sa vie sociale. Mais tout ceci n'aura pas été pour rien. Elle est désormais la toute nouvelle manager de Peaceful Yards. Projet phare de la société de promotion immobilière new yorkaise pour laquelle elle travaille depuis 6 ans. Une révolution dans son secteur, mais aussi une pression incroyable sur ses épaules, car c'est une opportunité décisive pour sa carrière. Mais c'était oublier Matthew, le responsable des relations publiques qu'elle doit faire rentrer dans les rangs. Sous ses airs d'Apollon charmeur, il est très arrogant et il va mettre ses nerfs à rude épreuve. Il la cherche, il sait le pouvoir qu'il a sur les femmes... Anna se laissera-t-elle tenter ? Cette attraction dangereuse sera-t-elle forte au point de nuire à ses ambitions et la discréditer auprès de sa direction ? Une chose est sûre, Matthew ne fera rien pour lui faciliter les choses, bien au contraire... - Avec Casey c'était une chose, avec moi ça sera autrement, et ça sera ton tour d'apprendre à écouter. Il se lève lui aussi, je tremble instinctivement. Il fait une bonne tête de plus que moi. - Autoritariste avec ça. Tu ferais bien de baisser d'un ton, sans moi, vous ne pouvez rien faire. Il me menace ? ! Le pire, c'est que j'ai bien peur qu'il ait raison. On a besoin de lui pour le gala d'ouverture. Et faire imploser l'équipe dès le premier jour de ma prise de poste ne me gagnera certainement pas la confiance des associés. D'un autre côté, quel genre de boss s'écrase devant ses équipes ? Je lui en veux terriblement de me mettre dans cette situation impossible. Je le regarde durement, mais l'animal tient sans broncher. Et le vert profond de ses yeux commence à me troubler... pour le cacher, je lui réponds d'un ton le plus glacial possible. - Tu te surestimes, Matt.
09/2021
Littérature française
Cake-walk
Ce 1 ?? janvier, au cours des visites rituelles rendues dans le quartier, à la famille, aux amis, à tous ceux qui ont été proches de Noré et Mélie, Nicolas écoute évoquer tous les événements qui précédèrent sa naissance, ceux auxquels il n'a pas assisté et ceux qu'il n'a pas compris sur l'instant, la rencontre tragique de ses propres parents, une nuit d'accident, l'empoisonnement collectif aux funérailles du grand-père, les indécences de la tante Margot devenue la maîtresse de Noré, l'amitié de Noré et ses grandes incartades de boisson. Il ouvre les yeux. Le petit garçon comprend que l'amour fou a dominé sa vie...
12/1993
Non classé
The Transcendental Way to God According to Bernard Lonergan
The question of God is or can be the central question of all human existence. This dissertation is an attempt to present the philosophical way to God according to Bernard Lonergan - one of the most prominent exponents of modern Catholic philosophy and theology. According to the inner dialectic between that which is existential and that which is rational in human knowing of God, the new meta-proof of God's existence is presented in the perspective of existential conditions for the acceptance of such a proof. Particular attention is devoted to the solution of Kant's critical problem, which is a necessary condition for every critically grounded affirmation of God, for every affirmation up to our time. In this way a sketch of the philosophy of God is presented here which can well serve as a sketch of the textbook in this philosophy.
12/1991
Ethnologie
Glimpses of african cultures. Echos des cultures africaines, Edition bilingue français-anglais
This book covers various aspects of African traditional cultures that include: communication, marriage ceremonies, funerals, traditional rites, witchcraft, traditional cultural activities, and traditional beliefs. It will undoubtedly appeal to anyone who wants to understand better our African cultures. The reading of some of the stories will certainly raise existential questions about the nature of spirits, truth, and the place of God in the collective mind of the Africans. Some of the questions are the following: how is it possible that a human being has his double in an animal known as his totem ? How corne that, for people who do not believe in reincarnation, it is the chief who determines the future of the soul of the deceased ? In "Mourning habits in the West province of Cameroon," it appears that, if the soul is not taken care of, it will cause physical havoc in the society. Could there be a link between our souls and the physical elements of nature ? Is skull worshiping among the Bamileke merely a traditional practice or are they really able to communicate with their ancestors through the skulls ? What has led the Aghem people to firmly believe that lakes can physically move, that the dead live in their lakes, that children live in their pre-human state as caterpillars and may transform into reptiles when they are still babies ? What makes it possible for the human mind to communicate with animais, exchange messages as is shown in "How animais and things can speak and communicate in the Yambassa culture" ? Apart from the physical world as we know it, could there truly be a spiritual world that witches and wizards have access to and which system of values could this spiritual world be subjected to ? Every single paper of the more than 80 papers and squibs this book comprises is truly an invitation to explore further the untapped richness of African cultures.
04/2011
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
Romans, témoignages & Co
Théa te hait
En sortant du travail, Théa aperçoit un homme qu'elle ne connaît que trop bien : l'homme qui a fait de sa vie un enfer. En revoyant son bourreau c'est le passé qui refait surface. C'est par sa faut qu'elle n'a eu d'autre choix que de s'enfuir et laisser sa soeur et sa mère derrière elle. Le revoir de manière aussi inattendue ravive la douleur des marques au fer rouge que son bourreau lui a laissé. Théa va devoir accomplir la seule chose qui pourrait l'apaiser définitivement : se venger. Elle a publié plus de quatre-vingts ouvrages et a reçu une vingtaine de prix littéraires dont le Prix Chronos 2015 en France et le Prix Chronos 2016 en Suisse, pour son roman policier Toute seule dans la nuit (Alice Jeunesse). Elle a reçu le prix des incorruptibles CE2-CM1 en 2018 pour le garçon qui parlait avec les mains (Alice jeunesse) et dans la catégorie CM2/6e en 2021 pour Peur dans la neige (Mijade). . Plusieurs de ses livres ont été traduits au Maroc, en Chine, en Bolivie, en Corée, en Italie et en Espagne. Chez Alice, elle a également publié Traquées ! (déjà vendu à plus de 5000 exemplaires) et La cascadeuse des nuages.
09/2023
