Metaphor and God-talk
Extraits
Non classé
Labouring Lives
Labouring Lives unravels the huge changes which have so fundamentally altered the life courses of ordinary women over the past one hundred and fifty years, namely the changes in marriage and fertility patterns. Using dynamic data from Dutch population registers and analytical techniques from the life course approach, the book offers new evidence on women's changing position in the labour market, their role in pre-nuptial sexuality, and their contribution to marriage and fertility change in the Netherlands between 1880 and 1960. The author reconstructs the socio-economic and demographic worlds of different groups of working and non-working women, and by doing so she is able to locate the various groups driving the changes. Advanced statistical tools enable the author to analyse differences in fertility strategies, stopping versus spacing, employed by various social and cultural groups in the Netherlands. This book leads to conclusions which challenge a number of orthodoxies in the field.
10/2014
Histoire internationale
Ethnicity, Children & Habitus
This book is concerned with the ethnic experience of Chinese secondary school children living in Northern Ireland. The author analyses two sub-groups of Chinese children : those with parents coming from Hong Kong and those with parents coming from Mainland China. The purpose of this study is to investigate how these apparently ‘Chinese' children feel about their ethnic identity. By drawing upon Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, and a cultural studies' approach to ethnicity and identity in general, the author examines the characteristics of cultural specificity and heterogeneity. Methodologically, the author has chosen an ethnographic approach. Prominence is given to the definitions, perspectives and voices of the children themselves by conducting open-ended, indepth and informal interviews and by doing so on an extended basis. The whole process continued for two and half years. Close attention was paid to the children's immediate circumstances, their parental occupations and their general social and cultural conditions.
11/2004
Non classé
Language Contact
Areal linguistics is having its "Golden Age", but its doleful problems as well. Its theory of language contact and linguistic interference is full of controversies which can be resolved only by a thorough analysis of the essentials of language interrelations and the results of their interactions. The monograph is based on a large corpus of linguistic and extralinguistic material collected during the last few decades (including field-work in different countries of Europe, Asia and North America) on the results of language contacts between English, German and other Teutonic languages, between Romance, Slavic and other Indo-European vernaculars, between Uralic, Turkic, Tungusic-Manchurian and Palaeo-Asian, and other languages. An attempt is made to gain an insight into the "mechanism" of language contact, to single out its types and subtypes and to project the "curve" of the dynamism of their linguistic interference (the receptor-language levels' penetrability). Special attention is paid to different varieties of plurilingualism.
10/1991
Histoire de France
The External Relations of the European Union
The book analyses the attitudes of non-EU countries towards European integration in historical and contemporary perspectives. The authors study a range of actors in Europe and beyond to explain the impact of the creation of the European Communities on the international system and how the EU is perceived in the world. The book further shows the significance of the institutional interplay within the EU, and between EU institutions, member states and external actors led by their own internal dynamics to explain policy outcomes. It investigates to what extent the perceptions of the international community towards the European Communities and the EU have been influenced by the complexity of their decision-making and the difficulty of reconciling the views of member states on key external relations issues. The authors also study the interplay of non-EU countries and the EU within the broader context of international and regional institutions and forums for international cooperation.
12/1987
Archéologie
Shillourokambos. Un établissement néolithique pré-céramique à Chypre - Les fouilles du secteur 3
SHILLOUROKAMBOS Les fouilles du secteur 3 The excavations in sector 3 Après être apparue sur le continent asiatique à partir du Xe millénaire av. n. -è. , la " néolithisation " s'est largement propagée. Le site de Shillourokambos à Chypre fait référence pour comprendre les tout débuts de ce processus de diffusion et la première extension des caractères néolithiques en Méditerranée. Fondé vers le milieu du IXe millénaire av. n. -è. , il a été occupé jusqu'à la fin du VIIIe, soit sur une durée d'environ 1500 ans, couvrant tout le Néolithique pré-céramique B du Levant (PPNB). Les zones fouillées entre 1991 et 2004 par la mission " Néolithisation ", avec l'appui de l'Ecole Française d'Athènes, se présentent en deux parties : l'une, au Nord, dénommée " secteur 1 ", l'autre, au Sud, dite " secteur 3 ". La seconde a été fouillée essentiellement entre 1999 et 2003. C'est cette aire qui est aujourd'hui publiée, là où les vestiges des étapes moyenne et récente de l'occupation étaient les mieux attestés et pouvaient se prêter à une certaine analyse spatiale. Elle permet une étude détaillée des périodes évoluées du site, entre 7600 et 7000 av. n. -è. et une approche de ces moments essentiels dans la formation de la culture qui s'épanouira au VIIe millénaire à Khirokitia. Outre l'introduction de certaines espèces animales (le daim, le mouton et probablement le renard), l'émergence massive de l'élevage ovin et bovin et le développement de l'agriculture au tournant des IXe-VIIIe millénaires, on y repère les mutations techniques dans la construction, les outillages lithiques, osseux ou les productions symboliques. C'est dans ce secteur 3 que fut découverte la plus ancienne preuve connue de la domestication du chat. D'importantes informations concernent les perspectives économiques perçues à partir de l'évolution des faunes et des artéfacts. Est aussi abordé l'état sanitaire des populations de l'établissement. Après la publication du secteur 1 en 2011, la communauté archéologique dispose désormais de l'ensemble des données documentaires issues des fouilles de la mission " Néolithisation " à Shillourokambos. After it appeared on the Asian continent from the 10th millennium BC onwards, Neolithisation spread widely. The site of Shillourokambos in Cyprus is a reference to understand the very beginnings of this diffusion process and the first extension of the Neolithic wave in the Mediterranean. Founded around the middle of the 9th millennium BC, it was occupied until the end of the 8th millennium, i. e. over a period of about 1, 500 years, covering the entire Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of the Levant (PPNB). The areas excavated between 1991 and 2004 by the "Neolithisation' project, with the support of the French School at Athens, are presented in two parts : one, in the north, "sector 1', the other, in the south, "sector 3'. The latter was excavated mainly between 1999 and 2003, and it is this area which is now being published. Here, the remains of the middle and recent phases of occupation were best attested and could lend themselves to spatial analysis, enabling a detailed study of the more recent periods of the site, between 7600 and 7000 BC, and of the essential moments in the formation of the culture that flourished in the 7th millennium in Khirokitia. In addition to the introduction of certain animal species (fallow deer, sheep and probably foxes), the massive emergence of sheep and cattle breeding and the development of agriculture at the turn of the 9th-8th millennia, we can also see technical changes in construction, lithic and bone tools and symbolic productions. It is in sector 3 that the earliest known evidence of cat domestication was discovered. Important information concerns the economic perspectives perceived from the evolution of the fauna and artefacts. The health status of the populations in the establishment is also documented and discussed. After the publication of sector 1 in 2011, the archaeological community now has all the documentary data from the excavations of the "Neolithisation' project in Shillourokambos. Ci-dessus : Figurine de picrolite représentant une souris (longueur = 4, 3 cm). En couverture : Vue générale de la fouille du secteur 3 en 2001.
04/2021
Religion
Like Man, Like Woman
Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as ‘other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men : the same qualities and abilities pertaining to the domains of parenthood, intellect and morals are ascribed by writers to women as well as to men. There are two voices, however : a traditional, ideal voice and an individual, realistic voice. This creates a duality of representations of women, which recurs across literary genres and reflects a duality of mentality. How can we interpret the paradoxical information about Roman women given by the male-authored texts ? How does this duality of mentality inform us about gender roles and gender hierarchy ? This work analyses well-known, as well as overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal and sheds new light on Roman views of women and their abilities, on the notions of private and public and on conjugal relationships. In the process, the famous sixth satire of Juvenal is revisited and its topic reassessed, providing further insights into the complex issues of gender roles, marriage and emotions. By contrasting representations of women across a broad spectrum of literary genres, this book provides consistent findings that have wide significance for the study of Latin literature and the social history of the late first and early second centuries.
07/2013
Informatique
Programming Language Pragmatics
Programming Language Pragmatics addresses the fundamental principles at work in the most important contemporary languages, highlights the critical relationship between language design and language implementation, and devotes special attention to issues of importance to the expert programmer. Thanks to its rigorous but accessible teaching style, you'll emerge better prepared to choose the best language for particular projects, to make more effective use of languages you already know, and to learn new languages quickly and completely. Features:
• Addresses the most recent developments in programming language design, spanning more than forty different languages, including Ada 95, C, C++, Fortran 95, Java, Lisp, Scheme, ML, Modula-3, Pascal, and Prolog.
• Places a special emphasis on implementation issues-how the techniques used by compilers and related tools influence language design, and vice versa.
• Covers advanced topics in language design and implemenation, such as iterators, coroutines, templates (generics), separate compilation, I/0, type inference, and exception handling.
• Reviews language-related topics in assembly-level architecture critical for understanding what a compiler does to a program.
• Offers in-depth coverage of object-oriented programming, including multiple inheritance and dynamic method binding.
• Devotes a special section to static and dynamic linking.
• Includes a comprehensive chapter on concurrency, with detailed coverage of both shared-memory and message-passing, languages and libraries.
• Provides an accessible introduction to the formal foundations of compilation (automata theory), functional (lambda calculus), and logic programming (predicate calculus).
01/1999
Monographies
Burmese Silver from the Colonial Period
This stunning catalogue presents an exceptional collection of rare Burmese silver. Accompanied by detailed photographs and explanatory texts, this ground-breaking book proposes a new way of looking at Burmese silver. Names, dates, places, and stories - identifying the who, when, where, and what of Burmese silver has been the focus of publications on the topic. Are these questions the best way to understand silver, however ? Alexandra Green argues that they are not. Too few pieces provide reliable information about silversmiths, production locations, and dates to allow for a comprehensive understanding of the subject. Instead, a close examination of silver patterns reveals strong links with Burmese art history reaching as far back as the Bagan period (11th to 13th centuries), connections with contemporary artistic trends, and participation within the wider world of silversmithing. The first European to write about Burmese silver was H L Tilly, a colonial official from the late 19th into the early 20th century. Tasked with collecting objects for various fairs and exhibitions, he took an interest in Burmese art, publishing articles and books from the 1880s onwards. While much of what he wrote was factually inaccurate and coloured by the prejudices and stereotypes common at the time, his two volumes on Burmese silver published in 1902 and 1904 contain pictures of pieces from the early to mid 19th century. These enable a reconstruction of how silver designs evolved as the country was absorbed into the Indian Raj, and British and other Westerners became consumers of local silver products. Tilly was also correct in his interest in silver designs. Green uses the visual information from his books to describe the continuities and innovations of designs found on silver from the mid 19th through the mid 20th century, and she places these trends within local, regional, and global flows of ideas. Many studies of Burmese silver have been plagued by a lack of understanding of the Burmese context. In contrast, Green examines silver from a local perspective, drawing on Burmese texts and information that allows for a nuanced view of the motifs, designs, and patterns that appear repetitively on silver pieces. Using Graham Honeybill's collection, formed over many years, as a basis, she explores how designs and patterns circulated around the country and were innovatively combined and recombined on pieces by silversmiths producing objects for Burmese, Western, and commercial clients.
09/2022
Non classé
Preventive Action for Refugee Producing Situations
This book provides an empirical analysis rather than a theoretical framework of refugee situations during the Cold War. It focuses on potential refugee-producing situations with a view to prevent occurances where refugees are exploited as a weapon in political strife. In order to forestall the violation of individual rights, the book proposes measures to prevent refugee situations from arising, however, not to prevent persecuted individuals from seeking protection. This second edition shows in its revised parts that the proposals for prevention, including on mediation, early warning, and information-sharing are all being implemented. Developments since the publication of the first edition have entirely changed the international political climate. Prevention has moved to the top of the agenda of the United Nations and individual states alike. Progress achieved in the area of human rights and political climate. Prevention has moved to the top of the agenda of the United Nations and indivivual states alike. Progress achieved in the area of human rights and development, humanitarian assistance and intervention, peacekeeping and peacemaking offer new possibilities and challenges for prevention and peace. The international community should move forcefully now while almost global cooperation is possible to institutionalize new prevention and intervention approaches to save lives and to prevent future abuses of human rights and forced population displacement. The Cold War may have finished but war, internal and crossborder, is still alive.
07/1993
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
FEARFUL SYMMETRY. The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics
Fearful Symmetry brings the incredible discoveries of contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. A. Zee, a distinguished physicist and skillful expositor, tells the exciting story of how today's theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of Nature. Animated by a sense of reverence and whimsy, the book describes the majestic sweep and accomplishments of twentieth-century physics. In the end, we stand in awe before the grand vision of modern physics-one of the greatest chapters in the intellectual history of humankind.
"Fearful Symmetry tells the story of modem physics and contemporary physicists in a most understandable and vivid way. It makes the 'fearful' symmetry simple and accessible, and the burning tigers lively and human. An excellent rendition and an outstanding achievement."
-T. D. Lee, Nobel Laureate in Physics
"To a layman like myself, totally unversed in modern theoretical physics, Zee's book comes as an illumination. Once having grasped the idea of symmetry as an aesthetic and intellectual principle, I found myself, under his guidance, contemplating aspects, of the design of the universe of which I never had the faintest glimmer."
-John Rupert Martin, Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
"A small gem we can see deeply into with small effort and great pleasure."
-Robert Schrieffer, Nobel Laureate in Physics
01/1999
Manga
Pack Boy's Love Partie 30 . Avec 5 Mangas Yaoi
Ce pack manga contient : It will be attacked if i walk (176 pages - Volume : One Shot) : Ayumi Hirakawa, élève modèle au lycée, ne comprend pas l'intérêt que lui porte son sempai Isezaki, qui vient d'une riche famille, et qui a le monde entier à ses pieds. Le fait qu'Ayumi semble être le seul à résister à son charme n'a pas l'air de plaire à Isezaki, qui décide de tout mettre en oeuvre pour le faire tomber amoureux de lui...La situation s'annonce dangereuse pour Ayumi ! Parce que c'est l'essentiel (162 pages - Volume : One Shot) : Ryûji, salarié sans la moindre once de délicatesse, et Tomoya, barman gay, sont amis depuis le collège. Ce dernier avait déjà dit à Ryûji qu'il n'était pas du tout son genre, et leur amitié semblait inébranlable. Pourtant une nuit bien arrosée, alors que Ryûji vient de voir sa demande en mariage rejetée, Tomoya le console en lui disant " je suis content que tu ne l'aies pas épousée ", avec ce sourire empli de tristesse dont il a le secret. Sans même savoir pourquoi, Ryûji éprouve tout à coup un irrépressible désir pour cette main qui lui caresse la tête... ! ? Loveism (176 pages - Volume : One Shot) : Depuis le lycée, Kento Amano est désespérément amoureux de son sempai, Ryôsuke Momo, qui accepte de coucher avec n'importe qui, mais qui refuse d'entamer une relation amoureuse sérieuse. Persuadé qu'il s'agit d'une façon de combler un manque d'amour, Amano décide de faire de son mieux pour le rendre heureux, mais Ryôsuke continue encore et toujours à repousser ses avances, jusqu'à ce qu'ils finissent par se perdre de vue.Quelques années plus tard, affamé et sans domicile, Amano retombe par hasard sur Ryôsuke, qui lui propose de l'héberger et de l'employer. Le jeune homme est fou de joie à l'idée d'habiter avec son sempai adoré, mais Ryôsuke le prévient : Amano ne sera qu'un "serviteur" pour lui ! Par ailleurs, Amano ne tardera pas à se rendre compte qu'il ne s'agit pas du seul obstacle dressé sur sa route...Comment je suis devenu majordome (175 pages - Volume : One Shot) : "A partir d'aujourd'hui, tu seras majordome ! "Kiyotsugu, chef du clan Dôma et otaku sur les bords, décide un jour de revisiter entièrement le look des membres de son clan, afin d'éviter qu'ils soient pris pour des yakuzas. Fujizuka, qui s'occupe de lui depuis son enfance, écope donc de la fonction de majordome, ainsi que de l'habit assorti. Mais, si Kiyotsugu semble beaucoup s'amuser à rhabiller les membres de son clan et à s'affubler lui-même de tous les accoutrements possibles et imaginables, il semblerait que ses actes cachent une motivation plus sérieuse...Fujizuka parviendra-t-il à comprendre les intentions de Kiyotsugu, alors que celui-ci multiplie les tentatives maladroites pour exprimer ses sentiments ? Kiss and Loving (192 pages - Volume : One Shot) : Ayumi Hirakawa, élève modèle au lycée, ne comprend pas l'intérêt que lui porte son sempai Isezaki, qui vient d'une riche famille, et qui a le monde entier à ses pieds. Le fait qu'Ayumi semble être le seul à résister à son charme n'a pas l'air de plaire à Isezaki, qui décide de tout mettre en oeuvre pour le faire tomber amoureux de lui...La situation s'annonce dangereuse pour Ayumi !
09/2015
Guides étrangers
Philippines 14ed -Anglais-
Lonely Planet : Comprehensive and inspirational guides with thousands of detailed listings, reviews and recommendations for travellers with a sense of adventure and exploration The Philippines is defined by its emerald rice fields, teeming megacities, graffiti-splashed jeepneys, smouldering volcanoes, bug-eyed tarsiers, fuzzy water buffalo and smiling, happy-go-lucky people. Lonely Planet will get you to the heart of Philippines, with amazing travel experiences and the best planning advice. Lonely Planet Philippines is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Pick your strip of pearly white sand ; snorkel with gentle whale sharks at Donsol or dive at Puerto Galera ; cruise through the reefs and islands of the Bacuit Archipelago ; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Philippines and begin your journey now !
02/2022
Non classé
Islam in the West
This book studies the historical, religious and political concerns of the Iraqi Shi‘i community as interpreted by the members of that community who now live in the United Kingdom and Ireland, following the 2003-2010 war and occupation in Iraq. It opens up a creative space to explore dialogue between Islam and the West, looking at issues such as intra-Muslim conflict, Muslim-Christian relations, the changing face of Arab Islam and the experience of Iraq in the crossfire of violence and terrorism – all themes which are currently emerging in preaching and in discussion among Iraqi Shi‘a in exile. The book's aim is to explore possibilities for dialogue with Iraqi Shi‘i communities who wish, in the midst of political, social and religious transition, to engage with elements of Christian theology such as pastoral and liberation theology.
05/2013
Théâtre
Theatre Now N° 4 : Youth Theatre
The Theatre Now collection provides a varied and representative picture of the vitality and extreme diversity of contemporary playwriting in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. It is aimed at stage directors, actors and cultural officers keen to discover new writing and wanting to work on recent plays, as well as students, teachers, translators, and other readers curious about what's new in the world of theatre. This fourth volume, which is devoted to youth theatre, is the result of a collaboration between the Chamber of theatres for Children and Youth (CTEF) and the Wallonia-Brussels Centre for dramatic Writing.
01/2015
Sociologie
The Negotiation - Tips & Techniques
You are confronted to a face to face situation, where you want something, and your meeting's partner is looking for something completely different. However, negotiating a passionate and exciting exercise. It requires self-control, concentration and focus. Many aspects of your behavior and your personality will influence considerably the final results. You will find in this book a lot of tips and techniques that have been assessed by experts and people with long experience in the field of negotiation, as the most reliable and efficient ones, to help you reach the maximum of your goals.
01/2018
Non classé
The Quest for Constitutionalism in Africa
Since the wave for national rule and independence from the colonial powers during the 1960's Africa's struggle for democratic rule has often been frustrated by an uneasy relationship between civil society and the military. This relationship has brought about grave human right abuses and lack of respect for the democratic values enshrined in constitutional rule. The end result was political instability and a retarded process of political development. This book, therefore, examines constitutional development in selected East Africa countries, the role of the army, the nationality question and constitutional accommodation and political parties, elections and political instability.
05/1994
Beaux arts
Machines de ville. Edition bilingue français-anglais
François Delaroziere, diplômé de l'Ecole des beaux-arts de Marseille, est le directeur artistique de la compagnie La Machine, dont les ateliers sont installés à Nantes et Tournefeuille. Depuis toujours, il explore l'univers de l'objet en mouvement et sa théàtralité, redessine les manèges et participe au développement de projets urbains. Constructeur de décors et d'inventions pour le théâtre de rue, il conçoit et dirige la fabrication, depuis plus de vingt ans, de grandes machines de spectacle. Parmi les plus emblématiques des pièces maîtresses de ces scénographies urbaines : le Géant, le Rhinocéros, le Petit Géant, les Girafes, la Petite Géante, le Grand Eléphant, les Araignées géantes... Il réalise de fascinants carrousels qui voyagent de ville en ville et font tourner les têtes, comme le Manège magique, le Beau Manège à Toulouse, le Manège d'Andréa, le Manège Carré Sénart et celui des Mondes marins. Il a aussi été scénographe associé pour la réhabilitation du Channel, Scène nationale de Calais. Il est l'auteur avec Pierre Orefice des Machines de l'île à Nantes. A La Roche-sur-Yon, il accompagne avec les Animaux de la place, le réaménagement de la place Napoléon mené par l'architecte Alexandre Chemetoff. Il crée à Toulouse la Halle de La Machine, une écurie de machines de spectacle notamment habitée par le Minotaure, et construit pour la ville de Calais : un Dragon des mers. Enfin, il continue de développer, avec sa compagnie, la création de spectacles dans les grandes villes du monde. François Delaroziere, a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, is the artistic director of the company La Machine, with workshops situated in Nantes and Tournefeuille. His work has always explored the world of moving objects and their theatricality, designing carousels and taking part in the development of urban projects. As a maker of sets and inventions for street theatre, he has been conceiving and overseeing the construction of large-scale theatre machines for over twenty years. Among the most iconic of the urban theatre performances are the Giant, the Rhinoceros, the Little Giants, the Giraffes, the Great Elephant, and the Giant Spiders. He is the figure behind wonderful carousels that turn heads as they travel from one town or city to the next, such as the Magic Roundabout, the Beau Manège in Toulouse, Andrea's Carousel, the Carré Sénart Square Carousel and the Marine Worlds Carousel. He was also the associate designer for the renovation of Le Channel, Scène Nationale de Calais. He is the creator, with Pierre Orefice, of Les Machines de l'lle in Nantes. In La Roche-sur-Yon, with Animals of the Square, he was part of architect Alexandre Chemetoff's renovation of Place Napoléon. In Toulouse he created La Machine's Hall, a stable of performance machines notably inhabited by the Minotaur, and he built a Sea Dragon for the city of Calais. He and his company continue to create performances in the world's great cities.
09/2020
Sciences de la terre et de la
A guide to sugarcane diseases
The pathology section of ISSCT (International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists) and Cirad decided to publish a new book on sugarcane diseases. The objective is to supply sufficient and updated information regarding scientific knowledge and practical aspects of disease control to those who have to deal with sugarcane. Each disease is thoroughly described and information regarding strains of the pathogen, diagnosis and control are also provided. References are cited and each disease is illustrated by several color pictures.
01/2000
Publicité
Lürzer's Int'l Archive N° 3-4/2021
The second double issue this year, and no fewer than 101 print and 45 film campaigns are waiting for you. The main interview with Adam Hessel, EVP and CCO of the New York agency Harrison and Star is titled "At the end of the day, it's all about having vision and passion". The digital section was curated by Luis Gaitán, CCO of Grey Mexico. And responsible for the eerily intriguing cover is McCann Health Hong Kong.
12/2021
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
Anglais apprentissage
Sophie's Choice. William Styron
Sophie's Choice has met a tremendous success since publication in 1979 and has been
translated in many languages, including Japanese and Russian; it bas been made into
a movie by Alan Pakula, with Meryl Streep in the unforgettable leading rote, and even gave birth to an opera. As usual William Styron gets down to brass tacks with one of the most awe-inspiring themes of the twentieth century: the final solution and the horror of the death-camps. In this bilingual study the emphasis is laid on the complexity of the narrative technique, the link between sexuality and violence, and the entanglement of historical, religious, philosophical and psychoanalytical references that make up the fabric of personal drama and human tragedy that Sophie's Choice
represents.
10/2004
Histoire de France
Normandy 1944
This book is the fruit of forty years of contact with military and civilian witnesses, now almost all gone, of research, analyses and descriptions of several thousands of photographs about the Landings and the Battle of Normandy. This book is the best synthesis, day by day, from 6 June to 30 August, with a clear narrative, an exceptional report illustrated with the best photographs (470), 22 armour and aircraft profiles and above all, 79 maps enabling the reader to follow this very complex battle more easily. The documentation, unique in the world, will allow you to discover one of the greatest pages of history, and to travel through Normandy, and find those moments when you go back in time thanks to the narratives and the photographs.
07/2018
12 ans et +
Hôtel Castellana. Destins croisés dans l'Espagne de Franco
Madrid, été 1957. Passionné de photographie, Daniel Matheson, 18 ans, découvre l'Espagne à travers l'objectif de son appareil. Il loge au quartier général de la haute société américaine : l'hôtel Castellana, où travaille la mystérieuse Ana Torres Moreno. A mesure qu'ils se rapprochent, Ana lui révèle un pays où la dictature fait régner la peur et l'oppression, hanté par de terribles secrets...
03/2020
Non classé
A Culture of Tough Jews
From brutal Nazi killers to Hanukkah heroes in the 'hood, tough Jews refute images of doomed Holocaust victims, wandering Jews of exile before them, and the post-war ‘nice Jewish boys' who followed. They foster belligerent responses to polemics of fear and self-hatred, and as such, materialize as a challenge for postmodern cultural identity. A Culture of Tough Jews reframes the tough Jew as an enduring act of rhetorical regeneration by reifying a related figure, the vital Jew. As corrective to the tough Jew, the vital Jew encourages robust cultural production and dialogue. For audiences of rhetoric and cultural studies, the book offers critical and theoretical study of rhetorical regeneration, including original constructs of postmodern blackface and transformative performativity, as a resource for contemporary rhetorical invention. It also constitutes a case study for the postmodern critique of identity by invoking concerns of (post)assimilation, gender and power, and the social construction of race, ethnicity, class, and power to advance conversations on fractious cultural exigencies. A Culture of Tough Jews is a spirited call for postmodern cultural vitality that responds to contemporary politics of identity and memory.
10/2014
Mouvements artistiques
The Artist Helen Coombe (1864–1937). The Tragedy of Roger Fry's Wife
This fascinating book presents the ? rst biography of Helen Coombe, a woman admired not only for her artistic skill, but also for her intellect, personality and wit. It reveals her family background and education, her place in the Arts and Crafts Movement and her outstanding artistic output. Helen Coombe was married to Roger Fry, an artist who was to achieve most fame as an art critic, historian and protagonist of the Bloomsbury Group. Soon after their marriage in 1896, she displayed symptoms of schizophrenia. After the ? rst episode, she temporarily resumed her career and had two children with Fry, but for the last thirty years of her life she was sectioned under the Lunacy Act and committed to an institution. This thoroughly researched book makes full use of archival material, including correspondence, diaries and medical records. It illuminates late Victorian and Edwardian society and culture. It throws new light, by no means all of it favourable, on Roger Fry. It is a 'must' for all interested in the Bloomsbury Group, art history, and the handling of mental illness at a time before ef ? cacious antipsychotic drugs were available.
11/2023
Littérature étrangère
Confiance, confiance...
Pour John Updike le roman est le genre où se manifeste avec le plus d'éclat son talent de narrateur, sa verve et son imagination. La poésie, elle, est un simple divertissement et la critique littéraire un exercice de style qui est à la littérature «ce que le cabotage est à la navigation de haute mer». La nouvelle est le mode d'expression où s'affirme le mieux, en même temps que sa vision désabusée des choses et des êtres, son imagination et son goût du paradoxe. Confiance, confiance... : au titre de ce nouveau recueil de nouvelles, fait écho la devise qui ponctue l'oeil magique gravé au verso du dollar américain : IN GOD WE TRUST. Entre ces deux pôles - affirmation d'une foi transcendante et intuition de la relativité de toutes choses - s'inscrivent vingt-deux petits textes qui, par-delà leurs disparités de situations et de décors, sont autant de variations douces-amères sur le thème de la confiance, et de son homologue la foi. Ni état de nature, ni état de grâce, aveugle ou lucide, menacée ou trompée, la confiance est sans cesse remise en cause ; la trahison (dont nul n'est à l'abri) revêt de multiples formes : lâcheté, mensonge, égoïsme, mais aussi goût du pouvoir et quête du plaisir, tout ce qui incite l'individu à transgresser les lois et les valeurs de la société, aux dépens de l'amour et de la famille, de la paix du corps et de l'âme et, en définitive, de la vie. Un constat illustré par des situations et des événements à l'apparente banalité, démentie par leurs dimensions dramatiques et baroques, et qui débouche sur la certitude de la nature éphémère et de la fragilité humaines. D'où la prévisible conclusion, qui clôt l'une des nouvelles, que «l'Homme n'est pas fait pour vivre au Paradis». Comme dans toute son ouvre romanesque et dans ses nouvelles antérieures, entre autres Des musées et des femmes et La concubine de saint Augustin, c'est en moraliste que s'exprime John Updike. Ces récits-paraboles sont tous marqués par le reflet de ses préoccupations métaphysiques, ainsi que par la nostalgie ou le rêve d'un monde où l'Homme pourrait avoir confiance en soi, en les autres et en la vie. Toujours sarcastique et irrévérencieux, écartelé entre Eros et Thanatos, Updike poursuit son étude sans concession, mais non sans une certaine tendresse, d'une humanité résignée à sa condition, à son «incarcération dans une immédiateté sans perspective». Il dissèque son mal de vivre et évoque ses paradoxes d'une plume acerbe et brillante.
10/1989
Histoire de la musique
Imagine. 12 chansons qui ont changé le monde
L'histoire méconnue de douze succès planétaires. Un livre-chapitres conçu comme un album. " Vous pourriez dire que je suis un rêveur. Mais je ne suis pas le seul. " En octobre 1971, un an et demi après la séparation des Beatles, John Lennon publie la chanson Imagine, qui deviendra le plus grand succès de sa carrière en solo mais aussi l'un des titres les plus emblématiques du répertoire de la pop, jusqu'à être qualifiée de " morceau du siècle " par certains classements. L'hymne pour la paix le plus célèbre de l'histoire, que l'on entonne toujours lors des manifestations et au lendemain des drames, ne raconte pas seulement les ambivalences d'un artiste tiraillé entre idéalisme et activisme : il marque aussi les derniers feux de l'ère hippie et des utopies des années 1960, avant l'entrée de plain-pied dans une décennie marquée par le désenchantement. Ce ne sera pas la dernière fois qu'en quelques notes et une poignée de mots un tube incarnera son époque et en dévoilera les soubresauts comme les ambiguïtés. Revendications sociales, tensions diplomatiques, alternances et changements de majorité... De nombreux événements peuvent se lire à l'aune d'une chanson qui en dit souvent bien plus qu'un long discours. En 1977, God Save the Queen des Sex Pistols éclipsera le jubilé de la reine, et marquera l'entrée dans une nouvelle ère, celle du punk et du " No Future ", comme We Are the World (1985), coécrite par Michael Jackson et Lionel Richie, symbolisera la naissance de l'industrie de l'humanitaire et du charity-business. Publiée neuf mois avant la mort de Freddie Mercury, Innuendo (1991) de Queen deviendra à la fois l'épitaphe du groupe et le symbole des années sida. Hit emblématique de la britpop et de la " Cool Britannia ", Wonderwall du groupe Oasis contribuera à réinstaller les travaillistes au pouvoir en Angleterre en 1997, mettant fin à presque deux décennies de thatchérisme. Au lendemain des attentats du 11 septembre 2001, The Rising de Bruce Springsteen aidera à panser les plaies d'une Amérique meurtrie. De ABBA à Gainsbourg, de Scorpions aux Cranberries, des protest songs les plus virulentes aux hymnes pop (en apparence) anecdotiques : en douze titres incontournables qui forment autant de chapitres, cet ouvrage écrit avec maestria fait se percuter la grande histoire avec celle du rock, et raconte à sa manière certains des bouleversements politiques et sociaux majeurs des soixante dernières années.
06/2023
Beaux arts
GOYA. Edition en anglais
Goya (1746-1828) is one of Spain's most famous artists and is widely acknowledged as an outstanding painter in the European tradition, often called the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Modems. He is appreciated as a portrait painter; a creator of menacing and melancholy images in oils; a master of enigmatic, satirical and revolutionary drawing and etching; the champion of the Spanish
people in their struggle against oppression and the recorder of their life and sufferings in war. This book brings out many of Goya's moods, from the gaiety and tenderness of the tapestry cartoons to
the mysterious ferocity of the Black Paintings made in his old age.
Enriqueta Harris, former Curator of the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute. University of London, is a world-renowned expert on Spanish art. She has curated numerous exhibitions and is the author of Velazquez (Phaidon, 1982).
01/1994
Décoration
Victorian Floral Designs in Full Color
Reflecting the broad range of accomplishment common among Victorian gentlemen, Frederick Edward Hulme (1841-1909) was the author of works on art, plants, heraldry, cryptography, proverbs, flags, wildflowers and other topics. In this rare volume of floral designs, he drew upon his botanical and artistic knowledge to create a host of motifs designed to instruct art students in the proper treatment of floral forms.
Over 230 copyright-free illustrations depict an attractive array of floral and foliate motifs in a striking variety of colors matched to a broad range of fanciful designs. Formats include borders, repeats, geometric forms, allover patterns and much more.
Bold in form and striking in their inspiration, these authentic Victorian designs are carefully reproduced here for practical and inspirational use by today's artists and craftspeople. Illustrators and graphic designers will also find a wealth of material for use in interior, advertising and textile design.
01/1994
Art contemporain
Hassan Khan. Catalogue de l'exposition, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Tell me about clowns. Once upon a time, there was a species that thought they were better than everyone and everything else. What is the difference between a clown and a joker ? Sometimes they're one and the same. And the knife ? Some humans can be kind, surprising even, while others can act out of fear and negative emotions. Really ?
03/2022
