The darkers
Extraits
Archéologie
Etudes sur l'histoire et l'archéologie de Lydie de la période proto-lydienne à la fin de l'Antiquité. Textes en français et anglais
Lydia, lying between the Aegean coast and the Anatolian plateau, has been associated since Antiquity with the Pactolus river, which carried gold from the Tmolus mountain, and with the wealth of Croesus. Populated by Lydians and Maeonians, and marked by the presence of Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines, it has attracted the attention of researchers since the end of the 18th century. This book aims to cover the chronology of Lydian studies from the protohistoric period to the beginning of the Byzantine period and to bring together the contributions of international researchers and scholars from a wide range of disciplines that includes history, archeology, epigraphy, and numismatics, and from different perspectives. The various studies discuss society, social structures, military aspects, economy, religion, arts, architecture, and material culture. This diachronic approach makes it possible in particular to question continuity and discontinuity between the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, as well as with those that preceded them.
02/2023
Religion
Glasgow Urban Writing and Postmodernism
Alasdair Gray is one of the most innovative and imaginative writers to have appeared on the Scottish literary scene for many years. Gray radically challenges the vision of Glasgow and Scotland as defined by the traditional Glasgow novel. This study first looks back into the past of Glasgow writing to locate some specific novelistic models which Gray echoes in his fiction. The main part of the study then illustrates that Gray's literary attitude of looking beyond Glasgow (or Scotland) is much more helpful in "imagining Glasgow" than to follow the established and trodden paths of Scottish urban writing. In this sense, Gray proves that the narrative techniques characteristic of postmodernist writing are not only helpful in expressing the often quoted Scottish experience of fragmentation, but also in overcoming the artistic stalemate of the Glasgow novel.
04/1991
Non classé
Political Economy and Fiction in the Early Works of Harriet Martineau
This book examines the early work of Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), writer, journalist and woman of letters. She became famous in the 1830s with her Illustrations of Political Economy, a series of 25 short novels popularizing the basic principles of Political Economy. Also discussed are her two shorter series of tales from that period, Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated and Illustrations of Taxation. With these works Martineau took part in an intense debate about the role of economic theory in English society. Drawing on such authorities as Adam Smith Martineau offered her readers the possibility of understanding the impact of the Industrial Revolution and its concomitant changes.
11/1999
Non classé
Thomas Carlyle 1981
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), essayist, biographer, historian, philosopher, translator, literary and social critic, was one of the great intellectual forces of his period, indispensable to our understanding of Victorian Britain and the 19th century in general. Scholars from Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the United States assembled at the Scottish Studies Centre of the University of Mainz in Germersheim for the International Thomas Carlyle Centenary Symposium 1981. Their papers, published in this volume, open up a new - European - dimension of Carlyle's personality, work and thought. They offer evidence that the subject is not exhausted, quite the reverse, and that in many aspects Carlyle is as topical today as in his own time.
12/1982
Non classé
The German Molière Revival and the Comedies of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Carl Sternheim
Although they have yet to be treated together in a comparative study, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Carl Sternheim had a number of points of convergence in their respective searches for a modern form for the serious comedy. This study documents the collegial relationship between the two authors - in part with previously unpublished archival material -, analyses their respective treatments of Molière's comedies and places this in the context of Molière's reception in the German-speaking countries since the 17th century. What emerges is a new view of the comedies of Hofmannsthal and Sternheim, which sees both dramatists applying the same technique of countermodelling Molière's constellations of comedic figures - a modern critical re-appraisal of the traditional comedic type character.
02/1993
Non classé
A Mirrour of Mutabilitie
Written in 1579 as an imitation of the Mirror for Magistrates, Munday's Mirrour of Mutabilitie is a collection of complaints by biblical characters whose unfortunate downfalls illustrate the vanity and mutability of human affairs. This work echoes the profound scepticism of its age, a legacy of the medieval contemptus mundi tradition. It underpins the view that Time is a destroyer, that human actions cannot be calculated positively, because life is temporal and full of accidents.This edition, the first one after the editio princeps of 1579, offers a text with the original spelling based on critical study of the 1579-edition, together with an introduction, textual notes, commentary and bibliography, designed to give scholars and students as much editorial assistance as they are likely to require.
01/1991
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
Histoire internationale
Manufactories in Germany
In eighteenth century Germany goods were produced in manufactories as well as by independent craftsmen and artisans employed by capitalists. The manufactories using tools and manually operated machines foreshadowed in many respects the factories of the nineteenth century. State and local support for the manufactories was aimed at reducing unemployment, maintaining military strength and securing foreign currency. Although not all manufactories were successful they provided a valuable heritage of industrial and commercial skills which were profitable to later entrepreneurs. However, those who - like Karl Marx - considered the manufactories to be a stage in the process of industrialisation have been proved wrong.
12/1985
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
Espagne
Secret Seville
Far from the crowds and the well-worn clichés, Seville still has many hidden gems it only reveals to locals and visitors who head off the beaten track. An essential guide for those who thought they knew Seville well or are seeking to discover another side of the city. Why is there a stone relief of Grace Kelly on the wall of Seville Town Hall and how can you track down the railway from the Ibero-American Expo of 1929 ? Where might you find the legacy of Christopher Columbus' son, a medieval Jewish cemetery in a car park, the oddest of barbershops, forgotten souvenirs from the Guadalquivir steamboats, Masonic symbols in a church, the last remaining vestiges of the Andalusian pavilions from the '29 Expo, a little-known Modernist electric power station, an example of the Nazi Enigma machine, a collection of Chinese and Japanese art in a Renaissance mansion or the pillars of a medieval synagogue ?
04/2022
Non classé
Prisons and Idylls
Critical attempts to evaluate Kleist's fictional world, e.g. as ordered or disordered, accessible or resistant to reason, face a hermeneutic problem : the material and psychological embeddedness of the characters in the very world they seek to understand. This problem is reflected not only in the less-than-omniscient perspective of Kleist's narrators, but also in the reader's confrontation with competing readings of events in terms of mythic absolutes and with the opaquely concrete quality of spatial metaphors. In this light, three new interpretations offer insight into such problems as the nature of the idyll in "Das Erdbeben in Chili," the Marquise von O...'s creative self-imprisonment, and the gypsy's apparently supernatural intervention in Kohlhaas' quest. Finally, the book presents a dynamic typology of spatial phenomena in the stories which accounts for Kleist's concern with the interpretive process as opposed to its presumed endpoint.
12/1985
Non classé
Dislocated Identities
This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century : Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas' writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition. Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas' writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland – always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists' identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas' writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus.
04/2012
Droit
Facilitations of Proof in Medical Malpractice Cases
In medical malpractice cases, the American as well as the German systems of law are faced with a basic dilemma : since liability is based on fault, the plaintiff who suffers bodily harm in the course of medical treatment often finds it very difficult to carry the burden of proof incumbent on him according to the normal rules of evidence. In most cases, he was harmed while unconscious or in ways not understandable to him because of his lack of knowledge in the area of medical science. Moreover, he frequently faces the reluctance of medical expert witnesses to testify about matters unfavorable to one of their professional colleagues. Therefore, American and German courts are trying to alleviate the plaintiff's burden of proof. The present study investigates these facilitations and queries whether they are still compatible with the system of fault liability.
12/1982
Architecture
The Turkish Boudoir of Marie Antoinette and Joséphine at Fontainebleau
Ten years apart, Marie Antoinette gives to Fontainebleau two jewels made by the greatest artists of her time : the Turkish boudoir (1777) and the silver boudoir (1786). In these homes of retirement, the queen escapes the label of the Court and combines a fancy Orient with the expression of the most extravagant novelties. The craze for turqueries did not fade in the early nineteenth century and the Empress Joséphine moved a few years later in this women's shelter offering a new sparkle to this universe of the Thousand and One Nights. She had a sumptuous and atypical furniture, which combines mahogany and gilded bronzes with lamé fabrics, embroidered and fringed with gold. After a painstaking restoration, the graceful carved, painted and gilded paneling of Marie Antoinette's boudoir is once again the setting for Joséphine's luxurious furniture. Nestled in a corner of the ancestral castle of Fontainebleau, the Turkish boudoir is the only decoration of its kind preserved in France and one of the most exceptional sets of furniture created for Joséphine.
03/2023
Non classé
Métissage in New France and Canada 1508 to 1886
This book deals with métissage in New France and Canada in the period 1508 to 1886. Métissage is understood as a syncretistic process of cultural, social and political encounter and mixture of ethnic groups that resulted from mixed marriages and relationships. Those led to the rise of the Métis people in North America, which were distinguished as French-speaking Métis and English-speaking Halfbreeds. The process of mixture began in 1508, when first Indians were shipped to France with the intention to use them as multipliers of French culture on their return to the colony. In 1886, the Act of Savages legally distinguished between "Indians" and "Metis", thus marking the beginning of a mixed-blood identity in Canada that was differentiated from neighbouring Whites, Indians and Inuit. The theoretical approach of the history of concepts is employed in the longue durée to show the variance throughout four centuries.
08/2009
Religion
Canonical Marriage Preparation in the Igbo Tradition in the Light of Canon 1063 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law
The Igboman who embraces Christianity wants to remain a Christian without rejecting his Igbo identity and culture. In view of this, there is an urgent need to foster and promote marriage preparation in Igboland as a way of rediscovering the Christian and traditional values of marriage as an institution. This aims at providing the ambience and opportunity for prospective couples to establish successful marriages and their stability in Igboland. In this regard, as an implementation to its renewed meaning and understanding of marriage, the Church recognizes the necessity for effective and adequate marriage preparation and pastoral care of marriage. The study attempts to give the influence of theological and canonical enrichments in the meaning and understanding of the matrimonial sacrament upon the legal provisions, guidelines and programs for marriage preparation in the Igbo dioceses of Nigeria.
12/2013
Lecture 6-9 ans
Thamima. La capricieuse / The capricious
Thamima est une princesse très jolie et admirée de tous les villageois. Cependant, son caractère exécrable assombrit le personnage. Au cours d'une cérémonie traditionnelle, la princesse est invitée à choisir parmi les nombreux prétendants, lequel serait son époux. Thamima se montre méprisante et n'en choisit aucun car selon elle, ils sont tous insignifiants. A la fin de la journée, elle décide d'aller faire un tour au marigot. Là, elle rencontre un bel inconnu et tombe immédiatement sous son charme. Elle le ramène au village et le présente à son père comme celui qu'elle a choisi comme fiancé. Très vite le mariage est célébré. Malheureusement, Thamima apprendra à ses dépens que son mari n'est autre qu'un homme-serpent. Elle vit une vie de souillon pendant de longues années ; un matin, la chance lui sourit. Un oiseau vient l'aider à se sauver de la captivité de son mari. De retour dans son village, Thamima fait son mea culpa et demande à son père de l'aider à trouver un mari...
11/2019
Manga
The Quintessential Quintuplets Tome 3
Fûtarô n'a pas encore gagné la confiance totale des cinq soeurs, cependant, être parvenu à les réunir pour le feu d'artifice annuel lui a permis de marquer des points. Mais voilà que le couperet tombe : le père Nakano ne prolongera le contrat du jeune professeur particulier que si ses filles obtiennent de bons résultats à leur examen de mi-semestre. Malheureusement, il ne leur reste qu'une semaine de révisions. Fûtarô parviendra-t-il à relever le défi ?
05/2020
Informatique
The Legend of Zelda. Encyclopedia
Redécouvrez, avec passion, l'univers onirique et fantastique du monde d'Hyrule, mais aussi de nombreux autres lieux mythiques, dans lesquels Link s'est aventuré durant plus de 25 ans pour sauver la princesse Zelda de très nombreuses fois et bien d'autres créatures ou univers. Chaque peuplade, chaque objet feront ici l'objet d'une analyse profonde et la plus exhaustive qui soit.
11/2019
Manga
The Isolated Zone Tome 7
"Pour la sécurité du Japon, nul ne doit s'en échapper". "Z", une arme biologique développée dans le plus grand secret s'est répandue suite à un grand tremblement de terre qui a ravagé la région du Kantô. Pour endiguer l'épidémie, le gouvernement Japonais décide alors d'isoler la zone abandonnant les quelques survivants à leur triste sort. Après plusieurs années de guerres territoriales, Tetsu réussit à unifier les trois districts de Tokyo et en prend le contrôle grâce au soutien des parrains de la mafia. Il accède au rang de sénateur de l'Empire après avoir livré le Dr. Yaguchi à Monta. Kaoru refait alors surface et décide de s'allier temporairement à Tetsu qui charge Gen d'infiltrer le territoire de l'Empire afin d'initier les préparatifs d'une opération de grande envergure.
10/2019
Littérature française
Un thé à la cardamome
Environ 129 pages au format Ebook. Sommaire interactif avec hyperliens. Pourquoi a-t-on brutalement assassiné Nirmal, le vieux vendeur d'épices avec lequel Fabio s'était noué d'amitié ? Pourquoi a-t-on gravé un symbole sur la paume de sa main ? Enquête policière et histoire d'amour interdit prennent l'allure d'un voyage initiatique haletant lorsqu'elles nous guident à travers une Inde à la fois envoûtante et secrète. L'enquête de Fabio sur la mort de l'un de ses amis l'emmènera bien plus loin qu'il ne pensait et ouvrira son coeur à une connaissance dont il ignorait jusqu'à la nature.
09/2019
Photographie
In the city by night
In the City by Night est régi par un protocole simple et strict : Philong Sovan rééclaire avec le phare de sa moto ce qu’il voit et trouve dans les coins sombres des villes cambodgiennes. Il construit ainsi une série à l’éclairage singulier, en tension entre documentaire et fiction cinématographique.
07/2019
Manga
The Isolated Zone Tome 6
"Z", une arme biologique développée dans le plus grand secret s'est répandue suite à un grand tremblement de terre qui a ravagé la région du Kantô. Pour endiguer l'épidémie, le gouvernement Japonais décide alors d'isoler la zone abandonnant les quelques survivants à leur triste sort. Après plusieurs années de guerres territoriales sans merci, Tetsu réussit à unifier les trois districts de Tokyo et en prend le contrôle grâce au soutien des parrains de la mafia. C'est alors qu'apparaît Akira Nogami, un journaliste venu de l'extérieur pour retrouver sa soeur : Kaoru ! Il découvrira à ses dépends le véritable projet de Tetsu, qui vient d'accéder au rang de sénateur de l'Empire.
08/2019
Manga
Beyond the clouds Tome 3
Le remède du sage de la forêt a permis à Mia de se remettre, mais la fillette est toujours incapable de maîtriser son étrange pouvoir... Elle décide donc de partir à la recherche d'un professeur, et Théo insiste pour l'accompagner dans son périple. Première étape : Karatope, la cité aux mille marchands ! Les deux voyageurs espéraient y trouver un voyant qui saurait les renseigner, sauf que celui qu'ils ont l'occasion d'interroger ne se montre pas très coopératif. Dès qu'il apprend qu'ils ne sont pas des clients, il les met à la porte ! Pourtant, ce magicien en sait plus qu'il ne le dit, ça ne fait aucun doute...
07/2019
Livres 0-3 ans
Don't tickle the bear !
Little children just won't be able to resist touching the soft patches to hear the animal sounds in this delightful book.
11/2020
Manga
Strike the Blood Tome 1
Kojô Akatsuki, un jeune garçon qui vit sur l'île artificielle d'Itogami, cache un secret inavouable. Il est le quatrième Primogéniteur, le vampire le plus puissant au monde, selon une légende urbaine ? Sa famille et ses amis ignorent tout de sa véritable identité. Mais voilà qu'un jour, une jeune femme déboule dans sa vie. Et elle connaît son secret ?
08/2014
Musique, danse
The Beautiful Ones. Mémoires inachevés
Initialement annoncée en mars 2016, un mois avant le décès de l'artiste, l'autobiographie illustrée de Prince éditée par Dan Piepenbring paraîtra en sortie mondiale à la fin de l'année 2019. The Beautiful Ones, référence à la chanson culte de Prince figurant sur l'album "Purple Rain", traite de manière très personnelle la transformation de Prince Rogers Nelson en star mondiale, sa vie, son personnage, sa vision artistique. Ce livre n'est pas seulement un hommage à un musicien légendaire, c'est une véritable oeuvre de création, littéraire, originale, une " expérience " pour le lecteur, à l'image de son auteur. Prince est immortel, et The Beautiful Ones en est la preuve. L'ouvrage est composé de 4 parties : les textes que Prince a rédigés avant de mourir, sur son enfance, son adolescence et son introduction à la musique ; le récit de ses premières années dans la musique, avant la sortie de son premier disque, en forme de scrapbook - écrits et photos - que les éditeurs ont trouvé à Paisley Park après la mort de Prince ; une série de photos personnelles et inédites illustrant l'évolution de l'artiste, jusqu'à son statut de star ; des documents originaux de l'album "Purple Rain". Une introduction écrite par son collaborateur, Dan Piepenbring, raconte leur rencontre, l'histoire du livre, les derniers jours de Prince, sa générosité et son immense créativité.
10/2019
Science-fiction
The Project Tome 1 : Tensions
L'évolution n'est pas toujours bien perçue. Les Ultras en sont la preuve... Après Papillon, notre monde, tel que nous le connaissons, est en ruine. Deux sociétés coexistent difficilement : entre passé et vieilles rancoeurs, la tension entre le IN et le OUT est à son comble. Il vit sous terre. Elle habite à la surface. Ils n'auraient jamais dû se rencontrer. Pourtant un projet commun va les confronter. Son nom ? Mila Roscouvitcha...
07/2019
Comics
The Beauty Tome 1 : Contamination
La beauté a un prix... et elle peut parfois vous être fatale ! C'est un fait : notre Société est obsédée par l'apparence physique. A travers les médias ou la publicité, la beauté nous est imposée comme l'idéal suprême à atteindre. Et s'il y avait un moyen de la garantir éternellement ? Et si ce moyen était une maladie sexuellement transmissible ? Dans un monde où la grande majorité de la population a déjà été "contaminée" par la perfection physique, deux agents du FBI vont enquêter sur les origines de ce mystérieux virus.
03/2018
Manga
The Quintessential Quintuplets Tome 2
Fûtarô Uesugi a décroché un petit boulot très bien payé : professeur particulier. Mais ses élèves, des quintuplées, lui donnent du fil à retordre. Alors qu'il a enfin obtenu la confiance de Miku, il est malencontreusement surpris en flagrant délit de position douteuse envers Nino. Accusé d'agression sexuelle, parviendra-t-il à prouver son innocence seul face au clan des filles Nakano ?
02/2020
