Clash of the Classics. L’Antiquité dans le cinéma contemporain
Extraits
Non classé
Marie Cardinal
What impact did Cardinal's texts have on the 1970s feminist movement ? What is her position in relation to French women's writing and the French literary tradition today ? This volume brings together a series of papers given at the first international conference on the influential feminist author Marie Cardinal. Leading critics of Cardinal's oeuvre engage in analysis alongside new commentators in the field. The collection provides an extensive yet cohesive overview of Cardinal's writing, including original commentaries on earlier works like Cet été-là, popular classics like Les Mots pour le dire, and more recent texts including Amour... amours... Contributors provide new perspectives on Cardinal's oeuvre, drawing from a range of areas of scholarly interest including film studies, life-writing, postcolonial discourse, critical theory, gender studies, and reception theory.
12/2005
Télévision, radio
Dans les coulisses de House of the Dragon
Découvrez la genèse d'une nouvelle génération de Targaryen dans ce livre luxueux qui explore les coulisses de House of the Dragon, la série phare de HBO. Adaptée de Feu et Sang, le livre culte de George R. R. Martin, cette saga télévisuelle raconte la chute de la maison Targaryen, la famille la plus puissante de Westeros. Portée à l'écran par les showrunners Ryan Condal et Miguel Sapochnik, cette préquelle ambitieuse a demandé un travail titanesque afin de transporter les spectateurs deux siècles avant Game of Thrones. Grâce à des interviews exclusives avec les acteurs et l'équipe technique, ce livre raconte cette incroyable aventure, de l'écriture des premiers scripts au tournage épique dans plusieurs pays. Richement illustré de concept arts, de photographies de plateau et d'autres visuels inédits, voici un ouvrage indispensable pour les fans : le guide ultime de la série House of the Dragon.
10/2023
Littérature française
Le cinéma dans la grange
Les personnages de ce petit roman ne se séparent pas de l'auteur : Ils sont l'auteur, mais jeune, en plusieurs personnes, et surtout en Roger Bourcier ; il est tellement l'auteur, qu'il est impossible de parler de lui sans évoquer le paysage de Saint-Samson, près de Morlaix, où est né ce récit, et le jeune homme que j'étais, appliqué à la tâche de vivre et d'écrire, à la tâche d'étudiant volontairement raté et de vivant insatisfait. Tout ce qui lui advient m'est arrivé. Ses émerveillements d'amoureux craintif, son angoisse devant la vie, c'est moi. Le lecteur d'aujourd'hui s'y reconnaîtra car tous les jeunes gens, d'une génération à l'autre, passent par là, sous des formes imprévues. H.T. (1991)
01/1992
Non classé
The German Effect on D.H. Lawrence and his Works 1885-1912
This study analyzes in depth the German effect upon D.H. Lawrence and his works from his birth in 1885 to his departure from England in 1912. German literary, philosophical and musical works had considerable impact on Lawrence's formation as an artist. They also influenced the creation of his own literary theory, entering his life concurrently with the three problems of class, woman and religion, which evolved into his major literary themes. The German effect is thus demonstrated to be the confirmation of Lawrence's strong tendency toward subjectivism in literary art : it strengthened his conviction that his art set him apart from all classes of society ; it encouraged the development of his view of women as the sexual, not the maternal, mediatrix to art ; and it fortified his denial of traditional Christianity and assisted his creation of his personal vitalistic creed.
12/1978
Lecture 6-9 ans
L'énigme du sabre. Edition bilingue français-anglais
C'est dimanche et comme souvent Louise et Arthur viennent rendre visite à leur grand-mère. Ils aiment bien y aller, elle joue avec eux et leur raconte plein d'histoires. Mais aujourd'hui, elle n'a pas le temps et les deux cousins s'ennuient. Alors, ils décident de grimper dans le grenier où sont entreposés de vieux souvenirs et objets abandonnés. Ils y ont déjà été, mais maintenant ils sont plus grands et peut-être trouveront-ils un trésor qu'ils n'avaient pas aperçu, lors de la dernière visite. Après un long moment de recherche, dans un coin, Louise découvre une malle poussiéreuse. Les deux cousins, l'ouvrent et entrevoient un sabre avec une inscription. Une trouvaille qui va les mener jusqu'à l'école militaire de Saint Cyr de Coëtquidan, sur les traces de leur grand père. It's a Sunday and often as not, Louise and Arthur go and visit their grandmother. They like to go there, she plays with them and tells them lots of stories. But this Sunday she does not have the time, so the two cousins are bored. They decide to climb up into the attic, where old memorabilia and abandoned objects are stored. They have been there before, but now that they are taller, maybe they will find a treasure they did not see during their last visit. After a long moment of searching, in a corner, Louise discovers a dusty trunk. The two cousins open it and see a sword with an inscription. A discovery that will lead them to the military school at Saint Cyr de Coëtquidan, in the footsteps of their grandfather.
06/2018
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
Non classé
The Concept of Man in Igbo Myths
In the vast silence of their isolation, the traditional Igbos have learnt the ways of living in harmony with nature. From their origin in distant time, they have kept a sacred perspective on the natural world. In our age, there is the need for traditional wisdoms to retain their validity and be intrinsic to our philosophic and scientific perceptions of the cosmos. We cannot do without their knowledge, their spiritual perspective, and their deep faith in the harmony of all nature. Ignoring these qualities has profound environmental implications. Global warming, environmental pollution, and the exhaustion of nature's resources are but a few of the symptoms of the nature's experiences as we continue to mistreat it in order to satisfy our own ends. This work helps us to realise that wherever we are, we are a part of nature. All the things around us are as presences, representing forces and powers of life that are not ours and yet are all part of us. Then we find them reflecting in ourselves, because we are nature, though not identical with it.
11/1999
Religion
Cross and Crown in Barbados
During the late 19th century, Caribbean society was generally controlled by the local plantocracy and the colonial administration of the Europeans. Barbados was so much the pride of the British colonies in the Caribbean that it was called "Little England". The life-blood of the society, the Black labouring classes, reaped very little of the social and economic benefits from the Sugar industry which the White planter-class owned and controlled. The Church was also controlled by the planter-class, and it functioned effectively to sustain a pattern of rigid social containment, and to work consistently for the maintenance of the status quo. Political religion in Barbados was therefore an engine of social control of the poor Blacks by the rich Whites. Cross and Crown together created "peace" and poverty.
12/1983
Non classé
Experimental Social Dilemmas
Most of the papers on social dilemmas were presented at a conference on social dilemmas that was held at the University of Groningen in the spring of 1984. Social dilemmas are interpersonal situations that are characterized by a conflict between private and collective interest, i.e. in attempting to further their private interests, participants may end up worser off than if they had abandonned self-interest and worked for the good of the community. The chapters in this book describe efforts made by social psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to advance our understanding of the psychological processes that influence people's behavior in social dilemmas. It is assumed that understanding of these processes can help our search for solutions.
12/1986
Critique Roman
L'espace dans le roman français contemporain
Comment le roman français contemporain parle-t-il de l'espace ? Et comment le pense-t-il ? Dans la mouvance de la géocritique, de la géographie littéraire, de la narratologie et de la critique sociologique, des chercheurs français et étrangers examinent ici le tournant spatial pris par le roman après 1980. Comment l'espace y est-il perçu ? Quels lieux et non-lieux sont-ils explorés ? Quelles sont les conséquences de la mondialisation sur les configurations littéraires ? Une première partie est consacrée à une approche linguistique, à la langue comme structuration de l'espace. La seconde partie, les lieux du contemporain, étudie dans le roman des espaces perçus comme emblématiques de notre époque. La troisième partie, à l'ère de la mobilité, aborde la question du mouvement et du voyage. Une dernière partie enfin, le monde est une bibliothèque, se consacre aux univers faits de strates mémorielles et littéraires.
02/2022
Poésie
Epilepsy: the invisible pain
They say life is a long stretch of a calm river, but not for everyone ! She was for me until the day when everything rocked, the day my destiny was changed dramatically. People do not realize how life can be so sweet and so beautiful. They complain all day long for trivialities. They are not even aware that they have before their eyes the most beautiful wealth : the luck and happiness of living in good health. I was rich before. Now I am poor because my child has an incurable disease, that has currently no hope of being healed. As a parent, how can we accept that ? , How to continue living carrying the bundle of pain in my head ? , How to overcome this feeling of helplessness ? When I started speaking to my heart, I didn't know myself that this was the beginning of a new life : a rebirth as a poet. When I learnt that my 7-year-old daughter was suffering from the Dravet Syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy, this was like an earthquake in my life. Then, I needed to write in order to express my sorrow and my pain. Words and rhymes came naturally to my mind. This was obvious that poetry would be my survival weapon.
01/2019
Mathématiques
Astérisque N° 219/1994 : Les paires duales dans les algèbres
In this series of papers, we investigate the relative index theorem from the point of view of algebraic analysis. On a complex manifold X, let M he a coherent Dx-module and F an IR-mnstruc-tible sheaf. The complex RHompx (M, RHom(F, Ox)) is the complex of solutions of the system of PDE represented by M in the sheaf of generalized holomorphic functions associated to F. A natural problem is to find conditions under which such a complex has finite dimensional global cohomology and then to compute the corresponding Euler-Poincaré characteristic. We prove the finiteness theorem when (M, F) has compact support and is "elliptic", i.e. : char(M) n SS(F) C TxX where char(M) is the characteristic variety of M, SS(F) is the micro-support of F and TxX is the zero section of the cotangent bundle. In fact, we give a relative version of this finiteness result together with the associated duality theorem and Künneth formula. Our methods rely upon results of functional analysis over a .sheaf of Fréchet algebras obtained by one of the authors. Next, we attach a "microloeal Order class" µeu(M, F) E H2dx char M+SSF (T X ; D) to any elliptic pair (M, F) and prove that, under natural assumptions, this class is compatible with direct images, inverse images and external products. In particular, we get the index formula : X(RP(X ; RHom(M x F ; Ox))) = f yeu(M, F) T2xx (M) = fTX yeu (M) U yeu (F). When F = CM and X is a complexification of the real analytic manifold M, our salts for the pair (M, F) give an index theorem for elliptic systems and we discuss its relations with the Ariyah-Singer theorem.
04/1994
Musique, danse
Sandinista ! 12 décembre 1980, The Clash fait sa révolution
En 1980, alors que son dernier disque, London Calling, est considéré comme l'équivalent du Blonde on Blonde de Dylan ou du White Album des Beatles, The Clash se lance dans le pari fou d'un triple album, intitulé Sandinista ! Sa conception ressemble à un roman. Les membres du groupe manquent de se faire rançonner en Jamaïque et s'approprient la pulsation du hip-hop new-yorkais. Ils croisent Diana Ross, le Dj jamaïcain Mikey Dread, le réalisateur Martin Scorsese ou Tymon Dogg, avec lequel Joe Strummer faisait la manche à Paris. Ce livre retrace l'enregistrement de l'un des disques les plus controversés de l'histoire. Au moment de sa sortie, Sandinista ! déconcerte. Avec le temps, ses 144 minutes d'expérimentation, qui annoncent Massive Attack, Gorillaz ou l'electro, seront reconnues comme un sommet esthétique.
05/2019
Histoire de l'art
Histoire de l'art dans l'Antiquité
Rompant avec les ouvrages d'érudition qui se multipliaient à son époque, Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) a adopté dans son Histoire de l'art dans l'Antiquité une démarche entièrement nouvelle qui n'a cessé depuis sa parution, en 1764, de susciter admirations et controverses. En effet, dans cet "essai de système doctrinal" dont l'objectif est de définir "l'essence de l'art" , l'auteur fait appel à son immense savoir et embrasse dans son étude les oeuvres égyptiennes, phéniciennes, grecques, romaines, étrusques, analysant le style de chacune d'entre elles dans son contexte historique et culturel, établissant des comparaisons et des hiérarchies. Si, dans cette vaste synthèse, Winckelmann s'attarde plus longuement sur le peuple grec, c'est qu'il le considère comme ayant atteint la perfection artistique : "une noble simplicité et une grandeur tranquille, tant dans l'attitude que dans l'expression, voilà en définitive le trait général qui distingue par excellence les chefs-d'oeuvre grecs". Farouchement hostile au baroque de son époque, l'auteur érige dès lors un idéal du Beau et invite les artistes de son temps à tendre vers cette perfection : un appel auxquels beaucoup seront sensibles, comme en témoigne la naissance du courant néoclassique. Subjectifs, arbitraires, les jugements de Winckelmann ont certes été critiqués, mais il reste que l'ouvrage, par son ambition, marque avec éclat la naissance d'une nouvelle discipline : l'histoire de l'art.
05/2023
Développement durable-Ecologie
Native Land, Stop Eject. Edition en anglais
Created by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, the exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject proposes a dialogue between filmmaker Raymond Depardon and philosopher Paul Virilio on the notions of being rooted and uprooted today, an epoch in which human migration flows are taking place on an unprecedented scale. In his film Hear Them Speak, created with Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon gives a voice to those who wish to remain on their land but are threatened with exile. Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, and Ben Rubin give form to Paul Virilio's concepts in six dynamic maps which examine new trends in contemporary human movement due to environmental, political, and economic factors. The texts included here, published for the first time in the catalog Native Land, Stop Eject (Prix Nomad's 2009), offer a chance to explore the themes raised in the exhibition. Accompanied by exhibition views, they incite contemplation on the meaning of sedentariness and nomadism, as well as related questions of identity.
05/2010
Cinéma
Leçons de cinéma. Master class des plus grands réalisateurs
Tous les cinéphiles et les étudiants en cinéma rêvent de pouvoir dialoguer avec les plus grands réalisateurs. Trente-neuf cinéastes de toutes nationalités racontent ici leurs méthodes de travail pour le choix du sujet, l'écriture du scénario, le découpage, la direction des acteurs, Les répétitions, l'improvisation, l'organisation du tournage... Répondant aux mêmes questions et se prêtant à l'exercice de La "leçon de cinéma", ils décrivent à l'aide d'exemples concrets le processus de création au quotidien et nous permettent de comprendre en quoi des visions artistiques très différentes appellent des mises en oeuvre tout aussi diverses. Au contraire de bien des ouvrages spécialisés, ce livre ne donne donc pas de recettes toutes faites et prétendument universelles, mais révèle nombre de secrets de fabrication des plus grands réalisateurs, laissant entrevoir qu'en matière de création il n'y a pas de règles ou que tout au plus elles existent pour être transgressées.
03/2020
Droit
Les théories de la justice dans l'Antiquité
L'Antiquité a largement fécondé les approches modernes et contemporaines de la justice en Occident. Le présent ouvrage se propose de restituer la richesse du débat antique et de présenter les thèses les plus remarquables, tout en faisant ressortir continuités et points de rupture. D'Hésiode à Plotin en passant par les Présocratiques, les Sophistes, Platon, Aristote, Epicure et les Stoïciens, se déclinent des positions théoriques très structurées, sous-tendues par des oppositions maîtresses, comme châtiment et purification, apparence et vertu, intérêt et générosité, force et harmonie, égalité arithmétique et proportionnelle, nature et convention. L'on comprend alors pourquoi, par-delà le christianisme, notre modernité cherche à lire son avenir dans son origine.
06/2005
Littérature française
Les inventeurs. Essai
What do Christopher Columbus, Reneke, Zénobe Gramme and Louis Pasteur have in common ? They were all inventors. Well fine, but who invented the crab's claw, the suction cups and the flight of squids or the proboscis of blood sucking insects ? Is invention intellectual fantasy, an industrial tool or a fundamental biological reaction ? How is this riddle to be solved ? Should we go through the list of inventions or inventors ? Is it a question of circumstances or motivations ? Who is in charge ? The Material or the Spirit ? In order to try to find a way of answering these questions, first a few very different inventors and their inventions will be presented. A few paradoxes emerge from this first part. Then we will devote an entire chapter to an exceptional inventor whose extraordinary work revolutionized how we now approach this topic. Finally, what can be said about all the inventions like the wings of birds or butterflies, the eyes of fish or insects, the leaves of trees or the social organization of beehives ? In these cases, man is not the inventor. There are countless marvels like these in the world around us. Can we explain them ? This will be the subject of the third part of this essay.
02/2017
Policiers
Goebius' Strange Model
A company elaborates in great secrecy a project, vital to its very survival. As the project develops, it leads the protagonists far beyond the originally envisioned simple business strategy, and brings them close to the forefront of the physical laws governing the behavior of the universe. Two intrigues intertwine... will they meet ? Or do they form the single-sided face of a Möbius strip ? "This novel is as unexpected as a UFO, and refreshing..." Cédric Villani, Fields Medal 2010. "This book is fascinating, I read it all at once..." Etienne Ghys, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.
01/2020
Sociologie
L'ère du clash
Un ouragan emporte nos sociétés hyperconnectées et hypermédiatisées. Le vent a tourné, nous l'éprouvons tous fortement. L'époque n'est plus tout à fait, ou seulement, à la manipulation et au formatage des esprits, comme encore au milieu des années 2000, quand régnait sur le discours médiatico-politique le storytelling. L'explosion du Web, l'éclosion des premiers réseaux sociaux créaient l'environnement favorable à la production et à la diffusion d'histoires. Or, de même que l'inflation ruine la confiance dans la monnaie, l'inflation des stories a érodé la confiance dans les récits. Le triomphe de l'art de raconter des histoires, mis au service des acteurs politiques, aura entraîné, de manière fulgurante, le discrédit de la parole publique. Cette défiance est aujourd'hui revendiquée par les hommes politiques eux-mêmes. Christian Salmon nous montre les logiques qui nous ont conduits à la confusion actuelle. Dans le brouhaha des réseaux et la brutalisation des échanges, la story n'est plus la clé pour se distinguer. La conquête de l'attention, comme celle du pouvoir, passe désormais par l'affrontement, la rupture, la casse des " vérités " . Désormais, viralité et rivalité vont de pair, virulence et violence, clash et guerre des récits. Fini le storytelling ? Bienvenue dans l'ère du clash ! Christian Salmon est écrivain. En 2007 il publiait Storytelling : la machine à fabriquer des histoires et à formater les esprits (La Découverte), lançant un mot qui entrerait dans le dictionnaire en 2018. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs essais littéraires. En 2017, il a publié un roman, Le Projet Blumkine.
01/2019
Littérature française
Sons of Fantasy
When we were children, we believed anything was possible... This book is a fantasy novel originally written for children. But, if you are a father or a mother, a teacher or a writer, if you still have some bits of fantasy in your soul... then, this novel is for you too. We all know how geniuses changed the world with their childlike Imagination, and how people use creative thinking to solve problems. This is a story about hope ; "Sons of Fantasy" shares the story of M. Alger, a father grieving for the loss of his dear wife, who left him with two beautiful kids. Norris and Socrates were adjusting to life without Mom... But things got more complicated when one of them was paralyzed because of a severe psychological trauma due to an overdose of fantasy... This family has a very interesting neighbor who lives a few feet away. He has a weird little hobby, reading books in the most unlikely places... He for example travelled to Romania and read "Dracula" by Bram Stoker in the Castelul Bran Castle, because it's said that the main character Dracula lived in it. And then all of a sudden he stopped travelling... He got a month ago a big long hat that belongs to the greatest witch that lived during the middle ages, "Moje Gayla". In fact, after being burned by the church, one of her relatives kept her belongings inside a wooden box... and in the twentieth century one of her grandchildren donated the box to "The Magic Square Museum" in London. Genius bought the hat at a public auction as an art relic to decorate one of his rooms. Could this weird neighbor be the reason of Socrates' psychological trauma ? Or maybe he is the one who will cure him ? And what has the hat to do with all this ?
08/2018
Littérature française
De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars
"De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars" by Thomas De Quincey is a compelling narrative that transports readers to the heart of ancient Asia, where the eponymous revolt unfolds with gripping intensity. De Quincey's vivid prose and meticulous research breathe life into this historical event, capturing the tumultuous political landscape and the fierce battles that shaped the fate of nations. Through his narrative, De Quincey explores themes of power, rebellion, and the clash of civilizations, offering readers a nuanced understanding of the complexities of history. "Revolt of the Tartars" stands as a testament to De Quincey's literary skill and his ability to illuminate the past with vivid detail and profound insight, ensuring that this riveting tale continues to captivate readers for generations to come.
03/2024
Non classé
The Search for Lyonnesse
Although Mme de Lafayette is acknowledged as the founder of the modern novel, her precise legacy has been understood only in relation to male-authored texts. However, she wrote as a woman, addressing issues that concerned women of her day, particularly the problem of the apparent incompatibility of sexual fulfilment and the institution of marriage. This study seeks to identify how La Princesse de Clèves was interpreted by three of Mme de Lafayette's most talented women successors and to show how their more sombre and subversive view of society was mediated in works of fiction which have strong affinities with the contes de fées for which they are well known. The novels of Mlle Bernard, Mme d'Aulnoy and Mlle de La Force are significant, not simply for what they tell us about themselves as women writers but also for what they reveal about the origins of the eighteenth-century novel.
07/1999
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
12 ans et +
Les 8 royaumes mortels Tome 1 : La cité de Pierre-de-Vie
Raised as a slave in the Darkoath camps of Aqshy, Kiri dreams of a better life. Of a city of wonders, the place of her birth… Lifestone ! She despairs of ever reaching it until a fateful day arrives when her barbarian captors are attacked by Sigmar's noblest warriors, the Stormcast Eternals. Seizing her chance, Kiri flees through a mysterious realmgate that takes her far from the fiery lands of Aqshy. She arrives in the realm of Ghyran and finds the city of Lifestone. But a curse lies on this place, withering its noble spirit. Her path leads her to a special group of children who, like her, are realm-marked the prophecised saviours of Lifestone. There's Thanis, the fighter ; Alish, the inventor ; Kaspar ; the sneak and Elio, the healer. But dark forces are allying against the children and will do anything to stop them achieving their destiny.
06/2019
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
Non classé
Henry VIII in History, Historiography and Literature
If this anthology on the literary appreciation of the life and times of Henry VIII can show how history, historiography and the history of literature are woven together as threads in a tapestry, if this book can show how varied the sources are from which historical images are fed, especially those of significant historical figures, then it will have surely fulfilled its purpose.
01/1993
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes & Specimen Lists from H.M.S. Beagle
Two long sets of scientific notes were made by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. Those transcribed here are concerned with natural history, and although in 1839 he drew on them quite extensively in writing his famous " Journal of Researches ", neither they nor his geology notes have previously been published. He was a superb observer, and recorded vividly and accurately his first impressions of the appearance and behaviour of the wide range of animals, from ants to ostriches, encountered during his travels. Often he performed little experiments on the creatures that he captured, and he was never happy until he had exhaustively explored the why and wherefore of every one of his observations. During the long periods on board ship, he carried out a thorough analysis of hitherto unrecognised features of the internal anatomy of a variety of marine invertebrates, and made elegant pencil drawings of them under his dissecting microscope. The volume also includes his lists of 1 500 specimens preserved in Spirits of Wine, and some 3 500 not in Spirits, with impeccably accurate cross references to the main notes. Although his notes were made strictly for his own use, and were often highly technical, they were well written throughout, and contain many highly readable passages. Only towards the very end of the voyage were his first doubts about the immutability of species consciously pressed, but here are to be found the first seeds of his theory of evolution, and of the important new fields of behavioural and ecological study of which he was one of the principal founders.
01/2000
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
Histoire ancienne
Dictionnaire du corps dans l'Antiquité
Quel meilleur moyen qu'un dictionnaire pour approcher un objet aussi difficilement saisissable, omniprésent et d'évidence, qu'est le corps humain ? Quel meilleur moment que l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, période créatrice de modèles et de canons de représentations ? Qu'a donc de spécifique ce corps antique, en quoi est-il fondateur d'une certaine manière d'appréhender notre propre surface corporelle, notre rapport à nous-mêmes ? Des historiens, des archéologues, des historiens de l'art ou de la religion, des spécialistes de la médecine antique, des philosophes, des philologues et des anthropologues sont mobilisés pour éclairer des mots antiques et des mots modernes, des mots grecs et des mots latins, des mots familiers et des mots savants, des mots courants et des mots techniques, toujours replacés dans leur environnement documentaire et leur contexte historique. En quelques 320 entrées, il s'agit de proposer des lectures multiples, de varier les focales, de multiplier les approches pour circonscrire au mieux cet objet d'histoire. Prendre aux mots le corps antique, c'est d'abord et avant tout savoir de quoi l'on parle. D'Abstinence à Voix, c'est un monde corporel qui se décline, étrange et pourtant familier, lointain et pourtant si proche, révélateur au fond de notre façon de penser l'Antiquité aujourd'hui. Plus précisément, de nos façons de penser l'Antiquité.
05/2019
