Game of Thrones House of the Dragon
Extraits
Shonen/garçon
Dragon Quest - The Adventure of Daï Tome 7 : Le chevalier Dragon
Le Roi du Mal est ressuscité ! Encore plus puissant qu'avant, Hadlar arrive sur l'île Dermline pour se venger de celui qui l'avait tué autrefois : Avan. Celui-ci n'a d'autre choix que d'affronter son ennemi de toujours pour protéger ses disciples. Mais sera-t-il à la hauteur pour terrasser Hadlar, alors qu'il vient de consommer presque toute son énergie pour l'entraînement de Daï ?
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
Comics
House of X/Powers of X N° 1
Le monde a changé, l'île de Krakoa est désormais le coeur de la nation mutante. Plongez dans la série qui bouleverse l'univers mutant de manière radicale et magistrale.
06/2020
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Thinking about Physics
Physical scientists are problem solvers. They are comfortable "doing" science: they find problems, solve them, and explain their solutions. Roger Newton believes that his fellow physicists might be too comfortable with their roles as solvers of problems. He argues that physicists should spend more time thinking about physics. If they did, he believes, they would become even more skilled at solving problems and "doing" science. As Newton points out in this thought-provoking book, problem solving is always influenced by the theoretical assumptions of the problem solver. Too often, though, he believes, physicists haven't subjected their assumptions to thorough scrutiny. Newton's goal is to provide a framework within which the fundamental theories of modem physics can be explored, interpreted, and understood.
"Surely physics is more than a collection of experimental results, assembled to satisfy the curiosity of appreciative experts," Newton writes. Physics, according to Newton, has moved beyond the describing and naming of curious phenomena, which is the goal of some other branches of science. Physicists have spent a great part of the twentieth century searching for explanations of experimental findings. Newton agrees that experimental facts are vital to the study of physics, but only because they lead to the development of a theory that can explain them. Facts, he argues, should undergird theory.
Newton's explanatory sweep is both broad and deep. He covers such topics as quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, field theory, thermodynamics, the role of mathematics in physics, and the concepts of probability and causality. For Newton the fundamental entity in quantum theory is the field, from which physicists can explain the particle-like and wave-like properties that are observed in experiments. He grounds his explanations in the quantum field.
Although this is not designed as a standalone textbook, it is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and researchers. This is a clear, concise, up-to-date book about the concepts and theories that underlie the study of contemporary physics. Readers will find that they will become better-informed physicists and, therefore, better thinkers and problem solvers, too.
01/2000
Non classé
Temporal Logic, Omniscience, Human Freedom - Perspectives in Analytic Philosophy
The work shows the usefulness and limitation of modern logic in the study of traditional metaphysical problems. As is the usual case in all criticism of analytic philosophers against traditional philosophy, word usage must be limited to what the human mind can know. The notion of timeless knowledge for example contradicts our normal mode of word usage and cannot serve as adequate in reference to knowledge be it that of man or of God. If timeless knowledge applied to divine mode of knowing then there cannot be human freedom.
09/1991
Anglais apprentissage
Agrégation anglais. Howards End (E. M. Forster, J. Ivory) : Beyond Heritage. Edition 2021
Reading Forster's novel and Ivory's film together gives a stunning opportunity to re-assess the representation of Pre-World War One modernity. Far from presenting Edwardian England as a golden period, Howards End explores social structures, social mobility, real estate, the ambivalent relation to culture and new technological modes of communication and transport. Stylistically, the novel breaks new ground with its Protean narrative voice, and transitions towards Modernism with its mythic, musical method. The eponymous house becomes a metaphor for ecological balance, a new kind of extended family structure, a network of connections and a new sense of community. If Howards End as a novel reinvents literary legacy and redefines personal and national heritage, Ivory's adaptation must also be reassessed as so-called heritage cinema, far from the clichés of a purely aesthetic approach. It is no period piece or marketable commodity meant to toe a conservative line, but a carefully woven creative transposition, which also raises social and gendered questions.
10/2019
Science-fiction
Le trône de fer (A game of Thrones) : Le guide de Westeros. Livre pop-up
Explorez les Sept royaumes comme jamais grâce à ce luxueux livre animé collector.
Inspiré par le générique d'ouverture de la série HBO Game of Thrones, cet incroyable pop-up vous embarque dans un voyage passionnant et inédit sur les territoires de Westeros.
Ce guide officiel recrée en trois dimensions les lieux clés de la série culte : la capitale Port-Réal, le château de Winterfell, les Îles de fer, le Mur, etc. Il donne aussi vie aux créatures les plus iconiques de cet univers comme les loups géants, les Marcheurs blancs ou les célèbres dragons.
Spectaculaire et passionnant, Game of Thrones, le guide de Westeros est un ouvrage indispensable à tous les fans.
04/2014
Anglais apprentissage
LA VIERGE ET LE GITAN : THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY
When the vicar's wife went off with a young and penniless man the scandal knew no bounds. Her two little girls were only seven and nine years old respectively. And the vicar was such a good husband. True, his hair was grey. But his moustache was dark, he was handsome, and still full of furtive passion for his unrestrained and beautiful wife. Why did she go ? Why did she burst away with such an éclat of revulsion, like a touch of madness ? Nobody gave any answer. Only the pious said she was a bad woman. While some of the good women kept silent. They knew. The two little girls never knew. Wounded, they decided that it was because their mother found them negligible. The ill wind that blows nobody any good swept away the vicarage family on its blast. Then lo and behold ! the vicar, who was somewhat distinguished as an essayist and a controversialist, and whose case had aroused sympathy among the bookish men, received the living of Papplewick. The Lord had tempered the wind of misfortune with a rectorate in the north country. [...] "Lorsque la femme du pasteur s'enfuit avec un jeune homme sans le sou, le scandale ne connut pas de bornes. Ses deux fillettes n'avaient que sept et neuf ans respectivement. Et le pasteur était un si bon mari. Certes, il avait les cheveux gris, mais sa moustache était restée noire, il était bel homme et brûlait encore d'une passion furtive pour sa belle épouse immodeste. Pourquoi était-elle partie ? Pourquoi s'était-elle arrachée à lui, dans un tel éclat de dégoût, comme un grain de folie ? Personne n'apporta de réponse. Seules, les dévotes dirent que c'était une mauvaise femme. Cependant que certaines femmes de bien gardaient le silence. Elles comprenaient, elles. Les deux fillettes ne comprirent jamais. Blessées, elles jugèrent que c'était parce que leur mère les tenait pour quantité négligeable. Le vent du malheur qui est censé être bon à quelque chose balaya de son souffle les habitants de la cure. Puis, miracle, le pasteur, qui avait une certaine éminence comme essayiste et polémiste, et dont la situation avait su émouvoir certains intellectuels, fut nommé à la paroisse de Papplewick. Le Seigneur avait adouci l'ouragan du malheur par un bénéfice de recteur dans le nord du pays. " [...]
02/1993
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
Bijouterie, horlogerie
Cartier, arts de l'Islam et modernité
This catalogue of the "Cartier, Arts of Islam and Modernity" exhibition at the Louvre Abu-Dhabi (LAD) illustrates the influence of the artistic wonders of Islam on the sumptuous jewels of the House of Cartier, from the early 20th century to the present day. Manuscripts, arabesques, vases, tunics and mosaics provide a constellation of extraordinary and inspiring patterns. By creating masterpieces of emeralds and sapphires, Cartier pays glorious homage to the arts of Islam. This catalogue, which ends with pieces of contemporary jewellery, is a celebration of the conviction that cultural dialogue is an inexhaustible source of creation and beauty.
11/2023
Sociologie
The Impact of Sociology of Law on Government Action
This report focuses upon the relationship between government action and research in the field of Sociology of Law. This topic is treated within a general theoretical framework as well as in respect to a number of specific areas of current legal policies. The book centres upon the function and conception of Sociology of Law in relation to government action. The positions presented in these proceedings range from a technocratic to a critical model. Moreover, due to their origin in different political camps, the contributions represent the current state of international research in this field.
12/1981
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
Science-fiction
Le Trône de fer l'Intégrale (A game of Thrones) Tome 1
Il était une fois, perdu dans un lointain passé, le royaume des Sept Couronnes... En ces temps nimbés de brume, où la belle saison pouvait durer des années, la mauvaise toute une vie d'homme, se multiplièrent un jour des présages alarmants. Au nord du Mur colossal qui protégeait le royaume, se massèrent soudain des forces obscures ; au sud, l'ordre établi chancela, la luxure et l'inceste, le meurtre et la corruption, la lâcheté et le mensonge enserrèrent inexorablement le trône convoité. Dans la lignée des Rois maudits et d'Excalibur, Le Trône de fer plonge le lecteur, sans lui laisser reprendre souffle, dans un univers de délices et de feu. L'épique et le chevaleresque côtoient sans cesse le vil et le démoniaque. La bravoure et la loyauté se heurtent à la duplicité et à la fourberie. Mais dans ce tourbillon d'aventures cruelles, ce sont finalement l'amour, la tendresse, l'indestructible force de l'amitié qui rayonnent au-dessus des ténèbres.
09/2012
Science-fiction
Le trône de fer (A game of Thrones) Tome 6 : Les brigands
A Winterfell, des hommes de toute condition, révoltés par les horreurs de la guerre civile, ont décidé de récuser les divers prétendants au trône pour ne se consacrer, les armes à la main, qu'à la défense des petites gens. On les appelle les Brigands. A Vivesaigues, que tente de gagner Arya pour retrouver sa mère, à Peyredragon, où Davos, réchappé par miracle d'un désastre guerrier, a décidé d'assassiner Mélisandre, ou bien à Port-Réal, où s'apprêtent les noces de Joffrey, règne le chaos. Les tentatives d'assassinat, les meurtres, les prises d'otage et les plus noires intrigues se succèdent en cascade. Qui l'emportera finalement ? Dans ce nouvel et fracassant ouvrage, George R. R. Martin poursuit sa foisonnante saga où entrent maintenant en scène des monstres terrifiants, esclaves de forces maléfiques qui n'ont qu'un but sur terre : éradiquer toute trace d'humanité.
10/2001
Science-fiction
Le trône de fer (A game of Thrones) Tome 10 : Le chaos
Les sept couronnes ne sont pas près de dormir sur leurs deux oreilles : Cersei, fidèle à elle-même, ourdit de nouveaux plans machiavéliques pour garder la bride sur Lannister, ce que la mort de Tywin et la fuite du nain Tyrion, son fils et meurtrier présumé, rendent délicat. Au mur, Samwell Tarly se voit confier par Jon Snow une mission qui l'enverra au-delà des mers. Et tandis que Brienne, la pucelle de Torth, poursuit sa quête de Sansa Stark, la sœur de cette dernière, Arya, prend le voile noir de l'ordre du dieu multiface, à Braavos. Et la situation n'est guère plus reposante dans les îles de fer, où la maison Greyjoy doit gérer une succession à tout le moins contestée.
05/2007
Science-fiction
Le Trône de fer l'Intégrale (A game of Thrones) Tome 4
Ce nouveau tome poursuit l'exploration de destinées tragiques et grandioses, où les péripéties foisonnent et tiennent le lecteur en haleine, parfois au coeur d'événements cruels.
04/2013
Science-fiction
Le Trône de fer l'Intégrale (A game of Thrones) Tome 3
Dans ce troisième volume, George RR Martin continue de nous entraîner dans un monde fabuleux où les familles de ses héros se ramifient au coeur de régions plus mystérieuses les unes que les autres : grottes, collines creuses, hameau de feuilles, forteresses imprenables. Ici entrent également en scène des monstres terrifiants, esclaves de forces maléfiques qui n'ont qu'un but sur terre : éradiquer toute trace d'humanité. Odieuses mutilations, drames sanglants, mariages imposés, traîtres sans vergogne, vengeances cruelles longuement mûries, équipées punitives, se succèdent au fil de
ces pages éblouissantes. Car rien n'arrête l'imagination foisonnante de George R. R. Martin qui poursuit là l'un des cycles romanesques et visionnaires les plus originaux de tous les temps.
02/2013
Science-fiction
Le Trône de fer l'Intégrale (A game of Thrones) Tome 2
Le Royaume des sept couronnes est sur le point de connaître son plus terrible hiver : par-delà le mur qui garde sa frontière nord, une armée de ténèbres se lève, menaçant de tout détruire sur son passage. Mais il en faut plus pour refroidir les ardeurs des rois, des reines, des chevaliers et des renégats qui se disputent le trône de fer. Tous les coups sont permis, et seuls les plus forts, ou les plus retors, s'en sortiront indemnes...
01/2010
Science-fiction
Game of Thrones / Le Trône de Fer. Les cartes du monde connu
Pénétrez au cœur du monde connu de la saga de George R. R. Martin, retrouvez les lieux des événements marquants du Trône de Fer.
Véritable géographie en 12 cartes des royaumes vous pourrez aller et venir des cités libres de l'est en passant aux îles d'été, des contrées d'au-delà du Mur à Volantis, de la mer Dothrak à Port Réal en passant par Braavos…
Un coffret exclusif pour tous les véritables fans de la série.
03/2015
Science-fiction
Le Trône de fer l'Intégrale (A game of Thrones) Tome 5
Le volume 5 de l'intégrale du Trône de fer clôt provisoirement un chapitre important de cette saga désormais célèbre dans le monde entier grâce à la magnifique série télévisée qui a battu des records historiques d'audience.
11/2014
Humour
Game of Trolls
Fraîcheur is coming... ... comme on dit à Winterfrais, royaume du Nord dirigé par Ned Stroke, un brave homme à la tête d'une famille recomposée et épuisante. Dans un monde où les saisons durent des-années, on ne voit pas approcher avec sérénité les vacances d'hiver de la zone B. Pour couronner le tout, voilà que débarque une armée de cadavres qui grogne, qui sent fort et qui va déferler sur le Sud. Des retraités en partance pour leur résidence secondaire ? Ou, selon Jean Neige, une déferlante de Mexicains avides de franchir le Mur ? Mais surtout : comment diable le gobelet d'une célèbre marque de café a-t-il débarqué au milieu de tout ça ?
02/2021
Littérature française
My Ulster haven
1989, a 23-year-old French woman, an English student with a burdensome family background, leaves for Northern Ireland. She's on her way to start her French assistant job. She discovers this unknown part of Ireland, so underestimated and still plunged into civil war. There, she settles down and blossoms until she decides she actually wants to live there. An unexpected event will bring her back to France in 1991, but the link with this country will carry on until the Brexit announcement in 2016, and well beyond. An intimate journey to the core of Irish History, that reaches the depths of its wars, its men, its women, a journey at the very heart of the past. "A page of history - and of my history - is turning and it throws me off."
02/2022
Cuisine
Olive oil
Olive oil is good for preparing food and increases the natural flavors of ingredients without modifying their taste. The olive tree has been the symbol of eternal peace for thousands of years. One of my ancestors, a senior civil servant in the Spanish government, used to recount that culture and agriculture are the two best ways of making the most of one's time and money. Today, the seventh generation of our family of olive farmers still is in firm belief of the same ethos. Olive oil holds the heart and soul of Mediterranean culture, and we have used all of our passion and knowledge to strive to reach perfection, while at the same time respecting nature, and mixing traditions with avant-garde techniques. In today's ever-globalized society, where cultures meet and mix, olive oil, an eons-long symbol of the Mediterranean, finds itself on tables from Scandinavia to Australia to Japan. Basically, it is nothing more than the delicate and subtle juice of the olive. At the house of Nunez de Prado - ever conscious of maintaining quality - we harvest all of our olives by hand including those having fallen to the ground. Only hours later is the crop carried to the mill where the fruit is broken up by granite rolls and pressed. The precious liquid extracted from the produce is decanted naturally to isolate that minute quantity of vegetal deliciousness that is the oil. Though appearing simple, this extraction process, especially for a high quality oil, is nearly as complex as the production of a quality château wine, the term used in Spanish to describe olive oils as well.
04/2019
Informatique
Flash .Net. Dynamic content for designers with Flash remoting MX and ASP.NET
Flash.NET is the book which is your ticket to the future of application design. Two cutting-edge technologies, joined in union to provide the perfect marriage.
Macromedia Flash MX really excels when it comes to presenting graphical, interactive content. It's a superb tool for building user interfaces and for presenting content that changes over time.
Microsoft's NET Framework is a suite of tools for building powerful applications, both on and off the Web.
Put them together, and a whole raft of new possibilities opens up for both: powerful logic and functionality with a rich, flexible interface on the front. Put them together, and you get Flash.NET.
In this book, a team of expert designers and developers show you how to add dynamic NET content and turbocharged server-side functionality to your Flash MX projects.
In short, you need this book if you're a Flash designer who wants a cutting-edge advantage and doesn't want to get left behind when ail the cool people have started utilizing the power of NET with their applications.
To run the examples in this book for yourself, you'll need:
• Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
• Macromedia Flash MX
• Microsoft NET Framework SDK (free download from Microsoft)
The book also covers Macromedia Flash Remoting MX
11/2002
Policiers
The poet assassin
Some mysterious graffiti on the walls of the Castillet, a crowned reptile in Saint Jean Cathedral, the Campo Santo defiled : these are some of the bizarre clues in Lieutenant Dominique d'Astié's latest investigation. Is there a link between their symbolism, the enigmatic poems strewn all over the streets of Perpignan and the bloody assassination of "King Arthur Pendragon" ? The young Parisian police officer, newest member of La Police Judiciaire de Perpignan, will need to brush up on the old Arthurian legends if she is to solve this very non-Catalan murder !
05/2012
Sciences politiques
The Structure of Political Communication in the United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany
Political Communication in The United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany differs in terms of what the peoples expect to take issue with, how they are prepared to talk about them, which choices they can make to solve problems and, finally, whom or which organizations they delegate to resolve them. This comparative media study of The Economist, Time and Der Spiegel attempts to extract the differences in politics of the three societies.
11/1987
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 internationale
One Artist on Five Continents
Elisabet Delbrück (1876-1967) was one of a number of Germans who came to New Zealand in the late 1930s. Unlike most, she had not intended to emigrate but was touring the country when World War II broke out. She was at first forbidden to leave and then chose to remain in Wellington. Her thirty years in Mahina Bay on Wellington harbour had a profound effect on all who knew her. This study aims to discover why she was so remarkable. It explores her early life, her marriage into a prominent German family and her qualification as an artist. She turned this into a profession, teaching and exhibiting on five continents in the 1920s and 1930s. She always travelled alone, observing the customs and beliefs of the people she met. In Australia and New Zealand in 1938 and 1939 she was wrongly suspected of spreading Nazi propaganda. Her story is also the story of a heroic group of Wellingtonians who helped her in the 1940s and valued her friendship till her death.
12/2011
Décoration
Living in Mexico. Edition français-anglais-allemand
Barbara & René Stoeltie both began their careers as artists and gallery owners. With René as photographer and Barbara as writer, they have been collaborating on interior design articles since 1984, contributing to such influential magazines as Vogue, The World of Interiors, AD, Elle, House and Garden, Country Living and House Beautiful. The editor : Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN from 1987 to 2010, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel and lifestyle.
09/2021
Sciences politiques
La géopolitique des séries ou le triomphe de la peur
Voici le premier livre qui explique les émotions du monde par les séries télévisées. Au lendemain du 11 septembre 2001, la géopolitique a envahi non seulement le réel mais aussi nos imaginaires. Les séries sont devenues des références politiques tout autant que culturelles. Par la force de leurs intuitions, les scénaristes ne sont-ils pas les meilleurs analystes du monde contemporain ? Que perçoivent-ils de nos sociétés ? Avant tout la peur. La peur de la barbarie et le triomphe du chaos avec Game of Thrones, la peur de la fin de la démocratie avec House of Cards, celle du terrorisme avec Homeland, celle d'un ordre du monde qui disparaît dans Downton Abbey, enfin la peur de la menace russe avec Occupied. Ces séries provoquent un raz-de-marée à travers le monde : Barack Obama est suspendu à chaque saison de Game of Thrones. Quant aux terroristes de Daech, par la mise en scène de leurs massacres, on dirait qu'ils invitent nos yeux horrifiés au prochain épisode... Un ouvrage défricheur, une démonstration brillante par l'un des spécialistes de géopolitique les plus connus internationalement.
02/2016
