Le chaudron des ombres - The cauldron of shadows
Extraits
Science-fiction
Knight of shadow - 1 - Hybride
An 2255, San Francisco Les êtres de légende sont sortis de l'ombre il y a déjà plus d'un siècle. Après de terribles conflits, une cohabitation naissante, équilibre encore précaire, a vu le jour entre humains et espèces surnaturelles. Moi, Rayden, depuis mon réveil dans un laboratoire lugubre, je ne suis plus le même. J'ai dû abandonner mon rôle de flic, conscient que ma nouvelle nature d'hybride, interdite par la loi, pourrait me coûter la vie si elle était découverte. La soif du vampire, la force du lycan et les griffes du démon font désormais de moi un incroyable prédateur. Et me voilà enrôlé comme garde du corps par cet homme riche et influent pour protéger sa fille, Avery... Plutôt mignonne ! Plutôt capricieuse aussi, alors que je cherche à comprendre les origines de mes nouveaux pouvoirs... . Bienvenue dans mon quotidien, bienvenue dans les ténèbres et le chaos de notre climat, entre journées étouffantes et nuits glaciales !
11/2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
Non classé
Ruling Class Men
What is it like to be a master of the universe ? The authors have researched the desires and fears of the world's most powerful men. The Murdochs, Packers, Kennedys, Agnellis and other men like them, directly determine the fates of thousands and influence the future of the world like no other people. Described as ‘sacred monsters' by one of their own, they are carefully created to be what they are and to enjoy shaping the world in their own likeness. To learn about these often reclusive men, the authors extended the life-history technique to interrogate autobiographies, diaries and biographies and have created a composite picture, a collective portrait, of tycoons over three generations. The book carefully explores the childhoods, schooling, work and play, sexual activities, marriages and deaths of the wealthiest men who have ever lived. It exposes the nature of ruling-class masculinity itself.
02/2007
Religion jeunesse
The beautiful dolls of Julia are getting married. Numéro 22
"The LORD defends the rights of orphans and widows. The LORD cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing". "You have to love the foreigner, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt". Deuteronomy 10 : 18 - 19 HISTORY OF THE FRENCH AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY "CROIRE - SAVOIR - VOULOIR" " Julia's Beautiful Dolls - Holy Paris " represents the Universal name of a new linguistic and pedagogic method, to teach English, French and Spanish, to the children of the Kindergarten and Elementary school. The Collection of Multimedia Books, notebooks of writing, cultural and educational articles are to develop an education of PEACE, to teach the catholic faith with the Catholic History of Art and testimony of Julia. The Collection " JULIA'S BEAUTIFUL'S DOLLS- HOLY PARIS " is an INVENTION created by the Writer and Translator Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ Widow of RUIZ, after nine years of "SCIENCES RESEARCES", since the creation of the company, in 2008, in Paris. Julia created this Linguistic Method in French and she make the translation to English and Spanish. The Pedagogical Method of this Collection is to develop the Peace in the World, to make a transfer of the Catholic Faith, to teach the different Cultures, the Moral Universal values, the Interreligious Cooperation and the Harmony between the United Nations. This Collection has been realized religiously, intellectually and manually for Mrs. Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ ARELLANO Widow of RUIZ. Julia makes this Collection of Beautiful Dolls, since 1986, the year that she arrived to Paris, to study the French Civilization in the University "La Sorbonne". To have a Collection of Dolls from many countries of the world, was a dream that she has since she was a little girl of 5 years old. Mrs. Julia SANCHEZ works in Research since nine years ago, to develop, to create her Publishing International Company in Paris, she has never received a Subvention of the French Government, not either of the European Commission, or of the Mayor of Paris. In the year 2010, Mrs. Julia Sanchez appeared to the prize " The Don of Science " organized by the Department of the National Education, of the Higher Education and Researches of France and for not communication, she didn't obtain the Prize. In November, 2013, Mrs. Julia Sanchez has deposited the name of her trademark and in November, 2014, she deposited the Patent of her invention to the National Institute of Industrial Property in order to distinguish her invention from other inventions.
10/2018
Religion jeunesse
The beautiful dolls of Julia are celebrating the assumption of the blessed virgin Mary. Numéro 15
"The LORD defends the rights of orphans and widows. The LORD cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing". "You have to love the foreigner, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt". Deuteronomy 10 : 18 - 19 HISTORY OF THE FRENCH AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY "CROIRE - SAVOIR - VOULOIR" " Julia's Beautiful Dolls - Holy Paris " represents the Universal name of a new linguistic and pedagogic method, to teach English, French and Spanish, to the children of the Kindergarten and Elementary school. The Collection of Multimedia Books, notebooks of writing, cultural and educational articles are to develop an education of PEACE, to teach the catholic faith with the Catholic History of Art and testimony of Julia. The Collection " JULIA'S BEAUTIFUL'S DOLLS- HOLY PARIS " is an INVENTION created by the Writer and Translator Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ Widow of RUIZ, after nine years of "SCIENCES RESEARCES", since the creation of the company, in 2008, in Paris. Julia created this Linguistic Method in French and she make the translation to English and Spanish. The Pedagogical Method of this Collection is to develop the Peace in the World, to make a transfer of the Catholic Faith, to teach the different Cultures, the Moral Universal values, the Interreligious Cooperation and the Harmony between the United Nations. This Collection has been realized religiously, intellectually and manually for Mrs. Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ ARELLANO Widow of RUIZ. Julia makes this Collection of Beautiful Dolls, since 1986, the year that she arrived to Paris, to study the French Civilization in the University "La Sorbonne". To have a Collection of Dolls from many countries of the world, was a dream that she has since she was a little girl of 5 years old. Mrs. Julia SANCHEZ works in Research since nine years ago, to develop, to create her Publishing International Company in Paris, she has never received a Subvention of the French Government, not either of the European Commission, or of the Mayor of Paris. In the year 2010, Mrs. Julia Sanchez appeared to the prize " The Don of Science " organized by the Department of the National Education, of the Higher Education and Researches of France and for not communication, she didn't obtain the Prize. In November, 2013, Mrs. Julia Sanchez has deposited the name of her trademark and in November, 2014, she deposited the Patent of her invention to the National Institute of Industrial Property in order to distinguish her invention from other inventions.
05/2019
Thèmes photo
Lost Shadows
En Camargue, Marco Rigamonti a rencontré un monde premier, l'eau et la terre épousant leurs intensités sous un ciel de lumière pure. Les paysages qu'il contemple sont silencieux. L'homme est passé par là, qui disparaîtra plus vite que la forme des lieux. Percevant les correspondances entre les objets façonnés et le territoire qui les porte, le photographe aborde l'espace comme on le respire, calmement, les poumons se remplissant d'air, puis se vidant. Ses images sont ainsi dépouillées d'affects faciles ou de sentimentalité, la psychologie étant le plus souvent une taie entre le regardeur et les scènes qu'il reçoit. Au pays des manades, Marco Rigamonti propose un voyage dans l'ocre et la grâce de toute présence, entre allègement du moi et solennité très ancienne. Il y a dans ses rectangles de vision de la gravité, mais aussi de l'absurde et de l'humour spontané, sans moquerie. L'émouvante intimité des choses y rencontre le saugrenu, ou l'incongru, et l'éclat de la vérité de ce qui est, simplement baigné de soleil, la malice du spectateur. On entre en ses photographies comme on pénètre dans une arène sans savoir d'où viendra l'animal qu'il nous faudra affronter dans un combat plus spirituel que physique. Les signes de la culture camarguaise sont montrés, entre sentiment de survivance de l'ethos d'un peuple et surprise d'advenue. Si l'on perçoit ici de l'oisiveté, ce n'est pas au sens du vice que déploraient nos grands-mères, et les affairés du Spectacle tournant sans fin dans le vide, mais au sens du souci du soi des Antiques, cette sagesse dans l'approche du temps et des corps jetés dans l'impermanence. C'est une attente sans drame sous la brise chaude, ou les rayons de plomb, une conscience de la maturation nécessaire pour que chaque entité - végétale, animale, humaine - arrive à son terme en développant le meilleur de son suc. Marco Rigamonti a photographié un Far-West français à la fois drôle et sauvage, ouvert à tous les êtres ayant su préserver leur part d'indocilité, leur liberté, leur grain de folie. La Camargue qu'il révèle, sèche et recouverte d'eau séminale, est une puissance, un royaume camarade pour les solitaires, un désert où affronter, front droit, la Camarde. Dans le dialogisme de ses images, un tuyau d'arrosage est bien plus qu'une ligne de caoutchouc serpentant dans le sable, c'est aussi, dans la conversation secrète des formes, l'arcature surplombant une fontaine en construction, le rail d'un train fantôme, ou la courbe délicieuse d'un tobogan. S'il est identifiable sur une carte de géographie, l'espace qu'arpente l'artiste italien est aussi de l'ordre d'une cosa mentale peuplée de signes pouvant paraître étranges pour les non-initiés, comme des archétypes sibyllins. On peut penser à la peinture métaphysique de Giorgio De Chirico, et à la sensation troublante d'un monde de pure autonomie échappant à la causalité ordinaire. En ces territoires de sable et de poussière, des Aliens débarqueront peut-être, les tables de pique-nique arachnéennes n'étant d'ailleurs pas sans rappeler tel épisode fameux de La Guerre des étoiles. Par petites touches et décalages de détails, presque imperceptiblement, Marco Rigamonti nous fait entrer dans une fiction où un homme torée une camionnette, et où les éléments de la réalité semblent concourir à la construction d'un vaste trompe-l'oeil. Plane en ce pays unique, et rempli d'artefacts, une âme taurine gigantesque, comme si le moindre acte, la moindre scène, était regardée par qui a déjà été soumis au combat ultime, et l'a perdu. Voyant défiler les grandes étapes de son cadre familier, le bel animal trépassé prend le temps, luxe pour une noble bête à cornes élevée pour la lutte - mais l'éternité n'est pas pressée -, d'aller flâner du côté de Piémanson, de ses caravanes parfois éventrées, de ses pirates, de ses baigneuses graciles et de ses touristes égarés. Par la stupeur sereine de ses images, et leur douce ironie, le photographe affirme qu'il n'y a pas de pureté identitaire, mais un jeu, certes sérieux, intime, avec les codes de l'appartenance, ce qui ne peut que réjouir. Faulkner l'écrivait : "Le temps ne passe pas, il n'est même pas passé". Fabien Ribery
09/2023
Théâtre - Pièces
Boxing shadows
Roland, Français, la cinquantaine, bibliothécaire et ancien boxeur poids mi-moyen, se fait dérober son téléphone par Ariane, Etrangère, 20/25 ans, une sans-papier vivant en France. Il la retrouve et l'oblige à lui rendre son téléphone, ainsi que tous les autres qu'elle a volés. Roland est fasciné par les talents de pickpocket d'Ariane, par sa vitalité et sa rage de vivre mais aussi par sa fragilité lorsqu'il la retrouve un jour couverte de bleus. Il va lui proposer d'apprendre à se défendre en lui enseignant les règles du "noble art", qui sont également les règles de la société. Il va également apprendre des choses sur lui-même. Boxing Shadows pose un regard incisif sur la société française de ce début du XXIe siècle, sur ses peurs, ses fragilités, mais aussi ses ressources et sa générosité. Cette histoire d'apprivoisement et d'apprentissage n'est pas sans rappeler Le Petit Prince d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry : on rit, on pleure, mais surtout on réfléchit et on sort plein d'énergie. La pièce a été créée en France en février 2020 dans une mise en scène d'Isabelle Starkier, et jouée dans le Off d'Avignon 2023 avec Nicolas Zaaboub-Charrier dans le rôle de Roland, Clara Starkier dans celui d'Ariane et Lisa Maski dans celui de la Voix
12/2023
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
BD tout public
Shadow Banking Tome 1 : Le pouvoir de l'ombre
2008, une crise financière d'ampleur inégalée frappe plusieurs grandes banques et des sociétés d'assurance américaines qui déposent le bilan. Les répercussions économiques sur le monde sont catastrophiques et des pays entiers font faillite... Quelques mois plus tôt, Mathieu Dorval, jeune diplômé de HEC fraîchement débarqué à la BCE, avec l'aide de Victor de la Salle, numéro 2 de l'institution européenne et également père adoptif de Mathieu, relève justement d'inquiétantes données à propos de la dette de la Grèce : le pays serait en situation de quasi-faillite depuis 2 ans ! Au fil de leurs découvertes, les deux hommes vont mettre le doigt dans un engrenage redoutable, les conduisant aux sources de la crise qui s'annonce et de ses protagonistes peu scrupuleux... Corbeyran, son coscénariste Frédéric Bagarry, ancien trader ayant travaillé pour plusieurs grandes banques françaises, et Eric Chabbert tissent une intrigue ciselée dans les arcanes de la finance internationale, sans foi ni loi. A l'instar du film Margin Call, ce nouveau thriller nous fait découvrir les rouages de la dernière crise financière par le biais d'une fiction grand public malheureusement proche de la réalité.
09/2014
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
12 ans et +
The Effigies Tome 2 : L'assaut des ombres
L'adolescente timide et ordinaire qu'était auparavant Maia Finley appartient désormais au passé. La nouvelle Effigie du feu ne peut plus reculer devant son destin : elle a été choisie pour protéger l'humanité des spectres, ces créatures des ténèbres qui terrorisent les hommes depuis près d'un siècle, et elle entend bien accomplir son devoir, quitte à affronter pour cela ses peurs les plus tenaces ! Cela fait près de deux mois que Saul a disparu sans laisser de traces. Deux mois que les quatres Effigies s'entraînent sans relâche dans l'espoir de pouvoir bientôt vaincre cet homme aux pouvoirs surnaturels capable de contrôler les spectres. D'autant que le temps presse : à l'affût du moindre faux-pas, les médias du monde entier ont les yeux braqués sur elles et sur la Secte. Après tout, l'organisation mondiale, de même que les jeunes femmes, n'auraient-elles pas dû pouvoir empêcher les catastrophes qui ont récemment touché la France et les Etats-Unis ? Pourtant, quand l'ennemi public numéro un réapparaît enfin, rien ne se déroule comme prévu. Car Saul n'est pas seul. Des soldats aux multiples pouvoirs travaillent à ses côtés. Des hommes et des femmes revenus d'entre les morts qui pourraient bien avoir un lien avec la Secte... L'ennemi a désormais plus d'un visage ! Cernées de toutes parts, les quatres Effigies ne peuvent alors compter que sur elles-même. Mais parviendront-elles à rester unies face aux fantômes de leur passé ? Avec ce deuxième tome, Sarah Raughley ne laisse pas une minute de répit à ses héroïnes et nous entraîne encore davantage dans son univers peuplé de personnages et de créatures aussi mystérieux qu'effrayants.
11/2017
Non classé
Brides on Sale
Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them "Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group". This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman "marries out" of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should "marry down" to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in women's educational and career opportunities. How these relationships are formed, how they impact gendered understandings of women and men, how families are constituted and relationships developed, and how they affect the children of these families and their education, are the issues explored in this book. It breaks new ground in our understanding of transnational and cross-border marriages by looking at the long-term effects of such marriages on communities, families, and individuals.
04/2015
Arts divinatoires
Antidote magique. L'Oracle des soeurs Chaudron
48 cartes magiques pour guérir les tourments de l'âme ! ABRACADABRA, sorcière es-tu là ? Depuis l'enfance, nous avons été conditionnés à identifier négativement tout ce qui se rapporte à la sorcellerie et aux rituels de magie. Il n'en fallut pas plus pour motiver deux sorcières modernes à tordre définitivement le cou à ce vieux cadre de référence poussiéreux... Allez oust, du balai ! Dans ce magnifique coffret, tu trouveras 48 cartes finement ornementées de motifs magiques, fidèles au style " witchy " des soeurs chaudron. Véritable conseiller de l'âme, cet oracle intuitif t'aidera à affronter les obstacles et les soucis du quotidien. Utilise-le pour te rassurer, guérir les maux de ton coeur, tes peurs, mais aussi pour calmer ton mental et t'apporter des conseils bienveillants. A chaque problème, tu recevras une guidance éclairée à travers la magie des messages. Au fil de la pratique, tu pourras constater à quel point ces cartes guérisseuses sont un antidote puissant à tous les tourments.
06/2023
Non classé
The Blue Headscarf
On Friday, November 24, 1944 in Cologne, Private Robert Bradley, posted as a scout from the Sixteenth Corps, Third US Army, Twelfth American Army Group, submachine gun in hand, his ears pricked and his eyes alert, discovered the dislocated body of what seemed to be a girl, her waist fixed flat by a wide leather belt to an upside down bed, lying across it, her head thrown back and her arms dangling. Motionless, with hollow eyes. On the first day of the year 2005, there was an unpleasant surprise in store for the inhabitants of the peaceful Provençal village of Les Valats. In one of the houses, the first rays of bright, cold sunshine came in through the southern skylight and lit the living room wall where the blurred and grey shadow of a body was swinging. Alternating between the history of Ukraine and the landscapes of Provence as backdrop, the authors invite the reader to delve into an intriguing destiny where local anecdotes are blended with authentic events, right to the tormented depths of their characters. In this narrative ride through space and time, is it possible to determine who the culprits are the victims of ?
01/2020
Anglais apprentissage
A multitude of Sins. Richard Ford
A sequel to Rock Springs and Women with Men, the collection of short stories entitled A Multitude of Sins was published in 2001 and immediately achieved worldwide recognition. If this series of ten short stories seems to feature adultery, it would be a major mistake to believe that the stories can be reduced to what is actually a side issue or a pretext to something else, sometimes of much greater importance. As often with great writers, Richard Ford tackles several other topics along with the sin of unfaithfulness which is a base camp from which to go further up into the knowledge of human deficiency, lack and want. Pondering these sins, Richard Ford lays them all bare while often unveiling the issue of the story right from the beginning, instead of cautiously preserving it as a last chance literary trick to pull it off at the fast moment. Showing insight through observation, his writing is deceptive in as much as it seems natural and easygoing when it requires close analysis and several successive readings to yield up its literary and humane secrets. The comparison some critics have made to Chekhov is not overblown and Agregation students, certainly among the most perceptive readers in the world, should naturally enjoy both reading and studying A Multitude of Sins, pleasure and scholarship being complementary, not antagonistic. The exclusive interview of Richard Ford at the end of the book will certainly be appreciated by Agregation students, who will thus be able to finish off their knowledge of Ford's works.
11/2007
Histoire internationale
After The Last Ship
After the Last Ship illustrates the author's own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of ‘mixed race'. She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal in the 1960's and 1970's and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia. Further, the author shows the devastation that labels such as ‘half-caste', ‘canecos' and ‘monhe' can cause, when they eat at your flesh, your being, and your body. She sheds light on how identity and culture can serve as vehicles of empowerment, how experiences of belonging can germinate and take root post-diaspora.
04/2014
Romans policiers
The tears of the mysterious forest
At the start of the school year in Massata, Galia, an enticing young lady showed up in one of the university classes. Her homeric intelligence and her magical beauty would make her the focus, the subject of monologues and desire. Her allure enticed lecturers and mates, the brightest of the class included. They found her interesting and desirable but mysterious and reluctant about her life. The day before her birthday, the young lady decided to open up to the one she was already falling for. That night, something heart-rending happened.
12/2021
Sciences de la terre et de la
Theoretical Astrophysics. Volume 1, Astrophysical Processes
Graduate students and researchers in astrophysics and cosmology need a solid understanding of a wide range of physical processes. This clear and authoritative textbook has been designed to help them to develop the necessary toolkit of theory. Assuming only an undergraduate background in physics and no detailed knowledge of astronomy, this book guides the reader step by step through a comprehensive collection of fundamental theoretical topics. The book is modular in design, allowing the reader to pick and chose a selection of chapters, if necessary. It can be used alone, or in conjunction with the forthcoming accompanying two volumes (covering stars and stellar systems, and galaxies and cosmology, respectively). After reviewing the basics of dynamics, electromagnetic theory, and statistical physics, the book carefully develops a solid understanding of all the key concepts such as radiative processes, spectra, fluid mechanics, plasma physics and MHD, dynamics of gravitating systems, general relativity, and nuclear physics. Each topic is developed methodically from undergraduate basic physics. Throughout, the reader's understanding is developed and tested with carefully structured problems and helpful hints. This welcome volume provides graduate students with an indispensable introduction to and reference on all the physical processes they will need to successfully tackle cutting-edge research in astrophysics and cosmology.
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
Littérature française
Au fond du chaudron
Le Chaudron, banlieue de Saint Denis de la Réunion, qui traîne une réputation sulfureuse. Luderce y mène une existence solitaire qui le fait osciller entre révolte et apathie. Une circonstance malheureuse modifie. de fond en comble, le cours de sa vie. L'amour de Vanessa l'empêche de sombrer mais tout n'est pas si simple lorsqu'on est tiré à hue et à dia par la raison et l'extravagance.
06/2010
