Magus of the library Tome 1
Extraits
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
Monographies
Andrea Sacchi and Cardinal del Monte. The Rediscovered Frescoes in the Palazzo di Ripetta in Rome
This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book presents for the first time the rediscovered frescoes painted by Andrea Sacchi (1599-1661) for the loggia of Cardinal del Monte's Roman palace near via di Ripetta, Rome. Considered lost by generations of scholars, Andrea Sacchi's fresco cycle has survived in a private apartment in Rome. Largely unpublished and rarely mentioned in recent literature, the frescoes underwent a revelatory restoration in 2010-11. For the past three years, the author was granted exclusive access to study them thoroughly - resulting in this monograph. Accompanied by beautiful and full photographic documentation, this study aims to compare the painted images with the detailed description given by the biographer Giovan Pietro Bellori ; to shed light on the iconography and style, above all with respect to the sources used ; and to integrate this key commission within Sacchi's early career. The cycle's iconography is explored with careful verification of early sources that now allows us to resolve some particularly complex problems of interpretation - above all those relating to alchemy. Cardinal del Monte's Palazzo di Ripetta housed a fully equipped pharmacological laboratory. Research on this cycle of frescoes has also made it possible to discover new archival evidence regarding Sacchi's date and place of birth.
08/2022
Non classé
A Life of Her Own
This study reconstructs Brittain's feminist theory, which mainly refutes assumptions made about women, supports companionate marriage, and demands the communal reorganization of child care and domestic work to enable a married woman to work outside her home. It compares her theory to her five novels. Doing so, it uncovers revealing feminist 'flaws', above all that marriage remains, the sine qua non for a woman's happiness. The study describes Brittain's way to the top as a formidable obstacle race, in which she constantly had to fight the men she loved, her children, her parents, and resulting domesticity in order to find time to write "the book of the decade". She reached her goal with the publication of Testament of Youth in 1933.
11/1996
Shonen/garçon
Magu, God of Destruction Tome 2
Depuis que Ruru vit avec Magu, ancien dieu de la destruction récemment libéré après des siècles d'emprisonnement dans une pierre sacrée, son quotidien est beaucoup plus animé ! Entre Naptaakh le corrupteur éternel rival malheureux de Magu, et Izuma, le chevalier saint investi de la mission de pourfendre les dieux du chaos, la jeune fille n'a pas une minute de repos. Surtout que son dieu de la destruction apprivoisé s'est maintenant mis en tête de l'accompagner au collège...
11/2023
Religion
Tracing the Evidence
Tracing the Evidence : Dinah in Post-Hebrew Bible Literature examines the post-biblical literary developments of Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob. According to Genesis 34, Dinah was sexually violated by Shechem ; however, there are gaps in the biblical narrative and little written about what happened to her after the fateful time. Tracing the Evidence considers how post-Hebrew Bible traditions have filled in some of those gaps. Some traditions give more information about her day-to-day life, how old she was when Shechem met her, and various details about her subsequent marriage(s) and children.
04/2008
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
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
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
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
Littérature érotique et sentim
The Price of Life Tome 1 : Dilemma
Elsa vient d'accoucher à l'hôpital de Saint Brieux lès épines. Alors qu'elle attend son amie, un inconnu la supplie de l'embrasser. Il n'en faut pas moins pour que sa vie bascule. Et que celle du multimilliardaire, Loïc Legrand, prenne une autre dimension en embrassant la petite rouquine assise sur le banc. En voulant écarter son ennemie jurée, Juliette Brignard, journaliste du magazine Satisfaction, il déclenchera sans le savoir une cascade de catastrophes. A cause de son impulsivité et de sa tendance au mensonge, Loïc ne mesurera pas les conséquences d'une phrase dite à la légère. Il continuera sur la voie de la déchéance en sombrant dans d'alcool, le sexe illusoire, et les folies pécuniaires. A cela s'ajoutera l'ultime abjection : un marché sordide qu'il passera avec Elsa. Son fils s'est fait enlever, les ravisseurs exigent un million d'euros. La jeune mère sans emploi ne sait plus vers qui se tourner. Mais Loïc Legrand, le multimilliardaire, réapparaît comme magie en lui proposant un échange. Une nuit avec lui contre la somme demandée. L'amour s'invitera dans ce méli-mélo d'enquête policière, mais sera-t-il plus fort que le destin ? Sexe, argent, vengeance ou jalousie, ces sentiments amèneront nos héros à l'excès. Ils entraîneront avec eux leur entourage familial ainsi que leur cercle d'amis dans la tourmente. The price of life se range dans une catégorie à part, un monde de romance, d'érotisme et de suspense. Cette première partie vous livre un kaléidoscope des personnages.
02/2020
BD jeunesse
The Amazing World Of Gumball Tome 1
Les Watterson sont une famille comme les autres... enfin presque ! Ils sont gentils et serviables, mais ce sont de véritables catastrophes ambulantes ! Avec eux, chaque jour est une nouvelle aventure. Gumball, le fils aîné, est un jeune chat espiègle doté d'un optimisme à toute épreuve. Du haut de ses quatre ans, sa petite soeur Anaïs est un lapin de génie. Malheureusement, personne ne l'écoute puisque ce n'est encore qu'un "bébé". Et puis il y a Darwin, l'ancien poisson rouge de la famille, qui depuis qu'il a des bras et des jambes est devenu leur frère adoptif. Il est le meilleur ami de Gumball et l'accompagne dans toutes ses aventures. Avec Papa et Maman, tout ce petit monde habite dans la ville d'Elmore, un endroit un peu bizarre où des limaces poilues conduisent des voitures, des cactus arrosent leur jardin et des ballons attendent le bus scolaire avec leur copain patate. Bienvenue dans le monde incroyablement déjanté de Gumball !
08/2018
Shonen/garçon
In the Land of Leadale Tome 1
Réincarnée 200 ans plus tard dans le monde virtuel de Leadale ! Après avoir perdu la vie à la suite d'un terrible accident, Keina Kagami se réveille dans le corps d'une haute-elfe du nom de Cayna. Ce n'est autre que le personnage qu'elle s'était créé sur "Leadale", un jeu de rôle en réalité virtuelle auquel elle était souvent connectée. Mais il semblerait que 200 ans se soient écoulés depuis l'époque où elle jouait... Sa première quête consiste donc à comprendre ce qu'il s'est passé durant toutes ces années, et elle n'est pas au bout de ses surprises !
02/2022
Sonyun (shonen)
The druid of Seoul station Tome 1
La vie de Suho Park a basculé lorsqu'une catastrophe inconnue a frappé la Terre, le transportant sur une autre planète. Il apprend peu à peu à s'adapter et à se battre pour survivre dans ce monde étranger, mais un jour, il est miraculeusement ramené sur Terre. Il réalise que dix ans se sont écoulés et la Terre est maintenant en lutte permanente contre des monstres qui ont réussi à s'infiltrer.
06/2022
Manga
Tokyo Summer of the Dead Tome 1
Yû Someya, étudiant, donne des cours particuliers à Ikuse Minamori. Un matin, il est réveillé par un appel de son élève qui lui demande de lui venir en aide. C’est en sortant dans la rue qu’il comprend la détresse de la jeune femme : une horde de zombies s’est abattue sur Tokyo. Chaque personne mordue se transforme en zombie à son tour faisant ainsi enfler le nombre de menaces potentielles. Étant parvenus à se rejoindre, ils doivent maintenant gagner les abris prévus pour la population. En route, ils prennent sous leur protection une collégienne, Sayo, laissant derrière les grand parents de la jeune fille. Submergés par les contaminés, Ikuse se retrouve séparée des deux autres. Retrouvez également dans ce volume deux histoires d’horreur en bonus !
06/2013
Manga
The Dungeon of Black Company Tome 1
Kinji est un NEET, soit un individu qui vit en dehors du système. Poussé par l'ambition de ne plus travailler et grâce à de gros efforts fournis dans le passé. il vit désormais de ses rentes et se délecte de voir les autres se tuer a la tâche. Mais un jour. pour une raison inconnue, il est soudainement transporté dans un autre monde peuplé de créatures humanoïdes. Il tombe entre les mains d'une entreprise traitant ses salariés comme des esclaves et les faisant travailler dans un labyrinthe magique comme mineurs. Des salaires misérables. des horaires de travail interminables et des conditions de vie ignobles... Remonté contre ces méthodes d'un autre âge. Kinji prépare la révolte ! "Si tu veux survivre. travaille à en crever !"
07/2018
Shonen/garçon
Reign of the Seven Spellblades Tome 1
Le printemps marque l'arrivée de la nouvelle génération de sorciers dans l'éminente académie de magie de Kimberly. Vêtu d'une robe noire, chaque élève porte à la ceinture une baguette blanche ainsi qu'une épée. Chacun est nerveux à l'idée de devoir faire ses preuves... Pourtant, l'école accueille chaleureusement ses nouveaux venus sous les fleurs, les amitiés naissent et un incroyable défilé de créatures fantastiques est organisé ! Mais en vérité, cette académie est le théâtre de moult périls et le cursus n'offre aucune garantie de survie à ses élèves... Oliver Horn et ses camarades pourront-ils achever leur apprentissage indemnes ?
03/2023
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Revenge of the dragon Tome 1 : Wolfgang
Depuis bientôt deux décennies, la haine et la vengeance coulent dans les veines de Wolfgang, le président des Drachenblut, un clan de bikers de la belle ville de Jever, en Allemagne. Alors qu'il avait pris l'habitude de se rendre dans un motel tous les lundis pour y profiter de la sensuelle compagnie de Sky, une inconnue dont il ne connaissait que les courbes et le charme, tous ses desseins se retrouvent bouleversés lorsqu'il apprend que cette même fille est la régulière de Falko. Ce dernier est le président du club très influent des Stahlgriff, et Wolfgang est sur le point de concrétiser son projet de s'allier avec lui. Rien ne se mettra en travers de son chemin pour accomplir la vengeance qui le hante tant. Mais pour ce faire, il doit dire adieu à cette femme téméraire et impétueuse qui lui fait tourner la tête comme aucune autre auparavant... Ce livre est une dark romance qui n'entre pas dans les codes de la romance classique : romance y rime avec violence, et certaines scènes peuvent surprendre les lectrices non averties
04/2023
Seinen/Homme
Nyaight of the Living Cat Tome 1
" L'humanité ne peut plus se permettre d'éprouver de l'affection pour les chats ! " Un terrible et mystérieux virus sévit et transforme peu à peu les derniers humains en boules de poils. Les quelques survivants se terrent pour échapper aux câlins de ces créatures effroyables... Parmi eux, Kunagi voit ses compagnons se métamorphoser au fur et à mesure, et tente de survivre à cette apocalypse féline. Mais son handicap n'est pas des moindres... Il adore les chats ! A travers Nyaight of the Living Cat, découvrez un manga de survie qui revisite avec humour la thématique du zombie. Les nombreuses références cinématographiques distillées par Hawkman sont sublimées par le trait texturé de Mecha-roots !
04/2023
Shonen/garçon
Conqueror of the Dying Kingdom Tome 1
Face à la guerre qui approche, le paisible éleveur d'oiseaux géants doit prendre son envol et affronter son destin ! Avant de se réincarner dans le royaume de Shiyalta, Yuri était un jeune homme seul et ayant perdu goût à la vie. Dans ce nouveau monde de fantasy, la vie de Yuri trouve enfin un sens : des parents aimants, et un avenir prometteur dans le ranch de son père, dédié à l'élevage d'oiseaux géants. Ces aigles rois sont destinés à servir de montures aux soldats d'une guerre certes lointaine, mais contre un envahisseur toujours plus pressant... Cependant, la gangrène se développe insidieusement au coeur du royaume et la guerre se rapproche de Yuri et de sa famille, irrémédiablement... Après la mort de son oncle, Yuri est convoqué par son clan... Un grand destin attend notre héros !
05/2023
Littérature française
Saint Shuddhananda Bharati A visionary
Foreword To my friend, to my guide, to the mahatma of my heart, to the visionary of a united world living in peace and harmony in the earthly paradise that God has given us. Life and destiny is like an iceberg ; most of us is hidden, and for some, this is the start of the long path of questioning... For souls that are searching, the time then comes when the seeker finds what is being sought : the precursor, the one that has opened the path, cleared it out and illuminated the way. Thus in the deepest part of our Selves, at the centre of our soul, Joythi, the Divine Light is revealed and works on meeting all those who seek it. Kavi Yogi Maharshi Shuddhananda Bharati was a scholar, linguist, scientist, seer poet, saint and the sage of the Cosmic Age. He was ever agile and active, writing, singing, doing good and observed silence for 30 continuous years. He was a universalist, who was not bound to caste, religion, colour and race or geographic bounds. He was an apostle of Sama Yoga, which seeks for a synthesis of science and yoga, West and East, the actual and the ideal in life. Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati is the author of creative and literary works with diverse writing styles : epic and lyric writings, melodramas, operas, comedies, pastoral theologies, novels, short stories, biographies, notes on famous works, essays. Bharata Shakti Kavi Malayam is his magnum opus. Editions ASSA, Christianananda Bharati
11/2013
Ecrits sur l'art
Daring French Explorations. Traiblazing Adventures around the World : 1714-1854
Daring French Explorations is an exceptional homage to adventure. Intrepid French mariners-including legendary explorers Lapérouse, Bougainville, and Dumont d'Urville, and unsung sailors La Barbinais, Pagès, and Roquefeuil-embark readers on sixteen voyages around the world from 1714 to 1854. A selection of firsthand accounts culled from their maritime travelogues recounts the trials and tribulations the explorers encountered as they charted new routes to remote territories. Their unfiltered observations on wide-ranging themes-from geopolitics and commerce to climate change and global cultures-resonate with contemporary issues. This handsome volume-featuring many previously unpublished illustrations, engravings, and maps-traces their extraordinary scientific, diplomatic, or commercial expeditions, which significantly marked the history of world exploration. Driven by a spirit of adventure and a passion for expeditions, inveterate collector Hubert Sagnières has drawn from his extensive library to curate this unprecedented introduction to the glory days of French naval history. Award-winning author Edward Duyker is a fellow at the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
02/2024
Archéologie
Fantastic Beasts in Antiquity. Looking for the monster, discovering the Human, Textes en français et anglais
Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented mysterious and intriguing creatures populating their world. During Antiquity, every culture had its own strange creatures, that mixed the forms of one or more animal, plant and human species in an infinite number of more-or-less fanciful combinations. Griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, pygmies, werewolves, winged monsters and unspeakable hybrids, fantastic beasts abound in the imagination of many populations throughout Antiquity. Most of them continue to live, sometimes transformed, through fairy tales, literature, movies and videogames. Faced with the abundance and variety of the ancient fantastic bestiary, the questions that come to mind are : Where do fantastic beasts come from ? How do they appear in different cultures ? What is their history, how did they survive until now ? And above all, what are fantastic beasts ? This book will explore these questions through the lens of archaeology, art history, philology and philosophy. The result is a hybrid book, precisely like the fantastic animals that constitute its object, a book which offers different approaches of analysis while being aware that our means are often vain to capture these elusive figures, which ultimately are more like us than they seem. Man, like Oedipus, will often prove to be more monstrous than the Sphinx...
02/2021
Non classé
Philip Freneau- Tomo Cheeki, the Creek Indian in Philadelphia
Philip Freneau (1752-1832) was one of the first Americans to gain wide recognition as a writer. He is generally remembered as the "father of American poetry," but his prose writings have not always received the attention they deserve. As the editor of three important papers in the late 18th century (The National Gazette. The Jersey Chronicle, and The Time-Piece and Literary Companion) and as a contributor to many others, Freneau produced a large number of political and literary essays. The "Tomo Cheeki Essays", which were published in 1795 and in 1797, constitute an excellent example of Freneau's prose work. These pseudo-autobiographical accounts of an Indian visiting a city of the Whites are based upon the model of the European "oriental tale," while simultaneously incorporating American subject matter. The essays are representative of a decisive period of American literary history, since they reveal both Freneau's indebtedness to European culture and his role in the process of overcoming this indebtedness in the beginning creation of an independent national literature. The present edition provides the first complete and separate modern collection of the essays, which gives the reader an opportunity to get acquainted with an important example of early American prose writing that has been virtually inaccessible up to now.
12/1987
Non classé
Living in Two Worlds
This is a study of Singapore pastors' worldview & understanding of the epidemiology, symptomatology and management of possession behaviour. The pastors' accounts are compared with those from the scientific disciplines, and convergences and divergences noted. Factors shaping both the pastors' and the scientific discourses are examined. The pastors are shown to respond to competing scientific paradigms by reinforcing their two-worlds worldview. They either live mainly in the other world, or in each world at a time, or between the two worlds. Based on theological reflection focusing on epistemology, theodicy & cosmology, the author shows that the paradigm of living in both worlds simultaneously is the most appropriate pastoral response. The theological vision of the coexisting worlds and the pastoral task of unmasking and resisting evil in all its varieties and depths are then discussed.
05/1994
Littérature érotique et sentim
The elements Tome 1 : The air he breathes
Tout le monde m'avait avertie au sujet de Tristan Cole. "Garde tes distances avec lui", me disait-on. "Il est cruel, il est froid, il est bousillé". C'est facile de juger un homme sur son passé. De regarder Tristan et de voir en lui un monstre. Mais je n'ai pas pu réagir de la sorte. J'ai reconnu la désolation qu'il portait parce qu'elle était comparable à celle qui m'habitait, et je l'ai acceptée. Lui et moi, nous étions des coquilles vides. Nous étions tous deux à la recherche d'autre chose. De quelque chose de plus. Nous voulions tous deux recoller les morceaux éparpillés de nos passés respectifs. C'était peut-être la condition pour que nous puissions finalement réapprendre à respirer.
Histoire internationale
On the Border - The Otherness of God and the Multiplicity of the Religions
The Christian theology of religions at present faces a crisis. What precisely is the task of the theology of religions ? Does it merely consist in interpreting the non-Christian religions as steps, phases or contributions in the light of Christianity ? Has one from the theological side conceded the maximum to the non-Christian religions by acknowledging them as anonymous Christianity (Karl Rahner)? This study is an exploration on how one shall liberate the religion of the other from anonymity : how one shall leave the other with his/her own name. The model of thought employed in this study is gained through an analysis of the intercultural process of understanding, explained with instances from Africa and South America.
01/1994
Monographies
Venice. A Private Invitation
Venice of a thousand reflections ; Venice of mirror and glass, of silk and gold ; Venice of light and lace, of transparency and porcelain. With her expert knowledge and insight, Servane Giol takes us to the heart of the Venetian art de vivre, a warm and private invitation to meet some of the most creative people living in the city today. Accompanying us into historic private palazzi as well as more recently restored houses and apartments, she introduces us to a new generation of artists and designers who are attracted by the radiant beauty, energy, and lifestyle of the Serenissima-a charmed circle of talented friends who are bringing a fresh dynamism and elegance to the city, shining a new light on some of its rarest and most exquisite traditional crafts, and lovingly safeguarding them for future generations. This love letter to the hidden beauties of Venice and to the skills for which the city is famed is brilliantly complemented by the photography of Mattia Aquila. It offers both a revelation and an everlasting memory for all those who will never forget their dazzling first sight of the domes, the campaniles, and the shimmering golden silence of this legendary city that floats between sea and sky.
09/2022
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
Fantasy
Magnus, la rencontre. Tome 1
"Debout au milieu de nulle part, je me regarde et suis surpris de voir que je porte une sorte de scaphandre ou d'armure en alliage que j'ai du mal à décrire, ce que je peux dire, c'est qu'elle est sale, de la poussière mêlée à du sang séché je crois, et bien abîmée par de multiples impacts. A mes pieds, un casque hermétique, comme ceux que les motards portent, en plus sophistiqué je crois, ma main droite tient une arme que je ne connais pas, à ma gauche je tiens un étendard que j'ai du mal à décrire vu son état délabré, mais j'arrive à deviner ce symbole : [... ] J'ai peine à voir, ma vue se brouille, j'ai du mal à comprendre où je suis : un endroit que je ne reconnais pas. Que se passe-t-il ? " Né à Orléans en 1972, Matthias Quesada suit dès son adolescence les combats que mène sa mère, avocate, pour la défense des droits de l'Homme. C'est lors de son service militaire, en 1989, que l'auteur se livre à l'écriture de poèmes et de récits intimes. Le premier tome de Magnus, la rencontre s'inspire de son intérêt pour les sciences, l'archéologie, la géopolitique et l'ufologie.
02/2023
Art contemporain
Hassan Khan. Catalogue de l'exposition, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Tell me about clowns. Once upon a time, there was a species that thought they were better than everyone and everything else. What is the difference between a clown and a joker ? Sometimes they're one and the same. And the knife ? Some humans can be kind, surprising even, while others can act out of fear and negative emotions. Really ?
03/2022
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