Marana Tha
Extraits
Non classé
A linguistic picture of women's position in society
A discussion of English and Polish gender systems, generic words, forms of address, referring expressions and other topics, provides evidence that in these two languages males and females are not treated equally. The main concern of this book is linguistic sexism. The data indicate that speakers of both languages treat male as the norm, attribute less desirable qualities to the speech and behaviour of women, stereotype women more than men, or simply make women linguistically invisible members of society.
12/1986
Décoration
Stories and Reflections
Eminent tastemaker Axel Vervoordt recounts the pivotal moments in his life that formed the foundation of his guiding philosophy and signature aesthetic. Axel Vervoordt is one of the world's foremost tastemakers. Revered for his discerning eye in art and interior design through a career that has spanned more than fifty years, he is renowned for his captivating minimalist interiors. An iconic figure at the most prominent international art fairs and exhibitions, he incarnates a singular philosophy for how to live with style. In Stories and Reflections, Vervoordt recounts stories about the people who have influenced him most throughout his life - his family, friends, artists, colleagues, clients, and unforgettable mentors - in this memoir that is personal, funny, insightful, and permeated with humility, wisdom, and lessons learned. He reflects on the key moments in his life from childhood to the present - Rudolf Nureyev's visit to the Vervoordt's new castle, his youthful acquisition of a Magritte, discovering Japanese Gutai art, his legendary Venice exhibitions, and insights gained from artists such as Cy Twombly, Anish Kapoor, and musician Mstislav Rostropovich. He details his greatest successes, as well as his personal regrets, while offering first-hand insight into the work that has forged his reputation. A larger-than-life and inspiring man, this book offers snapshots from his life, which paint an overall portrait of his guiding philosophy.
12/2017
Beaux arts
George Stubbs. "All done from Nature"
George Stubbs (1724-1806) produced exceptional images of animals and people throughout his career. These were a product of his keen scientific eye and uncommon sense of compassion. Rather than trust to history and the untested example of his precursors, he championed doing as a way of thinking and deployed picture-making in pursuit of reality. On the title page of The Anatomy of the Horse, his groundbreaking publication that rewrote our understanding of equine biology, Stubbs confirmed that everything that followed was "all done from Nature" - meaning that it all derived from his own painstaking analysis of the subject in front of him. This book accompanies a major exhibition of Stubbs's work at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes and the Mauritshuis in The Hague and includes new writing on the artist by Nicholas Clee, Martin Myrone, Martin Postle, Roger Robinson, Jenny Uglow and Alison E. Wright.
11/2019
Référence
Geneva - Five Centuries of Hospitality
This book does not aim at documenting, in a rigorous way, the history of a number of people having participated in the international influence of Geneva. Its intention is to offer a look - somewhat more light-hearted than scientific - upon the lives of these people ; hence showing that Geneva's identity is indebted to a multitude of foreigners, refugees, exiles or immigrants who, with their skills, talents and strengths, have worked to make this city the place of tolerance, openness and peace that it is today.
09/2021
Non classé
Papers on Semantics and Grammar
The six revised papers collected here - two have been translated into English - address in their different ways questions relating to grammatical meaning (both semantics and pragmatics) and the analysis of constructions. Though they cover a period of about 10 years, they can be said to share a view of linguistic analysis that is holistic rather than modular and descriptive rather than generative. The topics discussed are : the semantics and pragmatics of get-passives ; the semantics of epistemic modality ; the status, function and analysis of participial and gerundial -ing constructions ; four controversies in the analysis of modality and modal auxiliaries ; the functional classification of adverbials and the pragmatics of their position ; the semantics and pragmatics of prepositional phrases with for.
01/1993
Non classé
The Connection between Base Structure and Linearization Restrictions in German and Dutch
Recently, generative linguists have been concentrating on underlying principles of grammar rather than dealing with the connection between surface data and base structure. This book is an attempt to establish that connection by writing a grammar of the German and Dutch sentence. Moreover, it stresses the value of the Topological Fields Theory as a "prefiguration" of later transformational analyses.
12/1986
Littérature française
Je t'aime affreusement. Lettre fictive d'Ariadna Efron à sa mère, Marina Tsvetaeva Suivi de Lettres inédites de Marina Tsvetaeva et Le fil d'Ariane
Si Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) compte aujourd'hui parmi les grands poètes russes du XXe siècle, on le doit au destin et au tempérament hors du commun de sa fille, Ariadna Efron (1912-1975), seule survivante d'une famille broyée par la Terreur stalinienne. Après seize ans de Goulag, elle consacre les vingt dernières années de son existence à faire publier l'oeuvre de Marina. La " fille prodige " deviendra le premier éditeur de sa mère. Je t'aime affreusement est une lettre fictive qu'Ariadna aurait pu écrire, depuis le premier jour de sa libération, en 1955, jusqu'à sa mort, en 1975. Une lettre d'outre-tombe adressée à celle qui est morte depuis longtemps pour lui dire ce qu'elle n'a jamais su : les sentiments qu'elle, Alia, a éprouvés auprès d'une mère à la personnalité excentrique et exaltée, qui lui a transmis le meilleur et le pire, le goût de la littérature et la condamnation à l'exil. Une lettre où elle laisserait enfin éclater sa colère, face à l'injustice, face au sacrifice d'une vie vouée à ce seul devoir : sauver de l'oubli la poésie de Marina Tsvetaeva. Pour y dire aussi l'impuissance, le pardon, et le mystère d'un père absent. Pour faire entendre la voix de cette fillette aux grands yeux bleus, qui a vécu à l'ombre de sa mère, à l'ombre de l'histoire.
03/2019
Disques et K7 Littérature
Les ombres du désert. Une enquête de Makana, 1 CD audio MP3
Début 2002, peu après le 11 Septembre. Alors que les Israéliens assiègent Ramallah, une forte tension agite les rues du Caire, où Makana file tant bien que mal la Bentley de Maître Ragab, que sa femme pressent d'adultère. En réalité, l'avocat va voir sa protégée, Karima, une jeune fille gravement brûlée dans l'incendie de son domicile. La police croit à un accident, il soupçonne un crime d'honneur commis par le père de la victime, un djihadiste en cavale. Makana se rend à Siwa, oasis à la lisière du désert libyen, pour se renseigner sur la famille de Karima, mais il s'y heurte à l'hostilité des autorités, qui appliquent la loi à leur manière et se méfient des étrangers. Pire, il est accusé de deux meurtres barbares qui l'éclairent sur une donnée majeure de l'équilibre local : la présence de gisements de gaz... A travers le personnage d'une femme membre de l'Association pour la protection des droits des Egyptiennes, la série "Makana" s'enrichit d'une nouvelle perspective : la condition des femmes et l'islam.
12/2019
Sociologie politique
Où va le bloc bourgeois ?. Entretiens avec Amélie Jeammet et Marina Simonin
Dans ce livre d'entretiens, Bruno Amable et Stefano Palombarini, économistes et auteurs de L'Illusion du bloc bourgeois (Raisons d'agir, 2017), reviennent sur les hypothèses qu'ils formulaient sur la configuration sociale et politique singulière qui rendait possible l'élection de Macron en 2017 et les confrontent à la réalité de son quinquennat. A partir des résultats des élections de 2022, ils analysent les contradictions du bloc bourgeois et sa reconfiguration en un "bloc de droite 2. 0" , néolibéral et autoritaire, décortiquent les reconfigurations à l'oeuvre à droite et à gauche et s'interrogent sur les conditions d'émergence d'une "gauche de rupture" susceptible d'être majoritaire et de batailler l'hégémonie au projet néolibéral.
10/2022
Religion
Glasgow Urban Writing and Postmodernism
Alasdair Gray is one of the most innovative and imaginative writers to have appeared on the Scottish literary scene for many years. Gray radically challenges the vision of Glasgow and Scotland as defined by the traditional Glasgow novel. This study first looks back into the past of Glasgow writing to locate some specific novelistic models which Gray echoes in his fiction. The main part of the study then illustrates that Gray's literary attitude of looking beyond Glasgow (or Scotland) is much more helpful in "imagining Glasgow" than to follow the established and trodden paths of Scottish urban writing. In this sense, Gray proves that the narrative techniques characteristic of postmodernist writing are not only helpful in expressing the often quoted Scottish experience of fragmentation, but also in overcoming the artistic stalemate of the Glasgow novel.
04/1991
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
Ethnologie
Glimpses of african cultures. Echos des cultures africaines, Edition bilingue français-anglais
This book covers various aspects of African traditional cultures that include: communication, marriage ceremonies, funerals, traditional rites, witchcraft, traditional cultural activities, and traditional beliefs. It will undoubtedly appeal to anyone who wants to understand better our African cultures. The reading of some of the stories will certainly raise existential questions about the nature of spirits, truth, and the place of God in the collective mind of the Africans. Some of the questions are the following: how is it possible that a human being has his double in an animal known as his totem ? How corne that, for people who do not believe in reincarnation, it is the chief who determines the future of the soul of the deceased ? In "Mourning habits in the West province of Cameroon," it appears that, if the soul is not taken care of, it will cause physical havoc in the society. Could there be a link between our souls and the physical elements of nature ? Is skull worshiping among the Bamileke merely a traditional practice or are they really able to communicate with their ancestors through the skulls ? What has led the Aghem people to firmly believe that lakes can physically move, that the dead live in their lakes, that children live in their pre-human state as caterpillars and may transform into reptiles when they are still babies ? What makes it possible for the human mind to communicate with animais, exchange messages as is shown in "How animais and things can speak and communicate in the Yambassa culture" ? Apart from the physical world as we know it, could there truly be a spiritual world that witches and wizards have access to and which system of values could this spiritual world be subjected to ? Every single paper of the more than 80 papers and squibs this book comprises is truly an invitation to explore further the untapped richness of African cultures.
04/2011
Comics
The Little Book of Iron Man. Edition français-anglais-allemand
He made his debut in 1963, in Tales of Suspense No. 39, wearing a cumbersome gray exoskeleton that looked more like a robot than a man. After a re-design, he became an integral member of the Avengers, and he fought evil at every turn ... as well as intense personal demons. More than fifty years and countless comics adventures later, Iron Man became a box-office smash, and one of the most popular super heroes in the world. With 192 pages of images, and text by Roy Thomas, The Little Book of Iron Man will be your favorite guide to comics' greatest armored hero !© MARVEL
06/2018
Non classé
The Secret of Sounding Native
Proclitics have traditionally been considered either as erratic sloppiness of articulation or as morphologically determined weak forms. It could be shown that the reduction typical of the unstressed position preceding a nucleus is highly regular and further-reaching than so far assumed. A multi-dimensional model of phonology analyzes the proclitic position as a subsystem of the phonology of English with its own inventory of distinctive units and its characteristic dynamic processes of reduction.
12/1985
Philosophie
Food and Agricultural Policies under Structural Adjustment
After more than a decade of experience with structural adjustment programs, the Hohenheim-Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists "Food and Agricultural Policies under Structural Adjustment" brought together researchers and development experts to exchange research results and experiences ; to explore alternative approaches that might be more effective for growth, institutional development and welfare ; and to draw conclusions for food and agricultural policy design. The book consistently emphasizes that appart from agricultural prices non-price factors constitute in many countries the binding constraints to better agricultural performance. Improvements are needed in education, health, social services, transport and rural support institutions. Alleviating such constraints are longterm processes, and success cannot be expected overnight. At the same time, immediate actions are needed to protect the poor against negative effects of structural adjustment measures.
04/1994
Non classé
Race and Realpolitik
German colonisation in Samoa from 1900 to 1914 was characterised by the interplay of conflicting definitions of race. The central question this study asks is to what extent, and in which ways, ideologies of race shaped German colonial policy in Samoa. It analyses the administration's paternalist development policies, debates over white settlement, the introduction and treatment of indentured labourers, and the legal classification of mixed marriages and half-castes. The author argues that rather than uniting the colonising community in a racist mission of domination, racial thought amplified the fissures in German Samoa's population and supported the administration's Realpolitik.
06/2002
Décoration
Traditional Textiles of Central Asia. Edition en langue anglaise
No region has a textile tradition more vivid and romantic than that of Central Asia. This book provides a spectacularly illustrated survey of these textiles, displaying in more than 200 colour plates the opulent silks and velvets, the exquisite embroideries, the magnificent felts and woollen fabrics, and the fine cotton weaves produced throughout the area - in the workshops of the oasis towns of the Silk Route, the houses of the smaller villages and towns, and in the nomads' tents and on their outdoor looms.
Janet Harvey describes the decorative motifs, the materials, dyes and looms ; the types of objects made and their diverse regional and tribal variations ; the clothes and costumes ; and the lavish embroideries and embellishments. A valuable source of information for designers and students, collectors and travellers, the book includes a glossary, a bibliography and a list of collections.
Janet Harvey has travelled extensively in Central Asia, studying at first hand the making and uses of the textiles to central to the lifestyle of the region.
01/1997
Littérature française
Handicapped
The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.
10/2020
Spiritisme
Orion Recall - Version anglaise
"Greetings, beloved peoples of the One. Welcome to the sacred and consecrated space from which I now address you : the space where the 12 An Master Crystals of Orion reside. The time has come for you to remember who you are and learn about your galactic heritage. Many of you have fought in the great wars that began on Orion. That's why you need to learn the truth-so you can free yourselves from the past and turn your full attention to the Plan that brought you here to this planet called Earth. These Memoirs will help you understand". Are you one of the volunteers living on this magnificent planet working to bring an end to the great conflicts between the evolved and devolved forces-conflicts that originated in Orion's solar systems and converged to Earth millenniums ago ? Find out how it all began, from when a Messenger from the 24 Elders first gave instructions to the High Council of Sirius to the moment when Plan Earth Rising was put into action. The path you take matters now more than ever because your conscious choices determine how your individual and collective solar beings are integrated. This integration is the key to activating your beloved planet as one of the twelve galactic libraries, the one on which everything depends. This book is a summons to the volunteer souls : Remember Mintaka. Remember the reason you are here at the start of a major new evolutionary cycle-for your sphere of life and for the entire Galactic Federation.
10/2022
Pédagogie
Mon Bullet Agenda de professeur des écoles. Edition 2021-2022
Le carnet parfait pour vous accompagner au quotidien et tout compiler : vos idées, vos envies, vos to-do listes de la semaine, mais aussi le suivi des 108 heures, la check-list administrative... Entièrement personnalisable, agrémenté de jolis stickers, il vous fait gagner un temps précieux et vous aide à : Gérer sans stress votre quotidien ; Planifier vos projets peur l'école et vos projets perso ; Organiser vos idées et gagner du temps. Une mine de bons conseils et d'astuces de Marina pour vous aider à penser votre année, organiser l'espace classe, créer des défis et des pauses actives, motiver vos élèves... tout en gardant du temps peur vous.
Pédagogie
Mon planner de professeur des écoles. Edition 2020-2021
Le 1er Teacher Planner, spécialement conçu pour les Professeurs des écoles : à la fois un cahier journal + un outil de suivi personnalisé des élèves et une aide à la gestion administrative ! Un véritable cahier de bord, joliment illustré, pour planifier votre quotidien en classe : - Toutes les infos pratiques sur votre école et l'équipe pédagogique avec un mémo pour le remplaçant - Des pages pour vous repérer dans les plannings des intervenants extérieurs mais aussi des emplois du temps à remplir - Un calendrier annuel et les calendriers mensuels avec deux doubles-pages par mois pour noter vos objectifs, vos priorités et les dates à ne pas oublier - Un cahier journal avec une double-page par semaine pour préparer toutes vos séances de l'année, jour par jour et domaine par domaine -Le suivi des élèves : toutes les compétences du socle commun codées pour les trois cycles - des tableaux pour évaluer les compétences de chaque élève et vous aider à remplir les LSU - une page par élève pour y noter vos observations tout au long de l'année - une aide au suivi des élèves à besoins éducatifs particuliers - La gestion administrative de la classe : le suivi des 108 heures avec des pages de notes pour les comptes-rendus de conseils (conseils d'école, de maîtres, de cycle), le planning des APC, le suivi de vos rendez-vous avec les parents d'élèves, des pages de notes pour les animations pédagogiques... Le tout agrémenté des conseils précieux de Marina pour vivre une année sereine !
Pédagogie
Mon planner de professeur des écoles. Edition 2023-2024
Conçu pour vous, par Marina, voici le planner le plus pratique pour organiser votre année scolaire 2023-2024. Véritable classeur, il vous offre tout le cadre pour structurer votre année et toute la liberté pour y ajouter les documents de votre choix. Cet outil est pour vous et s'adapte à vous ! Vous le complétez à la main ? Tous les espaces dédiés à l'écriture ont été calculés pour vous laisser la place nécessaire. Vous préférez le rédiger sur ordinateur ? Flashez le code proposé à l'intérieur et téléchargez une trame adaptée au planner. Sortez une feuille du classeur et glissez-la dans votre imprimante. Le tour est joué ! Marina a tout prévu pour faciliter votre quotidien en classe et mettre de la couleur dans votre année ! Toutes les infos pratiques sur votre école et l'équipe pédagogique. Un calendrier annuel et les calendriers mensuels, aisément repérables grâce aux intercalaires joliment illustrés, pour noter vos objectifs, vos priorités et les dates à ne pas oublier. L'incontournable cahier journal, avec une double-page par semaine, pour préparer toutes vos séances de l'année, domaine par domaine et heure par heure. Le suivi des élèves avec : toutes les compétences du socle commun codées par cycle (une couleur par cycle) pour un gain de temps précieux. des tableaux pour évaluer les compétences de chaque élève et vous aider à remplir les LSU. une page par élève pour y noter vos observations et une aide au suivi des élèves à besoins éducatifs particuliers. La gestion administrative de la classe : le suivi des 108 heures, des pages de notes pour les réunions (conseils d'école, de maîtres, de cycle), votre planning des animations pédagogiques... Que vous soyez professeur des écoles en maternelle ou élémentaire (ou par cycle) les précieux conseils de Marina vous accompagneront pour relever les défis de l'année scolaire en toute sérénité ! Pour vous aider à vous réinventer et à vous organiser cette année encore, Marina vous a réservé de nombreuses nouveautés : - une double page de suivi des 108 heures, - des pages pour vous aider à construire vos progressions et programmations, - des pages où inscrire les oeuvres lues, écoutées ou chantées, - une jolie double-page mémo anniversaire à photocopier et à afficher dans votre classe, et bien d'autres choses encore... Et tous les mois, Marina vous fait bénéficier des approches pédagogiques qu'elle a pu tester en classe : enseignement explicite, classe flexible, classe dehors, etc. Au verso de chaque intercalaire, sont présentés les avantages de ces pratiques et les conseils pour les mettre en place. Professeure des écoles et maître-formatrice, Marina est aussi blogueuse et instagrameuse (@maisquefaitlamaitresse) et l'auteure de Mon Bullet agenda de Professeur des écoles. Elle a créé l'outil dont elle rêvait pour faciliter son quotidien de maîtresse.
05/2023
Théâtre
Impossible lovers
CLAIRE is in charge of a jewelry store. FRANK is a small time hood. A jeweler, who dreams of prince charming, holds up as hostage the man who attempted to break her jewelry. CLAIRE, head of jewelry who has just been let down by a lover she hardly knew, believes that work is her one and only way out. Disappointed, despite the late hour, and after a few drinks, she returns to her jewelry, breaking a store policy, she has disabled security and the guards by pretending that she wants to take advantage of the quiet of the night to update her work. At the same moment, a young ex-con who just got thrown out of a bistro and is passing in front of the jewelry store and decides to break in. Rather than call the police or security, CLAIRE let him in.
02/2013
Monographies
Hardy's Wessex. The landscapes that inspired a writer
This fascinating book tells the story of Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Accompanying a multi-venue exhibition, it explores Hardy's life and work. Internationally-acclaimed writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is best known for his evocative depictions of the West Country landscape and its people, a region that he called 'Wessex'. What is less well-known is that this landscape also inspired him in many other aspects of his life, from campaigning for animal welfare to questioning the way society viewed women. This publication accompanies a blockbuster, multi-venue exhibition of the largest collection of Thomas Hardy memorabilia ever to be displayed at once. Hardy was born in the West Country, a few years after Queen Victoria came to the throne, and spent most of the rest of his life among its landscapes and people. When he turned writer, these landscapes and people re-emerged as his 'partly-real, partlydream country' of Wessex, in novels like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure. 'Hardy's Wessex' now conjures up a range of mental images : from raging seas on the coast to haunting ancient monuments, Victorian towns packed with life to peaceful hillsides grazed by sheep. However, through Hardy's 87-year life span, the West Country changed dramatically. Ideas of the role of women, humans' responsibility to animals, the realities of war, love and courtship, superstition, social structure, religion and how people related to the world around them altered fundamentally. Through his stories and campaigning, Hardy was keen to show not only the rural idyll, but also the tensions and diffi culties that lay beneath these views. These dramatic landscapes were the lens through which Hardy presented his worldview to his readership. From the tragedy of a woman saying farewell to her sailorlover on the end of Portland Bill, to a shepherd losing his flock and facing ultimate ruin on the chalky hills. The landscapes shape his characters, whose stories in turn convey his messages of social change to his readers. This publication will explore the impact that Wessex had on Hardy's works, and how living there shaped his views on the often divisive social issues of the period. Uniting beautiful landscape imagery with a selection of personal items from Hardy's life, this book will show you the man behind the literature.
06/2022
Philosophie
Reading Life / Writing Fiction
Studies of the American novel of the 20s and 30s have tended to concentrate either on works by men (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck), or on those written in the tradition of experimental modernism (Stein, Faulkner, Djuna Barnes). Based on the conviction that women writers of the period fictionalized their own private and public experiences and concerns, the present study offers an analytical introduction to some hundred novels by more than thirty writers. Its aim is to recover a significant corpus of forgotten or ignored texts, which will make a reconsideration of the centers of interest of American modernism unavoidable.
01/1994
Religion
The Rural Novel
Comparative in scope and theoretical rather than historical in approach, this study develops new methods for discussion of the rural novel, combining the insights of rural sociologists with those of theoreticians of fiction. The main focus of attention is the nexus of relationships between narrator, characters and community. While recognizing that conflicts of purpose often arise in the rural novel, which may aim both to record a supposedly real community and to suggest a model of social life, this study reaffirms the genre's value as a challenge to unthinking acceptance of a linear model of human progress.
12/1984
Ecrits sur l'art
Family Portraits. Children in Impressionist Art
The impressionist masters were known for their close relationships ; peers, family, art dealers, and patrons all featured regularly in their artworks, and children were favored subjects. All aspects of childhood and family life at the end of the nineteenth century-motherhood, nannies, education, games, pets, adolescence-were depicted in the works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, and others. Drawing an intimate portrait of the everyday lives of these artists and their families, this volume includes more than one hundred paintings, drawings, and sculptures alongside family photographs, juxtaposed with more contemporary photographic works that demonstrate the vibrant legacy of the impressionists.
04/2024
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
Agriculture
Biodiversity and strategy.. Subtle equilibriums
Biodiversity conservation calls for a revolutionary approach to our relationship with nature and the living world. But it also requires completely rethinking the way we develop international policies and strategies. While these instruments must deal with a highly complex reality, they are too often viewed as simple action plans. Measures and initiatives that are focused on mainly technical solutions eventually result in unfortunate setbacks when the often unpredictable and ever-changing dynamics of life come into play. The United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) was held in 2022, and despite the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, it failed to produce a truly innovative approach to international 'strategy'. It is therefore more necessary than ever to reconsider the official diagnosis that underpins international action. Although certainly difficult, this can be done by mobilising a wide range of expertise from different scientific communities. Drawing on numerous examples and a wealth of research from the humanities, social sciences and conservation sciences, this book offers a profoundly renewed strategic diagnosis as well as levers for activating regenerative processes to benefit the living world.
12/2023
Monographies
Karl. No Regrets
The artist Patrick Hourcade met Karl Lagerfeld in 1976, initiating a friendship that would last more than twenty years, nourished by a shared passion for the arts of the eighteenth century. Patrick Hourcade tells us the story of this aesthetic meeting of minds. Together they would construct a magnificent world of refinement and luxury-at times bordering on the extravagant-from the Château de Grand-Champ in Brittany to the Hôtel Pozzo di Borgo in Paris and villa La Vigie on the Côte d'Azur. Drawing on unpublished photographs and documents, the author paints an intimate portrait of Karl Lagerfeld, both shadow and light. He gives us a unique and singular perspective, populated by the exceptional personalities who accompanied the great couturier throughout his life.
10/2021
