Théo Kotenka
Extraits
Beaux arts
New worlds
"New Worlds" presents a selection of five outstanding nautical atlases known as portolan charts, or "portalans".These historic documents are the work of eminent scholars from Majorca, Lisbon, Le Havre, and Amsterdam. Cartographers by trade, and sometimes also skilled illuminators, they mapped what was the most probable imago mundi for their time, each exemplar crafting a fascinating visual chronicle. Jean-Yves Sarazin, head of Charts and Maps at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, scrutinizes thèse charts or atlases, and situates them in the great history of European discoveries and voyages from the early 14th to the late 17th century, from the Portuguese reconnaissance of the coasts of Africa, through the adventures of Columbus,Vespucci, and Magellan, to the Dutch voyages in the Pacific and Australia.The book's many colour reproductions are alive with picturesque details: camel caravans in the heart ofAsia, Portuguese andArab ships sailing in the Indian Ocean, wild beasts or chimaera, countless exotic plants, naval battles, and not least the frequent strangeness of the indigenous people.
10/2012
Développement durable-Ecologie
Native Land, Stop Eject. Edition en anglais
Created by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, the exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject proposes a dialogue between filmmaker Raymond Depardon and philosopher Paul Virilio on the notions of being rooted and uprooted today, an epoch in which human migration flows are taking place on an unprecedented scale. In his film Hear Them Speak, created with Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon gives a voice to those who wish to remain on their land but are threatened with exile. Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, and Ben Rubin give form to Paul Virilio's concepts in six dynamic maps which examine new trends in contemporary human movement due to environmental, political, and economic factors. The texts included here, published for the first time in the catalog Native Land, Stop Eject (Prix Nomad's 2009), offer a chance to explore the themes raised in the exhibition. Accompanied by exhibition views, they incite contemplation on the meaning of sedentariness and nomadism, as well as related questions of identity.
05/2010
Droit
Porosités du droit. Textes en français et anglais
Comment penser un monde juridique transnational sinon comme composé de droits poreux ? Nous avons recueilli les réflexions de juristes qui sont professeurs, avocats et chercheurs de nombre de pays. Ils nous offrent des idées tantôt théoriques et abstraites, tantôt pragmatiques et concrètes. Nous les avons laissés parler en anglais ou en français plutôt que de les traduire, estimant que la compréhension de l'autre commence par l'écoute de sa voix. / How can one conceive of global legal transnationalism except as constituted by legal porosity ? This book brings together the perspectives of lawyers who are professors, practitioners and researchers from numerous countries. They offer ideas, as the case may be, theoretical and abstract, or pragmatic and specific. They speak in French or English rather than in translation, so that we may listen to them in their own voices.
01/2021
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
Non classé
German-Irish Corporate Relationships
The book addresses the question of whether, in an age of internationalisation and globalisation, cultural differences are still relevant to German-Irish corporate relationships ? The first three chapters establish the theoretical framework for the analysis by exploring the notion of culture, profiling the business cultures of both countries, and examining existing approaches to the study of parent company-foreign subsidiary relationships. In the following three chapters, using interviews carried out with two sample groups (fifteen German parent companies and fourteen of their Irish operations ; seven Irish parent companies and nine of their German operations), the parent companies in both groups are examined to see whether they demonstrate characteristics which are in keeping with their national business cultures. Their foreign operations are then analysed as is the parent company-foreign subsidiary relationship to determine whether any parent company influences are visible. The general approaches adopted by the two groups of parent companies to their foreign operations are compared and contrasted. Finally differences in national attitudes and values are identified and their impact assessed.
02/2004
Ecrits sur l'art
Seeing loud. Basquiat and music
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, New York City was financially and socially bankrupt, but the art and music scene was flourishing. During these years, the downtown New York music scene - no wave, hip-hop, disco funk and club culture - shaped Jean-Michel Basquiat as both a musician and an artist. This catalog for a traveling exhibition explores how Basquiat's painting has parallels in his music (sampling, cut-up, rapping), and takes a new look at his production as a writer and a poet in light of his connections with the then-emerging hip-hop culture. This beautifully illustrated exhibition catalog of rarely seen photographs and images sheds new light on Basquiat as a musician, exploring how his art and music are related, and how they reflect on his identity as a Black artist in the United States, the downtown New York music scene, and contemporary culture.
08/2023
Religion
Legal Friction
Legal Friction : Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel tracks the mystery of narratives in the Hebrew Bible and their allusions to Sinai laws by highlighting intertextual allusions created by verbal resonances. While the second and the third parts of the volume illustrate allusions to Sinai narratives made by some narratives occurring in the post-Sinaitic era, twenty-three Genesis narratives are analyzed to show that the protagonists were bound by Sinai Laws before God supposedly gave them to Moses, anticipating the Book of Jubilees. Legal Friction suggests that most of Genesis was composed during or after the Babylonian exile, after the codification of most Sinai laws, which Genesis protagonists consistently violate. The fact that they are not punished for these violations implies to the exiles that the Sinai Covenant was unconditional. In addition, the author proposes that Genesis contains a hidden polemic, encouraging the Judean exiles to follow the revisions of laws of the Covenant Code by the Holiness Code and Deuteronomy. Genesis narratives, like those describing post-Sinai events, often cannot be understood properly without recognition of their allusions to biblical laws.
05/2010
Livres 0-3 ans
YAOUNDÉ BABA SCARED?....ME?....NO WAY!
YAOUNDE BABA SCARED ? ... ME ? ... NO WAY ! YAOUNDE goes off in search of his little goat, BEEE, who, in spite of the young boy's watchful eye, has gone missing. On the way he meets ZOULÏA, a friendly mouse, and ARWANE, a little ant, who help him to find the little goat. Their search will lead them to an isolated hill where a very strange creature lives - a creature capable of transforming itself into unimaginably frightening shapes and forms to scare away anybody who dares to set foot on its steep hill. In order to find BEEE, YAOUNDE and his two friends will have little choice. They will have to cross its territory and confront this incredible and terrifying creature. 6 to 10 Years.
10/2017
Littérature française
Théa
Trois heures du matin, VIIIe arrondissement de Paris, dans les années 1980. Le vin coule à flots, Duran Duran joue à fond. Sur la piste de danse, une bande de jeunes trotskistes se déchaîne… Parmi eux, Josèphe, la banlieusarde, la bêcheuse. Josèphe la cynique que jamais rien n'émeut. Jusqu'à ce qu'elle l'aperçoive, à l'autre bout de la pièce. Antoine, un Latino ténébreux, magnifique. Lui aussi la regarde. A peine le coup de foudre a-t-il eu lieu que déjà l'inconnu disparaît. C'est mauvais signe. Et pourtant, dès les premières minutes de leur rencontre, Josèphe ne pense qu'à le revoir. Et se met à guetter. Puis à enquêter. Qui est-il ? Que fuit-il ? Que lui est-il arrivé, en Argentine ? Est-ce vrai, ce qu'elle a lu sur les " disparitions " ? Comme Antoine se mure dans le silence, Josèphe s'emploie, corps et âme, à élucider le mystère qui l'entoure. Et se retrouve alors brutalement renvoyée, sans s'y attendre, à sa propre histoire familiale. Bientôt, la guerre d'Algérie vient entremêler sa toile nauséeuse à celle de la dictature argentine. Tout explose. Racontant au passé une jeunesse qui s'illusionne sur elle-même et sur le monde, Mazarine Pingeot évoque plus particulièrement ce moment tragique de la découverte simultanée de l'amour et de l'horreur du monde. Théa est une histoire d'éveil, de chute et de renaissance.
01/2017
Littérature française
Théa
L'amour... Il existe différentes façons d'aimer. Flynn, Philip et Théa, sont trois compères qui ne croient pas en l'amour. Ils préfèrent draguer à tout va. Leur lieu de prédilection pour la chasse : les mariages ! Mais pourquoi ont-ils choisi ces fêtes pour cela ? Comment en sont-ils arrivés à détester l'Amour ? Mais, alors que tout se passe comme ils le souhaitent, un homme vient tout déranger.
08/2018
BD jeunesse
Les enquêtes de Théo Toutou
Dandy, un peu cabot, amateur de bon mots, fair-play dans l'âme... Théo Toutou est écrivain le jour et détective la nuit. Grâce à son sens poussé de l'observation et de la déduction, il vient régulièrement en aide à l'inspecteur Duraton, son vieil ami. Théo Toutou est aussi secrètement amoureux de l'intrépide et charmante libraire, Natacha, qui n'hésite pas à l'accompagner dans ses filatures. Les voilà embarqués dans des aventures palpitantes à la poursuite des ravisseurs d'une jeune et insupportable belette, d'un monstre terrifiant caché au fond d'un lac, d'un voleur de statuettes d'art primitif... Sa seule motivation, c'est de rendre service. Mais venir en aide aux autres n'est pas sans danger. Théo déclenche des rancunes tenaces dont il va devoir se méfier. Gare aux traquenards !
11/2019
Lecture 9-12 ans
La belle vie de Théo
Théo, douze ans, est fan de BD, dont celles des aventures de Bob Carter. Son petit monde : sa famille, dans laquelle on aime rire même si tout n'est pas simple avec son frère et ses soeurs, mais aussi la musique avec son violoncelle et l'école, où il retrouve son ami et complice, Ludo. Mais voilà que pris d'amitié pour Louis, un nouveau camarade, Théo découvre la difficulté d'avoir deux amis qui ne s'apprécient guère. Heureusement, l'arrivée d'une nouvelle élève, qu'il trouve très jolie et dont le sourire est tout simplement le soleil, va transporter Théo sur des nuages. "Grande amatrice de littérature pour la jeunesse, j'aime la variété qu'elle présente, du récit de vie à l'aventure la plus folle, de l'imaginaire au témoignage, du virtuel à la biographie. En mettant en scène un garçon dont la vie ressemble à celle de tout le monde, c'est un clin d'oeil complice que je souhaite adresser aux enfants et, pourquoi pas, à leurs parents. Ma démarche cherche à mettre en valeur, par le biais d'une langue ludique, le quotidien, avec ses plaisirs, ses colères, ses contrariétés et ses merveilleuses rencontres. J'aime poser sur les événements de la vie un regard humoristique, qui dédramatise et rend attachantes certaines émotions que l'on a tendance à croire indésirables."
05/2019
12 ans et +
Théo et les réfugiés oubliés
- On va rendre visite à mon grand-père au Ghana pendant les prochaines vacances d'hiver ! - Jamais entendu parler de ce pays... Ton grand-père est de là-bas ? - Non, Papi est ivoirien, mais il est réfugié depuis 5 ans au Ghana. Il a dû fuir la Côte d'Ivoire pendant la guerre de 2011. Au cours de ses vacances, Théo, adolescent des Hauts-de-France, rencontrera des réfugiés oubliés. Un livre qui offre un éclairage sur la vie des Ivoiriens en exil. A partir de 14 ans.
10/2019
Mijade
Théo et Léa se disputent
Léa et Théo ont reçu une nouvelle petite voiture. C'est la mienne ! Non, c'est à moi ! Et la dispute éclate ! Une histoire simple et efficace sur le thème éternel de la dispute. Ou comment apprendre à partager pour mieux jouer.
10/2021
Littérature française
Theo rit de l'evolution
Théo est sur les routes. Il voyage. Il se laisse porter par la vie, par son intuition. Une intuition guidée par un livre trouvé dans une cabane abandonnée vingt ans plus tôt. Un livre dont il a bien l'intention de percer le mystère. Et si tout est lié, pourquoi sommes-nous là et où allons-nous ?
12/2021
Beaux arts
Lettres à son frère Théo
Ces Lettres à Théo sont un témoignage unique sur une existence vouée à la peinture, sur un engagement artistique qui tendait à la compréhension de l'univers. L'itinéraire d'un homme persuadé qu'il n'y a de vrais artistes que ceux " qui y mettent leur peau " prend alors une valeur exceptionnelle d'exemplarité.
05/2002
Bayard
Théo le chateau d'eau
Au village, Théo le château d'eau n'est pas un bâtiment comme les autres. Moqué et rejeté de partout, il faudra l'amitié de Robert, un petit garçon, et toute son énergie pour s'accepter et obtenir enfin la place qu'il mérite. Une histoire symbolique singulière et riche de belles émotions.
05/2022
Cinéastes, réalisateurs
Théo Angelopoulos. Le temps suspendu
Palme d'or du Festival de Cannes avec L'Eternité et un jour en 1998, Théo Angelopoulos est le plus important cinéaste grec. Marqué dans sa jeunesse par la guerre et les conflits politiques, attaché à filmer l'histoire des hommes et le temps qui passe, il a considéré le cinéma comme un acte de résistance à la perte d'utopie, un moyen de garder un oeil neuf sur le désenchantement du monde. Dans cet ouvrage qui reprend ses entretiens avec l'écrivain Yorgos Archimandritis diffusés sur France Culture en 2009, le réalisateur raconte son enfance, sa découverte de la poésie avant celle du cinéma, le putsch des généraux en Grèce et son exil en France quand il était encore étudiant, son rapport au voyage et au processus de création cinématographique. Publiés pour la première fois, ces échanges sont le reflet d'une parole aussi rare que précieuse. L'auteur du Pas suspendu de la cigogne (1991) et du Regard d'Ulysse (1995) y montre un visage nouveau et inattendu.
05/2021
Autres éditeurs (A à E)
Théo & Léo, les deux souris
Dans ce magnifique album en noir et blanc, le conteur Roberto Piumini revisite la célèbre fable de La Fontaine "Le Rat des villes et le Rat des champs", pour offrir aux plus petits une histoire pleine de surprises et de rebondissements. Les illustrations d'Irene Volpiano, qui alternent avec brio points de vue, changements de perspective et gros plans, parviennent à créer un univers subtilement intrigant et moderne, tout en renouant avec l'esthétique de certains classiques de la littérature jeunesse.
11/2023
Sociologie
Cahiers du LLL n° 12 bis – Telepresence teaching (and learning). From the immersive to the virtual classroom
Hybrid or fully online ? Synchronous or asynchronous ? Unimodal, bimodal, comodal or multimodal ? The all-out development of distance learning has led to the creation of appropriate digital systems, either by using what was already in place (such as video conferencing classrooms and web conferencing software supporting virtual classrooms) or introducing innovative environments (such as immersive telepresence classrooms). To use these versatile, multi-functional technologies, teachers need to take a step back to enable them to adapt their teaching methods and offer learners a suitable environment that overcomes physical and geographical distances. As for students, the need to "be there" and "be together" while learning remotely has to be taken into account to maintain their commitment and ensure they continue to contribute, despite the fact they are apart. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the importance of the professional, collegial and friendship connections we have with those we usually meet face-to-face in a traditional classroom. Telepresence systems enable all these people to come together remotely (and synchronously) and make it possible to use active teaching methods, driven by the self-regulation of the learners. But what is telepresence ? Do teachers need any special training ? How do you attend lessons remotely ? How do participants learn in a telepresence setting ? What type of student assessment can be used in such an environment ? The result of international collaboration, this short guide looks at these questions from both a research and a practical perspective, inviting you to explore telepresence teaching and learning.
06/2022
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
Monographies
Gustave Moreau. The Fables
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) is one of the most brilliant and enigmatic artists associated with the French Symbolist movement. This book accompanies an exhibition of some of the most extraordinary works he ever made, unseen in public for over a century. Moreau's watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau's ' keen apprehension of the weird. ' There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour - many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau's storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau's visions. Prints after Moreau's Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau's response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine's canonical work, whose sources include Aesop's fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times.
08/2021
Non classé
Stages of Exile
This book brings together twelve specially commissioned essays that showcase current research on Spanish Republican exile theatre and performance, including work by some of the foremost scholars in the field. Covering a range of periods, geographical locations and theatrical phenomena, the essays are united by the common question of what it means to ‘stage exile', exploring the relationship between space, identity and performance in order to excavate the place of theatre in Spanish Republican exile production. Each chapter takes a particular case study as a starting point in order to assess the place of a particular text, practitioner or performance within Hispanic theatre tradition and then goes on to examine the case study's relationship with the specific sociocultural context in which it was located and/or produced. The authors investigate wider issues concerning the recovery and performability of these documentary traces, addressing their position within the contemporary debate over historical and cultural memory, their relationship to the contemporary stage, the insights they offer into the experience and performance of exile, and their contribution to contemporary configurations of identity and community in the Hispanic world. Through this commitment to interdisciplinary debate, the volume offers a new and invigorating reimagination of twentieth-century Hispanic theatre from the margins.
09/2011
Sciences de la terre et de la
SATELLITES OF THE OUTER PLANETS. Worlds in their own right, Second Edition
"Rothery does an excellent job of synthesizing the research inspired by the Voyager missions into a coherent description of outer solar system geology." -Jonathan I. Lunine, Sky & Telescope
"A highly readable, respectably accurate and complete nontechnical summary of planetary satellites for general and scientific audiences."
-Paul M. Schenk, Icarus
"Rothery brings these satellites to life."
-David Hughes, New Scientist.
"The depth and authority of the treatment of physical geological processes makes this a good introduction to the outer satellites for undergraduate students, while the clarity of the text ensures that things do not become too complicated for less expert readers."
-Lionel Wilson, Times Higher Eduation Supplement.
Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of this acclaimed geological guide to the outer solar system includes results and close-up color and black-and-white images from both the 1995-1999 Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Voyager space probe. Rothery explains the geological aspects of the major satellites of the outer planets, from Jupiter to Neptune and the Pluto-Charon system. In particular he shows how tectonic and volcanic processes, driven by heat from within, have shaped the rigid outer layers of these worlds. Rothery also discusses the similarities and differences among them and the ways in which they resemble Earth-like planets.
01/1999
Non classé
Studies in Elizabethan Audience Response to the Theatre
The aim of this volume is to give an analytic description of how Elizabethan Spectators in documentary evidence responded to the theatre performances they watched or knew to be about. It also considers why they responded in that way. Opposing dual consciousness to the reification of the character (its 'ideal presence'), the author concludes that Elizabethan spectators were predominantly interested in the characters' 'ideal presence'. Why they were, is explained by relating their statements to the Renaissance theory of visual perception, (demonic) transformation, and ideas on acting.
02/1993
Non classé
A Culture of Tough Jews
From brutal Nazi killers to Hanukkah heroes in the 'hood, tough Jews refute images of doomed Holocaust victims, wandering Jews of exile before them, and the post-war ‘nice Jewish boys' who followed. They foster belligerent responses to polemics of fear and self-hatred, and as such, materialize as a challenge for postmodern cultural identity. A Culture of Tough Jews reframes the tough Jew as an enduring act of rhetorical regeneration by reifying a related figure, the vital Jew. As corrective to the tough Jew, the vital Jew encourages robust cultural production and dialogue. For audiences of rhetoric and cultural studies, the book offers critical and theoretical study of rhetorical regeneration, including original constructs of postmodern blackface and transformative performativity, as a resource for contemporary rhetorical invention. It also constitutes a case study for the postmodern critique of identity by invoking concerns of (post)assimilation, gender and power, and the social construction of race, ethnicity, class, and power to advance conversations on fractious cultural exigencies. A Culture of Tough Jews is a spirited call for postmodern cultural vitality that responds to contemporary politics of identity and memory.
10/2014
Science-fiction
La belle Valence
Paru initialement en 1923, voici un réjouissant... et grinçant roman de science-fiction sur le thème de la machine à remonter le temps ! En 1917, lors de la Grande guerre, dans un coin perdu de Lorraine, à Port-sur-Seille, le lieutenant Marcel Renard et quelques soldats découvre une étrange machine abandonnée par un Anglais que l'on a prestement fusillé le prenant pour un espion, en 1914...Après quelques tâtonnements on dé- couvre que l'engin permet de voyager dans le temps et qu'il peut en outre "faire suivre" un périmètre de dimension variable grâce à une manette spéciale qu'il faut absolument maintenir au niveau le plus bas possible. Ne sachant pas que son ordonnance a, en son absence, déréglé toutes les manettes qui lui tombaient sous la main, le lieutenant Renard engage une nouvelle démonstration pour savoir si la guerre sera terminée... en 1920. Et... une large portion du "périmètre" de la compagnie — les hommes, les bâtiments, les véhicules, les canons —, tout se retrouve projeté... aux portes de la cité de Valence dans l'Espagne du XIVe siècle, encore aux prises avec les Sarrasins et déjà sous l'emprise de la sainte Inquisition ! S'en suit un puissant choc des cultures entre la troupe de poilus, surarmée pour l'époque, mais prête à tout pour se distraire et "profiter" après trois années de guerre, les guerriers arabes de l'Emir qui s'allient avec eux, sans se formaliser, pour s'emparer à tout prix de Valence et lesValençais chrétiens, déboussolés et manoeuvrés par de machiavéliques religieux fanatiques, qui tentent d'y résister... Une fois la belle Valence tombée aux mains des Poilus et des Sarrasins, comment gouverner, faire face aux menaces d'invasion, intégrer les éléments du progrès, changer les mentalités, à six siècles d'intervalle ? Un roman d'anticipation, sur fond de guerre 1914-18, qui mérite amplement d'être redécouvert de même que son auteur.
04/2019
Science-fiction
Échos. Loin siffle le vent de révolte
Monde oppressif, la Cité est une entité politique, sociale et dirigée par une intelligence artificielle qui suit une logique implacable. Ouvrier qualifié ou membre du puissant Conseil, chaque individu a une place prédéfinie dans cet ordre hiérarchique. Cependant, lorsque la population du District 0 commence à diminuer lentement, un sinistre plan de génocide se dévoile... Echos - Loin siffle le vent de révolte vous invite dans un univers sombre, mêlant espionnage, complots et terrorisme. Jusqu'où seriez-vous prêt à aller pour découvrir la vérité ?
07/2023
XXe siècle
Victory will be next ! A Diary, 6th June - 10th August 1944
The story takes place in Brittany, focussing on Rennes and Redon, i.e. about 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the D-Day landing beaches in Normandy, about fifteen minutes by plane as the crow flies. The months of June and July 1944 were very difficult for the allied troops. They relentlessly fought to block German reinforcements coming from the West and the South, which resulted in constant bombing and machine-gunning of the rear boundary of the front line, the area where we were living. As civilians, we did not take part in the fighting and everyday life alternated between calm periods, on the verge of being "normal", and tragic moments of great tension. ''Victory will be next ! " is a set of notes written at that moment in time, day by day, by a fifteen-year-old boy. They are, obviously, fragmented, even a little naive, But they are nonetheless a testimony of a snapshot of history within the larger picture of WWII. They should be taken as such.
03/2021
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
