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The Holy Grail of Eris T01

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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

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Musique classique

Songs of Love. 12 Romances. 12 Lieder. Soprano (tenor) and piano.

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s, but her career petered out after 1920. Songs of Love was first published in 1904. No evidence survives of any public performance in Kashperova's lifetime although it is very likely that they were performed at her regular 'musical evenings at home on Tuesdays' mentioned in her Memoirs. The transparency of the piano writing strongly suggests that she would accompany herself singing. Kashperova, by all accounts, possessed a fine voice, and in the summer of 1906 she decided 'to learn from the artistry', as she put it, of the tenor Raimond von Zur-Mühlen who was widely celebrated for having developed (with Clara Schumann) the Lieder-Abend tradition. His summer-schools on the Baltic coast were frequented by aspiring singers from all over Europe, even Japan and India. Kashperova herself was responsible for the poetic lyrics of Songs of Love (in both Russian and German), which may well have emerged from her own bittersweet experience of life and love ; she was not to marry until 1916 at the age of forty-four. That Kashperova is the author of both the music and the lyrics of Songs of Love would suggest that they express very personal sentiments. Instrumentation : soprano (tenor) and piano

12/2023

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Comics divers

Star Wars Légendes - La menace révélée [INTEGRALE Tome 1 . Edition collector

Découvrez comment Jango Fett est devenu un Mandalorien, survivant à la guerre et à l'esclavage pour devenir le chasseur de primes repéré par le Comte Dooku. Ki-Adi-Mundi est à la recherche d'un Jedi sur la planète Tatooine, et Jabba veut bien l'aider mais pas pour rien ! Le conseil des Jedi est en mission pacifique sur Malastare, mais une menace fantôme plane. Quant à Mace Windu, il vit ses propres aventures ! En parallèle de la publication des nouvelles séries, nous nous intéressons également aux pépites conservées dans les archives Marvel. Des numéros spéciaux et des mini-séries sont réunis ici, s'intéressant à des recoins méconnus de la mythologie Star Wars. Contient : Star Wars - Le Côté obscur T10 : La ballade de Jango Fett, Republic #7-18 (Star Wars - L'ordre Jedi T03 : Outlander & T04 Emissaires à Malastare), Mauvaise Affaires (publié dans Intégrale Quinlan Vos T01) et Star Wars - Jedi T07 : Nomade

12/2021

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Shonen/garçon

Conqueror of the Dying Kingdom - vol. 01

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

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Tourisme étranger

Moroccan tracks Volume 11. The sagho djebel

The Sagho djebel is the eastern extension of the Anti-Atlas, a volcanic mountain with granitic mamelons, basaltic organs, chaos of black shales, pink sandstones... at the gates of the Sahara. As far as the eye can see, large wild, arid spaces. A desolate land made for the lonely DPM. And for a thousand miles around, silence is the only companion. Absolute plenitude and the desire to take to the track. From flat expanses to rolling hills, from sharp relief to steep canyons : pure, original nature. The character is strong, rustic but the heart is soft. The colours are soft and gentle. Ochre, pink, brown, violet, the colour chart stretches in a gradation of shimmering pastels, sometimes accompanied by an overwhelming heat. Eldorado in the heart of the desert, rare are the oases ; modest green spots in the infinitely large, they are the reminders that we are on African soil. The wild charm of the Sagho is due to its exceptional geology : high cliffs and steep peaks, tabular escarpments and deep canyons in the middle of which caravans of camels and mules circulate. When you arrive on these immense plateaus, the lunar horizon is so vast that you want to go everywhere at once to see if it is really as beautiful elsewhere ! The Sagho also surprises by the richness of its lights : limpid like those of the nearby Sahara, or sometimes in half-tone, as in the neighbouring Dades valley. The Sagho is also the Morocco of the last Berber nomads, descendants of the ancient lords Aït Atta. In autumn, after leaving the snows of the High Atlas, they set up their dark wool tents on the slopes of the jebel until spring. They can neither read nor write, but they are sure of their way through the Atlas Mountains and the Moroccan desert. In the Sagho, they have built houses of unbaked stone, dug wells, planted almond trees, grown wheat, barley and various vegetables. Others built herds of goats and sheep, and caravans of camels. Most of them are now sedentary, semi-nomadic or nomadic...

08/2022

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Non classé

The Concept of Man in Igbo Myths

In the vast silence of their isolation, the traditional Igbos have learnt the ways of living in harmony with nature. From their origin in distant time, they have kept a sacred perspective on the natural world. In our age, there is the need for traditional wisdoms to retain their validity and be intrinsic to our philosophic and scientific perceptions of the cosmos. We cannot do without their knowledge, their spiritual perspective, and their deep faith in the harmony of all nature. Ignoring these qualities has profound environmental implications. Global warming, environmental pollution, and the exhaustion of nature's resources are but a few of the symptoms of the nature's experiences as we continue to mistreat it in order to satisfy our own ends. This work helps us to realise that wherever we are, we are a part of nature. All the things around us are as presences, representing forces and powers of life that are not ours and yet are all part of us. Then we find them reflecting in ourselves, because we are nature, though not identical with it.

11/1999

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Non classé

Experimental Social Dilemmas

Most of the papers on social dilemmas were presented at a conference on social dilemmas that was held at the University of Groningen in the spring of 1984. Social dilemmas are interpersonal situations that are characterized by a conflict between private and collective interest, i.e. in attempting to further their private interests, participants may end up worser off than if they had abandonned self-interest and worked for the good of the community. The chapters in this book describe efforts made by social psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to advance our understanding of the psychological processes that influence people's behavior in social dilemmas. It is assumed that understanding of these processes can help our search for solutions.

12/1986

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Fantasy

The Eminence in Shadow (Light Novel) T01

Derrière son apparence de lycéen lambda, Cid Kagenô rêve pourtant de puissance, celle d'un être qui tire les ficelles depuis l'ombre. Mais un tragique incident va rapidement mettre fin à ses ambitions... ou pas ! Réincarné dans un monde fantastique, il profite rapidement de la situation en montant sa propre organisation secrète, Shadow Garden, créant de toute pièces une histoire dont il est le personnage principal : "l'Eminence de l'Ombre" . Mais ses fantasmes pourraient bien s'avérer réalité...

05/2024

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Poésie

Epilepsy: the invisible pain

They say life is a long stretch of a calm river, but not for everyone ! She was for me until the day when everything rocked, the day my destiny was changed dramatically. People do not realize how life can be so sweet and so beautiful. They complain all day long for trivialities. They are not even aware that they have before their eyes the most beautiful wealth : the luck and happiness of living in good health. I was rich before. Now I am poor because my child has an incurable disease, that has currently no hope of being healed. As a parent, how can we accept that ? , How to continue living carrying the bundle of pain in my head ? , How to overcome this feeling of helplessness ? When I started speaking to my heart, I didn't know myself that this was the beginning of a new life : a rebirth as a poet. When I learnt that my 7-year-old daughter was suffering from the Dravet Syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy, this was like an earthquake in my life. Then, I needed to write in order to express my sorrow and my pain. Words and rhymes came naturally to my mind. This was obvious that poetry would be my survival weapon.

01/2019

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Seinen/Homme

The Witch and the Beast T05

La créature qui apparaît devant les yeux de Guido n'est autre qu'Angela, la sorcière qui lui est liée par le destin ! Déjà surpris par la tournure des événements, sa colère monte en flèche quand celle qui lui a jeté la malédiction vient ajouter son grain de sel ! Guido sombre alors dans une colère bestiale poussant Ashaf, acculé, à se remémorer leur toute première rencontre...

02/2022

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Seinen/Homme

The Witch and the Beast T08

Après l'attaque de la Reine de la Nuit, les deux héros sont séparés. Guido est en captivité mais réussit à s'évader et s'empare d'une arme particulièrement efficace contre les vampires. Pendant ce temps, après avoir échappé de justesse à la mort, Ashaf est résolu à retrouver son partenaire et tente d'obtenir une audience auprès de la Reine aux côtés de Danword. Ce dernier parviendra-t-il à maîtriser ses ardeurs, alors qu'il ne rêve que de vengeance depuis de longues années ? Une rivalité de près d'un siècle s'apprête à resurgir entre la cruelle Reine de Gunir et l'ancien Roi de la Nuit !

11/2022

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Shojo/fille

The Vampire and the Rose T05

Chiyu est une lycéenne qui croit au grand amour. Dans sa classe, Yomiya fait tourner toutes les têtes. Il est séduisant, intelligent, sportif et... c'est un vampire ! Malgré tout, elle lui propose son sang lorsqu'un beau jour, elle le trouve en train de faire un malaise. Il découvre alors son goût délicieux et n'a pas l'intention de renoncer à d'autres rations...

10/2022

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Seinen/Homme

The Witch and the Beast T06

En remontant la piste laissée par la sorcière Angela, Ashaf et Guido se rendent dans un univers parallèle des "Abysses" ! Mais ce quatrième sous-sol baptisé Horrencia Seth est peuplé de vampires, des créatures plus que jamais attachées à l'étiquette de leur caste et qui abhorrent tout ce qui s'y soustrait. Des renforts envoyés par l'Ordre interviennent pour les aider dans ce nouveau monde. Mais ces émissaires versés dans les coutumes des buveurs de sang vont les mêler sans tarder à un incident diplomatique...

05/2022

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Beaux arts

The Eastern Portal of the North Transept at Chartres

There exist greater differences of opinion with regard to the content and style of the Eastern Portal of the North Transept than any other transept portal at Chartres. Its archivolts have caused controversy and some remain unidentified. Katzenellenbogen (The Sculptural Programs of Chartres Cathedral) pays little attention to many elements of the portal and hence his interpretation of the portal as "Mariological" does not hold up in light of newly discovered iconographic relationships.

12/1982

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Littérature française

Les inventeurs. Essai

What do Christopher Columbus, Reneke, Zénobe Gramme and Louis Pasteur have in common ? They were all inventors. Well fine, but who invented the crab's claw, the suction cups and the flight of squids or the proboscis of blood sucking insects ? Is invention intellectual fantasy, an industrial tool or a fundamental biological reaction ? How is this riddle to be solved ? Should we go through the list of inventions or inventors ? Is it a question of circumstances or motivations ? Who is in charge ? The Material or the Spirit ? In order to try to find a way of answering these questions, first a few very different inventors and their inventions will be presented. A few paradoxes emerge from this first part. Then we will devote an entire chapter to an exceptional inventor whose extraordinary work revolutionized how we now approach this topic. Finally, what can be said about all the inventions like the wings of birds or butterflies, the eyes of fish or insects, the leaves of trees or the social organization of beehives ? In these cases, man is not the inventor. There are countless marvels like these in the world around us. Can we explain them ? This will be the subject of the third part of this essay.

02/2017

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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

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Policiers

Goebius' Strange Model

A company elaborates in great secrecy a project, vital to its very survival. As the project develops, it leads the protagonists far beyond the originally envisioned simple business strategy, and brings them close to the forefront of the physical laws governing the behavior of the universe. Two intrigues intertwine... will they meet ? Or do they form the single-sided face of a Möbius strip ? "This novel is as unexpected as a UFO, and refreshing..." Cédric Villani, Fields Medal 2010. "This book is fascinating, I read it all at once..." Etienne Ghys, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.

01/2020

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Bibles pour enfants

La bénédiction d’Abraham

Zoom sur la Bible est le fruit d'une analyse exigeante et amoureuse des études bibliques. Céline Gauthier raconte la Bible façon "histoire du soir" pour le plus grand plaisir des enfants... et de leurs parents ! Voilà une vraie innovation dans les Bibles pour enfant : une collection qui associe avec brio la modernité du format "série" et le respect du récit biblique. Les récits de la Bible sont traités dans l'ordre, de l'Ancien au Nouveau Testament. Déjà parus : La création du monde (T01), Caïn et Abel les premiers frères (T02), L'arche de Noé (T03), La tour de Babel (T04).

05/2023

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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

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Non classé

The Search for Lyonnesse

Although Mme de Lafayette is acknowledged as the founder of the modern novel, her precise legacy has been understood only in relation to male-authored texts. However, she wrote as a woman, addressing issues that concerned women of her day, particularly the problem of the apparent incompatibility of sexual fulfilment and the institution of marriage. This study seeks to identify how La Princesse de Clèves was interpreted by three of Mme de Lafayette's most talented women successors and to show how their more sombre and subversive view of society was mediated in works of fiction which have strong affinities with the contes de fées for which they are well known. The novels of Mlle Bernard, Mme d'Aulnoy and Mlle de La Force are significant, not simply for what they tell us about themselves as women writers but also for what they reveal about the origins of the eighteenth-century novel.

07/1999

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12 ans et +

Les 8 royaumes mortels Tome 1 : La cité de Pierre-de-Vie

Raised as a slave in the Darkoath camps of Aqshy, Kiri dreams of a better life. Of a city of wonders, the place of her birth… Lifestone ! She despairs of ever reaching it until a fateful day arrives when her barbarian captors are attacked by Sigmar's noblest warriors, the Stormcast Eternals. Seizing her chance, Kiri flees through a mysterious realmgate that takes her far from the fiery lands of Aqshy. She arrives in the realm of Ghyran and finds the city of Lifestone. But a curse lies on this place, withering its noble spirit. Her path leads her to a special group of children who, like her, are realm-marked the prophecised saviours of Lifestone. There's Thanis, the fighter ; Alish, the inventor ; Kaspar ; the sneak and Elio, the healer. But dark forces are allying against the children and will do anything to stop them achieving their destiny.

06/2019

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Guides gastronomiques

Paris Restaurants d'antan et de toujours. Paris old favourite restaurants, Edition bilingue français-anglais

Simples bistrots ou établissements prestigieux, les restaurants "historiques" de Paris ne se résument pas à une carte, aussi savoureuse soit-elle. En passant leur seuil, le convive d'aujourd'hui sent encore la présence de ceux qui l'ont précédé : forts des Halles, maquignons des abattoirs de La Villette, demi-mondaines des boulevards, encyclopédistes des Lumières où affairistes de la place de la Bourse. Leurs ombres peuplent toujours de merveilleux décors sur lesquels le temps n'a pas eu de prise. Simple bistros or famous institutions, Paris's "historic" restaurants are more than their menus, however enticing these may be. When today's diners walk through their doors, they sense that they join a long line of predecessors who vary according to the district : the market workers at Les Halles, the livestock dealers at the La Villette abattoirs, the ladies of ill repute on the boulevards, the erudite writers of the Enlightenment, or the bustling businessmen at the Place de la Bourse. Their shadows still lurk in the splendid décors on which time has no hold.

05/2023

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Non classé

Henry VIII in History, Historiography and Literature

If this anthology on the literary appreciation of the life and times of Henry VIII can show how history, historiography and the history of literature are woven together as threads in a tapestry, if this book can show how varied the sources are from which historical images are fed, especially those of significant historical figures, then it will have surely fulfilled its purpose.

01/1993

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Droit

Activation Policies for the Unemployed, the Right to Work and the Duty to Work

Since the 1990s and the 2000s, Western social protection systems have experienced a turn towards activation. This turn consists of the multiplication of measures aimed at bringing those who are unemployed closer to participation in the labour market. These measures often induce a strengthening of the conditions that must be met in order to receive social benefits. It is in this well known context that the authors gathered in this book decided to take a closer look at the relationship between activation policies for the unemployed and the right and the duty to work. If activation measures are likely to increase transitions towards the labour market, we can also make the assumption that they may, particularly when they are marked with the seal of coercion, hinder or dramatically reduce the right to freely chosen work. In such circumstances, the realisation of the "right to work", which is often stated to be the aim of those who promote activation, tends in practice to be reduced to an increasing pressure being exerted on the unemployed. In this case, isn't it actually the duty to work that is particularly reinforced ? After an historical and philosophical perspective on the issue, this assumption is confronted with the developments observed in the United States and in France, and then with the guidelines laid down in international human rights instruments. What follows is a discussion of two alternatives to the dominant activation model : the basic income guarantee and the employment guarantee.

06/1987

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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

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Anglais apprentissage

Tales from Longpuddle

Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks fora ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy's tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.

07/2010

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Maternelle

The Secret of Jatbula Trail cycle 4 A2 - Livre élève - Ed. 2024

Vous retrouverez dans vos petites lectures en anglais Reading Trips : - Des aventures ancrées dans le monde et la culture de langue étudiée. - Des auteurs natifs et des récits authentiques, tenant compte des capacités des élèves. - Des personnages récurrents, auxquels les élèves peuvent s'identifier, qui vivent des aventures et grandissent au même rythme que les élèves, sur les trois années du cycle 4. - Au début de chaque livre, une double-page de découverte du contexte géographique et culturel de l'histoire. - Des récits courts en cinq chapitres de trois pages, avec des notes de bas de page pour faciliter la compréhension. - A la fin de chaque chapitre, une page d'exercices ludiques de compréhension, de lexique et de grammaire - En fin d'ouvrage, des pages de lexique, grammaire et une mission, qui invitent l'élève à réaliser un projet en lien avec l'histoire.

05/2024

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Non classé

Ruling Class Men

What is it like to be a master of the universe ? The authors have researched the desires and fears of the world's most powerful men. The Murdochs, Packers, Kennedys, Agnellis and other men like them, directly determine the fates of thousands and influence the future of the world like no other people. Described as ‘sacred monsters' by one of their own, they are carefully created to be what they are and to enjoy shaping the world in their own likeness. To learn about these often reclusive men, the authors extended the life-history technique to interrogate autobiographies, diaries and biographies and have created a composite picture, a collective portrait, of tycoons over three generations. The book carefully explores the childhoods, schooling, work and play, sexual activities, marriages and deaths of the wealthiest men who have ever lived. It exposes the nature of ruling-class masculinity itself.

02/2007

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Shonen/garçon

The quintessential quintuplets edition couleur - the quintessential quintuplets t01 edition couleur

Fûtarô, un lycéen brillant mais fauché, décroche un petit boulot de rêve : professeur particulier pour une famille fortunée. Or, le garçon déchante lorsqu'il réalise que ce n'est pas un élève qu'il va devoir gérer, mais des quintuplées aussi belles que cancres à souhait... Entre Ichika la désordonnée, Nino la protectrice, Miku la réservée, Yotsuba la joviale et Itsuki la susceptible, Fûtarô va devoir prendre son courage à deux mains pour relever le défi que représentent les soeurs Nakano !

04/2022

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Comics divers

The Witcher (comics), T1 : Un grain de vérité (édition spéciale noir & blanc)

Un best-seller international : David Gemmell Legend Award 2009 du Meilleur roman de Fantasy. L'adaptation comics officielle de la nouvelle " Un grain de vérité ". Edition collector en noir et blanc, incluant un cahier bonus de 8 pages. Geralt de Riv est un homme inquiétant, un mutant devenu le parfait assassin grâce à la magie et à un long entraînement. En ces temps obscurs, ogres, goules et vampires pullulent, et les magiciens sont des manipulateurs experts. Contre ces menaces, il faut un tueur à gages à la hauteur, et Geralt est plus qu'un guerrier ou un mage. C'est un sorceleur... Dans ce premier tome, une rencontre macabre au détour d'une forêt mène Geralt à un château abandonné et à son curieux hôte : Nivellen, une créature à l'apparence monstrueuse mais aux manières des plus civilisées. Le temps d'un repas, Nivellen se livre sur son passé, sa famille, et sur le maléfice qui l'accable. Si le poids de ses fautes l'a condamné à cette apparence de bête - un châtiment cher aux contes de fée - pourrait-il aussi y avoir un grain de vérité dans ces légendes, un grain de vérité qui l'aiderait à conjurer le sort ? Une réinterprétation magistrale du célèbre conte La Belle et la Bête, pour la première fois adaptée en comics par Jacek Rembis et Jonas Scharf (Avengers, Power Rangers, Bone Parish).

04/2022