The Spirit Will Eisner
Extraits
Beaux arts
Italian Maiolica and Other Early Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery
This is the first catalogue of the collection of early modern ceramics in the Courtauld. The pieces in the collection showcase brilliantly the skill of potters and pottery painters working at the time of Raphael and Titian. Maiolica is one of the most revealing expressions of Renaissance art. Its extraordinary range of colours retain the vividness that they had when they left the potter's kiln. Italian potters absorbed techniques and shapes from the Islamic world and incorporated ornament and subject matter from the arts of ancient Rome. This new approach to pottery making, combined with the invention of printing, woodcut and engraving, resulted in an extraordinary type of painted pottery, praised by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists for 'surpassing the ancient with its brilliance of glaze and variety of painting'. The collection boasts a magnificent group of vessels made during the high Renaissance, the golden age of Italian maiolica. It includes precious and delicate Deruta lustreware with imagery deriving from Perugino and Raphael, as well as vessels painted in a narrative style of pottery painting known as istoriato. Highlights include vessels depicting episodes taken from the first printed Bibles of the Renaissance. Istoriato maiolica flourished particularly in the lands of the Dukes of Urbino, who promoted this craft by sending painted pottery to prestigious patrons across Europe. Emblems and devices painted on the pottery help us understand that they were meant to be used and enjoyed by the elites in Renaissance society, such as the Medici and other great Tuscan families. The catalogue will include two recent gifts to the Courtauld, a rare tile of the famous patroness of the arts Marchioness Isabella D'Este, and a refined dish painted with the story of Diana and Actaeon. All major Renaissance pottery centres are represented in the collection, including Siena, Faenza and Venice, as well as splendid examples of the mysterious pharmacy jars made at the foot of the mountain of Gran Sasso in the town of Castelli d'Abruzzo. These achievements of the art of pottery in the early modern period are completed by fine examples of Ottoman pottery, as well as examples of Valencian lustreware. Sani's introductory essay on the Victorian collector Thomas Gambier Parry will shed new light on the development of this fascinating collection, making links between Gambier Parry's artistic practice and his collecting and revealing new insights into his taste as a collector. Each detailed entry uncovers a wealth of new information on the provenance of the pieces.
03/2023
Comics
Love is love
Le 12 juin 2016 à Orlando, en Floride, 49 personnes furent assassinées en raison de leur identité sexuelle. Aujourd'hui, le monde des comics se réunit pour rendre hommage aux victimes de l'attentat du Pulse. Scénaristes, artistes et personnalités du monde entier, inspirées par cet évènement tragique, livrent dans ce recueil des histoires inédites. Tous et toutes y expriment leur tristesse et leur compassion, leur frustration et leur espoir. En rendant hommage aux victimes, aux survivants et à leur famille, ils-elles transmettent un message universel de paix et de tolérance. Initié par Marc Andreyko et l'éditeur américain IDW Publishing avec l'aide de DC Comics, Love is love inclut de nombreux personnages bien connus du monde des comics : Supergirl, Batman, Le Spirit de Will Eisner, Southern Bastards, Batwoman, Kevin Keller d'Archie Comics, Harley Quinn, et bien d'autres.
11/2017
Littérature française
Normandy Viking Spirit
Que reste-t-il de l'apport des Vikings en Normandie à part quelques épées retrouvées au fond de la Seine et des noms toponymiques de village ? Certains en Normandie se plaisent à exagérer le "mythe nordique" du guerrier grand blond aux yeux bleus. D'autres en Normandie estiment que cela est un passé lointain et révolu et minorent l'apport Viking. Et si nous trouvions un juste milieu ? Beaucoup de politiques évoquent "l'Esprit de Conquête" des Normands sans trop le définir, ce qui en fait une sorte de concept un peu flou. Et si en Normandie, l'héritage des Vikings était ailleurs et notamment dans l'Esprit des Vikings qui anime les Normands d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. Dans cet essai nous plongeons dans "l'Esprit de Conquête" , d'Aventure et d'Entreprise qui forme "le Viking Spirit" . L'auteur G. Thirel est Avocat au Barreau de ROUEN, Docteur en Droit. Passionné par les questions d'attractivité territoriale et d'intelligence économique. Il est l'auteur d'un essai sur l'identité Normande au XXIe siècle et nous livre un second essai qui complète et prolonge sa réflexion sur la Normandie. Il nous plonge dans le monde Viking en faisant le parallèle avec les Normands d'hier et d'aujourd'hui.
01/2019
Mondes futuristes
Spirit Era. Racine
7 adolescents, 7 chakras, 7 clés pour sauver l'humanité. Orpheline depuis peu, Rae, 15 ans, en a perdu la voix. Lorsque le mystérieux Protecteur lance son appel à candidatures sur les réseaux pour empêcher la fin du monde tel que nous le connaissons, elle n'y prête guère attention. Mais voilà qu'elle se retrouve sélectionnée malgré elle, avec six autres jeunes venus des quatre coins du globe. Leur mission ? Trouver les 7 clés associées aux 7 chakras au sein de Spirit Era, le programme d'intelligence artificielle créé par le Protecteur, afin d'éviter l'apocalypse annoncée. Le compte à rebours est lancé...
10/2022
Monographies
Venice. A Private Invitation
Venice of a thousand reflections ; Venice of mirror and glass, of silk and gold ; Venice of light and lace, of transparency and porcelain. With her expert knowledge and insight, Servane Giol takes us to the heart of the Venetian art de vivre, a warm and private invitation to meet some of the most creative people living in the city today. Accompanying us into historic private palazzi as well as more recently restored houses and apartments, she introduces us to a new generation of artists and designers who are attracted by the radiant beauty, energy, and lifestyle of the Serenissima-a charmed circle of talented friends who are bringing a fresh dynamism and elegance to the city, shining a new light on some of its rarest and most exquisite traditional crafts, and lovingly safeguarding them for future generations. This love letter to the hidden beauties of Venice and to the skills for which the city is famed is brilliantly complemented by the photography of Mattia Aquila. It offers both a revelation and an everlasting memory for all those who will never forget their dazzling first sight of the domes, the campaniles, and the shimmering golden silence of this legendary city that floats between sea and sky.
09/2022
Droit international
Luxembourg fund law compendium
DROIT LUXEMBOURGEOIS The compendium is one of a kind, as it contains both Luxembourg and European fund laws. The compendium will be warmly welcomed by (fund) lawyers, consultants, legal counsels working for fund managers, depositaries, asset managers and administrators, as well as, academics and (fund) supervisors.
09/2021
Généralités
From Vine to Wine.. Domaine Ponsot’s Vineyards: 150 Years of History (1872–2022)
Inspired by the microhistory trend, this book sets out to illustrate how 150 years of the unique history of a family of winegrowers is embedded in-and contributes to-the larger history of Burgundy crus. The book will explore the developments in techniques and knowledge about grapevines and wine that have taken place between 1872 to 2022, providing readers with a better understanding of the issues relating to designations of origin (appellations) and the notion of terroir. Readers will see how things were done in the past and how they are done today, and the approaches that will be adopted in the future by 'climatic' winegrowers, and will conclude that sometimes everything must change in order for everything to remain the same.
06/2022
Les alcools
The Spirit of Cognac. Rémy Martin : 300 Years of Savoir Faire
Cognac defies time, acquires the glow of age, draws strength from maturity. Rémy Martin has embodied this spirit for 300 years. A story of terroir and savoir faire, prestige and humility, daring and perseverance.
11/2023
Ethnologie et anthropologie
The Wolves Rise Again. New elites born out of chaos
The successive shocks that strike our time have acted as an indicator of men : the bland elites of yesteryear, suddenly rejected by the masses, went back silently into the void where they had first come from. This opportunist plutarchy, that maintained itself so far, thanks to the industry of lying, the targeted elimination of creative people, will soon be engulfed. Around these illusionists with no audience, the hidden alphas will begin to rise. Within a few months, alphas, forged in a new metal, invaded public space. How can it be explained ? In troubled times, the hierarchies of peacetime had left, suddenly, a place to the atomisation of individuals. Chaos then allows the individual alphas to rise to power. Like a pack of wolves, these alphas quickly take the lead of small human groups organising themselves into rival packs. The French Revolution is a striking example of this evolution : the masters of yesterday were relegated because of their unsuitability.
06/2022
Littérature française
The Call of the Wild 6e D'après Jack London
Direction le grand Nord, au moment de la ruée vers l'or au Yukon, pour suivre les aventures de Buck, qui, enlevé aux siens, doit laisser libre cours à son instinct sauvage pour survivre en tant que chien de traîneau. Grâce aux titres de la collection "Harrap's school", les élèves de collège peuvent commencer à lire en VO tous les grands classiques de la littérature anglo-saxonne. Le texte en anglais est adapté aux niveaux des collégiens et revu par des enseignants. Il est également enrichi de belles illustrations, d'un lexique en fin d'ouvrage pour aider à la compréhension de l'intrigue et d'une version audio pour s'imprégner du bon accent dès le collège et de fiches pédagogiques téléchargeables pour favoriser l'étude en classe. Lire en anglais ? C'est facile et plaisant avec Harrap's.
02/2022
Sculpture
The Riace Bronzes
The fourth volume in our "Hidden Treasures" series is dedicated to the Riace Bronzes, two of the very few ancient bronze statues that have survived to this day and now preserved in the National Archeological Museum in Reggio Calabria. This publication was designed to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their discovery. In it, Luigi Spina's photographic research dialogs with the texts written by Carmelo Malacrino. The photographer here develops a continued narrative, offering a direct comparison between the two sculptures, identified as A and B, exploring interpretations of the physicality of the two subjects as well as the three-dimensional quality of the bronze bodies, often concealed by the two-dimensional appearance of photographic images. Carmelo Malacrino and Riccardo Di Cesare analyse these famous 5th century BC masterpieces from two points of view : as ancient works of art on the one hand, and considering their significance for contemporary culture on the other. He retraces the story of the Bronzes beginning with their discovery in August, 1972, exploring the circumstances of their unearthing, the restoration they underwent, the exhibitions in which they were shown, as well as the impact they have had on the public, both nationally and internationally. Equally relevant is the reinterpretation of these two statues, beginning with their contextualization in the sphere of ancient Greek art, the related stylistic issues, and the reflection upon the practices and the knowledge possessed by Classical sculpture workshops. This volume will be a pleasant surprise for those of you who love Classical sculpture, for archaeology enthusiasts, and for all those who aren't satisfied with a quick glance when it comes to admiring a work of art.
10/2022
Espagne
Secret Seville
Far from the crowds and the well-worn clichés, Seville still has many hidden gems it only reveals to locals and visitors who head off the beaten track. An essential guide for those who thought they knew Seville well or are seeking to discover another side of the city. Why is there a stone relief of Grace Kelly on the wall of Seville Town Hall and how can you track down the railway from the Ibero-American Expo of 1929 ? Where might you find the legacy of Christopher Columbus' son, a medieval Jewish cemetery in a car park, the oddest of barbershops, forgotten souvenirs from the Guadalquivir steamboats, Masonic symbols in a church, the last remaining vestiges of the Andalusian pavilions from the '29 Expo, a little-known Modernist electric power station, an example of the Nazi Enigma machine, a collection of Chinese and Japanese art in a Renaissance mansion or the pillars of a medieval synagogue ?
04/2022
Littérature française
Willa Cather my Antonia. Unabridged Text with Introduction, Biography and Analysis
Willa Cather My Ántonia : Unabridged Text with Introduction, Biography and Analysis My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers ! and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century. Both the pioneers who first break the prairie sod for farming, as well as of the harsh but fertile land itself, feature in this American novel. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. This novel is considered Cather's first masterpiece. Cather was praised for bringing the American West to life and making it personally interesting. This edition includes the full original version of the Willa Cather's book and provides other valuable features under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, including a commented introduction, helpful bibliography, author's biography, notes, references, and much more.
05/2017
12 ans et +
Agent Will
William Clarck, 13 ans, est victime d'un accident de voiture, accompagné de sa mère, qui décède sur le coup, laissant alors Will orphelin. A l'hôpital, il rencontre un homme affirmant être son père, pourtant mort quelques années plus tôt. Mais alors que l'esprit de l'adolescent est semé dans le doute, il est envoyé en mission pour le Gouvernement Français. Il doit à tout prix éviter une nouvelle guerre mondiale...
10/2013
Archéologie
Fantastic Beasts in Antiquity. Looking for the monster, discovering the Human, Textes en français et anglais
Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented mysterious and intriguing creatures populating their world. During Antiquity, every culture had its own strange creatures, that mixed the forms of one or more animal, plant and human species in an infinite number of more-or-less fanciful combinations. Griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, pygmies, werewolves, winged monsters and unspeakable hybrids, fantastic beasts abound in the imagination of many populations throughout Antiquity. Most of them continue to live, sometimes transformed, through fairy tales, literature, movies and videogames. Faced with the abundance and variety of the ancient fantastic bestiary, the questions that come to mind are : Where do fantastic beasts come from ? How do they appear in different cultures ? What is their history, how did they survive until now ? And above all, what are fantastic beasts ? This book will explore these questions through the lens of archaeology, art history, philology and philosophy. The result is a hybrid book, precisely like the fantastic animals that constitute its object, a book which offers different approaches of analysis while being aware that our means are often vain to capture these elusive figures, which ultimately are more like us than they seem. Man, like Oedipus, will often prove to be more monstrous than the Sphinx...
02/2021
12 ans et +
Département 19 Tome 2 : Le réveil du monstre. Livre 2
Quand Jamie Carpenter apprend que Frankenstein, son ami, est peut-être en vie, il n'a plus qu'une idée en tête : le retrouver. Et le sauver. Mais peut-il abandonner le Département 19 au moment où celui-ci doit faire face à une menace vampire historique ? Et surtout, doit-il entraîner Larissa, la fille qu'il aime, et Kate, sa meilleure amie, dans une mission qui s'annonce des plus périlleuses ? Au moment où Jamie doit faire ce choix difficile, un homme mystérieux refait surface. Un homme qu'on croyait disparu à jamais, et qui semble bien connaître le jeune Carpenter...
01/2013
12 ans et +
Par le feu
Avant, elle vivait derrière la clôture. Elle n'avait pas le droit de quitter la Base. Ni de parler à qui que ce soit. Parce que Père John contrôlait tout et qu'il établissait des règles. Lui désobéir pouvait avoir des conséquences terribles. Puis il y a eu les mensonges de Père John. Puis il y a eu le feu...
Suspense
Par le feu
Avant, elle vivait derrière la clôture. Elle n'avait pas le droit de quitter la Base. Ni de parler à qui que ce soit. Parce que Père John contrôlait tout et qu'il établissait des règles. Lui désobéir pouvait avoir des conséquences terribles. Puis il y a eu les mensonges de Père John. Puis il y a eu le feu...
05/2023
Mouvements artistiques
Frank Auerbach. The Charcoal Heads
Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, Frank Auerbach : The Charcoal Heads presents a remarkable series of hauntingly beautiful largescale drawings by the artist. The catalogue includes a new piece of writing on one of the drawings from critically acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. This catalogue explores one of Frank Auerbach's most remarkable bodies of work - a series of large-scale portrait heads made in charcoal, produced during his early years as a young artist in postwar London. Auerbach (b. 1931) spent months on each drawing, working and reworking them during numerous sessions with his sitters. This prolonged and vigorous process of creation is evident in the finished drawings, which are richly textured and layered. Auerbach would sometimes even break through the paper and patch it up before carrying on. His heads thus emerge from the darkness of the charcoal with burning vitality, born of an artistic as well as a physical struggle with the medium. The process of repeated creation and destruction, of which these images bear the visible scars, speaks profoundly of their times, as people rebuilt their lives after the ruination and upending of the war. The exhibition will be the first time Auerbach's extraordinary drawings, made in the 1950s and early 1960s, have been brought together as a comprehensive group. They will be shown together with a selection of paintings he made of the same sitters ; for the artist, painting and drawing have always been deeply entwined. The accompanying catalogue - by Deputy Head of The Courtauld Gallery, Barnaby Wright, and with an essay by one of the greatest contemporary voices in the English language, Colm Tóibín - is the first publication to explore in depth this magnificent series. Tóibín spent several hours one afternoon in front of Auerbach's Self-Portrait (1958), which features on the front cover of the book, looking closely and taking notes. His essay is an account of his experience and offers new insights into the work and the nature of self-portaiture.
03/2024
Littérature française
Spirite
"Quoique son corps fût toujours près de la table, gardant la même attitude, Guy intérieurement était absent, évanoui, disparu. Une autre âme, ou du moins une autre pensée se substituait à la sienne et commandait à ces serviteurs qui, pour agir, attendent l'ordre du maître inconnu. Les nerfs de ses doigts tressaillirent et commencèrent à exécuter des mouvements dont il n'avait pas la conscience, et le bec de la plume se mit à courir sur le papier, traçant des signes rapides avec l'écriture de Guy légèrement modifiée par une impulsion étrangère." Cette relation mystérieuse est l'extraordinaire histoire d'amour fantastique entre une femme, devenue esprit, et un vivant qu'elle est venue chercher de l'extra-monde. Dans la lignée des Mottes-amoureuses d'Edgar Poe, elle conduit le lecteur du Paris enneigé sous le Second Empire jusqu'au Parthénon, miraculeusement reconstitué. Ce récit paraît en 1866, et témoigne, comme le montre ici Anise Geisler-Szmulewicz, de la vogue spirite qui touche alors son temps. Mais il se révèle surtout être la confidence d'un auteur arrivé au faîte de sa carrière de romancier, de critique et de poète, qui fait un retour sincère sur son expérience d'écrivain. Loin des truculences du Capitaine Fracasse et des provocations de Mademoiselle de Maupin, Gautier livre, à travers le parcours initiatique de Malivert, sa propre histoire, celle d'un écrivain déçu par la vulgarité de son temps mais qui conserve une foi intacte dans la puissance de l'art. Spirite constitue, à cet égard, un vibrant plaidoyer en faveur de la beauté.
12/2010
Décoration
Idées pratiques pour petits espaces
Various factors have contributed to the proliferation of small homes. One is the high price of land. Another reason is the change in family types. Throughout history it has been considered normal for various generations of the same family to share the family home all their lives. Today family models have changed. Nuclear families are usually reduced to just two generations, i.e., parents and children, and often homes are occupied only by couples or even sole individuals. The reduction in the home's surface area has led to a need to develop ways to integrate all of a space's necessary functions in a practical and cozy fashion. Design aspects can be considered when a home is still being planned, prior to the building and distribution of the rooms. This makes it possible to fit it out to make the mort of each of its features and apply optimal spatial solutions that match the need of the person who will inhabit it. Furniture is vital when it comes to small dwellings. Many manufacturers have now added a large number of items to their furniture collections that address space problems or combine various functions. The décor, which also includes the wall color as well as the flooring and ceiling, is another basic element that should be carefully considered in small spaces. Decorative elements are just as important, as they can be used to create a personal feel that responds to your own particular aesthetic taste. What you must remember is that, even though a home is small, there are many solutions and tricks to maximize its possibilities and achieve a modern, welcoming look.
03/2010
Littérature érotique et sentim
The Wild Angel. Le temps du voyage
Le temps du voyage. Il y a dix ans, pour fuir son passé, Orso a tout quitté poure rejoindre un groupe de bikers, les Wild Angel. Mais quand celui-ci refait surface, tous ses souvenirs lui remontent en mémoire ravivant sa souffrance. Comment revivre avec ce fantôme qu'il ne pensait plus retrouver ? Et surtout, comment vont se passer ses retrouvailles ?
01/2020
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
Physique, chimie
Radiation chemistry. From basics to applications in material and life sciences
This book gives a progress report on the many and original contributions of radiation chemistry to the fundamental knowledge of the vast domain of chemical reactions and its applications. Radiation chemistry techniques indeed make it possible to elucidate detailed physicochemical mechanisms in inorganic and organic chemistry (including in space) and in biochemistry. Moreover, this comprehension is applied in materials science to precisely control syntheses by radiation, such as radiopolymerisation, radiografting, specific treatment of surfaces (textiles, paintings, inks, etc.), synthesis of complex nanomaterials, degradation of environmental pollutants and radioresistance of materials for nuclear reactors. In life sciences, the study of the effects of radiation on biomacromolecules (DNA, proteins, lipids) not only permits the comprehension of normal or pathological biological mechanisms, but also the improvement of our health. In particular, many advances in cancer radiotherapy, in the radioprotection of nuclear workers and the general population, as well as in the treatment of diseases and the radiosterilization of drugs, could be obtained thanks to this research. Abundantly illustrated and written in English by top international specialists who have taken care to render the subjects accessible, this work will greatly interest those curious about a scientific field that is new to them and students attracted by the original and multidisciplinary aspects of the field. At a time when radiation chemistry research is experiencing spectacular development in numerous countries, this book will attract many newcomers to the field.
05/2008
Western
West Legends Tome 5 : Wild Bill Hickok. Forty Bastards
Le train de Wild Bill Hickok déraille quelques heures après son départ. Isolés, les survivants ignorent que la plus grande menace n'est ni les Indiens ni les loups ni le froid, mais la cavalerie des Etats-Unis, avec à sa tête le pire des fils de putes que l'ouest ait connu, bien décidé à reprendre ce que Hickok lui a volé, quitte à tuer tous ceux qui se mettront en travers de son chemin.
10/2021
Décoration
Creative Paris. Urban interiors, inspiring innovators
So, you've visited the Eiffel Tower, Sacré-Coeur, and the Louvre. You sampled buttery croissants, 365 cheeses, and the bubbliest of champagnes. Think you've seen it all ? Well ... not quite. You brushed right past the real Paris. The one that will make your heart skip a beat. The one hidden behind Haussmannian façades and tucked beneath zinc rooftopsinside, where true Parisians live, work, entertain, dream, and create. For the past decade, French online phenomenon My Little Paris has divulged the city's best kept secrets in fashion, food, housewares, and lifestyle to their dedicated followers. Now, this creative team of dynamic entrepreneurs takes us inside their homes and workplaces, sharing Paris's freshest interior inspiration. More than thirty spaceseach brimming with Parisian chicreveal their singular style and are replete with ideas for sparking creativity. In a relaxed apartment on the edge of the Canal Saint Martin, an aquamarine wall complements a matching retro fridge and coffee mugs, all in the same hue. Bird cages, vinyl records, and colorful kimonos coexist harmoniously with vintage photographs, vibrant African wax cushions, and contemporary art. In an 11th arrondissement apartment, a pair of silver Margiela designer boots, plush orange bomber jacket, and hot pink visor pepper the furniture, in a riot of fashion showroom style. An old carousel factory in Montmartre houses the My Little Paris office, with a dream room, green wall, and rooftop terrace-with-a-view. Each location offers a place to recharge your batteries, slip into airplane mode, and kick-start ideas. Step inside the My Little Paris universe, where creativity is a watchword and visionary thinking is a daily event.
06/2019
Sciences de la terre et de la
Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats
Cuckoos and cowbirds are amongst the select bird groups renowned as professional parasites, who always lay their eggs in the nests of other species. Occasional parasitic laying is also widespread in many other birds, who gladly parasitise the nests of their own kind when the opportunity arises.
In this fascinating new book, Nick Davies describes the natural histories of all the brood parasites and examines the exciting questions they raise about the evolution of cheating and the arms race between parasites and their hosts. Brood parasites fill their armoury with adaptations including exquisite egg mimicry, rapid laying, ejection of host eggs, murder of host young, chick mimicry and manipulative begging behaviour: ploys shown by recent research to have evolved in response to host defence behaviour or through competition among the parasites themselves. While many host species appear defenceless, accepting parasite eggs quite unlike their own, others are more discriminating against odd-looking eggs and some have evolved the ability to discriminate against odd-looking chicks as well. How does this arms race proceed? Will defenceless hosts improve their armoury in time, or are there sometimes constraints on hosts which allow the parasites to gain the upper hand? And why are so few species obliged only to lay eggs in host nests? Have host defences limited the success of brood parasitism, or is it in fact much commoner than we suspect, but occurring mainly when birds parasitise the nests of their own kind?
All of these puzzles are examined in descriptions of the natural history of each of the groups of parasites in turn. Here is a book with wide appeal, both to amateur naturalists fascinated by this most singular and macabre of behaviours and to ornithologists and ecologists interested in the evolution of ecology and behaviour. The story takes us from the strange tales of folklore to the classic field work earlier this century by pioneer ornithologists such as Edgar Chance, Stuart Baker, Herbert Friedmann and others, through to the recent experimental field work and molecular techniques of today's leading scientists. We visit brood parasites in Europe, Asia, Japan, Africa, Australasia, and North and South America, to look at some of the world's most interesting birds and sortie of biology's most interesting questions, many of which still beg answers from ornithologists in the future.
Brilliant illustrations by David Quinn depict many behaviours for the first time and convey the thrill of watching these astonishing birds in the wild.
04/2000
Sociologie
Argument Selection
A new thematic theory is demonstrated in this book. Thematic theories and their antecedents (Gruber 1965, Fillmore 1968) are to account for morphosyntactic phenomena (concerning argument structures) whose determining factors are likely to be of a semantic nature/origin. But what is the relevant semantic information ? And how is it to be captured (and formalized)? As is shown by the wide variety of competing current thematic theories, there is no consensus upon these crucial questions. The novel starting-point proposed in this book is the creation of a semantic basis where traditional roles (Agent, Patient, Instrument, etc.) are dispensed with. Instead, a special comparative analysis of morphologically related argument structure versions will provide the relevant semantic information, which makes it possible to associate argument frames with rich internal structures via exact formal calculations. Abstract positions in these internal structures are substituted for thematic roles, in harmony with the spirit of Saussure's structuralism.
10/1997
Non classé
Accent and metre in French
There is currently no generally accepted theory of metre in French poetry. The aim of this book is to propose one which will be practically useful to readers and analysts of French verse. This theory relates metre to the accentual structure of different registers of spoken and written Modern French. It also addresses problems in the history of French metre by examining language texts from the Old French epic to the lyrics of Verlaine, as well as musical texts from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
11/1999
Informatique
Foundation Course for Advanced Computer Studies
In the modern world, computer systems are playing a greater and greater part in everyday life. From office work, to entertainment, to providing information, the personal computer is quickly becoming a more integral part of the home. However, most PC users have no idea how most of the parts which make up their computer work internally. I am one of those who find that the framework provided by the school curriculum in the United Kingdom is of great assistance in planning lessons and learning plans but the curriculum does not plan out the work for us. We therefore need to invest a lot of time and effort into developing schemes of work that will suit the people we are going to teach. For me, it is a fantastic opportunity to employ our imagination and creativity to make lessons useful and interesting for children of different abilities. It is why I wrote this book. This book is a foundation course for Advanced Computer Studies and designed as a blueprint to teach users with a basic knowledge of computer science. Computer science is a subject that combines the use of technology which is ICT (Information Communication Technology) and the creation of technology. To use ICT (the subject about how to use technology to communicate information) more effectively, we need to know how technology works. Computing or computer science will create a generation of young people able to work at the forefront of technology change. It is the umbrella term for the subject that comprises 3 elements : computer science, information technology and digital literacy. It is helpful to think of these as the foundations, applications and implications of digital technology. The new focus on computer science will provides a well-defined and rigorous academic discipline and a unique lens through which pupils can understand the world. Children must therefore be taught computing if they are to be ready for tomorrow technology challenges. Our ingenuity to invent new means of communicating with each other, our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries however still a lot remain to be done with the arrival of quantum computing. A more rigorous approach to computer science teaching will help compete across the full spectrum of digital industries. This can only be achieved by equipping ourselves with the foundation skills, knowledge and understanding of computing do the necessity to introduce "computational thinking" at school via the new national curriculum (programmes of study and targets), the 2014 national curriculum that introduces computing which will replace ICT.
11/2015
