To catch the sun in the water
Extraits
Sociologie
The Fakir's Travels
Advising people to take this attitude or that are a waste of time. Those who see or/and are aware realise also that it is none of their business to goad and advise others. Our job at best can be to answer questions by the light of our knowledge but in no way can anyone be dogmatic about it. Let us all be first aware of - Do we know ? What do we know ? How do we know that we know ? To me it is the part where we first accept that there is room for change for the better in us. Then we observe ourselves. And finally we try to bring in the change in ourselves with our will with sincerity and objectivity.
04/2014
Militaire
GOLD, Objectif Bayeux
On the night of the 31st of December 1943, two British commandos successfully collected a few samples of sand and peat under the very nose of the Germans posted at Ver-sur-Mer. Five months later, some 25, 000 men followed in their footsteps and landed on the same shores, codenamed Gold Beach. Barely had they landed, the British troops set out to building an artificial harbour, undoubtedly one of the finest technical feats of the Second World War. It was to prove a major asset for securing Allied supremacy in the months that followed the D-Day Landings.
03/2023
Actualité et médias
Performance post-crise
Today's professional environment is dramatically different from that which existed just twenty years ago. The digital revolution is in full swing, and working practices are undergoing some of the biggest changes in history. In addition to this background of change, COVID 19 has had an unprecedented impact on every aspect of modern professional life. This background of change, combined with an additional sudden shock is generating novel challenges, which present difficult questions. What organisational structure is best placed to handle crises such as this ? What are the ingredients of successful remote work ? What is the best way to manage a team remotely ? How should leaders communicate in a crisis ? Beyond these critical issues—and perhaps even more importantly—leaders also need to prepare for the future. How do they ensure the success of an organisation in an uncertain future ? How are they going to secure the talent they need ? To address these questions, this collection brings together contributors from a rich variety of backgrounds, drawing on many combined decades of leadership experience. In addition to sharing answers to many contemporary questions and their personal experience of the recent crisis, they outline their vision of the future of the world of work.
01/2021
Anglais apprentissage
Commercially speaking. Workbook
Commercially Speaking is an elementary to pre-intermediate level course in language and communication skills for students on vocational courses. It will be especially useful to those working towards a qualification to help them find work in a commercial environment where they will need to use some English. There is a strong focus on commercial correspondence and telephoning skills, which are practised within a realistic framework designed to reflect the situations students will meet on entering the workplace. This Workbookfollows the syllabus of the Student's Book, with greater emphasis on reading and writing tesks, and activities which can be carried out for homework or as extension activities in the classroom. Material from authentic sources is included where appropriate. Answers to Workbook exercises are included at the end of the corresponding unit in the Teacher's Book. The complete course comprises the Student's Book, this Workbook, a Teacher's Bookwith a complimentary diskand photocopiable progress tests, and one audio cassette.
01/1999
Sciences politiques
Assessing Urban Governance. The Case of Water Service Co-production in Venezuela
When examining the relationship between urban governance and improved service provision in the Global South, there is frequently a gap between the rhetoric and the reality. Informal, practice-based local governance processes that aim to produce better urban services often diverge from official governance prescriptions and mechanisms for service delivery within the institutional sphere. This book explores the complex area of urban governance assessment, focusing on the issue of sustainable water supplies for the urban poor. Adapting the UN-Habitat Urban Governance Index, the author explores the dual nature of urban governance, analyzing its formal dimension at the municipal level but also taking account of informal and locally specific governance arrangements aimed at improving access to basic services. Water service co-production strategies involving both public institutions and organized groups of citizens in Venezuela provide an excellent case study of this phenomenon. The book illustrates the limitations of official governance assessment tools in appreciating the extent and vibrancy of local practices and agreements, as well as investigating the discrepancies between normative prescriptions and governance arrangements on the ground.
12/1986
Mexique
Secret Mexico City
An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew the city well or who would like to discover its many other facets. The forgotten café where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara used to meet, a tribute to the city's ghosts, a mammoth in the metro, a cave transformed into a shrine, an underground parking lot with mosaics dating from 1930, a Baroque altarpiece made from papier mâché, a village based on the principles of Thomas More's Utopia, secret masterpieces of colonial art in rooms only open around two hours a week, the largest roof garden in Latin America, the photo on which the Oscar statuette is modelled, the first building in the world faced with a material that can trap urban smog, a road surface designed for praying as you walk ...
02/2024
Romance sexy
The Perfect Match. Edition collector
XXIIe siècle. Ne cherchez plus l'amour : à votre majorité, la Science vous indique qui est votre âme soeur. Respecter la loi... ou écouter son coeur ? 98, 8 %. Eliotte peine encore à y croire, mais les résultats de son test de compatibilité sont sans appel. L'Etat américain vient de décréter scientifiquement qu'Izaak Meeka est son âme soeur la plus pure. Celle avec laquelle elle devra se marier et emménager dans les prochaines semaines, alors même que son coeur n'a jamais battu que pour Ashton, le petit frère d'Izaak... Elle le savait pourtant très bien : au XXIIe siècle, c'est la Science qui détermine les couples autorisés à se former dans la société. N'en déplaise à son futur époux, cet être froid et solitaire, prêt à tout pour défier l'autorité en place. Quitte à entraîner Eliotte dans sa chute...
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
Littérature française
Handicapped
The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.
10/2020
Manga
The beast is next to me
Kanato est un garçon tout ce qu'il y a de plus banal qui a repris la supérette familiale, tandis que Shin, son voisin et ami d'enfance, vient d'une riche famille et travaille à présent dans une société d'élite. Bien que le comportement hésitant de Kanato semble énerver son ami au plus haut point depuis qu'ils se connaissent, le soir où il a le coeur brisé, Shin l'embrasse en lui promettant qu'il le fera oublier celui qu'il aimait depuis si longtemps.
05/2017
Policiers
Sandinista. Tome 3
"There is a train at Version City Waiting for the rhythm mail If you can jump then jump right now She can pull you through to better days."
11/2017
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
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
Non classé
Health Problems in Asia and in the Federal Republic of Germany- How to solve them?
In order to cope with health problems in developing or developed countries, means have to be tested before preventive, promotive and curative measures can be implemented on a nationwide basis by health authorities. Problems and constraints of such intervention trials seem to be similar in developing and developed countries although there are differences in the disease patterns. In the near future, especially the Asian countries will be facing similar health problems as the western countries, in addition to their present problems. Scientists from various Asian countries and the Federal Republic of Germany discussed intervention measures in the field of health delivery system, family planning, parasite control, mother and child health care as well as nutrition.
12/1985
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
Romance sexy
Say Yes to the Boss
Embrasser mon boss ? Jamais ! A 27 ans, Mona Vargas est encore célibataire, au grand désespoir de sa mère. Chaque dimanche, c'est le même refrain : cette dernière cherche à lui coller un mec dans les pattes ! Alors quand son boss, Hugo Capelli, aussi horripilant que sexy, lui demande de jouer sa fausse fiancée et de l'accompagner à la garden-party organisée par son ex, elle décide d'accepter. A une condition : qu'il consente lui aussi à se faire passer pour son petit ami auprès de sa famille. Avec lui, pas d'ambiguïté, puisqu'ils n'ont rien en commun ! Il est aussi sûr de lui, arrogant et égocentré qu'elle est désintéressée et dévouée. Et de toute façon, c'est son patron ! Mais ça, c'est sur le papier...
04/2022
Réalistes, contemporains
Walk me to the corner
Walk Me to the corner est le nouveau roman graphique d'Anneli Furmark, l'une des voix les plus importantes de la bande dessinée suédoise. Depuis son premier livre publié en 2002, elle raconte des histoires centrées sur l'intime et sur ses personnages. Walk me to the corner est - comme le disent les protagonistes de l'histoire - une sorte de "Brokeback Mountain pour dames d'un certain âge" . Le personnage principal du récit est Elise, la cinquantaine, mariée depuis plus de 20 ans, dont les enfants ont grandi et ont déménagé. Elle tombe soudainement éperdument amoureuse d'une femme du même âge, Dagmar, également en couple, avec qui elle commence une relation. Bien que leur passion soit mutuelle, aucune des deux femmes n'est prête à quitter sa famille. Des complications surviennent lorsque le mari d'Elise tombe amoureux d'une jeune étudiante et qu'il divorce, tandis que Dagmar refuse de divorcer... A travers l'histoire de ces deux femmes et les questionnements d'Elise, Walk me to the corner explore avec délicatesse et empathie ce qu'implique de quitter la sécurité d'une vie routinière à la cinquantaine pour se jeter dans l'inconnu.
10/2021
Suspense
The Last One to Die
Elle pensait vivre le meilleur été de sa vie... ce sera peut-être le dernier. Niamh, 17 ans, a travaillé comme une dingue pour pouvoir se payer des cours d'été dans la plus grande école d'art dramatique de Londres. Elle s'imagine découvrir une ville accueillante mais se heurte à une ambiance glaçante : de nombreuses jeunes filles, dont ses nouvelles amies, se font violemment agresser. Toutes ont le même profil, celui de Niamh... qui va se retrouver au coeur du plus effrayant des films d'horreur ! Un thriller haletant sur fond de légendes urbaines.
09/2021
BD tout public
Welcome to the Death Club
Vous avez été choisis, vous faites partie des rares élus, Winshluss vous invite à faire un tour dans son fameux Club de la Mort ! Fouillez dans votre poche, trouvez-y votre billet et lancez-vous dans les dédales de cette fête foraine macabre où l'effroi le dispute au sarcasme. Guidé au milieu des attractions par la grande faucheuse en personne, vous ricanerez en choeur des tableaux qu'elle fera apparaître devant vous, compilant les vanités et les rêves médiocres d'une humanité en sursis, obèse et pourrissante... Mais ce sera votre visage décomposé et grouillant de vers que vous croiserez au détour de la galerie des glaces ! Vous vous consolerez de voir que vos compagnons de train fantôme n'auront pas meilleure mine que vous, avatars disneyens ou pantins de série B rescapés d'un film de zombies projeté un soir de panne de climatisation dans un cinéma de Tijuana. Mais avant même de pouvoir échanger avec eux quelques phalanges, vous serez entraîné par votre amie jusqu'au grand huit, où vous apprécierez de ne plus avoir d'estomac. Pour vous remettre de vos émotions, la grande parade des horreurs vous montrera avec une précision "entomologistique" vos semblables bouffer, vivre et s'accoupler dans un grouillement de cafards. La Camarde, qui n'est guère plus qu'un exterminateur d'insectes, les réduira en bouffie pour votre seule distraction dans un bouquet d'éclaboussures ! Ne vous restera plus qu'à vous diriger avec elle vers la buvette où, devant un verre de mort aux rats, vous regarderez les néons s'éteindre et les portes du club se refermer, heureux d'avoir encore une bouche pour rire... et des yeux pour pleurer.
01/2010
Manga
Descendants. Rotten to the Core
Afin d'être punis, tous les pires méchants de l'histoire sont désormais prisonniers de l'île de l'Oubli, un endroit sans magie dont il est impossible de s'échapper. C'est pourquoi les enfants de Maléfique, la Méchante reine. Jafar et Cruelle d'Enfer n'ont jamais pu s'aventurer à l'extérieur de l'île... jusqu'à aujourd'hui ! Invités dans le parfait royaume d'Auradon, ils vont en effet se retrouver à devoir aller dans la même école que les enfants de nos héros Disney préférés. Mais Mal, Evie, Jay et Carlos auront surtout pour tâche d'exécuter le plan machiavélique de leurs parents pour que ces derniers puissent répandre la terreur à nouveau. Nos jeunes adolescents rebelles vont-ils suivre les traces de leurs horribles parents ou choisiront-ils d'écouter la bonté de leur coeur et de sauver le royaume ?
10/2018
12 ans et +
Love letters to the dead
Tout a commencé par une lettre... Une simple rédaction demandée par un prof : écrire à un disparu. Laurel a choisi Kurt Cobain, parce que sa grande soeur May l'adorait. Et qu'il est mort jeune, comme May. Si elle ne rend jamais son devoir, très vite le carnet de Laurel se remplit de lettres à Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger... A ces confidents inattendus, elle raconte sa première année de lycée, sa famille décomposée, ses nouveaux amis, son premier amour. Mais avant d'écrire à la seule disparue qui lui tient vraiment à coeur, Laurel devra se confronter au secret qui la tourmente et faire face à ce qui s'est vraiment passé la nuit où May est décédée.
10/2015
Photographes
Jerusalem. To the Last Path
A la fin des années 1990, David Sauveur est un photojournaliste habitué aux chaos de l'histoire, reconnu internationalement. Lorsqu'il découvre Jérusalem, c'est pour d'autres raisons : non plus dénoncer la violence des hommes, mais sentir vibrer leur besoin de beauté. Pendant cinq ans, par une immersion méditative dans l'épaisseur de la cité millénaire, il recueille au Polaroid la matière de To The Last Path ("Vers le dernier chemin"). Naît une série de photographies subtiles, tout en lenteur et délicatesse, portées par une rare intelligence de la pluralité et des contradictions de la ville aux trois religions. Ce livre, accompagné d'un texte de l'historien Vincent Lemire, présente pour la première fois l'oeuvre de David Sauveur, dont une agression en août 2011 a interrompu la carrière.
01/2022
Monographies
Paris - The Place to be
From Montmartre to Montparnasse, from the Elysée to the Trocadéro, from the Louvre Museum to the Orsay Museum, from the Latin Quarter to the Butte aux Cailles and the Monceau plain, each district of Paris conceals unsuspected treasures ! This Paris off the beaten track can be discovered along the alleys, parks, bridges and great monuments... Discover the small and the great history of these high places.
03/2024
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
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes & Specimen Lists from H.M.S. Beagle
Two long sets of scientific notes were made by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. Those transcribed here are concerned with natural history, and although in 1839 he drew on them quite extensively in writing his famous " Journal of Researches ", neither they nor his geology notes have previously been published. He was a superb observer, and recorded vividly and accurately his first impressions of the appearance and behaviour of the wide range of animals, from ants to ostriches, encountered during his travels. Often he performed little experiments on the creatures that he captured, and he was never happy until he had exhaustively explored the why and wherefore of every one of his observations. During the long periods on board ship, he carried out a thorough analysis of hitherto unrecognised features of the internal anatomy of a variety of marine invertebrates, and made elegant pencil drawings of them under his dissecting microscope. The volume also includes his lists of 1 500 specimens preserved in Spirits of Wine, and some 3 500 not in Spirits, with impeccably accurate cross references to the main notes. Although his notes were made strictly for his own use, and were often highly technical, they were well written throughout, and contain many highly readable passages. Only towards the very end of the voyage were his first doubts about the immutability of species consciously pressed, but here are to be found the first seeds of his theory of evolution, and of the important new fields of behavioural and ecological study of which he was one of the principal founders.
01/2000
Littérature française
Sir Yvonne bai
We had few means, it was very primitive. Sometimes, to take the temperature, we put a pencil under the armpit of the patient. He thought it was a thermometer... We cured many people. We always put a little Lourdes water in our medicines. Our founder had brought medals from the Shrine. He told us : "Put a medal in a bottle and always fill the bottle with water". So we had our own production of Lourdes water (laughs) (p 55).
07/2021
Non classé
Living in Two Worlds
This is a study of Singapore pastors' worldview & understanding of the epidemiology, symptomatology and management of possession behaviour. The pastors' accounts are compared with those from the scientific disciplines, and convergences and divergences noted. Factors shaping both the pastors' and the scientific discourses are examined. The pastors are shown to respond to competing scientific paradigms by reinforcing their two-worlds worldview. They either live mainly in the other world, or in each world at a time, or between the two worlds. Based on theological reflection focusing on epistemology, theodicy & cosmology, the author shows that the paradigm of living in both worlds simultaneously is the most appropriate pastoral response. The theological vision of the coexisting worlds and the pastoral task of unmasking and resisting evil in all its varieties and depths are then discussed.
05/1994
Littérature érotique et sentim
The Midnight Demons Tome 2 : Straight to the heart
Judicaëlle a trouvé le job parfait ! Du moins, c'est ce qu'elle se dit en garant sa voiture devant une jolie bâtisse en bois rond, portant le nom de "Gates of Paradise" . Son expérience lui permet d'être embauchée immédiatement, mais lorsqu'elle découvre qu'elle se trouve au beau milieu d'un gang de bikers, elle préfère décliner. Est-ce leur pouvoir de persuasion ou de persécution qui la fait changer d'avis ? Cela étant, elle accepte de travailler avec eux, mais elle va devoir composer avec un biker aux allures de Viking nommé Thor, qui la percute en plein coeur. Entre esquive et uppercut, la belle ne sait plus où donner de la tête.
01/2021
Décoration
Full-Color Floral Designs in the Art Nouveau Style
E. A. Seguy was one of the foremost French designers of the first third of the twentieth century. He produced many splendid albums of designs over a long and distinguished career. This book reproduces in full color 40 plates from the two color portfolios called Les fleurs et leurs applications décoratives [c. 1902] - one of the high points in Art Nouveau design.
The 40 plates included here contain 166 decorative Art Nouveau patterns. Lacy and delicate interpretations of flowers ranging from arum and arrowhead to water lily and wisteria, these patterns offer such color combinations as a blue-petaled flower with green leaves on a mustard background, salmon-colored flower with robin's-egg-blue leaves on a beige field, and royal-blue flowers with golden leaves on golden stems silhouetted in light blue-green on a deep blue-green field. The colors in this volume are strong and bold, prefiguring such later influences as Persian art and the Ballets Russes. Twenty of the plates in the original portfolios contained ordinary realistic renderings of 30 plants, and they have been omitted from this volume.
The wide variety of flat designs are perfect for textiles, wallpapers, and packaging, and offer many ideas for mosaics, stained glass, rugs and bookbindings. Containing borders, circular designs, repeats, allovers, and "spots," this collection has something to interest everyone in the graphics field.
01/1977
Histoire internationale
Manufactories in Germany
In eighteenth century Germany goods were produced in manufactories as well as by independent craftsmen and artisans employed by capitalists. The manufactories using tools and manually operated machines foreshadowed in many respects the factories of the nineteenth century. State and local support for the manufactories was aimed at reducing unemployment, maintaining military strength and securing foreign currency. Although not all manufactories were successful they provided a valuable heritage of industrial and commercial skills which were profitable to later entrepreneurs. However, those who - like Karl Marx - considered the manufactories to be a stage in the process of industrialisation have been proved wrong.
12/1985
