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Extraits
Non classé
Place of the Sacred
There has been a heated international debate over Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses ever since its publication in 1988. The present work examines the ways in which this affair has developed. From the beginning, one can find strong rhetorical emphases ; these are shown to argue for maintenance of meaningful boundaries. The thesis of Kuortti's book is that on each side of the debate, people use similar language to argue for the sanctity of their convictions. This is evident especially in the opposition between the arguments for the sacrality of Islam and literature. In the international exchange, how could we then find more respectful ways of acknowledging that we are not that dissimilar from each other ?
07/1997
Non classé
How Judaism reads the Torah I / II
Writing with Scripture, the ancient sages of Judaism made use of Scripture by making Scripture their own, and making themselves into the possession and instrument of Scripture as well, a reciprocal process in which both were changed, each transformed into the likeness and image of the other. This they did by effecting their own selections, shaping a distinctive idiom of discourse, all the while citing, responding to, reflecting upon, Scripture's own words in Scripture's own context and for Scripture's own purpose : the here and now of eternal truth. And the rabbis of the first six centuries A.D. through the compilation presented here not only wrote with Scripture, but set forth a statement that was meant to be coherent and proportioned, well-crafted and well-composed. Since that statement concerned the distinctively-theological question of God's and Israel's relationship with one another, we must classify the writing as theological and find out how, in the compilation before us, theirtheological structure accomplished the autorship's goals. This anthology aims at doing just that. It presents a complete account of how the classical Midrash-text treats a theme of urgent interest to the world today : how Judaism writes with Scripture about the issues of religion that confront all the faithful.
10/1993
Policiers
La conspiration de l'or noir
Les Etats-Unis paniquent devant l'épuisement imminent des ressources en pétrole. Et dans les arcanes du pouvoir, certains sont prêts à tout, même à l'impensable, pour s'emparer des dernières gouttes d'or noir. Une ex-conseillère à la Maison Blanche a participé à certains de leurs inquiétants débats. Sur le point de révéler ce qu'elle sait sur les dessous des attentats du 11 Septembre et de l'invasion américaine en Irak, elle est assassinée sous les yeux de son mari, Ace Futrell. Celui-ci découvre alors un terrifiant projet de la CIA : organiser un attentat nucléaire et en rendre responsables les islamistes et l'Arabie Saoudite. Seul contre tout un système, Futrell va tenter d'empêcher l'apocalypse... Manipulations et conspirations pour le contrôle des réserves de pétrole : terrifiant de réalisme.
08/2011
Science-fiction
Meg : La fosse
Quatre ans après l'incident de la fosse des Mariannes qui a libéré un spécimen de Carcharodon megalodon, le plus gros et le plus féroce prédateur de toute l'histoire, Jonas Taylor veille aujourd'hui sur la progéniture survivante de la créature à l'Institut Tanaka. Profondément endetté, son dirigeant, Masao Tanaka, s''est tourné vers un milliardaire excentrique pour l'aider à maintenir l'établissement à flot, mais à quel prix ? Enlisé dans un enchevêtrement de mensonges, en proie aux cauchemars, Taylor doit à nouveau faire face aux monstres qui hantent ses nuits. Seulement, cette fois, ce ne sont pas seulement les requins qu'il doit surveiller...
05/2019
Science-fiction
Meg : En eaux troubles
A la fin du Pliocène s'éteint le plus gros et le plus féroce prédateur de toute l'histoire : le Carcharodon megalodon. Dix-huit mètres de long pour vingt tonnes, l'ancêtre des grands requins blancs a dominé la chaîne alimentaire marine pendant des millions d'années. De nos jours, en Californie, le professeur Jonas Taylor, paléobiologiste et ancien pilote de submersible pour la Navy, tente en vain d'oublier sa dernière plongée. Il ne peut effacer de sa mémoire ce qu'il a cru voir, ce qui a causé la mort de deux hommes, ce qui a ruiné sa carrière militaire : la tête du monstre, triangulaire, horrifiante, et son étrange éclat luminescent. Lors d'une conférence, il défend sa théorie : les megs peupleraient toujours les profondeurs. Ridiculisé par ses pairs, seule une descente dans la fosse des Mariannes pourrait prouver ses dires. Mais réussira-t-il à s'échapper une nouvelle fois du gouffre de l'enfer ?
07/2018
Sciences de la terre et de la
SATELLITES OF THE OUTER PLANETS. Worlds in their own right, Second Edition
"Rothery does an excellent job of synthesizing the research inspired by the Voyager missions into a coherent description of outer solar system geology." -Jonathan I. Lunine, Sky & Telescope
"A highly readable, respectably accurate and complete nontechnical summary of planetary satellites for general and scientific audiences."
-Paul M. Schenk, Icarus
"Rothery brings these satellites to life."
-David Hughes, New Scientist.
"The depth and authority of the treatment of physical geological processes makes this a good introduction to the outer satellites for undergraduate students, while the clarity of the text ensures that things do not become too complicated for less expert readers."
-Lionel Wilson, Times Higher Eduation Supplement.
Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of this acclaimed geological guide to the outer solar system includes results and close-up color and black-and-white images from both the 1995-1999 Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Voyager space probe. Rothery explains the geological aspects of the major satellites of the outer planets, from Jupiter to Neptune and the Pluto-Charon system. In particular he shows how tectonic and volcanic processes, driven by heat from within, have shaped the rigid outer layers of these worlds. Rothery also discusses the similarities and differences among them and the ways in which they resemble Earth-like planets.
01/1999
Non classé
Cognitive Perspectives on Language
The papers collected in the present volume show that the terms cognitivism and cognitive, so common in present day linguistic discourse, do not refer to a single theoretical mode or approach to language. Firstly, the papers show that cognitivism is a lively research area accommodating a wide spectrum of approaches. Secondly, they address a number of issues ranging from grammaticalization, event structure, semantic representation, equivalence, image schematic representations and lexicography to poetry, metaphor, metonymy, and national mentality. Some of the contributions deal with the linguistic phenomena in one language, while others take up a cross-linguistic approach.
11/1999
Non classé
Dislocated Identities
This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century : Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas' writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition. Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas' writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland – always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists' identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas' writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus.
04/2012
12 ans et +
Show Stopper Tome 1
Londres, 2045. La société est divisée en deux clans. Les Bâtards, réduits à l'état d'esclaves, n'ont aucune valeur. Les Purs forment l'élite qui a accès à tous les privilèges. Le Cirque de l'horreur est leur divertissement préféré. Ils attendent avec délectation l'accident mortel qui leur procurera le grand frisson. Ben, fils de ministre, assiste à sa première représentation et tombe sous le charme d'Hoshiko, la funambule star du spectacle. Mais derrière l'éblouissement et le faste de l'arène, il découvre l'horreur. Trouvera-t-il le courage de résister pour mettre fin au carnage ?
11/2019
Théâtre
Show room. Nouveau drame
De quoi as-tu peur mon amour ? C'est un rêve, et aucune arme dans un rêve, n'a jamais blessé, ni tué personne. Et cette tenue qui ne ressemble à rien, et que je porte, par la force des choses. Ce pull, cette jupe atroce, un rêve .Ce canapé, et toi, à longueur de journée en toreador dedans, un rêve...
11/2016
Lecture 6-9 ans
Le méga sardine show
Dans un futur pas si lointain, les mers sont tellement polluées qu'il ne reste plus qu'une seule sardine vivante. Ce petit poisson est traqué par une émission créée spécialement : Le Méga Sardine Show. Lorsque Zac l'attrape involontairement, il décide de la protéger contre l'odieux présentateur Guppy...
03/2020
Décoration
Reality show. Mr OneTeas
"Aujourd'hui les gens ne s'animent que pour se connecter sur Internet. On est tous acteurs et victimes de ce système. Je dresse juste un constat. C'est comme si j'étais une sorte d'huissier de la conscience, sauf que je ne suis pas là pour saisir mais pour donner ". Diktat des réseaux sociaux, instrumentalisation des religions, rejet de la condition humaine, mépris de l'environnement, règne de la malbouffe, lobbyisme outrancier, égoïsme généralisé... Pas besoin de décodeur pour plonger dans l'univers d'Anthony Alberti. Son oeuvre est un miroir de notre quotidien, l'allégorie d'une société de l'image où le paraître gomme l'être, où l'individu s'isole, la communauté s'étiole, s'essoufle et étouffe sous l'arrogance de décideurs tout-puissants si avides de pouvoir que leur innocence n'est plus qu'un lointain souvenir du passé. Avec l'exposition "Reality Show 2.0", Mr OneTeas bouscule ce monde en veille, en sommeil et en apnée, derrière l'horizon moderne : l'écran bleu. Cet amas de pixels qui vous tient en haleine dans l'attente d'un post, d'un like, d'un ommentaire. Bref, d'un shoot de sociabilisation virtuelle. Bonheur illusoire.
01/2019
Poches Littérature internation
Show Me a Hero
Yonkers, dans l'Etat de New York. Ville paisible où il fait bon vivre. S'il n'y avait pas cette ligne invisible qui sépare Yonkers en deux : d'un côté des quartiers aux pavillons coquets, aux rues propres bordées d'arbres. De l'autre, les barres d'immeubles, les graffitis. La foule, le bruit, la misère. Lorsque tombe l'annonce qu'une loterie permettra à certaines familles modestes d'intégrer des maisons flambant neuves dans les beaux quartiers, ce qui paraît comme un rêve pour certains est vécu comme un cauchemar par d'autres. Eclate alors une lutte sans merci où tous les coups sont permis et qui dresse Blancs contre Noirs, riches contre pauvres.
02/2017
Fantasy
Fantasy Show. Edition Pirates
Dans un monde où avoir des enfants est devenu un service onéreux, la jeune Gladys paye chaque jour le prix de son existence. Financée par ses grands-parents, ses parents considèrent qu'elle dilapide leur héritage et sont bien décidés à l'envoyer sur une planète minière pour toucher une prime de risque des plus conséquentes. Voyant ses rêves d'avenir brisés, l'adolescente n'a alors plus qu'une seule alternative pour échapper à son destin funeste. Celle de participer à une émission de téléréalité à gros budget. Devenus des passages obligés pour obtenir des récompenses monétaires, des cursus professionnels ou entrer dans certaines écoles, ces shows TV incarnent l'espoir des âmes en détresse. Luttant contre son dégoût du système, Gladys va devoir se confronter aux autres candidats pour sauver sa peau et rendre enfin fiers ses parents. Mais l'aventure pourrait bien changer la donne... Ou la changer elle, au plus profond de son être.
05/2021
Théâtre
Steve Five (King different), Pearl
"Apple est entré chez chacun, dans les esprits, dans les rues, les conversations, les chambres, les confidences, les déclarations d'amour et de guerre".
03/2014
Gestion
Steve Jobs. Une info-biographie
Visionnaire, homme d'affaires, génie scientifique, perfectionniste, autoritaire, fou de design... Les mots manquent souvent pour décrire Steve Jobs, tant il a marqué comme peu d'autres personnes l'histoire du monde, notre présent, et sans doute notre futur. De ses débuts dans la Silicon Valley à son ultime combat, de la création de la boite bleue au lancement de l'iPod, de l'iPhone ou de l'iPad, de sa compétition avec Bill Gates au succès de Pixar. Cet ouvrage inédit explore toutes les facettes d'une vie, d'une carrière et d'une créativité hors norme. Mêlant textes et infographies, cette biographie originale démontre comme nulle autre à quel point Steve Jobs fut l'un des plus grands esprits contemporains, dont toutes les idées et les inventions font aujourd'hui partie intégrante de notre quotidien.
01/2019
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Close-up Tome 4 : Steve
Steve, le meilleur ami de Josh, n'est pas que le garçon que l'on croit, fêtard, hâbleur et amateur de tout ce qui porte jupon. Cette panoplie de coureur lui est très utile pour cacher des cicatrices profondes venues de son enfance. De plus, le coeur de Steve est accroché à celle qu'il ne peut toucher, Marcy, la petite amie de Josh. Alors, quand celle-ci débarque chez lui en lui réclamant son aide, il ne peut qu'acquiescer. Mais la demande de Marcy est troublante... et peut remettre en cause l'amitié des deux garçons. Comment Steve va-t-il garder son plus vieux pote tout en séduisant Marcy ? Est-ce que Marcy sera assez forte pour adoucir les plaies de Steve et lui redonner confiance en lui ? Non sans quelques coups tordus, la vie va faire mûrir et s'épanouir les quatre héros qui vont soigner, par petites touches et avec beaucoup d'amour, les blessures infligées dans leur enfance.
01/2022
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
Histoire internationale
Strange Adventures
Strange Adventures examines portrayals of womanhood in the works of prize-winning French author Pierrette Fleutiaux. Fleutiaux's refreshing pictures of womanhood offer insights into how women can become more whole, substantial and free in themselves and in their relationships, as well as how they can contribute to the external world through their creativity and leadership. The study demonstrates how Fleutiaux's heroines navigate the external, bodily and inner situations of adolescence, early adult life, marriage, motherhood, maturity, leadership and death, in the process developing greater inner resources of wisdom, compassion and resilience. This volume considers selections from Fleutiaux's oeuvre, from her first short fiction Histoire de la chauve-souris to her recent Loli le temps venu, including Métamorphoses de la reine (Goncourt de la nouvelle) and Nous sommes éternels (Prix Femina). Using a theoretical framework which draws on Jungian concepts and the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, the study analyses women's individuation trajectories at each stage of life. Throughout, Fleutiaux's depictions are shown to pose a challenge to existing conceptions of womanhood and individuality, thus opening up new understandings of what it means to be a woman, and to be human.
03/2016
Informatique
THE AWESOME POWER OF DIRECT 3D/DIRECTX. DirectX version 5.0, compact disk included
If you are programming real-time 3D applications for simulations, games, marketing, demonstrations or computer-animated videos using " Microsoft's Direct 3D Software Development Kit ", this book is for you. Unlike other books, " The awesome power of direct 3D/DirectX " shows you how to build a complete working 3D application, including 3D sound, joystick input, animation, textures, shadows, and even collision detection ! It shows you how to write a complete project using Retained Mode. It does not bury the code in "wrappers" that hide the nuances of the SDK. Nothing is hidden. What's inside ? : complete step-by-step tutorial for Direct 3D ; retained mode (windowed and full-screen) applications ; basics of DirectDraw ; how to integrate all DirectX components into a working program ; special techniques for shadows and 3D sound ; integration of direct input devices like joystick and mouse ; comprehensive library of high-quality, free, reusable 3D objects and textures cross-referenced DirectX retained mode command library ; all steps necessary to set up an immediate mode framework which you can then use to create a complete program. An independent developer of 3D graphics applications and games, Peter J. Kovach has been a vice president with a national developer of virtual reality and arcade systems and CEO of a corporation developing 3D system for advertising and product development. CD-ROM contains : more than 140 DirectX.x objects, some with animation (70 megs) ; 3ds originals of the .x objects (58 megs) ; 52 high-quality textures (4 megs) ; Microsoft's DirectX 6 SDK and samples (386 megs) ; all the code from the text.
12/1999
Non classé
The Invention of Nature
This book brings together chapters written by scholars providing a wide interdisciplinary background (anthropology, archaeology, comparative religion, art history, philosophy, and biology). It offers both descriptive data on the way non-Western people conceive what Westerners call "Nature", and philosophical investigations into meaning of this concept in Western thought. The book intends not only to demonstrate how very differently humans think about the elusive concept of Nature, it also tries to show where "primitive" thought and Western philosophy meet.
01/1994
Informatique
Flash .Net. Dynamic content for designers with Flash remoting MX and ASP.NET
Flash.NET is the book which is your ticket to the future of application design. Two cutting-edge technologies, joined in union to provide the perfect marriage.
Macromedia Flash MX really excels when it comes to presenting graphical, interactive content. It's a superb tool for building user interfaces and for presenting content that changes over time.
Microsoft's NET Framework is a suite of tools for building powerful applications, both on and off the Web.
Put them together, and a whole raft of new possibilities opens up for both: powerful logic and functionality with a rich, flexible interface on the front. Put them together, and you get Flash.NET.
In this book, a team of expert designers and developers show you how to add dynamic NET content and turbocharged server-side functionality to your Flash MX projects.
In short, you need this book if you're a Flash designer who wants a cutting-edge advantage and doesn't want to get left behind when ail the cool people have started utilizing the power of NET with their applications.
To run the examples in this book for yourself, you'll need:
• Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
• Macromedia Flash MX
• Microsoft NET Framework SDK (free download from Microsoft)
The book also covers Macromedia Flash Remoting MX
11/2002
Non classé
Boethius and the Liberal Arts
This collection of essays by authors in a variety of specialities should demonstrate how, in the Middle Ages, Boethius' texts helped shape the essential concepts of the educated person who underwent a course of the Liberal Arts studies. These essays should be of interest to philosophers, logicians, musicologists, historians of mathematics and ideas and to literary scholars. Not only is each paper written by a known authority in his field, but the collection into one volume shows how closely related these various disciplines were in the principles which Boethius chose as his basis for the Study of the Liberal Arts.
12/1982
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
Romance historique
How the Scot was won. Desperately Seeking Duke
Née aux Indes, Philippa Kirkpatrick a grandi sur le magnifique domaine de Carlyle qu'elle gère comme elle peut avec sa marraine, la duchesse. Heureusement, un nouveau régisseur vient d'être engagé. La jeune fille espère qu'il s'agira d'un homme sérieux et compétent. Mais voilà que débarque Will Montclair, un Américain aux allures d'aventurier, impertinent et charmeur en diable. Philippa sait qu'elle devrait le renvoyer sur-le-champ. Mais pour la première fois, sa raison est en conflit avec son coeur...
11/2022
Rock
The First 21. How I became Nikki Sixx
Nikki Sixx est l'une des figures les plus respectées, reconnaissables et rentre-dedans de l'industrie du disque. Fondateur de Mötley Crüe, sobre depuis vingt-et-un ans, Sixx reste incroyablement passionné par son art et ce citoyen du monde ne cache rien de sa vie dans l'univers rock'n'roll. Né Franklin Carlton Feranna le 11 décembre 1958, le jeune Frankie, abandonné par son père et élevé tantôt par sa mère, tantôt par ses grands-parents, est un petit Américain moyen qui brûle du désir de découvrir la vie. Il finit par sauter dans un bus Greyhound - direction Hollywood. A Los Angeles, le chemin était semé d'embûches et le jeune homme se retrouva bientôt seul. Il se battait pour survivre, enchaînant les petits boulots. Mais, le soir, Frank affûtait ses compétences : il rejoignit Sister, fondé par Blackie Lawless, un vétéran du hard rock, avant de former son propre groupe, London, un avant-goût de Mötley Crüe. Repoussant une proposition de se joindre au groupe de Randy Rhoads, Frank changea son nom en Frank London, puis Nikki Nine, avant d'opter pour Nikki Sixx. Notre jeune Californien rêvait de mêler punk, glam et hard rock afin d'offrir les shows les plus gigantesques, les plus théâtraux et les plus irrésistibles que le monde ait jamais connus. Avec du travail, de la passion et un peu de chance, cette vision se concrétisa enfin - et voici le récit authentique et réfléchi d'un jeune homme en quête de son identité, et de la façon dont Frank Feranna devint Nikki Sixx. C'est la parfaite feuille de route pour surmonter tous les obstacles et réussir dans tous les domaines, si vous y mettez du vôtre.
03/2022
Religion
Like Man, Like Woman
Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as ‘other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men : the same qualities and abilities pertaining to the domains of parenthood, intellect and morals are ascribed by writers to women as well as to men. There are two voices, however : a traditional, ideal voice and an individual, realistic voice. This creates a duality of representations of women, which recurs across literary genres and reflects a duality of mentality. How can we interpret the paradoxical information about Roman women given by the male-authored texts ? How does this duality of mentality inform us about gender roles and gender hierarchy ? This work analyses well-known, as well as overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal and sheds new light on Roman views of women and their abilities, on the notions of private and public and on conjugal relationships. In the process, the famous sixth satire of Juvenal is revisited and its topic reassessed, providing further insights into the complex issues of gender roles, marriage and emotions. By contrasting representations of women across a broad spectrum of literary genres, this book provides consistent findings that have wide significance for the study of Latin literature and the social history of the late first and early second centuries.
07/2013
Monographies
Hardy's Wessex. The landscapes that inspired a writer
This fascinating book tells the story of Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Accompanying a multi-venue exhibition, it explores Hardy's life and work. Internationally-acclaimed writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is best known for his evocative depictions of the West Country landscape and its people, a region that he called 'Wessex'. What is less well-known is that this landscape also inspired him in many other aspects of his life, from campaigning for animal welfare to questioning the way society viewed women. This publication accompanies a blockbuster, multi-venue exhibition of the largest collection of Thomas Hardy memorabilia ever to be displayed at once. Hardy was born in the West Country, a few years after Queen Victoria came to the throne, and spent most of the rest of his life among its landscapes and people. When he turned writer, these landscapes and people re-emerged as his 'partly-real, partlydream country' of Wessex, in novels like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure. 'Hardy's Wessex' now conjures up a range of mental images : from raging seas on the coast to haunting ancient monuments, Victorian towns packed with life to peaceful hillsides grazed by sheep. However, through Hardy's 87-year life span, the West Country changed dramatically. Ideas of the role of women, humans' responsibility to animals, the realities of war, love and courtship, superstition, social structure, religion and how people related to the world around them altered fundamentally. Through his stories and campaigning, Hardy was keen to show not only the rural idyll, but also the tensions and diffi culties that lay beneath these views. These dramatic landscapes were the lens through which Hardy presented his worldview to his readership. From the tragedy of a woman saying farewell to her sailorlover on the end of Portland Bill, to a shepherd losing his flock and facing ultimate ruin on the chalky hills. The landscapes shape his characters, whose stories in turn convey his messages of social change to his readers. This publication will explore the impact that Wessex had on Hardy's works, and how living there shaped his views on the often divisive social issues of the period. Uniting beautiful landscape imagery with a selection of personal items from Hardy's life, this book will show you the man behind the literature.
06/2022
Décoration
Blue and White Done Right. The Classic Color Combination for Every Decorating Style
The legendary Schumacher design house presents an inspiring interiors survey exploring the versatile and transformative use of blue and white Divided by style (charming, modern, boho, traditional, etc.), Schumacher will take you on a tour of the best of blue and white decorating, featuring interiors that show just how versatile this color combination can be. The book features a guide to iconic blue and white colors (from robin's egg to sky, to cerulean and oyster, to alabaster to porcelain) as well as a roundup of best-in-class product from tabletop to fabrics and wallcoverings.
10/2023
Sciences de la terre et de la
Destiny or Chance. Our solar system and its place in the cosmos
Written by a leading planetary scientist, this book tells the remarkable story of how our solar system came into existence. It provides a fast-paced and expert tour of our new understanding of the Earth, its planetary neighbours and other planetary systems.
In a whirl-wind adventure, we are shown how the formation of mighty Jupiter dominated the solar system, why Mars is so small, where comets come from, how rings form around planets, why asteroids exist and why Pluto isn't a planet at all. En route we discover that chance events have shaped the course of the history of our solar system. Dramatic collisions, for example, have caused the tilts and spins of the planets, the extinction of the dinosaurs and the rise of man. Finally, we look at how suitable Earth is for harbouring life, what other planetary systems look like and whether we are alone in the cosmos.
For all those interested in understanding our solar system and its place in the cosmos, this is a lucid and compelling read.
01/2000
