Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy ?
Extraits
Comics Indépendants
Something is killing the children Tome 5 : The road to tribulation
Il y a des traumatismes dont on peine à se relever, d'autres qui réveillent en nous une force insoupçonnée. Erica Slaughter est fait de ce bois-là, meurtrie par le sceau du deuil, atteinte dans sa chair par des créatures dont elle n'aurait jamais soupçonné l'existence ? même dans ses pires cauchemars. Un an après avoir quitté précipitamment Archer's Peak, la voilà de retour, bien décidée à régler ses comptes avec la Loge du Massacre, mais surtout avec un tout nouveau type de monstre.
01/2023
Comics Indépendants
Something is killing the children Tome 3 : The game of nothing
Tous les monstres ne se cachent pas dans l'obscurité, et ça, Erica est en train d'en faire l'amère expérience. Alors que Archer Peak a été totalement confinée suite à la récente vague de meurtres, et que la nouvelle commence à se répandre en dehors de la ville, la Loge du Massacre décide d'intervenir enfin. Sans état d'âme, ses membres n'hésiteront pas à employer les grands-moyens pour éradiquer l'infestation. Erica risque d'avoir besoin d'aide si elle veut éviter une situation irréversible.
01/2022
Comics Indépendants
Something is killing the children : Pack en 2 volumes : Tome 1, Something is killing the children ; Tome 2, The House of Slaughter
Tome 1 : Lorsque les enfants de la petite ville d'Archer's Peak disparaissent les uns après les autres, la peur, la colère, et la suspicion envahissent l'entourage des victimes et laissent la police locale dans le plus grand désarroi. Aussi, quand le jeune James, seul témoin oculaire du massacre de ses trois camarades, sort de son mutisme pour parler de créatures terrifiantes vivant dans la pénombre, le coupable semble tout trouvé. Son seul espoir viendra d'une étrange inconnue, Erica Slaughter, tueuse de monstres capable de voir l'impensable, ce que l'inconscient des adultes ont depuis longtemps préférer occulter. Tome 2 : En tant que coupable idéal, James avait perdu tout espoir de se faire entendre au sujet du meurtre de ses amis. Après tout, sa défense ne tenait pas la route : des monstres auraient investi les environs d'Archer's Peak et seraient à l'origine des récentes disparitions d'enfants... Alors quand James croise la route d'Erica Slaughter, c'est la délivrance : il comprend qu'il n'est pas fou ! Non seulement elle lui confirme l'existence de ces créatures, mais elle lui apprend que sa mission est de les éliminer. Accompagné de Tomy, le frère de l'une des victimes, le duo s'engage dans une traque mortelle avec l'espoir de tuer dans l'oeuf l'invasion qui menace la ville.
01/2022
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
Non classé
The Concept of Man in Igbo Myths
In the vast silence of their isolation, the traditional Igbos have learnt the ways of living in harmony with nature. From their origin in distant time, they have kept a sacred perspective on the natural world. In our age, there is the need for traditional wisdoms to retain their validity and be intrinsic to our philosophic and scientific perceptions of the cosmos. We cannot do without their knowledge, their spiritual perspective, and their deep faith in the harmony of all nature. Ignoring these qualities has profound environmental implications. Global warming, environmental pollution, and the exhaustion of nature's resources are but a few of the symptoms of the nature's experiences as we continue to mistreat it in order to satisfy our own ends. This work helps us to realise that wherever we are, we are a part of nature. All the things around us are as presences, representing forces and powers of life that are not ours and yet are all part of us. Then we find them reflecting in ourselves, because we are nature, though not identical with it.
11/1999
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
Littérature érotique et sentim
Is Tarlah
Rien ne va plus dans la vie de Benjamin. Après avoir rencontré Cathy, une femme exceptionnelle, pendant ses vacances à Lacanau, il est obligé de la quitter pour retrouver une vie qu'il déteste, dans la grisaille de Paris. Cathy a dû renoncer à Benjamin. Leurs univers semblent incompatibles. Et pour cause, il vit sur la terre et elle vit sous l'eau. Mais quand une marée noire déferle sur les côtes de l'Atlantique, Cathy n'a pas le choix : pour sauver son peuple, les Sirénéens, elle a besoin d'une aide extérieure. Et elle se tourne vers Benjamin. Ensemble, ils vont unir la terre et la mer pour mener le plus dur des combats : celui de la survie de leurs espèces et de l'amour. Et si la solution n'était pas là où on l'attendait ? Une histoire haletante entre survie de l'espèce, amour, magie et suspense.
01/2021
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
Littérature érotique et sentim
All in Tome 2 : Mon univers
Dévastée par sa perte, Kacey Dawson est en deuil et a le coeur brisé. Les démons de l'addiction l'entraînent dans cet abysse imbibé d'alcool, duquel elle a travaillé si ardemment pour en sortir. Kacey oscille sur le fil de l'abandon, et doit se battre contre la douleur afin de se construire une nouvelle vie, pour elle, avec sa musique, et tenir la promesse faite à Jonah... Une promesse qu'elle se sent incapable d'honorer. Theo Fletcher possède un secret qui brûle son coeur, un qu'il garde précieusement alors qu'il a du mal à rester fort devant sa famille qui se déchire. La santé de sa mère est fragile, et la désapprobation de son père le détruit. Theo a peur, s'il suit son coeur, que cela soit un échec, pas seulement pour lui, mais également pour son frère qui a cru en lui alors que personne d'autre ne le faisait. Rapprochés par leur douleur, Theo et Kacey construisent lentement une amitié, solidifient d'anciens liens, s'aident à panser leurs blessures respectives, et se donnent le courage d'atteindre leurs rêves. Ensemble, à travers le chagrin et la culpabilité, ils réapprennent à rire, à faire à nouveau confiance et peut-être à découvrir quelque chose de magnifique et durable parmi les pièces brisées de leurs coeurs meurtris.
04/2019
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
Généralités médicales
Recherches expérimentales pour servir à l'histoire de l'Herpès tonsurant chez les animaux
Recherches expérimentales pour servir à l'histoire de l'Herpès tonsurant chez les animaux, par le Dr Is. Vincens,... Date de l'édition originale : 1874 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu.
01/2020
Musique
Behind the unspoken
Ce projet solo de Folk Fingerpicking a germé lors du tout premier confinement, avec une envie incontournable de retrouver les vibrations de la guitare acoustique sans autre accompagnement que le chant. Influencé par des guitaristes chanteu.r.ses de fingerpicking tel que Bert Jansch, Ellen McIlwaine, Donovan, mais aussi les contemporains Eddie Vedder, Emiliana Torrini, Kris Drever.
04/2024
Collège parascolaire
Wo is Paula? 3-4. Livre du professeur
La collection Wo ist Paula ? est une méthode d'allemand pour les enfants à partir de 8 ans. La tortue Paula accompagne le jeune apprenant dans un voyage à la découverte de la langue allemande. Wo ist Paula ? sera bientôt disponible en 4 volumes jusqu'au niveau A1 plus.
04/2018
Histoire de France
CRASH IN BAYEUX - The Last Flight of Sergeant Ferguson
Normandy, France, January 15, 1943. The weather is clear, the sun is shining. Two Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft fly over the Bayeux-Caen railroad. The target is a German freight train - and its locomotive. Aboard the first Spitfire, Sergeant Ferguson is aligning his gun sights on the target. It is 02 : 30 p. m. This will be his very last flight... HARASSING THE OCCUPYING FORCES TO PREPARE THE INVASION The RAF and RCAF had been flying hundreds of similar sorties over France for months, in order to weaken the German forces, particularly the Luftwaffe. The pilots of No. 401 Squadron were among those who took part in this patient work, made up of constant patrols and attacks. Among the 63 men mentioned in this book, 25 were killed in action between 1942 and 1944. A CRASH THAT AWOKE THE SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE Touched by William Ferguson's sacrifice, some French citizens decided to bury the young Canadian flier with dignity, honour and respect. The Germans took this as a provocation. A few weeks later, the Sipo-SD (the "Gestapo") arrested a dozen of them. They were sent to concentration camps - some of them later died in Büchenwald, Dachau and Mauthausen. Others did survive, including Paul Le Caër. He is the one who has supported the author and told him what happened. Today, he is signing the preface of this book. UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS AND TESTIMONIES Based on an in-depth analysis of unpublished documents, including the Fergusons' archives and No. 401 Squadron Operation Record Book, this work depicts the very last flight of the young Canadian pilot in detail. With a striking truthfulness, you will relive the squadron's daily life, the faith of the pilots, as well as the beginning of the sortie and "Bill" Ferguson's last minutes. FIVE YEARS OF RESEARCH AND EMOTION A young and talented historian involved in the field of remembrance in Normandy, François Oxéant has spent over five years fitting the pieces of the puzzle together. This book will help you discover all aspects of his fascinating investigation with a methodical and rigorous approach. He has met some of the last witnesses of the events and has been in touch with the pilot's family for a few years, making us share his emotion and admiration for Bill, who was barely younger than himself.
09/2014
Monographies
A Tale of Two Monkeys. Adventures in the Art World
Anthony Speelman is the doyen of English art dealers specializing in Dutch Golden Age art. Vividly written and handsomely illustrated, his memoirs offer fascinating insight into the sometimes secretive world of Old Masters. This book will appeal not only to dealers, collectors and others in the fine art world, but also to would-be collectors eager for a glimpse behind the curtain. These memoirs cover a lifetime of dealing in Old Masters at the very highest level. Speelman's career started under the guidance of his father Edward, whose own biography has much to tell. Over the years, Speelman has sold paintings to many of the world's greatest collectors, including Norton Simon, Paul Mellon, Baron Thyssen, Harold Samuel, Charles Clore and the Wrightsmans in New York, along with world renowned museums such as the Getty, the Louvre and the National Gallery, London, among many others. He writes about his encounters with these eminent bodies in a light-hearted style, sometimes amusing, always extremely interesting - including an anecdote about a recent meeting with a Chinese billionaire with a penchant for fine wine. The two monkeys in the title refer to two paintings of a monkey holding a peach by George Stubbs, the outstanding English animal painter. Anthony describes how he discovered one of these masterpieces as a 'sleeper' in a Sotheby's sale. Early in his career Anthony's rooms in Piccadilly were broken into and a number of paintings stolen, including a George Stubbs painting of a spaniel. An intriguing tale follows, ending with the paintings recovered some eighteen months later after a failed blackmail attempt on the part of the thieves. Amongst his accomplishments, Speelman was for many years chairman of the vetting committee at the annual Maastricht art fair. He describes the working of the committees which ensure that all works exhibited are correctly described. Still active in the art world, he is currently chairman of the vetting committee of the prestigious annual Masterpiece art fair in London. Other chapters detail Speelman's travels to California, New York and Paris, his interest in gastronomy and his thrilling adventures in the world of horseracing. The book is beautifully illustrated with examples of works that have passed through the author's hands. The wide range of illustrations is not limited to Dutch art and includes works by Canaletto, Stubbs, Raphael, Tiepolo, Melendez and other Old Masters.
12/2022
Littérature française
The Shipping Agent has Disappeared
Mrs. Lemardeley, an elderly lady living in Granville, is attacked one night in July. Customs officer Weber, asked by the local police to investigate, suspects that burglary was the real motive. Except nothing is missing. When Mrs. Lemardeley's two children are also both victims of the same man, Weber starts to look into the family's colonial past. Who is the attacker and what is his interest in the family ? As the criminal manages to repeatedly evade capture, Weber follows a trail of clues which eventually lead him to discover the truth. But can he find his man before it's too late ?
09/2010
Littérature française
Saint Shuddhananda Bharati A visionary
Foreword To my friend, to my guide, to the mahatma of my heart, to the visionary of a united world living in peace and harmony in the earthly paradise that God has given us. Life and destiny is like an iceberg ; most of us is hidden, and for some, this is the start of the long path of questioning... For souls that are searching, the time then comes when the seeker finds what is being sought : the precursor, the one that has opened the path, cleared it out and illuminated the way. Thus in the deepest part of our Selves, at the centre of our soul, Joythi, the Divine Light is revealed and works on meeting all those who seek it. Kavi Yogi Maharshi Shuddhananda Bharati was a scholar, linguist, scientist, seer poet, saint and the sage of the Cosmic Age. He was ever agile and active, writing, singing, doing good and observed silence for 30 continuous years. He was a universalist, who was not bound to caste, religion, colour and race or geographic bounds. He was an apostle of Sama Yoga, which seeks for a synthesis of science and yoga, West and East, the actual and the ideal in life. Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati is the author of creative and literary works with diverse writing styles : epic and lyric writings, melodramas, operas, comedies, pastoral theologies, novels, short stories, biographies, notes on famous works, essays. Bharata Shakti Kavi Malayam is his magnum opus. Editions ASSA, Christianananda Bharati
11/2013
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
Critique littéraire
Stendhal secret. To the happy few
"Qui suis-je ? " s'interroge Stendhal à longueur de pages, que ce soit dans ses écrits de jeunesse, sa correspondance, les marges des livres de sa bibliothèque, aussi bien que dans ses essais, ses récits de voyages ou encore ses romans. Acquérir une connaissance impartiale de soi-même, parvenir à la vérité pour toucher à l'idéal de la vie humaine, telle est la quête qui sous-tend l'intégralité de l'oeuvre de l'écrivain grenoblois. Pour autant cette aspiration n'est pas immédiatement perceptible. La célèbre dédicace To the happy few ne serait alors qu'un avertissement destiné à inviter les quelques heureux, susceptibles d'accéder à ce second sens, à pénétrer chaque scène étrange ou à décrypter chaque allusion en apparence superfétatoire afin que l'intégralité de l'ouvrage se révèle à eux. L'appartenance de Stendhal à la franc-maçonnerie, son goût sans limite pour les pseudonymes et la cryptographie, sa manie du secret sont autant d'éléments permettant d'explorer le versant caché de son oeuvre.
12/2018
Yaoi/homosexualité masculine
Happy of the End - Tome 02
Après la pire des rencontres, Chihiro n'a nulle part où aller. Il s'installe chez Haoren, et leur vie commune commence. Mais au milieu de ces déménagements répétés, comme s'il fuyait quelque chose, Haoren commence à lui montrer ses sentiments... A mesure que leurs coeurs se rapprochent, leur contact devient de plus en plus doux... Les deux hommes confirment leurs sentiments l'un pour l'autre, et pas seulement physiquement, mais aussi émotionnellement. Ils ont des rencards au cinéma, se donnent des cadeaux... Ils passent leurs journées ensemble dans une atmosphère paisible, comme des "amoureux ordinaires". Puis un jour, un homme, Maya, apparaît dans leur vie. Haoren ne peut cacher son désarroi face à l'homme qu'il a tenté de fuir toute sa vie...
04/2024
Mode
Purple Fashion N° 39 : The New York Issue
The next issue is all about New York. After a few years in Los Angeles and in Mexico City, the magazine is coming back to New York City to explore the vibrant intellectual and artistic capital of the US. New York City has historically been a magnet : the center of contemporary art and the heart of underground culture in America. The magazine will explore the city who has always inspired Purple through its creativity, as well as generations of artists, talents, and designers attracted by its relentless energy. What's new in NYC today ? What's going on now in the music scene, in the artworld, in fashion ? What is the New York style today ? What are the new places, faces, and designers ? And who are the people that today shape the city as a progressive and creative megalopolis ? What is the mythology of the city, its true spirit ? What about the sexual and queer revolution that the city ushered in since the 70s ? What possibilities can New York provide for the world today ?
02/2023
Livres 0-3 ans
The discovery of magic
Queen Vispa and King Dungammei are the beloved rulers of their respective kingdoms. The two territories live in harmony, sharing a temple that crosses their mutual border, but they pray to different gods and have little in common outside of geography. The monarchs seem an unlikely pair, but when each violates the rules of the temple - one by entering the temple as a woman, and the other by praying to the other kingdom's god - both find themselves abandoned by their people, deciding soon after to declare the approval and presence of both gods in their hearts, as well as their love for each other. The King and Queen's subjects also abandon the shared temple, leaving it to the disobedient pair and building separate temples in their own territories. The monarchs' happy life together is, however, short-lived, as Queen Vispa dies upon giving birth to their child Delarai. The King is urged to repent and return to his kingdom. He complies, leaving princess Delarai with Magi, a nurse from a remote village, to raise her. Delarai rows up in near isolation, far from other people, spending most of her time among flowers and animals of the beautiful temple garden. Meanwhile, battles rage between the two kingdoms following the King's return. Delaware, a son begotten to the King and his next wife, gets badly wounded some years later in an attempt to stop the fighting. On his deathbed, the Prince insists on being taken to the forbidden temple to be buried there. The King, though ill himself, agrees to fulfill his son's dying wish. It is there where Delarai, having become quite an expert at herbal remedies, comes to their aid, preparing a special potion while praying to the temple's two gods in her nurse Magi's native language. As Delarai completes the life-saving act of curing the Prince, she tries to call for Magi, but the word that leaves her lips is "magic". Those who witness the event soon spread the word, and Delarai becomes recognized across both kingdoms as the creator of magic. The King, however, succumbs to old age, imparting his last kernel of wisdom unto his daughter : the two temple gods are one and the same. With this knowledge and their newfound inner strength, Delarai and Delaware unify the two kingdoms, and live happily ever after.
09/2021
Coloriages adultes
Grand bloc Is it love ? 50 coloriages anti-stress
Plongez dans l'univers du jeu interactif Is it love ? à travers 60 illustrations à mettre en couleur. Suivez les pas des héros de Carter Corp, de Blue Swan Hospital ou encore de Mystery Spell et apportez-leur votre vision en coloriant vos personnages préférés.
05/2021
Théâtre
Des mondes meilleurs ; Shakespeare is dead, get over it !
Des mondes meilleurs : A la veille d'une élection en Belgique, un homme politique, Raymond, attend que sa "plume", Jean-Pierre, lui écrive son discours. Sur la page blanche, pour l'instant, un seul titre se détache : Des mondes meilleurs. Mais on apprend qu'Henri, son opposant le plus dangereux, a disparu et la rumeur s'installe peu à peu... Sur fond de crise économique, d'insatisfaction conjugale et de désir éperdu de croquettes de crevettes, s'imbriquent vies privées et destins politiques. Shakespeare is dead, get over it ! : C'est l'histoire d'une rencontre amoureuse : celle de William (antimondialiste convaincu) et d'Anna (actrice shakespearienne convaincante) que le hasard ou le destin dispose côte à côte lors d'une rétrospective des films de Jean-Luc Godard. Le cheminement d'amants ayant connu trop d'histoires d'amour nous mène, à travers réalités et fictions, des grottes de Hotton à Prague, de Stratford-upon-Avon à Bruxelles ou Berlin ou Beijing. Cette pièce hors du commun ressemble étrangement à la confession, en multiplex, d'enfants de notre siècle.
01/2016
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
CONSTRUCTING QUARKS. A Sociological History of Particle Physics
Widely regarded as a classic in its field, Constructing Quarks recounts the history of the post-war development of elementary particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, Andrew Pickering suggests that scientists are not passive observers; and reporters of nature. Rather, they are active producers of the world through a social symbiosis of experimental and theoretical practice.
"Constructing Quarks chronicles what many have begun to regard as a major revolution in 20th century science-the discovery of quarks and gauge field theories of strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions. A prodigious piece of scholarship that I can heartily recommend."
-Michael Riordan, New Scientist
"An admirable history.... Because his account is so detailed and so accurate, and because it makes clear why the physicists did what they did, it is eminently suited to be required reading for all young physicists entering or contemplating entering the practice of elementary-particle physics."
-Hugh N. Pendleton, Physics Today
"A very detailed description of a remarkable enterprise."
-John Polkinghorne, Times Higher Education Supplement
01/1984
Autres collections (9 à 12 ans
Les enquêtes de Tom et Lola : Le mystère de la Saint-Valentin. Edition bilingue français-anglais
C'est bientôt la Saint-Valentin. A l'école, les élèves préparent des cadeaux et des jolies cartes pour les amoureux. Mais, à la veille de cette fête, ils découvrent dans la classe une boite blanche avec un ruban rouge, une carte et un stylo noir. A qui appartiennent ces objets ? Pourquoi sont-ils là ? - It is soon Valentine day. At school the children make gifts and pretty cards. But just the day before the celebration, they discover in the classroom a white box with a red ribbon, a card and a black pen. Who owns these objects ? Why are they here ?
10/2021
Droit
Activation Policies for the Unemployed, the Right to Work and the Duty to Work
Since the 1990s and the 2000s, Western social protection systems have experienced a turn towards activation. This turn consists of the multiplication of measures aimed at bringing those who are unemployed closer to participation in the labour market. These measures often induce a strengthening of the conditions that must be met in order to receive social benefits. It is in this well known context that the authors gathered in this book decided to take a closer look at the relationship between activation policies for the unemployed and the right and the duty to work. If activation measures are likely to increase transitions towards the labour market, we can also make the assumption that they may, particularly when they are marked with the seal of coercion, hinder or dramatically reduce the right to freely chosen work. In such circumstances, the realisation of the "right to work", which is often stated to be the aim of those who promote activation, tends in practice to be reduced to an increasing pressure being exerted on the unemployed. In this case, isn't it actually the duty to work that is particularly reinforced ? After an historical and philosophical perspective on the issue, this assumption is confronted with the developments observed in the United States and in France, and then with the guidelines laid down in international human rights instruments. What follows is a discussion of two alternatives to the dominant activation model : the basic income guarantee and the employment guarantee.
06/1987
Mathématiques
ORIENTED MATROIDS. Second Edition
Oriented matroids are a very natural mathematical concept which prescrits itself in many different guises and which has connections and applications to many different areas. These include discrete and computational geometry, combinatorics, convexity, topology, algebraic geometry, operations research, computer science and theoretical chemistry. This is the first comprehensive, accessible account of the subject. It is intended for a diverse audience: graduate students who wish to learn the subject from scratch, researchers in the various fields of application who want to concentrate on certain aspects of the theory; specialists who need a thorough reference work; and others at points in between. A list of exercises and open problems ends each chapter.
For the second edition, the authors have expanded the bibliography greatly to ensure that it remains comprehensive and
up-to-date, and they have also added an appendix surveying research since the work was first published.
01/1999
Ethnologie
Glimpses of african cultures. Echos des cultures africaines, Edition bilingue français-anglais
This book covers various aspects of African traditional cultures that include: communication, marriage ceremonies, funerals, traditional rites, witchcraft, traditional cultural activities, and traditional beliefs. It will undoubtedly appeal to anyone who wants to understand better our African cultures. The reading of some of the stories will certainly raise existential questions about the nature of spirits, truth, and the place of God in the collective mind of the Africans. Some of the questions are the following: how is it possible that a human being has his double in an animal known as his totem ? How corne that, for people who do not believe in reincarnation, it is the chief who determines the future of the soul of the deceased ? In "Mourning habits in the West province of Cameroon," it appears that, if the soul is not taken care of, it will cause physical havoc in the society. Could there be a link between our souls and the physical elements of nature ? Is skull worshiping among the Bamileke merely a traditional practice or are they really able to communicate with their ancestors through the skulls ? What has led the Aghem people to firmly believe that lakes can physically move, that the dead live in their lakes, that children live in their pre-human state as caterpillars and may transform into reptiles when they are still babies ? What makes it possible for the human mind to communicate with animais, exchange messages as is shown in "How animais and things can speak and communicate in the Yambassa culture" ? Apart from the physical world as we know it, could there truly be a spiritual world that witches and wizards have access to and which system of values could this spiritual world be subjected to ? Every single paper of the more than 80 papers and squibs this book comprises is truly an invitation to explore further the untapped richness of African cultures.
04/2011
Yuri/homosexualité féminine
Today, She is not here... Tome 1
Laisse-moi te faire un petite massage... Qu'il s'agisse d'un frère qui fantasme sur ses soeurs, d'une mère qui fait l'éducation sexuelle du petit ami de sa fille ou d'une jeune femme qui se retrouve malgré elle embauchée par un studio de films pornographiques, elles ont vite fait d'en redemander ! Pudique au début, le plaisir aura très vite raison des tabous et des conventions sociales... La flamme torride qui les anime semble incontrôlable, et ça tombe bien, puisque leurs partenaires ne semblent pas se lasser de tenter de l'éteindre ! Une fois qu'elles y ont goûté, elles ne peuvent plus s'en passer !
04/2024
