Rage against the machisme
Extraits
Romans, témoignages & Co
Rose rage
- T'as entendu parler de cette fille qui a été renvoyée parce qu'elle avait tabassé un mec dans la file de la cantine ? Il lui avait touché les fesses... - C'est pas juste. C'est pas elle qui devrait être renvoyée, c'est lui. Et si j'avais un moyen de faire éclater la vérité au grand jour ? Pour Rachèle, à la tête du journal du lycée, il est impossible de laisser passer une nouvelle injustice. Ca fait trop longtemps que ça dure. Que tout le monde ferme les yeux. Elle décide donc d'appeler toutes les filles, toutes les femmes de l'établissement à faire grève. Il est temps pour elles de se faire entendre. Il faut que certaines choses changent enfin.
08/2022
Suspense
Rage bleue
Séduite par des propos charmeurs en ligne, Léa, 14 ans, s'est livrée à des démonstrations personnelles scabreuses face à la caméra. Aujourd'hui, le désespoir l'envahit quand son "amoureux du net" la place devant un dilemme impossible. Interrompue alors qu'elle s'apprête à commettre un geste fatal, la jeune fille se ressaisit et décide de se battre. Aussi, quand son ami Théo, 16 ans - expert en informatique et hacker à ses heures - s'inquiète de la fureur qu'il sent chez elle, Léa s'épanche et sollicite son aide pour retrouver son agresseur. Plein de bonne volonté, Théo se met en quête, au côté de son amie, de cet "enfoiré" : le localiser, l'identifier, le démasquer, le faire payer... Plus facile à dire qu'à faire ! Pourtant, mus par cette rage bleue, Léa et Théo se lancent le défi de gagner la partie !
11/2021
Policiers
Rage blanche
"Un pur plaisir, angoissant, intelligent et drôle. Une nouvelle voix étonnante". La vie de retraitée ne sied pas à tout le monde et, si elle semble mener une vie paisible à Tucson, Texas, avec son époux Carlo et leurs deux carlins, Brigid Quinn ne parvient pas à totalement à mettre de côté son passé d'agent au FBI. Huit ans auparavant, sa jeune recrue, Jessica, a été enlevée par le seriel killer de la Route 66 sur lequel Brigid enquêtait activement. Suite à ce drame, elle a décidé de mettre un point final à sa carrière. Mais lorsqu'on lui apprend qu'un homme, suspecté d'être ce meurtrier, a été arrêté, Brigid se plonge une fois de plus corps et âme dans l'enquête. Ses vieux démons refont surface et, avec eux, sa soif de justice et sa rage de vaincre.
01/2018
12 ans et +
Rose Rage
- T'as entendu parler de cette fille qui a été renvoyée parce qu'elle avait tabassé un mec dans la file de la cantine ? Il lui avait touché les fesses... - C'est pas juste. C'est pas elle qui devrait être renvoyée, c'est lui. Et si j'avais un moyen de faire éclater la vérité au grand jour ? Pour Rachèle, à la tête du journal du lycée, il est impossible de laisser passer une nouvelle injustice. Ca fait trop longtemps que ça dure. Que tout le monde ferme les yeux. Elle décide donc d'appeler toutes les filles, toutes les femmes de l'établissement à faire grève. Il est temps pour elles de se faire entendre. Il faut que certaines choses changent enfin.
Policiers
La rage
Il avait fait la guerre, des gosses, planté des arbres, écrit quelques bouquins... Sa femme s'était barrée... Il s'était recréé un monde sans nom, loin de tout, et avait cru trouver la paix. De l'alcool, du jazz, des livres, du sexe de temps en temps. Mais on ne lâche pas facilement son passé, surtout si des tueurs patentés et des fous d'Allah viennent vous rafraîchir la mémoire et s'entredéchirer. Les héritiers d'anciens collabos, un gamin révolté et des chasseurs de loup s'en mêlent, aidés par des gendarmes pas clairs. Alors ça casse. Tout le monde ramasse, sans concession, sans exception.
03/2002
Policiers
La rage
Le procureur Teodore Szacki n'est pas au mieux de sa forme depuis qu'il a quitté Varsovie. Il se sent en perpétuel décalage, tant dans sa vie de couple que dans ses relations avec sa fille adolescente. Est-ce pour cela qu'un jour, il ne prend pas l'exacte mesure d'une plainte pour violences conjugales ? Avec des conséquences effroyables pour l'épouse battue... Ou bien est-il perturbé par une étrange enquête pour meurtre dont il a hérité - portant sur un squelette dont les os appartiendraient à plusieurs victimes... ? Teodore Szacki va vite se rendre compte que les deux affaires pourraient être liées. La piste d'un insaisissable redresseur de torts se dessine ; quelqu'un oeuvre dans l'ombre, visiblement déterminé à rendre la justice pour pallier l'incurie des services de police.
09/2016
Littérature française
Rage tendre
InsoliteCNL – Il y a des mots crus et des baisers à la menthe Il y a un sens la merveille n'est pas encore cassée Marie Chadou mon amour Je croyais entendre battre ton coeur pour moi ce n'était que le bruit d'une ombre marchant sur la neige Né en 1975 à Limoges, cofondateur avec Sylvain Courtoux et Charles Pennequin des éditions Poésie Express, Jérôme Bertin a publié plus de dix livres de poèmes. orage publié avec le concours du Cr./L.,oa.
06/2021
Thèmes photo
The Big Book of Breasts. The Compact Age of Natural Curves, Edition français-anglais-allemand
Ne vous laissez pas troubler par son format compact : sous cette modeste couverture se déploient légion de poitrines naturelles, moelleuses, spectaculaires, qu'exhibent fièrement les modèles les plus glamour des années 1950, 1960 et 1970. Composé à partir de la publication originale de 398 pages The Big Book of Breasts et des calendriers Big Breast parus ultérieurement, ce portfolio contient 40% d'inédits.
01/2021
Histoire internationale
One Artist on Five Continents
Elisabet Delbrück (1876-1967) was one of a number of Germans who came to New Zealand in the late 1930s. Unlike most, she had not intended to emigrate but was touring the country when World War II broke out. She was at first forbidden to leave and then chose to remain in Wellington. Her thirty years in Mahina Bay on Wellington harbour had a profound effect on all who knew her. This study aims to discover why she was so remarkable. It explores her early life, her marriage into a prominent German family and her qualification as an artist. She turned this into a profession, teaching and exhibiting on five continents in the 1920s and 1930s. She always travelled alone, observing the customs and beliefs of the people she met. In Australia and New Zealand in 1938 and 1939 she was wrongly suspected of spreading Nazi propaganda. Her story is also the story of a heroic group of Wellingtonians who helped her in the 1940s and valued her friendship till her death.
12/2011
Théâtre
Diane. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Now regrettably obscure, Nicolas de Montreux published prolifically in various genres during the 1590s (under the anagrammatic pseudonym of "Olénix du Mont Sacré"). He produced most of his work in Nantes under the patronage of Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercoeur, when the latter was Governor of Brittany — hence the frequent political cast of his writing, since Mercoeur was the ultimate hold-out for the ultra-Catholic Holy League against Henri IV. Yet Montreux also contributed significantly to the diffusion in France of Italian-inspired romantic pastoral, and his comedy Diane, whose title evokes the Diana of Montemayor, was his major dramatic composition in this vein. First appended to the third volume of his popular Bergeries (Tours, 1594), which otherwise mingle prose and verse, Diane recalls Italian models : Tasso's Aminta, Guarini's Il Pastor Fido, the commedia dell'arte. It displays exuberant theatricality in pushing towards absurdity its inevitable theme — the disruptive power of terrestrial love, which is finally aligned with that which brings harmony to the universe. Magical intervention is the means ; multiple marriages mark the end. The overlap with Shakespeare's romantic comedies, especially A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595-96), offers a special rationale for translating Montreux's work into English. Besides an Introduction exploring the play's contexts and affiliations, the volume includes an annotated edition of the French text, unpublished since Montreux's era.
08/2019
Non classé
A Culture of Tough Jews
From brutal Nazi killers to Hanukkah heroes in the 'hood, tough Jews refute images of doomed Holocaust victims, wandering Jews of exile before them, and the post-war ‘nice Jewish boys' who followed. They foster belligerent responses to polemics of fear and self-hatred, and as such, materialize as a challenge for postmodern cultural identity. A Culture of Tough Jews reframes the tough Jew as an enduring act of rhetorical regeneration by reifying a related figure, the vital Jew. As corrective to the tough Jew, the vital Jew encourages robust cultural production and dialogue. For audiences of rhetoric and cultural studies, the book offers critical and theoretical study of rhetorical regeneration, including original constructs of postmodern blackface and transformative performativity, as a resource for contemporary rhetorical invention. It also constitutes a case study for the postmodern critique of identity by invoking concerns of (post)assimilation, gender and power, and the social construction of race, ethnicity, class, and power to advance conversations on fractious cultural exigencies. A Culture of Tough Jews is a spirited call for postmodern cultural vitality that responds to contemporary politics of identity and memory.
10/2014
12 ans et +
The Priest : The Priest annoys the King
Après son mariage avec Sasha, le roi Ragô était censé être heureux. Pourtant, depuis que ses sentiments ont réellement atteint son bien-aimé, la souffrance et le tourment l'envahissent. Il veut que Sasha soit à ses côtés à chaque seconde, et que personne d'autre ne pose les yeux sur lui. Ainsi, Ragô se retrouve prisonnier de la souffrance d'avoir enfin obtenu celui qu'il désirait. Au même moment, lui et Sasha n'ont d'autre choix que d'accepter l'invitation qu'ils ont reçue de Saiha, le pays voisin. Ragô va-t-il se mettre en colère au banquet organisé par le roi de Saiha, que la beauté de Sasha a rendu complètement fou... ? Voici le nouveau roman d'amour fantastique de la série du roi et du prêtre !
10/2014
Policiers
The City & the City
Deux villes, un seul territoire… Beszèl et Ul Qoma se partagent un labyrinthe de rues enchevêtrées, s'ignorant mutuellement. Le passage de l'une à l'autre, un simple regard même, implique l'intervention d'une milice transnationale et omnipotente. Côté Besz, l'assassinat d'une jeune étudiante en archéologie va mettre le feu aux poudres… En charge d'une enquête délicate, entre secrets d'histoire et brouillard juridictionnel, l'inspecteur Borlù avance en terrain miné… Ce roman a reçu cinq prix en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis. Il a été cité dans la liste des meilleurs livres de l'année par le Los Angeles Times, le Seattle Times et Publishers' Weekly.
03/2013
Monographies
Hilma af Klint. The Five Notebook 1
In 1896, Hilma af Klint and four other like-minded women artists left the Edelweiss Society and founded the "Friday Group", also known as "The Five". They met every Friday for spiritual meetings, including prayers, studies of the New Testament, meditation and séances. The medium exercised automatic writing and mediumistic drawing. Eventually they established contact with spiritual beings whom they called "The High Ones". In 1896, the five women began taking meticulous notes of the mediumistic messages conveyed by the spirits. In time, Hilma af Klint felt she had been selected for more important messages. After ten years of esoteric training with "The Five", aged 43, Hilma af Klint accepted a major assignment, the execution of The Paintings for the Temple. This commission, which engaged the artist from 1906 to 1915, changed the course of her life. In 1908, Rudolf Steiner, leader of the German Theosophical Society, held several lectures in Stockholm. He also visited af Klint's studio and saw some of the early Paintings for the Temple. In 1913, Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society, which af Klint joined in 1920 and remained a member for the rest of her life.
01/2022
Rock
Rock Fusion. Funk, Hip-Hop, Nü-Metal & autres métissages
En 1986, le monde de la musique est secoué par un tube d'un genre nouveau. Le producteur Rick Rubin a l'idée de remettre au goût du jour "Walk This Way" des rockeurs d'Aerosmith en y associant les rappeurs de Run-D. M. C. et pose la première pierre à l'édifice d'une fusion sonore inédite. Dans son sillon, Faith No More et les Red Hot Chili Peppers poursuivent l'expérience en passant au shaker le rock, le funk, le rap, le punk, la pop et le metal, imités ensuite par des groupes comme Rage Against the Machine ou Korn qui y ajoutent des ingrédients plus extrêmes encore. L'hybridation devient la norme, et les années deux mille voient l'avènement du genre, sous l'influence des poids lourds comme Linkin Park, System of a Down, Deftones ou Slipknot. Entre rap rock, funk metal et nü-metal, cette anthologie explore trente-cinq années de métissages musicaux à travers cent de leurs oeuvres les plus représentatives.
03/2021
Monographies
Gustave Moreau. The Fables
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) is one of the most brilliant and enigmatic artists associated with the French Symbolist movement. This book accompanies an exhibition of some of the most extraordinary works he ever made, unseen in public for over a century. Moreau's watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau's ' keen apprehension of the weird. ' There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour - many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau's storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau's visions. Prints after Moreau's Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau's response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine's canonical work, whose sources include Aesop's fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times.
08/2021
Sociologie
Séries télévisées. Laboratoires d'éveil politique
Les séries télévisées, comme toute "? culture populaire ? ", transforment la définition de l'art : d'objet de distinction, il se fait oeuvre d'éducation morale et politique. En mettant en avant des questions politiques, et en y apportant des réponses radicales, elles éveillent les sensibilités sur des enjeux contemporains majeurs. Menace terroriste et espionnage (Homeland, The Americans, Le Bureau des légendes), ambition personnelle des dirigeants (Game of Thrones, Baron Noir), éthique du capitalisme néolibéral (The Good Place), féminisme et intersectionnalité (Orange is the New Black, I May Destroy You, Killing Eve), conflit israélo-palestinien (Fauda, Our Boys), racisme et antisémitisme (Lupin, Watchmen, The Plot Against America), impact de la fiction sur la réalité géopolitique (Serviteur du peuple), fatalité des inégalités sociales (The Wire, Engrenages), menace apocalyptique (The Walking Dead), dérives des nouvelles technologies (Black Mirror), violence du système carcéral (Orange is the New Black) : sur tous ces éléments, les séries fournissent des référents culturels communs forts, qui peuplent conversations ordinaires et débats politiques. Leur impact sur les régimes démocratiques, conçus comme espaces de délibération, de contestation et de transformation sociale, est majeur. Un décryptage d'une vingtaine de séries pour en souligner la puissance éthique et politique.
01/2023
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
Non classé
Ruling Class Men
What is it like to be a master of the universe ? The authors have researched the desires and fears of the world's most powerful men. The Murdochs, Packers, Kennedys, Agnellis and other men like them, directly determine the fates of thousands and influence the future of the world like no other people. Described as ‘sacred monsters' by one of their own, they are carefully created to be what they are and to enjoy shaping the world in their own likeness. To learn about these often reclusive men, the authors extended the life-history technique to interrogate autobiographies, diaries and biographies and have created a composite picture, a collective portrait, of tycoons over three generations. The book carefully explores the childhoods, schooling, work and play, sexual activities, marriages and deaths of the wealthiest men who have ever lived. It exposes the nature of ruling-class masculinity itself.
02/2007
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Thinking about Physics
Physical scientists are problem solvers. They are comfortable "doing" science: they find problems, solve them, and explain their solutions. Roger Newton believes that his fellow physicists might be too comfortable with their roles as solvers of problems. He argues that physicists should spend more time thinking about physics. If they did, he believes, they would become even more skilled at solving problems and "doing" science. As Newton points out in this thought-provoking book, problem solving is always influenced by the theoretical assumptions of the problem solver. Too often, though, he believes, physicists haven't subjected their assumptions to thorough scrutiny. Newton's goal is to provide a framework within which the fundamental theories of modem physics can be explored, interpreted, and understood.
"Surely physics is more than a collection of experimental results, assembled to satisfy the curiosity of appreciative experts," Newton writes. Physics, according to Newton, has moved beyond the describing and naming of curious phenomena, which is the goal of some other branches of science. Physicists have spent a great part of the twentieth century searching for explanations of experimental findings. Newton agrees that experimental facts are vital to the study of physics, but only because they lead to the development of a theory that can explain them. Facts, he argues, should undergird theory.
Newton's explanatory sweep is both broad and deep. He covers such topics as quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, field theory, thermodynamics, the role of mathematics in physics, and the concepts of probability and causality. For Newton the fundamental entity in quantum theory is the field, from which physicists can explain the particle-like and wave-like properties that are observed in experiments. He grounds his explanations in the quantum field.
Although this is not designed as a standalone textbook, it is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and researchers. This is a clear, concise, up-to-date book about the concepts and theories that underlie the study of contemporary physics. Readers will find that they will become better-informed physicists and, therefore, better thinkers and problem solvers, too.
01/2000
Non classé
The Search for Lyonnesse
Although Mme de Lafayette is acknowledged as the founder of the modern novel, her precise legacy has been understood only in relation to male-authored texts. However, she wrote as a woman, addressing issues that concerned women of her day, particularly the problem of the apparent incompatibility of sexual fulfilment and the institution of marriage. This study seeks to identify how La Princesse de Clèves was interpreted by three of Mme de Lafayette's most talented women successors and to show how their more sombre and subversive view of society was mediated in works of fiction which have strong affinities with the contes de fées for which they are well known. The novels of Mlle Bernard, Mme d'Aulnoy and Mlle de La Force are significant, not simply for what they tell us about themselves as women writers but also for what they reveal about the origins of the eighteenth-century novel.
07/1999
Romans policiers
The tears of the mysterious forest
At the start of the school year in Massata, Galia, an enticing young lady showed up in one of the university classes. Her homeric intelligence and her magical beauty would make her the focus, the subject of monologues and desire. Her allure enticed lecturers and mates, the brightest of the class included. They found her interesting and desirable but mysterious and reluctant about her life. The day before her birthday, the young lady decided to open up to the one she was already falling for. That night, something heart-rending happened.
12/2021
Annales des écoles de commerce
Tage Mage 600. Le premier livre avec prépa intégrée !
Plus qu'un livre, Tage Mage 600 est offre une préparation complète au Tage Mage : - Du cours : des fiches de cours bien sûr, en couleur et très graphiques - De l'entraînement intensif : 20 tests blancs corrigés et commentés - Des coachs à vos côtés : un accompagnement pas à pas avec des capsules vidéos au format Instagram pour une proximité renforcée et des podcasts destinés à engager le lecteur dans toujours plus d'implication, de motivation et d'efforts - ... Et un stage intensif de perfectionnement inclus avec les auteurs ! 3 séances de 3 heures de stages intensifs en live et en Visio conférence. L'objectif est ambitieux : aborder les questions les plus délicates et fournir aux lecteurs un coaching nourri des dernières méthodes et astuces digne des plus grands instituts de préparation aux concours.
11/2021
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
Monographies
Diana Armfield. A Lyrical Eye
Diana Armfield RA Hon RWS NEAC a un attachement personnel pour ses sujets et une affinité subtile et distincte avec les rythmes de formes et de tons. Ces qualités font d'elle une personne influente et populaire dans l'art moderne britannique. Ses représentations de fleurs lui ont valu de grands éloges mais ce livre (créé pour marquer son 100ème anniversaire), représente pleinement sa sensibilité pour les paysages et les lieux. Sa vie fascinante d'artiste est actualisée dans ce livre qui regroupe un nombre exaltant de ses oeuvres les plus récentes. 'I think I was born making things', Diana comments to Andrew Lambirth, whose absorbing interview with her forms the narrative thread of Diana Armfi eld : A Lyrical Eye. Diana's was a creative childhood steeped in experiments with drawing, pottery and embroidery, played out against the backdrop of a picture-fi lled house, a lovely garden and an artistic family. She studied at Bournemouth, Slade and Central art schools, starting out as a talented textile designer - a legacy that lent her a unique approach to the geometry, cadences and colour qualities of a painting. After organising cultural activities for workers and troops in World War II, Diana became one half of a successful partnership designing textiles and wallpaper, whose work featured in the Festival of Britain in 1951. The 1960s brought a turn to painting and from 1966 Diana has been a regular exhibitor at the prestigious Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. She has continued to paint and draw throughout her life and, as this book clearly demonstrates, always thinks afresh about each subject she tackles in order to respond to it with a close, warm sincerity. Diana Armfield : A Lyrical Eye charts Diana's personal and artistic journey with over 200 beautiful reproductions of her work, tracing favourite subjects and events - from a Welsh landscape to an informal flower display or the much-loved location of a painting trip in Italy or France. Andrew Lambirth's interview also explores the unique bond with her husband, painter Bernard Dunstan, who died in 2017, looking at how two leading artists interwove their personal and creative lives over a marriage of almost 70 years. As well as this interview, Andrew has contributed an essay on Diana's work to the book. Diana's standing and popularity have led to regular exhibitions, especially at prominent London gallery Browse & Darby. Her work is held in private and public collections worldwide, from London's V&A to the Yale Center for British Art.
06/2021
Economie
Arguing about justice. Essays for Philippe Van Parijs
"A book of quick and sharp thoughts on a grand theme is a novel way of paying tribute to a leading philosopher. But it has worked beautifully here, both as a stimulating book of ideas on justice, and as a fitting recognition of the intellectual contributions of Philippe Van Parijs, who is one of the most original and most creative thinkers of our time". Amartya Sen, Harvard University, 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences This book brings together fifty of today's finest thinkers. They were asked to let their imaginations run free to advance new ideas on a wide range of social and political issues. They did so as friends, on the occasion of Philippe Van Parijs's sixtieth birthday. Rather than restricting themselves to comments on his numerous writings, the authors engage with the topics on which he has focused his attention over the years, especially with the various dimensions of justice, its scope, and its demands. They discuss issues ranging from the fair distribution of marriage opportunities to the limits of argumentation in a democracy, the deep roots of inequality, the challenges to basic income and the requirements of linguistic justice. They provide ample food for thought for both academic and general readers.
01/2011
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
Romans, témoignages & Co
Théa te hait
En sortant du travail, Théa aperçoit un homme qu'elle ne connaît que trop bien : l'homme qui a fait de sa vie un enfer. En revoyant son bourreau c'est le passé qui refait surface. C'est par sa faut qu'elle n'a eu d'autre choix que de s'enfuir et laisser sa soeur et sa mère derrière elle. Le revoir de manière aussi inattendue ravive la douleur des marques au fer rouge que son bourreau lui a laissé. Théa va devoir accomplir la seule chose qui pourrait l'apaiser définitivement : se venger. Elle a publié plus de quatre-vingts ouvrages et a reçu une vingtaine de prix littéraires dont le Prix Chronos 2015 en France et le Prix Chronos 2016 en Suisse, pour son roman policier Toute seule dans la nuit (Alice Jeunesse). Elle a reçu le prix des incorruptibles CE2-CM1 en 2018 pour le garçon qui parlait avec les mains (Alice jeunesse) et dans la catégorie CM2/6e en 2021 pour Peur dans la neige (Mijade). . Plusieurs de ses livres ont été traduits au Maroc, en Chine, en Bolivie, en Corée, en Italie et en Espagne. Chez Alice, elle a également publié Traquées ! (déjà vendu à plus de 5000 exemplaires) et La cascadeuse des nuages.
09/2023
Beaux arts
Italian Maiolica and Other Early Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery
This is the first catalogue of the collection of early modern ceramics in the Courtauld. The pieces in the collection showcase brilliantly the skill of potters and pottery painters working at the time of Raphael and Titian. Maiolica is one of the most revealing expressions of Renaissance art. Its extraordinary range of colours retain the vividness that they had when they left the potter's kiln. Italian potters absorbed techniques and shapes from the Islamic world and incorporated ornament and subject matter from the arts of ancient Rome. This new approach to pottery making, combined with the invention of printing, woodcut and engraving, resulted in an extraordinary type of painted pottery, praised by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists for 'surpassing the ancient with its brilliance of glaze and variety of painting'. The collection boasts a magnificent group of vessels made during the high Renaissance, the golden age of Italian maiolica. It includes precious and delicate Deruta lustreware with imagery deriving from Perugino and Raphael, as well as vessels painted in a narrative style of pottery painting known as istoriato. Highlights include vessels depicting episodes taken from the first printed Bibles of the Renaissance. Istoriato maiolica flourished particularly in the lands of the Dukes of Urbino, who promoted this craft by sending painted pottery to prestigious patrons across Europe. Emblems and devices painted on the pottery help us understand that they were meant to be used and enjoyed by the elites in Renaissance society, such as the Medici and other great Tuscan families. The catalogue will include two recent gifts to the Courtauld, a rare tile of the famous patroness of the arts Marchioness Isabella D'Este, and a refined dish painted with the story of Diana and Actaeon. All major Renaissance pottery centres are represented in the collection, including Siena, Faenza and Venice, as well as splendid examples of the mysterious pharmacy jars made at the foot of the mountain of Gran Sasso in the town of Castelli d'Abruzzo. These achievements of the art of pottery in the early modern period are completed by fine examples of Ottoman pottery, as well as examples of Valencian lustreware. Sani's introductory essay on the Victorian collector Thomas Gambier Parry will shed new light on the development of this fascinating collection, making links between Gambier Parry's artistic practice and his collecting and revealing new insights into his taste as a collector. Each detailed entry uncovers a wealth of new information on the provenance of the pieces.
03/2023
Scolaire lycée général et tech
Anglais Tle Challenges for the 21st century ! Niveau B2
Huit destinations pour découvrir le monde anglophone et
autant de défis à relever pour mettre l'élève en situation
concrète d'apprentissage de l'anglais. Points forts de l'ouvrage
: Des mises en situation autour du monde pour faciliter
l'immersion dans la langue. Des thèmes scientifiques et
technologiques propres aux élèves des séries STD2A, ST12D
et STL, en conformité avec leur programme, à explorer à l'oral
comme à l'écrit. Des activités concrètes et culturelles
permettant le travail en contexte des compétences langagières.
! Des ateliers écrits et oraux pour travailler la compréhension
et l'expression en profondeur. Des repères sur la pratique de la
langue et un éclairage sur les points grammaticaux essentiels. !
Un projet à mener par challenge pour mobiliser les élèves
autour d'activités concrètes. ! Une préparation aux épreuves du
bac conforme aux dernières recommandations officielles : un
passport to the exam à la fin de chaque chapitre comprenant
des sujets d'oral et d'écrit. En fin d'ouvrage, des sujets de bac
complémentaires permettent de poursuivre l'entraînement.
05/2012
