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Poésie

Call-center

Call-center est un long et unique poème de souffle et de soupirs mélangés. Poème du sexe et de la jouissance. Poème du peine à jouir surtout, de l'interdit du sexe dans ce petit univers Call-center (travail où même les pauses pipi sont chronométrées), du beau monde de l'entreprise, du joli monde tout court où jouir est mal, où le plaisir n'existe pas s'il n'est au service de... d'un vague dieu social et monétaire sans doute, ode à gagner du fric et à entrer en mécanique, comme si l'individu devait à toute force être un rouage d'une immense et démiurgique machine. La langue jouit, restreinte et compressée, éclatant de fureur au milieu du Call-center, abattue et pendante, la langue bave après s'être esclaffée, vibrante encore dans sa petite mort scandaleuse ici-bas.

03/2019

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Poches Littérature internation

Call-Boy

Ryô a vingt ans et la vie lisse, docile et banale que convoitent ses camarades d'université ne l'intéresse pas. Ce jeune homme désabusé de tout, passionné de rien, est abordé par la gérante d'un club privé réservé aux femmes. Au fil de rencontres qui sont autant de découvertes, ce sont ces femmes portant chacune un désir différent qui vont lui permettre de mûrir au cours d'un insolite parcours initiatique. Chacune recèle une fêlure, une attente secrète, qui échappent parfois radicalement aux normes sociales. Un voyage bouleversant dans l'univers du désir féminin, où l'érotisme se révèle une voie vers l'amour de l'autre.

09/2017

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Sociologie

South Asian Technospaces

This book provides perspectives on how South Asian – often, more specifically, Indian – diasporas inhabit techno-mediated environments through their economic and socio-cultural activities. The themes examined include religion, caste, language, and gender in online communities and call centers, and the roles of these factors in the global economy, Bollywood online and offline, digital music, websites for arranging marriages, and so on. The book attempts to map "South Asia" in relation to global technospaces produced through and as a consequence of economic globalization efforts.

04/2008

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Critique littéraire

Ancient Greek by Its Translators

When not familiar with the language itself, most readers over the centuries have had access to the ancient Greek texts only or mostly through (Latin or vernacular) translations. Such an approach is not only indirect and mediated, but also distorted and even impoverishing : meaning then prevails over the linguistic form and substance of the texts themselves. What do later or modern readers read when they read translated texts written in an ancient so-called dead language ? They read a given meaning - sometimes unfaithful, often inaccurate - dictated by a genuine understanding, the blind continuation of tradition, or an untold hidden intention. The complex range of significances conveyed by meaning simultaneously reflects the time and space (called synchrony) of when and where a text has been translated, the historical learning and linguistic skills of the translators, as well as their ideas and style. As a contribution to the perennial debate about translation (mere literary transliteration vs. creative transposition), this volume aims at analyzing some striking cases of various (literary or not) texts translated from ancient Greek showing how much for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aesthetics and ideology matter as much as - and often even more than - rigorous philology.

02/2022

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Mouvements artistiques

The Artist Helen Coombe (1864–1937). The Tragedy of Roger Fry's Wife

This fascinating book presents the ? rst biography of Helen Coombe, a woman admired not only for her artistic skill, but also for her intellect, personality and wit. It reveals her family background and education, her place in the Arts and Crafts Movement and her outstanding artistic output. Helen Coombe was married to Roger Fry, an artist who was to achieve most fame as an art critic, historian and protagonist of the Bloomsbury Group. Soon after their marriage in 1896, she displayed symptoms of schizophrenia. After the ? rst episode, she temporarily resumed her career and had two children with Fry, but for the last thirty years of her life she was sectioned under the Lunacy Act and committed to an institution. This thoroughly researched book makes full use of archival material, including correspondence, diaries and medical records. It illuminates late Victorian and Edwardian society and culture. It throws new light, by no means all of it favourable, on Roger Fry. It is a 'must' for all interested in the Bloomsbury Group, art history, and the handling of mental illness at a time before ef ? cacious antipsychotic drugs were available.

11/2023

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Beaux arts

New worlds

"New Worlds" presents a selection of five outstanding nautical atlases known as portolan charts, or "portalans".These historic documents are the work of eminent scholars from Majorca, Lisbon, Le Havre, and Amsterdam. Cartographers by trade, and sometimes also skilled illuminators, they mapped what was the most probable imago mundi for their time, each exemplar crafting a fascinating visual chronicle. Jean-Yves Sarazin, head of Charts and Maps at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, scrutinizes thèse charts or atlases, and situates them in the great history of European discoveries and voyages from the early 14th to the late 17th century, from the Portuguese reconnaissance of the coasts of Africa, through the adventures of Columbus,Vespucci, and Magellan, to the Dutch voyages in the Pacific and Australia.The book's many colour reproductions are alive with picturesque details: camel caravans in the heart ofAsia, Portuguese andArab ships sailing in the Indian Ocean, wild beasts or chimaera, countless exotic plants, naval battles, and not least the frequent strangeness of the indigenous people.

10/2012

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Comics Super-héros

Fall of X Tome 2

Suite aux terribles événements survenus au cours du Gala des Damnés, tout a basculé pour les mutants. Isolé, Iceberg tente de devenir un meilleur héros. Les membres humains et mutants de l 'équipe canadienne d'Alpha Flight se déchirent. Magie est piégée à Vanaheim en compagnie de Mirage, Marrow, Dust et Mary Typhoïde. Et que signifie le retour des Enfants de la Voûte ? C'est un numéro 2, mais son sommaire est entièrement composé de numéros 1 ! Cinq nouvelles séries commencent et explorent différents aspects du nouveau statu quo de Fall of X. Les mutants sont battus, dispersés, plus menacés qu'ils ne l'ont jamais été. Voilà que s'ouvre sans doute la période la plus passionnante depuis le lancement de House of X et Powers of X !

04/2024

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Comics Super-héros

Fall of X Tome 3

Les manigances d'Orchis ont exacerbé la peur des mutants, il est temps pour Captain America de ressusciter le concept des Uncanny Avengers, pour prôner la réconciliation. Avec lui, Malicia, Deadpool, Vif-Argent, Psylocke et Monet vont traquer le nouveau et terrifiant Captain Krakoa ! On constate aussi le reste des conséquences du Gala des Damnés et malgré le chaos... un mariage a lieu ! L'une des plus importantes séries de Fall of X, Uncanny Avengers, est lancée dans ce numéro, mais l'autre événement de taille est le mariage d'un membre important des X-Men... un mariage à mettre en parallèle avec les événements de MARVEL COMICS 4, qui paraît également ce mois !

04/2024

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Comics Super-héros

Fall of X Tome 1

La fête est finie pour les mutants... Le gala des Damnés représente le plus grand événement de l'année pour les mutants. Mais cette fois, ni les jolis costumes ni l'élection de la nouvelle équipe de X-Men ne parviendront à empêcher la célébration de virer au cauchemar. En effet, l'organisation anti-mutants Orchis s'invite à la soirée et vient gâcher la fête... Tragédies, révélations et trahisons viennent inaugurer cette publication qui propulse les mutants dans une ère inédite.

03/2024

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Comics Super-héros

Fall of X Tome 7

Le Fléau était devenu l'allié des X-Men alors pourquoi essaie-t-il de tuer Firestar ? Aux côtés des Uncanny Avengers ou de Wolverine, Captain America prend le parti des mutants ! Colossus affronte son propre frère et sur Mars, un combat décisif se joue entre Tornade et les Quatre Cavaliers. Avec deux nouveaux volumes tous les mois, FALL OF X continue de proposer l'intégralité de l'offre mutante actuelle, qui voit les rares rescapés de Krakoa fuir Orchis. Cette période s'achèvera en apothéose dans le courant de l'année avec Fall of House of X / Rise of Powers of X, un tandem de mini-séries faisant écho à House of X / Powers of X... et tout est mis en place ici !

06/2024

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Comics Super-héros

Fall of X Tome 6

Diablo contre le Rhino ! Iceberg contre les Y-Men ! Bishop et Cable contre les Enfants de la Voûte ! Alpha Flight contre Nemesis ! Jean Grey contre Madelyne Pryor ! Orchis fait feu de tout bois pour éliminer les derniers mutants et l'homo superior vit peut-être ses derniers jours... Les enjeux n'ont jamais été aussi élevés ! La dernière phase de l'ère House of X/Powers of X se dévoile en 2024... et elle est résolument orientée action ! Après le carnage de Krakoa, les mutants sont traqués et poussés dans leurs derniers retranchements, alors qu'ils pensaient avoir enfin trouvé la paix. Tous les lecteurs sont les bienvenus dans cette nouvelle phase palpitante !

06/2024

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Contes et légendes

Les aventures de Bubu : Bubu et son meilleur ami

Album jeunesse bilingue : français-anglais. Bubu et Jimmy sont de meilleurs amis. Cependant, alors qu'ils jouaient au ballon Jimmy perce le ballon de Bubu sans faire exprès. Bubu est alors très en colère. Leur amitié va-t-elle survivre ? Ce livre traite de la valeur du pardon et de l'importance de reconnaître ses erreurs afin de se pardonner les uns les autres. ________________________________________________ Bubu and Jimmy are the best friends. However, while they were playing, Jimmy burst Bubu's ball accidentally. Bubu is very angry. Will their friendship survive ? This book is about the value of forgiveness and the importance of acknowledging mistakes in order to forgive each other.

09/2021

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Monographies

Venice. A Private Invitation

Venice of a thousand reflections ; Venice of mirror and glass, of silk and gold ; Venice of light and lace, of transparency and porcelain. With her expert knowledge and insight, Servane Giol takes us to the heart of the Venetian art de vivre, a warm and private invitation to meet some of the most creative people living in the city today. Accompanying us into historic private palazzi as well as more recently restored houses and apartments, she introduces us to a new generation of artists and designers who are attracted by the radiant beauty, energy, and lifestyle of the Serenissima-a charmed circle of talented friends who are bringing a fresh dynamism and elegance to the city, shining a new light on some of its rarest and most exquisite traditional crafts, and lovingly safeguarding them for future generations. This love letter to the hidden beauties of Venice and to the skills for which the city is famed is brilliantly complemented by the photography of Mattia Aquila. It offers both a revelation and an everlasting memory for all those who will never forget their dazzling first sight of the domes, the campaniles, and the shimmering golden silence of this legendary city that floats between sea and sky.

09/2022

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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

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Beaux arts

Walls of change : the story of the wynwood walls

L'histoire de Wynwood Walls est celle du changement par la passion, l'art et la communauté. Lorsque Tony Goldman est tombé sur l'étendue des bâtiments d'entrepôt dans le quartier de Wynwood à Miami, il a vu une toile vierge. En 2009, le célèbre visionnaire a entrepris de transformer la région en un centre d'exploration culturelle - avec l'aide des artistes de rue les plus innovants et reconnus du monde. Walls of Change : The Story of The Wynwood Walls est une redécouverte d'une décennie d'art, d'inspiration et d'innovation, avec les peintures murales les plus célèbres de Wynwood, avec des photographies inédites du développement de The Walls et des commentaires spéciaux des plus emblématiques du street art. figures, dont Shepard Fairey, Maya Hayuk, Kenny Scharf, Ron English et les conservateurs actuels Jessica Goldman Srebnick et la famille Goldman, entre autres. En seulement dix ans, The Wynwood Walls est devenu un phénomène à part entière, connu comme un jalon dans la carrière des artistes, avec une capacité à catapulter des inconnus et des vétérans. Sous la direction de la PDG Jessica Goldman Srebnick, The Wynwood Walls est devenue l'une des destinations d'art de rue les plus en vue au monde, accueillant plus de trois millions de visiteurs par an.

11/2019

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Non classé

German-Irish Corporate Relationships

The book addresses the question of whether, in an age of internationalisation and globalisation, cultural differences are still relevant to German-Irish corporate relationships ? The first three chapters establish the theoretical framework for the analysis by exploring the notion of culture, profiling the business cultures of both countries, and examining existing approaches to the study of parent company-foreign subsidiary relationships. In the following three chapters, using interviews carried out with two sample groups (fifteen German parent companies and fourteen of their Irish operations ; seven Irish parent companies and nine of their German operations), the parent companies in both groups are examined to see whether they demonstrate characteristics which are in keeping with their national business cultures. Their foreign operations are then analysed as is the parent company-foreign subsidiary relationship to determine whether any parent company influences are visible. The general approaches adopted by the two groups of parent companies to their foreign operations are compared and contrasted. Finally differences in national attitudes and values are identified and their impact assessed.

02/2004

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Anglais apprentissage

Lord Jim

A hundred years ago a seaman's life was full of danger, but Jim, the first mate on board the Patna, is not afraid of danger. He is young, strong, confident of his bravery. He dreams of great adventures - and the chance to show the world what a hero he is. But the sea is no place for dreamers. When the chance comes, on a calm moonlit night in the Indian Ocean, Jim fails the test, and his world falls to pieces around him. He disappears into the jungles of south-east Asia, searching for a way to prove himself, once and for all...

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Roman d'amour, roman sentiment

Most of all you

Seul l'amour a le pouvoir de réparer un coeur qui a volé en éclats. La vie n'a pas épargné Ellie. Elle a perdu sa mère très t et a été élevée par un père qui n'a jamais voulu d'elle. Son enfance a été cauchemardesque. Maintenant adulte, Ellie est devenue Crystal, stripteaseuse dans un club minable. Cela lui permet d'assurer difficilement son indépendance financière mais elle n'a pas vraiment le choix. Lorsqu'elle découvre un homme, qui l'observe au fond de la salle du club, elle croit avoir affaire à ceux qu'elle rencontre régulièrement pour une danse très privée, mais Gabriel n'est pas là pour ça et son enfance a, elle aussi, été fracassée par une terrible histoire. Victime d'un enlèvement alors qu'il était encore un petit garçon, il a passé plusieurs années, prisonnier de son kidnappeur. Quand il aperçoit Crystal, belle et fragile, il est sous le charme et lui demande si elle peut l'aider à apprivoiser la peur des autres et de leur contact, une des conséquences de son enlèvement. Crystal ne croit pas un instant qu'elle peut être celle dont Gabriel a besoin. Mais peut-être se trompe-t-elle ; et surtout, il pourrait se révéler celui qui peut l'aider, elle et lui offrir une seconde chance dans sa vie.

02/2024

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Critique littéraire

To catch the sun in the water

Marie was born around the end of World War II in a small village near Chaveniac-Lafayette where General Lafayette lived. It is the mountainous region of Auvergne known as the heart of France. Take Marie's hand and she will guide you through her humble childhood. Through her eyes you will see what it was like to live in the country in France. With Marie's many brothers end sisters you will participate in hay making, harvesting... At this time, they used traditional methods and tools. Her parents will demonstrate the making of bread, butter and cheese... It's here that you meet Mathias, a boy her age, who becomes her best friend. Later, their love story unfolds... Just after the war, it was a time when the French countryside was populated with farmers that still lived in economic self-sufficiency. In the story, the author makes these peasants from depths of France come alive. The feeling, the candor, and the authenticity of the book will remind you of the Little House on the Prairie

07/2001

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Romance sexy

At the end of the tunnel

Une rencontre va bouleverser tout le quotidien de Lawrence. Romancier à succès, Lawrence s'interroge sur ses choix, son identité, sa vie, après avoir fait la connaissance de Carolanne à un moment crucial de leurs vies. Qui est-il vraiment, que désire-t-il ? Entre doutes et douleur de vivre une vie qu'il n'a pas choisie, un changement s'opère et l'espoir renaît. Commence alors le chemin pour retrouver le bonheur. Une romance atypique

08/2021

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Thèmes photo

The Oher End of the Rainbow

"En substituant l'absence à la preuve directe, Kourtney Roy souligne les impossibilités d'un discours d'évidence sur ces vies "minuscules" qui n'attirent jamais l'attention. En Colombie Britannique (Canada), depuis 1969, c'est-à-dire pendant plus de 50 ans, les meurtres vont s'étaler dans le temps. Des dizaines de femmes et de filles vont disparaître, quelques unes seront retrouvées mortes, dispersées le long de ce que l'on appelle désormais "l'autoroute des larmes" . Disparitions et crimes en majeure partie non élucidés. Ainsi ce transport ne sera en rien la description pittoresque du Grand Nord. Roy nous met à l'épreuve de percevoir, depuis des lieux vides en eux-mêmes et sans vie apparente, une humanité sacrifiée et reléguée. Face au déni d'une société, le rôle que Kourtney Roy accorde à la photographie est de s'attacher, malgré tout, à partager une douleur et à faire ressentir une tension qui ne peut trouver d'exutoire que dans le drame.

07/2022

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Jeux

Steelrising. The Art of the videogame

Plongez dans les coulisses du fascinant Steelrising à travers ce luxueux artbook réalisé en partenariat avec Nacon et le studio Spiders ! Sur plus de 250 pages, cet ouvrage exclusif grand format regroupe plusieurs centaines de documents et illustrations inédites ayant servis à la création du jeu vidéo français Steelrising : décors, personnages, concept arts, musique...

12/2023

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Comics

The Art of Mutafukaz the movie

The Art Of Mutafukaz The Movie vous plonge au cour du long-métrage d'animation Mutafukaz, l'adaptation de la bande dessinée éponyme de Guillaume "RUN" Renard. Découvrez les différentes étapes de création, séquence par séquence, au sein du mythique Studio 4°C (Mind Game, Amer Béton, Genius Party...), accompagnées de nombreux croquis, genga, illustrations, décors, extraits du storyboard et anecdotes. Bienvenue à Dark Meat City, New California !

05/2018

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Monographies

Islanders. The Making of the Mediterranean

Accompagnant une exposition au Fitzwilliam Museum, à Cambridge, ce livre explore les identités insulaires dans la Méditerranée antique, s'interrogeant sur la façon don't "l'insularité" (caractère propre à une île) affecta et influença la production et la créativité de l'art, l'évolution architecturale, les migrations et le mouvement des gens. Il s'étend au-delà de l'Antiquité, intégrant des discours actuels sur les identités culturelles insulaires par rapport à celles des continents, y compris celle de la Grande-Bretagne, identité insulaire débattue. Throughout history, islands have been treated as distinct places, unlike mainland and continental masses. In geographic terms, islands are merely pieces of land surrounded by water, but the perception of island life has never been neutral. Rather, the term 'insularity' - belonging to/being of an island - has been romanticized and associated with otherness. Islands have often been deemed to have different histories from the mainland and with more readily isolated socio-political, cultural and economic characteristics. Yet connectivity has also been an important feature of island life as the sea can be a linking rather than just a dividing body, motivating and maintaining informal and formal connections. Fifty unique archaeological objects - most never displayed before outside Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia - tell exceptional stories of insular identity, over a period of 4000 years. The movement of people and episodes of migration between islands and their surrounding mainlands is also explored, through architecture, material culture, crafts and technologies present in the Mediterranean islands. Islanders has a broad diachronic scope and applies integrative analytical approach, bringing together research findings from scientific fields within archaeology, as well as a multi-scalar approach to past human interaction within continental and island environments.

04/2023

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Religion

Legal Friction

Legal Friction : Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel tracks the mystery of narratives in the Hebrew Bible and their allusions to Sinai laws by highlighting intertextual allusions created by verbal resonances. While the second and the third parts of the volume illustrate allusions to Sinai narratives made by some narratives occurring in the post-Sinaitic era, twenty-three Genesis narratives are analyzed to show that the protagonists were bound by Sinai Laws before God supposedly gave them to Moses, anticipating the Book of Jubilees. Legal Friction suggests that most of Genesis was composed during or after the Babylonian exile, after the codification of most Sinai laws, which Genesis protagonists consistently violate. The fact that they are not punished for these violations implies to the exiles that the Sinai Covenant was unconditional. In addition, the author proposes that Genesis contains a hidden polemic, encouraging the Judean exiles to follow the revisions of laws of the Covenant Code by the Holiness Code and Deuteronomy. Genesis narratives, like those describing post-Sinai events, often cannot be understood properly without recognition of their allusions to biblical laws.

05/2010

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Histoire et Philosophiesophie

WHY SEX MATTERS. A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior

Why are men, like other primate usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to maximize their reproductive success and seek resources to do so. Low begins by reviewing the fundamental arguments and assumptions of behavioral ecology: selfish genes, conflicts of interest, and the tendency for sexes to reproduce through different behaviors. She explains why in primate species-from chimpanzees and apes to humans-males seek to spread their genes by devoting extraordinary efforts to finding mates, while females find it profitable to expend more effort on parenting. Low illustrates these sexual differences among humans by showing that in places as diverse as the parishes of nineteenth-century Sweden, the villages of seventeenth-century China, and the forests of twentieth-century Brasil, men have tended to seek power and resources, from cattle to money, to attract mates, while women have sought a secure environment for raising children. She makes it clear, however, they have not done so simply through individual efforts or in a vacuum, but that men and women act in complex ways that involve cooperation and coalition building and that are shaped by culture, technology, tradition, and the availability of resources. Low also considers how file evolutionary drive to acquire resources leads to environmental degradation and warfare and asks whether our behavior could be channeled in more constructive ways. Why Sex Matters is a compelling work of biology, sociology, and anthropology and a penetrating study of the deep motivations that underlie individual and social behavior.

01/2000

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Sociologie

The Impact of Sociology of Law on Government Action

This report focuses upon the relationship between government action and research in the field of Sociology of Law. This topic is treated within a general theoretical framework as well as in respect to a number of specific areas of current legal policies. The book centres upon the function and conception of Sociology of Law in relation to government action. The positions presented in these proceedings range from a technocratic to a critical model. Moreover, due to their origin in different political camps, the contributions represent the current state of international research in this field.

12/1981

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Décoration

Idées pratiques pour petits espaces

Various factors have contributed to the proliferation of small homes. One is the high price of land. Another reason is the change in family types. Throughout history it has been considered normal for various generations of the same family to share the family home all their lives. Today family models have changed. Nuclear families are usually reduced to just two generations, i.e., parents and children, and often homes are occupied only by couples or even sole individuals. The reduction in the home's surface area has led to a need to develop ways to integrate all of a space's necessary functions in a practical and cozy fashion. Design aspects can be considered when a home is still being planned, prior to the building and distribution of the rooms. This makes it possible to fit it out to make the mort of each of its features and apply optimal spatial solutions that match the need of the person who will inhabit it. Furniture is vital when it comes to small dwellings. Many manufacturers have now added a large number of items to their furniture collections that address space problems or combine various functions. The décor, which also includes the wall color as well as the flooring and ceiling, is another basic element that should be carefully considered in small spaces. Decorative elements are just as important, as they can be used to create a personal feel that responds to your own particular aesthetic taste. What you must remember is that, even though a home is small, there are many solutions and tricks to maximize its possibilities and achieve a modern, welcoming look.

03/2010

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Anglais apprentissage

The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

In William Faulkners major works of fiction, the reader finds an extraordinary vision of what Robert Penn Warren calls 'the dark complications of Southern life', an extreme symbolic rendering of the ways and means of decline that characterised the Southern states of the US during the early twentieth century. Now recognised as two of Faulkner's greatest novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) were commercial failures in the decade following their publication, and received from many critics only a grudging recognition of difference rather than talent. By the end of the Second World War, however, the reputation of both novels had grown, and Faulkner's great fictional creation, Yoknapatawpha County, had become as much a part of America as any real area of the Mississippi landscape. In this Icon Critical Guide, Nicolas Tredell explores the wealth of critical material generated by these two exceptional works of modernist fiction. From the initially mixed critical responses to the novels in the early 1930s, the Guide follows the enormous growth of interest in Faulkner's work across six decades. New writings shaped by a range of critical theories are discussed, offering the reader a clear view of the place now given to one of Americas most innovative and influential novelists.

01/1999

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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