silex and the city
Extraits
Histoire internationale
Flavius Josephus, the Zealots and Yavne
The historiography concerning The War of the Jews by Flavius Josephus has underlined the various aspects (economic, social, political, religious) of the Roman-Jewish conflict from 66 to 73 AD. A study of the Jew's vision of himself and the Other, the Roman, makes it possible to see this conflict from the point of view of the conquered. Analysis of the events which, from 6 to 66 AD, resulted in the opening of hostilities, suggests that the Jewish-Roman conflict was also a conflict of mentalities. The Jewish mentality implies a concept of war which contributed to the development of the divisions and schisms between the supporters of full-scale war against Rome (the Zealots) and the non-belligerents (Rabbi Yohanan ben Zaccaï and the Yavne School, Flavius Josephus). Furthermore, the discourse of Flavius Josephus is Jewish discourse. So far as certain options are concerned, such as his rejection of the war against Rome on the one hand, and his hatred of the Zealots on the other, a literal reading of that discourse shows that they are in the direct line of Jewish tradition as represented by RYBZ and his Yavne School. Josephus can be taken literally ; the interest of his writing lies in its presentation of an internal cohesion and in the light that throws on the points of convergence and divergence in the same Pharisaic options. Finally, Josephus' text leads us to reconsider the problem of his 'betrayal'.
01/1994
Non classé
Rudolf Borchardt and the Middle Ages
This study about Rudolf Borchardt analyses and investigates his comprehension of the German and European Culture of the Middle Ages. The selection of this particular aspect is a result of Borchardt's preoccupation with the Middle Ages which form a substantial part of his whole oeuvre. It is also an attempt to interpret Borchardt's controversial nationalistic opinions and attitudes.
12/1980
Non classé
Aurier, Symbolism and the Visual Arts
This is the first fully comprehensive study on the 19th-century poet and art critic, Albert Aurier (1865-1892), in the context of his age. Focusing on Aurier's pivotal role in the development of French Symbolist art and aesthetics, the book explores his contribution to contemporary and subsequent perceptions of Symbolism in art during a period which saw the rise of art criticism as a genre in its own right. Taking Aurier's writings on lesser-known artists such as Henry de Groux, Eugène Carrière and Jean-Jacques Henner, as well as those on Impressionism, and Van Gogh and Gauguin, the study shows how Aurier laid the foundation for the interpretation of Modernist art.
11/1999
Concours
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Traitant d'un des sujets 2024 des agrégations externe et spéciale d'Anglais, cet ouvrage propose tout ce dont le candidat a besoin pour passer les épreuves. Comme tous les Clefs-concours de littérature anglophone, l'ouvrage est structuré en quatre parties : -Repères : le contexte historique et littéraire ; -Thématiques : comprendre les enjeux du programme ; -Perspectives : ouvertures pour des pistes de réflexion ; -Outils : pour retrouver rapidement une définition, une idée ou une référence.
11/2023
Non classé
Thackeray and the Problem of Realism
Although it is traditional to see a certain kind of "realism" as the essence of fiction, in practice novels of course offer not a simple reproduction of experience but a throughgoing organization of it. The novel is, after all, a bourgeois genre and it reflects that bourgeois view of life according to which the world is there merely to be dominated and controlled by man. This study examines both Thackeray's early fiction, in which both the novel form and the manipulative society to which it belongs are attacked, and his later works, in which they are defended, and tries to determine the reasons for this change.
12/1986
Sciences politiques
The Structure of Political Communication in the United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany
Political Communication in The United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany differs in terms of what the peoples expect to take issue with, how they are prepared to talk about them, which choices they can make to solve problems and, finally, whom or which organizations they delegate to resolve them. This comparative media study of The Economist, Time and Der Spiegel attempts to extract the differences in politics of the three societies.
11/1987
Policiers
Sandinista. Tome 3
"There is a train at Version City Waiting for the rhythm mail If you can jump then jump right now She can pull you through to better days."
11/2017
Humour
Super Pixel Boy Tome 1 : And the Bit Goes on. And the Bit Goes on
Issu d'une famille de classe moyenne, le jeune Pixel est passionné de Zelda et Megaman. Il est entouré d'une fameuse bande de potes : Guilhem, Jérôme, Elodie et enfin du Scooby gang, un groupe composé des geeks de l'école pour qui le sport est un gros mot. Des récits dessinés tantôt de manière classique tantôt en Pixel Art à dévorer sans modération.
11/2022
Critique littéraire
La Méduse de la Lune / The Jellifish and the Moon
"La Méduse de la Lune est l'histoire d'une méduse qui, fatiguée des touristes dans ses eaux, décide de partir vivre sur la Lune afin de "flotter tranquille" . Mais les choses ne tournent pas comme prévu ... Tout commence sur une plage, à la vue des baigneurs qui jouent et s'éclaboussent. Près des rochers, des pêcheurs raclent les fonds. Au large, des bateaux de plaisance sillonnent la mer bruyamment, des plongeurs se lancent en horde vers les profondeurs. Mais comment les animaux marins peuvent-ils supporter ce tapage ? De ce questionnement est né l'histoire de La Méduse de la Lune. Une méduse, à la beauté souple et luminescente, appartenant à une espèce présente sur notre planète depuis bien plus longtemps que les humains et qui n'a plus d'autre choix que de quitter son habitat. Où ira-t-elle ? Sur la Lune ! Mais les humains, invasifs sur Terre, voyagent aussi dans l'espace... Ce conte aux multiples facettes tisse une épopée fictionnelle, dans une tradition d'aventure sur fond d'évocation de la conquête spatiale, à celle de la migration, sous-tendue par notre relation aux autres êtres vivants, notre façon d'habiter la planète et, peut-être, d'autres corps célestes tels que la Lune. Le texte de Fabienne Gambrelle est illustré par des dessins d'Anaïs Tondeur et Gabriel Grandry qui ont associé des images iconiques de la conquête spatiale à la douceur et la rêverie de la mer et de Séléné, l'ombre et la lumière. Les images furent, en outre, envoyées sur la Lune par l'artiste Daniela de Paulis par le biais de la technologie EME -Earth-Moon-Earth ou "Moonbounce" -, radiocommunication Terre Lune Terre en français. Les différents niveaux de lecture, tout comme la richesse et la dualité des illustrations originales et "moonbouncées" en font un livre aussi bien pour les enfants (testé et approuvé à partir de 4 ans) qu'un collector pour les adultes".
01/2021
Non classé
Education and the Values Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe
Fundamental educational reform is one of the central elements of the social transformation taking place in the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In this volume selected experts and eye witnesses of the radical change taking place in the region provide detailed and graphic presentation of the problems and controversies surrounding reform. They explore how the educational systems have responded to the collapse, and they explain the source of new models, ideas, and values on the part of educational policy makers, researchers and teachers. A focus of attention is the values crisis among the youth. The authors explore the values the socialist systems attempted to convey, the manner in which the youth have responded to the collapse, and the possible sources of new values and ideals.
05/1994
Musique classique
Songs of Love. 12 Romances. 12 Lieder. Soprano (tenor) and piano.
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s, but her career petered out after 1920. Songs of Love was first published in 1904. No evidence survives of any public performance in Kashperova's lifetime although it is very likely that they were performed at her regular 'musical evenings at home on Tuesdays' mentioned in her Memoirs. The transparency of the piano writing strongly suggests that she would accompany herself singing. Kashperova, by all accounts, possessed a fine voice, and in the summer of 1906 she decided 'to learn from the artistry', as she put it, of the tenor Raimond von Zur-Mühlen who was widely celebrated for having developed (with Clara Schumann) the Lieder-Abend tradition. His summer-schools on the Baltic coast were frequented by aspiring singers from all over Europe, even Japan and India. Kashperova herself was responsible for the poetic lyrics of Songs of Love (in both Russian and German), which may well have emerged from her own bittersweet experience of life and love ; she was not to marry until 1916 at the age of forty-four. That Kashperova is the author of both the music and the lyrics of Songs of Love would suggest that they express very personal sentiments. Instrumentation : soprano (tenor) and piano
12/2023
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
The Undergrowth of Science. Delusion, self-deception and human frailty
Walter Gratzer's themes in the stories he relates in The Undergrowth of Science are collective delusion and human folly. Science is generally seen as a process bound by rigorous rules, which its practitioners must not transgress. Deliberate fraud occasionally intrudes, but it is soon detected, the perpetrators cast out and the course of discovery barely disturbed. Far more interesting are the outbreaks of self-delusion that from time to time afflict upright and competent researchers, and then spread like an epidemic or mass-hysteria through a sober and respectable scientific community. When this happens the rules by which scientists normally govern their working lives are suddenly suspended. Sometimes these episodes are provoked by personal vanity, an unwillingness to acknowledge error or even contemplate the possibility that a hard-won success is a will o' the wisp; at other times they stem from loyalty to a respected and trusted guru, or even from patriotic pride; and, worst of ail, they may be a consequence of a political ideology which imposes its own interpretation on scientists' observations of the natural world. Unreason and credulity supervene, illusory phenomena are described and measured, and theories are developed to explain them - until suddenly, often for no single reason, the bubble bursts, leaving behind it a residue of acrimony, recrimination, embarrassment and ruined reputations.
Here, then, are radiations, measured with high precision yet existing only in the minds of those who observed them; the Russian water, which some thought might congeal the oceans: phantom diseases which called for heroic surgery; monkey testis implants that restored the sexual powers of ageing roués and of tired sheep; truths about genetics and about the nature of matter, perceptible only to Aryan scientists in the Third Reich or Marxist ideologues in the Soviet Union; and much more. The Undergrowth of Science explores, in terms accessible to the lay reader, the history of such episodes, up to our own time, in ail their absurdity, tragedy and pathos.
01/2000
12 ans et +
L'attaque des titans : Harsh Mistress of the City
Désormais leader de la résistance dans un district de Quinta toujours menacé par les Titans, Mathias doit vivre dans la clandestinité. Face à lui, Rita, devenue commandant, est prête à tout pour asseoir son autorité. Tout oppose les deux amis, dont les différends ne semblent plus pouvoir se régler que dans le sang. Entre désir de liberté et maintien absolu de l'ordre, l'humanité va devoir choisir...
03/2017
Littérature française
Trotte-Silex. Contes d'un archéologue
Trotte-Silex rassemble 24 contes de Pierre Gouletquer, inspirés, en majorité, de sa carrière d'archéologue préhistorien. La part humaniste et poétique ressort largement de ces textes fantaisistes. De la traversée dans le temps d'Er-Lannig, à la plongée dans l'oeil captivant de la brodeuse Soeur Iris, ou encore dans la folle ambition de N'a-qu'un-Oeil qui espère arrêter la montée de l'océan, le lecteur est embarqué dans un voyage plein d'humour et de rêveries. L'imagination de l'auteur nous conduit aussi à vagabonder par les sens, des odeurs d'herbes sèches dans Troc-au-Sel aux saveurs marines de La première soupe aux cailloux... Dans ce contexte préhistorique, Pierre construit souvent des passerelles avec des problématiques de notre époque, c'est pourquoi nous pouvons également décrypter dans ces contes un brin de philosophie. Les illustrations subtiles d'Alan Gouletquer qui allient réalité et onirisme proposent un regard en complémentarité et des uchronies. Elles viennent papillonner et libérer les textes comme des clins d'oeil au métier d'interprétation qu'est l'archéologie. L'ensemble est préfacé par le talentueux auteur de bandes dessinées François Bourgeon une marque d'amitié et de reconnaissance pour l'oeuvre de l'auteur.
10/2019
Bibliothèque rose
Rocky Kwaterner Tome 3 : Opération Silex
Panique au musée : un silex a été volé ! La gardienne veut retrouver le voleur coûte que coûte. Mais celui qui l'a dérobé, c'est Rocky... L'outil lui appartenait il y a des millénaires ! Le garçon y tient comme à la prunelle de ses yeux et ne peut se résoudre à le rendre. Luna et Théo pourront-ils le convaincre de remettre l'objet à sa place ?
10/2021
Non classé
Marriage in the Christian and Igbo Traditional Context: Towards an Inculturation
Traditional marriage and Christian marriage rites presently exist as two distinct ceremonies in some parts of Africa. Is there no way of bringing the two together to avoid any form of duplication or multiplication of rite ? More so because the Church has always implicitly recognised matrimonial institution as a cultural product. The answer to the above question is located in the whole issue of inculturation. A process that successfully flourished in the Western civilisation and consequently influenced the teaching of the Church on marriage. The answer to our question seeks to establish a marriage rite where couples will genuinely experience the happy marriage between culture and Church. A marriage rite that will fulfil both the traditional and Christian demands.
04/2003
Sonyun (shonen)
The Beginning After the End Tome 1
Ancien roi conquérant et solitaire, obsédé par la conquête, il meurt assassiné et se réincarne en Arthur Leywin, fils aîné d'un modeste couple d'aventuriers pratiquant la magie. Plongé dans un monde qu'il ne connaît pas, il va utiliser tout son savoir pour s'adapter et corriger les erreurs du passé. Mais derrière la paix et la prospérité de ce nouvel univers se cache une menace sans précédent...
07/2023
Sonyun (shonen)
The Beginning After the End Tome 2
Ancien roi solitaire et obsédé par la conquête, il meurt assassiné et se réincarne en Arthur Leywin, fils aîné d'un modeste couple d'aventuriers pratiquant la magie. Plongé dans un monde qu'il ne connaît pas, il va utiliser tout son savoir pour s'adapter et corriger les erreurs du passé. Mais derrière la paix et la prospérité de ce nouvel univers se cache une menace sans précédent...
09/2023
Sonyun (shonen)
The Beginning After the End Tome 4
Ancien roi solitaire et obsédé par la conquête, il meurt assassiné et se réincarne en Arthur Leywin, fils aîné d'un modeste couple d'aventuriers pratiquant la magie. Plongé dans un monde qu'il ne connaît pas, il va utiliser tout son savoir pour s'adapter et corriger les erreurs du passé. Mais derrière la paix et la prospérité de ce nouvel univers se cache une menace sans précédent...
03/2024
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
Contes et nouvelles
Le Chevalier, la Lance et le Dragon. The Knight, the Spear and the Dragon
"Et c'est quoi un chevalier ? Un chevalier est à la recherche de la magie. Un chevalier plonge dans les ombres pour chercher la lumière. Une fois qu'il l'a trouvée, il la répand". Auteur, photographe : à travers un style anticonformiste, toute la singularité de l'univers de Marc Kiska se déploie dans ce conte initiatique, publié en édition bilingue (français - anglais). _________________"And what is a knight ? A knight is in search of magic. A knight dives into the shadows to seek the light. Once he finds it, he spreads it. " Author, photographer : through an unconventional style, all the singularity of Marc Kiska's universe is deployed in this initiatory tale, published in a bilingual edition (French - English). Translated to English by Caroline Messersmith.
01/2022
Yaoi/homosexualité masculine
Happy of the End
Affamé, fauché et abandonné par sa famille et son ex-copain, Chihiro se rend dans son bar préféré dans l'espoir de trouver une nouvelle victime à escroquer. Invité par le mystérieux Keito à passer un moment à l'hôtel, il se fait soudainement agresser par celui-ci, qui semble être à la recherche d'une importante carte qu'il aurait volée. Quand Keito découvre ce qu'il en a fait, il lui demande de disparaître, mais Chihiro n'a plus de foyer où rentrer...
02/2022
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
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
Sociologie
National and European Law on the Threshold to the Single Market
The volume contains the reports and discussion papers presented at an English-German Colloquium in May 1992. Scholars and practicing lawyers from the United Kingdom and Germany deal with seven important fields of law : History of Environmental Law - Current Issues of Local Government - Immigration and Asylum - Towards European Private Law Principles - Product Safety and Product Liability - Social Security - The Single Market and the Legal Profession.
03/1993
Pédagogie
Media and Education in the Digital Age
This book is an invitation to informed and critical participation in the current debate on the role of digital technology in education and a comprehensive introduction to the most relevant issues in this debate. After an early wave of enthusiasm about the emancipative opportunities of the digital "revolution" in education, recent contributions invite caution, if not scepticism. This collection rejects extreme interpretations and establishes a conceptual framework for the critical questioning of this role in terms of concepts, assessments and subversions. This book offers conceptual tools, ideas and insights for further research. It also provides motivation and information to foster active participation in debates and politics and encourages teachers, parents and learners to take part in the making of the future of our societies.
07/2014
Non classé
Artificial Intelligence and the Sociology of Knowledge
A central topic of the latest research in the philosophy of science is the question of what kind of relationship there is between the cognitive and social factors which underlie scientific knowledge. At present, this problem has manifested itself in a heated and still unfinished controversy between the proponents of artificial intelligence research and the sociologists of knowledge. By resolving the antagonism of these two positions, the book aims at developing a modular approach to an integrated philosophy of science which can handle the interaction between cognitive and social factors in a way which differs considerably from all current proposals.
10/1993
Mondes fantastiques
The Night and its Moon Tome 1
D'une beauté surnaturelle car elles sont de sang-mêlé Faé et Humain, Nox et Amaris grandissent dans un orphelinat. Inséparables, les deux jeunes filles se font une promesse : un jour, elles vivront ensemble, loin de cet enfer où elles ne sont que de vulgaires marchandises. Mais lorsque la patronne d'une maison close offre une fortune pour acheter Nox, celle-ci devient esclave de plaisirs au service d'hommes riches et puissants. Amaris réussit alors à s'enfuir dans les montagnes du Royaume du Nord, dans une forteresse où elle s'initie aux arts de la guerre. Malgré la distance et les difficultés, Nox et Amaris n'oublient pas leur promesse et sont prêtes à tout pour se retrouver. Alors qu'une guerre entre Humains et Faés éclate, elles sont entraînées dans un dangereux jeu de complots. Le destin des royaumes est entre les mains des deux orphelines... et de leur amour.
09/2023
Religion
Corporatism and the Stability of Capitalist Democracies
This dissertation treats a problem which originally stems from Marxist political economic thinking : why do representatives of the working-class compromise with representatives of the capitalist class on major socio-economic topics on a national level, and what do such compromises look like ? The author establishes the claim that macro-economic compromises between organized classes are both likely to result and unstable in their nature. It is shown how the state may act as an actor supporting the establishment of an institutionalized class compromise and how it may try to prevent the breakdown of it. After elaborating these claims in a dynamic macro-economic model, the author describes developments of class compromises in post World War II Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands to illustrate the theory.
02/1991
BD tout public
Le commodore. The long and winding road
"- Ulysse, on y va ? - Hein ? Où ça ? - A l'enterrement de ton père. Tu n'as qu'à suivre le corbillard. - Putain ! Même mort, il continue à me faire chier !" "Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage" disait le poète. C'est pourtant sans joie que notre Ulysse entreprend le voyage posthume que lui propose son père. En guise de dernière volonté, celui-ci l'invite à répandre ses cendres sur l'île de Wight, en Angleterre, en suivant le même périple que lui lorsqu'il s'était rendu au mythique concert de 1970. Une odyssée rock qui avait changé le cours de sa vie. Et qui pourrait bien changer la sienne... Sur une bande-son d'époque, au volant d'un combi Volkswagen hors d'âge et flanqué des trois compagnons de jeunesse de son père, tous plus barges les uns que les autres, Ulysse empruntera donc la route longue et sinueuse qu'ils avaient suivie quelques années plus tôt. Au-delà de la ligne blanche, Ulysse découvrira que son père n'était pas ce petit bourgeois étriqué pour qui il n'avait jamais eu grande estime. Et à travers lui, il comprendra mieux d'où il vient et qui il est vraiment. Un voyage intérieur d'une rare intensité !
10/2017
