Shoot the Book Cannes
Extraits
Histoire internationale
After The Last Ship
After the Last Ship illustrates the author's own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of ‘mixed race'. She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal in the 1960's and 1970's and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia. Further, the author shows the devastation that labels such as ‘half-caste', ‘canecos' and ‘monhe' can cause, when they eat at your flesh, your being, and your body. She sheds light on how identity and culture can serve as vehicles of empowerment, how experiences of belonging can germinate and take root post-diaspora.
04/2014
Religion
Revelation and Theology
This book examines the theological epistemologies of two of this century's most prominent theologians, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Barth. Both theologians responded to modernist theologies by drawing from the best of their own traditions. Both tried to reinstate theology as a true science which takes its object, namely, the revelation of God in Jesus Christ, seriously. They therefore make excellent conversation partners. This book closely traces their arguments as they seek to formulate their understanding of theological knowledge and theological science from a christological and trinitarian perspective, based on the concrete self-disclosure of God in Jesus Christ.
11/1999
Philosophie
Interpreting Quebec’s Exile Within the Federation. Selected Political Essays
This book combines the approaches of political theory and of intellectual history to provide a lucid account of Québec's contemporary situation within the Canadian federation. Guy Laforest considers that the province of Québec, and its inhabitants, are exiled within Canada. They are not fully integrated, politically and constitutionally, nor are they leaving the federation, for now and for the foreseeable future. They are in between these two predicaments. Laforest provides insights into the current workings of the Canadian federation, and some of its key figures of the past fifty years, such as Pierre Elliott Trudeau, René Lévesque, Stephen Harper and Claude Ryan. The book also offers thought-provoking studies of thinkers and intellectuals such as James Tully, Michel Seymour and André Burelle. Laforest revisits some key historical documents and events, such as the Durham Report and the 1867 and 1982 constitutional documents. He offers political and constitutional proposals that could contribute to help Québec moving beyond the current predicament of internal exile.
12/1986
Littérature française
Sons of Fantasy
When we were children, we believed anything was possible... This book is a fantasy novel originally written for children. But, if you are a father or a mother, a teacher or a writer, if you still have some bits of fantasy in your soul... then, this novel is for you too. We all know how geniuses changed the world with their childlike Imagination, and how people use creative thinking to solve problems. This is a story about hope ; "Sons of Fantasy" shares the story of M. Alger, a father grieving for the loss of his dear wife, who left him with two beautiful kids. Norris and Socrates were adjusting to life without Mom... But things got more complicated when one of them was paralyzed because of a severe psychological trauma due to an overdose of fantasy... This family has a very interesting neighbor who lives a few feet away. He has a weird little hobby, reading books in the most unlikely places... He for example travelled to Romania and read "Dracula" by Bram Stoker in the Castelul Bran Castle, because it's said that the main character Dracula lived in it. And then all of a sudden he stopped travelling... He got a month ago a big long hat that belongs to the greatest witch that lived during the middle ages, "Moje Gayla". In fact, after being burned by the church, one of her relatives kept her belongings inside a wooden box... and in the twentieth century one of her grandchildren donated the box to "The Magic Square Museum" in London. Genius bought the hat at a public auction as an art relic to decorate one of his rooms. Could this weird neighbor be the reason of Socrates' psychological trauma ? Or maybe he is the one who will cure him ? And what has the hat to do with all this ?
08/2018
Mouvements artistiques
Hockney's Eye. The Art and Technology of Depiction
David Hockney is the best known and most widely admired painter in the world. This vibrant catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the The Fitzwilliam Museum and the Heong Gallery in Cambridge, as well as the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. Throughout his long career, David Hockney has insistently explored diverse ways of depicting the visible world. He has scrutinised the methods of the old masters, and explored radical departures from their cherished assumptions The exhibition and accompanying book are the first to focus on this central theme in his art. "Western art" from the Renaissance until at least the late 19th century has been dominated by the depiction of nature. Was this to be accomplished by direct looking (called "eyeballing" by Hockney) or with the assistance of optical theory and devices, such as cameras ? Hockney has experimented with the full range of existing strategies, overtly using perspective in some of his classic pictures and rigorously investigating optical aids for the imitation of nature, including the camera obscura and camera lucida. Yet he has come to reject the photograph as the definitive image of what we see. Along the way, he has identified a "camera culture'' in European painting from 1400, arguing very controversially that the supreme naturalism of painters like Jan van Eyck are the product of optical devices. His book, Secret Knowledge (2001), with its majestic panorama of paintings over the course of five centuries, claims that art historians have missed the central aspect of painters' practice. The "Hockney thesis" has been received more favourably outside the professional world of art history than in it. His own artistic practice has been in vigorous dialogue with his radical thesis, and he has progressively demonstrated new and dynamic ways of characterising the visual world without perspective and other conventional techniques. This quest results a series of joyous challenges to our ways of seeing in the major exhibition in Cambridge at the Fitzwilliam Museum and in the Heong Gallery (Downing College). It will look at the whole span of Hockney's varied career and at the nature of the optical devices he has tested. His vision will be explored in the setting of traditional masterpieces of naturalistic observation, and in the context of modern sciences and technologies of seeing. The first section of the book looks at his thrilling experiments in seeing and representing in broad historical and contemporary contexts. This is followed by discussions of pre-photographic devices for capturing the appearances of things by optical means. The third section includes essays on Hockney's experiments from the perspectives of neuroscience and computer vision. In short, it reveals in a new way the working of Hockney's unique eye.
04/2022
Non classé
Priscilla, (White) Queen of the Desert
Written for an international audience, Priscilla, (White) Queen of the Desert speaks to the current crisis in queer rights and representation in the context of colonial nations. Focusing on issues of identity, but exploring concerns as wide ranging as morality, same-sex marriage, state sanction, families, and history, this book will appeal to students, activists and academics alike. Asking hard questions of queer rights movements, and the identity politics that often inform them, the book calls for a sustained engagement with the theorisation of queer racial identity and queer race privilege.
09/2006
Littérature érotique et sentim
Pannes de coeurs
Deux soeurs : deux coeurs en panne. Suite à une sérieuse déception amoureuse, Flora jure que le sien est irréparable. Elle multiplie les relations éphémères sans s'embarrasser de sentiments. Cependant, la liaison ardente et sans attaches qu'elle entame avec le magnétique Vincent pourrait bien changer la donne... Quant à Victoire, trahie par son petit-ami découvert dans les bras d'une autre, elle veut encore y croire. Pourtant, son nouveau job - s'occuper du sublime-mais-insupportable Archie, devenu aveugle à la suite d'un accident de ski - ne l'encourage guère dans ce sens. Mais un espoir ténu pourrait bien dégripper leurs coeurs, à moins qu'il ne les brise plus encore...
08/2019
Romans policiers
Bruits de Vannes
Au coeur de Vannes, les bruits courent dans la ville mais aussi dans la maison d'Audrey Doubriac. Dans six jours, ils livreront leurs secrets, l'ultime soupir de la victime et le nom de l'assassin. Depuis son emménagement dans sa maison bourgeoise, Audrey a le sentiment d'être épiée. Le malaise grandit avec la réception d'un étrange colis. Grincement du parquet, murmures et sombres confidences familiales. Qui l'espionne ? Qui la persécute et pourquoi ? Seul Alberto, son ami horloger, comprend son désarroi. Leur enquête les mène au-delà du Vieux Vannes, à Arradon et à Conleau. Car tôt ou tard, tout comme le passé, le cadavre refait surface.
07/2021
Actualité médiatique internati
Aux vannes, citoyens !
Une blague, ça ne s'explique pas. Mais l'humour, si. "Malgré la place qu'il occupe partout dans nos vies, dans la sphère privée ou dans les médias, l'humour politique est sousétudié scientifiquement et mal questionné journalistiquement. Il est pourtant l'un des miroirs les plus parlants de la société, et il se pratique dans toutes les situations, même les plus tragiques : en temps de guerre, après un attentat, voire au lendemain de la mort de Johnny. Le rire est comme le coquelicot : il pousse dans la boue et l'éclaire d'une petite touche de couleur vive". L'humour politique est à la fois jugé suspect et paré de vertus : il inverse les hiérarchies, il témoigne de la bonne santé démocratique d'un pays, il est d'utilité publique en cas de crise (et garantit le retour de l'être aimé). Avec le ton et l'ironie mordante qu'on lui connaît, Charline Vanhoenacker analyse les mécaniques du rire, dévoile les secrets de fabrication de ses chroniques radio et explore les relations ambiguës qu'entretiennent les politiques avec l'humour et... les humoristes.
Science-fiction
The Rook, au service surnaturel de Sa Majesté
Lorsqu'elle reprend conscience dans un parc de Londres, entourée de cadavres d'hommes en costume portant des gants en latex, Myfanwy Thomas ne se souvient de rien. D'après la lettre qu'elle a trouvée dans sa poche, elle savait qu'elle allait perdre la mémoire et s'est laissé tous les indices nécessaires pour découvrir qui veut l'éliminer. Elle rejoint ainsi la Checquy, une organisation secrète chargée de combattre les forces surnaturelles qui menacent la Couronne britannique. Au sein de cette version paranormale du MI5 anglais, la jeune femme, entourée de surdoués aux pouvoirs plus que spéciaux, devra se frayer un chemin dans un univers semé d'embûches et lever le voile sur une conspiration aux proportions inimaginables...
05/2015
Mouvements artistiques
Look Close, Think Far. Art at the Ackland
This richly illustrated volume introduces one of America's finest university art museums - one whose directors, curators, donors, and patrons have left a remarkable legacy, a museum collection that encourages us all to "look close, think far. " The selection of over 280 highlights is presented with brief commentaries and an essay that traces the growth of the Ackland Art Museum's outstanding collection. The Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the United States' most distinguished public university art museums. Founded in 1958, it now houses over 20, 000 works of art, covering some 5, 000 years of cultures from around the globe. "Look Close, Think Far" is the tagline of the Ackland, informing everything from the dynamic and varied program of special exhibitions to ambitious interpretation, education, and outreach activities. It applies especially strongly to the museum's extensive permanent collection. Although an integral part of the oldest public university in the United States, the Ackland is a relatively young institution. Now approaching its sixty-fifth year, it has become the proud steward of over 20, 000 works of art from an impressively broad range of world cultures and time periods. The Museum is known for its special strengths in art of the European tradition, with very strong holdings in prints and drawings ; the arts of Asia, and especially China, Japan, and India ; a small but fine collection of classical art from Africa ; and recent and contemporary art. This publication showcases a cross-section though the diverse collection, with 283 works, giving an impression of the Ackland's permanent collection that is true to its character, representative of its breadth, and indicative of its quality. The essay gives special attention to the early stages and the less obvious, more idiosyncratic moments that have contributed to the Ackland's personality and individuality. The approach taken by the editor Peter Nisbet, deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Ackland, differs from most conventional volumes of museum collection highlights in several refreshing ways. Instead of separating works along the lines of curatorial departments, the arrangement emphasizes the unity of the collection by merging works from different cultures. These are presented in a largely chronological sequence, but one that surprises by starting with the present and extending back in time. Within this order, works of art are deliberately paired across individual page openings, to stimulate visual attention, reflective thinking, and sometimes maybe just a smile.
08/2022
Anglais apprentissage
Acacia thorn in my heart
I started writing "Acacia thorn in my heart" after reading the book of a white South African woman about her childhood in the same region as mine but relating a completely different experience. She had maids, her father drove her to school and she played with real toys. I lived in the heart of the country, away from everything and had to walk five miles to go to school. I was born in Natal. My father rented a plot of land from a white owner to do market gardening. Although Indian families tended not to educate daughters, our parents decided that education was a priority for us. Despite financial difficulties, they were able to send us to school. We had to get up at five o'clock in order to catch the school train. In winter, as we were scantily clad, we shivered all the way to the station.
09/2001
Sciences de la terre et de la
Sponges of the New Caledonian lagoon
The present book which is devoted to Parifera or Sponges and profusely illustrated allows bring to light the most characteristic species of the New Caledonian lagoon with all the scientific rigor necessary. It is also well documented on the structure and function of Sponges.
the scientific rigor necessary. It is also well documented on the structure and function of Sponges.
Books like the present one are so important in educating the world community about the unique biodiversity contained within isolated island ecosystems, and we hope that they contribute in some way to careful management and preservation of these unique environments.
Cet ouvrage consacré aux Spongiaires ou Eponges, abondamment illustré, permet de faire connaître avec toute la rigueur scientifique, nécessaire les espèces spécifiques les plus
caractéristiques du lagon de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Il offre également une importante documentation sur la structure et le fonctionnement des Eponges.
Un tel ouvrage a aussi une vocation éducative : en révélant la fascinante biodiversité des écosystèmes récifaux, il incite à la préservation de ces milieux uniques.
06/1998
Autres langues
Japanese for busy people I. Revised edition
In the ten years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acceptance worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. In this new edition, numerous revisions and additions have been made, taking into account the comments and responses of both students and teachers who have been using the course. In Book 1, the revisions are directed at making the grammatical explanations easier to understand, while adding further explanations of points that students have difficulty with. Changes have also been made in favor of more natural practice sentences and dialogues. In addition, new appendices list the particles, interrogatives, and sentence patterns in the book, as well as the kanji introduced. More fundamental revisions have been made to Book II, which has been expanded and divided into two volumes, Book II and Book III. The changes result in a smoother transition from Book I, make new grammatical elements clearer, and present more natural practice dialogues and exercise sentences. This concise course in natural Japanese is ideal for such students as businessmen whose aim is a working knowledge of the spoken language in everyday life. "Survival Japanese for Adults," as it might be called, gets to the heart of the language without recourse to childish or classroom-only Japanese. Vocabulary and grammar have been limited to about one-third that usually encountered in beginner courses, and words and patterns that students will find immediately useful are emphasized. The thirty lessons are composed of dialogues, notes on grammar, and vocabulary, exercises, and quizzes. In addition to developing verbal fluency, by the time the student is one-third of the way through Book 1, he or she will have mastered the two phonetic syllabaries of Japanese, hiragana and katakana.
01/1994
Policiers
La mort au Festival de Cannes
Le retour d'Elise Andrioli, la célèbre enquêtrice de La Mort des bois, dans une comédie policière style «Agatha Christie sous amphètes». Devenue tétraplégique, aveugle et muette à la suite d'un attentat, Elise est invitée au Festival de Cannes comme membre du jury Jeunes Talents. La voici sur la Croisette dans son fauteuil roulant aérodynamique à turbo intégré. Grâce aux miracles de la médecine, Elise a progressé : elle peut bouger la main gauche, saluer comme la reine d'Angleterre et utiliser un ordinateur à synthèse vocale spécial non-voyants. Heureusement, son flair intact lui permettra de voir clair (!) dans les morts suspectes et spectaculaires qui se succèdent à un rythme plus effréné que celui des projections. Et de mettre le capitaine Kevin Isidore, une sorte de Columbo champion de boxe thaïe et dont l'enquête patauge plus qu'un peu, sur la piste d'un meurtrier aussi rapide qu'inventif. Optant résolument pour la légèreté et sans se départir de son humour dévastateur, Brigitte Aubert nous offre un polar féroce et hautement divertissant.
05/2015
Essais
Cannes confidentiel. Sexe, drogues et cinéma
Tapis rouge, montée des marches, Palme d'Or : du festival de Cannes, le monde connaît la légende qui, chaque année, fait converger vers cette petite station balnéaire sans charme de la Côte d'Azur le gotha du 7e art. En soixante-dix ans, le festival a imposé ses codes au cinéma mondial et s'est mué en un véritable système. Dérives financières, affaires de drogues, scandales sexuels, fêtes somptuaires, secrets d'alcôve : rien ne semble pouvoir égratigner le symbole. Son principe, u tout ce qui se passe à Cannes reste à Cannes ", n'est pas une vaine expression. C'est la réalité derrière les paillettes que Xavier Monnier explore dans ce livre. Au terme d'une enquête minutieuse, il brise le silence protecteur que le festival a instauré autour de son fonctionnement et révèle le vrai visage d'un événement où se jouent réussites et morts commerciales, fins de carrière et naissance de nouvelles étoiles. Une plongée au coeur du pouvoir de Cannes.
06/2021
Littérature française
Le chant des cannes à sucre
Le chant des cannes à sucre résonne comme un hymne, une cantate aux accents de gospels. Et c'est le blues qui envahit la mémoire... Dans l'agitation du port de Ouidah, un galion est aux amarres. Sur le pont montent les hommes du jeune roi d'Abomey chargés d'une mission : aller rechercher la reine-mère, vendue comme esclave au Brésil, il y a une vingtaine d'années suite à des intrigues de cour. Dans les cales, on entasse les captifs pour un voyage sans retour. Après un périple côtier de El Mina à Gorée, le vaisseau entamera sa longue traversée de l'océan jusqu'à Bahia. Aventure au coeur de l'Afrique en 1822, le récit nous entraine dans l'organisation sociale du royaume, on partage la vie des Européens à Ouidah, on assiste au commerce des armes et des denrées de toutes sortes venues d'Europe en échange du commerce des esclaves. Mais peu à peu, on découvre une Afrique profonde, ses coutumes et ses rites, ses croyances et ses dieux. La reine-mère reviendra-t-elle dans son pays ? Nul ne connait l'histoire de la prochaine aurore, dit le proverbe. Ce récit est en définitive l'histoire de l'Homme, ballotté, tel ce bateau au milieu des flots, entre humanité et barbarie, entre bonté et cruauté, entre amour et haine. L'Homme, toujours entre ombre et lumière...
03/2019
Histoire du cinéma
Dictionnaire amoureux du Festival de Cannes
"Il y a les films, les événements, les palmarès. Il y a l'air du temps. Les stars que j'ai aimées et dont je tire le portrait - personnel, artistique, réel, rêvé. Il y a les metteurs en scène venus de partout, et qui me sont proches. Les pays, les écoles, les genres. La presse. Les photos. Les jurys, les discussions, les rires. Les pleurs aussi. Il y a la Palme d'or. Il y a les fêtes, les surprises, les polémiques, les excentricités. Il y a les festivaliers, tout ce monde mystérieux du cinéma que le public envie et auquel chacun voudrait appartenir. Ce dictionnaire amoureux conte le roman vrai du plus grand festival de cinéma au monde, et en révèle quelques secrets. J'aimerais que le lecteur se coule dans l'esprit d'un sélectionneur, d'un juré, d'un critique, d'un cinéaste, et suive en coulisses le spectacle inouï de ces années éblouissantes."
05/2021
Autres éditeurs (A à E)
Le clown qui avait perdu ses couleurs. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Livre jeunesse illustré, texte bi-lingue Français-Anglais. Le clown Arturo a perdu toutes ses couleurs ! Et il ne fait plus rire les enfants. Il demande alors au lion, mais le lion qui tricote une jolie écharpe de laine bleue ne les a pas vues. Peut être qu'elles sont chez le caméléon ? Et si l'amitié était la plus belle des couleurs ? ---- Illustrated children book, bi-lingual text French-English Arturo the clown had lost all his colors ! And he doesn't make the children laugh anymore... He asks the lion, but the lion who is knitting a pretty scarf of blue wool has not seen them. Maybe they are with the chameleon ? What if friendship was the most beautiful color ?
07/2022
Non classé
Place of the Sacred
There has been a heated international debate over Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses ever since its publication in 1988. The present work examines the ways in which this affair has developed. From the beginning, one can find strong rhetorical emphases ; these are shown to argue for maintenance of meaningful boundaries. The thesis of Kuortti's book is that on each side of the debate, people use similar language to argue for the sanctity of their convictions. This is evident especially in the opposition between the arguments for the sacrality of Islam and literature. In the international exchange, how could we then find more respectful ways of acknowledging that we are not that dissimilar from each other ?
07/1997
Sciences de la terre et de la
Basic Physical Chemistry for the Atmospheric Sciences. 2nd edition
Modern studies of atmospheres, oceans, and Earth and planetary systems require a good knowledge of basic chemical principles. This book provides a clear, concise grounding in these principles. Undergraduate and graduate students with little formal training in chemistry can work through the chapters, and the numerous exercises, within this book before accessing more advanced texts in atmospheric chemistry, geochemistry, and the environmental sciences.
Basic Physical Chemistry for the Atmospheric Sciences covers the fundamental concepts of chemical equilibria, chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, solution chemistry, acid and base chemistry, oxidation-reduction reactions, and photochemistry. This new edition has been updated and revised from the first edition.
In a companion volume entitled Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry (2000, Cambridge University Press) Peter Hobbs provides an introduction to atmospheric chemistry itself, including its applications to air pollution, acid rain, the ozone hole, and climate change. Together these two books provide on ideal introduction to atmospheric chemistry for a variety of disciplines.
01/2000
Non classé
From the village to presidential suite, my life journey
I did not intend to write a scholarly book, for I did not want to intellectualize my life. Nor did I wish to romanticize it. I wanted to describe it as I lived it, with emphasis on people. I wanted to express in this book the joy I experienced in giving generously of myself, my time, and my modest material possessions, to make others happy and to share the many gifts of life. I wanted also to share with those who aspire to become academic leaders the myriad lessons my upbringing, education, and professional life have taught me. I thought they might find these lessons learned useful, as they strive for successful careers and, more importantly, for rewarding personal and professional lives. Again, this book is a story, the story of my life, wherein the personal and the professional have intermingled and strengthened each other, making a better whole of my person, personality, aspirations, and talents. This unique alliance between the professional and the personal dimensions of my life, I am happy to say, always triumphed and accounted for the successes that so many good people helped me achieve. Without the guidance, advice, cooperation, and support of others, I am sure my life would not have been as fulfilling.
08/2022
Documentaires jeunesse
Paris au fil du temps
Who made Paris the way it is ? What were the major phases of its construction ? How did Paris adapt to modern times and its growing population ? Discover the Gallo-Roman city of Lutetia, explore the filthy alleys of medieval Paris, admire the royal squares classical era, join the crowds in the Belly of Paris, stroll down the spacious Haussmanian boulevards... This book is an invitation to wander through the different eras that have made Paris the city it is today. With flaps that fold down, panels that open up, wheels to turn, mini-books to flip through, and panoramas to behold on every page !
05/2015
Référence
Geneva - Five Centuries of Hospitality
This book does not aim at documenting, in a rigorous way, the history of a number of people having participated in the international influence of Geneva. Its intention is to offer a look - somewhat more light-hearted than scientific - upon the lives of these people ; hence showing that Geneva's identity is indebted to a multitude of foreigners, refugees, exiles or immigrants who, with their skills, talents and strengths, have worked to make this city the place of tolerance, openness and peace that it is today.
09/2021
Généralités
From Vine to Wine.. Domaine Ponsot’s Vineyards: 150 Years of History (1872–2022)
Inspired by the microhistory trend, this book sets out to illustrate how 150 years of the unique history of a family of winegrowers is embedded in-and contributes to-the larger history of Burgundy crus. The book will explore the developments in techniques and knowledge about grapevines and wine that have taken place between 1872 to 2022, providing readers with a better understanding of the issues relating to designations of origin (appellations) and the notion of terroir. Readers will see how things were done in the past and how they are done today, and the approaches that will be adopted in the future by 'climatic' winegrowers, and will conclude that sometimes everything must change in order for everything to remain the same.
06/2022
Décoration
Great Escapes Africa. The Hotel Book, Edition 2020, Edition français-anglais-allemand
De la mer Méditerranée à l'océan Indien, des immensités du Sahara à l'archipel du Cap-Vert, l'Afrique a de quoi remplir une vie de voyages et d'aventures. Que vous y allez pour la toute première fois ou que vous soyez un habitué, ce continent vous offre pas moins de 54 pays d'une extraordinaire diversité, des métropoles créatives, une faune et des ciels nocturnes d'une incomparable pureté, ainsi que l'émouvante sensation d'un retour aux origines. Au gré de ce périple visuel à travers l'Afrique, nous découvrons des paysages de carte postale, une culture riche et des intérieurs incroyables, par une porte qui s'ouvre ou la fenêtre entrebâillée des hôtels les plus époustouflants du continent. Angelika Taschen nous emmène visiter ces joyaux cachés au Mozambique, en Afrique du Sud et en Ethiopie ; sur une plantation de café en Tanzanie, où les hôtes peuvent savourer leur Arabica fraîchement torréfié dans un environnement à couper le souffle. Nous pénétrons avec elle dans le légendaire Mount Nelson Hotel au Cap, peint en rose à la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, qui a depuis accueilli bien des adeptes de la méditation, et nous aventurons jusqu'au campement itinérant du Serengeti Safari Camp, quelques tentes montées et démontées toute l'année au gré de la migration des animaux sauvages. Dans ce guide mis à jour, indispensable, chaque lieu de villégiature est présenté avec de magnifiques photos ainsi que des informations pratiques comme l'itinéraire pour s'y rendre, qui contacter et des conseils de lecture pour chaque destination.
11/2019
Erotique
Money Shot
Dans le futur, obtenir des budgets pour la recherche scientifique est mission impossible. Alors, lorsque Christine Ocampo invente un dispositif de téléportation, une idée lui vient : voyager vers de nouveaux mondes, s'engager "intimement" avec des extraterrestres et filmer ses exploits. De quoi revigorer l'offre vidéo pour adultes sur internet et obtenir ainsi les subventions espérées. Avec sa joyeuse bande de scientifiques-porno-stars, elle part explorer l'univers... et pas que. Tout ça pour le bien de l'humanité.
07/2021
Policiers
Money shot
Je m'appelle Gina Moretti, mais vous me connaissez probablement mieux sous le nom d'Angel Dare. Vous en faites pas, je n'en parlerai à personne. J'ai tourné mon premier film X à l'âge de vingt ans, même si à l'époque, j'avais menti devant la caméra et prétendu en avoir dix- huit. Mais contrairement à bon nombre de filles avec lesquelles j'ai bossé, j'ai été assez maligne pour raccrocher. Le problème, c'est qu'à l'instar d'un catcheur ou d'un voleur de bijoux, je me suis laissé tenter par un retour. Je n'avais aucune idée que j'allais finir coincée dans un coffre de bagnole.
05/2018
Histoire internationale
Each Child Is My Only One
In Each Child Is My Only One : Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi's Wife, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach (1883–1942), last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg and its surroundings, describes her childhood in the lively household of a rabbi's family with nine children, focusing on the special personality of her mother, Lotte Carlebach, née Preuss (1900–1942). The book starts with the history of the Preuss family, goes on to describe the marriage of Lotte to Joseph Carlebach, and portrays in detail their dynamic family life – until their deportation with their four youngest children to a Latvian concentration camp in 1942. The book is composed of two main parts. In the first section the reader learns about the events up to 1938, both inside and outside the Carlebach home ; the second section covers the years 1938–1941, in which there was a lively correspondence mainly between the mother and those of her children who succeeded in emigrating from Nazi Germany. This part concludes with several testimonies portraying the special personalities of Rabbi Carlebach and his wife and their devotion to the unfortunate who benefited from their unbounded assistance and altruism during the Holocaust. Many photographs are included in the book, several of them taken by Lotte Carlebach herself. The book is a unique and personal testimony about Jewish life in Germany during the years of persecution that relentlessly led to the conflagration of the Holocaust.
05/2014
Verre, dinanderie, céramique
Wilmotte - Murano
This book, published in the wake of the "Agua e fogo" - "Water and Fire" - exhibition, highlights the work of French designer Jean-Michel Wilmotte in collaboration with Murano's glassblowers and craftsmen. Wilmotte's " Vessels " collection is a blend of nostalgia and modernity. Its 60 creations (chandeliers, table lamps, wall lamps, vases) are inspired by the designer's childhood memories of contemplating his father's pharmaceutical laboratory. Using the transparency and malleability of glass, each piece is delicate and refined, emphasising symmetry and balance - themes that Wilmotte is very fond of in his work. Alessandra Chemollo's photographs, shot exclusively in Venice, suggest a journey through the city, its craftsmen's workshops and its reflections. Architecture and craftsmanship are thus merged, in a quest for continuity and complementarity.
09/2023
