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The Holy Grail of Eris T01

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YAOUNDÉ BABA SCARED?....ME?....NO WAY!

YAOUNDE BABA SCARED ? ... ME ? ... NO WAY ! YAOUNDE goes off in search of his little goat, BEEE, who, in spite of the young boy's watchful eye, has gone missing. On the way he meets ZOULÏA, a friendly mouse, and ARWANE, a little ant, who help him to find the little goat. Their search will lead them to an isolated hill where a very strange creature lives - a creature capable of transforming itself into unimaginably frightening shapes and forms to scare away anybody who dares to set foot on its steep hill. In order to find BEEE, YAOUNDE and his two friends will have little choice. They will have to cross its territory and confront this incredible and terrifying creature. 6 to 10 Years.

10/2017

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Théâtre

Arrival of Mira, Love story between Bhojan and Mira

Arrival of Mira Foreword Arrival of Mira tells the story of a beautiful young woman who held true to her faith despite many severe hardships. Mira was still only a child when she decided that Ginidhara Gopal (Lord Krishna) was her 'husband' and that she wanted to devote her life to serving and worshipping him. Later, the now orphaned Mira was married to Bhojan, the prince of Mewar and son of Rana, the king of Chittoor. Bhojan fell in love at first sight but found it hard to understand Mira's utter devotion to Ginidhara. Mira suffered at the hands of her in-laws who could not understand the depth of her love for Ginidhara and wanted her to follow their worship of Kali (in the form of Durga). Mira suffered imprisonment in a haunted palace and then exile for her beliefs. Even her friends were persecuted because of her uncompromising love for Lord Krishna. Eventually Bhojan came to understand his wife's piety. The story is told in the form of a musical play where the love story is interwoven with delightful songs and dances. The character of Mira is one to win the hearts of all who read of her. Her gentle devotion and steadfast belief are an inspiration to everyone. Thank you, Dr Shuddhananda Bharati for having made this beautiful story available to us. Daye Craddock Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget

03/2013

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BD tout public

Ghouls of Nineveh T01 Klaatu, Verata, Nekto

Adam, qui vivote entre son magasin de DVD et son groupe de Death Metal à l’agonie, se rend à l’enterrement de son beau père. A l’église, les reliques d’un saint semblent dotées d’un étrange pouvoir qui va réveiller les morts du cimetière... Adam, aidé d’Alice, une jeune gothique rencontrée par hasard sur le parvis de l’église, va tenter d’éviter la catastrophe et comprendre ce qui se passe. A mi-chemin entre l’humour cartoon de Sam Raimi (EVIL DEAD) ou de Peter Jackson (BRAINDEAD), et la critique sociale de George A. Romero, "Ghouls of Nineveh" est une comédie d’horreur dans la pure tradition des films gore des années 80/90, avec des débroussailleuses, des pelles, des pioches, une malédiction ancestrale et des divinités Mésopotamiennes. Derrière ce ton léger et bon enfant, il s’agit aussi d’aborder des sujets tels que les conflits de génération et le respect de l’autre à travers la famille d’Adam, ainsi que l’extrémisme religieux en la personne du prêtre de la petite commune de Montfaucon. Mais surtout, il s’agit de briser un stéréotype qui a la vie dure : Les métalleux ne passent pas leur temps à boire des bières et à égorger des chatons à la gloire de Satan. Enfin pas que. Ils peuvent aussi être très utiles en cas d’invasion de morts vivants !

06/2012

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Archéologie

Fantastic Beasts in Antiquity. Looking for the monster, discovering the Human, Textes en français et anglais

Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented mysterious and intriguing creatures populating their world. During Antiquity, every culture had its own strange creatures, that mixed the forms of one or more animal, plant and human species in an infinite number of more-or-less fanciful combinations. Griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, pygmies, werewolves, winged monsters and unspeakable hybrids, fantastic beasts abound in the imagination of many populations throughout Antiquity. Most of them continue to live, sometimes transformed, through fairy tales, literature, movies and videogames. Faced with the abundance and variety of the ancient fantastic bestiary, the questions that come to mind are : Where do fantastic beasts come from ? How do they appear in different cultures ? What is their history, how did they survive until now ? And above all, what are fantastic beasts ? This book will explore these questions through the lens of archaeology, art history, philology and philosophy. The result is a hybrid book, precisely like the fantastic animals that constitute its object, a book which offers different approaches of analysis while being aware that our means are often vain to capture these elusive figures, which ultimately are more like us than they seem. Man, like Oedipus, will often prove to be more monstrous than the Sphinx...

02/2021

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Anglais apprentissage

THE CANTERBURY TALES. Avec cassette audio

'In April when the sweet showers fall... then people want to go on pilgrimages.' A group of pilgrims travelling from London to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should tell a story. The Knight tells a tale of high romance. The Pardoner tells a story of death. And the Wife of Bath tells the story of her five husbands and her fight to control the men in her life. But The Tales end with the story of the perfect marriage and how, if we are generous to one another, we can find the perfect society. A selection of stories from Chaucer's masterpiece depicting life in fourteenth century England is presented here in modern English. There is a wide range of activities and special informative sections on Chaucer and his times. The accompanying cassette contains the complete story and the extra listening activities.

06/1999

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Littérature française

Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba)

Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba) This book is dedicated to the unique One who has assumed a form and name to lead the play of universal existence. He throbs in our loving heart ; He breathes in our living soul. He sings in our fervent spirit and he thinks in our purified mind. That infinite Ancient One from his supernal height, bends towards us to embrace us in his love, and to feed our soul with the nectar of his bliss. Blessed are they that have the mind to know him, the heart to feel him and the love to live in his consciousness ! He may have been born to human parents in Poona, studied in a college, played cricket, left home, have seen great souls, sat alone silent, spoken in gestures, written books - but that is not his history. Many live such a life ; many scholars write books ; many saints sit in contemplation ; many monks leave home for mountain resorts ; but they cannot be one like him. Millions of bulbs challenge in vain the darkness of night. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. We have seen monks, yogins and saints. Some live alone for peace. Some open Ashrams and collect donations to run them. Some comercialise their name and form. Some display miracles to surprise human minds ; some offer boons ; some predict the future ; some curse you when you do not offer them what they want. Some seek pleasure and treasure. But who seeks God and finds God in the self to awaken God-awareness in other men and women ? Who says "I am God and you are God too"? Who rises above the prattle of words, the rattle of weapons and battle of ideologies to the lofty peace of supersonic silence and pours his blessings from the dizzy height of the soul in tune with God ? Who is he that embraces all in the heart and awakens the soul which has none of the human creations of caste, religion, race, pedigree nor colour ? Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget

07/2017

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Espagne

Secret Seville

Far from the crowds and the well-worn clichés, Seville still has many hidden gems it only reveals to locals and visitors who head off the beaten track. An essential guide for those who thought they knew Seville well or are seeking to discover another side of the city. Why is there a stone relief of Grace Kelly on the wall of Seville Town Hall and how can you track down the railway from the Ibero-American Expo of 1929 ? Where might you find the legacy of Christopher Columbus' son, a medieval Jewish cemetery in a car park, the oddest of barbershops, forgotten souvenirs from the Guadalquivir steamboats, Masonic symbols in a church, the last remaining vestiges of the Andalusian pavilions from the '29 Expo, a little-known Modernist electric power station, an example of the Nazi Enigma machine, a collection of Chinese and Japanese art in a Renaissance mansion or the pillars of a medieval synagogue ?

04/2022

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Lectures graduées

Death of a Salesman

Willy Loman is a salesman who believes in the American Dream. He has spent his whole career on the road, going all over New England to sell products. At sixty, he is far from retiring : he needs to keep on working to earn money in order to pay his mortgage and loans. But he does not sell as much as he used to and struggles to make ends meet. His relationship with his elder son, Biff, is chaotic : he does not understand why his son does not live up to his expectations. Thus, they fight all the time. But at the heart of the tension between them lies a secret that only the two of them know... Death of a Salesman explores the depth and complexity of human relationships and shows what happens when a man gets lost in his own dreams.

08/2021

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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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Manga

L'Attaque des Titans Pack Découverte T01 et T02

Le monde appartient désormais aux Titans, des êtres gigantesques qui ont presque décimé l'Humanité. Voilà une centaine d'années, les derniers rescapés ont bâti une place forte, une cité cernée d'une haute muraille au sein de laquelle vivent aujourd'hui leurs descendants. Parqués, ignorants tout du monde extérieur, ils s'estiment au moins à l'abri de ces effroyables êtres qui ne feraient d'eux qu'une bouchée. Hélas, cette illusion de sécurité vole en éclats le jour où surgit un Titan démesuré, encore bien plus colossal que tous les autres. S'engage alors un combat désespéré pour la survie du genre humain...

12/2019

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Manga

To your eternity pack offre decouverte t01 et t02

"C'est à l'épreuve de la réalité que je saurai ce que je suis... Voilà pourquoi mon voyage commence. " Un être immortel a été envoyé sur Terre. Il rencontre d'abord un loup puis un jeune garçon vivant seul au milieu d'un paysage enneigé. Ainsi commence le voyage de l'Immortel, un voyage fait d'expériences et de rencontres dans un monde implacable...

01/2022

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Seinen/Homme

From the Red Fog T03

Ruwanda est en mission pour le Syndicat des assassins, aux côtés de son compagnon de route Ivan. Ce dernier cache un lourd passé puisqu'il a été trahi par son propre père, rendu à moitié fou par la pauvreté. Et dans ce Syndicat où pourtant seule plane l'odeur de la mort, Ivan espère retrouver la chaleur d'un foyer. De son côté, Ruwanda tente d'assassiner May, seulement parce qu'il ne l'apprécie pas. Cependant, sa main va être retenue par un étrange sentiment qu'il ne comprend pas. Mosae Nohara, le dessinateur de BEM, exprime tout son talent pour le genre horrifique dans From the Red Fog, un manga aussi angoissant que captivant.

11/2022

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Seinen/Homme

The Brave wish revenging T05

Après avoir vaincu le roi des démons, Raul aurait normalement dû devenir le sauveur du monde et être acclamé comme le plus grand des héros... mais les choses se sont passées autrement. La princesse et quelques aristocrates, avides de pouvoir, ont fait massacrer sa famille et ses camarades et l'ont fait accuser du crime. Juste avant de mourir, il plonge du côté obscur et jure de se venger.

06/2023

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Manga

The Brave wish revenging T08

Après avoir vaincu le roi des démons, Raoul aurait normalement dû devenir le sauveur du monde et être acclamé comme le plus grand des héros... mais les choses se sont passées autrement. La princesse et quelques aristocrates, avides de pouvoir, ont fait massacrer sa famille et ses camarades et l'ont fait accuser du crime. Juste avant de mourir, il plonge du côté obscur et jure de se venger.

12/2078

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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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Publicité

Lürzer's Int'l Archive N° 3-4/2021

The second double issue this year, and no fewer than 101 print and 45 film campaigns are waiting for you. The main interview with Adam Hessel, EVP and CCO of the New York agency Harrison and Star is titled "At the end of the day, it's all about having vision and passion". The digital section was curated by Luis Gaitán, CCO of Grey Mexico. And responsible for the eerily intriguing cover is McCann Health Hong Kong.

12/2021

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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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Roman d'amour, roman sentiment

The elements. The gravity of us

" Nous n'étions pas faits l'un pour l'autre... " The Gravity of Us, série The Elements, Livre 4 : Quatrième et dernier volume d'une série de 4 titres de Brittainy Cherry, 4 standalones qui se lisent de manière indépendante, dont chaque volume correspond aux 4 éléments de l'univers : l'air, le feu, l'eau, et la terre. The Air He Breathes #1 (L'air)Fire Between High & Lo #2 (Le Feu)The Silent Waters #3 (L'eau)The Gravity of Us #4 (La terre) Graham Russel et moi n'étions pas faits l'un pour l'autre. J'obéissais à mes émotions, il était apathique. Je rêvais. La vie n'était pour lui qu'une succession de cauchemars. J'étais capable de pleurer, il était dépourvu de larmes. En dépit de son coeur gelé et de ma propension à fuir, il nous arrivait de partager de brefs instants. Des instants qui nous laissaient entrevoir nos secrets. Des instants où le goût de mes peurs s'attardait sur ses lèvres, où le parfum de ses souffrances s'insinuait en moi. Des instants où nous imaginions être amoureux l'un de l'autre. De brefs instants où nous flottions comme sur un petit nuage, mais quand la réalité nous heurtait de plein fouet, elle nous forçait à redescendre sur terre. Graham Russel était un homme qui ne savait pas aimer, et moi une femme qui ne savait pas non plus. Mais si l'occasion m'était accordée de tomber, une fois encore, je tomberais avec lui pour toujours... même si nous devions, inéluctablement, nous écraser au sol. " Délicat, haletant, puissant. On ne résiste pas au charme de The Gravity of Us". San Francisco Chronicle

03/2024

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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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Monographies

Upper Crust : Homemade Bread the French Way. Recipes and techniques

An introduction to the French art of baking bread-including ingredient selection, levain cultivation, and bread-making techniques-with more than one hundred illustrated recipes. The humble baguette is the quintessential staple of French cuisine, but the country has a vast and diverse bread-baking tradition. With an introduction to the history of French bread, guidelines to help the home baker select the right ingredients - grain and flour varieties, water, salt, and levain-this book details the step-by-step techniques and fundamentals of bread making : from feeding the levain, kneading and preparing the dough, and baking, to more than 100 recipes. Eighteen expert bakers and pastry chefs share the sweet and savory recipes that have forged the French bakery's enviable reputation-from rounds of rustic pain de campagne or loaves of olive and oregano bread to regional favorites like fougasse or the Basque taloas tortillas. A new generation of bakers has expanded the classic French repertoire to include original creations-such as charcoal-sesame baguettes ; matcha swirl bread ; buckwheat and seaweed rolls ; and fig, hazelnut, and honey rye bread. In their French style, they also reinterpret heritage breads from across the world-including pita, focaccia, bagels, cheesy Georgian khachapuri, Swedish crispbread, and Indian chapati. Additional bread-based recipes include "surprise bread" finger sandwiches, croque monsieur, onion soup with cheese croutons, and desserts such as French toast and kouign-amann. For each recipe, pictograms indicate the level of difficulty, time and material required, and whether a recipe is gluten-free. This is the ultimate reference book for baking homemade bread the French way.

11/2021

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National Socialism in Oceania

In today's security-conscious environment, the loyalties and allegiances of migrant communities are increasingly being brought into question. Drawing on the collected knowledge of a number of Australian experts investigating interwar issues of security, surveillance and civic rights from the perspective of migration studies, this book aims, through the examination of individuals and groups in Oceania who were targeted for potential subversion or believed to hold National Socialist sympathies (including local National Socialists, Italian-Australians, Russian exiles, members of the right-wing movements the New Guard and Australia First), to consider how issues of security were regarded at another critical point in world history and what lessons we may learn from that period today. This book examines a variety of motives for embracing National Socialism and investing hope in the Third Reich. Attitudes shifted over time from enthusiasm to scepticism and disappointment. But, most importantly, beyond support and opposition, there was a surprising level of disengagement and indifference from sister movements on the radical right. This groundbreaking study defies easy answers and previously-held understandings, and will stimulate debate and further research.

04/2010