The Ghost Dancer lives again while dancing with the Sun. D'ombre et de lumière
Extraits
Sciences de la terre et de la
Theoretical Astrophysics. Volume 1, Astrophysical Processes
Graduate students and researchers in astrophysics and cosmology need a solid understanding of a wide range of physical processes. This clear and authoritative textbook has been designed to help them to develop the necessary toolkit of theory. Assuming only an undergraduate background in physics and no detailed knowledge of astronomy, this book guides the reader step by step through a comprehensive collection of fundamental theoretical topics. The book is modular in design, allowing the reader to pick and chose a selection of chapters, if necessary. It can be used alone, or in conjunction with the forthcoming accompanying two volumes (covering stars and stellar systems, and galaxies and cosmology, respectively). After reviewing the basics of dynamics, electromagnetic theory, and statistical physics, the book carefully develops a solid understanding of all the key concepts such as radiative processes, spectra, fluid mechanics, plasma physics and MHD, dynamics of gravitating systems, general relativity, and nuclear physics. Each topic is developed methodically from undergraduate basic physics. Throughout, the reader's understanding is developed and tested with carefully structured problems and helpful hints. This welcome volume provides graduate students with an indispensable introduction to and reference on all the physical processes they will need to successfully tackle cutting-edge research in astrophysics and cosmology.
01/2000
Physique, chimie
Neutron Physics
Originally just an offshoot of nuclear physics, neutron physics soon became a branch of physics in its own right. It deals with the movement of neutrons in nuclear reactors and all the nuclear reactions they trigger there, particularly the fission of heavy nuclei which starts a chain reaction to produce energy. Neutron Physics covers the whole range of knowledge of this complex science, discussing the basics of neutron physics and some principles of neutron physics calculations. Because neutron physics is the essential part of reactor physics, it is the main subject taught to students of Nuclear Engineering. This book takes an instructional approach for that purpose. Neutron Physics is also intended for all physicists and engineers involved in development or operational aspects of nuclear power.
09/2008
Monographies
Towards the Sun. The Artist - Traveller at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Bien qu'il y ait eu des monographies sur les artistes voyageurs britanniques du XVIIIème et du début du XIXème siècles, il n'existe aucune enquête de ce que l'écrivain Henry Blackburn décrivait de "voyage artistique" un siècle plus tard. A partir de 1900, le "Grand Touriste" est devenu un globe-trotteur muni d'un appareil photo et, malgré le développement de la photographie instantanée, l'enregistrement visuel immédiat en huile et aquarelle reste le plus répandu. Kenneth McConkey's exciting new book explores the complex reasons for this in a series of chapters that take the reader from southern Europe to north Africa, the Middle East, India and Japan revealing many artist-travellers whose lives and works are scarcely remembered today. He alerts us to a generation of painters, trained in academies and artists' colonies in Europe that acted as crèches for those would go on to explore life and landscape further afi eld. The seeds of wanderlust were sown in student years in places where tuition was conducted in French or German, and models were often Spanish, Italian, or North African. At fi rst the countries of western Europe were explored afresh and cities like Tangier became artists' haunts. Training that prioritized plein air naturalism led to the common belief that a well-schooled young painter should be capable of working anywhere, and in any circumstances. At the height of British Imperial power, and facilitated by engineering and technological advance, the burgeoning tourism and travel industry rippled into the production of specialist goods and services that included a dedicated publishing sector. Essential to this phenomenon, the artist-traveller was often commissioned by London dealers to supply themed exhibitions that coincided with contracts for colour-illustrated books recording those exotic parts of the world that were newly available to the tourist, traveller, explorer, emigrant, or colonial civil servant. These works were not, however, value-neutral, and in some instances, they directly address Orientalism, Imperialism, and the Post-Colonial, in pictures that hybridize, or mimic indigenous ways of life. Behind each there is a range of interesting questions. Does experience live up to expectation ? Is the street more desirable than the ancient ruin or sacred site ? How were older ideas of the 'picturesque' reborn in an age when 'Grand Tours' once confi ned to Italy, now encompassed the globe ? McConkey's wideranging survey hopes to address some of these issues. This richly illustrated book explores key sites visited by artist-travellers and investigates artists including Frank Brangwyn, Mary Cameron, Alfred East, John Lavery, Arthur Melville, Mortimer Menpes, as well as other under-researched British artists. Drawing the strands together, it redefi nes the picturesque, by considering issues of visualization and verisimilitude, dissemination and aesthetic value.
11/2021
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
Chanson française
Live from the moumoune
Quand on écoute Atomic Ping Pong, la gravité est optionnelle et l'absurde est le seul dialecte à bord. Avec l'album Live from the Moumoune, enregistré sur trois concerts en mai 2023, le groupe franco-canadien marie plaisir et pensée critique et allie flow et collapsologie dans un son entier et chaleureux. De l'écologie à l'amour gay en passant par la mise en orbite d'un raton laveur transgenre, les 5 musicien.nes y brassent une musique aux influences multiples pour créer un univers euphorisant, atomique et lunaire. Refrains hypnotisants à triple sens, nappes de synthé enveloppantes et clarinette basse explosive montée sur pédalier tentaculaire, chaque nouveau morceau est l'occasion de changer de costume comme de style. Entre l'humour de Philippe Katerine, le groove d'Abraham Inc et la sensibilité de Sages Comme Des Sauvages, Atomic Ping Pong invite le public à danser sur un sentier surréaliste, politique et plein d'auto-dérision.
03/2024
Religion jeunesse
The beautiful dolls of Julia are getting married. Numéro 22
"The LORD defends the rights of orphans and widows. The LORD cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing". "You have to love the foreigner, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt". Deuteronomy 10 : 18 - 19 HISTORY OF THE FRENCH AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY "CROIRE - SAVOIR - VOULOIR" " Julia's Beautiful Dolls - Holy Paris " represents the Universal name of a new linguistic and pedagogic method, to teach English, French and Spanish, to the children of the Kindergarten and Elementary school. The Collection of Multimedia Books, notebooks of writing, cultural and educational articles are to develop an education of PEACE, to teach the catholic faith with the Catholic History of Art and testimony of Julia. The Collection " JULIA'S BEAUTIFUL'S DOLLS- HOLY PARIS " is an INVENTION created by the Writer and Translator Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ Widow of RUIZ, after nine years of "SCIENCES RESEARCES", since the creation of the company, in 2008, in Paris. Julia created this Linguistic Method in French and she make the translation to English and Spanish. The Pedagogical Method of this Collection is to develop the Peace in the World, to make a transfer of the Catholic Faith, to teach the different Cultures, the Moral Universal values, the Interreligious Cooperation and the Harmony between the United Nations. This Collection has been realized religiously, intellectually and manually for Mrs. Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ ARELLANO Widow of RUIZ. Julia makes this Collection of Beautiful Dolls, since 1986, the year that she arrived to Paris, to study the French Civilization in the University "La Sorbonne". To have a Collection of Dolls from many countries of the world, was a dream that she has since she was a little girl of 5 years old. Mrs. Julia SANCHEZ works in Research since nine years ago, to develop, to create her Publishing International Company in Paris, she has never received a Subvention of the French Government, not either of the European Commission, or of the Mayor of Paris. In the year 2010, Mrs. Julia Sanchez appeared to the prize " The Don of Science " organized by the Department of the National Education, of the Higher Education and Researches of France and for not communication, she didn't obtain the Prize. In November, 2013, Mrs. Julia Sanchez has deposited the name of her trademark and in November, 2014, she deposited the Patent of her invention to the National Institute of Industrial Property in order to distinguish her invention from other inventions.
10/2018
Religion jeunesse
The beautiful dolls of Julia are celebrating the assumption of the blessed virgin Mary. Numéro 15
"The LORD defends the rights of orphans and widows. The LORD cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing". "You have to love the foreigner, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt". Deuteronomy 10 : 18 - 19 HISTORY OF THE FRENCH AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY "CROIRE - SAVOIR - VOULOIR" " Julia's Beautiful Dolls - Holy Paris " represents the Universal name of a new linguistic and pedagogic method, to teach English, French and Spanish, to the children of the Kindergarten and Elementary school. The Collection of Multimedia Books, notebooks of writing, cultural and educational articles are to develop an education of PEACE, to teach the catholic faith with the Catholic History of Art and testimony of Julia. The Collection " JULIA'S BEAUTIFUL'S DOLLS- HOLY PARIS " is an INVENTION created by the Writer and Translator Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ Widow of RUIZ, after nine years of "SCIENCES RESEARCES", since the creation of the company, in 2008, in Paris. Julia created this Linguistic Method in French and she make the translation to English and Spanish. The Pedagogical Method of this Collection is to develop the Peace in the World, to make a transfer of the Catholic Faith, to teach the different Cultures, the Moral Universal values, the Interreligious Cooperation and the Harmony between the United Nations. This Collection has been realized religiously, intellectually and manually for Mrs. Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ ARELLANO Widow of RUIZ. Julia makes this Collection of Beautiful Dolls, since 1986, the year that she arrived to Paris, to study the French Civilization in the University "La Sorbonne". To have a Collection of Dolls from many countries of the world, was a dream that she has since she was a little girl of 5 years old. Mrs. Julia SANCHEZ works in Research since nine years ago, to develop, to create her Publishing International Company in Paris, she has never received a Subvention of the French Government, not either of the European Commission, or of the Mayor of Paris. In the year 2010, Mrs. Julia Sanchez appeared to the prize " The Don of Science " organized by the Department of the National Education, of the Higher Education and Researches of France and for not communication, she didn't obtain the Prize. In November, 2013, Mrs. Julia Sanchez has deposited the name of her trademark and in November, 2014, she deposited the Patent of her invention to the National Institute of Industrial Property in order to distinguish her invention from other inventions.
05/2019
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Thinking about Physics
Physical scientists are problem solvers. They are comfortable "doing" science: they find problems, solve them, and explain their solutions. Roger Newton believes that his fellow physicists might be too comfortable with their roles as solvers of problems. He argues that physicists should spend more time thinking about physics. If they did, he believes, they would become even more skilled at solving problems and "doing" science. As Newton points out in this thought-provoking book, problem solving is always influenced by the theoretical assumptions of the problem solver. Too often, though, he believes, physicists haven't subjected their assumptions to thorough scrutiny. Newton's goal is to provide a framework within which the fundamental theories of modem physics can be explored, interpreted, and understood.
"Surely physics is more than a collection of experimental results, assembled to satisfy the curiosity of appreciative experts," Newton writes. Physics, according to Newton, has moved beyond the describing and naming of curious phenomena, which is the goal of some other branches of science. Physicists have spent a great part of the twentieth century searching for explanations of experimental findings. Newton agrees that experimental facts are vital to the study of physics, but only because they lead to the development of a theory that can explain them. Facts, he argues, should undergird theory.
Newton's explanatory sweep is both broad and deep. He covers such topics as quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, field theory, thermodynamics, the role of mathematics in physics, and the concepts of probability and causality. For Newton the fundamental entity in quantum theory is the field, from which physicists can explain the particle-like and wave-like properties that are observed in experiments. He grounds his explanations in the quantum field.
Although this is not designed as a standalone textbook, it is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and researchers. This is a clear, concise, up-to-date book about the concepts and theories that underlie the study of contemporary physics. Readers will find that they will become better-informed physicists and, therefore, better thinkers and problem solvers, too.
01/2000
Autres régions
D’ombre et de Lumière
1944. A "La Renauchat" , hameau des confins de la Marche et du Berry, la guerre a bouleversé la vie. Certains y ont trouvé un havre contre la violence du temps. Mais la famille Meurot, installée là depuis des générations, a été éparpillée par le conflit. Quatre années après avoir rejoint la France Libre, Henri, l'un des fils, est parachuté près de chez lui. Ainsi, avec la Libération arrive, pour tous, le temps des retrouvailles. Rien, cependant, ne sera plus comme avant. Les uns comme Hans doivent faire face à leurs traumatismes. Les autres fuient leur campagne, poussés par un ardent désir de liberté. Lucette part pour Châteauroux, les amoureux Henri et Dolores n'aspirent qu'à la bouillonnante vie parisienne, à la poursuite de leurs rêves. Mais ces choix ne sont pas sans provoquer des blessures. Et "La Renauchat" redeviendra peu à peu le refuge de ses enfants exilés, repère immuable dans un monde fiévreux. Jeanine Berducat dépeint avec son grand talent de conteuse, une fresque familiale agitée par l'effervescence de l'après-guerre et illustre, avec justesse, cette période charnière du monde rural, bousculé par le progrès technique et l'évolution des mentalités.
10/2021
Littérature française
D'ombre et de lumière
A la poursuite de ses rêves de voyages et d'horizons lointains, Gottfried Becker quitte sa Bavière natale pour s'engager à vingt ans dans la Légion étrangère. Au service d'un autre drapeau, au contact d'autres peuples, d'autres cultures et d'autres dieux, il fera l'apprentissage d'une vie d'homme dans laquelle les découvertes essentielles et les expériences douloureuses s'entremêlent à ses espoirs de jeunesse : l'amitié de ses frères d'armes, la rencontre de l'étranger, la joie de participer à la construction d'un pays, la cruauté des guerres... Ainsi, des brumes d'Allemagne aux lumières chaudes de l'Atlas marocain, des souks de Rabat aux contreforts des Monts de Gy en Franche-Comté, Gottfried tente-il de conduire son existence avec le même amour pour la patrie de son choix, le Dieu de son père et pour Anne, la femme de sa vie...
01/2014
Policiers
D'ombre et de lumière
L'Inspecteur Frank Elder accepte une nouvelle fois de quitter la Cornouailles, où il vit retiré. C'est à la demande de son ex-épouse qu'il retourne à Nottingham pour tenter de retrouver une femme qui a disparu depuis plusieurs jours. Peut-être aussi pour renouer avec sa fille Katherine, dont la vie a été bouleversée par sa faute. La disparue, Claire Meecham, menait une vie secrète dont même sa soeur Jennie ne soupçonnait pas l'existence. Or à peine Elder a-t-il commencé à enquêter que Claire est découverte, paisiblement allongée sur son lit, mais tout ce qu'il y a de plus morte. Cette mise en scène du cadavre rappelle aussitôt à l'inspecteur une vieille affaire, jamais élucidée, sur laquelle il avait travaillé huit ans plus tôt. C'est ainsi qu'il ,reprend du service en tant que consultant officiel de la police. Il va faire un terrifiant voyage dans les recoins obscurs d'un cerveau malade
04/2008
Anglais apprentissage
Tales from Longpuddle
Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks fora ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy's tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.
07/2010
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
Sciences de la terre et de la
Coral reef ascidians of New Caledonia
Ascidians are common marine animals present on all types of substrata but abundant and highly diversified in warm oceans. They represent a large portion of the underwater pictures taken by divers of the ORSTOM center in Noumea.
One millimeter to some decimeters in size, cryptic or brightly coloured, motionless, often in the shade, ascidians are not well known, but are present everywhere. They are surprising not only in their variable shapes but also in their unique biological characteristics. They represent the boundary between invertebrates and vertebrates, although the adults look like stones or sponges.
With a beautiful selection of photographs, the authors discuss the essential anatomy, the modes of budding, the pigments, and the spicules. The ecological requirements are detailed and symbionts, parasites and predators are reviewed. The relationship with man concerns fouling species on ships, their use as food end as a source of pharmacological products.
The final section provides a key for the identification of the most common or spectacular species.
08/1991
Non classé
Confrontation with Exile: Studies in the German Novel
These studies are linked together by a central theme, namely the state of exile created by the Nazi rise to power. Each novel is examined against the socio-political background of the exile scene. Traditional artistic concepts and ideologies, carried over into the new environment, reveal problems of form and content which are treated in detail through individual analysis.
12/1976
Yaoi/homosexualité masculine
Let's pray with the priest Tome 9
Yûji, moine et idole de la galerie marchande, sort avec Saburô-kun, le fils du marchand de tofu ! D'un autre côté, Yoshito est désespéré qu'il ne se soit rien passé avec Kenji, grand frère de Yûji, depuis leur première tentative de coucher ensemble il y a un mois ! C'est alors qu'ils se retrouvent tous les deux à passer la nuit dans un onsen...? !
05/2023
Yaoi/homosexualité masculine
Let's pray with the priest Tome 10
Yûji, moine et idole de la galerie marchande, sort avec Saburô-kun, le fils du marchand de tofu. D'un autre côté, Yoshito de Kimura Cleaning ne se souvient pas de sa première fois avec Kenji, le grand frère de Yûji, et a donc l'impression d'être toujours puceau... Mais voilà qu'ils partent tous les quatre en voyage avec l'association des jeunes du quartier...? !
07/2023
Manga
Let's pray with the priest Tome 5
Yûji, cadet d'une famille de moines et idole du quartier commerçant, sort en réalité avec Saburô, le troisième fils du marchand de tofu. Leur couple se porte très bien, mais le temps file et les deux amoureux ne sont toujours pas passés à l'acte. Si l'envie ne leur manque pas, c'est plutôt les occasions et l'intimité qui leur font défaut. Heureusement, les parents de Saburô partent en voyage, laissant leur fils seul à la maison ! Refusant de laisser passer une chance pareille, Saburô invite Yûji à passer la nuit chez lui...Yûji et Saburô auront-ils enfin un peu de temps rien que pour eux ? Vont-ils finalement pouvoir coucher ensemble ? Retrouvez également Ryôichi, l'ex-petit ami de Kenji, dans ce qui sera peut-être le début d'une nouvelle histoire d'amour !
01/2018
Littérature française
A mother’s diary
Every day, for love, I trusted my surrogate mother to see through the day and hold on to my journey, with bravery. Today, through my diary, I share with you my sor-rows, my fears, my joys... By means of courage, love and faith ; The wish to live, to give life and to make this life a success, not the one which was designated to you/wanted for you.
12/2013
Seinen/Homme
The Brave Wish Revenging Tome 1
Raul, considéré comme le plus puissant guerrier du monde depuis sa victoire contre le roi démon, aurait dû devenir le sauveur de l'humanité. Mais Raul voit ses amis et les membres de sa famille être assassinés par des nobles puis est exécuté à la suite d'une fausse accusation. Juste avant de perdre la vie, il promet allégeance aux ténèbres pour revenir d'entre les morts et se venger.
07/2022
Seinen/Homme
The Brave wish revenging Tome 6
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.
09/2023
Seinen/Homme
The Brave wish revenging Tome 3
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.
12/2022
Seinen/Homme
The Brave wish revenging Tome 4
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.
03/2023
Seinen/Homme
The Brave wish revenging Tome 5
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
Seinen/Homme
The Brave wish revenging Tome 8
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.
06/2024
Sculpture
The Riace Bronzes
The fourth volume in our "Hidden Treasures" series is dedicated to the Riace Bronzes, two of the very few ancient bronze statues that have survived to this day and now preserved in the National Archeological Museum in Reggio Calabria. This publication was designed to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their discovery. In it, Luigi Spina's photographic research dialogs with the texts written by Carmelo Malacrino. The photographer here develops a continued narrative, offering a direct comparison between the two sculptures, identified as A and B, exploring interpretations of the physicality of the two subjects as well as the three-dimensional quality of the bronze bodies, often concealed by the two-dimensional appearance of photographic images. Carmelo Malacrino and Riccardo Di Cesare analyse these famous 5th century BC masterpieces from two points of view : as ancient works of art on the one hand, and considering their significance for contemporary culture on the other. He retraces the story of the Bronzes beginning with their discovery in August, 1972, exploring the circumstances of their unearthing, the restoration they underwent, the exhibitions in which they were shown, as well as the impact they have had on the public, both nationally and internationally. Equally relevant is the reinterpretation of these two statues, beginning with their contextualization in the sphere of ancient Greek art, the related stylistic issues, and the reflection upon the practices and the knowledge possessed by Classical sculpture workshops. This volume will be a pleasant surprise for those of you who love Classical sculpture, for archaeology enthusiasts, and for all those who aren't satisfied with a quick glance when it comes to admiring a work of art.
10/2022
Economie
Arguing about justice. Essays for Philippe Van Parijs
"A book of quick and sharp thoughts on a grand theme is a novel way of paying tribute to a leading philosopher. But it has worked beautifully here, both as a stimulating book of ideas on justice, and as a fitting recognition of the intellectual contributions of Philippe Van Parijs, who is one of the most original and most creative thinkers of our time". Amartya Sen, Harvard University, 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences This book brings together fifty of today's finest thinkers. They were asked to let their imaginations run free to advance new ideas on a wide range of social and political issues. They did so as friends, on the occasion of Philippe Van Parijs's sixtieth birthday. Rather than restricting themselves to comments on his numerous writings, the authors engage with the topics on which he has focused his attention over the years, especially with the various dimensions of justice, its scope, and its demands. They discuss issues ranging from the fair distribution of marriage opportunities to the limits of argumentation in a democracy, the deep roots of inequality, the challenges to basic income and the requirements of linguistic justice. They provide ample food for thought for both academic and general readers.
01/2011
Ethnologie et anthropologie
The Wolves Rise Again. New elites born out of chaos
The successive shocks that strike our time have acted as an indicator of men : the bland elites of yesteryear, suddenly rejected by the masses, went back silently into the void where they had first come from. This opportunist plutarchy, that maintained itself so far, thanks to the industry of lying, the targeted elimination of creative people, will soon be engulfed. Around these illusionists with no audience, the hidden alphas will begin to rise. Within a few months, alphas, forged in a new metal, invaded public space. How can it be explained ? In troubled times, the hierarchies of peacetime had left, suddenly, a place to the atomisation of individuals. Chaos then allows the individual alphas to rise to power. Like a pack of wolves, these alphas quickly take the lead of small human groups organising themselves into rival packs. The French Revolution is a striking example of this evolution : the masters of yesterday were relegated because of their unsuitability.
06/2022
Monographies
Georges troubat
Le jeu, toujours recommencé, est donc infini. Assemblages, recouvrements, juxtapositions. Bleus, rouges, jaunes. Lignes, surfaces, figures. Une exposition de Georges Troubat est toujours une expérience singulière : comme un musicien avec un ensemble limité de notes, l'artiste multiplie les variations, les improvisions, offrant l'étonnante impression d'un ruissellement permanent. Cet homme a toujours été très actif dans sa vie ; rien n'est définitif, le courant nous emporte et il nous faut nager avec lui. L'acte créatif n'existe que répété puisqu'il est lié à la marche, aux mouvements du temps, aux passages des saisons, aux rythmes du monde. La peinture de Georges Troubat est vivante, au sens plein : elle régie son pas sur les impulsions du vivant. Son animation procède de la vie elle-même, à laquelle elle retourne comme un acquiescement permanent. Cet homme que l'on croit pressé est un nageur ébloui, et sa peinture témoigne pour un monde qui ne serait qu'éblouissement. The game that is started over and over, is then infinite. Assemblages, collections, juxtapositions. Blus, reds, yellows. Lines, textures, shapes. An exhibition of Georges Troubat is always a peculiar experience : just like a musician with a few limited notes, the artist multiplies the variations, improvisations, offering the astonishing feeling of an on-going flow. This man was always very active in his life, but nothing lasts forever, the flow takes us with it and we have to swim with it. The creative act only exists by repetition as it's tied to the pace, to the mouvements of time, to the passing seasons, to the world's rhythms. George Troubat's painting is alive, taking on the whole meaning of the word : it regulates its pace on the impulsion of the living. Its animation begins from life itself, to whom it goes back to, like a perpetual approbation. This man, who we think in a hurry, is a dazzling swimmer and his painting attests for a world which would only be dazzling.
03/2022
Poésie
Epilepsy: the invisible pain
They say life is a long stretch of a calm river, but not for everyone ! She was for me until the day when everything rocked, the day my destiny was changed dramatically. People do not realize how life can be so sweet and so beautiful. They complain all day long for trivialities. They are not even aware that they have before their eyes the most beautiful wealth : the luck and happiness of living in good health. I was rich before. Now I am poor because my child has an incurable disease, that has currently no hope of being healed. As a parent, how can we accept that ? , How to continue living carrying the bundle of pain in my head ? , How to overcome this feeling of helplessness ? When I started speaking to my heart, I didn't know myself that this was the beginning of a new life : a rebirth as a poet. When I learnt that my 7-year-old daughter was suffering from the Dravet Syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy, this was like an earthquake in my life. Then, I needed to write in order to express my sorrow and my pain. Words and rhymes came naturally to my mind. This was obvious that poetry would be my survival weapon.
01/2019
