First
Extraits
Policiers
Agence 13 Tome 3 : Le chat aux yeux jaunes
Quand les fantômes du passé crèvent l'écran pour régler leurs comptes... Dans les années 60, l'actrice Peggy McFloyd a connu un succès planétaire grâce à la série télévisée "First Lady" . Aujourd'hui riche et âgée, elle s'est reconvertie dans l'action caritative en érigeant sur sa propriété une maison de retraite où elle accueille ses vieux camarades de scène. Il semblerait toutefois que depuis quelque temps, cc petit paradis soit le théâtre d'événements aussi étranges qu'inquiétants. Qui connaît la vérité sur "First Lady", cette série réputée "maudite" depuis que certains de ses acteurs ont disparu dans des conditions brutales ? Le chat empaillé aux yeux jaunes, qui trône comme une idole énigmatique sur la cheminée de l'actrice, peut-être ? Un chat qui fut l'instigateur d'un crime dont Mickie Katz - missionnée par l'Agence 13 pour redécorer les appartements très spéciaux de l'actrice - découvrira les arcanes avec effroi... Cette barrière blanche symbolise la frontière entre deux mondes, deux époques. Vous vous tenez dans le présent, mais de l'autre côté le temps s'est arrêté en 1965. Peggy en a décidé ainsi. Elle ne veut rien voir, rien connaître de l'évolution du monde moderne. En prenant sa retraite, elle a choisi de vivre une fois pour toutes dans l'Amérique de sa jeunesse.
11/2011
BD tout public
I am GooGol - The Great Invasion
Their arrival was heralded as a new beginning for the human race. Humans were no longer alone in the cosmos. Instead, they were suddenly thrust into an arena much larger than they were ready to deal with. In an age of technological advancement, Toughware and the wiki implants were the culmination of the first successful blending of human and alien technology. Suddenly, anyone with a wiki implant could ride the data streams. Hackers became celebrities as the neural landscape became the world's playground. And for a special few, a startling side effect was discovered. Fearing the worst, the Lambda Initiative was created to police wiki infractions and to protect the fabled Lambda Time Travel Restrictions. Anyone, human or alien, attempting to bypass the Lambda Protocols was subject to prosecution under this new law. To enforce this law, the G-Men were created. Culled from specialists with military and law enforcement experience, the G-Men sought out Lambda Protocol violators with swift and violent response. With wiki crimes on the rise and a growing anti-alien movement gaining strength, something had to be done. The government needed a solution, but they weren't sure what to do. And then they discovered a teenage girl living in Brazil with a special affinity for traversing and moulding the data stream. They had discovered the first Googol. And the world was about to change.
12/2010
Paranormal, Bit-lit, Science-f
Edwin Jones Tome 2 : Petits complots et magie noire
Lorsque la police passe les menottes aux poignets de Kellan, Edwin n'a plus que quarante-huit heures pour le sauver de l'exécution. Persuadé de son innocence, l'enquêteur de la communauté surnaturelle de First City engage une course contre la montre, et contre la justice. Qui veut la mort de Kellan ? Et qui s'en prend aux alphas locaux, tour à tour victimes d'agressions mortelles ? Ses investigations le mènent alors sur la piste d'une magie noire aussi puissante qu'ancienne... #sorcellerie #vampires #métamorphes #trahison
11/2022
Anglais apprentissage
Jefferson and Nature. An Interpretation
Jefferson and Nature is the first comprehensive study to take Jefferson completely at his word-his favorite word. Nature-the term and the many ideas associated with it-pervades Jefferson's life and writings. It sets hem apart from his colleagues in the American Enlightenment and provides the distinctive gateway to his thought and action. By no means consistent and at tunes apparently opportunistic in his use of the term, Jefferson nevertheless draws nearly every realm of life back to this essential word and idea. Charles Miller's book tells why this is so.
01/1993
Sciences de la terre et de la
The Extended Organism. The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures
Can the structures that animals build-from the humble burrows of earthworms to towering termite mounds to the Great Barrier Reef-be said to live ? However counterintuitive the idea might first seem, physiological ecologist Scott Turner demonstrates in this book that many animals construct and use structures to harness and control the flow of energy from their environment to their own advantage. Building on Richard Dawkins's classic book The Extended Phenotype, Turner shows why drawing the boundary of an organism's physiology at the skin of the animal is arbitrary.
01/2000
Non classé
East Tennessee Folk Speech
Based on the Idiolect Synopses of the basic materials of the linguistic atlas of the gulf states, this summary offers the first interpretation of evidence gathered in southeastern United States, 1968-80. The phonological, morphological and lexical data outlines a principal source of the speech of the Upper South. Although primarily a South Midland dialect, East Tennessee folk speech shows a complex regional and social structure that includes relics and innovations with patterns that distinguish this subregion from the dominant forms of American English spoken in the South and elsewhere.
12/1983
Non classé
Ambition and Reality
The first Five Year Plan (1976/77-1980/81) of the Yemen Arab Republic was designed to overcome the country's delayed social and economic development. Planning for and implementation of health services should consider past experiences and existing knowledge. In view of the numerous bottlenecks and constraints being of social, cultural, historical, political, economic and environmental nature any too ambitious plan should be avoided. Basic Health Services will be the mainstay for the delivery of health services to the rural population on the basis of community participation.
12/1979
Non classé
A Study of English Nautical Loanwords in the Russian Language of the Eighteenth Century
This study is intended to give as full a survey as possible of 18th century Russian nautical and shipbuilding terms which were borrowed from English. The origins of the words are discussed and the date of each word's first attestation in Russian is given. Phonetic features and peculiarities of the loanwords are described, with special reference to possible English dialectal influence. A statistical analysis is given of the semantic aspect of the borrowings, which throws some light on the nature and extent of British influence on the nascent Russian shipbuilding industry.
12/1985
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Accords perdus. À corps perdu
En devenant membre de "First Lady" , la plus secrète, la plus sélecte et la plus chère des agences de rencontres libertines dont seules les femmes détiennent le pouvoir, Gabriel, séduisant entrepreneur parisien, va voir son quotidien basculer dans la tornade infernale d'une enquête criminelle. Traqué par un tueur, il réalise que sa vie ne correspond pas tout à fait à ce qu'il imaginait. Dans un rythme effréné, entre Paris et les falaises d'Irlande, il va côtoyer l'amour, la sérénité, la vérité, mais également la mort.
03/2024
Physique générale - Initiation
Mon cours de physique en BD. 100 problèmes résolus pour réviser les bases du lycée
Cet ouvrage aux allures de roman graphique invite l'étudiant en première année d'études supérieures à réviser les notions et concepts fondamentaux de la physique à travers la résolution d'une centaine de problèmes d'examens. De manière ludique et originale, il insiste sur la façon d'aborder les problèmes, ce qu'il faut faire quand on est coincé et les techniques de résolution qui peuvent être appliquées. A la fin de chaque chapitre, les équations à retenir sont exposées et accompagnées de conseils. En fin d'ouvrage, un index des notions et concepts clés permet à l'étudiant d'aller consulter directement les problèmes qui y sont dédiés.
04/2024
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
PIONEERS OF REPRESENTATION THEORY: FROBENIUS, BURNSIDE, SCHUR, AND BRAUER
The year 1897 was marked by two important mathematical events: the publication of the first paper on representations of finite groups by Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ( 1849-1917) and the appearance of the first treatise in English on the theory of finite groups by William Burnside (1852-1927). Burnside soon developed his own approach to representations of finite groups. In the next few years, working independently, Frobenius and Burnside explored the new subject and its applications to finite group theory.
They were soon joined in this enterprise by Issai Schur (1875-194 1) and some years later, by Richard Brauer (1901-1977). These mathematicians' pioneering research is the subject of this book. It presents an account of the early history of representation theory through an analysis of the published work of the principals and others with whom the principals' work was interwoven. Also included are biographical sketches and enough mathematics to enable readers to follow the development of the subject. An introductory chapter contains some of the results involving characters of finite abelian groups by Lagrange, Gauss, and Dirichlet, which were part of the mathematical tradition from which Frobenius drew his inspiration.
This book presents the early history of an active branch of mathematics. It includes enough detail to enable readers to learn the mathematics along with the history. The volume would be a suitable text for a course on representations of finite groups, particularly one emphasizing an historical point of view.
01/1999
Religion
Like Man, Like Woman
Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as ‘other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men : the same qualities and abilities pertaining to the domains of parenthood, intellect and morals are ascribed by writers to women as well as to men. There are two voices, however : a traditional, ideal voice and an individual, realistic voice. This creates a duality of representations of women, which recurs across literary genres and reflects a duality of mentality. How can we interpret the paradoxical information about Roman women given by the male-authored texts ? How does this duality of mentality inform us about gender roles and gender hierarchy ? This work analyses well-known, as well as overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal and sheds new light on Roman views of women and their abilities, on the notions of private and public and on conjugal relationships. In the process, the famous sixth satire of Juvenal is revisited and its topic reassessed, providing further insights into the complex issues of gender roles, marriage and emotions. By contrasting representations of women across a broad spectrum of literary genres, this book provides consistent findings that have wide significance for the study of Latin literature and the social history of the late first and early second centuries.
07/2013
Littérature érotique et sentim
Fra Francesc Moner’s Bilingual Poetics of Love and Reason
Fra Francesc Moner (1462/3-1491/2) is a Catalan author, who flourished in Barcelona during the second decade subsequent to the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1469. Moner's extant production amounts to seventy-four pieces, a collection of poems and prose works of various genres, written in Catalan and in Castilian. A comprehensive study that profiles the creativity of a whole career is a rare occurrence for a Hispanic author like Moner, whose lifetime straddles the boundaries between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This book highlights the two main aspects of Fra Francesc's contribution : first, the resourceful bilingualism stemming from Moner's mastery of not only his native Catalan but also Castilian, the language that in the late 1400s kept gaining the ascendancy and prestige of officialdom throughout the Spanish realm ; second, the fashioning of an iconic text of subjectivity in the wake of the landmark innovations brought about by Ausiàs March, the Valencian luminary of the first half of the fifteenth century. Moner develops a love-centered poetics that integrates the distinctive strains of multiple traditions. By probing into Moner's poetics of love and reason, the reader catches a glimpse of an author engaged in intense soul-searching. Moner, in turn, shares with his readers some extraordinary insights into the compelling moments of the human condition – precisely the condition of the human being torn between the allure of the flesh and the aspiration toward the Divine.
03/2010
Mathématiques
Statistical and Data Handling Skills in Biology
All biologists need to be able to handle numbers, yet students of biology often approach this topic fearfully. This guide helps to, develop key skills for the study of biology in the minimum time through guided practise.
Statistical and Data Handling Skills in Biology is an easy-to-use handbook which concentrates on essentials. It explains why certain mathematical concepts can help in biology and describes them in simple language and pictures with few equations. Numerous worked examples and problems from real biological situations are provided. The book first shows how to handle numbers and S.I. units. It then explains why variation is such a problem in biology and shows how to use statistical tests to separate real effects from the background variation. Finally it explains how to choose appropriate statistical tests to, analyse data and how to improve the design of experiments. Students will develop confidence in dealing with numbers by working through the problems provided.
Key features include:
- takes a biological viewpoint;
- clear, concise coverage of essential concepts;
- helpful explanations and pictures with a minimum of equations;
- step-by-step guides to statistical tests;
- guidance on using computer-based statistical packages;
- decision charts for choosing statistical tests;
- worked examples and problems, with solutions provided.
This book makes an ideal companion for biologists at all levels, as a text for elementary courses for sixth form and first year undergraduate students, a self-study guide, or as a laboratory handbook for the working biologist.
01/2000
Critique littéraire
Etudes anglaises N° 2/2022 : Contemporary Nigerian literature
ARTICLES Vanessa GUIGNERY : Introduction. Contemporary Nigerian Literature in English : An Orchestra of Pluralities Madhu KRISHNAN : Contemporary Nigerian Literature, Literary Activism and Networks of Production in the Twenty-First Century Moradewun ADEJUNMOBI : Male Waithood and Radical Transformation in A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass Cédric COURTOIS : Visibilizing "Those Who Have No Part" : LGBTQIA+ Representation in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction in English Eleni COUNDOURIOTIS : Unruly Stories : Opening up to History in Helon Habila's Travelers Sule Emmanuel EGYA : The Ecopoetics of Flooding in Contemporary Nigeria Isidore DIALA : Paranoid Messiahs : The Military in Wole Soyinka's Later Satirical Drama COMPTES RENDUS Notes on Contributors Guidelines for Authors
07/2022
Non classé
Style and Rhetoric in Bertrand Russels's Work
A thorough examination of Bertrand Russell's language is the object of this study. Since this is the first major analysis of his writing style, examples taken from a wide spectrum of his writings are examined. Structurally the investigation begins by treating individual vocabulary and then moves on to larger structural units, covering such areas as figurative language and description. The final chapter deals with his rhetoric, discussing his methods of persuasion and the logic of his arguments. This careful analysis of his writings is significant in that it sheds new light on interesting aspects of Russell's character.
12/1983
Comics divers
M.A.S.K. Special
Le nouveau Matt Trakker n'a aucune idée de l'existence de l'ancien, mais tous les deux ont affronté le même ennemi : Miles Mayhem. Aujourd'hui, la nouvelle équipe M. A. S. K. va se retrouver confrontée une dernière fois à V. E. N. O. M. , et la fin de l'aventure laissera de profondes blessures... Découvrez également les sombres secrets du crossover FIRST STRIKE qui oppose Miles Mayhem et le Baron Ironblood à M. A. S. K. , G. I. Joe et aux Transformers sur Cybertron... et remontez aux années 80 avec les débuts de M. A. S. K. !
10/2022
Comics Super-héros
Luke Cage : L'intégrale 1980-1981 (T05)
Nouvelles aventures pour Luke Cage et son ami Iron Fist, qui sont devenus les Héros à Louer. Ils gagnent leur vie en sauvant le monde ! Mais lorsque la machine à tuer qu'on appelle Warhawk terrasse brutalement Danny Rand, Luke voit rouge. Jusqu'où ira sa soif de vengeance ? Et que feront les terribles Dents de Sabre et Constrictor pour l'intimider ? Nouvel album consacré aux deux héros qui ont fait les belles heures des séries urbaines Netflix (désormais diffusées sur Disney+) : Luke Cage et Iron Fist. Un ouvrage qui propose un grand nombre d'épisodes jamais publiés en France !
01/2023
Lycée parascolaire
A dictionnary of basic japanese grammar - Makino, Seiichi, Tsutsui, Michio - The Japan Times
C'est le livre de grammaire japonaise le plus vendu dans l'histoire avec plus de 60 réimpressions. Notes de l'éditeur (Japan Times) This is ... the first comprehensive dictionary of Japanese grammar ... a standard reference. - Japan Economic Journal A DICTIONARY OF BASIC JAPANESE GRAMMAR offers a new approach to the interpretation of Japanese grammar and provides, in dictionary format, a convenient reference of grammar-related expressions. Accurate and concise, the grammar explanations incorporate the results of recent research in Japanese linguistics. This work is designed primarily for such people as those who --are not satisfied with the grammar explanations in Japanese textbooks, --have studied Japanese grammar but need more comprehensive information about its use in different contexts, --want to learn the distinctions among similar grammatical expressions, --are looking for a supplement to dictionaries which lack grammatical explanations, --need a basic grammar review. A DICTIONARY OF BASIC JAPANESE GRAMMAR consists of five sections. - The first section familiarizes the reader with the grammatical terms used throughout the text. - The second provides an overview of the major grammar concepts of Japanese. - The third and main portion of the text is devoted to descriptions and explanations of the basic grammar items. - The fourth and fifth sections, consisting of eight appendixes and three indexes, complete the text. This book helps the reader to obtain an in-depth understanding of basic grammar structures, which leads to more accurate usage. Overall, it constitutes a standard reference for Japanese and can be considered indispensable to the study of the language.
01/1986
Méthodes FLE
Learn French for beginners CEFR Target A2
Self-study method to reach CEFR level A2. 26 dialogues, a varied range of exercises, coverage of all the competencies described in level A2. Audio is available on streaming services such as YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify and Deezer. This series is the first self-study language method based on the requirements of the Council of Europe's Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The 26 lessons are designed to allow learners to progressively achieve the skills corresponding to level A2 : "waystage" or "elementary" level. Each lesson is based on a conversation, the recordings of which are available online free of charge from most streaming services, including YouTube.
09/2023
Policiers
Crise d'otages
Alors que toutes les personnalités du pays - stars des médias, de la politique, du sport et du show-biz - sont réunies à la cathédrale St Patrick, sur la 5e Avenue, pour rendre un dernier hommage à l'ex-First Lady, les portes se refermenr brutalement. Pour Michael Bennett, flic atypique chargé de mener la négociation avec les ravisseurs, la tâche s'annonce ardue. D'autant que ces derniers menacent d'exécuter leurs otages si on ne leur verse pas une rançon de 80 millions de dollars ! La tension monte encore d'un cran lorsque le maire de New York vient s'écraser sur le parvis de la cathédrale..
01/2010
Ethnologie
Les structures élémentaires de la parenté
In Les Structures Elémentaires de la Parenté, the early opus magnum of French Structuralism, Lévi-Strauss tries to explain the systems of kinship and-marriage in their enormous diversity and their frequently bizarre institutions, by means of a single principle: the exchange. Exchange is perceived to be the manifestation of fundamental structural constants of the human mind which may also be discerned in other subsystems of culture, most obviously in language. This book represents the first great result of the author's life-long research, dedicated to exploring this relationship, which also led him into the fields of the classification-systems of language and of mythology.
01/2002
Anglais apprentissage
A Christmas carol
An unkind, mean, lonely old man gets a surprise when he reaches the front door of his home on the night before Christmas. As he looks at the door knocker, lit turns into a face - the face of a friend who pas been dead for many years ! This is just the beginning of a long night in which Ebenezer Scrooge talks to pis dead friend, and meets three other ghosts. The first two show him Christmas in the post and the present. The third lets him see what might happen in the future. Find out what Scrooge saw, and whether or not lit made him change his ways.
09/1997
Non classé
Church, State, and Religious Dissent
Seventh-day Adventism, a young American-based denomination, encountered strenuous opposition when it first reached Europe in the second half of the 19th century. This was especially true in Austria, where traditional allegiance to Roman Catholicism, linked with a strong emphasis on cultural continuity, constituted the tenor of social life. The book not only describes the history of Adventism in Austria but also examines its relationship to the Austrian political and religious milieu. The study may furnish valuable insights to stimulate further discussion of church-state relationships and provides a basis for continuing investigation of the dynamics involved in encounters of minority religions with hostile socio-cultural settings.
04/1993
Anglais apprentissage
Lord Jim
A hundred years ago a seaman's life was full of danger, but Jim, the first mate on board the Patna, is not afraid of danger. He is young, strong, confident of his bravery. He dreams of great adventures - and the chance to show the world what a hero he is. But the sea is no place for dreamers. When the chance comes, on a calm moonlit night in the Indian Ocean, Jim fails the test, and his world falls to pieces around him. He disappears into the jungles of south-east Asia, searching for a way to prove himself, once and for all...
Comics Super-héros
The Twelve : Réveils
Captain America n'est pas le seul super-héros américain sur le front durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il y a aussi d'autres combattants, des héros oubliés et perdus dans un sommeil cryo-génique long de soixante ans. A leur réveil, ils découvrent que l'avenir est bien différent de celui auquel ils s'attendaient... et que leurs secrets et leurs vices pourraient tous les condamner. Découvrez la série The Twelve, de J. Michael Straczynski (Amazing Spider-Man) et Chris Weston (Fantastic Four : First Family), pour la première fois rassemblée en un seul volume. Un joyau des années 2000, au ton adulte et teinté de nostalgie.
03/2021
Romans noirs
Hollywood s'en va en guerre
Septembre 1941. Aux Etats-Unis, le mouvement isolationniste et antisémite America First gagne du terrain et le président Roosevelt n'arrive pas à faire basculer son pays dans la guerre. A Hollywood, on prépare la contre-attaque avec un film engagé en faveur de l'intervention, mais sa vedette, la star Lala, est victime d'un chantage qui pourrait tout compromettre. Vicky Mallone, détective privée, légèrement portée sur les cocktails et les femmes, va voler à son secours avec l'aide d'un vieux fédéral bougon et, lorsqu'il est sobre, d'Errol Flynn en personne. Mais qui manipule qui à l'ombre des plateaux ?
04/2024
Comics Super-héros
Luke Cage l'Intégrale : 1977-1980
Désormais, Luke Cage n'opère plus en solo. Le héros à louer a trouvé un partenaire et pas n'importe qui : Danny Rand, alias Iron Fist ! C'est le début d'une grande amitié et de formidables aventures, dans lesquelles on retrouvera les X-Men, Colleen Wing ou encore Misty Knight, mais aussi de terribles vilains tels Bushmaster et le sanguinaire Dents de Sabre ! Sous l'impulsion de Chris Claremont et John Byrne naît un tandem parmi les plus solides de l'univers Marvel. La série Power Man devient Power Man & Iron Fist et l'intégralité des épisodes recueillis ici n'ont jamais été réédités depuis les années 80 !
10/2021
Humour
Le kit vive la retraite ! Petit bilan jouissif d'un jeune retraité ; Petites blagues pour seniors endurcis ; Petit jeux pour avoir une mémoire en béton armé ; Petits sudokus pour passer le temps ; Petit carnet pour commence ses mémoires
LE kit d'humour pour les 60 ans et +, pour faire de la retraite le meilleur moment de votre vie ! Si tu étais une chanson, tu serais "Pour moi la vie va commencer". Si tu étais un défaut, tu susciterais l'envie. Si tu étais une qualité, tu inciterais à la persévérance. Si tu étais un animal, tu serais la chouette : alerte, mais pleine de sagesse ! Bref : tu es retraité et tu as bien de la chance ! Ta deuxième vie commence quand tu comprends que tu as le teeeeeeeeeeemps... Voici donc le kit de survie du retraité HEU-REUX ! 5 livres de blagues et de petits jeux de mémoire et sudoku : Petit bilan jouissif d'un jeune retraité : des blagues sur le passage à la retraite ; Petites blagues pour seniors endurcis : des blagues sur les seniors ; Petits jeux pour avoir une mémoire en béton armé : 80 jeux pour muscler sa mémoire ; Petits sudokus pour passer le temps : plus de 70 sudokus pour faire travailler ses neurones ; Petit carnet pour commencer ses mémoires : un petit carnet de notes parce qu'il faut bien commencer ses mémoires un jour.
10/2019
Science-fiction
Station : la chute
Après sept ans de Guerre Logicielle entre les intelligences artificielles rebelles de la Totalité et l'humanité - dirigée par les dieux du Panthéon, des consortiums qui se manifestent très rarement à leurs adorateurs -, la Terre n'est plus qu'un gigantesque champ de ruines. La plupart des humains ayant échappé au conflit vivent à bord de Station, un immense complexe spatial. Jack Forster a combattu les IA de la Totalité pour le compte du Panthéon, secondé par Hugo Fist, une marionnette virtuelle, un logiciel de combat ultra-sophistiqué installé en lui. Considéré comme un traître parce qu'il s'est rendu à la Totalité, Jack revient des confins du système solaire pour laver son honneur et trouver sur Station les réponses aux questions qui le taraudent depuis sept ans. Mais le temps presse : le contrat de licence de Fist arrive bientôt à échéance ; au-delà, c'est la marionnette qui prendra le contrôle, effaçant irrémédiablement l'esprit de Jack, le condamnant au néant. Avec son univers original et ses personnages hors du commun - dont l'inénarrable Hugo Fist -, Station : La chute se lit comme un thriller. C'est LE roman cyberpunk du XXIe siècle.
01/2018
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