Lobbyst. Revelations from the EU Labyrinth, 2e édition
Extraits
Religion
Leviticus
Whereas many books in this field deal with individual aspects or texts of the study of family laws, Leviticus : The Priestly Laws and Prohibitions from the Perspective of Ancient Near East and Africa examines extensively biblical texts, ancient Near Eastern text, and oral traditions from Africa. Thus, three different cultures converge : the world of the Hebrew Bible, the world of the ancient Near East, and the world of Africa. This volume examines in detail the history of the development of ancient laws in general and family laws in particular, especially the laws relating to marriages between close relatives. Furthermore, Johnson M. Kimuhu looks at prohibitions and taboos in Africa and the problems they pose with regard to the interpretation and translation of difficult biblical concepts into African languages. In that sense, Kimuhu provides an example of how to contextualize or integrate African traditions into the study of biblical Hebrew, and he also offers insights into the current debate on the study of kinship from the point of view of social/cultural anthropology and the Hebrew Bible legal system. Teachers, students, and researchers in biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern studies, African traditions, and social/cultural anthropology will find this book helpful in their quest to understand family laws, prohibitions, and taboos.
02/2008
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
Photographie
The Map & The Territory (German edition)
Au cours des années 1970 et 1980, Luigi Ghirri a poursuivi son projet extraordinaire, ouvert et mercuriel, empreint d'empathie pour les espaces quotidiens changeants de son époque. Au cours de sa courte carrière, Ghirri produira un vaste corpus de photographies sans parallèle dans l'Europe de son temps et de nombreux écrits qui auront un impact indélébile sur l'histoire de la photographie. Ce livre volumineux, compilé par le célèbre conservateur britannique James Lingwood, accompagne une exposition itinérante dans trois grands musées à travers l'Europe et se concentre sur la première décennie du travail de Ghirri, définie par son exposition de 1979 à Parme. Vera Fotografia a été regroupée en quatorze séquences narratives différentes, chacune étant représentée dans ce volume : Fotografie del periodo iniziale (1970), Kodachrome (1970-78), Colazione sull'erba (1972-74), Catalogo (1970-79) , Km 0, 250 (1973), Diaframma 11, 1/125, luce naturale (1970-79), Atlante, (1973), Italia Ailati (1971-79), Il paese del balocchi (1972-79), Vedute (1970- 79), Infinito (1974), In Scala (1976-79), Still Life (1975-79). Le projet se concentre sur le projet tranquillement contraignant de Ghirri de créer un nouveau type de géographie, situé dans sa fascination pour les représentations du monde, sous la forme de reproductions, d'images, d'affiches, de modèles et de cartes. La médiation de l'expérience à travers des images dans une Italie entre l'ancien et le nouveau a été, pour Ghirri, un terrain inépuisable à explorer - "une grande aventure dans le monde de la pensée et de la recherche, un merveilleux jouet magique qui parvient miraculeusement à combiner notre adulte la conscience et le monde des contes de fées des enfants... un voyage sans fin à travers petits et grands, à travers les variations et le royaume des illusions et des apparences, un lieu spéculaire labyrinthique de multitudes et de simulation. "
05/2018
Autres collections (9 à 12 ans
Les enquêtes de Tom et Lola : Le mystère du kidnapping de la princesse. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Du haut de la grande roue de Londres, London Eye, nos héros sont les témoins involontaires du kidnapping de la princesse royale Wendy. Réussiront-ils à la retrouver et à aider la police anglaise ? - From the London Ferris Wheel, our heroes are the witnesses of the Royal Princess Wendy Kidnapping. Will they manage to help the police to find her ?
11/2021
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
Thèmes photo
Michael Kenna. Arbres, Edition bilingue français-anglais
For almost fifty years, trees have marked the career of Michael Kenna, a photographer known and recognised for the virtuosity of his technique. An essential link with the earth, sky, air, light, silence, and reflections, Kenna pays tribute to them by taking their portrait. Pictorial, dreamlike, graphic, romantic, hazy, poetic, the artist celebrates these great lords of nature. The photographer, a tireless wanderer, travels the world, from France to New Zealand, to the United States, criss-crossing Japan, to immortalise trees and forests. From dense woods to light-filled canopies, to tiny trees isolated in majesty within idyllic white landscapes, beauty is offered to us in the range of species photographed as much as in the variation of compositions. Exclusively in black and white, these photographs unfurl through the seasons, giving rhythm and emphasis to time.
11/2022
Non classé
Henry VIII in History, Historiography and Literature
If this anthology on the literary appreciation of the life and times of Henry VIII can show how history, historiography and the history of literature are woven together as threads in a tapestry, if this book can show how varied the sources are from which historical images are fed, especially those of significant historical figures, then it will have surely fulfilled its purpose.
01/1993
Beaux arts
Italian Maiolica and Other Early Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery
This is the first catalogue of the collection of early modern ceramics in the Courtauld. The pieces in the collection showcase brilliantly the skill of potters and pottery painters working at the time of Raphael and Titian. Maiolica is one of the most revealing expressions of Renaissance art. Its extraordinary range of colours retain the vividness that they had when they left the potter's kiln. Italian potters absorbed techniques and shapes from the Islamic world and incorporated ornament and subject matter from the arts of ancient Rome. This new approach to pottery making, combined with the invention of printing, woodcut and engraving, resulted in an extraordinary type of painted pottery, praised by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists for 'surpassing the ancient with its brilliance of glaze and variety of painting'. The collection boasts a magnificent group of vessels made during the high Renaissance, the golden age of Italian maiolica. It includes precious and delicate Deruta lustreware with imagery deriving from Perugino and Raphael, as well as vessels painted in a narrative style of pottery painting known as istoriato. Highlights include vessels depicting episodes taken from the first printed Bibles of the Renaissance. Istoriato maiolica flourished particularly in the lands of the Dukes of Urbino, who promoted this craft by sending painted pottery to prestigious patrons across Europe. Emblems and devices painted on the pottery help us understand that they were meant to be used and enjoyed by the elites in Renaissance society, such as the Medici and other great Tuscan families. The catalogue will include two recent gifts to the Courtauld, a rare tile of the famous patroness of the arts Marchioness Isabella D'Este, and a refined dish painted with the story of Diana and Actaeon. All major Renaissance pottery centres are represented in the collection, including Siena, Faenza and Venice, as well as splendid examples of the mysterious pharmacy jars made at the foot of the mountain of Gran Sasso in the town of Castelli d'Abruzzo. These achievements of the art of pottery in the early modern period are completed by fine examples of Ottoman pottery, as well as examples of Valencian lustreware. Sani's introductory essay on the Victorian collector Thomas Gambier Parry will shed new light on the development of this fascinating collection, making links between Gambier Parry's artistic practice and his collecting and revealing new insights into his taste as a collector. Each detailed entry uncovers a wealth of new information on the provenance of the pieces.
03/2023
Beaux arts
Die Welt als Labyrinth. Edition bilingue français-anglais
La publication "Die Welt als Laybrinth" ("Le monde comme labyrinthe") revient sur l'exposition consacrée à l'Internationale situationniste qui s'est tenue au MAMCO au printemps 2018 et se structure comme un parcours à travers quelques épisodes de cette histoire. L'exposition du MAMCO pointait le paradoxe que soulève toute présentation muséale de ces dernières avant-gardes du 20e siècle : comment exposer dans un musée celles et ceux qui se sont systématiquement opposés à l'institution culturelle ?
01/2019
Non classé
Métissage in New France and Canada 1508 to 1886
This book deals with métissage in New France and Canada in the period 1508 to 1886. Métissage is understood as a syncretistic process of cultural, social and political encounter and mixture of ethnic groups that resulted from mixed marriages and relationships. Those led to the rise of the Métis people in North America, which were distinguished as French-speaking Métis and English-speaking Halfbreeds. The process of mixture began in 1508, when first Indians were shipped to France with the intention to use them as multipliers of French culture on their return to the colony. In 1886, the Act of Savages legally distinguished between "Indians" and "Metis", thus marking the beginning of a mixed-blood identity in Canada that was differentiated from neighbouring Whites, Indians and Inuit. The theoretical approach of the history of concepts is employed in the longue durée to show the variance throughout four centuries.
08/2009
Littérature française
Laïos. Révélation
La Terre connaît une période de glaciation inédite dans l'histoire humaine. Pour survivre, les êtres humains ont créé et édifié d'immenses biosphères, les protégeant des intempéries parfois mortelles. Du haut de ses douze ans, Laïos n'est qu'une poussière d'étoile dans ce monde hostile. Il n'a qu'une seule mission : protéger sa petite soeur Gaïa. Mais comment échapper à la haine sans borne et incompréhensible de celui que Laïos nomme, Brise-os, le Bourreau ?? Les sentinelles, de féroces arachnides robotisés, envoyées par le Bourreau traquent les deux enfants et finissent par retrouver leur trace. Les fugitifs tentent de leur échapper mais seul Laïos y parvient. Piqué par l'une des assaillantes, Laïos perd connaissance et se réveille quelques jours plus tard dans un monde inconnu aux antipodes de celui où il a grandi. Il comprend que Gaïa est prisonnière et que son destin dépend de son énergie à la retrouver. Il réalise qu'il se trouve au sein de la prestigieuse Académie du monde glacé, dirigée d'une main de maître par Jack Black, commandant de la biosphère Titania. Laïos fait alors la connaissance d'Océane, d'Anawak et de Philémon. Ils deviendront ses plus fidèles amis et l'accompagneront dans sa quête : retrouver Gaïa et la sauver des griffes du bourreau. Au cours de son aventure, des êtres fabuleux, aux destins croisés, guideront Laïos sur le chemin de ses origines jusqu'à l'ultime révélation.
11/2020
Littérature française
Ma révélation
Roma est une jeune femme de 24 ans avec un passé douloureux qui l'empêche d'avancer. Mais sa vie prend un tout autre tournant lorsqu'elle décide de s'inscrire sur une application de rencontres et qu'elle fait la connaissance d'Ezra. Débute alors une idylle qui l'emmènera dans une chasse au trésor dont le but sera de découvrir celui qui l'intrigue tant. Mais jusqu'où ira-t-elle ? Quel sera le prix à payer pour le bonheur ?
03/2023
Littérature française
La Révélation
Ancien cadre de la fonction publique territoriale, Jack Roydman nous offre son premier roman, La Révélation, inspiré d'une histoire vécue. Il raconte les aventures d'un jeune caporal-chef, appelé sous les drapeaux, affecté à l'état-major puis au 2e bureau à Berlin en 1975. Avec une pointe d'humour, on retrouve dans cet ouvrage plusieurs péripéties relatives aux services de renseignement de l'époque, mais aussi aux activités du héros, ainsi que son engagement pour la défense du monde libre et celui de son pays, ses doutes, ses craintes et son questionnement en pleine guerre froide, sans oublier sa liaison sentimentale avec une jeune Anglaise. Le dénouement s'avère inattendu. Les personnages du livre sont pour la plupart anonymes ou désignés uniquement par l'initiale de leur patronyme.
12/2021
Littérature étrangère
La révélation
Naumburg, petite ville de l'ex-Allemagne de l'Est, au lendemain de la chute du Mur. Un soir de Noël, Jakob Kemper, organiste titulaire de l'église Saint-Wenceslas, trouve par hasard une pat 'ilion autographe qu'il attribue immédiatement à Jean-Sébastien Bach. Cette découverte va littéralement bouleverser la vie de cet original, convaincu d'être promis à une destinée d'exception en dépit des cruels démentis que lui a apportés l'existence. Le moment est venu pour lui de prendre. sa revanche : à défaut d'être reconnu comme un compositeur célèbre, un chef d'orchestre renommé ou un musicologue respecté, il sera l'heureux dépositaire de l'oeuvre ultime du canton de Leipzig. Méprises, quiproquos et traits d'humour émaillent ce roman au rythme soutenu.
03/2011
Anglais apprentissage
Commercially speaking. Workbook
Commercially Speaking is an elementary to pre-intermediate level course in language and communication skills for students on vocational courses. It will be especially useful to those working towards a qualification to help them find work in a commercial environment where they will need to use some English. There is a strong focus on commercial correspondence and telephoning skills, which are practised within a realistic framework designed to reflect the situations students will meet on entering the workplace. This Workbookfollows the syllabus of the Student's Book, with greater emphasis on reading and writing tesks, and activities which can be carried out for homework or as extension activities in the classroom. Material from authentic sources is included where appropriate. Answers to Workbook exercises are included at the end of the corresponding unit in the Teacher's Book. The complete course comprises the Student's Book, this Workbook, a Teacher's Bookwith a complimentary diskand photocopiable progress tests, and one audio cassette.
01/1999
Littérature française
Labyrinthe en Libye
D'actualité brûlante, Paul " Honorable correspondant " de la DGSE reçoit pour mission de démanteler un réseau de passeurs de migrants opérant à partir des côtes libyennes. Au fil de l'enquête, renseigné par des agents, ex-coéquipiers clandestinement intégrés aux cohortes migratoires et traversant l'Afrique dans des conditions extrêmes, non sans difficulté, Paul parviendra à remonter les filières marocaines et tunisiennes qui le mèneront très vite jusqu'en Libye. Avec l'aide dynamique et efficace des Forces Spéciales Françaises, 1er RPIMa SAS et 13ème RDP, Paul démantèlera un réseau comparable à une gigantesque pieuvre aux multiples et ravageuses tentacules et dont le cerveau ne serait qu'un membre de Daesh, organisateur de ce rentable trafic pour renflouer leur trésorerie. Des faits réels bien que romancés et où le lecteur découvrira le mode opératoire de ces passeurs qui en permanence bénéficient de l'odieuse complicité de certaines ONG à l'intérêt commun pour que ce trafic perdure en dépit d'une Europe beaucoup moins accueillante et moins laxiste. Ancien officier supérieur d'organismes qualifiés de " spéciaux ", l'auteur plonge le lecteur dans l'univers guerrier de ces parachutistes de l'ombre.
12/2019
Développement personnel
Sortir du labyrinthe
Et si vous envisagiez vos blocages sous un autre angle ? Comment s'extraire d'une situation devenue intolérable ? Raisonner ses peurs, reprendre confiance en soi et oser le changement ? Que ce soit en amour, en famille ou au travail, ce livre vous offre les clés de la liberté !
Littérature étrangère
Carte du labyrinthe
Trois personnages se croisent, s'aiment, se quittent et se fuient. Bon mari et bon père, Jaime mène une vie rangée dont il ne cesse de vouloir s'échapper. Il collectionne en cachette les photos de nus qu'il développe pour ses clients, en particulier celles que lui apporte Alberto. Elisa est amoureuse d'Alberto. Tout va bien jusqu'au jour où elle se réveille dans une zone industrielle, à moitié nue. Elle ne se souvient de rien. Chacun cherche sa voie et tous cherchent l'amour dans un chassé-croisé mélancolique. Perdus dans un labyrinthe sans issue qui mélange à loisir les histoires vécues, les vies fantasmées, les mensonges, les trois personnages racontent tour à tour leur existence dans une langue limpide et pleine de vitalité. Ce qui avait commencé comme une lecture amusante et brillante devient une histoire profonde et émouvante sur l'identité, le bien et le mal. Peu à peu on se prend de tendresse pour les personnages, on les suit dans leur labyrinthe, on plonge avec eux dans l'urgence de vivre, le désir de changement, le besoin d'amour... Une histoire qui ne vous quitte plus.
04/2011
Beaux arts
Images du labyrinthe
Les textes de Roger Caillois sur l'art, réunis ici, permettent de suivre l'évolution de son goût et de sa pensée, depuis ses premières études, proches du surréalisme, jusqu'à sa controverse avec André Malraux sur le Musée imaginaire. De L'Escamoteur de Jérôme Bosch, aux ouvres fantastiques de Dalí, de la confrontation de Dürer et d'une agate, du rapport entre Hélion et les «vanités», de «l'orgueil cosmique» de Picasso, en passant par des études sur Carzou, Fenosa, Milshtein, Alechinsky, Ubac, Zao Wou-ki, Roger Caillois nous montre comment la signification et la fonction de l'art ont changé. C'est toujours la pensée, le jeu de l'esprit que Caillois cherche à pénétrer.
01/2008
Non classé
The Intruder in Modern Drama
The Intruder is a dramatic character who appears suddenly on stage, seemingly from nowhere, unknown to the other characters, thrusting himself upon them and upsetting the status quo. The study compares twelve plays by ten major modern dramatists (Arden, Betti, Bond, Brecht, Dürrenmatt, Frisch, Gombrowicz, Ionesco, Pinter, Williams). In all the plays, as a result of the intrusion, there is a mood of uneasiness, impending social change which disturbs the socio-political equilibrium.
12/1980
Divers
Dirty Panties (English Edition)
Roxane is a young Parisian whose Bohemian life seems stuck in an endless loop of idle afternoons and wine-soaked nights with her roommate. Strapped for cash and novelty, she starts selling her used underwear online. Dirty Panties chronicles her first steps in this marketplace, from the creation of her online persona to the real-life rendezvous with shady customers. This new business soon impacts Roxane's daily life and the people around her. The world she has just stepped into might be much more bizarre than what she expected. Roxane's journey exploring her own appetite for transgression tackles such contemporary themes as sex work, consent and economic domination. How far will she go and where will this end ? Maybelline Skvortzoff's drawing is detailed and vivid and the story is in turn hilarious, awkward, touching and dark. Much like Phoebe Waller-Bridge's character in her TV series Fleabag, Roxane is at the same time completely clueless and determined to make it on her own in this world where everything can be bought and sold. Roxane vend ses culottes -- the original edition of Dirty Panties -- won the 2023 Artemisia award for best humor comic and has been shortlisted for many awards including the official selection of the 2023 Angouleme Festival.
01/2024
Non classé
Labouring Lives
Labouring Lives unravels the huge changes which have so fundamentally altered the life courses of ordinary women over the past one hundred and fifty years, namely the changes in marriage and fertility patterns. Using dynamic data from Dutch population registers and analytical techniques from the life course approach, the book offers new evidence on women's changing position in the labour market, their role in pre-nuptial sexuality, and their contribution to marriage and fertility change in the Netherlands between 1880 and 1960. The author reconstructs the socio-economic and demographic worlds of different groups of working and non-working women, and by doing so she is able to locate the various groups driving the changes. Advanced statistical tools enable the author to analyse differences in fertility strategies, stopping versus spacing, employed by various social and cultural groups in the Netherlands. This book leads to conclusions which challenge a number of orthodoxies in the field.
10/2014
Mouvements artistiques
Look Close, Think Far. Art at the Ackland
This richly illustrated volume introduces one of America's finest university art museums - one whose directors, curators, donors, and patrons have left a remarkable legacy, a museum collection that encourages us all to "look close, think far. " The selection of over 280 highlights is presented with brief commentaries and an essay that traces the growth of the Ackland Art Museum's outstanding collection. The Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the United States' most distinguished public university art museums. Founded in 1958, it now houses over 20, 000 works of art, covering some 5, 000 years of cultures from around the globe. "Look Close, Think Far" is the tagline of the Ackland, informing everything from the dynamic and varied program of special exhibitions to ambitious interpretation, education, and outreach activities. It applies especially strongly to the museum's extensive permanent collection. Although an integral part of the oldest public university in the United States, the Ackland is a relatively young institution. Now approaching its sixty-fifth year, it has become the proud steward of over 20, 000 works of art from an impressively broad range of world cultures and time periods. The Museum is known for its special strengths in art of the European tradition, with very strong holdings in prints and drawings ; the arts of Asia, and especially China, Japan, and India ; a small but fine collection of classical art from Africa ; and recent and contemporary art. This publication showcases a cross-section though the diverse collection, with 283 works, giving an impression of the Ackland's permanent collection that is true to its character, representative of its breadth, and indicative of its quality. The essay gives special attention to the early stages and the less obvious, more idiosyncratic moments that have contributed to the Ackland's personality and individuality. The approach taken by the editor Peter Nisbet, deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Ackland, differs from most conventional volumes of museum collection highlights in several refreshing ways. Instead of separating works along the lines of curatorial departments, the arrangement emphasizes the unity of the collection by merging works from different cultures. These are presented in a largely chronological sequence, but one that surprises by starting with the present and extending back in time. Within this order, works of art are deliberately paired across individual page openings, to stimulate visual attention, reflective thinking, and sometimes maybe just a smile.
08/2022
Vitraux, enluminures
Holy Hoaxes. A Beautiful Deception
Ce livre fascinant raconte l'histoire de la construction de la collection de faux et de contrefaçons de manuscrits enluminés appartenant à William M. Voelkle. A travers des essais approfondis et de belles illustrations, Voelkle retrace l'histoire de près de soixante-dix faux et contrefaçons. The book takes the reader on a journey that sheds light on the nature and detection of forgery of manuscript illumination. An engaging introduction by Christopher de Hamel raises tantalizing questions that touch on the very meaning of authenticity and our continuing fascination with forgery. Scientific analysis of pigments, the identification of sources, and the scrutiny of the materials all come into play in the unfolding story of the collection. An illustrated catalogue presents the group of nearly seventy fakes and forgeries that display astonishing breadth. They include not only the Spanish Forger and other Western European miniatures by Ernesto Sprega, Caleb William Wing, and Germano Prosdocimi, and others, but fascinating examples from the Christian East, from Ethiopia, from Mexico, and from Persia and India. Published here in its entirety for the first time, the Voelkle Collection is the only comprehensive one of fakes and forgeries of manuscript painting in private hands. Voelkle's fifty-year career at the Morgan Library & Museum was inextricably interwoven with the construction of the collection, which is detailed in the foreword. The personal narrative reveals the author as a collector and a scholar. As an enthusiastic collector, he pursues examples of forgery, marveling at the range of skills of deception. As a scholar, he disentangles the sources that served forgers and the chains of provenance that sometimes led to their exposure. Included also in the book is a comprehensive list of William M. Voelkle's publications.
04/2023
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
Histoire internationale
Flavius Josephus, the Zealots and Yavne
The historiography concerning The War of the Jews by Flavius Josephus has underlined the various aspects (economic, social, political, religious) of the Roman-Jewish conflict from 66 to 73 AD. A study of the Jew's vision of himself and the Other, the Roman, makes it possible to see this conflict from the point of view of the conquered. Analysis of the events which, from 6 to 66 AD, resulted in the opening of hostilities, suggests that the Jewish-Roman conflict was also a conflict of mentalities. The Jewish mentality implies a concept of war which contributed to the development of the divisions and schisms between the supporters of full-scale war against Rome (the Zealots) and the non-belligerents (Rabbi Yohanan ben Zaccaï and the Yavne School, Flavius Josephus). Furthermore, the discourse of Flavius Josephus is Jewish discourse. So far as certain options are concerned, such as his rejection of the war against Rome on the one hand, and his hatred of the Zealots on the other, a literal reading of that discourse shows that they are in the direct line of Jewish tradition as represented by RYBZ and his Yavne School. Josephus can be taken literally ; the interest of his writing lies in its presentation of an internal cohesion and in the light that throws on the points of convergence and divergence in the same Pharisaic options. Finally, Josephus' text leads us to reconsider the problem of his 'betrayal'.
01/1994
Esotérisme
Les révélations du grand océan
C'est en 1927 que paraît, à titre posthume, l'ouvre majeure de Jules Hermann, "Les Révélations du Grand Océan". Cet homme politique réunionnais, esprit curieux et ouvert aux idées originales, alimente dans son ouvrage la thèse de l'existence d'un continent ancien, la Lémurie, qu'il ne nomme d'ailleurs pas, et qui serait le berceau de toutes les civilisations, Madagascar et les Mascareignes en étant les derniers vestiges : vaste continent "en forme de croissant, qui s'étendait de l'Océan indien à la Patagonie, partant du sud de Ceylan, englobant les Mascareignes et Madagascar, passant au-delà le cap de Bonne-Espérance [...]". Jules Hermann recherche des traces de cette ancienne civilisation dans la montagne de l'Ile Bourbon : il y voit des visages, des corps, des animaux, des figures zodiacales, etc. , autant de signes que ces peuples auraient modelé le paysage de l'île. Il voit aussi dans les Hauts de la Réunion les traces laissées par de prodigieux sculpteurs géants et dans le malgache l'origine de toutes les langues. Il tente de prouver, par des recherches linguistiques, phylologiques et dans les sciences liées à l'archéologie et l'anthropologie, qu'il y eut, à l'origine, une race unique pratiquant un langage unique. Si le mystère des continents disparus et celui de l'origine des langues vous intriguent, alors lisez "Les Révélations du Grand Océan".
07/2016
Non classé
Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics
The present volume is a collection of studies devoted to major issues in contemporary syntax and semantics : in particular, argument structure, ellipsis, negation and scope. The papers included, which represent a number of formally rigorous contemporary frameworks, bring out new facts from a large variety of languages as well as novel solutions to a broad range of analytic puzzles. Part One illustrates the major ways in which argument structure is used and conceptualized. Part Two provides new perspectives on ellipsis, applying concepts and tools developed for focus, questions and quantification. Part Three introduces a number of novel proposals for the representation of scope, considerably enlarging the empirical domain of scope relations. These studies are unusual in that they combine an enthusiasm for detailed syntactic and semantic data and a serious concern for formal rigor. They discuss data from a wide variety of languages, including Japanese, Bulgarian, French, Greek, English, Italian, German, Hungarian, Inuit and Western Austronesian languages. The main themes of the book include negation, argument structure, ellipsis, indefinites, telicity, presuppositions, modality and quantification.
10/1997
Spiritisme
Orion Recall - Version anglaise
"Greetings, beloved peoples of the One. Welcome to the sacred and consecrated space from which I now address you : the space where the 12 An Master Crystals of Orion reside. The time has come for you to remember who you are and learn about your galactic heritage. Many of you have fought in the great wars that began on Orion. That's why you need to learn the truth-so you can free yourselves from the past and turn your full attention to the Plan that brought you here to this planet called Earth. These Memoirs will help you understand". Are you one of the volunteers living on this magnificent planet working to bring an end to the great conflicts between the evolved and devolved forces-conflicts that originated in Orion's solar systems and converged to Earth millenniums ago ? Find out how it all began, from when a Messenger from the 24 Elders first gave instructions to the High Council of Sirius to the moment when Plan Earth Rising was put into action. The path you take matters now more than ever because your conscious choices determine how your individual and collective solar beings are integrated. This integration is the key to activating your beloved planet as one of the twelve galactic libraries, the one on which everything depends. This book is a summons to the volunteer souls : Remember Mintaka. Remember the reason you are here at the start of a major new evolutionary cycle-for your sphere of life and for the entire Galactic Federation.
10/2022
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
