The Brothers Moore. Intégral
Extraits
Non classé
Place of the Sacred
There has been a heated international debate over Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses ever since its publication in 1988. The present work examines the ways in which this affair has developed. From the beginning, one can find strong rhetorical emphases ; these are shown to argue for maintenance of meaningful boundaries. The thesis of Kuortti's book is that on each side of the debate, people use similar language to argue for the sanctity of their convictions. This is evident especially in the opposition between the arguments for the sacrality of Islam and literature. In the international exchange, how could we then find more respectful ways of acknowledging that we are not that dissimilar from each other ?
07/1997
Livres 3 ans et +
Moorea, mon île coeur
"Aimeho a 10 ans. Elle habite a Moorea et vous invite a partager son petit univers. A travers des images lumineuses et des textes courts, elle vous raconte son île et ses traditions, sa famille et sa vie quotidienne dans ce bel environnement des îles du Pacifique sud. Un témoignage d'amour pour son île natale". "Aimeho is 10 years old. She lives in Moorea and she invites you to share her small universe. Through bright images and short texts, she tells about her island and its traditions, her family and her daily life in this beautiful environment of the islands of the South Pacific. A testimony of love for her native island". Ho'e 10 ('ahuru) matahiti to Aimeho. E noho 'Oia 'i Moorea. Teie tona 'a'amu iti, na roto atu i te mau fa'ati'a e te mau hoho'a peni huru rau ; te huru teie o tona orara a i roto i tona utuafare feti'i, te mau peu tumu i tape'ahia mai, te he'euri o tona fenua e ti'a 'i ropu i te mau motu o te moana Patitifa 'apato'a. E tapa'o teie no tona here i tona motu iti.
01/2020
Anglais apprentissage
LA VIERGE ET LE GITAN : THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY
When the vicar's wife went off with a young and penniless man the scandal knew no bounds. Her two little girls were only seven and nine years old respectively. And the vicar was such a good husband. True, his hair was grey. But his moustache was dark, he was handsome, and still full of furtive passion for his unrestrained and beautiful wife. Why did she go ? Why did she burst away with such an éclat of revulsion, like a touch of madness ? Nobody gave any answer. Only the pious said she was a bad woman. While some of the good women kept silent. They knew. The two little girls never knew. Wounded, they decided that it was because their mother found them negligible. The ill wind that blows nobody any good swept away the vicarage family on its blast. Then lo and behold ! the vicar, who was somewhat distinguished as an essayist and a controversialist, and whose case had aroused sympathy among the bookish men, received the living of Papplewick. The Lord had tempered the wind of misfortune with a rectorate in the north country. [...] "Lorsque la femme du pasteur s'enfuit avec un jeune homme sans le sou, le scandale ne connut pas de bornes. Ses deux fillettes n'avaient que sept et neuf ans respectivement. Et le pasteur était un si bon mari. Certes, il avait les cheveux gris, mais sa moustache était restée noire, il était bel homme et brûlait encore d'une passion furtive pour sa belle épouse immodeste. Pourquoi était-elle partie ? Pourquoi s'était-elle arrachée à lui, dans un tel éclat de dégoût, comme un grain de folie ? Personne n'apporta de réponse. Seules, les dévotes dirent que c'était une mauvaise femme. Cependant que certaines femmes de bien gardaient le silence. Elles comprenaient, elles. Les deux fillettes ne comprirent jamais. Blessées, elles jugèrent que c'était parce que leur mère les tenait pour quantité négligeable. Le vent du malheur qui est censé être bon à quelque chose balaya de son souffle les habitants de la cure. Puis, miracle, le pasteur, qui avait une certaine éminence comme essayiste et polémiste, et dont la situation avait su émouvoir certains intellectuels, fut nommé à la paroisse de Papplewick. Le Seigneur avait adouci l'ouragan du malheur par un bénéfice de recteur dans le nord du pays. " [...]
02/1993
Autres langues
Japanese for busy people I. Revised edition
In the ten years since its publication, Japanese for Busy People has won acceptance worldwide as an effective, easy-to-understand textbook, either for classroom use or for independent study. In this new edition, numerous revisions and additions have been made, taking into account the comments and responses of both students and teachers who have been using the course. In Book 1, the revisions are directed at making the grammatical explanations easier to understand, while adding further explanations of points that students have difficulty with. Changes have also been made in favor of more natural practice sentences and dialogues. In addition, new appendices list the particles, interrogatives, and sentence patterns in the book, as well as the kanji introduced. More fundamental revisions have been made to Book II, which has been expanded and divided into two volumes, Book II and Book III. The changes result in a smoother transition from Book I, make new grammatical elements clearer, and present more natural practice dialogues and exercise sentences. This concise course in natural Japanese is ideal for such students as businessmen whose aim is a working knowledge of the spoken language in everyday life. "Survival Japanese for Adults," as it might be called, gets to the heart of the language without recourse to childish or classroom-only Japanese. Vocabulary and grammar have been limited to about one-third that usually encountered in beginner courses, and words and patterns that students will find immediately useful are emphasized. The thirty lessons are composed of dialogues, notes on grammar, and vocabulary, exercises, and quizzes. In addition to developing verbal fluency, by the time the student is one-third of the way through Book 1, he or she will have mastered the two phonetic syllabaries of Japanese, hiragana and katakana.
01/1994
Non classé
Iàsyr Shivaza: The Life and Works of a Soviet Dungan Poet
The Dungans are Chinese Muslims, living mainly in the Kirghiz and Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republics, whose ancestors migrated to Russia more than a hundred years ago. They speak the Kansu and Shensi dialects, but write their Chinese speech with the Cyrillic alphabet. Iàsyr Shivaza (1906-1988) is the most celebrated poet of the Dungans. He wrote numerous poems and many novels, he translated works from Russian and Kirghiz into Dungan, he compiled school textbooks for Dungan children and he helped in the creation of the present Dungan alphabet. Iàsyr Shivaza worked in the Kirghiz State Publishing House, edited a Dungan newspaper, and served in the Second World War as a war correspondent. The present work discusses his life and achievements.
11/1991
Monographies
Karl. No Regrets
The artist Patrick Hourcade met Karl Lagerfeld in 1976, initiating a friendship that would last more than twenty years, nourished by a shared passion for the arts of the eighteenth century. Patrick Hourcade tells us the story of this aesthetic meeting of minds. Together they would construct a magnificent world of refinement and luxury-at times bordering on the extravagant-from the Château de Grand-Champ in Brittany to the Hôtel Pozzo di Borgo in Paris and villa La Vigie on the Côte d'Azur. Drawing on unpublished photographs and documents, the author paints an intimate portrait of Karl Lagerfeld, both shadow and light. He gives us a unique and singular perspective, populated by the exceptional personalities who accompanied the great couturier throughout his life.
10/2021
Histoire internationale
Le More-Lack
Le More-Lack représente une exception dans la littérature abolitionniste du XVIIIe car il réunit deux types apparemment inconciliables d'écriture : d'un côté. le soi-disant témoignage passionné d'un jeune homme qui a vécu l'expérience déchirante de l'esclavage dans les colonies américaines, de l'autre l'essai, rigoureusement documenté, qui fait le point sur le débat concernant la traite négrière et l'esclavage et propose des solutions. Cette réédition révèle pour la première fois un véritable patchwork de lectures abolitionnistes. Un mélange bien dosé qui parle au coeur mais qui sollicite aussi la raison. Un acte d'accusation impitoyable contre l'Europe, contre sa soif de richesses qui génère " la douleur, les tourments, la mort même de ses semblables ".
11/2010
Romance sexy
One more time
Elle a tout à apprendre, il ne peut rien lui refuser. Sophia rentre à Los Angeles avec des envies plein la tête, prête à se lancer dans sa vie d'adulte... sur tous les plans ! Elle rêve de sauter le pas et de se débarrasser de sa virginité, mais pas avec n'importe qui. La meilleure option ? James, le meilleur ami de son frère Bryan. Séducteur dans l'âme, bassiste célèbre, il plait aux femmes, qui le lui rendent bien. Problème ? James a promis à Bryan de veiller sur sa petite soeur et, être le professeur de Sophia sous la couette, ça ne fait clairement pas partie du deal ! Mais quand il découvre une jeune femme bien différente de la gamine qu'il connaissait, difficile de résister...
02/2023
Policiers
No more Natalie
28 novembre 1981. Le yacht de l'acteur Robert Wagner s'élance dans la baie de Los Angeles. Natalie Wood, sa femme, est à bord, ainsi que la belle gueule de Christopher Walken, et une cargaison illicite dix kilos de cocaïne et 250 000 dollars en liquide que Wagner devra rendre, bien entendu. Mais rien n'est simple à Hollywood et la trahison rôde. Marin Ledun revient sur la noyade d'une icône, révélant sous son vrai jour la faune du cinéma des seventies. Frelatée, décadente et vendue. Les acteurs doivent rester des acteurs et les truands des truands, surtout dans la vraie vie où l'on ne meurt qu'une fois.
02/2013
Littérature érotique et sentim
More than beautiful
Depuis le suicide de son compagnon, Ava tente d'aller de l'avant en jonglant entre son emploi de serveuse et son rôle de mère. A cela s'ajoute son désir pour Coach, l'homme avec qui elle a partagé une nuit torride quelques mois plus tôt, mais qui refuse de s'investir dans une relation sérieuse. La vie de Coach s'est effondrée lorsque sa compagne a disparu et, désormais, il se consacre uniquement à sa salle de sport où il entraîne des jeunes en difficultés. Chaque jour, il s'abandonne dans les bras d'une femme différente avec une seule règle : ne jamais s'attacher. Mais sa nuit avec Ava a fait vaciller tous ses principes. Il est déchiré entre son amour passé et son attirance pour la jeune femme. Un nouvel avenir pourrait s'ouvrir à lui. S'il accepte enfin d'avancer... Deux êtres détruits par la vie. La promesse d'un nouvel avenir.
11/2017
Littérature érotique et sentim
More than destiny
Après le meurtre de sa mère, Mickaella s'est enfuie et a passé dix ans sur les routes. Sous de nouvelles identités, elle a tenté de refaire sa vie, ne s'attardant jamais nulle part, ne s'attachant à personne. Une instabilité qui prend fin lorsqu'elle fait la connaissance d'une bande d'amis qui gère La Salle, un club de sport venant en aide aux adolescents en difficulté. Ils engagent immédiatement Mickaella en tant que psychologue. Là, elle rencontre Drew, un coach sportif très séduisant. Très vite, une attirance mutuelle les pousse à devenir amis. Et plus si affinités ? Pas sûr, car après des années d'errances, la jeune femme se sent incapable d'accorder sa confiance. Et le passé très tourmenté du beau jeune homme n'est pas fait pour la rassurer... Le passé ne leur a pas fait de cadeau. L'avenir, peut-être...
05/2018
Littérature érotique et sentim
No more weddings !
Quand on est journaliste pour le magazine de mode Bellissima, tout tourne autour de Paris, ses défilés, ses grandes avenues, ses People, ses soirées mondaines... Telle est la vie de Fanny. Et le bonheur intégral est bientôt en vue : Pat, son mannequin de fiancé s'apprête à la demander en mariage. Mais voilà ! Du jour au lendemain, Fanny est envoyée à brûle-pourpoint au fin fond de la campagne française pour couvrir un événement de taille le mariage d'Isabelle Morton, fille d'un grand vigneron du Doubs et Josh Mackenzie, célèbre restaurateur new-yorkais. Comment va-t-elle réussir à tenir dans ce village qui lui paraît hors de son temps ? Son tailleur haute couture va-t-il résister à cette immersion en milieu hostile ?... Ses Louboutins plantés dans le terroir vont-ils l'empêcher de découvrir des lumières qu'elle ne connaissait pas ?
01/2016
Romance sexy
More than Anything
Ils ressentent autant d'attirance que de colère l'un pour l'autre : ça promet des étincelles ! La Fratrie, Maïa ne la connaît que trop bien. Et pour cause : elle est la fille du chef de ce groupe mafieux surpuissant implanté aux Etats-Unis. Mais son père est mort et elle s'apprête à épouser Taylor, un homme sans histoires, espérant ainsi tourner la page de ce volet sombre de son existence. C'est alors que débarque Mikko, l'ancien bras droit du père de Maïa. Lors de la cérémonie, au moment de la traditionnelle phrase "Si quelqu'un a une raison de s'opposer à ce mariage, qu'il parle maintenant ou se taise à jamais ! " , il se manifeste sans ciller et avertit Maïa : Taylor n'est pas celui qu'elle croit. Maïa se voit contrainte de collaborer avec Mikko pour piéger Taylor, sans pour autant avoir toutes les cartes en main. Commence alors un dangereux manège dans lequel la jeune femme a du mal à démêler le vrai du faux. Est-elle prête à retourner dans l'arène d'un monde qu'elle s'était résolue à fuir ? Ce double jeu est le prix de la liberté pour Maïa. Mais tout se complique davantage quand la tension qu'elle ressent en présence de Mikko se mêle à l'équation, et vient la troubler plus que tout le reste...
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
No more lies
Cette fois-ci, il ne laissera pas sa vie voler en éclats. Huit années se sont écoulées depuis que Maxine est partie sans un mot, laissant Garrett dans l'incompréhension la plus totale. Déçu et en colère, il a plongé corps et âme dans la musique pour mener ARGO au succès, se brûlant les ailes au passage. Car l'absence de Maxine a laissé des traces : s'il est parvenu à dompter temporairement ses démons, l'alcool et le sexe facile ont refait surface avec le temps. Lorsque le groupe lance un programme de formation des jeunes talents, il ne s'attend donc pas à revoir celle qui a piétiné son coeur en tant que tutrice d'une des élèves. Maxine est devenue plus mature, plus méfiante encore. Farouchement décidée à l'écarter à nouveau de sa vie, elle semble pourtant loin d'être aussi épanouie qu'elle l'affirme. Mais si elle a changé, Garrett aussi. Et cette fois-ci, il ne la laissera pas partir sans explications.
Littérature érotique et sentim
More than life
Cheveux au vent, il roule à tombeau ouvert sur sa moto. Soudain, c'est l'accident. Josh, le bad boy terriblement sexy est gravement blessé et sombre dans le coma. A son réveil, il a complètement oublié sa vie d'avant, comme si rien n'avait existé. Callie, sa petite amie, est effondrée, le jeune homme ne la reconnaît même pas. A ses yeux, elle n'est plus qu'une étrangère n'ayant rien à faire dans sa vie. Pire encore : Julia, la pimbêche qui, depuis toujours, est la grande rivale de Callie, en profite pour se lancer dans un grand numéro de séduction. Et le pire, c'est que ça marche ! Le jeune homme finit par tomber dans ses bras et dans son lit... Les mois passent et Callie semble avoir fait le deuil de son grand amour. Jusqu'au jour où son chemin croise à nouveau celui du beau Josh... Il a tout oublié. Elle doit le reconquérir, comme au premier jour.
04/2017
Romance sexy
More Than Anything
Un jeu de dupes où la passion et la trahison s'entremêlent. La Fratrie, Maïa ne la connaît que trop bien. Et pour cause : elle est la fille du chef de ce groupe mafieux surpuissant implanté aux Etats- Unis. Mais son père est mort et elle s'apprête à épouser Taylor, un homme sans histoires, espérant ainsi tourner la page de ce volet sombre de son existence. C'est alors que débarque Mikko, l'ancien bras droit du père de Maïa. Lors de la cérémonie, au moment de la traditionnelle phrase "Si quelqu'un a une raison de s'opposer à ce mariage, qu'il parle maintenant ou se taise à jamais ! " , il se manifeste sans ciller et aver- tit Maïa : Taylor n'est pas celui qu'elle croit. Maïa se voit contrainte de collaborer avec Mikko pour piéger Taylor, sans pour autant avoir toutes les cartes en main. Commence alors un dangereux manège dans lequel la jeune femme a du mal à démêler le vrai du faux. Est- elle prête à retourner dans l'arène d'un monde qu'elle s'était résolue à fuir ? Ce double jeu est le prix de la liberté pour Maïa. Mais tout se complique davantage quand la tension qu'elle ressent en présence de Mikko se mêle à l'équation et vient la troubler plus que tout le reste...
03/2024
Non classé
From Scarcity to Sustainability
For futures studies and environmentalism the late 1960s and early 1970s were a heyday period of great publicity, and much scientific interest was devoted to them. The study 'Limits to Growth', commissioned by the Club of Rome, has played an important role for the further advancement of these fascinating fields. Each of them in its own way deals with the long term prospects of humankind and desirable future paths of humanity and the globe. This investigation illustrates a very important phase in the development of these two areas and writes a history of ideas and a history of impact of the Limits to Growth debate and other activities of the Club of Rome. It includes information that has so far only been known to a very limited number of directly involved individuals and looks into very recent stages of the sustainable development debate and newest developments of more pragmatic and critical futures studies. For the purpose of this study some 100 interviews have been made worldwide with very well known and often influential individuals. Among them are : Sicco Mansholt, Alexander King, Jan Tinbergen, Robert Jungk, Saburo Okita, Lord Kennet, Johan Galtung, Barry Commoner and Philip de Seynes.
12/1991
Littérature française
Sons of Fantasy
When we were children, we believed anything was possible... This book is a fantasy novel originally written for children. But, if you are a father or a mother, a teacher or a writer, if you still have some bits of fantasy in your soul... then, this novel is for you too. We all know how geniuses changed the world with their childlike Imagination, and how people use creative thinking to solve problems. This is a story about hope ; "Sons of Fantasy" shares the story of M. Alger, a father grieving for the loss of his dear wife, who left him with two beautiful kids. Norris and Socrates were adjusting to life without Mom... But things got more complicated when one of them was paralyzed because of a severe psychological trauma due to an overdose of fantasy... This family has a very interesting neighbor who lives a few feet away. He has a weird little hobby, reading books in the most unlikely places... He for example travelled to Romania and read "Dracula" by Bram Stoker in the Castelul Bran Castle, because it's said that the main character Dracula lived in it. And then all of a sudden he stopped travelling... He got a month ago a big long hat that belongs to the greatest witch that lived during the middle ages, "Moje Gayla". In fact, after being burned by the church, one of her relatives kept her belongings inside a wooden box... and in the twentieth century one of her grandchildren donated the box to "The Magic Square Museum" in London. Genius bought the hat at a public auction as an art relic to decorate one of his rooms. Could this weird neighbor be the reason of Socrates' psychological trauma ? Or maybe he is the one who will cure him ? And what has the hat to do with all this ?
08/2018
Monographies
Fuseli and the Modern Woman. Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition devoted to a fascinating group of drawings by the Anglo-Swiss Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), one of eighteenth-century Europe's most idiosyncratic, original and controversial artists. Best known for his notoriously provocative painting The Nightmare, Fuseli energetically cultivated a reputation for eccentricity, with vividly stylised images of supernatural creatures, muscle-bound heroes, and damsels in distress. While these convinced some viewers of the greatness of his genius, others dismissed him as a charlatan, or as completely mad. Fuseli's contemporaries might have thought him even crazier had they been aware that in private he harboured an obsessive preoccupation with the figure of the modern woman, which he pursued almost exclusively in his drawings. Where one might have expected idealised bodies with the grace and proportions of classical statues, here instead we encounter figures whose anatomies have been shaped by stiff bodices, waistbands, puffed sleeves, and pointed shoes, and whose heads are crowned by coiffures of the most bizarre and complicated sort. Often based on the artist's wife Sophia Rawlins, the women who populate Fuseli's graphic work tend to adopt brazenly aggressive attitudes, either fixing their gaze directly on the viewer or ignoring our presence altogether. Usually they appear on their own, in isolation on the page ; sometimes they are grouped together to form disturbing narratives, erotic fantasies that may be mysterious, vaguely menacing, or overtly transgressive, but where women always play a dominant role. Among the many intriguing questions raised by these works is the extent to which his wife Sophia was actively involved in fashioning her appearance for her own pleasure, as well as for the benefit of her husband. By bringing together more than fifty of these studies (roughly a third of the known total), The Courtauld Gallery will give audiences an unprecedented opportunity to see one of the finest Romantic-period draughtsmen at his most innovative and exciting. Visitors to the show and readers of the lavishly illustrated catalogue will further be invited to consider how Fuseli's drawings of women, as products of the turbulent aftermath of the American and French Revolutions, speak to concerns about gender and sexuality that have never been more relevant than they are today. The exhibition showcases drawings brought together from international collections, including the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand, and from other European and North American institutions.
12/2022
BD tout public
Moorea, perle du Pacifique
“Haere maru, haere papu”, “vas-y lentement, mais vas-y sûrement”, telle est la devise qui devrait s’appliquer aux visiteurs de l’île de Moorea, ce joyau situé à 18 kilomètres de Tahiti. Afin de faciliter la visite de cette île de la gentillesse et de la joie de vivre, Jesé Marquez a pris ses crayons pour condenser trois années de résidence parmi la population tahitienne !
03/2012
Ouvrages généraux
Moose et Peuples apparenté
L'histoire des origines proches et lointaines des Moose est bien plus complexe qu'elle n'y paraît a priori. Le Burkina Faso où leurs royaumes ont émergé n'est que le point d'orgue d'une longue et périlleuse entreprise de conquête partie de la Vallée du Nil et plus précisément de Napata en Nubie. Si l'on sait très peu de choses en l'état actuel de la documentation et des connaissances concernant les motivations de ces migrants et conquérants maîtrisant l'art équestre, en revanche une étude croisée des sources orales et écrites permet dorénavant de mieux retracer leurs parcours. Après avoir écumé toute la Vallée du Niger, se métissant continument au gré de leurs migrations et conquêtes, les derniers descendants des Proto-Moose s'établissent définitivement dans le Nord du Ghana qui est le berceau originel des Moose et de bien d'autres peuples apparentés du Burkina Faso.
09/2021
Actualité et médias
Performance post-crise
Today's professional environment is dramatically different from that which existed just twenty years ago. The digital revolution is in full swing, and working practices are undergoing some of the biggest changes in history. In addition to this background of change, COVID 19 has had an unprecedented impact on every aspect of modern professional life. This background of change, combined with an additional sudden shock is generating novel challenges, which present difficult questions. What organisational structure is best placed to handle crises such as this ? What are the ingredients of successful remote work ? What is the best way to manage a team remotely ? How should leaders communicate in a crisis ? Beyond these critical issues—and perhaps even more importantly—leaders also need to prepare for the future. How do they ensure the success of an organisation in an uncertain future ? How are they going to secure the talent they need ? To address these questions, this collection brings together contributors from a rich variety of backgrounds, drawing on many combined decades of leadership experience. In addition to sharing answers to many contemporary questions and their personal experience of the recent crisis, they outline their vision of the future of the world of work.
01/2021
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
Religion
The Threat of Logical Mathematism
The present survey of the critique of mathematical logic in Germany at the turn of the 20th century attempts to answer several interesting questions : How did the contemporary German philosophers see the role and significance of logic ? What kind of relationships did they claim to exist between logic, mathematics, linguistics and psychology ? Pulkkinen starts by giving a historical survey of the development of German logic 1830-1920 as it appears against the background of German academic philosophy. Next he studies the interrelationships between logic and psychology, logic and linguistics, and logic and mathematics. After this the author presents the general features of the reception of mathematical logic in Germany between 1880 and 1920. This is followed by a more detailed account of the arguments of three individual critics : Fritz Mauthner, Heinrich Rickert, and Theodor Ziehen.
07/1994
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
Littérature française
Handicapped
The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.
10/2020
Romans, témoignages & Co
Just wanna be your brother
Découvrez le préquel de la série Ashes falling for the sky !
01/2023
Géographie
RIVIERES DU SUD. Sociétés et mangroves ouest-africaines, 2 volumes
Les mangroves sont bien plus que des palétuviers.
Forêts dans la mer, ou encore marais maritimes convertis en rizières, elles constituent l'un des paysages les plus originaux des littoraux intertropicaux. Dès leur découverte par les navigateurs portugais, elles suscitent des discours contradictoires et sont l'objet d'enjeux multiples et souvent conflictuels entre " conservationnistes " et " productivistes ".
Cette synthèse régionale dresse un état des connaissances sur la mangrove, met en évidence les interactions variées entre les sociétés et leur environnement littoral, explicite la spécificité des " Rivières du Sud ", littoraux à mangrove compris entre le Sénégal et la Sierra Leone. Elle réunit un ensemble d'informations originales (volume 1) et un recueil bibliographique de plus de 3 000 références (volume 2), et constitue un outil indispensable pour les acteurs, scientifiques comme décideurs, concernés par la gestion des littoraux ouest-africains.
Par un dialogue entre sciences de la nature et de la société, cet ouvrage ouvre des perspectives conceptuelles et méthodologiques et contribue ainsi à la réflexion plus générale sur les rapports entre environnement et développement, sciences et société.
Mangroves are much more than just mangles.
Forests in the sea or sea marshes converted into rice fields, they form one of the most original coastal landscape types in the tropics. Since their discovery by Portuguese navigators, they have generated contradictory statements and have been the centre of many issues often leading to contention between 'conservationists' and those in favour of 'productivity'. This regional synthesis reviews the state of knowledge on mangrove, shows the varied interactions between societies and their coastal environment and explains the specific features of the 'Rivières du Sud' (southern rivers), the coastal mangrove areas from Senegal to Sierra Leone. It consists of a set of original information (Volume 7) and a bibliography of more than 3,000 references (Volume 2), forming an essential tool for all those - both scientists and decision-makers - involved in the management of West African coastal zones.
By establishing a dialogue between natural and social sciences, the work opens up conceptual and methodological prospects and contributes to more general reflection on the relations between the environment and development and between science and society.
04/1999
Littérature française
What Pig Are You Feeding?
Hello and welcome to this nice journey, More than anything I want the journey to show how easy and sane humor & fun are, they very often give us relief from the burden of Blessedness and Ugliness. We should laugh at the absurdity of it all. I'm afraid this book does not offer concrete solutions. However, I'm quite sure these nice reflections would help you spotting amazing cases and strange situations whenever you want to laugh at everything, whenever you want some relief, whenever you want humor... It's always worthwhile to wear a smile. All the best SalmaMichele
10/2016
Religion
Metaphor and God-talk
This volume contains a selection of the papers originally delivered at the 25th LAUD-symposium on 'Metaphor and Religion'. The essays in this volume analyse the metaphorical nature of religious language from a variety of perspectives. The concept of metaphor has been developed by the sustained attention of theologians, philosophers, linguists and literary theorists for more than two millennia. The last twenty years have witnessed a renewed and intensified interest in this powerful dynamism of thought. The present contributions offer a survey of the most adhered-to theories of metaphor. They elaborate on their significance for religious language : next to analogy as a philosophical and theological tool, interactionist, pragmatist and cognitivist theories are used to shed light on the peculiarity of human efforts to talk and think about the transcendent.
11/1999
