The Day the Great Flood Came
Extraits
Monographies
Towards the Sun. The Artist - Traveller at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Bien qu'il y ait eu des monographies sur les artistes voyageurs britanniques du XVIIIème et du début du XIXème siècles, il n'existe aucune enquête de ce que l'écrivain Henry Blackburn décrivait de "voyage artistique" un siècle plus tard. A partir de 1900, le "Grand Touriste" est devenu un globe-trotteur muni d'un appareil photo et, malgré le développement de la photographie instantanée, l'enregistrement visuel immédiat en huile et aquarelle reste le plus répandu. Kenneth McConkey's exciting new book explores the complex reasons for this in a series of chapters that take the reader from southern Europe to north Africa, the Middle East, India and Japan revealing many artist-travellers whose lives and works are scarcely remembered today. He alerts us to a generation of painters, trained in academies and artists' colonies in Europe that acted as crèches for those would go on to explore life and landscape further afi eld. The seeds of wanderlust were sown in student years in places where tuition was conducted in French or German, and models were often Spanish, Italian, or North African. At fi rst the countries of western Europe were explored afresh and cities like Tangier became artists' haunts. Training that prioritized plein air naturalism led to the common belief that a well-schooled young painter should be capable of working anywhere, and in any circumstances. At the height of British Imperial power, and facilitated by engineering and technological advance, the burgeoning tourism and travel industry rippled into the production of specialist goods and services that included a dedicated publishing sector. Essential to this phenomenon, the artist-traveller was often commissioned by London dealers to supply themed exhibitions that coincided with contracts for colour-illustrated books recording those exotic parts of the world that were newly available to the tourist, traveller, explorer, emigrant, or colonial civil servant. These works were not, however, value-neutral, and in some instances, they directly address Orientalism, Imperialism, and the Post-Colonial, in pictures that hybridize, or mimic indigenous ways of life. Behind each there is a range of interesting questions. Does experience live up to expectation ? Is the street more desirable than the ancient ruin or sacred site ? How were older ideas of the 'picturesque' reborn in an age when 'Grand Tours' once confi ned to Italy, now encompassed the globe ? McConkey's wideranging survey hopes to address some of these issues. This richly illustrated book explores key sites visited by artist-travellers and investigates artists including Frank Brangwyn, Mary Cameron, Alfred East, John Lavery, Arthur Melville, Mortimer Menpes, as well as other under-researched British artists. Drawing the strands together, it redefi nes the picturesque, by considering issues of visualization and verisimilitude, dissemination and aesthetic value.
11/2021
Histoire internationale
On the Border - The Otherness of God and the Multiplicity of the Religions
The Christian theology of religions at present faces a crisis. What precisely is the task of the theology of religions ? Does it merely consist in interpreting the non-Christian religions as steps, phases or contributions in the light of Christianity ? Has one from the theological side conceded the maximum to the non-Christian religions by acknowledging them as anonymous Christianity (Karl Rahner)? This study is an exploration on how one shall liberate the religion of the other from anonymity : how one shall leave the other with his/her own name. The model of thought employed in this study is gained through an analysis of the intercultural process of understanding, explained with instances from Africa and South America.
01/1994
Amériques
Great Escapes North America. The Hotel Book, Edition 2021, Edition français-anglais-allemand
Les Etats-Unis sont l'un des pays les plus diversifiés et les plus fascinants du monde. Des beautés naturelles telles que le littoral du Pacifique, le parc national de Yosemite ou Monument Valley offrent des paysages dignes du septième art (Hollywood trouve les meilleurs décors pratiquement à sa porte). Ceux qui partent découvrir les Etats-Unis loin des métropoles lors d'un road trip classique, sur les traces de la population indigène et des pionniers, dans les montagnes, sur les berges des lacs ou sur les plages, peuvent être sûrs de vivre des moments inoubliables. Les Etats-Unis sont l'un des pays les plus diversifiés et les plus fascinants du monde. Des beautés naturelles telles que le littoral du Pacifique, le parc national de Yosemite ou Monument Valley offrent des paysages dignes du septième art (Hollywood trouve les meilleurs décors pratiquement à sa porte). Ceux qui partent découvrir les Etats-Unis loin des métropoles lors d'un road trip classique, sur les traces de la population indigène et des pionniers, dans les montagnes, sur les berges des lacs ou sur les plages, peuvent être sûrs de vivre des moments inoubliables. Dans Great Escapes USA, Angelika Taschen présente des destinations extraordinaires en s'appuyant sur des photos remarquables, des textes courts et distrayants, des détails utiles tels que les itinéraires à emprunter et les tarifs, et des conseils de lecture et de films. Son voyage commence sur la côte Est, où se trouvent des maisons de campagne idylliques comme Twin Farms dans le Vermont et Troutbeck dans l'Etat de New York, autrefois points de rencontre des intellectuels et des créatifs. Il continue vers le Sud, où des établissements comme The Moorings Village et l'Hôtel Peter & Paul racontent l'histoire de la Floride et de la Louisiane ; quant au Commodore Perry Estate à Austin, au Texas, il s'avère être une beauté du Sud très glamour. L'ancien camp minier Dunton Hot Springs dans le Colorado, où une ville fantôme a été transformée en un complexe hôtelier classique et rustique, se trouve sur la route, tout comme l'utopie urbaine Arcosanti en Arizona, conçue par l'architecte Paolo Soleri dans les années 1970. Le voyage se termine en beauté en Californie, avec des hôtels uniques en leur genre comme le Deetjen's Big Sur Inn, dont les cabanes en bois d'inspiration norvégienne ont accueilli de nombreux écrivains célèbres, des motels décontractés comme The Surfrider Malibu, où tout évoque le "rêve californien" , et des paradis gastronomiques comme le SingleThread, trois étoiles au Michelin, dans le comté de Sonoma. Cet ouvrage abondamment illustré présente aussi bien des hôtels dans la tradition des grands architectes comme Frank Lloyd Wright que des maisons conçues par de jeunes designers contemporains et des bâtiments dans le style caractéristique Mid-Century américain, un ranch équestre, un hébergement glamping et même, pour clore notre inventaire non exhaustif, un établissement de bains hippie ainsi que des caravanes vintage - une diversité à l'image des Etats-Unis !
08/2021
Anglais apprentissage
Acacia thorn in my heart
I started writing "Acacia thorn in my heart" after reading the book of a white South African woman about her childhood in the same region as mine but relating a completely different experience. She had maids, her father drove her to school and she played with real toys. I lived in the heart of the country, away from everything and had to walk five miles to go to school. I was born in Natal. My father rented a plot of land from a white owner to do market gardening. Although Indian families tended not to educate daughters, our parents decided that education was a priority for us. Despite financial difficulties, they were able to send us to school. We had to get up at five o'clock in order to catch the school train. In winter, as we were scantily clad, we shivered all the way to the station.
09/2001
Non classé
A Culture of Tough Jews
From brutal Nazi killers to Hanukkah heroes in the 'hood, tough Jews refute images of doomed Holocaust victims, wandering Jews of exile before them, and the post-war ‘nice Jewish boys' who followed. They foster belligerent responses to polemics of fear and self-hatred, and as such, materialize as a challenge for postmodern cultural identity. A Culture of Tough Jews reframes the tough Jew as an enduring act of rhetorical regeneration by reifying a related figure, the vital Jew. As corrective to the tough Jew, the vital Jew encourages robust cultural production and dialogue. For audiences of rhetoric and cultural studies, the book offers critical and theoretical study of rhetorical regeneration, including original constructs of postmodern blackface and transformative performativity, as a resource for contemporary rhetorical invention. It also constitutes a case study for the postmodern critique of identity by invoking concerns of (post)assimilation, gender and power, and the social construction of race, ethnicity, class, and power to advance conversations on fractious cultural exigencies. A Culture of Tough Jews is a spirited call for postmodern cultural vitality that responds to contemporary politics of identity and memory.
10/2014
Anglais apprentissage
A multitude of Sins. Richard Ford
A sequel to Rock Springs and Women with Men, the collection of short stories entitled A Multitude of Sins was published in 2001 and immediately achieved worldwide recognition. If this series of ten short stories seems to feature adultery, it would be a major mistake to believe that the stories can be reduced to what is actually a side issue or a pretext to something else, sometimes of much greater importance. As often with great writers, Richard Ford tackles several other topics along with the sin of unfaithfulness which is a base camp from which to go further up into the knowledge of human deficiency, lack and want. Pondering these sins, Richard Ford lays them all bare while often unveiling the issue of the story right from the beginning, instead of cautiously preserving it as a last chance literary trick to pull it off at the fast moment. Showing insight through observation, his writing is deceptive in as much as it seems natural and easygoing when it requires close analysis and several successive readings to yield up its literary and humane secrets. The comparison some critics have made to Chekhov is not overblown and Agregation students, certainly among the most perceptive readers in the world, should naturally enjoy both reading and studying A Multitude of Sins, pleasure and scholarship being complementary, not antagonistic. The exclusive interview of Richard Ford at the end of the book will certainly be appreciated by Agregation students, who will thus be able to finish off their knowledge of Ford's works.
11/2007
Sociologie
Cahiers du LLL n° 12 bis – Telepresence teaching (and learning). From the immersive to the virtual classroom
Hybrid or fully online ? Synchronous or asynchronous ? Unimodal, bimodal, comodal or multimodal ? The all-out development of distance learning has led to the creation of appropriate digital systems, either by using what was already in place (such as video conferencing classrooms and web conferencing software supporting virtual classrooms) or introducing innovative environments (such as immersive telepresence classrooms). To use these versatile, multi-functional technologies, teachers need to take a step back to enable them to adapt their teaching methods and offer learners a suitable environment that overcomes physical and geographical distances. As for students, the need to "be there" and "be together" while learning remotely has to be taken into account to maintain their commitment and ensure they continue to contribute, despite the fact they are apart. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the importance of the professional, collegial and friendship connections we have with those we usually meet face-to-face in a traditional classroom. Telepresence systems enable all these people to come together remotely (and synchronously) and make it possible to use active teaching methods, driven by the self-regulation of the learners. But what is telepresence ? Do teachers need any special training ? How do you attend lessons remotely ? How do participants learn in a telepresence setting ? What type of student assessment can be used in such an environment ? The result of international collaboration, this short guide looks at these questions from both a research and a practical perspective, inviting you to explore telepresence teaching and learning.
06/2022
Non classé
Living in Two Worlds
This is a study of Singapore pastors' worldview & understanding of the epidemiology, symptomatology and management of possession behaviour. The pastors' accounts are compared with those from the scientific disciplines, and convergences and divergences noted. Factors shaping both the pastors' and the scientific discourses are examined. The pastors are shown to respond to competing scientific paradigms by reinforcing their two-worlds worldview. They either live mainly in the other world, or in each world at a time, or between the two worlds. Based on theological reflection focusing on epistemology, theodicy & cosmology, the author shows that the paradigm of living in both worlds simultaneously is the most appropriate pastoral response. The theological vision of the coexisting worlds and the pastoral task of unmasking and resisting evil in all its varieties and depths are then discussed.
05/1994
BD jeunesse
Arsenal Tome 1 : The game we love
Andrew, 35 ans, emmène Nathan, 10 ans, le fils de sa nouvelle compagne, à un match des Gunners. C'est la première fois que Nathan entre dans un stade de football. Il devrait être content de se trouver là, mais il se méfie de ce nouveau beau-père qu'il ne connaît pas. La passion communicative d'Andrew pour son club de coeur, Arsenal, va briser la glace et rapprocher les deux êtres.
11/2019
Rock
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Tender Prey
Sans doute le disque le plus tendu et le plus audacieux de Nick Cave. On peut y trouver la beauté brute de "From Her to Eternity", la maturité et la clarté de "Kicking Against the Prick" mais aussi la poésie et la noirceur de "Your Funeral... My Trial".
09/2021
Philosophie
The Moral Ideals of Care and Respect
Philosophers are in the process of constructing an environmental ethics theory intended to govern human conduct toward nature. Relying on moral philosophy or ecological theory to generate normative principles, philosophers have failed to pay adequate attention to human psychology. To address the question of responsible relations with nature via insights and methods from moral psychology means to validate environmental ethics theory with real-life human functioning. It also means broadening the psychological study of morality to include nature. An interpretive analysis of the study participants' moral deliberations and experiences revealed the moral ideals of "care" and "respect." These contrast with the moral ideal of "justice" which dominates environmental ethics discourse.
05/1994
Romance sexy
Beyond the Game Tome 1 : First Down
Le football, c'est toute la vie de James. Mais après une année désastreuse, il est transféré dans une autre université pour échapper aux distractions qui ont bien failli lui coûter son avenir. Déterminé à revenir dans le droit chemin, il est forcé de suivre les cours de littérature auxquels il a échoué, faute de quoi il ne retournera pas sur le terrain. Bex est une étudiante brillante. Les athlètes ? Même pas en rêve ! Surtout depuis que Darryl, son ex petit-ami, également joueur de foot, s'est mis à la harceler. Mais comment échapper à cet ex envahissant, qui ne semble pas comprendre le mot " non " ? Pour convaincre Darryl qu'elle est passée à autre chose, elle passe un marché avec James : ils font semblant de sortir ensemble et en échange elle l'aidera à réussir ses examens. Une excellente idée... en apparence. Car faire semblant est un jeu très dangereux...
05/2024
Policiers
Blue Jay Way
Julien, jeune Franco-Américain féru de littérature
contemporaine, a perdu son père dans l'avion qui s'est écrasé
sur le Pentagone le 11 septembre 2001. La célèbre romancière
Carolyn Gerritsen, qui l'a pris en amitié, lui propose d'aller
vivre un temps à Los Angeles chez son ex-mari, le producteur
Larry Gordon. A Blue Jay Way, villa somptueuse qui domine
la cité des anges, Julien est confronté aux frasques du maître
des lieux et à une jeunesse dorée hollywoodienne qui a fait de
son désoeuvrement un art de vivre : un monde où tous les
désirs sont assouvis, où l'alcool, les drogues et les parties
déjantées constituent de solides remparts contre l'ennui. Peu à
peu, Julien se laisse séduire par ce mode de vie délétère et finit
par nouer une relation amoureuse avec Ashley, la jeune
épouse de Larry. Lorsque celle-ci disparaît mystérieusement, il
doit tout faire pour dissimuler leur liaison sous peine de
devenir le principal suspect. Ce n'est que le début d'un terrible
cauchemar : très vite, les morts violentes se succèdent,
mensonges, trahisons et manipulations deviennent monnaie
courante et la paranoïa apparaît bientôt comme la plus sage
des solutions. Styliste hors pair, Fabrice Colin donne ici de
nouveaux territoires au thriller et nous offre un roman
profondément contemporain, qui dresse le portrait d'une
époque où réalité et fiction ont irrémédiablement partie liée,
parfois pour le meilleur, souvent pour le pire. Los Angeles, la
ville où tout est filmé, et où pourtant tout est faux, est le cadre
idéal de cette palpitante descente aux enfers, doublée d'une
intrigue machiavélique.
02/2012
Sciences de la terre et de la
A thin cosmic rain : particles from outer space
Enigmatic for many years, cosmic rays are now known to be not rays at all, but particles, the nuclei of atoms, raining down continually on the earth, where they can be detected throughout the atmosphere and sometimes even thousands of feet underground. This book tells the long-running detective story behind the discovery and study of cosmic rays, a story that stretches from the early days of subatomic particle physics in the 1890s to the frontiers of high-energy astrophysics today.
01/2000
Droit
Porosités du droit. Textes en français et anglais
Comment penser un monde juridique transnational sinon comme composé de droits poreux ? Nous avons recueilli les réflexions de juristes qui sont professeurs, avocats et chercheurs de nombre de pays. Ils nous offrent des idées tantôt théoriques et abstraites, tantôt pragmatiques et concrètes. Nous les avons laissés parler en anglais ou en français plutôt que de les traduire, estimant que la compréhension de l'autre commence par l'écoute de sa voix. / How can one conceive of global legal transnationalism except as constituted by legal porosity ? This book brings together the perspectives of lawyers who are professors, practitioners and researchers from numerous countries. They offer ideas, as the case may be, theoretical and abstract, or pragmatic and specific. They speak in French or English rather than in translation, so that we may listen to them in their own voices.
01/2021
Beaux arts
900 Years of St Bartholomew's. The History, Art and Architecture of London's Oldest Parish Church
This important book presents a comprehensive history of St Bartholomew the Great, the oldest parish church in London. In 2023, the Priory Church and Hospital will celebrate the 900th anniversary of their foundation. At the heart of the Smithfield area, with its hospital, pubs, restaurants and market, is a church built when Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, was King of England. Overlooking the fields where kings confronted rebellions, knights jousted and heretics were burnt, St Bartholomew's Priory and Hospital played a central role in the history of medieval London. Partially torn down by order of Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Priory was reborn as a parish church. It served the City of London through the tumultuous years of the Reformation and the Civil War and has played host to many of London's most famous residents. William Hogarth was baptized in its font. Charles Wesley preached in its pulpit. Benjamin Franklin served as a printer's apprentice in its former Lady Chapel. John Betjeman lived across the street and memorialized it in his poetry. The history of St Bartholomew's is a tale of miraculous survival and continual renewal. It came out unscathed from the Great Fire of 1666 and the bombs dropped in Zeppelin raids in World War I and during the Blitz in World War II. Its splendid Romanesque core has been added to by each successive generation. This volume - the first comprehensive history of the Church since 1921 - will survey the art, architecture and historical significance of the City of London's oldest parish church in a scholarly, yet accessible tone. Richly illustrated, this book will appeal to those interested in the history of the City of London, in medieval and Victorian church architecture, in funerary monuments, and in the history of the Church of England.
11/2022
Critique littéraire
Ancient Greek by Its Translators
When not familiar with the language itself, most readers over the centuries have had access to the ancient Greek texts only or mostly through (Latin or vernacular) translations. Such an approach is not only indirect and mediated, but also distorted and even impoverishing : meaning then prevails over the linguistic form and substance of the texts themselves. What do later or modern readers read when they read translated texts written in an ancient so-called dead language ? They read a given meaning - sometimes unfaithful, often inaccurate - dictated by a genuine understanding, the blind continuation of tradition, or an untold hidden intention. The complex range of significances conveyed by meaning simultaneously reflects the time and space (called synchrony) of when and where a text has been translated, the historical learning and linguistic skills of the translators, as well as their ideas and style. As a contribution to the perennial debate about translation (mere literary transliteration vs. creative transposition), this volume aims at analyzing some striking cases of various (literary or not) texts translated from ancient Greek showing how much for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aesthetics and ideology matter as much as - and often even more than - rigorous philology.
02/2022
Monographies
Claude Gillot. Satire in the Age of Reason
This scholarly publication presents the work of the designer, painter and illustrator Claude Gillot (1673-1722). The first volume on the artist in English, it accompanies a major exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum that explores Gillot's inventive and highly original draftsmanship and places his work in the context of artistic and intellectual activity in Paris ca. 1700. The history of eighteenth-century French art under the ancien régime is dominated by great names. But the artistic scene in Paris at the dawn of the century was diverse and included artists who forged careers largely outside of the Royal Academy. Among them was Claude Gillot. Known primarily as a draftsman, Gillot specialized in witty scenes taken from the Italian commedia dell'arte plays performed at fairground theaters and vignettes of satyrs enacting rituals that expose human folly. The book will address Gillot's work as a designer, painter, and book illustrator, and advance a chronology for his career. Crafting a timeline for Gillot's life and work will clarify his relationship with his younger collaborators Antoine Watteau and Nicolas Lancret. Through an artistic biography and six chapters, each devoted to an aspect of his oeuvre, Gillot's role in developing quintessential rococo subjects is established. We follow Gillot from his start as the son of a decorative painter in the bishopric of Langres to his arrival in Paris in the 1690s, as the city and its secular entertainments flourished apart from the royal court at Versailles. Myriad opportunities awaited artists outside official channels, and Gillot built his career working in the theater and as a painter and designer long before seeking official academic status. His involvement with writers, playwrights, and printmakers helped define his sphere. Gillot's preference for theatrical subjects brought him critical attention, and also attracted talented assistants such as Watteau and Lancret. Gillot came to prominence around 1712 working at the Paris Opéra and as a printmaker and illustrator of books, lending his droll humor to satires. By 1720, Gillot was enlisted to design costumes for the last royal ballet, one of the final projects of his career. He died nine months after his most celebrated pupil, Watteau. The sale of his estate, which including his designs and many etched copper plates, provided material for printmakers and publishers and ensured Gillot's lasting fame among print connoisseurs. His oeuvre as a draftsman and painter, however, was largely forgotten until drawings and canvases began to emerge in the first half of the twentieth century.
03/2023
Romans policiers
Les thés meurtriers d'Oxford Tome 2 : Beau thé fatal
Qu'est-ce qui a bien pu passer par la tête de Gemma d'aller au vernissage d'une exposition d'art contemporain d'Oxford ? Elle déteste toutes ces toiles prétentieuses et elle s'ennuie ferme... Jusqu'à ce que l'une des invitées, après avoir avalé une tasse de thé, se mette à convulser et tombe raide morte. Empoisonnée. Shocking ! Voilà qui fait tache dans cette galerie chic à l'ambiance minimaliste et feutrée. Dare-dare, Gemma flaire l'assassinat. D'autant qu'il y a une ombre au tableau : le propriétaire de la galerie ne pouvait pas voir la victime en peinture ! Aidée d'un charmant inspecteur et de quatre vieilles commères, Gemma plonge dans un mystère plus complexe qu'un plum pudding. Et surtout plus dangereux, car elle pourrait bien être la prochaine sur la liste du tueur...
05/2022
Mondes futuristes
The Last She. Survivre. Aimer. Ce sont les seules règles.
Seule femme à avoir résisté à un virus catastrophique, Ara n'a pas croisé d'être humain depuis des mois - pas depuis que son père a disparu. La pandémie a ravagé la société, le monde d'Ara est dévasté et hanté par les fantômes de son existence d'autrefois. De sa mère. De sa soeur.
Kaden et sa bande ont une règle : rester vigilants pour rester vivants. Quand les garçons surprennent Ara en train de les voler, ils sont furieux et déroutés. Voilà trois ans qu'ils n'ont pas vu de fille. Bien qu'il sache que la garder prisonnière est mal, Kaden se persuade qu'il le fait pour la protéger.
Tandis qu'il succombe à la beauté et à la détermination d'Ara, cette dernière est bien décidée à accomplir la mission que son père lui a donnée : remonter la piste et mettre un terme à l'épidémie. Même si cela suppose qu'elle abandonne ceux qu'elle en est venue à apprécier. . . y compris Kaden.
Alors que leur environnement ne cesse de s'effondrer, Ara et Kaden sont confrontés à un choix cornélien : être ensemble ou se contenter de survivre.
05/2022
Autres éditeurs (A à E)
Big Blacky & Kids : Une journée à la montagne. Big Blacky & Abuela Whity, Edition français-anglais-espagnol
Après la plage et la campagne, c'est à la montagne que Big Blacky et sa famille passent une journée pleine d'activités de glisse et de découverte. Du sport, du bon air, un environnement grandiose, beaucoup de bonheur ! Mais aussi quelques frayeurs... Después de la playa y el campo, Big Blacky y su familia pasan un día en la montana haciendo actividades de deslizamiento y exploración. Deporte, aire fresco, un entorno maravilloso, ¡y mucha felicidad ! Pero también se llevan algunos sustos... After the beach and the countryside, it's in the mountains that Big Blacky and his family spend a day full of sliding activities and discovery. Sport, fresh air, a great environment, a lot of happiness ! But also some scary moments...
06/2021
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
Philosophie
Issues in the Philosophy of Language Past and Present
In the light of contemporary perspectives a good deal of traditional philosophical thought can be read as relating to the issue of 'Language versus Reality'. The chapters of this book vindicate this claim ; bringing together thinkers different both in temperament and interests like Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, Heidegger and Gadamer they suggest that some of their major tenets reflect conceptual assumptions concerning linguistic meaning and reference. In trying to both identify and elucidate the assumptions at stake the author shows, both historically and systematically, that some of the problems experienced in the past as well as much of our contemporary concern with the same issue form a continuous line and a common endeavour ; and they have not yet come to an end.
11/1999
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
Non classé
The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates
The articles which are published in this volume investigate, on the basis of selected cases of mainly European winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, the meaning of the Prize and the award in the Prize winner's own countries. The case studies, which are mainly of a biographical nature, offer a varied picture with regard to the reactions of public opinion in the respective countries. They consent, however, in so far as the immediate impact of the award was only limited and of short duration.
05/1994
Seinen/Homme
The Witch and the Beast T05
La créature qui apparaît devant les yeux de Guido n'est autre qu'Angela, la sorcière qui lui est liée par le destin ! Déjà surpris par la tournure des événements, sa colère monte en flèche quand celle qui lui a jeté la malédiction vient ajouter son grain de sel ! Guido sombre alors dans une colère bestiale poussant Ashaf, acculé, à se remémorer leur toute première rencontre...
02/2022
Littérature érotique et sentim
The player Tome 2 : The catch
Après un retournement de situation inattendu, le joueur star de baseball Easton Wylder en vient à douter de la loyauté de tous les membres de son entourage. Même de celle de Scout Dalton, la femme qui partage sa vie. Mais si Easton pensait qu'être transféré dans un lieu improbable, coupé de ses racines, serait le seul défi que la vie lui réservait, il était loin du compte. Avec une épaule blessée et une carrière sur la touche, sa brusque décision de tout changer le conduit à remettre en question l'amour de Scout, la loyauté des membres de sa famille et sa propre capacité à affronter un obstacle qu'il n'a jamais réussi à surmonter jusque-là. Un secret qu'il n'a jamais partagé avec personne. Acculé à ses limites, il n'en demeure pas moins déterminé à prouver sa valeur, quoi qu'il lui en coûte.
11/2018
Seinen/Homme
The Witch and the Beast T08
Après l'attaque de la Reine de la Nuit, les deux héros sont séparés. Guido est en captivité mais réussit à s'évader et s'empare d'une arme particulièrement efficace contre les vampires. Pendant ce temps, après avoir échappé de justesse à la mort, Ashaf est résolu à retrouver son partenaire et tente d'obtenir une audience auprès de la Reine aux côtés de Danword. Ce dernier parviendra-t-il à maîtriser ses ardeurs, alors qu'il ne rêve que de vengeance depuis de longues années ? Une rivalité de près d'un siècle s'apprête à resurgir entre la cruelle Reine de Gunir et l'ancien Roi de la Nuit !
11/2022
Romance sexy
At the end of the tunnel
Une rencontre va bouleverser tout le quotidien de Lawrence. Romancier à succès, Lawrence s'interroge sur ses choix, son identité, sa vie, après avoir fait la connaissance de Carolanne à un moment crucial de leurs vies. Qui est-il vraiment, que désire-t-il ? Entre doutes et douleur de vivre une vie qu'il n'a pas choisie, un changement s'opère et l'espoir renaît. Commence alors le chemin pour retrouver le bonheur. Une romance atypique
08/2021
Thèmes photo
The Oher End of the Rainbow
"En substituant l'absence à la preuve directe, Kourtney Roy souligne les impossibilités d'un discours d'évidence sur ces vies "minuscules" qui n'attirent jamais l'attention. En Colombie Britannique (Canada), depuis 1969, c'est-à-dire pendant plus de 50 ans, les meurtres vont s'étaler dans le temps. Des dizaines de femmes et de filles vont disparaître, quelques unes seront retrouvées mortes, dispersées le long de ce que l'on appelle désormais "l'autoroute des larmes" . Disparitions et crimes en majeure partie non élucidés. Ainsi ce transport ne sera en rien la description pittoresque du Grand Nord. Roy nous met à l'épreuve de percevoir, depuis des lieux vides en eux-mêmes et sans vie apparente, une humanité sacrifiée et reléguée. Face au déni d'une société, le rôle que Kourtney Roy accorde à la photographie est de s'attacher, malgré tout, à partager une douleur et à faire ressentir une tension qui ne peut trouver d'exutoire que dans le drame.
07/2022
