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Extraits
Droit
Logic: Mathematics, Language, Computer Science and Philosophy
In Logic Programming (25 and 26) the language of logic is used as a declarative programming language. Prolog uses resolution as its underlying proof mechanism. The logical structure of relational databases is explained (27) in set theoretical terms and it is shown how the language of set theory can be used as a Structured Query Language (SQL). Computability, Undecidability and Complexity are treated in sections 28, 29, and 30, respectively, in terms of Turing machines. The undecidability of the validity problem for predicate logic and the NP-completeness of the satisfiability problem for propositional logic are shown in a similiar way. Chomsky's notion of grammar and its relation to the notion of automation is presented in section 31. Both untyped and typed lambda calculus are treated in sections 32 and 33, respectively. The role epistemic logic can play in the description of distributed systems is explained (34). In section 35 and 36, temporal logic is used both for verification by hand and for automatic verification. A tableaux-based automated theorem prover for classical logic is elaborated in the Appendix. Each section ends with a number of exercises ; the answers can be found at the end of this book.
05/1994
Compositeurs
Philip Glass. Accords & désaccords
Compositeur avant-gardiste et visionnaire, Philip Glass suit, depuis la fin des années soixante, une trajectoire fascinante entre classique, musique contemporaine et pop. D'abord tête chercheuse du New York downtown aux côtés de Steve Reich, Bob Wilson ou Moondog, Glass s'affranchit de l'étiquette minimaliste et donne à sa musique une dimension plus universelle, établissant un pont entre Jean-Sébastien Bach, Ravi Shankar, David Bowie et Aphex Twin. Fort d'une oeuvre conséquente - symphonies, opéras, piano solo, concertos, musique de chambre etc. -, il élargit son audience grâce à l'écriture de nombreuses bandes originales de films (The Hours, Candyman, The Truman Show, la trilogie des Qatsi) et s'impose comme un artiste incontournable, dont le travail est régulièrement revisité par des artistes contemporains. A travers douze chapitres, comme autant de portraits, ce livre explore les différentes facettes de Philip Glass qui, depuis ses premières pièces, n'a eu de cesse de bousculer les conventions musicales.
03/2022
Religion
God's People: Instruments of Healing
The future impact of the churches on the societies in which they are situated depends on how they are experienced as healing and solidarizing communities (concerning their religious and social praxis) within themselves and to the outside. Exactly this is the question of the diaconical dimension of the church : the question of how much love (in terms of mercy and justice) and freedom (to the individual and to society) are being spread by the churches in this world. Theologically this book refers not only to the biblical foundations but also to the latest theology of the II Vatican Council (and of the appropriate understanding of the term "Evangelization") within the Catholic Church, without suggesting that this theological position is something exclusive in the ecumenical sphere. It rather may support similar theologies emerging from other churches, as a kind of offer to solidarize with each other looking for the possibilities of substantiating the Christian faith.
07/1993
Non classé
Studies in Elizabethan Audience Response to the Theatre
The aim of this volume is to give an analytic description of how Elizabethan Spectators in documentary evidence responded to the theatre performances they watched or knew to be about. It also considers why they responded in that way. Opposing dual consciousness to the reification of the character (its 'ideal presence'), the author concludes that Elizabethan spectators were predominantly interested in the characters' 'ideal presence'. Why they were, is explained by relating their statements to the Renaissance theory of visual perception, (demonic) transformation, and ideas on acting.
02/1993
Non classé
«America's my Home»- Interviews with Young Blacks from Georgia
This book presents six interviews with young, upwardly mobile blacks from the state of Georgia, USA, as a contribution to American oral history and culture. The time span covered comprises the years 1960 to 1975, a period which marked a transitional phase in race relations. The interviewees state their experiences with and feelings on desegregation, their political and ethnic loyalties, their aspirations in life, and their value systems. Despite a varied socio-economic background, they show a heightened sense of racial and cultural identity and an integrationist orientation with Martin Luther King as a culture hero.
12/1983
BD tout public
Snow Blind
La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid. Comment réagiriez-vous si vous découvriez que vos parents n'étaient pas ceux que vous pensiez ? La vie de Teddy, jeune lycéen grandissant dans une banlieue résidentielle en Alaska, bascule le jour où il poste innocemment une photo de son père sur les réseaux sociaux et découvre qu'il fait partie d'un programme de protection des témoins ! Un homme assoiffé de vengeance débarque alors en ville, en même temps qu'une cohorte d'agents du FBI... Et si les raisons qui ont poussé son père à entrer dans ce programme étaient moins innocentes qu'il ne le prétend ? Ollie Masters et Tyler Jenkins signent un thriller mordant comme le froid polaire. Un récit noir sur fond blanc, sauvage comme le Grand Nord.
09/2019
Littérature française
Apologie slow
Erwan Saganne, globe-trotter humanitaire, gay, quitte tout. Il se voit depuis toujours en être résilient. Aux éclairs de génie qu'il s'attribue et la recherche inconsciente de grands succès et de reconnaissance, tout abouti à la simplicité, voir la médiocrité de certains moments de sa vie jusqu'à faire deux tentatives de suicide. Toujours sur la corde raide, tout fini bien à chaque fois, vraiment ? D'où cela vient-il ? Des amours et du sexe toujours renouvelés, il passe à travers les âges et les lieux sans jamais avoir été agressé physiquement. Il combat toute sa vie les émotions divergentes qui le submergent et font dire à un psy qu'il serait bipolaire. N'importe quoi ! est sa seule conclusion. Doutes, questionnements, contradictions sur ses choix d'études et professionnels, sur sa pensée politique et sociale, sur son amour de l'autre et pour son aimé. A 50 ans, en 2016, temps d'un premier bilan. Un combat de survie depuis l'enfance, contre la maladie, la débilité, la fatigue chronique en se lançant quoi qu'il en coûte, dans une course autour du monde par amour de la géographie et de son métier de l'humanitaire. C'est aussi un récit d'aventures dans l'Afrique des années 80 et 90 et dans l'Asie du Sud Est depuis les années 2000. Après une crise majeure et la perte de ses repères, quel rêve caresse-t-il toujours depuis sa prime jeunesse ?
01/2021
Erotique
Money Shot
Dans le futur, obtenir des budgets pour la recherche scientifique est mission impossible. Alors, lorsque Christine Ocampo invente un dispositif de téléportation, une idée lui vient : voyager vers de nouveaux mondes, s'engager "intimement" avec des extraterrestres et filmer ses exploits. De quoi revigorer l'offre vidéo pour adultes sur internet et obtenir ainsi les subventions espérées. Avec sa joyeuse bande de scientifiques-porno-stars, elle part explorer l'univers... et pas que. Tout ça pour le bien de l'humanité.
07/2021
Gautier Languereau
Monsieur Snow
Dans son jardin cet hiver, Myra-Belle a sculpté un sublime cheval de neige. Mais c'est d'un vrai animal dont elle rêve. Un matin, des traces de sabots apparaissent tout autour de son nouvel ami. C'est le début d'une aventure extraordinaire.
09/2021
Développement personnel
Slow Living
Prenez le temps de vous observer le temps d'une journée : les gestes que vous posez sont-ils en harmonie avec votre idéal de vie ? L'utilisation de votre temps va-t-elle dans le même sens que vos valeurs profondes ? Dans un monde où tout s'accélère, on peut vite se noyer sous une infinité de petits encombrements devenant rapidement un grand chaos. Cet ouvrage vous guide avec bienveillance sur le chemin du minimalisme pratique, une démarche accessible et moderne qui concorde parfaitement avec l'idée grandissante qu'une vie épurée contribue non seulement à protéger l'environnement, mais aussi à inventer son propre bonheur et à veiller au bien-être de ses enfants. Au menu : astuces d'organisation, pensées inspirantes, DIY, idées créatives, recettes écologiques et économiques pour désencombrer votre foyer, adoucir votre vie quotidienne et vous donner envie de prendre soin de vous. Cette méthode va vous permettre de façonner votre vie afin de faire place aux bonheurs les plus simples !
03/2019
Policiers
Money shot
Je m'appelle Gina Moretti, mais vous me connaissez probablement mieux sous le nom d'Angel Dare. Vous en faites pas, je n'en parlerai à personne. J'ai tourné mon premier film X à l'âge de vingt ans, même si à l'époque, j'avais menti devant la caméra et prétendu en avoir dix- huit. Mais contrairement à bon nombre de filles avec lesquelles j'ai bossé, j'ai été assez maligne pour raccrocher. Le problème, c'est qu'à l'instar d'un catcheur ou d'un voleur de bijoux, je me suis laissé tenter par un retour. Je n'avais aucune idée que j'allais finir coincée dans un coffre de bagnole.
05/2018
Littérature étrangère
Snow Queen
Avec toute la grâce et la subtilité qu'un lui connaît, Michael Cunningham nous offre une nouvelle plongée dans le New York des âmes perdues, l'histoire poignante d'hommes et de femmes en quête de transcendance, à travers l'amour et l'art. Un soir de novembre, alors qu'en pleine déprime amoureuse il traverse Central Park, Barren est témoin d'une lumière mysterieuse, un moment fugace de beauté pure, un instant suspendu, comme si quelqu'un, quelque part, le regardait avec bienveillance. Une lumière qui lui évoque son frère, Tyler, cocaïnomane, musicien talentueux qui n'a jamais percé ; Beth, la fiancée de Tyler, qui se meurt d'un cancer ; Liz, leur amie commune, leur presque mère. Une lumière qui illumine aussi ses propres t'ailles, ses ambitions ratées, ses amours déçues. Une lumière comme une manifestation du sublime. Comme l'amour qui, malgré tout, unit ces êtres blessés. Ou le rappel que, si le temps passe et les rêves aussi, reste la tendresse.
03/2015
Comics guides et revues
Shop Talk
Will Eisner est un maître de la bande dessinée. Durant des années, il s'est réuni pour discuter avec d'autres maîtres du comics. De ces rencontres, il en est résulté une collection d'informations vitales pour tous ceux qui travaillent dans l'industrie, et indispensables pour tous ceux qui cherchent à y entrer. Will Eisner s'est entretenu avec Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Gil Kane, Joe Kubert, Jack Davis, Neal Adams, C. C. Beck, Milton Caniff, Gill Fox, Harvey Kurtzman et le gourou de la distribution Phil Seuling. Shop Talk est une mine d'informations sur la bande dessinée. Entre anecdotes et secrets de conception, Will Eisner présente l'envers du décor, celui qui passionne chaque amoureux du 9e Art soucieux de comprendre comment une oeuvre prend forme. Cette édition comprend une introduction spécialement écrite par Denis Kitchen pour la version française.
03/2022
Autres collections (6 à 9 ans)
Shoe Wars
A Shoeville, les chaussures, c'est sacré ! Ivor Foot, le père de Ruby et Bear, vient d'inventer une paire de chaussures volantes révolutionnaires ! Et grâce à elles, il pourrait bien gagner le prestigieux Trophée de la Chaussure d'Or de Shoeville. Mais Wendy Wedge, la toute puissante directrice de la plus grande fabrique de chaussures de la ville, n'est pas prête à se laisser voler la vedette et Ivor court un grand danger ! Ruby et Bear parviendront-ils à sauver leur papa des périls qui le guettent ? Réussiront-ils à empêcher la diabolique Wendy de lui voler son invention ? Une chose est sûre, la guerre des chaussures est déclarée !
05/2021
Comics Indépendants
Snow Angels
La Tranchée. Milliken et Mae ne l’ont jamais quittée, c’est tout ce qu’elles ont toujours connu. Elles sont nées dans la Tranchée et y mourront, comme tout leur peuple. Les deux filles, âgées de huit et onze ans, vivent avec leur père dans cette vaste tranchée sans fin, creusée au milieu d’un désert mortel de glace et de givre.
Mais lorsque la Mort elle-même se jette à leurs trousses, faut-t-il braver le désert – en se livrant à une fin certaine – ou suivre la Tranchée, plus loin que quiconque n’a osé s’aventurer ? (traduction Benjamin Rivière)
04/2024
Non classé
On 'Nominal Non-Predicating' Adjectives in English
The study tries to show - on the basis of a large collection of data - that the labelling of adjectives such as environmental, nuclear, linguistic, urban as 'nominal, non-preicating' does not adequately account for observable language behaviour. 'Lexicalized' terms such as polar bear behave like unitary nouns, but otherwise these adjectives can well be found in predicative position ; they may also accept adverbial modification. Various syntactic tests demonstrate that attempts to explain predicative occurrences as resulting from ellipsis, from Head Noun Deletion, fail in a large number of cases. The conclusion reached in this thesis is that the adjectives in question cannot generally be considered 'attributive-only'.
12/1987
Histoire internationale
Knowledge and Symbolization in Saint John of the Cross
The works of Juan de la Cruz contains numerous passages dealing with human cognition both ordinary and mystical. This study traces San Juan's examination of the mystic's knowledge in and through God. The sixteenth-century Spanish thinker stresses that conditionality is a fundamental character of all human knowledge, and brings to light a complex movement of contiguity between one and another mode of cognitive activity. Also discussed is the expression, through the instruments of prose and poetry, of the mystic's supereminent and therefore ineffable experience of knowledge and love. Relying upon Juan de la Cruz's own texts, it is shown how a relative communication can be effected despite the barriers separating mystical from ordinary cognition.
07/1993
Histoire internationale
Charge of the Bull
Few will deny that 11th Bristish Armoured Division, the "Charging Bulls" of this story, was the finest armoured division on any side in the Normandy campaign in 1944. Soon after the end of the war, the history of the Division, Taurus Pursuant, was published in England in 1946. About 30 years later, Jean Brisset published his French-language book, La Charge du Taureau, about the same Division. It quickly went through two editions in France. What ensured its success was that it enlivened and humanized the well-know official accounts of the Division's battles in Operations EPSOM, GOODWOOD, BLUECOAT and others with the personal stories of participants in those battles who were often soldiers of humble but honourable rank. In addition, he paralleled the British military story with accounts of the experiences of French civilians caught up in the terror of thoses same battles, the anguish of theur tragedies and losses and the joy of their liberation. It is a history unique of its kind and deserves to be presented in this English translation. In addition to the story about 11th Armoured Division an Appendix telles about the battles in the Normandy bocage fought alongside the "Charging Bulls" by the hard-fighting 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division and how the local civilians and Resistance fighters helped them. Another Appendix recounts, among other adventures, how a little 5-year-old French girl saved an Australian Spitfire pilot from recapture by the Germans after he had been shot clown in the bocage. Finally, an Epilogue brings the story up to date. It pays homage to those, both British and French, who strove to keep alive the flames of remembrance, mutual gratitude and friendship. Containing over 100 photographs and illustrated by 9 maps, specially draw for this edition, The Charge of the Bull is a nostalgic trip back for those who fought in Normandy in 1944 and an important addition to the litterature about that campaign.
06/2012
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
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
Sciences de la terre et de la
Atlas of the Lunar Terminator
This Atlas is based on high-resolution electronic images of the terminator area of the Moon under 47 different illuminations. Each image is displayed across two or three pages. Features as small as 1-2 kilometers can be seen. For each illumination, accompanying text describes the major features shown in each view, along with larger-scale images of selected areas, which are indexed with their positions and dimensions.
Two text chapters describe and illustrate the techniques of lunar observing and the types of landforms. Observing data are presented through 2010. Experienced observers will find the Atlas an invaluable planning tool, while beginners will gain an understanding of lunar geography and geology. There is an index of 1000 named lunar formations, cross-referenced to the images.
No other atlas shows the Moon under such a variety of observing conditions.
01/2000
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
Poésie
La sève incessante
Vingt poèmes pour vingt ans d'une union promise à l'indéfectible renouent avec le thème du lyrisme de célébration conjugale. Une ode libre à toute femme chérie, multiple et unique, métamorphose la déclaration amoureuse en discours poétique. L'imaginaire cosmique ou merveilleux accorde les amours vraies à la sérénité de la nature, les arrière-saisons à la beauté persistante du monde. Le jour gagne en clarté à la louange de la passion fidèle, soumise aux cloisons de l'âge et au défi du futur.
04/2020
Fantasy
Chasseurs de Sève
Les gigantesques branches de l'Arbre-monde hébergent tout un ensemble de clans, tel celui des chasseurs de sève. Lorsque Pierig est capturé par ce clan belliqueux, il comprend que ce sont ses dons de sourcier qui les intéressent. En effet, l'Arbre-monde se meurt et sa sève nourricière avec lui... Accompagné de trois guerriers, Pierig est contraint de trouver l'origine du mal qui ronge le titan végétal, jusqu'au pied de l'arbre s'il le faut. Mais à l'issue de ce dangereux périple, ses certitudes risquent d'être bousculées.
03/2023
Sciences politiques
Organizing after Crisis. The Challenge of Learning
How do actors organize after crisis ? Do they "simply" return to normal ? The post-crisis phase is anything but a linear process. Actors and their practices may be transformed by learning from crises and by implementing the lessons. In this volume, 19 contributors from 7 countries analyse how learning happens after crisis in a dynamic political environment where framings, strategies, discourses, interests and resources interact. Exploring various policy sectors, they ask whether and in what ways organizations in charge of crisis management perform well. Where political responsibility is located ? What changes do lessons trigger at political, organizational and individual levels ? The book answers these questions by addressing issues like blame and responsibility but also the influence of communication, social dynamics and the institutional environment.
03/1994
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
Religion
Tracing the Evidence
Tracing the Evidence : Dinah in Post-Hebrew Bible Literature examines the post-biblical literary developments of Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob. According to Genesis 34, Dinah was sexually violated by Shechem ; however, there are gaps in the biblical narrative and little written about what happened to her after the fateful time. Tracing the Evidence considers how post-Hebrew Bible traditions have filled in some of those gaps. Some traditions give more information about her day-to-day life, how old she was when Shechem met her, and various details about her subsequent marriage(s) and children.
04/2008
Histoire de France
Protestant resistance (version poche)
Strategically located between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, criss crossed by major communication axis joining north to South ant east to West, the South of France has always been a melting pot of people and ideas... No wonder then that as soon as the Reformation started, it received and enthusiastic welcome in many of the towns and villages and soon swept most of the Southern half of France. In many of these villages, the descendants of the Cathars and the Vaudois had been living quietly and were among the first to join the new churches. However, challenging the spiritual, and in some cases the secular, power of Rome wasn't without danger ; soon the "heretics" were being persecuted, harassed and burned with their seditious books. As the French Kings (with the notable exception of Henry IV), sided with the Pope, a culture of resistance developed and has remained to this day. This book shows the clear link and shared ideas between the Huguenots who fought Louis XIVth and their descendants who hid Jewish children and fought nazi occupation forces. Richar Maltby, retired Professor of History at King's School in Canterbury and the author of a successful illustrated history of Canterbury takes us through the villages, towns and hideouts of the Huguenots and follows the Renaissance to WWII. His well-researched and well-illustrated book describes how the influence of the Bible and protestant theology permeated a whole civilization with a strong love for freedom and rejection of oppression.
07/2018
Histoire de France
The External Relations of the European Union
The book analyses the attitudes of non-EU countries towards European integration in historical and contemporary perspectives. The authors study a range of actors in Europe and beyond to explain the impact of the creation of the European Communities on the international system and how the EU is perceived in the world. The book further shows the significance of the institutional interplay within the EU, and between EU institutions, member states and external actors led by their own internal dynamics to explain policy outcomes. It investigates to what extent the perceptions of the international community towards the European Communities and the EU have been influenced by the complexity of their decision-making and the difficulty of reconciling the views of member states on key external relations issues. The authors also study the interplay of non-EU countries and the EU within the broader context of international and regional institutions and forums for international cooperation.
12/1987
Divers
Charlotte Lennox, "The Female Quixote". Agrégation d'anglais, Edition 2024-2025
Picture a resolute heroine from a seventeenth-century French romance who has been unknowingly teleported to mid-eighteenth-century Britain. Equipped with her worldview fashioned by the beliefs and values of those romances, how would she navigate this unfamiliar world ? Would her journey be a seamless progression from one comically ridiculous error to the next ? How would she assess the morals and customs of her newfound society, and how would its members perceive her ? In The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox embarks on this imaginative experiment. Her Cervantean parody fosters a dynamic reading experience, swinging between complicity and detachment. It projects an image of the parodied romances but also of the social world of eighteenth-century Britain. Encouraging readers to contemplate the fluid interplay between fiction and the real, the novel prompts reflection on the disparities between the social norms of both realms. This study takes a multifaceted approach to Lennox's novel, situating the work in its literary-historical context and examining the narrative features aligning it both with realist novels and romances. Additionally, it analyses key themes and provides summaries of characters and chapters. The study also offers a selection of texts that shed light on the debates accompanying the transition from an older codification of prose fiction to a new contender : the realist novel. The overarching objective is to showcase The Female Quixote's significance in shaping the modern novel's early history.
11/2023
