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Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote

Extraits

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Littérature anglo-saxonne

The Town and the City

The Town and the City est le premier roman de Jack Kerouac. Publié en 1950, la critique salue alors l'apparition d'un nouveau talent. Pour peindre l'univers de la famille Martin, Kerouac s'inspire de sa propre enfance en Nouvelle-Angleterre ; il suit tous les personnages, dispersés à travers le monde, du début du siècle à la fin des années quarante, et les réunit finalement pour l'enterrement du père. Moment crucial où chacun voit son destin enfin scellé et l'accepte. Tous, sauf Peter, le petit dernier, qui refuse le retour à la normalité et s'interroge sur ce monde qui lui est étranger. Dans l'oeuvre de Jack Kerouac, The Town and the City est en quelque sorte le prélude incontournable d'une longue saga intime.

03/2022

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Romans graphiques

The Crow : Skinning the Wolves

1945. Dans un camp de concentration, un prisonnier différent des autres va faire vivre un cauchemar aux nazis et transformer les prédateurs en proies...

01/2024

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Romans, témoignages & Co

The Dead and the Dark

Un roman fascinant qui nous parle des choses tapies dans les coins sombres, des secrets qu'on ne peut garder enfouis éternellement, et des refuges inattendus que la vie peut nous offrir. Il se passe des choses étranges et terribles à Snakebite, Oregon. Des adolescents disparaissent, et tous les soupçons se portent sur les chasseurs de fantôme les plus populaires de l'écran, qui viennent de débarquer en ville. Leur fille Logan comprend vite que si elle veut les innocenter, elle va devoir mener l'enquête de son côté. Car depuis leur arrivée à Snakebite, ses pères semblent multiplier les secrets... De son côté, Ashley, la petite amie du premier garçon à avoir disparu, croit sentir son fantôme la suivre... et comprend que la mystérieuse Logan est peut-être la seule qui puisse l'aider à obtenir des réponses. Unissant leurs forces pour tenter de découvrir quels êtres hantent Snakebite, les deux adolescentes découvrent, au fil de leur enquête, des vérités sur la ville, sur leurs propres familles et sur elles-mêmes, auxquelles ni l'une ni l'autre n'était préparée. Tandis que le danger s'intensifie, ce qui naît entre elles pourrait bien être une lumière au milieu des ténèbres... " Imaginez la série Riverdale croisée avec L'Outsider de Stephen King, et vous aurez un aperçu de ce passionnant thriller surnaturel. " Oprah Daily

06/2022

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Lectures graduées

The Turn of the Screw

Plongez en VO dans ce livre incroyable. Pour vous aider, des traductions en marge vous permettront de bien comprendre le texte original. Ces textes en VO font partie des lectures imposées pour les classes de Première dans le cadre du nouveau bac de 2022.

05/2023

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Romans, témoignages & Co

The Dead and the Dark

Un roman fascinant qui nous parle des choses tapies dans les coins sombres, des secrets qu'on ne peut garder enfouis éternellement, et des refuges inattendus que la vie peut nous offrir. Il se passe des choses étranges et terribles à Snakebite, Oregon. Des adolescents disparaissent, et tous les soupçons se portent sur les chasseurs de fantôme les plus populaires de l'écran, qui viennent de débarquer en ville. Leur fille Logan comprend vite que si elle veut les innocenter, elle va devoir mener l'enquête de son côté. Car depuis leur arrivée à Snakebite, ses pères semblent multiplier les secrets... De son côté, Ashley, la petite amie du premier garçon à avoir disparu, croit sentir son fantôme la suivre... et comprend que la mystérieuse Logan est peut-être la seule qui puisse l'aider à obtenir des réponses. Unissant leurs forces pour tenter de découvrir quels êtres hantent Snakebite, les deux adolescentes découvrent, au fil de leur enquête, des vérités sur la ville, sur leurs propres familles et sur elles-mêmes, auxquelles ni l'une ni l'autre n'était préparée. Tandis que le danger s'intensifie, ce qui naît entre elles pourrait bien être une lumière au milieu des ténèbres... " Imaginez la série Riverdale croisée avec L'Outsider de Stephen King, et vous aurez un aperçu de ce passionnant thriller surnaturel. " Oprah Daily

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Histoire et Philosophiesophie

Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes & Specimen Lists from H.M.S. Beagle

Two long sets of scientific notes were made by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. Those transcribed here are concerned with natural history, and although in 1839 he drew on them quite extensively in writing his famous " Journal of Researches ", neither they nor his geology notes have previously been published. He was a superb observer, and recorded vividly and accurately his first impressions of the appearance and behaviour of the wide range of animals, from ants to ostriches, encountered during his travels. Often he performed little experiments on the creatures that he captured, and he was never happy until he had exhaustively explored the why and wherefore of every one of his observations. During the long periods on board ship, he carried out a thorough analysis of hitherto unrecognised features of the internal anatomy of a variety of marine invertebrates, and made elegant pencil drawings of them under his dissecting microscope. The volume also includes his lists of 1 500 specimens preserved in Spirits of Wine, and some 3 500 not in Spirits, with impeccably accurate cross references to the main notes. Although his notes were made strictly for his own use, and were often highly technical, they were well written throughout, and contain many highly readable passages. Only towards the very end of the voyage were his first doubts about the immutability of species consciously pressed, but here are to be found the first seeds of his theory of evolution, and of the important new fields of behavioural and ecological study of which he was one of the principal founders.

01/2000

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Religion jeunesse

The beautiful dolls of Julia are getting married. Numéro 22

"The LORD defends the rights of orphans and widows. The LORD cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing". "You have to love the foreigner, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt". Deuteronomy 10 : 18 - 19 HISTORY OF THE FRENCH AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY "CROIRE - SAVOIR - VOULOIR" " Julia's Beautiful Dolls - Holy Paris " represents the Universal name of a new linguistic and pedagogic method, to teach English, French and Spanish, to the children of the Kindergarten and Elementary school. The Collection of Multimedia Books, notebooks of writing, cultural and educational articles are to develop an education of PEACE, to teach the catholic faith with the Catholic History of Art and testimony of Julia. The Collection " JULIA'S BEAUTIFUL'S DOLLS- HOLY PARIS " is an INVENTION created by the Writer and Translator Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ Widow of RUIZ, after nine years of "SCIENCES RESEARCES", since the creation of the company, in 2008, in Paris. Julia created this Linguistic Method in French and she make the translation to English and Spanish. The Pedagogical Method of this Collection is to develop the Peace in the World, to make a transfer of the Catholic Faith, to teach the different Cultures, the Moral Universal values, the Interreligious Cooperation and the Harmony between the United Nations. This Collection has been realized religiously, intellectually and manually for Mrs. Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ ARELLANO Widow of RUIZ. Julia makes this Collection of Beautiful Dolls, since 1986, the year that she arrived to Paris, to study the French Civilization in the University "La Sorbonne". To have a Collection of Dolls from many countries of the world, was a dream that she has since she was a little girl of 5 years old. Mrs. Julia SANCHEZ works in Research since nine years ago, to develop, to create her Publishing International Company in Paris, she has never received a Subvention of the French Government, not either of the European Commission, or of the Mayor of Paris. In the year 2010, Mrs. Julia Sanchez appeared to the prize " The Don of Science " organized by the Department of the National Education, of the Higher Education and Researches of France and for not communication, she didn't obtain the Prize. In November, 2013, Mrs. Julia Sanchez has deposited the name of her trademark and in November, 2014, she deposited the Patent of her invention to the National Institute of Industrial Property in order to distinguish her invention from other inventions.

10/2018

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Religion jeunesse

The beautiful dolls of Julia are celebrating the assumption of the blessed virgin Mary. Numéro 15

"The LORD defends the rights of orphans and widows. The LORD cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing". "You have to love the foreigner, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt". Deuteronomy 10 : 18 - 19 HISTORY OF THE FRENCH AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY "CROIRE - SAVOIR - VOULOIR" " Julia's Beautiful Dolls - Holy Paris " represents the Universal name of a new linguistic and pedagogic method, to teach English, French and Spanish, to the children of the Kindergarten and Elementary school. The Collection of Multimedia Books, notebooks of writing, cultural and educational articles are to develop an education of PEACE, to teach the catholic faith with the Catholic History of Art and testimony of Julia. The Collection " JULIA'S BEAUTIFUL'S DOLLS- HOLY PARIS " is an INVENTION created by the Writer and Translator Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ Widow of RUIZ, after nine years of "SCIENCES RESEARCES", since the creation of the company, in 2008, in Paris. Julia created this Linguistic Method in French and she make the translation to English and Spanish. The Pedagogical Method of this Collection is to develop the Peace in the World, to make a transfer of the Catholic Faith, to teach the different Cultures, the Moral Universal values, the Interreligious Cooperation and the Harmony between the United Nations. This Collection has been realized religiously, intellectually and manually for Mrs. Julia-Josefa-Patricia SANCHEZ ARELLANO Widow of RUIZ. Julia makes this Collection of Beautiful Dolls, since 1986, the year that she arrived to Paris, to study the French Civilization in the University "La Sorbonne". To have a Collection of Dolls from many countries of the world, was a dream that she has since she was a little girl of 5 years old. Mrs. Julia SANCHEZ works in Research since nine years ago, to develop, to create her Publishing International Company in Paris, she has never received a Subvention of the French Government, not either of the European Commission, or of the Mayor of Paris. In the year 2010, Mrs. Julia Sanchez appeared to the prize " The Don of Science " organized by the Department of the National Education, of the Higher Education and Researches of France and for not communication, she didn't obtain the Prize. In November, 2013, Mrs. Julia Sanchez has deposited the name of her trademark and in November, 2014, she deposited the Patent of her invention to the National Institute of Industrial Property in order to distinguish her invention from other inventions.

05/2019

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Policiers

Sandinista. Tome 3

"There is a train at Version City Waiting for the rhythm mail If you can jump then jump right now She can pull you through to better days."

11/2017

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12 ans et +

The Priest : The king is crazy about the priest

Surmontant leurs positions respectives de roi et de prêtres, tous deux purent enfin s'unir. Après avoir obtenu celui qu'il aimait tant, le fougueux roi Ragô n'attendait plus que la cérémonie de mariage. L'aimant à en devenir fou, il ne voulait se séparer un seul instant de son précieux Sasha, qui devait maintenant assumer le rôle de reine en plus de celui de prêtre. Mais convoitant eux aussi le messager des dieux, aux yeux et aux cheveux de la couleur sacrée arc-en-ciel, les pays voisins lui déclarèrent la guerre. Ragô, lui, décida alors de partir seul sur le front, sans en parler à Sasha. Alors qu'ils avaient enfin compris et pu exprimer leurs sentiments, le destin tenterait-il encore une fois de les séparer... ! ? L'amour peut-il vraiment tout dépasser... ? Voici la suite d'une histoire d'amour sincère et intense.

09/2013

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Tourisme étranger

Moroccan tracks Volume 11. The sagho djebel

The Sagho djebel is the eastern extension of the Anti-Atlas, a volcanic mountain with granitic mamelons, basaltic organs, chaos of black shales, pink sandstones... at the gates of the Sahara. As far as the eye can see, large wild, arid spaces. A desolate land made for the lonely DPM. And for a thousand miles around, silence is the only companion. Absolute plenitude and the desire to take to the track. From flat expanses to rolling hills, from sharp relief to steep canyons : pure, original nature. The character is strong, rustic but the heart is soft. The colours are soft and gentle. Ochre, pink, brown, violet, the colour chart stretches in a gradation of shimmering pastels, sometimes accompanied by an overwhelming heat. Eldorado in the heart of the desert, rare are the oases ; modest green spots in the infinitely large, they are the reminders that we are on African soil. The wild charm of the Sagho is due to its exceptional geology : high cliffs and steep peaks, tabular escarpments and deep canyons in the middle of which caravans of camels and mules circulate. When you arrive on these immense plateaus, the lunar horizon is so vast that you want to go everywhere at once to see if it is really as beautiful elsewhere ! The Sagho also surprises by the richness of its lights : limpid like those of the nearby Sahara, or sometimes in half-tone, as in the neighbouring Dades valley. The Sagho is also the Morocco of the last Berber nomads, descendants of the ancient lords Aït Atta. In autumn, after leaving the snows of the High Atlas, they set up their dark wool tents on the slopes of the jebel until spring. They can neither read nor write, but they are sure of their way through the Atlas Mountains and the Moroccan desert. In the Sagho, they have built houses of unbaked stone, dug wells, planted almond trees, grown wheat, barley and various vegetables. Others built herds of goats and sheep, and caravans of camels. Most of them are now sedentary, semi-nomadic or nomadic...

08/2022

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Archéologie

Fantastic Beasts in Antiquity. Looking for the monster, discovering the Human, Textes en français et anglais

Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented mysterious and intriguing creatures populating their world. During Antiquity, every culture had its own strange creatures, that mixed the forms of one or more animal, plant and human species in an infinite number of more-or-less fanciful combinations. Griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, pygmies, werewolves, winged monsters and unspeakable hybrids, fantastic beasts abound in the imagination of many populations throughout Antiquity. Most of them continue to live, sometimes transformed, through fairy tales, literature, movies and videogames. Faced with the abundance and variety of the ancient fantastic bestiary, the questions that come to mind are : Where do fantastic beasts come from ? How do they appear in different cultures ? What is their history, how did they survive until now ? And above all, what are fantastic beasts ? This book will explore these questions through the lens of archaeology, art history, philology and philosophy. The result is a hybrid book, precisely like the fantastic animals that constitute its object, a book which offers different approaches of analysis while being aware that our means are often vain to capture these elusive figures, which ultimately are more like us than they seem. Man, like Oedipus, will often prove to be more monstrous than the Sphinx...

02/2021

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Littérature française

Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba)

Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba) This book is dedicated to the unique One who has assumed a form and name to lead the play of universal existence. He throbs in our loving heart ; He breathes in our living soul. He sings in our fervent spirit and he thinks in our purified mind. That infinite Ancient One from his supernal height, bends towards us to embrace us in his love, and to feed our soul with the nectar of his bliss. Blessed are they that have the mind to know him, the heart to feel him and the love to live in his consciousness ! He may have been born to human parents in Poona, studied in a college, played cricket, left home, have seen great souls, sat alone silent, spoken in gestures, written books - but that is not his history. Many live such a life ; many scholars write books ; many saints sit in contemplation ; many monks leave home for mountain resorts ; but they cannot be one like him. Millions of bulbs challenge in vain the darkness of night. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. We have seen monks, yogins and saints. Some live alone for peace. Some open Ashrams and collect donations to run them. Some comercialise their name and form. Some display miracles to surprise human minds ; some offer boons ; some predict the future ; some curse you when you do not offer them what they want. Some seek pleasure and treasure. But who seeks God and finds God in the self to awaken God-awareness in other men and women ? Who says "I am God and you are God too"? Who rises above the prattle of words, the rattle of weapons and battle of ideologies to the lofty peace of supersonic silence and pours his blessings from the dizzy height of the soul in tune with God ? Who is he that embraces all in the heart and awakens the soul which has none of the human creations of caste, religion, race, pedigree nor colour ? Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget

07/2017

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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

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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

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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

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Mexique

Secret Mexico City

An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew the city well or who would like to discover its many other facets. The forgotten café where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara used to meet, a tribute to the city's ghosts, a mammoth in the metro, a cave transformed into a shrine, an underground parking lot with mosaics dating from 1930, a Baroque altarpiece made from papier mâché, a village based on the principles of Thomas More's Utopia, secret masterpieces of colonial art in rooms only open around two hours a week, the largest roof garden in Latin America, the photo on which the Oscar statuette is modelled, the first building in the world faced with a material that can trap urban smog, a road surface designed for praying as you walk ...

02/2024

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Droit

Activation Policies for the Unemployed, the Right to Work and the Duty to Work

Since the 1990s and the 2000s, Western social protection systems have experienced a turn towards activation. This turn consists of the multiplication of measures aimed at bringing those who are unemployed closer to participation in the labour market. These measures often induce a strengthening of the conditions that must be met in order to receive social benefits. It is in this well known context that the authors gathered in this book decided to take a closer look at the relationship between activation policies for the unemployed and the right and the duty to work. If activation measures are likely to increase transitions towards the labour market, we can also make the assumption that they may, particularly when they are marked with the seal of coercion, hinder or dramatically reduce the right to freely chosen work. In such circumstances, the realisation of the "right to work", which is often stated to be the aim of those who promote activation, tends in practice to be reduced to an increasing pressure being exerted on the unemployed. In this case, isn't it actually the duty to work that is particularly reinforced ? After an historical and philosophical perspective on the issue, this assumption is confronted with the developments observed in the United States and in France, and then with the guidelines laid down in international human rights instruments. What follows is a discussion of two alternatives to the dominant activation model : the basic income guarantee and the employment guarantee.

06/1987

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Enseignement primaire

Mlle Charlotte. Une bien curieuse factrice - CE2, Album 4

Mlle Charlotte, la nouvelle factrice, n'aime pas distribuer les mauvaises nouvelles. Avec l'aide d'Agathe, elle se charge de faire le bonheur des habitants de Saint-Machinchouin, petit village qui va bientôt se retrouver sens dessus dessous. Retrouvez toute la méthode Ribambelle CE2 série Turquoise : - Le cahier d'activités - Le guide - 5 livres de jeunesse et 1 documentaire.

03/2017

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BD jeunesse

Le blog de... Tome 2 : Le blog de Charlotte

Charlotte se sent seule depuis que ses meilleurs amis, Nina et Rafael, filent le parfait amour. Pour se faire de nouveaux copains, elle imite Nina et ouvre son propre blog, mêlant billets d'humeur et recettes de cuisine. Charlotte crée vite un lien particulier avec Sandro, un mystérieux adolescent... Mais doit-elle vraiment relever les défis dangereux exigés par Sandro pour mériter son amitié ? Ce journal intime contemporain mêle histoires d'amitié, d'amour et problèmes de manipulation et de harcèlement sur Internet.

05/2018

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Historique

Charlotte impératrice Tome 1 : La Princesse et l'Archiduc

- N'êtes-vous pas censé... me faire la cour ? - A quoi bon ? Vous êtes séduisante, bien sûr, vous êtes même très belle, et je suis certain - ma famille s'en est assuré - que vous avez de grandes qualités humaines et morales. Mais d'après ce que je sais, vous avez un autre prétendant. Le futur roi Pierre V de Portugal. - Pedro ?! Mais non ! Non, c'est juste un ami ! - Vous êtes jeune et naïve. Les princesses de seize ans n'ont pas d'amis. C'est votre prétendant. C'est un roi, et moi je ne suis qu'un archiduc. Voilà. Fin de partie.

08/2018

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Romans historiques

Charlotte / Charles d’Eon. Sa vie est un roman

Chevalier ou chevalière ? Qui était d'Eon ? L'Histoire a retenu le chevalier, l'espion royal de Louis XV. Et si le chevalier avait été une chevalière ? Sur le fond d'éléments historiques, Danièle Déon Bessière fait revivre Charlotte, une femme menant une vie exceptionnelle de liberté grâce à ses vêtements masculins qui lui permettent de servir son roi et son pays. Une femme cependant qui aime et souffre par amour. Finalement, après avoir connu la splendeur des Cours d'Europe et la misère de l'exil, elle quittera le monde terrestre dans des habits féminins. Charlotte ou Charles : un personnage attachant, humain et hors normes.

10/2019

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Photographie

Charlotte Perriand et la photographie. L'oeil en éventail

Au cours des années 1930, parallèlement à ses activités d'architecte, de designer, d'urbaniste et de militante, la photographie occupe une place importante dans sa création. L'aventure photographique débute en 1927 et se clôt au Japon en 1940. Se déployant tout au long de la période pionnière, quand se développe la modernité, elle s'éteint sur l'espoir d'un monde meilleur anéanti par la seconde guerre mondiale. La photographie est pour Charlotte Perriand le " laboratoire secret " de ses recherches plastiques et philosophiques : c'est une " machine " à penser. Son oeuvre photographique, qui exprime les principaux thèmes et les interrogations des modernes des années 1930, s'inscrit dans le vaste mouvement des avant-gardes où peintres, architectes et photographes, parfois confondus, travaillent côte à côte dans une communauté d'esprit, où chaque expression s'enrichit du regard de l'autre.

03/2011

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Décoration

Charlotte Perriand. L'oeuvre complète Volume 3, 1956-1968

Ce troisième volume de l'oeuvre complète (1956-1968) présente le travail de Charlotte Perriand au coeur des Trente Glorieuses, période pendant laquelle son statut de créatrice internationale va se confirmer. Dès 1956, Charlotte Perriand développe une collaboration soutenue avec la galerie Steph Simon, éditeur notamment de ses bibliothèques Nuage. Elle renforce ses liens avec Air France, aménage des agences en Europe, au Japon et au Brésil et conçoit les premiers espaces de travail en open space. A Genève, elle consacre plus de dix ans à la rénovation de l'immense palais des Nations, siège de l'ONU en Europe, pour en faire un outil moderne au service de milliers de diplomates et d'ONG. L'ouvrage illustre également son "art d'habiter" à travers des réalisations comme la résidence de l'ambassadeur du Japon à Paris, la maison du Sahara, son chalet à Méribel, son appartement à Rio de Janeiro, ou encore l'équipement intérieur du pavillon du Brésil à la cité universitaire, à Paris, avec Le Corbusier. Autre pays d'élection de Charlotte Perriand après le Japon, le Brésil, où elle se rend régulièrement de 1959 à 1970, occupe une place importante dans son univers. Elle y noue des liens d'amitié avec Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer et les grandes figures du milieu culturel progressiste. En 1963, elle commence une mission sur le développement de l'artisanat dans le Nordeste, interrompue par le coup d'Etat militaire. Près de 800 documents, pour la plupart inédits, retracent une douzaine d'années de création dans les domaines du mobilier, de l'aménagement et de l'architecture de cette pionnière du design, et préfigurent son travail pour la station des Arcs en Savoie dans les années 70 et 80.

03/2017

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Charlotte Perriand. L'oeuvre complète Volume 2, 1940-1955

Le deuxième volume de l'oeuvre complète de Charlotte Perriand couvre les années de la guerre et de la reconstruction de 1940 à 1955. Invitée en 1940 par le gouvernement japonais en tant que conseillère pour orienter la production dans le domaine de l'équipement de l'habitation, Charlotte Perriand laissera une empreinte profonde dans l'histoire du design japonais, notamment grâce à ses conférences et à deux expositions, «Tradition, sélection, création» (1941) et «Proposition d'une synthèse des arts, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Charlotte Perriand» (1955). Les deux séjours qu'elle effectue au Japon confortent la vision moderniste qu'elle a développée aux côtés de Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret dans les années 30 et nourriront sa créativité dans les décennies suivantes. Charlotte Perriand participe aux grands chantiers de la reconstruction en France et en Afrique, et collabore avec les principaux architectes de l'époque, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Paul Nelson, Jean de Mailly, etc. Elle travaille également avec les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, assure la direction artistique du département meubles et dessine du mobilier, dont les célèbres bibliothèques Mexique et Tunisie et de nombreux autres modèles emblématiques des années 50. Cet ouvrage révèle la volonté d'une créatrice engagée de développer un nouvel «art d'habiter» placé sous le signe de la modernité pour tous et de la synthèse des arts : architecture, peinture et design.

06/2015

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BD jeunesse divers

Le blog de... Tome 2 : Le blog de Charlotte

Charlotte se sent seule depuis que ses meilleurs amis, Nina et Rafael, filent le parfait amour. Pour se foire de nouveaux copains, elle imite Nina et ouvre son propre blog, mêlant billets d'humeur et recettes de cuisine. Charlotte crée vite un lien particulier avec Sandro, un mystérieux adolescent... Mais doit-elle vraiment relever les défis dangereux exigés par Sandro pour mériter son amitié ? Ce journal intime contemporain mêle histoires d'amitié, d'amour et problèmes de manipulation et de harcèlement sur Internet.

04/2021