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Extraits
Philosophie
Phenomenological Realism
The phenomenology of Edmund Husserl is being analyzed in regard to its ontological implications. It is demonstrated that Husserl's method of reduction directly leads to an ontological idealism for which there is no epistemological justification. An alternative to this "idealistic" misunderstanding of the phenomenological approach is being developed in applying Heidegger's existential analysis to questions of epistemology and transcendental philosophy. It is thus shown that phenomenology may be established on safer grounds : not on the basis of a pure transcendental subject, but on life-world understood in the realistic sense of transcending the ego.
12/1986
Physique, chimie
Dictionary of chemical elements - Historical discoveries and applications
This dictionary is a guide, defining key terms of chemical elements in English, French and Arabic. Everything you need to know about chemical elements in a clear, one sentence definition and is followed by explanation and examples. The dictionary format makes it exceptionally easy to use. This dictionary has been deliberately designed to be for students - everything you need is in the dictionary, making it the ideal exam revision companion. For everyone else - basic ideas and concepts are introduced and simply explained and followed by straightforward explanation and illustrations to widen your understanding of the subject.
03/2017
Littérature française
What Pig Are You Feeding?
Hello and welcome to this nice journey, More than anything I want the journey to show how easy and sane humor & fun are, they very often give us relief from the burden of Blessedness and Ugliness. We should laugh at the absurdity of it all. I'm afraid this book does not offer concrete solutions. However, I'm quite sure these nice reflections would help you spotting amazing cases and strange situations whenever you want to laugh at everything, whenever you want some relief, whenever you want humor... It's always worthwhile to wear a smile. All the best SalmaMichele
10/2016
Policiers
Goebius' Strange Model
A company elaborates in great secrecy a project, vital to its very survival. As the project develops, it leads the protagonists far beyond the originally envisioned simple business strategy, and brings them close to the forefront of the physical laws governing the behavior of the universe. Two intrigues intertwine... will they meet ? Or do they form the single-sided face of a Möbius strip ? "This novel is as unexpected as a UFO, and refreshing..." Cédric Villani, Fields Medal 2010. "This book is fascinating, I read it all at once..." Etienne Ghys, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.
01/2020
Littérature érotique et sentim
Dis-moi que je rêve
Est-ce que vous croyez à l'amour au premier regard ? Ce n'est absolument pas le cas de Sanford Stewart. En fait, il croit plutôt à son parfait contraire à cause de l'Homonarque du Stade ; Darren Mayne semble, en effet, ne vivre que pour semer le chaos dans sa vie parfaitement organisée. Sandy le déteste, et rien ne le fera jamais changer d'avis. Ou du moins essaie-t-il de s'en convaincre. Mais lorsque le propriétaire du Jack It - le club où Sandy se produit en tant que Helena Hansbasket, drag queen - lui demande son aide en désespoir de cause, Sandy réalise qu'il devrait peut-être mettre ses sentiments pour Darren de côté. Parce que le Jack It fermera ses portes à moins que quelqu'un persuade Andrew Taylor, le maire de Tucson, de le laisser ouvert. Quelqu'un comme Darren, le fils illégitime du maire. Le plan est simple : séduire Darren et le pousser à convaincre son père de renouveler le contrat du Jack It avec la ville. Simple, n'est-ce pas ? Pas tant que ça
09/2017
Livres sonores
Mes chansons de Noël
Petit Papa Noël, Jingle Bells, Mon beau sapin, I wish you a merry Christmas, Santa Claus is coming to town, Promenade en traîneau, Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ! Tino Rossi, Frank Sinatra ou Dean Martin : 7 extraits de chansons de Noël réunis dans ce livre sonore à écouter au coin du feu ou en décorant le sapin, pour chanter avec les tout-petits et vivre la magie de Noël en musique. Des tubes incontournables en version originale. Parce qu'il n'est jamais trop tôt pour découvrir des grands interprètes, parce que certains morceaux ne vieillissent pas, parce que les chansons de Noël ont inspiré les plus grands artistes, voici 7 extraits de chansons indémodables pour se plonger dans la magie de Noël et dans l'ambiance chaleureuse des fêtes de fin d'année. Un joli boitier en forme de radio avec une poignée. Un boitier bien solide en forme de radio rétro avec 7 boutons : un joli livre-objet, facile à attraper et à emporter partout.
10/2022
Agriculture
Biodiversity and strategy.. Subtle equilibriums
Biodiversity conservation calls for a revolutionary approach to our relationship with nature and the living world. But it also requires completely rethinking the way we develop international policies and strategies. While these instruments must deal with a highly complex reality, they are too often viewed as simple action plans. Measures and initiatives that are focused on mainly technical solutions eventually result in unfortunate setbacks when the often unpredictable and ever-changing dynamics of life come into play. The United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) was held in 2022, and despite the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, it failed to produce a truly innovative approach to international 'strategy'. It is therefore more necessary than ever to reconsider the official diagnosis that underpins international action. Although certainly difficult, this can be done by mobilising a wide range of expertise from different scientific communities. Drawing on numerous examples and a wealth of research from the humanities, social sciences and conservation sciences, this book offers a profoundly renewed strategic diagnosis as well as levers for activating regenerative processes to benefit the living world.
12/2023
Monographies
Georges troubat
Le jeu, toujours recommencé, est donc infini. Assemblages, recouvrements, juxtapositions. Bleus, rouges, jaunes. Lignes, surfaces, figures. Une exposition de Georges Troubat est toujours une expérience singulière : comme un musicien avec un ensemble limité de notes, l'artiste multiplie les variations, les improvisions, offrant l'étonnante impression d'un ruissellement permanent. Cet homme a toujours été très actif dans sa vie ; rien n'est définitif, le courant nous emporte et il nous faut nager avec lui. L'acte créatif n'existe que répété puisqu'il est lié à la marche, aux mouvements du temps, aux passages des saisons, aux rythmes du monde. La peinture de Georges Troubat est vivante, au sens plein : elle régie son pas sur les impulsions du vivant. Son animation procède de la vie elle-même, à laquelle elle retourne comme un acquiescement permanent. Cet homme que l'on croit pressé est un nageur ébloui, et sa peinture témoigne pour un monde qui ne serait qu'éblouissement. The game that is started over and over, is then infinite. Assemblages, collections, juxtapositions. Blus, reds, yellows. Lines, textures, shapes. An exhibition of Georges Troubat is always a peculiar experience : just like a musician with a few limited notes, the artist multiplies the variations, improvisations, offering the astonishing feeling of an on-going flow. This man was always very active in his life, but nothing lasts forever, the flow takes us with it and we have to swim with it. The creative act only exists by repetition as it's tied to the pace, to the mouvements of time, to the passing seasons, to the world's rhythms. George Troubat's painting is alive, taking on the whole meaning of the word : it regulates its pace on the impulsion of the living. Its animation begins from life itself, to whom it goes back to, like a perpetual approbation. This man, who we think in a hurry, is a dazzling swimmer and his painting attests for a world which would only be dazzling.
03/2022
Autres collections (9 à 12 ans
La petite sorcière. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Tarentelle retombe en enfance, est-ce une bonne chose pour les autres ? Tarantella is falling back into childhood, is it a good thing for the others ?
05/2022
Couple, famille
Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Addiction
The concept of sexual addiction has gained increasing recognition in the academic and healthcare communities since the 1990s. It has also captured the attention of the media, where there has been much debate over whether it can truly be described as an addiction. What is certain is that many people struggle with out of control sexual behaviour, which takes over their lives and has harmful consequences for their relationships, careers and finances. The Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Addiction brings together a comprehensive range of perspectives on sexual addiction from a worldwide selection of scholars and therapists. It sets out to define sexual addiction and to study its causes from a range of different psychological perspectives. A series of presentations of sexual addiction are outlined, including internet sexual addiction and the relationship between paraphilias and sex addiction. The handbook considers both individual and group treatment strategies, drawing on a wide range of approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness and 12-step programmes. The book studies sex addiction in specific populations including women, adolescents and men who have sex with men. Finally, it considers some of the alternative discourses surrounding the concept of sexual addiction. This is the first comprehensive reference book to bring together global viewpoints on advances in research, theory and practice in one volume. This handbook provides an essential guide for academics and students of psychotherapy, counselling, nursing, addiction, sexualities, social work and health and social care, as well as professionals in practice and in training working with sexual addiction and related issues.
01/2021
Littérature française
Wheelchair hop on hop off
Clotilde recounts her daily life during her studies with her chronic disease, often flanked by her trustworthy wheelchair. It's not always easy to manage studies, hospitalizations, internships, and outings in a wheelchair, all of which are affected by the uncertainties of a chronic disease ! Despite the moments of discouragement and the many obstacles, it is with humour, optimism and determination that the young woman continues to lead her life, which she shares with us through her encounters and days of varying fitness. This book is an invitation to change one's view of the wheelchair and disability by discovering its joys and sorrows !
09/2021
Non classé
Agricultural Price Policy and Export and Food Production in Cameroon
This volume discusses the issue of agricultural price policy for the coffee-based farming systems in Cameroon. It presents a farming systems based analysis of the impact of different agricultural policies on food and export crop production in small mixed farming systems. The analysis shows what impact price policy and changing price relationships have on the production of coffee as well as food crops. The two major coffee-based production systems in Cameroon are modeled in a linear programming framework and the reaction of the farmers to varying price relations, institutional settings and technology changes are analyzed. It also highlights how price policy affects inter- and intrahousehold income distribution.
11/1999
Non classé
Pedagogic Design and Literary Form in the Work of Adalbert Stifter
This investigation brings to light the fundamental significance of literary form as the chief mediator of Stifter's pedagogic endeavour, an aspect so far neglected in Stifter literature. It opposes the widely held view that Stifter's pedagogic incentive is a result of the Austrian revolution of 1848. While Stifter's pedagogic thought stems primarily from his Kremsmünster education in the spirit of Josephinism, it is his increasingly sensitive and respectful involvement of the reader's perceptive powers in conveying the import which, far beyond the expression of pedagogic design in terms of moral and social maxims, reveals Stifter's originality as a pedagogic writer.
12/1986
Non classé
Exiles in Print
The book provides a complementary view of modernism by investigating Anglo-American little magazines published in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Addressing symbolic and practical aspects of physical location and international themes in the little reviews, it highlights the infrastructure of modernism – networks, finances and genealogies. The authors link activities, strategies and negotiations with the creation of modernism as we know it, as magazine editors are shown to be highly conscious of their role as canon-makers. In this rendition, modernism is intrinsically linked with its agents and practices and pushes the dividing lines between narrow elite culture and wider readerships, as well as between cosmopolites and tourists.
12/2015
Critique littéraire
Radio pluralism in West Africa
RADIO PLURALISM IN WEST AFRICAThe present survey has been compiled from a project regarding radio broadcasting pluralism in West Africa. This project is part of Regional Programme of the Paris Panos Institute. It includes research as well as a back up plan for the development of radio broadcasting pluralism in West Africa. This survey covers ECOWAS 16 member-countries with the exception of Liberia which is excluded for political reasons. It has been monitored by a committee of participants who are all interested, for various reasons, in the development of radio broadcasting pluralism in West Africa. Surveys were carried out by african journalists and researchers.
09/1993
Documentaires jeunesse
Paris au fil du temps
Who made Paris the way it is ? What were the major phases of its construction ? How did Paris adapt to modern times and its growing population ? Discover the Gallo-Roman city of Lutetia, explore the filthy alleys of medieval Paris, admire the royal squares classical era, join the crowds in the Belly of Paris, stroll down the spacious Haussmanian boulevards... This book is an invitation to wander through the different eras that have made Paris the city it is today. With flaps that fold down, panels that open up, wheels to turn, mini-books to flip through, and panoramas to behold on every page !
05/2015
Non classé
Simon de Puille
The first critical edition of the complete text of a long-neglected Chanson de geste, revealing it to be an early and important contribution to the cycle du roi.
12/1987
Anglais apprentissage
J'apprends l'anglais en chansons. Avec 1 CD audio MP3
Des chansons amusantes, facilement mémorisables, pour apprendre l'anglais dès le plus jeune âge ! Des chansons inédites et des mélodies très actuellesque l'enfant aimera écouter en boucle sur son CD et qu'il saura vite mémoriser. Chaque chanson, tendre ou drôle, permet d'acquérir sans effortune expression de base en anglais : It is, Is it ? What is it ? I am, You are, He is, She is, They are... Plus de 140 images sur des thèmes variés (le corps, les vêtements, les jouets, les animaux, les chiffres, les couleurs...) à découvrir par l'enfant et à nommeren anglais grâce au CD audio qui donne l'exacte prononciation des mots. Des jeux d'écoute et de répétition associés à des activités de coloriagepour que l'apprentissage de l'anglais demeure avant tout un plaisir. Des thèmes attrayants et des illustrations colorées Et aussi, pour les parents : tous les textes et traductions des chansons ; un mini-mémo avec les différentes formesde la conjugaison du verbe " être " (to be) au présent ; un mini-dictionnaire donnant la traductiondes mots de l'ouvrage. Un cahier tout en couleurs pour bien apprendre à écrire.
01/2021
Anglais apprentissage
Young Learners
Resource Books for Teachers give guidance on the key aspects of language teaching, and provide examples and discussion of actual classroom materials and techniques. This new primary sub-series, in a larger format, specifically addresses the needs of primary teachers, teacher trainers, and trainee teachers. Each book contains guidance for the teacher, 6o to 100 activities for primary children, and up to 20 photocopiable worksheets. The activities are explained clearly and simply, with aims, age range, and level clearly laid out. Young Learners is based on the principle that primary teachers of English have a much wider responsibility than the simple teaching of the language system. The English class is not only a place where children learn English ; it also forms part of their whole education. This book provides teachers with a rich source of ideas for English lessons. It contains ideas and materials for activities such as making posters, books, and cards ; making and playing with board games and puppets, as well as drama, songs, and stories. It includes helpful hints for teachers new to young Learners, for instance on the use of English in the classroom, and feedback from learners.
01/1993
Théâtre
Le gendre idéal
Quand on a abandonné sa fiancée un an auparavant à quelques jours du mariage en lui laissant pour toute explication un post-it sur le réfrigérateur, mieux vaut ne jamais revenir…
11/2016
Non classé
The Phenomenology of Freedom in Kleist's Die Familie Schroffenstein</I> and "Penthesilea</I>"
This study describes from an ontological perspective the foundation of freedom in two of Kleist's dramas. The novelty of this approach lies in the author's departure from the ontic considerations of freedom characterizing traditional Kleist scholarship. The present study advocates a de-construction of Kleist's concept of freedom back to its ontological basis : freedom is a cooperative enterprise of man and his situation. It is the author's contention that freedom in Kleist's works, rather than being defined by "a priori" categories, ensues primarily from the situation wherein it is being enacted. Man's relation to this situation is explored in a universal (Schroffenstein) and particular (Penthesilea) environment.
12/1982
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Un âne couleur café
Bien décidée à placer le plus de kilomètres entre son histoire familiale douloureuse et elle, Gabrielle, 22 ans, quitte Annecy et sa Savoir natale pour s'installer à Dunkerque. Au fil des jours, elle découvre, enchantée, une ville et une région bien éloignées des habituels clichés. Quand elle se retrouve engagée au It Coffee, une nouvelle vie commence. Car travailler dans ce coffee shop, ce n'est pas seulement être exposée toute la journée à des bagels et des brookies, c'est également intégrer une équipe de jeunes femmes investies et attachantes. Devenir une It Girl, pour Gabrielle, c'est être adoptée par une deuxième famille. Et peut-être y trouver l'amour de sa vie ?
03/2021
Thèmes photo
Contemplation. Edition bilingue français-anglais
"Contemplation" est un clin d'oeil à la pratique toltèque éponyme. Bien qu'il n'en soit pas explicitement question ici, certaines photographies s'y prêtent à merveille ! Je ne suis pas photographe, j'aime parcourir mes albums photos depuis presque 20 ans et certains clichés me plongent systématiquement dans une humeur différente et le monde change. "Gazing" is a wink to the namesake Toltec practice. Although it is not explicitly discussed here, some of the pictures are perfect for it ! I'm not a photographer, I've been enjoying looking at my photo albums for almost 20 years and some shots always put me in a different mood and the world changes.
10/2022
Rock
Faire carrière dans le punk. La scène DIY
Le "Do It Yoursefl" (DIY) dans le punk définit à la fois une scène punk à part entière et une scène punk entièrement à part. L'ouvrage donne toutes les clés d'artistes pro qui refusent de "faire carrière" au nom de l'authenticité punk. - Un ouvrage sur une thèmatique clé de la scène punk : le Do It Yourself (DIY) où tout est bricolé, en opposition aux catégories artistiques et professionnelles, - Une nouvelle approche de l'Underground vs le Mainstream - Un auteur jeune chercheur de l'Université de Bordeaux, qui a contribué au lexique franco-punk Punk is not dead (éditions Nova, 2019). - le 8e titre de la collection "En marge ! " dirigée par Luc Robène et Solveig Serre
07/2023
Livres-jeux
Mon coffret secret licorne
Un coffret licorne super tendance ! Il contient un carnet secret qui se ferme avec cadenas, et de la jolie papeterie licorne : un écusson thermocollant, des autocollants, des post-it, des stylos, du masking tape.
09/2023
Monographies
Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick. Plays, Painting and Performance
In London in 1770 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) remarked, 'What a work could be written on Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick ! There is something similar in the genius of all three. ' Two-and-a-half centuries on, Robin Simon's highly original and illuminating book takes up the challenge. William Hogarth (1697-1764) and David Garrick (1717-1779) closely associated themselves with Shakespeare, embodying a relationship between plays, painting and performance that had been understood since Antiquity and which shaped the rules for history painting drawn up by the Académie royale in Paris in the seventeenth century. History painting was considered the highest form of art : a picture illustrating a moment drawn from just a few lines in a revered text. Hogarth's David Garrick as Richard III (1745) transformed those ideas because, although it looked like a history painting, it was also a portrait of an actor in performance. With it, Hogarth established the genre of theatrical portraiture, a new and distinctively British kind of history painting. This book offers a fresh examination of theatrical portraits through close analysis of the pictures and of the texts used in performance. It also examines the central role of the theatre in British culture, while highlighting the significance of Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick in the European Enlightenment and the rise of Romanticism. In this context another trio of genius features prominently : Lichtenberg, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Denis Diderot. Familiar paintings and performances are seen in an entirely new light, while unfamiliar pictures are also introduced, including major paintings and drawings that have never been published. The final chapter shows that the inter-relationship between plays, painting and performance survived into the age of cinema, revealing the pictorial sources of Laurence Olivier's legendary film Richard III.
06/2023
Non classé
From the village to presidential suite, my life journey
I did not intend to write a scholarly book, for I did not want to intellectualize my life. Nor did I wish to romanticize it. I wanted to describe it as I lived it, with emphasis on people. I wanted to express in this book the joy I experienced in giving generously of myself, my time, and my modest material possessions, to make others happy and to share the many gifts of life. I wanted also to share with those who aspire to become academic leaders the myriad lessons my upbringing, education, and professional life have taught me. I thought they might find these lessons learned useful, as they strive for successful careers and, more importantly, for rewarding personal and professional lives. Again, this book is a story, the story of my life, wherein the personal and the professional have intermingled and strengthened each other, making a better whole of my person, personality, aspirations, and talents. This unique alliance between the professional and the personal dimensions of my life, I am happy to say, always triumphed and accounted for the successes that so many good people helped me achieve. Without the guidance, advice, cooperation, and support of others, I am sure my life would not have been as fulfilling.
08/2022
Religion
The Dramatic Encounter of Divine and Human Freedom in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar
This book surveys the major theological writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar from the perspective of the relationship between finite and infinite freedom. The first part examines Balthasar's early treatment of the question in the context of the analogy of being. The second part concentrates on his more mature work, the Theological Dramatics, with its understanding of the relationship between finite and infinite freedom in terms of a 'dramatic encounter' in which, controversially, human freedom is thought to actively participate in an ever-greater exchange of love in God. But this book is more than a survey. Observing the persistence of the 'analogy of proportionality' within the Dramatics leads the author in the third part to a critique of Balthasar's thought. It is argued that the continuation of the earlier perspective explains Balthasar's emphasis on the freedom of the individual to the neglect of social structures and their transformation. While the 'historical' as such is not neglected, as some claim it is, the focus is on the history of the individual and his or her relationship with God. It is therefore contended that Balthasar's theology of the Trinity is more concerned with 'interpersonal' relationships than truly 'social' ones and that this is what inhibits a fruitful dialogue with social theologies.
11/1999
Pédagogie
L'Arbre du savoir-apprendre, vers un référentiel cognitif. The Art of Learning and the Knowledge Tree, Toward a Cognitive Framework, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Je suis, pour ma part, convaincue que le rôle essentiel du monde éducatif dans son ensemble est de permettre, par une véritable présence, l'émergence chez tous les partenaires de la situation d'apprentissage, de leur propre questionnement qui ouvre l'espace intérieur sur notre capacité matricielle, celui qui met en mouvement les co-acteurs, la personne en formation et ceux qui l'accompagnent, vers un lieu où il leur est possible d'actualiser leur potentiel. ... Si le questionnement est la véritable sève de l'arbre du savoir-apprendre, les différents acteurs de la situation de formation ne peuvent plus en faire l'économie pour leur propre parcours. I, for one, am convinced that the essential role of all the educational actors, through a genuine presence to each other, is to enable the emergence of personal inquiry which contributes to the opening up of our learning space. It also sets in motion the co-actors, the learner and those who accompany that learner toward a place where it is possible to actualize their own potential. ... If inquiry is the true sap of the tree of knowledge, the different actors in the educational setting can no longer do without it on their own journey.
03/2022
Physique, chimie
What is energy?
The word 'energy' was used to confuse me. I know that energy is. It is the capacity of a physical system to perform work, the ability to do work. Work is moving something against a force. I also know that without energy life cannot exist. At the same time, I could not picture Energy in my mind to better understand what it is. This book is design to given you a concrete understandasing of that energy is. Remember in reallity, no one can see, touch or observe energy. We can only constact the presence of energy by mouvement, motion and mesure it by its speed. We shall use this opportunity to introduce you to a pattern, the geometric shape torus that holds the key to the fuel of the future, to the world that works for everyone - Clean and universal energy. I consider the torus to be the best ever explanation of our evolutionary process. Evolution means to enfold, to roll out. The question is what the universe is rolling out ? I realised that we are not a mistake, we are simply mistaken. We have been blended to our brilliance, ignorance to our genius, unaware of our true power and magnificence. The Torus, the Zero Point Energy Field = Creation Story
01/2016
