Lobbyst. Revelations from the EU Labyrinth, 2e édition
Extraits
Géographie
HUAHINE : Une île en polynésie / An island in french Polynesia
Située à 175 km de Tahiti, 45 km de Raiatea l'île voisine, et 82 km de Bora Bora l'île chère à Paul-Emile Victor, Huahine est qualifiée de rebelle, sauvage, authentique, autant par les touristes qui y séjournent que par le peuple polynésien lui-même. Autour de légendes du temps passé et de photographies d'aujourd'hui, découvrez au fil de ces pages une perle de la Polynésie. Located 175 km North from Tahiti, 45 km East from the neighbouring island Raiatea, and 82 km from Bora Bora the island cherished by Paul-Emile Victor, Huahine is qualified as rebel, wild and authentic, bot from the polynesian people and the tourists who come to visit it. In this book through legends from the past and photographs from nowadays, you will discover this gem from french Polynesia.
04/2013
Torah
La bibliothèque de Qumrân. Tome 1, Torah-Genèse, édition bilingue des manuscrits
A bilingual edition of the manuscripts published on the initiative of André Paul, directed by Katell Berthelot, Thierry Legrand and André Paul. Texts, translations, introductions and notes from an international team of French-speaking researchers. We thank the Centre national du livre for their support of this publication.
10/2008
Cuisine des chefs
French Boulangerie. Recipes and techniques from the Ferrandi School of culinary arts
This complete baking course provides FERRANDI Paris's expertise for preparing delicious breads and viennoiserie-French baked goods traditionally enjoyed for breakfast, including the iconic croissant. This book is the perfect complement to FERRANDI Paris's best-selling French Pâtisserie, which covers baked desserts. Aspiring and confirmed bakers will : Acquire essential kitchen skills for more than 40 culinary techniques, explained in 220 step-by-step photographs, to make homemade poolish ; refresh levain ; knead, shape, and score loaves ; laminate butter ; prepare puff pastry ; or braid brioche dough. Prepare more than 80 sweet and savory recipes for breakfasts and snacks, including French classics and modern creations : brioche, cruffins, babka, kouign-amann, beignets, kougelhopf, baguettes, country bread, grissini, pastrami bagels, croque-monsieurs, and more.
11/2023
Sciences de la terre et de la
A thin cosmic rain : particles from outer space
Enigmatic for many years, cosmic rays are now known to be not rays at all, but particles, the nuclei of atoms, raining down continually on the earth, where they can be detected throughout the atmosphere and sometimes even thousands of feet underground. This book tells the long-running detective story behind the discovery and study of cosmic rays, a story that stretches from the early days of subatomic particle physics in the 1890s to the frontiers of high-energy astrophysics today.
01/2000
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
Critique littéraire
Bibliothèque. Tome 1, Codices 1-83, Edition bilingue français-grec ancien
Lettre à Tarasius 1 Théodore, 2 Adrien, 3 Nonnosos, 4 Théodore d'Antioche, 5 Sophronios, 6-7 Grégoire de Nysse, 8 Origène, 9-13 Eusèbe, 14 Apollinaire, 15-20 Synodes, 21 Philopon, 22 Théodose, 23 Conon, 24 Sur Philopon, 25 Jean Chrysostome, 26 Synésius, 27 Eusèbe, 28 Socrate de Constantinople, 29 Evagre, 30 Sozomène, 31 Théodoret de Cyr, 32 Athanase, 33 Justus, 34 Africanus, 35 Philippe, 36 Livre du Chrétien, 37 Sur la politique, 38 Théodore, 39 Eusèbe, 40 Philostorge, 41 Jean d'Egée, 42 Basile, 43 Philopon, 44 Philostrate, 45 Andronicianus, 46 Théodoret de Cyr, 47-48 Josèphe, 49 Cyrille, 50 Nicias, 51 Hésychius, 52 Synode de Sidè, 53-54 Synode contre Pélage et Céleste, 55 Philopon, 56 Théodoret, 57 Appien, 58 Arrien, 59 Synode du chêne, 60 Hérodote, 61 Eschine, 62 Praxagoras, 63 Procope, 64 Théophane, 65 Théophylacte, 66 Nicéphore, 67 Serge, 68 Céphalion, 69 Hésychius, 70 Diodore, 71 Dion Cassius, 72 Ctésias, 73 Héliodore, 74 Thémistius, Lesbonax, 75 Philopon, 76 Josèphe, 77 Eunape, 78 Malchus, 79 Candidus, 80 Olympiodore, 81 Théodore, 82 Dexippe, 83 Denys d'Halicarnasse
01/1959
Mathématiques
ORIENTED MATROIDS. Second Edition
Oriented matroids are a very natural mathematical concept which prescrits itself in many different guises and which has connections and applications to many different areas. These include discrete and computational geometry, combinatorics, convexity, topology, algebraic geometry, operations research, computer science and theoretical chemistry. This is the first comprehensive, accessible account of the subject. It is intended for a diverse audience: graduate students who wish to learn the subject from scratch, researchers in the various fields of application who want to concentrate on certain aspects of the theory; specialists who need a thorough reference work; and others at points in between. A list of exercises and open problems ends each chapter.
For the second edition, the authors have expanded the bibliography greatly to ensure that it remains comprehensive and
up-to-date, and they have also added an appendix surveying research since the work was first published.
01/1999
Ouvrages généraux
The Small Catechism. Luther's Little Instruction Book
This annotated edition of ""Martin Luther's Small Catechism"" includes an extra appendix (in addition to the two already included in the original book) which provides an interesting overview of : Martin Luther's peasant roots, his education in pre-law, and how he was diverted from a law career to that of a monk-turned-professor and eventually, Protestant reformer, The role of the printing press in spreading the ""95 Theses"" quickly over Europe, catapulting Martin Luther to near-instant prominence in the religious dialogue of his day, The story of how Martin Luther colluded with a fishmonger to smuggle his future wife and her friends away from a convent, and Martin Luther's impact on the Protestant Reformation as well as modern religious thought. Martin Luther wrote the small catechism as an easy teaching tool for both individuals and families. Though penned close to five centuries ago, Luther's brief, clear summary of the essentials of Christian faith still ring true today. Topics covered include the Ten Commandments, the ""Creed"", the Lord's Prayer, and the sacraments of baptism and the altar. Ideas and instructions are also included for morning and evening devotions and giving thanks at mealtime. This little catechism, still widely used within the Lutheran Church, has gems of truth that many Christians will find to be both instructive and inspirational--regardless of denomination. Though few in words, it provides a wonderful explanation that has helped many to both learn the basics of Christian doctrine and apply them in a practical way to their lives.
11/2022
Décoration
Full-Color Floral Designs in the Art Nouveau Style
E. A. Seguy was one of the foremost French designers of the first third of the twentieth century. He produced many splendid albums of designs over a long and distinguished career. This book reproduces in full color 40 plates from the two color portfolios called Les fleurs et leurs applications décoratives [c. 1902] - one of the high points in Art Nouveau design.
The 40 plates included here contain 166 decorative Art Nouveau patterns. Lacy and delicate interpretations of flowers ranging from arum and arrowhead to water lily and wisteria, these patterns offer such color combinations as a blue-petaled flower with green leaves on a mustard background, salmon-colored flower with robin's-egg-blue leaves on a beige field, and royal-blue flowers with golden leaves on golden stems silhouetted in light blue-green on a deep blue-green field. The colors in this volume are strong and bold, prefiguring such later influences as Persian art and the Ballets Russes. Twenty of the plates in the original portfolios contained ordinary realistic renderings of 30 plants, and they have been omitted from this volume.
The wide variety of flat designs are perfect for textiles, wallpapers, and packaging, and offer many ideas for mosaics, stained glass, rugs and bookbindings. Containing borders, circular designs, repeats, allovers, and "spots," this collection has something to interest everyone in the graphics field.
01/1977
Petits classiques parascolaire
Ulysse from Bagdad
Saad, jeune Irakien, quitte son pays natal en plein chaos pour rejoindre l'Angleterre, synonyme d'avenir et de liberté. Tel un Ulysse des temps modernes, il se lance dans une odyssée au cours de laquelle il affrontera tempêtes, naufrages et désillusions, mais restera toujours porté par l'espoir. Cette épopée moderne, aux niveaux de langue multiples et riche de références à L'Odyssée d'Homère, parvient à mêler drame et légèreté sur un thème pourtant douloureux : le déracinement et la clandestinité. Ce très beau texte permettra ainsi aux élèves de mieux comprendre ce sujet d'une actualité vibrante qui ne peut laisser personne indifférent. L'appareil pédagogique complet est suivi d'une interview exclusive d'Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt.
06/2017
Poches Littérature internation
Miles from nowhere
Joon et ses parents ont quitté la Corée pour s'installer en Amérique, à la recherche d'une vie meilleure. Mais le rêve a mal tourné, l'ambiance familiale est devenue insoutenable, et l'adolescente a fui pour vivre dans les rues de New York. D'une voix pudique et tendre, Joon raconte son quotidien famélique, l'errance de foyers en squats, les instants de grâce qu'elle partage avec son amie Knowledge, et New York, dont l'architecture grandiose et lumineuse semble se refermer sur elle comme un piège.
07/2012
Musique
From Either Side
C'est à une rencontre imaginaire entre l'univers de Johnny Cash et le swing de Django Reinhardt que nous convie le guitariste-chanteur David Gastine. Epaulé par deux solistes de premier plan, l'harmoniciste Vincent Bucher (coup de coeur de l'Académie Charles Cros 2021) et le guitariste Samy Daussat, David Gastine nous embarque, de sa chaude voix de baryton, dans un voyage musical qui nous mène de part et d'autre des deux rives de l'Atlantique.
06/2022
Divers
Hugo Pratt, la traversée du labyrinthe. Edition revue et augmentée
L'univers d'Hugo Pratt intrigue et fascine. Jean-Claude Guilbert, ami intime et compagnon d'aventure du père de Corto Maltese, rend ici un hommage tant attendu à ce grand créateur du XXe siècle. A l'instar de Corto Maltese, son personnage emblématique, Hugo Pratt est un mystère. Son univers où se mélangent sources d'inspiration livresques et destins réels de perdants magnifiques, plongés dans des aventures improbables aux marges de la grande histoire, est si touffu et si codé que ses très nombreux fans ne cessent de s'interroger sur les tenants et les aboutissants des choses. Intime du grand Hugo, Jean-Claude Guilbert nous convie ici à un voyage qui est bien plus qu'une évocation biographique. D'une originalité affirmée, illustré de nombreux documents inédits, cet ouvrage est à bien des égards LE livre définitif consacré à l'un des génies les plus influents de la BD. " Dans une biographie éclairante, Jean-Claude Guilbert rend hommage à son ami et "maître' " (Le Figaro littéraire). " C'est d'une main de maître que Guilbert nous entraîne dans l'univers poétique et les secrets de l'auteur et dessinateur de génie qui domine l'histoire de la bande dessinée " (Lire).
10/2021
Non classé
Dislocated Identities
This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century : Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas' writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition. Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas' writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland – always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists' identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas' writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus.
04/2012
Monographies
My Louvre. 21 prints for a picture-perfect home
This volume presents an expertly curated selection of paintings, portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes, from among the masterpieces of the world-renowned Louvre museum-from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Eugène Delacroix's July 28 : Liberty Leading the People. Iconic works by painterly masters such as Sandro Botticelli, Hieronymus Bosch, Caravaggio, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Jacques Louis David are reproduced in this collection of twenty-one high-quality, easily detachable prints, to be displayed alone or grouped together to create your very own Louvre at home. Charles Delaville's text on the back of each print provides the keys to understanding the work of art and the artist's life. Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Director of Interpretation and Cultural Programs at the Louvre, contributes a foreword.
09/2021
Religion
Like Man, Like Woman
Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as ‘other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men : the same qualities and abilities pertaining to the domains of parenthood, intellect and morals are ascribed by writers to women as well as to men. There are two voices, however : a traditional, ideal voice and an individual, realistic voice. This creates a duality of representations of women, which recurs across literary genres and reflects a duality of mentality. How can we interpret the paradoxical information about Roman women given by the male-authored texts ? How does this duality of mentality inform us about gender roles and gender hierarchy ? This work analyses well-known, as well as overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal and sheds new light on Roman views of women and their abilities, on the notions of private and public and on conjugal relationships. In the process, the famous sixth satire of Juvenal is revisited and its topic reassessed, providing further insights into the complex issues of gender roles, marriage and emotions. By contrasting representations of women across a broad spectrum of literary genres, this book provides consistent findings that have wide significance for the study of Latin literature and the social history of the late first and early second centuries.
07/2013
Romans policiers
Le feu de la révélation
Mais que fait Marie-Lou la journaliste tapie dans un sous-bois, à scruter les abords d'un monastère perdu des Alpes de Haute-Provence ? Emportée par sa curiosité et son goût pour l'investigation, la jeune femme se retrouve mêlée à une nouvelle enquête qui risque de bouleverser sa vie tant professionnelle que privée. L'incendie de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris en 2019 a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, et la brigade criminelle de la Préfecture de Police n'a pas ménagé ses efforts pour n'aboutir... qu'à l'origine accidentelle du sinistre. Mais toutes les options ont-elles vraiment été fouillées ? Aiguillée puis associée aux plus fins limiers de la PJ, la journaliste va tenter de découvrir une vérité qui n'est pas toujours bonne à dévoiler. Dans un véritable jeu de piste tant géographique que sémantique, Marie-Lou et Julien un jeune lieutenant de Police, vont s'égarer un temps avant de peut-être trouver... et se trouver !
03/2022
Histoire internationale
Accomplices
This volume asserts that there was tacit cooperation in the Nazi extermination of the Jewish population of Europe by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Second World War. Although the Allies publicly recognized the Nazi massacre of the Jews in the London Declaration of December 17, 1942, the policies they pursued allowed the genocide to continue. They did so, the author claims, in three ways : (1) refusal to publicly and personally speak about and against the Nazi extermination of the Jews ; (2) refusal to commit even one soldier, one plane, or one warship to any forcible opposition to the "Final Solution" throughout the Second World War ; and (3) obstruction of Jewish escape from Hitler's Europe. This book explores the motivation for the policies Churchill and Roosevelt pursued.
06/2011
Suédois
Petit vocabulaire actuel suédois
Tout le vocabulaire essentiel pour s'exprimer en suédois ! Cet ouvrage propose le vocabulaire d'aujourd'hui en suédois. Il permet de lire et de s'exprimer sur des sujets d'actualités ou des faits de société, mais également de réviser le vocabulaire de base sur tous les sujets essentiels. Il comprend 36 chapitres, 5500 mots et de nombreuses phrases de mise en contexte. TDM : 1. Le corps humain, 2. Les cinq sens et la parole, 3. Les sentiments, 4. La pensée et la volonté, 5. L'habitat, 6. Chez soi, 7. Les vêtements, 8. La nourriture, 9. La famille, 10. Education, 11. La santé, 12. Compter et mesurer, 13. Repères temporels, 14. Sports et jeux, 15. La littérature, la musique et la peinture, 16. Télévision, cinéma, multimédias, 17. La Presse, 18. Informatique et Internet, 19. L'environnement, 20. La planète Terre, 21. Le climat, 22. Les animaux, 23. Les végétaux, 24. L'agriculture, 25. Les voyages, 26. Pays et nationalités, 27. La ville, 28. Le monde du travail, 29. Magasins et achats, 30. Les affaires, 31. L'industrie, 32. Politique et citoyenneté, 33. Justice et liberté, 34. L'immigration, 35. Les forces armées, 36. Culte et religion Pour cette nouvelle édition, toute une série d'exercices et leurs corrigés ont été ajoutés en fin d'ouvrage, pour permettre une meilleure assimilation du vocabulaire présenté dans chaque thème.
08/2022
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Thinking about Physics
Physical scientists are problem solvers. They are comfortable "doing" science: they find problems, solve them, and explain their solutions. Roger Newton believes that his fellow physicists might be too comfortable with their roles as solvers of problems. He argues that physicists should spend more time thinking about physics. If they did, he believes, they would become even more skilled at solving problems and "doing" science. As Newton points out in this thought-provoking book, problem solving is always influenced by the theoretical assumptions of the problem solver. Too often, though, he believes, physicists haven't subjected their assumptions to thorough scrutiny. Newton's goal is to provide a framework within which the fundamental theories of modem physics can be explored, interpreted, and understood.
"Surely physics is more than a collection of experimental results, assembled to satisfy the curiosity of appreciative experts," Newton writes. Physics, according to Newton, has moved beyond the describing and naming of curious phenomena, which is the goal of some other branches of science. Physicists have spent a great part of the twentieth century searching for explanations of experimental findings. Newton agrees that experimental facts are vital to the study of physics, but only because they lead to the development of a theory that can explain them. Facts, he argues, should undergird theory.
Newton's explanatory sweep is both broad and deep. He covers such topics as quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, field theory, thermodynamics, the role of mathematics in physics, and the concepts of probability and causality. For Newton the fundamental entity in quantum theory is the field, from which physicists can explain the particle-like and wave-like properties that are observed in experiments. He grounds his explanations in the quantum field.
Although this is not designed as a standalone textbook, it is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and researchers. This is a clear, concise, up-to-date book about the concepts and theories that underlie the study of contemporary physics. Readers will find that they will become better-informed physicists and, therefore, better thinkers and problem solvers, too.
01/2000
Non classé
Beyond the Zeus Principle
Patriarchal rule, termed "Zeus Principle" by Günter Grass, has always been resisted and transcended. A central area for this resistance is the continual change in gender roles. Most notedly, around 1800 the notion of equality revolutionized the concept of love, a process that can be best understood as a complex interrelationship between literature and society. By illustrating the rise and fall of Romantic Love from Romanticism via Realism to Modernism, this book provides the foundation for an examination of how German novels between 1959 and 1989 respond in form and content to "familial allegiances" in a fatherless society. The comprehensive survey of almost one hundred novels, including an in-depth analysis of twelve key novels, is founded in a Critical Social Psychology and supports the central hypothesis of a (re)turn of Romantic Love in contemporary literature.
05/1993
Beaux arts
Voir double. Pièges et révélations du visible
Ce livre se propose d'explorer le vaste champ constitué par l' " image double " sur une période qui va de l'Antiquité à nos jours. L'expression désigne des catégories variées : image composite, image cachée, image naturelle, image potentielle, anamorphose, etc. A travers une centaine d'exemples, le livre envisage la manière dont les artistes ont exploité, selon les situations historiques et culturelles, les possibilités formelles et sémantiques des images doubles. En s'opposant à la doxa, ces images visent à surprendre, intriguer et solliciter le spectateur. La période couverte compte des temps forts - la Renaissance et la période contemporaine - qui correspondent aux moments et aux lieux où le recours à l'image double a été d'une intensité et d'une importance particulières. Dans l'art de la Renaissance, la présence fréquente de l'image double renvoie à une pensée marquée par l'analogie et l'anthropomorphisme, par le goût pour le paradoxe et l'énigme, par la réflexion morale sur les apparences trompeuses. A l'époque moderne et contemporaine, l'utilisation de l'ambiguïté et de la polysémie visuelles manifeste une réflexivité de l'image et participe d'une transformation de la communication esthétique, au terme de laquelle ce sont, selon la formule célèbre de Duchamp, les regardeurs qui font les tableaux. La sélection propose un éventail d'images et d'objets très divers non seulement par leur date et leur provenance mais aussi par leurs fonctions et statuts originels, de l'image de culte à la caricature en passant par le tableau de cabinet : comment rendre justice à ces différences tout en mettant au jour les modèles, les procédés, voire les mécanismes qui les traversent ? L'ouvrage propose d'analyser, outre des exemples inédits, quelques chefs-d'oeuvre envisagés pour la première fois sous l'angle de l'image double : La Mort de saint François de Giotto, la Madone Bardi de Botticelli, L'Escamoteur de Jérôme Bosch, la Vénus de Goltzius, Le Nu allongé de Bonnard, Le Rêve de Picasso. Spécialistes de périodes et aires culturelles variées - arts premiers, Antiquité, Moyen Age, Renaissance, période moderne, art contemporain -, les auteurs ont récemment réorienté le débat sur ce type d'images en l'envisageant dans une perspective historique et théorique large. Les essais introductifs de Michel Weemans, Dario Gamboni et Jean-Hubert Martin abordent les mécanismes de perception mis en oeuvre par l'image double, sa récurrence à travers les époques et les cultures.
09/2016
Sciences historiques
Les révélations de la mémoire
Evocation de cinq ou six souvenirs de la vie de l'auteur, revenus à sa mémoire d'une manière aussi simple qu'inattendue et qui l'ont amenée à vouloir comprendre l'éblouissement et l'émerveillement qu'ils ont provoqués en elle. Elle se demande alors : Le temps dans lequel nous vivons est-il le seul ? Y en a-t-il un autre que nous ne voyons pas et qui serait d'une autre nature ?
11/2010
Monographies
Hardy's Wessex. The landscapes that inspired a writer
This fascinating book tells the story of Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Accompanying a multi-venue exhibition, it explores Hardy's life and work. Internationally-acclaimed writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is best known for his evocative depictions of the West Country landscape and its people, a region that he called 'Wessex'. What is less well-known is that this landscape also inspired him in many other aspects of his life, from campaigning for animal welfare to questioning the way society viewed women. This publication accompanies a blockbuster, multi-venue exhibition of the largest collection of Thomas Hardy memorabilia ever to be displayed at once. Hardy was born in the West Country, a few years after Queen Victoria came to the throne, and spent most of the rest of his life among its landscapes and people. When he turned writer, these landscapes and people re-emerged as his 'partly-real, partlydream country' of Wessex, in novels like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure. 'Hardy's Wessex' now conjures up a range of mental images : from raging seas on the coast to haunting ancient monuments, Victorian towns packed with life to peaceful hillsides grazed by sheep. However, through Hardy's 87-year life span, the West Country changed dramatically. Ideas of the role of women, humans' responsibility to animals, the realities of war, love and courtship, superstition, social structure, religion and how people related to the world around them altered fundamentally. Through his stories and campaigning, Hardy was keen to show not only the rural idyll, but also the tensions and diffi culties that lay beneath these views. These dramatic landscapes were the lens through which Hardy presented his worldview to his readership. From the tragedy of a woman saying farewell to her sailorlover on the end of Portland Bill, to a shepherd losing his flock and facing ultimate ruin on the chalky hills. The landscapes shape his characters, whose stories in turn convey his messages of social change to his readers. This publication will explore the impact that Wessex had on Hardy's works, and how living there shaped his views on the often divisive social issues of the period. Uniting beautiful landscape imagery with a selection of personal items from Hardy's life, this book will show you the man behind the literature.
06/2022
Bâteaux
Un week-end à Granville pour les cent ans de la goélette Marité
Le 24 juin 1923, le trois-mâts goélette Marité est béni par l'abbé Lecadre au port de Fécamp. Les 24 et 25 juin 2023, le dernier terre-neuvier français fête son centenaire dans le port de Granville. Au départ, Marité est un dundee harenguier, une refonte du navire est nécessaire pour le tranformer en terre-neuvier, en trois-mâts conçu afin d'embarquer 24 hommes et une douzaine de doris. Marité a pratiqué la pêche à la morue sur les bans de Terre-Neuve de 1924 à 1929 au cours de cinq campagnes, ramenant pour chacune d'elles entre 100 et 160 tonnes de morues. On 24 june 1923, the three-masted schooner Marité was blessed by abbé Lecadre in the port of Fécamp. On 24 and 25 June 2023, the last French Newfoundlander will celebrate her centenary in the port of Granville. Initially, Marité was a herring dundee, but the ship had to be refitted to transform her into a three-masted terre-neuvier designed to carry 24 men and a dozen dories. Marité fished for cod on the banks of Newfounland from 1924 to 1929 during five campaigns, bringing in between 100 to 160 tonnes of cod each.
07/2023
Non classé
The Peoples of the Jos Plateau, Nigeria
From an investigation of the way of life of the inhabitants of this little-known region, the author attempts to deduce and evaluate the system of thought which governs, at least implicitly, the life-style of the tribal people in question. The significance of the highly spiritual quality of their mental attitudes is discussed from the philosophical angle.
12/1979
Droit
Porosités du droit. Textes en français et anglais
Comment penser un monde juridique transnational sinon comme composé de droits poreux ? Nous avons recueilli les réflexions de juristes qui sont professeurs, avocats et chercheurs de nombre de pays. Ils nous offrent des idées tantôt théoriques et abstraites, tantôt pragmatiques et concrètes. Nous les avons laissés parler en anglais ou en français plutôt que de les traduire, estimant que la compréhension de l'autre commence par l'écoute de sa voix. / How can one conceive of global legal transnationalism except as constituted by legal porosity ? This book brings together the perspectives of lawyers who are professors, practitioners and researchers from numerous countries. They offer ideas, as the case may be, theoretical and abstract, or pragmatic and specific. They speak in French or English rather than in translation, so that we may listen to them in their own voices.
01/2021
Sciences de la terre et de la
CARDANO'S COSMOS. The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer
GIROLAMO CARDANO was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe. He was also a leading astrologer of his day, whose predictions won him access to some of the most powerful people in sixteenth-century Europe. In Cardano's Cosmos, Anthony Grafton invites readers to follow this astrologer's extraordinary career and explore the art and discipline of astrology in the hands of a brilliant practitioner.
Renaissance astrologers predicted everything from the course of the future of humankind to the risks of a single investment, or even the weather. They analyzed the bodies and characters of countless clients, from rulers to criminals, and enjoyed widespread respect and patronage. This book traces Cardano's contentions career from his first astrological pamphlet through his rise to high-level consulting and his remarkable autobiographical works. Delving into astrological principles and practices, Grafton shows how Cardano and his contemporaries adapted the ancient art for publication and marketing in a new era of print media and changing science. He maps the context of market and human forces that shaped Cardano's practices-and the maneuvering that kept him at the top of a world rife with patronage, politics, and vengeful rivals.
Cardano's astrology, argues Grafton, was a profoundly empirical and highly influential art, one that was integral to the attempts of sixteenth-century scholars to understand their universe and themselves.
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Agenda 2024 - Explorations & Révélations
Bienvenue à toi dans cet agenda qui sera ton compagnon intérieur pour l'année 2024. Pour cette nouvelle année, j'ai décidé de t'accompagner au fil des semaines en te proposant un agenda ludique et complet, riche en exercices, en conseils, en questions et en guidances. Chaque début de mois commence par " L'acceptation d'une blessure ou d'un blocage ", un exercice qui t'aidera à découvrir les facettes de ta personnalité et à créer une nouvelle harmonie intérieure et un nouveau bien-être. Tu découvriras aussi des ateliers de pleines et de nouvelles lunes. Pour les accompagner, tu trouveras également une méditation guidée qui te permettra d'écouter ton intuition, et de créer de nouvelles réactions émotionnelles et un dialogue intérieur positif. Chaque semaine, je te propose un contenu inédit, pour que tu deviennes ton principal guide, parmi 4 formats : - La lumière du jour, avec des messages différents chaque semaine. - " J'écoute la blessure ou le blocage ", fondé sur la blessure ou le blocage sur lequel tu travailleras pendant le mois en cours. - La question numérologique, pour créer un bel espace où accueillir ton intuition et tes réflexions intérieures. - L'atelier de la pleine ou de la nouvelle lune, pour que tu puisses écouter tes moteurs intérieurs et avancer à ton rythme en respectant tes ressources et tes limites. Cet agenda t'aidera ainsi à te rencontrer, à cerner ce qui est important pour toi, à réfléchir à tes attentes, à tes besoins, et à comprendre le sens de tes défis et des événements. Je te souhaite de te révéler à toi même. Je t'embrasse. ISA
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