Lullaby of the Dawn Tome 4
Extraits
Non classé
In Another Tongue
This collection of essays brings together some of the most perceptive of Devy's essays on Indian English Literature, literary criticism, translation theory and Commonwealth criticism. They offer a historical perspective on the literary culture of Indian literature written in English. The areas of Indian English literature discussed in this volume range from fiction, poetry, criticism to travelogue, autobiography and translation. It pays special attention to literary historiography and literary criticism.
06/1993
Théâtre
Antoine et Cléopâtre
ATTENDANT
News, my good Lord, from Rome.
ANTONY
Grates me ! The sum.
CLEOPATRA
Nay, hear them, Antony :
Fulvia perchance is angry ; or, who knows
If the scarce-bearded Cæsar have not sent
His powerful mandate to you, "Do this, or this ;
Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that ;
Perform't or else we damn thee".
ANTONY
How, my love ?
CLEOPATRA
Perchance ? nay, and most like :
You must not stay here longer, your dismission
Is come from Cæsar, therefore hear it, Antony.
LE SERVITEUR
Des nouvelles, monseigneur, de Rome.
ANTOINE
C'est fâcheux ! Résume.
CLEOPÂTRE
Non, écoute-les, Antoine :
Fulvie peut-être est irritée, ou qui sait
Si ce César presqu'imberbe ne t'envoie pas
Ses puissants commandements : " Fais ceci ou cela ;
Saisis ce royaume, et affranchis cet autre ;
Exécute, ou sinon nous sévissons ".
Antoine
Comment, mon amour ?
CLEOPÂTRE
Peut-être, ai-je dit ? C'est bien plutôt certain :
Tu ne dois pas t'attarder ici plus longtemps ; ta révocation
Est là, qui vient de César, c'est pourquoi prête l'oreille, Antoine.
10/1996
Sciences de la terre et de la
Theoretical Astrophysics. Volume 1, Astrophysical Processes
Graduate students and researchers in astrophysics and cosmology need a solid understanding of a wide range of physical processes. This clear and authoritative textbook has been designed to help them to develop the necessary toolkit of theory. Assuming only an undergraduate background in physics and no detailed knowledge of astronomy, this book guides the reader step by step through a comprehensive collection of fundamental theoretical topics. The book is modular in design, allowing the reader to pick and chose a selection of chapters, if necessary. It can be used alone, or in conjunction with the forthcoming accompanying two volumes (covering stars and stellar systems, and galaxies and cosmology, respectively). After reviewing the basics of dynamics, electromagnetic theory, and statistical physics, the book carefully develops a solid understanding of all the key concepts such as radiative processes, spectra, fluid mechanics, plasma physics and MHD, dynamics of gravitating systems, general relativity, and nuclear physics. Each topic is developed methodically from undergraduate basic physics. Throughout, the reader's understanding is developed and tested with carefully structured problems and helpful hints. This welcome volume provides graduate students with an indispensable introduction to and reference on all the physical processes they will need to successfully tackle cutting-edge research in astrophysics and cosmology.
01/2000
Développement durable-Ecologie
Native Land, Stop Eject. Edition en anglais
Created by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, the exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject proposes a dialogue between filmmaker Raymond Depardon and philosopher Paul Virilio on the notions of being rooted and uprooted today, an epoch in which human migration flows are taking place on an unprecedented scale. In his film Hear Them Speak, created with Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon gives a voice to those who wish to remain on their land but are threatened with exile. Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, and Ben Rubin give form to Paul Virilio's concepts in six dynamic maps which examine new trends in contemporary human movement due to environmental, political, and economic factors. The texts included here, published for the first time in the catalog Native Land, Stop Eject (Prix Nomad's 2009), offer a chance to explore the themes raised in the exhibition. Accompanied by exhibition views, they incite contemplation on the meaning of sedentariness and nomadism, as well as related questions of identity.
05/2010
Non classé
A Mirrour of Mutabilitie
Written in 1579 as an imitation of the Mirror for Magistrates, Munday's Mirrour of Mutabilitie is a collection of complaints by biblical characters whose unfortunate downfalls illustrate the vanity and mutability of human affairs. This work echoes the profound scepticism of its age, a legacy of the medieval contemptus mundi tradition. It underpins the view that Time is a destroyer, that human actions cannot be calculated positively, because life is temporal and full of accidents.This edition, the first one after the editio princeps of 1579, offers a text with the original spelling based on critical study of the 1579-edition, together with an introduction, textual notes, commentary and bibliography, designed to give scholars and students as much editorial assistance as they are likely to require.
01/1991
Aristote
De historia animalium. Translatio Guillelmi de Morbeka, Pars altera: lib. VI-X. Edition bilingue anglais-latin
This book forms the complement to the first volume published in 2000. The preface contains some remarks about the transmission of the text as a supplement to the first volume. Then follow the critical edition of books VI-X, and the indices for the whole text. The complete edition gives access to the longest and most important work from Aristotle's zoology, De historia animalium, in the Latin translation by William of Moerbeke. This version was part of the standard university curriculum in the late-medieval West. The bilingual indices give access to the richness of the translator's vocabulary and provide an indispensable tool for the study of his translation method. Except for De partibus animalium, all of Moerbeke's translations from the Aristotelian zoological corpus are now available in critical editions.
05/2021
Mouvements artistiques
Frank Auerbach. The Charcoal Heads
Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, Frank Auerbach : The Charcoal Heads presents a remarkable series of hauntingly beautiful largescale drawings by the artist. The catalogue includes a new piece of writing on one of the drawings from critically acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. This catalogue explores one of Frank Auerbach's most remarkable bodies of work - a series of large-scale portrait heads made in charcoal, produced during his early years as a young artist in postwar London. Auerbach (b. 1931) spent months on each drawing, working and reworking them during numerous sessions with his sitters. This prolonged and vigorous process of creation is evident in the finished drawings, which are richly textured and layered. Auerbach would sometimes even break through the paper and patch it up before carrying on. His heads thus emerge from the darkness of the charcoal with burning vitality, born of an artistic as well as a physical struggle with the medium. The process of repeated creation and destruction, of which these images bear the visible scars, speaks profoundly of their times, as people rebuilt their lives after the ruination and upending of the war. The exhibition will be the first time Auerbach's extraordinary drawings, made in the 1950s and early 1960s, have been brought together as a comprehensive group. They will be shown together with a selection of paintings he made of the same sitters ; for the artist, painting and drawing have always been deeply entwined. The accompanying catalogue - by Deputy Head of The Courtauld Gallery, Barnaby Wright, and with an essay by one of the greatest contemporary voices in the English language, Colm Tóibín - is the first publication to explore in depth this magnificent series. Tóibín spent several hours one afternoon in front of Auerbach's Self-Portrait (1958), which features on the front cover of the book, looking closely and taking notes. His essay is an account of his experience and offers new insights into the work and the nature of self-portaiture.
03/2024
Non classé
Temporal Logic, Omniscience, Human Freedom - Perspectives in Analytic Philosophy
The work shows the usefulness and limitation of modern logic in the study of traditional metaphysical problems. As is the usual case in all criticism of analytic philosophers against traditional philosophy, word usage must be limited to what the human mind can know. The notion of timeless knowledge for example contradicts our normal mode of word usage and cannot serve as adequate in reference to knowledge be it that of man or of God. If timeless knowledge applied to divine mode of knowing then there cannot be human freedom.
09/1991
Informatique
Foundation Course for Advanced Computer Studies
In the modern world, computer systems are playing a greater and greater part in everyday life. From office work, to entertainment, to providing information, the personal computer is quickly becoming a more integral part of the home. However, most PC users have no idea how most of the parts which make up their computer work internally. I am one of those who find that the framework provided by the school curriculum in the United Kingdom is of great assistance in planning lessons and learning plans but the curriculum does not plan out the work for us. We therefore need to invest a lot of time and effort into developing schemes of work that will suit the people we are going to teach. For me, it is a fantastic opportunity to employ our imagination and creativity to make lessons useful and interesting for children of different abilities. It is why I wrote this book. This book is a foundation course for Advanced Computer Studies and designed as a blueprint to teach users with a basic knowledge of computer science. Computer science is a subject that combines the use of technology which is ICT (Information Communication Technology) and the creation of technology. To use ICT (the subject about how to use technology to communicate information) more effectively, we need to know how technology works. Computing or computer science will create a generation of young people able to work at the forefront of technology change. It is the umbrella term for the subject that comprises 3 elements : computer science, information technology and digital literacy. It is helpful to think of these as the foundations, applications and implications of digital technology. The new focus on computer science will provides a well-defined and rigorous academic discipline and a unique lens through which pupils can understand the world. Children must therefore be taught computing if they are to be ready for tomorrow technology challenges. Our ingenuity to invent new means of communicating with each other, our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries however still a lot remain to be done with the arrival of quantum computing. A more rigorous approach to computer science teaching will help compete across the full spectrum of digital industries. This can only be achieved by equipping ourselves with the foundation skills, knowledge and understanding of computing do the necessity to introduce "computational thinking" at school via the new national curriculum (programmes of study and targets), the 2014 national curriculum that introduces computing which will replace ICT.
11/2015
Physique, chimie
Neutron Physics
Originally just an offshoot of nuclear physics, neutron physics soon became a branch of physics in its own right. It deals with the movement of neutrons in nuclear reactors and all the nuclear reactions they trigger there, particularly the fission of heavy nuclei which starts a chain reaction to produce energy. Neutron Physics covers the whole range of knowledge of this complex science, discussing the basics of neutron physics and some principles of neutron physics calculations. Because neutron physics is the essential part of reactor physics, it is the main subject taught to students of Nuclear Engineering. This book takes an instructional approach for that purpose. Neutron Physics is also intended for all physicists and engineers involved in development or operational aspects of nuclear power.
09/2008
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
PIONEERS OF REPRESENTATION THEORY: FROBENIUS, BURNSIDE, SCHUR, AND BRAUER
The year 1897 was marked by two important mathematical events: the publication of the first paper on representations of finite groups by Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ( 1849-1917) and the appearance of the first treatise in English on the theory of finite groups by William Burnside (1852-1927). Burnside soon developed his own approach to representations of finite groups. In the next few years, working independently, Frobenius and Burnside explored the new subject and its applications to finite group theory.
They were soon joined in this enterprise by Issai Schur (1875-194 1) and some years later, by Richard Brauer (1901-1977). These mathematicians' pioneering research is the subject of this book. It presents an account of the early history of representation theory through an analysis of the published work of the principals and others with whom the principals' work was interwoven. Also included are biographical sketches and enough mathematics to enable readers to follow the development of the subject. An introductory chapter contains some of the results involving characters of finite abelian groups by Lagrange, Gauss, and Dirichlet, which were part of the mathematical tradition from which Frobenius drew his inspiration.
This book presents the early history of an active branch of mathematics. It includes enough detail to enable readers to learn the mathematics along with the history. The volume would be a suitable text for a course on representations of finite groups, particularly one emphasizing an historical point of view.
01/1999
Mondes fantastiques
The Remnant Chronicles Tome 1 : The Kiss of Deception
La princesse Lia, première fille de la Maison Morrighan, est promise au prince de Dalbreck, un homme qu'elle n'a jamais rencontré. Une union aussi cruciale pour son royaume que terrifiante pour Lia. Pour échapper à ce destin tout tracé, la jeune fille s'enfuit le matin de ses noces. Aux confins de Morrighan, là où personne ne devrait la reconnaître, Lia croit avoir mis assez de distance entre elle et les intrigues de la cour. Alors, quand deux hommes font irruption dans sa nouvelle vie, elle ne se doute pas un instant que l'un deux est le prince éconduit et l'autre, un assassin envoyé pour la tuer. Car on n'humilie pas deux royaumes impunément, et la fugue de Lia a déclenché une crise qui pourrait bien s'étendre au-delà de Morrighan... Lia réussira-t-elle à éviter le pire sans y perdre son âme ?
09/2021
Mondes fantastiques
The Remnant Chronicles Tome 3 : The Beauty of Darkness
Retenus prisonniers de Venda, Lia et Rafe ont réussi à s'échapper. Il leur faut désormais rejoindre Morrighan au plus vite afin de prévenir le royaume de la menace qui se profile. Car durant sa captivité, Lia a vu de ses propres yeux l'armée que rassemblait le Komizar pour envahir les terres de son peuple. Et elle sait aussi que des traîtres se cachent à la cour de son père... Mais Lia a été gravement blessée durant leur fuite, Kaden s'est lancé à leurs trousses et Rafe est rattrapé par ses devoirs de prince de Dalbreck... Marquée par les épreuves mais consciente du cataclysme qui s'annonce, Lia n'a plus le choix et va devoir endosser le rôle qu'elle a si longtemps fui : celui de Première Fille, de guerrière, de meneuse. Le dénouement de la trilogie épique et flamboyante de Mary E. Pearson !
04/2023
Mondes fantastiques
The Remnant Chronicles Tome 2 : The Heart Of Betrayal
Pour échapper à un mariage arrangé qui l'aurait privée de sa liberté, Lia s'était enfuie le matin de ses noces. La voici rattrapée par son destin de princesse et incarcérée à Venda, territoire de redoutables barbares.
Loin de chez elle et sans aucun espoir de s'échapper, Lia ne sait à qui faire confiance. Rafe, le garçon qu'elle aime, lui a menti, mais il a aussi sacrifié sa liberté pour elle. Quant à Kaden, elle a découvert qu'il était en réalité un assassin envoyé pour la tuer. Il lui a pourtant sauvé la vie en faisant croire au Komizar, le tyran qui règne sur Venda, qu'elle avait le don de seconde vue. Et ce mensonge a pris une ampleur qui la dépasse complètement, car aux yeux du peuple de Venda, elle pourrait incarner la sauveuse d'une très ancienne légende. . .
Tiraillée entre deux hommes, contrainte de jouer la comédie, Lia devra faire des choix qui détermineront son avenir, mais aussi le destin de tout le continent.
05/2022
Humour
Sexymol Tome 1 : The Dark Side of the Loose
Quatre jeunes crétins dans le vent décident de fonder un groupe de rock avec la ferme ambition de devenir mondialement célèbres. Mais le vent en question souffle tellement fort que tout ne va pas aller si simplement, d'autant plus que nos joyeux compères n'ont jamais joué d'un seul instrument de musique de leur vie ! Du nom du groupe au choix du manager, du type de musique aux costumes de scène, les membres de Sexymol vont s'ébattre dans une cocasse tornade qui les mènera à la gloire... Ou pas. Bref, une BD qui décoiffe !
04/2024
Ecrits sur l'art
Daring French Explorations. Traiblazing Adventures around the World : 1714-1854
Daring French Explorations is an exceptional homage to adventure. Intrepid French mariners-including legendary explorers Lapérouse, Bougainville, and Dumont d'Urville, and unsung sailors La Barbinais, Pagès, and Roquefeuil-embark readers on sixteen voyages around the world from 1714 to 1854. A selection of firsthand accounts culled from their maritime travelogues recounts the trials and tribulations the explorers encountered as they charted new routes to remote territories. Their unfiltered observations on wide-ranging themes-from geopolitics and commerce to climate change and global cultures-resonate with contemporary issues. This handsome volume-featuring many previously unpublished illustrations, engravings, and maps-traces their extraordinary scientific, diplomatic, or commercial expeditions, which significantly marked the history of world exploration. Driven by a spirit of adventure and a passion for expeditions, inveterate collector Hubert Sagnières has drawn from his extensive library to curate this unprecedented introduction to the glory days of French naval history. Award-winning author Edward Duyker is a fellow at the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
02/2024
12 ans et +
The rest of the story
Emma Saylor regarde son père danser sur la piste, un peu désabusée : elle assiste à son mariage avec une femme adorable, qui leur permet d'échapper enfin aux difficultés qui les poursuivent depuis la mort de sa mère, cinq ans plus tôt, d'une overdose. La jeune fille ne sait pas grand-chose de ce qui est vraiment arrivé. Et, pour pouvoir aller de l'avant, elle aussi, elle aimerait bien connaître... la fin de l'histoire. Or elle n'a plus revu sa grand-mère maternelle ou ses cousins depuis un séjour chez eux quand elle était toute petite. Mais le destin va lui donner un coup de pouce : pendant la lune de miel de son père, elle doit justement passer un mois au bord du lac où vit cette énigmatique famille. Car si, pour son père, elle est Emma, aux yeux de sa mère, de ses cousins et des amis d'autrefois, en revanche, elle était quelqu'un d'autre - elle était la petite Saylor, même si ce ne fut que le temps d'un été. Et c'est ce passé enfoui qu'elle va redécouvrir comme un trésor. Un parquet qui grince sous ses pas, une odeur familière... Elle qui ne se rappelle pas même le visage de sa grand-mère se rend compte qu'elle connaît cet endroit. Elle retrouve sa cousine, qui joue avec le feu comme la mère d'Emma avant elle, et Roo, le garçon dont elle était inséparable enfant. Tel un détective, elle va remonter le temps en arrière, pour découvrir non seulement qui elle est, mais aussi quelle adolescente a été sa mère. Car avant de tomber amoureuse d'un fils de famille privilégié, celle-ci a perdu son meilleur ami dans un étrange accident de bateau à moteur... Un roman de Sarah Dessen n'est jamais, jamais une déception. La reine de la fiction young adult observe les mouvements du coeur d'un adolescente dans la tourmente avec une justesse stupéfiante - ce qui fait dire à tout le milieu littéraire aux Etats-Unis qu'elle est, ni plus ni moins, une rock star. Emotion à fleur de peau et regard acéré sur les choses : venez savourer en sa compagnie une gourmandise à nulle autre pareille...
06/2019
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
Littérature française
Handicapped
The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.
10/2020
Histoire ancienne
Rock and Ritual
This book is the outcome of the analysis and discussion of the links between ritual practices and some natural spaces, particularly caves, but also rockshelters and stones. The articles gathered in this volume show very diverse contexts and researches, mainly from Bronze Age to Roman times. They offer new perspectives about religious landscapes as well as the role of these spaces in territorial organisation. Several contributions try to reconstruct ritual movements, regulated religious itineraries and social practices, whereas others focus on the circulation inside caves and rockshelters, considering the multi-sensoriality of these natural spaces, linked also with the material offerings. Rock & Ritual volume is another evidence of the complexity and variability of ritual practices linked to natural spaces.
04/2022
Religion
Glasgow Urban Writing and Postmodernism
Alasdair Gray is one of the most innovative and imaginative writers to have appeared on the Scottish literary scene for many years. Gray radically challenges the vision of Glasgow and Scotland as defined by the traditional Glasgow novel. This study first looks back into the past of Glasgow writing to locate some specific novelistic models which Gray echoes in his fiction. The main part of the study then illustrates that Gray's literary attitude of looking beyond Glasgow (or Scotland) is much more helpful in "imagining Glasgow" than to follow the established and trodden paths of Scottish urban writing. In this sense, Gray proves that the narrative techniques characteristic of postmodernist writing are not only helpful in expressing the often quoted Scottish experience of fragmentation, but also in overcoming the artistic stalemate of the Glasgow novel.
04/1991
Manga
Highschool of the dead Tome 1
La journée du 13 avril avait commencé comme une matinée ordinaire au pensionnat de Takashi. Mais, alors qu'il sèche les cours et s'apprête à faire une petite sieste sur le toit de l'établissement, il aperçoit devant le portail un professeur se faire dévorer par ce qui semble bien être un mort-vivant... Tout bascule alors dans l'horreur et le gore. Les films de Romero vous ont terrorisé ? Les séries des Resident Evil et Dead Rising trônent en bonne place dans votre ludothèque ? Shaun of the Dead vous a fait mourir de rire ? Alors, vous allez adorer Highschool of the Dead !
07/2009
Manga
Highschool of the dead Tome 3
Après avoir tiré in extremis une fillette des griffes des morts vivants, Takashi et ses amis repartent en quête de leurs familles. Mais alors qu'ils font route vers la maison de Saya, ils se heurtent à une meute de zombies ! La situation semble désespérée, lorsque soudain...
11/2009
Manga
Highschool of the dead Tome 5
Takashi et sa bande ont trouvé provisoirement refuge dans un centre commercial, mais d'autres survivants étaient déjà présents avant eux. Pour éviter les heurts, ils vont devoir désamorcer les tensions, mais y parviendront-ils ? &nbs ...
03/2010
Manga
Highschool of the dead Tome 6
Kôta intervient pour consoler la jeune policière Asami Nakaoka, profondément sous le choc suite à la découverte de la mort de sa supérieure partie chercher des secours. Mais pas le temps de sécher ses larmes ! Le comportement irresponsable d'un adolescent met tout le monde en danger : les zombies investissent le centre commercial, il faut évacuer !
01/2011
Manga
The Empire of Corpses Tome 3
Les humains font désormais face aux nécromates, et l'heure de la bataille finale approche ! Les Etats-Unis sont en proie au chaos, et le groupe du Dr Watson retourne en Angleterre à bord du Nautilus pour tenter de sauver l'humanité. Alors que le destin du monde repose sur les épaules du Dr Watson et de ses compagnons, Friday pourra-t-il retrouver son âme ?
03/2019
Manga
The Empire of Corpses Tome 2
Alexeï Karamazov brise un des plus grands tabous de la nécromatique afin de montrer le terrible danger que fait peser cette nouvelle technologie sur l'humanité... C'est ainsi que Watson et Burnaby, à la recherche du mystérieux journal de Victor Frankenstein, embarquent pour le lointain pays du soleil levant...
02/2019
Manga
The Empire of Corpses Tome 1
A la fin du XIXe siècle, une technologie révolutionnaire permettant de réinsuffler la vie se répand dans le monde entier. John Watson, jeune étudiant en médecine, est contraint d'entrer au service de la couronne britannique pour échapper aux travaux forcés. Il part alors pour la lointaine Asie dans l'espoir de redonner l'âme et la parole à son ami...
11/2018
Manga
Magus of the library Tome 1
Protéger les livres, c'est protéger le monde ! "Le livre. Une source de savoir, une accumulation de signes chargés de sens, un précieux héritage qui relie passé et futur. C'est un mage qui me l'a dit un jour : protéger les livres, c'est tout simplement... protéger le monde ! ". Pour le jeune Shio, qui passe son temps libre plongé dans les romans, les récits extraordinaires sont un refuge face à la brutalité du quotidien. Son rêve est de partir pour la capitale des livres, où sont rassemblées toutes les connaissances du monde. Un projet utopique pour un gamin sans ressources... jusqu'au jour où des envoyées de la fameuse bibliothèque centrale débarquent dans son village ! Le miracle qu'il appelle de ses voeux depuis si longtemps est-il sur le point de se réaliser ?
03/2019
Manga
Highschool of the dead Tome 7
Le groupe a quitté le centre commercial et avance désormais en direction du quartier de Rei et de Takashi. Éprouvé par la disparition de l’agent Asami, Kôta semble craquer psychologiquement. Ses amis sauront-ils le soutenir pour l’aider à retrouver son équilibre ?
01/2012
