Theme for Ernie. As recorded on the album "Strings". alto saxophone / string ensemble (V1-V2-Va-Vc1-Vc2) / rhythm section (P-DB-Dr).
Extraits
Policiers
Sympathy for the Devil
"Hanson ignorait encore qu'il venait de décider de faire ce que l'armée attend précisément de certains de ses hommes, des meilleurs des siens – tenter de la battre à son propre jeu. Guerre était le nom de ce jeu et, lorsqu'on frôle la guerre de trop près, qu'on la regarde au fond des yeux, elle peut vous entraîner tout entier, muscles, cervelle et sang, jusqu'au plus profond de son coeur, et jamais plus vous ne trouverez la joie en dehors d'elle. Hors d'elle, amour, travail et amitié ne sont plus que déboires." Entre l'apparition du jeune conscrit Hanson, quittant l'université pour servir au Vietnam, et celle de son double infernal, le sergent Hanson, membre des Forces Spéciales, il ne s'est guère écoulé que deux ans. Deux ans qui expliquent comment la devise de l'armée américaine, "In God we trust", peut se transformer en "Sympathy for the Devil". Kent Anderson a été les deux Hanson. Son livre n'est pas un livre de plus sur la guerre, mais l'un des rares reportages sur l'enfer.
06/2013
Littérature érotique et sentim
Sex for the millenium
Le sexe selon Jaffe au tournant du deuxième Millénaire ? Des corps tatoués, percés, conquis par la technologie galopante. Le désir instrumentalisé et contrôlé. La soumission généralisée au commerce et à la toute-puissance du spectacle. Corrosifs, clairement satiriques, ces douze " contes de l'extrême " malmènent quelques icônes du monde contemporain - sportifs, stars du porno ou serial-killers - et questionnent la trouble excitation qu'elles cristallisent. Volontiers provocateur, totalement maître de ses effets, Harold Jaffe fait passer le lecteur du rire à l'effroi et dresse un tableau d'une redoutable force perturbatrice, servi par une écriture véloce, ultra-concentrée.
05/2010
Non classé
The Quest for Modernity
The work of Arno Holz embraces a wide diversity of literary forms ranging from activist poetry and Naturalist prose to formalism and experimental writing. By tracing Holz's persistent concern with form and relating him to literary developments in the twentieth century this study assesses the claim made by Holz himself and reiterated by literary criticism in the sixties that he was the real pioneer of modernism in German literature.
12/1981
Littérature érotique et sentim
The Fighter : For ever
Charmant, poli et toujours élégant. Jackson Knight détonne dans les salles d'entraînement où il pratique le street-fighting, un sport d'homme, sauvage et brutal. Et son style et son talent n'ont pas échappé à Lily, la propriétaire du gymnase où le bad boy s'entraîne. Fille du "Saint", un combattant de légende, la jeune femme connaît par coeur le milieu du street-fighting, la violence et la possessivité extrême des combattants. Il y a quelques années, elle est tombée amoureuse d'un boxeur et s'en est mordue les doigts. Cette fois, plus question donc de mélanger boulot et sentiments ! Mais c'est sans compter sur l'incroyable persévérance du jeune homme qui a pour habitude d'obtenir tout ce qu'il veut. D'autant que, en privé, le séduisant Jackson est bien moins délicat qu'en public... Pour la posséder, il est prêt à tous les combats...
08/2017
Photographie
Looking for the masters
Ce travail est une collaboration entre un photographe intrigué par l'évolution de la photographie et son ami Ricardo, qui est devenu à la fois sa muse et son modèle. Commencé en juillet 2013 aux Rencontres d'Arles comme une célébration joyeuse des photographes présentés cette année-là, Catherine Balet s'est ensuite intéressée à ce qui donne à une photographie son statut d'icône. Fascinée par la façon dont Internet sort les images de leurs contextes et réduit notre capacité à prêter attention à elles, elle a commencé à étudier de près les images qui ont bâti les fondements de notre culture visuelle photographique.
06/2016
Cinéma
Sympathy for the Devil
Après vingt ans d'absence, Monte Hellman revient au cinéma avec Road to Nowhere. Il raconte ses démêlés avec le diable, ses films, ses voyages, ses projets perdus et retrouvés - ainsi que quelques blagues.
03/2011
Monographies
Venice. A Private Invitation
Venice of a thousand reflections ; Venice of mirror and glass, of silk and gold ; Venice of light and lace, of transparency and porcelain. With her expert knowledge and insight, Servane Giol takes us to the heart of the Venetian art de vivre, a warm and private invitation to meet some of the most creative people living in the city today. Accompanying us into historic private palazzi as well as more recently restored houses and apartments, she introduces us to a new generation of artists and designers who are attracted by the radiant beauty, energy, and lifestyle of the Serenissima-a charmed circle of talented friends who are bringing a fresh dynamism and elegance to the city, shining a new light on some of its rarest and most exquisite traditional crafts, and lovingly safeguarding them for future generations. This love letter to the hidden beauties of Venice and to the skills for which the city is famed is brilliantly complemented by the photography of Mattia Aquila. It offers both a revelation and an everlasting memory for all those who will never forget their dazzling first sight of the domes, the campaniles, and the shimmering golden silence of this legendary city that floats between sea and sky.
09/2022
Littérature étrangère
Or
"Je n'ai pas touché la chair nue d'une femme - pas délibérément en tout cas -, je n'en ai pas tenu une seule entre mes bras depuis huit ans et cinq mois, c'est-à-dire depuis que Gudrun et moi avons cessé de coucher ensemble, et il n'y a aucune femme dans ma vie, en dehors de ma mère, mon ex-femme et ma fille - les trois Gudrun. Ce ne sont pourtant pas les corps qui manquent dans ce monde et ils ont assurément le pouvoir de m'émouvoir de temps à autre en me rappelant que je suis un homme." Sans plus de réconfort à attendre des trois Gudrun de sa vie - et inspiré par sa propre mère, ancienne prof de maths à l'esprit égaré, collectionneuse des données chiffrées de toutes les guerres du monde -, Jonas Ebeneser se met en route pour un voyage sans retour à destination d'un pays ravagé, avec sa caisse à outils pour tout bagage et sa perceuse en bandoulière. Ör est le roman poétique et profond, drôle, délicat, d'un homme qui s'en va, en quête de réparation.
10/2017
Non classé
Read Ancient African scripts from any current African language. Volume 2
The son of Douaouf, the brilliant, scribe of the early XIIth Dynasty Xty " Khety " said this : "The man continues to subsist after reaching the haven of death and his actions are beside him in a heap. " If regression is the main cause of the alarming situation of Africa and its tails the perceptibles consequences at all levels, the solution to this problem is eminently political. It inevitably involves the constitution of a pan-African State. For men, there is no unity without memory of the past. In fact, the construction of a federal state inevitably involves the restoration of African historical consciousness. There is no national and federal identity without a common language. The unification of Africa will only be possible if it takes the measure of its linguistic unification issue. To a lesser extent but like Cheikh Anta Diop in his book titled the Cultural Unity, I was animated throughout this heuristic by the idea that only the true knowledge of the past can maintain the consciousness and the feeling of a historical continuity essential to the consolidation of a nation for the purpose of building a multinational state in line with its past. Like Cheikh Anta Diop, I build my sureness on the legitimate idea that a people who lost a significant part of their historical memory must engage in the investigation of their past in every possible way. This investigation can take the contours of a reconnection with its past through so-called old languages. But a people can not live only with by merely repeating of what others tell them about themselves. The investigation through its linguistic past allows especially a direct knowledge of oneself. In addition to the fact that this knowledge simply highlights its weaknesses, it allows also to become aware by an introspective and therefore reflective of its real abilities and strengths. It structures being and the consciousness of being to resist any form of servile and degrading ideology. This quest for the past, not founded on blind passion but objectivity, nourishes a healthy ambition for a real universalism. To know one's past is already to project one's future. To know one's past is to give oneself the capacity to be able to bring to others in a perspective of giving and receiving. To know one's past is to refuse intellectual guardianship and wait-and-seeism. To know one's past is to be reborn.
05/2020
Non classé
Read Ancient African scripts from any current African language. Volume 1
The son of Douaouf, the brilliant, scribe of the early XIIth Dynasty Xty " Khety " said this : "The man continues to subsist after reaching the haven of death and his actions are beside him in a heap. " If regression is the main cause of the alarming situation of Africa and its tails the perceptibles consequences at all levels, the solution to this problem is eminently political. It inevitably involves the constitution of a pan-African State. For men, there is no unity without memory of the past. In fact, the construction of a federal state inevitably involves the restoration of African historical consciousness. There is no national and federal identity without a common language. The unification of Africa will only be possible if it takes the measure of its linguistic unification issue. To a lesser extent but like Cheikh Anta Diop in his book titled the Cultural Unity, I was animated throughout this heuristic by the idea that only the true knowledge of the past can maintain the consciousness and the feeling of a historical continuity essential to the consolidation of a nation for the purpose of building a multinational state in line with its past. Like Cheikh Anta Diop, I build my sureness on the legitimate idea that a people who lost a significant part of their historical memory must engage in the investigation of their past in every possible way. This investigation can take the contours of a reconnection with its past through so-called old languages. But a people can not live only with by merely repeating of what others tell them about themselves. The investigation through its linguistic past allows especially a direct knowledge of oneself. In addition to the fact that this knowledge simply highlights its weaknesses, it allows also to become aware by an introspective and therefore reflective of its real abilities and strengths. It structures being and the consciousness of being to resist any form of servile and degrading ideology. This quest for the past, not founded on blind passion but objectivity, nourishes a healthy ambition for a real universalism. To know one's past is already to project one's future. To know one's past is to give oneself the capacity to be able to bring to others in a perspective of giving and receiving. To know one's past is to refuse intellectual guardianship and wait-and-seeism. To know one's past is to be reborn.
05/2020
Littérature française
Essentials of Logistics et management. The Global Supply Chain.
The logistician plays a critical role in the growth of his or her company - in this third edition of Essentials of Logistics, the conceptual framework in which all the stakes and themes of logistics is systematically analyzed, with a strong focus on the role of the supply chain. Indeed, many elements are critical to the successful logistical strategy : customer relation management, interactive information support, production optimization and process development, vision, strategy and operations management, and human resources and resource allocation. Growing out of a successful course given by the International Institute for the Management of Logistics (IML) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne, and by the Ecole des Ponts-ParisTech (ENPC), the purpose of this book is to present a methodology allowing the reader to understand and act based on the critical factors embedded in the design of strategy. Concepts are thus combined with practical examples. Transversal vision and detailed case studies highlight the main themes of modern logistics and daily preoccupations of logisticians. The book is addressed to all professionals of logistics : managers, planners and engineers ; as well as to graduate students specializing in the field.
01/2013
Sculpture
The Riace Bronzes
The fourth volume in our "Hidden Treasures" series is dedicated to the Riace Bronzes, two of the very few ancient bronze statues that have survived to this day and now preserved in the National Archeological Museum in Reggio Calabria. This publication was designed to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their discovery. In it, Luigi Spina's photographic research dialogs with the texts written by Carmelo Malacrino. The photographer here develops a continued narrative, offering a direct comparison between the two sculptures, identified as A and B, exploring interpretations of the physicality of the two subjects as well as the three-dimensional quality of the bronze bodies, often concealed by the two-dimensional appearance of photographic images. Carmelo Malacrino and Riccardo Di Cesare analyse these famous 5th century BC masterpieces from two points of view : as ancient works of art on the one hand, and considering their significance for contemporary culture on the other. He retraces the story of the Bronzes beginning with their discovery in August, 1972, exploring the circumstances of their unearthing, the restoration they underwent, the exhibitions in which they were shown, as well as the impact they have had on the public, both nationally and internationally. Equally relevant is the reinterpretation of these two statues, beginning with their contextualization in the sphere of ancient Greek art, the related stylistic issues, and the reflection upon the practices and the knowledge possessed by Classical sculpture workshops. This volume will be a pleasant surprise for those of you who love Classical sculpture, for archaeology enthusiasts, and for all those who aren't satisfied with a quick glance when it comes to admiring a work of art.
10/2022
Disques et K7 Littérature
La Grande Bleue 1980-2020. Musiques imaginaires de la Méditerranée ; Horo ; Tutto va bene !
A l'occasion des 40 ans du groupe musical montpelliérain La Grande Bleue, redécouvrez leurs 3 albums phares réunis en un seul coffret collector CD : Musiques imaginaires de la Méditerranée (1983), Horo (1995) et Tutto va bene ! (1998). Plongez dans cette musique aux racines méditerranéennes, mêlant jazz et musique traditionnelle, musique originale avec des compositions plus traditionnelles aux instruments originaux : Kamaycha, sanza-tortue... Une musique vivante, joyeuse et percutante, un mélange de virtuosité et d'improvisations libres. Liste des titres : Musiques imaginaires de la Méditerranée (CD 1) 1 Kalamatianos (02 : 34). 2 Sardane Santespina (02 : 40). 3 Tarentelle (02 : 15). 4 Bagdad (05 : 56). 5 Xopo (03 : 25). 6 Suite roumaine (04 : 03). 7 Kostantis (03 : 44). 8 Jours tranquilles à Kaboul (03 : 45). 9 Bal de Smyrne (02 : 56). 10 Sanza (04 : 39). 11 Mumed la Grosse (05 : 01). Durée totale CD 1 : 42 : 05. Horo (CD 2) 1 Misino Horo (04 : 09). 2 Mala Male (05 : 52). 3 Congayougo (03 : 23). 4 Yovano Yovanke (03 : 31). 5 Mauresques (02 : 18). 6 Dix petits pygmées (06 : 15). 7 Song To The Pharaoh Kings (04 : 10). 8 Antice Dusice (04 : 35). 9 Carlama (01 : 47). 10 Minnak Mabato (03 : 39). 11 Bitchak (03 : 51). 12 Fontaine (02 : 15). 13 Song For Kubilaï Khan (01 : 34). Durée totale CD 2 : 47 : 24. Tutto va bene ! (CD 3) 1 On the Riviera (02 : 59). 2 Ana Habiba mon homme (02 : 03). 3 Raksa si Mohamed (02 : 14). 4 Chut ! (01 : 23). 5 Ho ! Marcello (03 : 09). 6 Oasis (02 : 45). 7 Inspiration (05 : 45). 8 Sirocco (04 : 28). 9 Ciuri ciuri, mi vottu e mi rivottu (03 : 34). 10 Il Greco veneziano (03 : 04) 11 Zarbi waltz (02 : 26). 12 La Habanera (02 : 58). 13 Sirba Dracul (04 : 43). 14 Passione (03 : 05). 15 On the Riviera, " il Rittorno " (01 : 08). 16 Ay ! que saudade (02 : 16). Durée totale CD 3 : 48 : 07.
09/2021
Non classé
Gabrielle Roy and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:-«Terre des Hommes» - Self and Non-Self
The pivotal work within the literary corpus of both Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Gabrielle Roy each, significantly, bears the title Terre des hommes. Saint-Exupéry encapsulates the results of a searching existential and humanist enquiry into a récit (1939), and Roy her similar findings into a thirty-page essay commissioned to introduce the 1967 Montréal World Exposition, itself named "Terre des Hommes". These pieces of writing, and the development of their key themes in other texts, lend themselves eminently to comparison for through Roy's essay we learn of her specific attraction to the Exupérian ethos of "l'homme" (self) and man's interaction with "la terre" (non-self). The present study aims principally to detect the presence of these essences in each author's work. In a subsidiary way it also endeavours to situate their rationals within a certain historico-literary context. Finally, an attempt is made to critically assess especially Roy's distinctive representation, through literature, of the self and the exterior world.
02/1991
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
Rock
Metallica. The Black Album en noir et blanc
Le livre officiel du groupe Metallica ! Ce livre officiel est une célébration du Black Album de Metallica, l'un des albums les plus vendus de tous les temps. Pour fêter le trentième anniversaire de la sortie de l'album, l'auteur-photographe Ross Halfin a sélectionné plus de 200 images en noir et blanc du groupe, dont de nombreux clichés entièrement inédits, pris lors de la création de l'album, en studio, backstage et sur scène durant le fameux Black Album Tour entre 1991 et 1993. Le livre contient des textes d'introduction, des souvenirs et des témoignages exclusifs des membres du groupe, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Jason Newsted et Robert Trujillo, ainsi que de Ross Halfin lui-même. " Au moment du Black Album, le groupe était prêt, fin prêt pour se laisser photographier... Nous étions au sommet de notre confiance, en phase avec nous-mêmes et avec la manière dont nous voulions être photographiés... Et Ross Halfin a su infailliblement se trouver au bon endroit, au bon moment pour le faire. " Lars Ulrich
10/2022
Littérature française
L’Or qui fait de l’or
Alina a grandi à Vulkova, en Europe orientale. Eduquée jusqu'au collège par un père biologiste dont les travaux la fascinent, elle a développé une insatiable curiosité. Sa rencontre avec la magnétique Luda la fait sortir de sa bulle et les deux filles sont vite inséparables. Tandis qu'Alina devient mathématicienne et rêve en secret de pouvoir fournir un jour à son père l'or le plus pur possible pour ses expériences, Luda éblouit le monde en tant que mannequin vedette. Les deux amies se retrouvent à Paris, où Alina est embauchée dans une société de gestion à la hiérarchie implacable. Avec l'aide de Luka, jeune as de la gestion des risques, et celle de Lionel, le vieillissant lieutenant du P. -D. G. , elle est chargée de débloquer les liquidités associées aux Tickets Restaurant pour les faire fructifier. C'est sans compter sur les jalousies intestines et l'imprévisible P. -D. G. Obnubilée par son dossier, et tandis qu'elle grimpe l'échelle des trahisons invisibles, Alina est progressivement intégrée au cercle des grands "optimisateurs" . Mais à quel prix ? L'Or qui fait de l'or est un roman haletant dans les arcanes de la finance contemporaine, un domaine dont les ressorts semblent parfois opaques. Or l'économie n'est rien d'autre que la science de "l'art de ranger la maison" et la fiducie n'a d'autre origine que celle de "la confiance entre les hommes pour échanger leurs nécessités" .
01/2024
Non classé
Practice and Problems in English Grammar and Usage
This book aims to bridge the gap between theoretical and didactic grammar by familiarizing students with traditional terminology and notorious problem areas of English grammar - often otherwise ignored or neglected - and presenting them with a range of carefully chosen practice questions including challenging translation exercises for German students. Because it is often not simply ungrammaticality, but a certain un-Englishness, oddness, or awkwardness that marks students' English, this book is also a workbook on usage and style. A grammatical workbook and textbook in one, it has the unique advantage that almost all practice questions can be answered on the basis of information provided within the book and as a result can be used for individual study as well as school and university work. It will greatly help reinforce students' knowledge of grammar and give students the much needed practice and training in not only grammatically correct, but stylistically appropriate and natural English usage.
10/1991
Beaux arts
GOYA. Edition en anglais
Goya (1746-1828) is one of Spain's most famous artists and is widely acknowledged as an outstanding painter in the European tradition, often called the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Modems. He is appreciated as a portrait painter; a creator of menacing and melancholy images in oils; a master of enigmatic, satirical and revolutionary drawing and etching; the champion of the Spanish
people in their struggle against oppression and the recorder of their life and sufferings in war. This book brings out many of Goya's moods, from the gaiety and tenderness of the tapestry cartoons to
the mysterious ferocity of the Black Paintings made in his old age.
Enriqueta Harris, former Curator of the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute. University of London, is a world-renowned expert on Spanish art. She has curated numerous exhibitions and is the author of Velazquez (Phaidon, 1982).
01/1994
Non classé
Lingua Legis in Translation
This book describes the historical development of the Polish and English lingua legis. The intention is to point out the major differences between the legal realities, which significantly affect the process of translation. Secondly, the following characteristic features of lingua legis, concerning the level of words and syntagmas, are touched upon : vocabulary used in lingua legis including technical and semi-technical terms, conservatism of legal texts (Latin and Latinisms ; synonymous strings, archaic adverbs etc.), borrowings, terms with non-precise meanings (the problem of indeterminacy), neologisms, euphemisms, vulgarisms, performative verbs, metaphors and religious elements, prepositional phrases, time expressions, compound nouns and the problems connected with nominalization, false cognates which cause major misunderstandings, and finally methods of providing translation equivalents. The problem of ambivalence is analysed as well. The problems connected with the Polish-English and English-Polish translation of the texts belonging to the following legal genres are examined : university diplomas and certificates, statutes, judgments, law reports, powers of attorney, petitions, contracts and deeds, testaments, birth, death and marriage certificates, and popular fiction.
07/2007
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
THE WOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. Alice Stewart and the secrets of radiation
THE WOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH tells the engaging life story of the epidemiologist whose discoveries about radiation risk have revolutionized medical practice and challenged international nuclear safety standards. For more than forty years, Dr. Alice Stewart has warned that tow-dose radiation is far more dangerous than has been acknowledged. Although an outstanding scientist with more than 400 peer-reviewed papers to her name, her controversial work has only recently begun to receive significant attention, because it lies at the center of a political storm.
In the 1950s when doctors would routinely x-ray pregnant women, she began research at Oxford that led to the discovery that fetal x-rays doubted a child's risk of developing cancer. When she was in her seventies, she again astounded the scientific world by showing that the U.S. nuclear weapons industry was far more dangerous than commonly believed, a finding that embroiled her in an international controversy over radiation risk. In recent years, she has become one of a handful of independent scientists whose work is a lodestone to the antinuclear movement. In 1990, the New York Times called her "perhaps the Energy Department's most influential and feared scientific critic."
The Woman Who Knew Too Much traces Dr. Stewart's life and career from her early childhood in Sheffield and medical education at Cambridge to her research positions at Oxford and the University of Birmingham, where she still maintains an office. The book joins a growing number of biographies of pioneering women scientists such as Barbara McClintock, Rosalind Franklin, and Lise Meitner and will find a wide range of appreciative readers, including those interested in the history of science and technology and of the history of women in science and medicine. Activists and policymakers will also find the story of Alice Stewart compelling reading.
02/2000
Non classé
The Quest for Constitutionalism in Africa
Since the wave for national rule and independence from the colonial powers during the 1960's Africa's struggle for democratic rule has often been frustrated by an uneasy relationship between civil society and the military. This relationship has brought about grave human right abuses and lack of respect for the democratic values enshrined in constitutional rule. The end result was political instability and a retarded process of political development. This book, therefore, examines constitutional development in selected East Africa countries, the role of the army, the nationality question and constitutional accommodation and political parties, elections and political instability.
05/1994
Manga
Waiting for spring Pack Découverte T01 et T02
Mitsuki Haruno a du mal à aller vers les autres, mais elle a décidé de prendre un nouveau départ en entrant au lycée. Pourtant, malgré ses efforts, elle n'arrive pas à se faire des amis aussi vite qu'elle le voudrait. Tandis qu'elle commence à désespérer, voilà qu'elle tombe sur les quatre membres les plus populaires du club de basket dans le café où elle travaille...
01/2020
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
Histoire internationale
Outlawry, Governance, and Law in Medieval England
Outlawry, Governance, and Law in Medieval England evaluates the role of exclusionary practices, namely outlawry, in law and governance in England from the tenth through the thirteenth centuries. Traditional historical narratives dismiss exile, outlawry, and banishment as ineffective and weak methods of maintaining social order. More specifically, the pres¬ent volume reassesses these forms of exclusion in matters of politics, law, and society, as well as their influence on increased use of imprisonment in later medieval England. Outlawry, Governance, and Law in Medieval England is essential reading for scholars working in this field but is also highly recommended as a text for courses that assess medieval law and the practice of outlawry as well as the development of English Common Law.
10/2013
Documentaires jeunesse
Quentin Blake and the Demoiselles des Bords de Seine
Quentin Blake is one of the best-known illustrators of our time. He was Roald Dahl's regular illustrator, and their books have enjoyed world popularity with generations of children. Blake has collaborated with many other well-known authors and also created his own picture-books such as Clown and Zagazoo. Quentin Blake was born in England in 1932. For more than 20 years he taught in and then led the illustration department of the Royal College of Art. In 1999 he became the first Children's Laureate and in 2005 was appointed CBE for his services to children's literature. In France, where he spends a great deal of his time and where he has been published by Gallimard for the past 30 years, Quentin Blake has the same huge reputation as in Great Britain. His work has been exhibited there, and he has produced several books especially for French readers. In 2002 he was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. It was on account of this reputation that he was invited by the Petit Palais to select and present the exhibition Quentin Blake et les Demoiselles des Bords de Seine, and in the exhibition and this book he displays his enthusiasm for 19th century French art with a perceptiveness and liveliness which will speak to readers of all ages.
12/2005
Anglais apprentissage
LA VIERGE ET LE GITAN : THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY
When the vicar's wife went off with a young and penniless man the scandal knew no bounds. Her two little girls were only seven and nine years old respectively. And the vicar was such a good husband. True, his hair was grey. But his moustache was dark, he was handsome, and still full of furtive passion for his unrestrained and beautiful wife. Why did she go ? Why did she burst away with such an éclat of revulsion, like a touch of madness ? Nobody gave any answer. Only the pious said she was a bad woman. While some of the good women kept silent. They knew. The two little girls never knew. Wounded, they decided that it was because their mother found them negligible. The ill wind that blows nobody any good swept away the vicarage family on its blast. Then lo and behold ! the vicar, who was somewhat distinguished as an essayist and a controversialist, and whose case had aroused sympathy among the bookish men, received the living of Papplewick. The Lord had tempered the wind of misfortune with a rectorate in the north country. [...] "Lorsque la femme du pasteur s'enfuit avec un jeune homme sans le sou, le scandale ne connut pas de bornes. Ses deux fillettes n'avaient que sept et neuf ans respectivement. Et le pasteur était un si bon mari. Certes, il avait les cheveux gris, mais sa moustache était restée noire, il était bel homme et brûlait encore d'une passion furtive pour sa belle épouse immodeste. Pourquoi était-elle partie ? Pourquoi s'était-elle arrachée à lui, dans un tel éclat de dégoût, comme un grain de folie ? Personne n'apporta de réponse. Seules, les dévotes dirent que c'était une mauvaise femme. Cependant que certaines femmes de bien gardaient le silence. Elles comprenaient, elles. Les deux fillettes ne comprirent jamais. Blessées, elles jugèrent que c'était parce que leur mère les tenait pour quantité négligeable. Le vent du malheur qui est censé être bon à quelque chose balaya de son souffle les habitants de la cure. Puis, miracle, le pasteur, qui avait une certaine éminence comme essayiste et polémiste, et dont la situation avait su émouvoir certains intellectuels, fut nommé à la paroisse de Papplewick. Le Seigneur avait adouci l'ouragan du malheur par un bénéfice de recteur dans le nord du pays. " [...]
02/1993
Sciences politiques
Child and Nation. A Study of Political Socialisation and Banal Nationalism in France and England
Where do feelings of national belonging come from ? Why is it that this belonging often seems both fundamental and banal, both intangible and omnipresent ? This book argues that the answers to these questions lie in childhood and the socialisation to the nation that we experience as children. It suggests that the banality of our own everyday nationalism is due to the fact that we have spent our lives learning to take it for granted. Just as our first understandings of reality are learned during childhood socialisation, so nationhood and national belonging are internalised as natural and necessary from the very beginning of our lives. The specific nature of this early socialisation is what confers upon banal nationalism its characteristic combination of omnipresence, inscrutability and self-evidence. To try and get around this self-evidence and explore this socialisation and its results, this study has adopted an innovative methodology involving semi-directive projective interviews with young children in France and England. This book presents an analysis of how this early socialisation to the nation plays out on young children's visions of national belonging and its justifications and implications. It also looks at what this transmission in childhood means for nationalism as an ideology and the power and pertinence of the nation today.
12/1987
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
Sciences politiques
Assessing Urban Governance. The Case of Water Service Co-production in Venezuela
When examining the relationship between urban governance and improved service provision in the Global South, there is frequently a gap between the rhetoric and the reality. Informal, practice-based local governance processes that aim to produce better urban services often diverge from official governance prescriptions and mechanisms for service delivery within the institutional sphere. This book explores the complex area of urban governance assessment, focusing on the issue of sustainable water supplies for the urban poor. Adapting the UN-Habitat Urban Governance Index, the author explores the dual nature of urban governance, analyzing its formal dimension at the municipal level but also taking account of informal and locally specific governance arrangements aimed at improving access to basic services. Water service co-production strategies involving both public institutions and organized groups of citizens in Venezuela provide an excellent case study of this phenomenon. The book illustrates the limitations of official governance assessment tools in appreciating the extent and vibrancy of local practices and agreements, as well as investigating the discrepancies between normative prescriptions and governance arrangements on the ground.
12/1986
