Recherche

Aré

Extraits

ActuaLitté

Livres sonores

Mes premières chansons au drôle de zoo

A la découverte des animaux du zoo en musique ! Avec ses puces sonores musicales, ce recueil est unique. Sur chaque page, l'enfant recherche dans l'illustration le petit bouton qui déclenchera la musique. Bienvenue dans un drôle de zoo où l'on chante : " Coco le perroquet " ; " La girafe et la girouette " de Robert Desnos ; " Madame Hippopotame " ; " ; " Le ouistiti " ; " Un éléphant, ça trompe " et une chanson en anglais : " We are going to the zoo ". Les illustrations gaies et colorées de Gwé accompagnent cette escapade musicale au zoo !

02/2024

ActuaLitté

Histoire de France

Les transferts culturels dans les mondes normands médiévaux (VIIIe-XIIe siècle). Objets, acteurs et passeurs, Textes en français et anglais

The objects of cultural transfers are innumerable. Their study is particularly important to understanding the medieval Norman worlds and their multiple interconnections with the Scandinavian world, the British Isles, Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean. While examining the processes of transmission, reception, adaptation, adoption, or rejection, this book highlights how these dynamics influenced cultures between the eighth and twelfth centuries. Various examples of both material (embroidery ; clothing accessories ; iron artefacts ; coins ; manuscripts ; funeral monuments ; sculptures, etc.) and immaterial objects (craftsmanship ; literary models ; language ; religious and burial practices ; ideology of power ; oath-taking, etc.) are studied, including some emblematic ‘monuments' of the Norman worlds (the Bayeux Tapestry ; the mosaics on the floor of Otranto Cathedral). Particular attention is given to presenting these objects in a context in which their reinterpretation in different socio-cultural environments could be better understood. The book also questions the role and the significance of the actors of cultural transfers (aristocratic elites ; churchmen ; merchants ; craftsmen ; authors ; copyists ; etc.), considering their status or their function, as well as their aptitude to carry transfers. It sheds light on relations and networks that have been thus far relatively unknown, and on the circulation of models that consists of a multitude of objects and productions. Finally, it contributes to the exploration of the contacts between different populations and the construction of their interactions.

01/2022

ActuaLitté

Non classé

Preventive Action for Refugee Producing Situations

This book provides an empirical analysis rather than a theoretical framework of refugee situations during the Cold War. It focuses on potential refugee-producing situations with a view to prevent occurances where refugees are exploited as a weapon in political strife. In order to forestall the violation of individual rights, the book proposes measures to prevent refugee situations from arising, however, not to prevent persecuted individuals from seeking protection. This second edition shows in its revised parts that the proposals for prevention, including on mediation, early warning, and information-sharing are all being implemented. Developments since the publication of the first edition have entirely changed the international political climate. Prevention has moved to the top of the agenda of the United Nations and individual states alike. Progress achieved in the area of human rights and political climate. Prevention has moved to the top of the agenda of the United Nations and indivivual states alike. Progress achieved in the area of human rights and development, humanitarian assistance and intervention, peacekeeping and peacemaking offer new possibilities and challenges for prevention and peace. The international community should move forcefully now while almost global cooperation is possible to institutionalize new prevention and intervention approaches to save lives and to prevent future abuses of human rights and forced population displacement. The Cold War may have finished but war, internal and crossborder, is still alive.

07/1993

ActuaLitté

Linguistique

Nouveaux regards sur la variation dialectale. Textes en français et anglais

Ce volume rassemble des articles de romanistes et germanistes de divers horizons afin d'évaluer comment les nouvelles technologies peuvent améliorer notre connaissance de la variation dialectale, en Europe et au-delà. Les articles de la première moitié du volume portent sur le développement de cartes géolinguistiques à l'aide de nouveaux outils numériques. De nombreux projets sont basés sur des travaux existants mais certains ajoutent des données nouvellement recueillies aux ressources déjà existantes. Les articles de la seconde moitié du volume traitent de nouveaux projets numériques entièrement basés sur des données originales récemment collectées, dont beaucoup visent des objectifs spécifiques tels que l'étude de la variation syntaxique, du nivellement dialectal ou du traitement automatique du langage naturel. This volume brings together articles from Romance and Germanic dialectologists with diverse backgrounds in order to evaluate how new technologies can enhance our knowledge of dialectal variation in Europe and beyond. The articles in the first half focus on the development of geolinguistic maps using new digital tools. Many projects are based on existing works, but some add newly collected data to the already existing resources. The articles in the second half deal with new digital projects entirely based on recently collected original data, many of which are aimed at specific goals, such as the study of syntactic variation, dialect levelling, or natural language processing.

01/2022

ActuaLitté

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

ActuaLitté

Ouvrages généraux

Représentations et symbolique de la guerre et de la paix dans le monde arabe. Textes en français et en arabe

Les recherches publiées dans ce livre portent sur les représentations et les symboliques de la guerre et de la paix dans le monde arabe de l'époque médiévale à nos jours. Les recherches publiées dans ce livre portent sur les représentations et les symboliques de la guerre et de la paix dans le monde arabe sur la longue durée. Les auteurs sont spécialistes de différentes disciplines (sociologie, anthropologie, histoire, études linguistiques et littéraires) et portent une attention particulière à la langue de leurs corpus, depuis des textes fondateurs, Coran ou hadiths, en passant par les sources classiques de l'historien (les textes des auteurs du patrimoine classique arabe), jusqu'aux productions qui nous sont contemporaines, des textes militants aux oeuvres de fiction, tous témoignant des représentations que l'on tente d'interpréter ici. -- The studies published in this book focus on representations and symbolics of war and peace in the Arab world over the long term. The authors are specialists in various disciplines (sociology, anthropology, history, linguistic and literary studies), and pay particular attention to the language of their corpus, from the founding texts, Koran or hadiths, through the historian's classical sources (texts by authors of the classical Arab heritage), up to contemporary productions, from militant texts to works of fiction, all testifying to the representations we are trying to interpret here.

03/2024

ActuaLitté

Non classé

Towards a Cross-Linguisitic Assessment of Speech Production

The contributions to this volume by H.W. Dechert, A.K. Fathman, F. Grosjean, D.C. O'Connell, M. Raupach, K. Sajavaara/J. Lehtonen, H.W. Seliger and R. Wiese all deal with speech data from native speakers of different languages, or native speakers and language learners of the same language, or speakers in their native and their second languages. They are the results of various methodological attempts to assess speech using a cross-linguistic approach and represent an area of research which may be called "Contrastive Psycholinguistics".

12/1980

ActuaLitté

Autres personnages

Timoté : Timoté apprend l'anglais. Avec 1 jeu à détacher

Timoté apprend ses premiers mots d'anglais ! Timoté est un petit lapin qui, au fil des albums, partage sa vie avec ses copains et sa famille. Aujourd'hui, la classe de Timoté accueille Andrew, le professeur d'anglais. Comment dit-on " Bonjour " en anglais ? La classe apprend ses premiers mots (couleurs, animaux...) et ses premières phrases : " I like chicken " ; " The tee-shirt is blue ", mais aussi des chansons : " Head, shoulders, knees and toes " ou encore " If you are happy, clap your hands ". Une première initiation à l'anglais avec des QR codes pour répéter !

08/2021

ActuaLitté

Non classé

Sir Charles Sedley’s «The Mulberry-Garden» (1668) and «Bellamira: or, The Mistress» (1687)

In his own time, the court wit Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701) was praised for his poetic skill rather than for his dramatic talent. Yet, as this old-spelling critical edition of his two comedies shows, Sedley was also a satirist whose plays are worth reading along with the ones of his more celebrated fellow-artists Etherege, Wycherley, and Shadwell. After a biographical introduction, a detailed analysis of the plays and characters concentrates on Sedley's satiric strategies which lambaste the marriage of convenience as well as the conduct of a hypocritical and materialistic society.

03/2001

ActuaLitté

Policiers

The poet assassin

Some mysterious graffiti on the walls of the Castillet, a crowned reptile in Saint Jean Cathedral, the Campo Santo defiled : these are some of the bizarre clues in Lieutenant Dominique d'Astié's latest investigation. Is there a link between their symbolism, the enigmatic poems strewn all over the streets of Perpignan and the bloody assassination of "King Arthur Pendragon" ? The young Parisian police officer, newest member of La Police Judiciaire de Perpignan, will need to brush up on the old Arthurian legends if she is to solve this very non-Catalan murder !

05/2012

ActuaLitté

Policiers

The triangle mystery

A man is brutally murdered in a dark alley of the oldest part of Perpignan, a sleepy town of Southern France near the Spanish border. He has the bloody mark of a triangle, carved on his cheek, a symbol that intrigues the police especially young Dominique d’Astié, recently promoted Lieutenant on the force. A mysterious coded note and a brochure about the Holy Thorns of Christ are found in the victim’s pockets. These clues lead the criminal investigation on an esoteric trail, which will involve Freemasons and other secret Brotherhoods.

03/2010

ActuaLitté

Décoration

Bird Fantasy Designs. 45 Original Plates

Here are 45 dazzling, fantastical bird-related designs that offer a unique source of copyright-free inspiration to artists and illustrators. Created by noted designer William Rowe, every element of the designs is derived from bird forms. You'll find flurries of wings, beaks and tails, strange half-bird, half-human creations, kaleidoscopic conglomerations of avian anatomy, bird silhouettes, and many other unusual representations of birds, both familiar and bizarre. Not only a useful archive of design ideas, Bird Fantasy Designs offers wonderful opportunities and challenges to the colorist as well.

01/1986

ActuaLitté

Non classé

Letters to Immanuel Bekker from Henriette Herz, S. Pobeheim and Anna Horkel

"Letters to Immanuel Bekker" is an edition of forty-three letters written between 1817 and 1825 to the German philologist Immanuel Bekker by three friends. Most of the letters are by Henriette Herz, who had a famous salon in Berlin at the turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. The letters from Italy (1817-1819) discuss the life of the German colony there, especially of the German artists. The correspondence contains references to the social, cultural and political life in Berlin and in Germany during the second decade of the nineteenth century.

12/1972

ActuaLitté

Non classé

Grenzpfähle der Wirklichkeit- Approaches to the Poetry of R.S. Thomas

R.S. Thomas is one of the most important contemporary poets in Great Britain. The author of this study uses a twofold approach in order to sketch a portrait of his work. On the one hand, R.S. Thomas's historical and literary Welsh background with its particular problems of language and identity is delineated. On the other hand, groups of poems which focus on specific themes are analyzed extensively, so that the principles of the poet's thoughts and the development of his work from the 40s up to the present become transparent.

12/1984

ActuaLitté

Non classé

The Christology of Mark

In our world of research, logics and measurement many of the ideas of (the New Testament and of) the Fathers (pre-existence, incarnation, Virgin Birth, demons,etc.) are today no longer acceptable. For those people who, like the author, see in the Chalcedonian Jesus Christ a mythological creature, Markus' christology is an alternative which at present will surely be more welcome. "Jesus could be, ontologically speaking, nothing more than a man and, nevertheless, he could have been used by God... in a unique way for the sake of our salvation".

02/1991

ActuaLitté

Non classé

Cognition and Image Formation in Literature

The credibility of the traditional psychoanalytic method of interpreting literature is lacking both within the field of literary and of psychoanalytic studies. In conjunction with a discussion of the untenable hypotheses and analogies that have formed the basis of traditional psychoanalytic involvement with literature, this work evaluates the psychoanalytic theory and conceptualizations that are relevant to the study of literature. Its premise is that the literary symbol functions in a reader's cognitive-affective responses to a text, which constitutes a psychological synthesis of text and reader identities.

12/1979

ActuaLitté

Non classé

Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis Book 10 - A Commentary

The final and most important book of Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis is examined as a paradigm for both the compositional techniques and the meaning of the whole poem. These techniques are shown as being reliant on the medieval arts of composition, the strategies inherited from the Biblical paraphrasts and the strict discipline of classical epic hexameter. The author shows that Walter of Châtillon is not simply a classicising epigone of Vergil, but a master poet refining contemporary epic techniques and incorporating scientific and philosophic materials into an elegant moral diatribe against arrogance.

08/1991

ActuaLitté

Non classé

The Reception of Grabbe's Hannibal in the German Theatre

After publication in 1835, Grabbe's Hannibal was overlooked by the theatre until this century. Because the drama does not lend itself easily to stage production, a number of adaptations were printed : these are analysed and their merits and shortcomings evaluated. The history of all productions is then viewed against the background of Germany's political and cultural history from 1918 to 1958, examining in detail the approaches of such producers as Jessner, Martin, Schmitt and Schalla and their audience impact. This analysis in turn sheds light on essential qualities of Hannibal.

12/1984

ActuaLitté

Thèmes photo

Fugees

" We are all Fugees ! " Nous sommes tous des réfugiés. Que l'on soit réfugié politique ou réfugié dans nos propres doutes et certitudes, nous avions tous le même statut. Et j'étais là, voyageant depuis un moment avec mon "Afghan Box" - cette mystérieuse boîte en bois me servant à la fois d'appareil photo et de labo de développement - à me demander quel lien implicite reliait toutes ces personnes photographiées rencontrées sur mon chemin en Birmanie, la Thaïlande, la Malaisie, l'Australie, mais aussi le Portugal, le Maroc, le Mali, le Nigéria...

04/2022

ActuaLitté

CD K7 Littérature

Une écharpe dans la neige

Sur un télésiège de la station suédoise d'Are, dans les montagnes du Jämtland, on découvre un corps gelé. Dans la neige, une écharpe en laine. Hanna Ahlander, récemment virée de la police de Stockholm (et accessoirement larguée par son petit ami), mène l'enquête avec l'inspecteur Daniel Lindskog. Entre la rebelle hantée par ses échecs et le jeune père débordé par son boulot, le courant passe. Mais parviendront-ils à résoudre cette affaire plus sombre et plus complexe qu'il n'y paraît ? Que cache ce décor de luxe ?

09/2023

ActuaLitté

Physique, chimie

MECHANICS OF MATERIALS. 5th edition

Since 1960, this leading text has taught thousands of students the fundamentals of non rigid body mechanics. Now, the new author team of Riley, Sturges, and Morris have revised the text to appeal to today's students by updating the illustration program, adding design content, and including more realistic problem sets. The fifth edition is written in a clear and concise style and contains new illustrations throughout each chapter. The text stresses the use of fundamental principles and the concepts of mechanics to solve all problems. As a result, students must apply the information presented in each chapter to answer realistic problems instead of simply using formulas. This problem solving method motivates students to learn the material because they see how it is used in the real world. New Features of the Fifth Edition * A new introductory chapter containing a "Review of Statics" has been included. * Chapter 2 is reorganized to conform with the greater use of the stress transformation and principal stress equations in engineering practice. * Numerous example problems are used to show methods of analysis for typical mechanics of materials problems. Hints have been added to most of these example problems to help students understand the thought process required for their solution. * Each chapter concludes with a section on design. * Design Example problems and Design Homework problems have been added to most chapters. * There are over 1300 homework problems, many of which require the use of the computer for their solution.

01/1999

ActuaLitté

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

ActuaLitté

Histoire internationale

Flavius Josephus, the Zealots and Yavne

The historiography concerning The War of the Jews by Flavius Josephus has underlined the various aspects (economic, social, political, religious) of the Roman-Jewish conflict from 66 to 73 AD. A study of the Jew's vision of himself and the Other, the Roman, makes it possible to see this conflict from the point of view of the conquered. Analysis of the events which, from 6 to 66 AD, resulted in the opening of hostilities, suggests that the Jewish-Roman conflict was also a conflict of mentalities. The Jewish mentality implies a concept of war which contributed to the development of the divisions and schisms between the supporters of full-scale war against Rome (the Zealots) and the non-belligerents (Rabbi Yohanan ben Zaccaï and the Yavne School, Flavius Josephus). Furthermore, the discourse of Flavius Josephus is Jewish discourse. So far as certain options are concerned, such as his rejection of the war against Rome on the one hand, and his hatred of the Zealots on the other, a literal reading of that discourse shows that they are in the direct line of Jewish tradition as represented by RYBZ and his Yavne School. Josephus can be taken literally ; the interest of his writing lies in its presentation of an internal cohesion and in the light that throws on the points of convergence and divergence in the same Pharisaic options. Finally, Josephus' text leads us to reconsider the problem of his 'betrayal'.

01/1994

ActuaLitté

Monographies

Fuseli and the Modern Woman. Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism

This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition devoted to a fascinating group of drawings by the Anglo-Swiss Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), one of eighteenth-century Europe's most idiosyncratic, original and controversial artists. Best known for his notoriously provocative painting The Nightmare, Fuseli energetically cultivated a reputation for eccentricity, with vividly stylised images of supernatural creatures, muscle-bound heroes, and damsels in distress. While these convinced some viewers of the greatness of his genius, others dismissed him as a charlatan, or as completely mad. Fuseli's contemporaries might have thought him even crazier had they been aware that in private he harboured an obsessive preoccupation with the figure of the modern woman, which he pursued almost exclusively in his drawings. Where one might have expected idealised bodies with the grace and proportions of classical statues, here instead we encounter figures whose anatomies have been shaped by stiff bodices, waistbands, puffed sleeves, and pointed shoes, and whose heads are crowned by coiffures of the most bizarre and complicated sort. Often based on the artist's wife Sophia Rawlins, the women who populate Fuseli's graphic work tend to adopt brazenly aggressive attitudes, either fixing their gaze directly on the viewer or ignoring our presence altogether. Usually they appear on their own, in isolation on the page ; sometimes they are grouped together to form disturbing narratives, erotic fantasies that may be mysterious, vaguely menacing, or overtly transgressive, but where women always play a dominant role. Among the many intriguing questions raised by these works is the extent to which his wife Sophia was actively involved in fashioning her appearance for her own pleasure, as well as for the benefit of her husband. By bringing together more than fifty of these studies (roughly a third of the known total), The Courtauld Gallery will give audiences an unprecedented opportunity to see one of the finest Romantic-period draughtsmen at his most innovative and exciting. Visitors to the show and readers of the lavishly illustrated catalogue will further be invited to consider how Fuseli's drawings of women, as products of the turbulent aftermath of the American and French Revolutions, speak to concerns about gender and sexuality that have never been more relevant than they are today. The exhibition showcases drawings brought together from international collections, including the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand, and from other European and North American institutions.

12/2022

ActuaLitté

Vins, alcools, boissons

Le monde du vin aujourd'hui

Note de l'éditeur : La guerre du vin fait rage ! Ainsi titrait la célèbre revue américaine, Business Week, au début des années 2000 : "Wine War, How American and Australian wines are stomping the French". Jacky Rigaux poursuit sa croisade pour la défense des vins de terroir. Militant de la cause du "vin au naturel", il nous propose dans cet ouvrage une approche plus épistémologique et esthétique que partisane du monde du vin d'aujourd'hui, sans oublier de nous rappeler qu'il demeure avant tout une boisson créée pour notre plaisir d'être et de notre plaisir d'être ensemble.

10/2020

ActuaLitté

Sociologie

Polish Psychological Verbs at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface in Cross-linguistic Perspective

This book is a comparative study of Polish psychological verbs. The analysis concentrates on the lexicon-syntax interface of psych verbs, and constitutes an argument in favour of its strong dependence on event structure. The aim of this study is to show that the class of Polish psych verbs, as in many other languages, is not uniform. The analysed subclasses are differentiated on the basis of their causation and stativity. The marriage of those semantic traits and their structural representation is possible only if it is performed via event structure configuration, a layer which appears to underlie the conceptualisation of events.

04/2005

ActuaLitté

Autres collections (6 à 9 ans)

Le buisson glouton

Rosalie a 7 ans et fréquente l'école Biz-Are , située dans un petit village de campagne. Il n'y a pas que le nom de l'école qui sort de l'ordinaire. Chaque année, plusieurs choses étranges ont lieu dans l'école, ou tout près. Justement, ces temps-ci, des objets appartenant à des élèves de l'école disparaissent dans la cour de récréation ! Rosalie et son meilleur ami, Léon, sont curieux. Où peuvent bien être passés le ballon de Karef, les billes de Maïka et la poupée d'Albert ? Les deux amis sont prêts à découvrir la vérité, coûte que coûte !

05/2023

ActuaLitté

Instruments de musique

Slicked Back Tango. for trumpet and piano. trumpet and piano.

Tangos, like ragtimes and waltzes, are an integral part of Elena Kats-Chernin's music, always in a new and varied form. In it, the composer allusively combines her present time with the classical tradition and high art with light music. Slicked Back Tango was originally composed in 1995 for piano four hands and has since been written for numerous other instrumentations. The music "harks back to the time of silent movies. I was thinking of the 1920s and film star Rudolph Valentino. The title refers to his hairstyle", says Kats-Chernin. Instrumentation : trumpet and piano

05/2023

ActuaLitté

Instruments de musique

Slicked Back Tango. for cello and piano. cello and piano.

Tangos, like ragtimes and waltzes, are an integral part of Elena Kats-Chernin's music, always in a new and varied form. In it, the composer allusively combines her present time with the classical tradition and high art with light music. Slicked Back Tango was originally composed in 1995 for piano four hands and has since been written for numerous other instrumentations. The music "harks back to the time of silent movies. I was thinking of the 1920s and film star Rudolph Valentino. The title refers to his hairstyle", says Kats-Chernin. Instrumentation : cello and piano

05/2023

ActuaLitté

Autres collections (9 à 12 ans

Les enquêtes de Tom et Lola : Le mystère de la Saint-Valentin. Edition bilingue français-anglais

C'est bientôt la Saint-Valentin. A l'école, les élèves préparent des cadeaux et des jolies cartes pour les amoureux. Mais, à la veille de cette fête, ils découvrent dans la classe une boite blanche avec un ruban rouge, une carte et un stylo noir. A qui appartiennent ces objets ? Pourquoi sont-ils là ? - It is soon Valentine day. At school the children make gifts and pretty cards. But just the day before the celebration, they discover in the classroom a white box with a red ribbon, a card and a black pen. Who owns these objects ? Why are they here ?

10/2021