Supergirl. Woman of Tomorrow
Extraits
Comics Super-héros
Spider-Woman Tome 1 : Mauvais sang
Jessica Drew n'est pas en grande forme. Mais il lui faut bien gagner sa vie, alors elle a accepté un poste de garde du corps. Toutefois, rien n'est jamais aussi simple qu'il n'y parait dans la vie d'une héroïne, et une banale fête d'anniversaire va donner suite à une série d'événements dramatiques et de révélations bouleversantes... Le début d'un nouveau Pourquoi Jessica va si mal ? Comment a-t-elle vraiment obtenu son nouveau travail ? Et surtout, quel est le lien avec ses origines ? Karla Pacheco (The Punisher) et Pere Pérez (Rogue & Gambit) répondent à ces questions dans le premier volume de la nouvelle série consacrée à Spider-Woman.
04/2021
Histoire de France
The Borders of Schengen
Currently, we are witnessing a "border game" with participants on a global scale. The massive movement of illegal immigrants and refugees who have arrived in Europe over the last few months has led political leaders, activists' movements and anonymous citizens to rethink practices and discourses. The media have multiplied news stories about mobilization initiatives that go well beyond the sphere of the state and even operate on the fringes of the law. Nationalism and identity issues have found their way onto the EU and its member-states' agenda while the international community argues about the urgency to collaborate to address one of the greatest problems seen in Europe since the Second World War. Schengen borders have been suffering reconfigurations on an almost daily basis and Schengen has even been temporarily suspended in some countries, with the ghost of the end of the Union hovering over Europe. The series of multidisciplinary texts collected in this book offer the reader a variety of perspectives on the understanding of the Schengen area. Broadly speaking, this volume includes reflections on subjects that embrace the debates on the concept and practices of the free movement of persons within Europe, the security dimension of the European Union, illegal immigration and migration management, human rights and the role of various players and interests. This is the book to read if you wish to understand the latest developments in the Schengen area on its 30th anniversary.
09/1993
Non classé
The Painful Chrysalis
This collection of 12 essays offers detailed and varied studies of the unique problematic construction of contemporary identities from a literary and cultural perspective. The Painful Chrysalis covers transcendental, relevant and polemic topics like the difficulty of growing up, classist and interracial struggles, narratives of displacement and exile, queering the world, power politics and the individual, troubling poetics of the self, politically contesting documentaries, or boredom and male anorexia. It ranges from British authors of very different origin (such as David Lodge, Radclyffe Hall, Paul Golding, Zadie Smith or Abdulrazak Gurnah) to Canadian and American women writers (such as P.K. Page, Lalitha Gandbhir, Anita Rau Badami, Chitra Bannerji Divakaruni, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Linda Hogan, Janice Mirikitani, or Gloria AnzaldGloria Anzaldúa). The heterodoxy in the critical approaches, together with the diversity of the contents offered, serve to trace an ample mosaic of the urges and drives of artists living in modern multicultural societies and suffering from specific traumatic experiences. Ultimately, their disturbances and fractures help us elucidate the way in which human fragility is transformed into cathartic creativity.
09/2011
Non classé
Labouring Lives
Labouring Lives unravels the huge changes which have so fundamentally altered the life courses of ordinary women over the past one hundred and fifty years, namely the changes in marriage and fertility patterns. Using dynamic data from Dutch population registers and analytical techniques from the life course approach, the book offers new evidence on women's changing position in the labour market, their role in pre-nuptial sexuality, and their contribution to marriage and fertility change in the Netherlands between 1880 and 1960. The author reconstructs the socio-economic and demographic worlds of different groups of working and non-working women, and by doing so she is able to locate the various groups driving the changes. Advanced statistical tools enable the author to analyse differences in fertility strategies, stopping versus spacing, employed by various social and cultural groups in the Netherlands. This book leads to conclusions which challenge a number of orthodoxies in the field.
10/2014
Sciences de la terre et de la
Dinosaur imagery. The Science of Lost Worlds and Jurassic Art, The Lanzendorf Collection
"Paleo-art resides in many of the world's great Natural History Museums, but the most notable collection characterizing the present state of dinosaur art is that of John Lanzendorf. It would be impossible to collect all of the dinosaur artwork being produced today; if it could be done, John would be the one to do it. Highly respected by the artists he supports and the scientists he associates with, John has built an awe-inspiring collection that is representative of the genre and is the envy of many museums. As we move into a new millennium, his collection is the most appropriate source for documenting the marriage of the creative talents of artists and scientists."
The art of natural history is both compelling and emotive, often emblematic of society's view of our world. This same art also reflects the messages that scientists hope to send to a general audience as a part of their effort to influence how the public view and supports science. Art is both the medium and the message.
Dinosaur Imagery is a luxurious testimonial to the public fascination with dinosaurs, enriched by imagery that eloquently illustrates current scientific theories about dinosaur behavior, physiology, locomotion, and reproduction. The evidence for many of these hypotheses of dinosaur life is very good, and thus, the art of dinosaur depiction is rooted in scientific inquiry. The paintings and sculptures that illustrate dinosaur science are powerful, and museums and collectors vie for this art, paying top dollar to acquire it and display it. Dinosaur Imagery is a stunning fusion of superlative scientific inquiry and unparalleled artistic imagination. Regardless of back-ground, no person interested in dinosaurs should be without a copy of this book.
05/2000
Histoire internationale
National Heroes and National Identities. Scotland, Norway and Lithuania
This book investigates the concept of the heroic, questions what it is that makes the national hero an indispensable appendage to any possible interpretation of national identity, and asks why scholars stop short before coming to terms with this elusive phenomenon. It finds answers by following heroic traditions in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The book argues that heroic traditions – prevailing trends in situating heroes in national history – owe much to the early modern state. Both national heroes and the nation state had been conceived with a similar moral political mindset that looked for new ways to identify sources for commonality. The confluence of political theory and Realpolitik attested to three classical types of polities, i.e. civitas popularis (democracy), regnum (kingship), and optimatium (aristocracy), as found at that time in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania respectively. The author shows the varied impact these patterns had on heroic traditions. The long record of national heroes in Scotland is explained as a vestige of the legacy of civic humanism, the continuing traditions of the heroic king-lines in Norway are seen as a result of long-standing absolutism, while the belated arrival of national heroes in Lithuania is excused by the country's aristocratic if at times oligarchic past.
02/1993
Critique littéraire
Le Chevalier au lion. Ou Le roman d'Yvain
Le Chevalier au Lion est, parmi les romans de Chrétien de Troyes, l'un des plus fascinants. La Fontaine enchantée de la forêt de Brocéliande, le coup de foudre d'Yvain pour Laudine ; la finesse et la ruse bienveillantes de la suivante Lunete, qui décide la veuve éplorée à épouser au bout de trois jours le vainqueur et meurtrier de son mari ; la folie d'Yvain ; la fidélité reconnaissante du lion qu'il a sauvé ; les captives employées à tisser la soie au château de la Pesme Aventure : tous ces épisodes, et bien d'autres, ont, à des titres divers, séduit l'imagination, provoqué la réflexion, alimenté la recherche des ethnologues, des mythologues, des historiens autant que celle des historiens de la littérature.
Ce volume offre, accompagnée d'une traduction, une édition critique nouvelle, fondée sur le meilleur manuscrit du Chevalier au Lion.
07/1998
Critique littéraire
Le conte du Graal ou Le Roman de Perceval
Voici l'œuvre dernière, restée inachevée (c. 1181), du grand romancier d'aventure et d'amour qu'est Chrétien de Troyes. Paradoxe d'une mort féconde. Énigme demeurée intacte. Œuvre riche de toutes les traditions : biblique et augustinienne, antique et rhétorique, celtique et féerique. Est-ce un roman d'éducation ou le mystère d'une initiation ? Brillet-il par le cristal de sa langue ou par la merveille d'une femme ? Une édition nouvelle, une traduction critique, la découverte d'un copiste méconnu du manuscrit de Berne, autant d'efforts pour restituer au lecteur moderne les puissances d'abîme et d'extase du grand œuvre du maître champenois.
09/2002
Littérature française
Le Fils des Étoiles. Ou le roman en alexandrin
" Le Fils des Etoiles " est un roman en alexandrins. Il fait le récit d'une exploration. En 5432, une catastrophe climatique embrasa la moitié de l'espace terrestre. Ce phénomène caniculaire réduisant l'espace habitable a créé une équation difficile à résoudre. La population mondiale grandit terriblement pendant que la Terre est étrangement réduite. Dans cette calamité un héros va surgir. Jeune Harry par son caractère immortel va faire de grandes luttes pour délivrer l'humanité entière grâce à ses multiples talents. Sa campagne d'exploration sur la lune est l'occasion pour lui d'instruire le monde des scientifiques à repenser autrement l'envie vorace de domination des Humains. Ce livre appelle à une prise de conscience pour l'édification d'une humanité égalitaire et épanouie.
10/2020
Littérature française
Maestranza. Ni essai ni roman, ce qu'on voudra
Où il est question de maestria, d'esprit, de plaisir, de bravoure, de brio, d'autorité, d'amabilité, de virilité, de liberté, de dignité, de révolte, d'excès, de jeu, de foi, de swing, de tempo, de corrida, de fandango, de séguedille - toutes choses très joyeuses et donc parfaitement inactuelles. Oui. Mais aussi de Bach, de Nietzsche, de Mozart, de Thérèse d'Avila, de José Bergamin, de Garcia Lorca, de Vélasquez, de Picasso, de Cervantès, de Cavafy, et de Melville, aussi, et de Clément Rosset, et de Francis Bacon, le peintre... Et d'El Juli, le matador, aux arènes de la Maestranza - olé !
05/2000
Littérature étrangère
La comtesse de Kiburg ou les Liaisons politiques, roman
La Comtesse de Kiburg, ou les Liaisons politiques, roman d'Auguste Lafontaine, traduit de l'allemand par le traducteur de "La petite harpiste" [Mme Ulliac Tremadeure] Date de l'édition originale : 1818 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu.
02/2023
Critique littéraire
Le roman des ailes ou les ailes de courtoisie
Je me suis longtemps retenu de parler. Mais je me suis aperçu que trop parler, et trop se taire ne permet d'arriver à rien. Je souhaite, dans ce roman que je commence pour vous, Parler des chevaliers d'une façon nouvelle, Afin que l'on prenne exemple sur eux, et que l'on apprenne vraiment ce qu'est la courtoisie. A ce propos, je suis peiné de ne pouvoir trouver, de plus beaux mots que ceux que je vais employer. A ce sujet, ces mots disent une chose sûre : la chevalerie est la fontaine de Courtoisie, Que personne ne peut épuiser tant qu'on sait y puiser.
05/2019
Littérature française
L'huile ou la caisse. Roman rock'n'rural
Au coeur de Rilhac-Rancon, Pauliette Block et son caractère bien trempé gère d'une main de maître sa petite boucherie-charcuterie aux côtés de sa timide et docile fille Chantaline. D'emblée, rien ni personne ne pourrait venir troubler la cadence bien huilée de ce petit commerce réputé pour ses spécialités. Jusqu'à cet épisode fracassant qui va chambouler le quotidien de ce duo familial et ouvrir les portes d'un passé doux-amer aussi croustillant qu'un incongru testament. Un roman 100% rock'n'rural et burlesque, enrobé d'une pointe de poésie et pimenté par la petite galerie de portraits du bistrot "Aux Gens Bons Beurre" dominée par le spiritueux postier Gaëtan Vieilledent. "Un bouquin à savourer sans modération grâce à son humour fait maison, nom d'un bousin", conclut Pauliette Block en personne.
01/2018
Littérature francophone
Fatouma l'orpheline ou l'univers des adoptés. Roman
Elève de son état et orpheline de mère à douze ans, Fatouma se retrouva dans une famille adoptive. N'étant plus en mesure de satisfaire aux besoins de sa fille, Faciné, père de Fatouma, décida de la faire adopter par une des connaissances de sa défunte épouse. L'adolescente tomba, malheureusement, entre les mains de Bondö, une femme réputée pour sa méchanceté. Ainsi, cette dernière la soumit à des travaux ménagers, jadis divisés entre ses filles, et à des tortures de toutes sortes. Aux corvées et aux tortures dont elle faisait l'objet, s'ajoutait la douleur morale du viol dont elle a été victime de Mouctar, fils de sa mère adoptive. Rien de tout cela ne la détourna de son objectif qui était celui d'étudier.
03/2023
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
More than ever before Japan is committed to becoming a science and technology-oriented nation. With the challenge of the Asian economic crisis in the late 1 990s, there is pressure on the Japanese economy to change. Japan continues to turn to science and technology to safeguard its future, but there is more than one path to follow. A team of three leading scholars in the field explore the dynamic relationship between science, technology and Japanese society, examining how it has contributed to economic growth and the well-being of the Japanese people. They ask if there is anything distinctively Japanese about Japanese science, in terms of both its development and application.
This book presents a synthesis of recent debates by juxtaposing competing views about the role and direction of science, technology and medical care in Japan. Much of the book looks at government policy, the role of the private sector, and the response of concerned citizens. Other topics discussed include computers and communication, quality control and the automobile industry, the aerospace industry, the environment, consumer electronics, changes in medical care, and the role of gender.
Part I explores the features of the Japanese model of research and development. It differentiates between basic and applied research and considers the question of cooperation versus competition in national R&D projects. Part 2 focuses on the relevance of science and technology to economic growth, and Part 3 examines the impact of globalisation on the flow of science and technology in and out of Japan. Part 4 critiques the concept of 'national interest', arguing that supposed national goals are often determined by powerful institutional or corporate groups with particular vested interests.
This book is an ideal introductory text for students in the sociology of science and technology, the history and philosophy of science, and Japanese studies. Up-to-date research and contemporary case studies make this an invaluable resource for readers interested in the nature of science and technology in the twenty-first century.
01/1999
Archéologie
Etudes sur l'histoire et l'archéologie de Lydie de la période proto-lydienne à la fin de l'Antiquité. Textes en français et anglais
Lydia, lying between the Aegean coast and the Anatolian plateau, has been associated since Antiquity with the Pactolus river, which carried gold from the Tmolus mountain, and with the wealth of Croesus. Populated by Lydians and Maeonians, and marked by the presence of Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines, it has attracted the attention of researchers since the end of the 18th century. This book aims to cover the chronology of Lydian studies from the protohistoric period to the beginning of the Byzantine period and to bring together the contributions of international researchers and scholars from a wide range of disciplines that includes history, archeology, epigraphy, and numismatics, and from different perspectives. The various studies discuss society, social structures, military aspects, economy, religion, arts, architecture, and material culture. This diachronic approach makes it possible in particular to question continuity and discontinuity between the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, as well as with those that preceded them.
02/2023
Histoire internationale
Dealing with the Devil
When Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Moscow officials expected the British Navy to appear on the shore of Leningrad, fulfilling the Bolshevik nightmare of a concerted Capitalist plot. Instead, Prime Minister Winston Churchill reached out to promise support to the Kremlin and collaborate with Britain's former archenemy. Fighting the Nazi menace together became the new priority, leading to unprecedented levels of cooperation between the two governments. In order to defeat the Nazis, Britain and the USSR shared intelligence and revealed operative secrets to each other, including those of the secretive security services. They helped with the dispatch of agents and even ran agents together, attempting to foil German counter-intelligence strategies. For much of the Cold War, crucial facts of this collaboration remained top secret. Based on recently declassified files, Dealing with the Devil explores this little known chapter of the Second World War. This study underscores the willingness of the USSR and Britain to join forces and disclose many of their closely guarded secrets. The book uses personnel files and other historical sources to reveal for the first time the activities of officers and agents on this "invisible front", recounting the actions of many brave men and women who risked their lives to defeat the Nazis.
03/2010
Comics
Love is love
Le 12 juin 2016 à Orlando, en Floride, 49 personnes furent assassinées en raison de leur identité sexuelle. Aujourd'hui, le monde des comics se réunit pour rendre hommage aux victimes de l'attentat du Pulse. Scénaristes, artistes et personnalités du monde entier, inspirées par cet évènement tragique, livrent dans ce recueil des histoires inédites. Tous et toutes y expriment leur tristesse et leur compassion, leur frustration et leur espoir. En rendant hommage aux victimes, aux survivants et à leur famille, ils-elles transmettent un message universel de paix et de tolérance. Initié par Marc Andreyko et l'éditeur américain IDW Publishing avec l'aide de DC Comics, Love is love inclut de nombreux personnages bien connus du monde des comics : Supergirl, Batman, Le Spirit de Will Eisner, Southern Bastards, Batwoman, Kevin Keller d'Archie Comics, Harley Quinn, et bien d'autres.
11/2017
Science-fiction
The aumakua. The great white shark novel
Just as I finished grabbing it, a sharp pain suddenly was erupting on the inside edge of my lair ! Simultaneously, a tension as unbearable as it was horrifying blocked me trying to pull me towards the surface. The kanakäs had just intercepted me through this lethal decoy ! So, with all my mass and was arching my body with all my strength in the opposite direction, I was regained some slack on this terribly resistant link, feeling all the mass of the platform preventing me from probing like the dontokä before. However, I was determined to show them which of us would be most worthy of remaining in the Incompressible, when with a devastating lateral movement, I severed with a sharp blow the lethal and imperceptible tether ! By this counter blow, I was as if immediately ejected : the perfidious artifact still embedded in my lair lying painfully like a relic of this ubiquitous creature of the System.
09/2023
Anglais apprentissage
Agrégation anglais. Howards End (E. M. Forster, J. Ivory) : Beyond Heritage. Edition 2021
Reading Forster's novel and Ivory's film together gives a stunning opportunity to re-assess the representation of Pre-World War One modernity. Far from presenting Edwardian England as a golden period, Howards End explores social structures, social mobility, real estate, the ambivalent relation to culture and new technological modes of communication and transport. Stylistically, the novel breaks new ground with its Protean narrative voice, and transitions towards Modernism with its mythic, musical method. The eponymous house becomes a metaphor for ecological balance, a new kind of extended family structure, a network of connections and a new sense of community. If Howards End as a novel reinvents literary legacy and redefines personal and national heritage, Ivory's adaptation must also be reassessed as so-called heritage cinema, far from the clichés of a purely aesthetic approach. It is no period piece or marketable commodity meant to toe a conservative line, but a carefully woven creative transposition, which also raises social and gendered questions.
10/2019
Autres langues
Chinese Breeze : Our Geese Have Gone (Niveau 2 - 500 mots). Edition en anglais-chinois, 2nd edition
Twenty-five years ago, people in my village did not know that wild geese should be protected from hunting. My grandfather was the best of the hunters, selling the geese in town to pay for my schooling. One day, as he hunted, an eagle attacked the flock of geese, injuring the lead goose. My grandfather drove the eagle off and brought the lead goose home to tend to its wounds. Soon, the goose's mate joined it, and my grandfather, hunter of wild geese, found himself with two new companions...
01/2018
Histoire antique
Dieu, le souverain et la cour. Stratégies et rituels de légitimation du pouvoir impérial et royal dans l’Antiquité tardive et au haut Moyen Âge
Durant l'Antiquité tardive, la nature du pouvoir impérial romain fut profondément bouleversée sous l'effet de deux phénomènes majeurs : la montée en puissance du christianisme, qui devint religion d'Etat au début du IVe siècle, et l'apparition d'un monde multipolaire en raison de l'émergence de royaumes progressivement reconnus comme autant d'interlocuteurs politiques. Ces questions se firent d'autant plus pressantes qu'en dépit de l'affirmation du caractère monarchique du pouvoir impérial depuis le milieu du IIIe siècle, aucune règle successorale institutionnelle n'existait, obligeant les empereurs à susciter en permanence un consensus social pour affirmer leur autorité. Pour cela, ils se mirent en scène dans des cérémonies qui, depuis leur investiture jusqu'à leurs funérailles, avaient pour but d'asseoir leur légitimité et celle de leur successeur. Quant aux royaumes germaniques établis sur le sol de l'Empire, ils prirent corps dans leurs interactions avec le pouvoir impérial et avec les aristocraties romaines locales puis firent, à leur tour, du christianisme un moyen de renforcer leur légitimité. Cette étude examine les ressorts sur lesquels a reposé le pouvoir dans l'Empire romain en Occident aussi bien qu'en Orient et dans les premiers royaumes germaniques de la fin du IIIe siècle à la fin du VIe siècle. Quel rôle jouèrent la mise en scène des rituels politiques et les discours produits par le pouvoir lui-même ? Comment la christianisation du pouvoir impérial et royal se manifesta-t-elle ? Quel fut le rôle de la cour dans les stratégies de légitimation ? Comment les rois inscrivirent-ils leur pouvoir dans des cadres symboliques inspirés des cours impériales et de celles des gouverneurs des provinces ? En s'efforçant de répondre à ces questions, ce livre se propose d'analyser les transformations du pouvoir impérial romain dans l'Antiquité tardive et à l'époque protobyzantine ainsi que les expérimentations politiques à partir desquelles se construisit le modèle de la royauté médiévale en Europe occidentale. During Late Antiquity, the nature of Roman imperial power was profoundly reshaped by two major phenomena : the rise of Christianity, which became the state religion at the beginning of the fourth century, and the development of a multipolar world with the emergence of kingdoms progressively recognized as political interlocutors. These issues became particularly pressing because, despite the affirmation of the monarchical character of imperial power since the middle of the third century, no institutional rule of succession had been established, requiring the emperors to constantly build a social consensus in order to assert their authority. To do this, they put themselves on stage in ceremonies which, from their investiture to their funeral, were intended to establish their legitimacy and that of their successor. At the same time, the Germanic kingdoms established on the soil of the Empire were shaped by their interactions with the imperial power and with the local Roman aristocracies and used Christianity as a way of reinforcing their legitimacy. This study examines the mechanisms on which power relied in the Roman Empire, both in the West and the East, as well as in the early Germanic kingdoms from the end of the third to the end of the sixth century. What role was played by the staging of political rituals and discourses produced by the power itself ? How did the Christianization of imperial and royal power manifest itself ? What was the role of the court in the strategies of legitimization ? How did the kings inscribe their power in symbolic frameworks inspired by the Imperial courts and those of the provincial governors ? To answer these questions, this book analyzes the transformations of Roman imperial power in Late Antiquity and the Early Byzantine period, as well as the political experiments from which the model of medieval kingship in Western Europe was constructed.
03/2022
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
Archéologie
Paléorient 49.1
Dossier thématique/Thematic Issue Coordonné par/coordinated by A. Beshkani Le Paléolithique de la péninsule arabique : état de la recherche / The Palaeolithic of the Arabian Peninsula : State of Research Dossier thématique/Thematic Issue coordonné par/coordinated by A. Beshkani The Palaeolithic of the Arabian Peninsula : State of Research Le Paléolithique de la péninsule arabique : état de la recherche A. Marks, Introduction. A Personal Trip into Arabian Prehistory : Past, Present And Future O. Barzilai, M. Oron, E. Cohen-Sasson, G. Ragolski and Y. Avni, Handaxes and Cleavers on Flakes of Silicified Limestone at Nahal Barak, Southern Negev and Possible Connections to the Arabian Peninsula Acheulian A. Beshkani, T. Beuzen-Waller, S. Kim, M. Jean and M. Sauvage, Tracing Palaeolithic Populations across the Horn of Arabia : Northern Oman K. Bretzke and K. Herkert, Jebel Faya and the Middle to Late Pleistocene Transition : Settlement Continuity and Behavioural Flexibility J. I. Rose, V. I. Usyk, Y. Hilbert, R. Garba, A. Beshkani, D. Chlachula, M. M. Jaboob and A. E. Marks, Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Southern Oman from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Neolithic S. Bonilauri, A. Beshkani, M. Pagli and E. Boëda, Production and Structural Tendency of Levallois Points in the Late Middle Palaeolithic of the Near East Steppe Zones and Arabia Y. H. Hilbert, M. López Correa, C. Mazzoli, R. Crassard, F. Negrino, M. Cremaschi, I. Clemente-Conte and T. Uthmeier, From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers : Contributions of Traceology to the Study of Prehistoric Lithic Technology in Arabia J. I. Rose, Conclusion. Progress Report on the State of Palaeolithic Research in Arabia Varia R. Alcàntara, A. Sierra, L. Gourichon, M. Sana, J. Alejandre, L. Teira, J. Vardi and F. Borrell, Hunting at the Fringe of the Desert : Animal Exploitation at Nahal Efe (Northern Negev, Israel) during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B M. Rousou, Vegetation History and the Exploitation and Use of Plant Resources in Aceramic Neolithic Cyprus : An Assessment of Recent Archaeobotanical Research L. Bender Jorgensen, A. Rast-Eicher and W. Wendrich, Earliest Evidence for Textile Technologies A. P. Agelarakis, L. M. DiFrancesco, L. Delasos, J. Samodulski, A. Kanta and P. G. Agelarakis, A Rare Case of Chondroblastoma from Neolithic Crete of the 7th Millennium BCE
12/2023
Littérature française
Of course
Si on en juge par l'ardeur qu'ils déploient dans la littérature policière, les tueurs en série ne manquent d'imagination. Mais, depuis trop longtemps, ils négligent le fer à cheval. Pourtant, cette arme par destination leur offrirait une chance de se distinguer. L'assassin qui traverse, en un galop furtif, les pages de ce roman, a eu l'idée d'en user avec adresse, mettant en émoi et en échec les forces de l'ordre, trop souvent tirées de leur peu féconde léthargie par ses crimes nocturnes. Mais dans la petite ville qui sert de décor à cette histoire où boire est le seul remède à la mélancolie, un apprenti détective désoeuvré, qui a tout d'un héros de roman, a décidé de résoudre l'énigme... Cravachant des phrases aussi parfaites qu'insolites, ciselant des réflexions qui mériteraient la postérité - "s'il suffisait de tousser pour avoir un orgasme, tout le monde serait tuberculeux" -, Franz Bartelt, étalon du polar surgi des forêts ardennaises, pur-sang du roman au trot inimitable, nous offre avec Of course le tiercé dans l'ordre. Y renoncer serait presque un crime.
09/2021
Littérature française
Making of
Vous êtes au cinéma. Sur l'écran, un homme et une femme font l'amour. La lumière est magnifique, le cadre parfait. Un long mouvement de travelling, à peine perceptible, fixe l'instant. Ils s'aiment, c'est sûr ! Mais que s'est-il passé une heure avant et une heure après sur le plateau ? Ca, heureusement, assis dans votre fauteuil, vous ne le saurez jamais ! C'est ce qu'on appelle la magie du cinéma... Un ancien taulard qui s'improvise acteur et s'obstine à ne pas dire son texte, son remplaçant retrouvé nu accroché à un arbre dans le maquis corse en train de manger des gambas, un assistant séquestré dans le coffre d'une voiture, une actrice qui se prend une mandale au moment le plus chaud d'une scène d'amour, et Corso, le réalisateur, qui entre tendresse et exaspération envers son équipe tente désespérement de maîtriser ce chaos... Avec Making of, Xavier Durringer nous fait passer de l'autre côté du miroir et nous dévoile les coulisses rocambolesques d'un tournage déjanté. Il y a des voitures cassées, un restaurant de Calvi braqué, il y a des pleurs et des cris, des négociations secrètes, des tractations interminables... Et une incroyable histoire d'amour digne des meilleures comédies romantiques américaines. Vous pensez que tout ceci n'est que pure fiction ? Un roman drôle et sensible, une déclaration d'amour au septième art.
08/2017
Contes et nouvelles
On/off
On/Off est un recueil de quatre nouvelles autobiographiques qui racontent le parcours de l'auteur, de son enfance jusqu'à l'âge adulte. Sa vision de la vie, souvent différente de celle de ses contemporains, lui a toujours donné l'impression de vivre en marge de la société. Il se plaît alors à raconter aujourd'hui ce qu'il observe depuis toujours autour de lui.
04/2021
Histoire ancienne
Paléorient N° 46-2/2020
Paléorient 46. 1-2 - 2020 Sommaire / Contents In Memoriam Henri de Contenson (1926-2019) par E. Coqueugniot... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . . 5-7 Robert H. Dyson Jr. (1927-2020) by C. P. Thornton and M. M. Voigt... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . 9-11 Olivier Nieuwenhuyse (1966-2020) by R. Bernbeck... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 13-14 Articles K. Bretzke, E. Yousif, S. Jasim, K. Raith, A. Parton and A. Parker, On the diversity of the Palaeolithic record and patterns of Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental conditions in Southeast Arabia ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 15-30 G. Haklay and A. Gopher, Geometry, a measurement unit and rectangular architecture at early Neolithic Jerf el-Ahmar, Syria... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . 31-42 M. Birkenfeld, U. Avner, D. E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, L. Scott Cummings, F. Natalio, F. H. Neumann, N. Porat, L. Scott, T. Simmons, M. B. Toffolo and L. K. Horwitz, Hunting in the skies : Dating, paleoenvironment and archaeology at the late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of Na ? al Roded 110, Eilat Mountains, Israel ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 43-68 C. A. Makarewicz and H. M. Mahasneh, Animal exploitation at a large late Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement : The zooarchaeological record from es-Sifiya, Jordan ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 69-82 L. Peyronel and A. Vacca, Socio-economic complexity at the Late Chalcolithic site of Tell Helawa, Kurdistan Region of Iraq... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . . 83-107 S. Renette and S. Mohammadi Ghasrian, The central and northern Zagros during the Late Chalcolithic : An updated ceramic chronology based on recent fieldwork results in western Iran... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . 109-132 K. Abu Jayyab, A. Glasser, M. Albesso, E. Gibbon, I. Schwartz, A. Taraqji and S. Razzaz Late Chalcolithic occupation at Tell er-Ramadi (Syria) : Results of the 2004-2006 salvage excavations... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . 133-160 G. E. Ludvik, J. M. Kenoyer and M. Pieniazek, New evidence for interregional interaction in the 3rd millennium BCE Aegean : Indus-style carnelian beads at Aegina-Kolonna, Greece... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . 161-177 O. Barge, W. Abu-Azizeh, J. E. Brochier, R. Crassard, E. Régagnon et C. Noûs, Desert kites et constructions apparentées : découvertes récentes et mise à jour de l'extension géographique... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . . 179-200 Recensions Squitieri A. and Eitam D. (eds.) 2019. Stone tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt. Ground stone tools, rock-cut installations andstone vessels from Prehistory to Late Antiquity. Oxford : Archaeopress (Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology 4). 360 p. By C. Hamon... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 201-203 Rose J. I. , Hilbert Y. H. , Marks A. E. and Usik V. I. 2019. The first peoples of Oman. Palaeolithic archaeology of the Nejd plateau. Oxford : Archaeopress and Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Sultanate of Oman (The Archaeological Heritage of Oman 5). 196 p. By H. S. Groucutt... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . 203-208 Venditti F. 2019. Understanding lithic recycling at the Late Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave, Israel. A functional and chemical investigation of small flakes. Oxford : Archaeopress. 188 p. Par S. Bonilauri... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 208-210 Purschwitz C. 2017. Die lithische Ökonomie von Feuerstein im Frühneolithikum der Größeren Petra Region. Berlin : ex Oriente (Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 19). 620 p. By E. Ghasidian... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . 210-211 Birkenfeld M. 2018. Changing systems : Pre-Pottery Neolithic B settlement patterns in the Lower Galilee, Israel. Berlin : exOriente (Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 21). 334 p. By E. B. Banning... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 212-214 Schwall C. 2018. Cukuriçi Höyük 2. Das 5. und 4. Jahrtausend v. Chr. im Westanatolien und der Ostägäis (mit einem Beitrag von Barbara Horejs). Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences (Oriental and European Archaeology 7). 820 p. Par J. -P. Demoule ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . . 214-217 Gernez G. and Giraud J. (eds.) 2019. Taming the Great Desert : Adam in the Prehistory of Oman. Oxford : Archaeopress, Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Sultanate of Oman (The Archaeological Heritage of Oman 3). 128 p. By P. A. Yule 218-220 Hausleiter A. , Eichmann R. et al-Najem M. (dir.) 2018. Tayma' I. Archaeological exploration, palaeoenvironment, cultural contacts. Oxford : Archaeopress, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Orient-Abteilung et Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage. 267 p. Par G. Charloux... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . . 221-226
12/2020
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
WHY SEX MATTERS. A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
Why are men, like other primate usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to maximize their reproductive success and seek resources to do so.
Low begins by reviewing the fundamental arguments and assumptions of behavioral ecology: selfish genes, conflicts of interest, and the tendency for sexes to reproduce through different behaviors. She explains why in primate species-from chimpanzees and apes to humans-males seek to spread their genes by devoting extraordinary efforts to finding mates, while females find it profitable to expend more effort on parenting. Low illustrates these sexual differences among humans by showing that in places as diverse as the parishes of nineteenth-century Sweden, the villages of seventeenth-century China, and the forests of twentieth-century Brasil, men have tended to seek power and resources, from cattle to money, to attract mates, while women have sought a secure environment for raising children. She makes it clear, however, they have not done so simply through individual efforts or in a vacuum, but that men and women act in complex ways that involve cooperation and coalition building and that are shaped by culture, technology, tradition, and the availability of resources. Low also considers how file evolutionary drive to
acquire resources leads to environmental degradation and warfare and asks whether our behavior could be channeled in more constructive ways.
Why Sex Matters is a compelling work of biology, sociology, and anthropology and a penetrating study of the deep motivations that underlie individual and social behavior.
01/2000
Policiers
Coffret 3 volumes Sherlock Holmes. Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes Tome1-2-3
Quand Arthur Conan Doyle fait paraître en 1887 dans le numéro de Noël d'un magazine la première partie d'un roman mettant en scène un détective aux méthodes originales, il ne se doute évidemment pas qu'il vient de donner naissance au personnage le plus célèbre de la littérature, l'archétype même du détective, et que par la même occasion il vient d'inventer le roman policier moderne. Le succès viendra rapidement, puis ce sera un triomphe mondial, qui ne s'est pas tari à ce jour. De 1887 à 1927, quatre romans et cinquante-six nouvelles mettront en scène Sherlock Holmes et son fidèle Dr Watson, le narrateur de ses aventures. Tome 1 Une étude en rouge (A Study in Scarlet) - roman Le Signe des quatre (The Sign of Four) - roman Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 1891-92) - nouvelles Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 1892-93) - nouvelles (les six premières sur douze) Tome 2 Le Chien des Baskerville (1901) - roman Le Retour de Sherlock Holmes (1905) - 13 nouvelles. Tome 3 La Vallée de la peur (1915) - roman Son dernier coup d'archet (His Last Bow, 1917) 7 nouvelles Les Archives de Sherlock Holmes (The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, 1927) 12 nouvelles La boîte en carton (nouvelle)
10/2010
