The Voices of a Distant Star Tome 1
Extraits
Comics Super-héros
Star Wars Tome 1 : Skywalker passe à l'attaque
Nous sommes au lendemain de la grande victoire de l'Alliance Rebelle sur l'Empire : Luke Skywalker a rallié les Rebelles et l'Etoile Noire a été détruite. Mais l'Empire est loin d'être battu ! Suivez Luke, Leia, Han Solo et les autres dans leurs efforts pour contrecarrer les forces maléfiques de l'Empereur et de Dark Vador. Coup de tonnerre en 2015 : dans le sillage du rachat de l'univers Star Wars par Disney, Marvel va publier des séries inspirées par l'univers des films de George Lucas ! La première série est orchestrée par deux des auteurs les plus en vue du moment, Jason Aaron et John Cassaday (Stuart Immonen remplace Cassaday après six épisodes). Le premier numéro bat des records de vente aux U. S. avec plus d'un million d'exemplaires écoulés !
02/2021
Comics
Star Wars Tome 1 : Skywalker passe à l'attaque
Luke Skywalker et les rebelles luttant contre l'Empire galactique viennent de remporter leur plus grande victoire : l'imposante station de combat, connue sous le nom d'Etoile de la Mort, est détruite. L'Empire n'est toutefois pas encore renversé ! Rejoignez Luke, la princesse Leia, les contrebandiers Han Solo et Chewbacca et le reste de l'Alliance rebelle, dans leur combat pour la liberté face aux armées de Dark Vador et de son maître l'Empereur.
10/2018
Comics
Star Wars Tome 1 : Skywalker passe à l'attaque
L'Alliance Rebelle a gagné une bataille décisive en détruisant l'Etoile Noire, mais la guerre face à l'Empire Galactique est loin d'être terminée. Tandis que la princesse Leia, Luke Skywalker et leurs compagnons d'armes poursuivent le combat, un mystérieux chasseur, de primes est sur la piste de Han Solo. Jason Aaron (Thor) et John Cassaday (Astonishing X-Men) vous proposent de découvrir, polar la première fois en bande dessinée, de nouvelles aventures situées dans l'univers Star Wars avec la suite officielle de l'Episode IV.
10/2015
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
PIONEERS OF REPRESENTATION THEORY: FROBENIUS, BURNSIDE, SCHUR, AND BRAUER
The year 1897 was marked by two important mathematical events: the publication of the first paper on representations of finite groups by Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ( 1849-1917) and the appearance of the first treatise in English on the theory of finite groups by William Burnside (1852-1927). Burnside soon developed his own approach to representations of finite groups. In the next few years, working independently, Frobenius and Burnside explored the new subject and its applications to finite group theory.
They were soon joined in this enterprise by Issai Schur (1875-194 1) and some years later, by Richard Brauer (1901-1977). These mathematicians' pioneering research is the subject of this book. It presents an account of the early history of representation theory through an analysis of the published work of the principals and others with whom the principals' work was interwoven. Also included are biographical sketches and enough mathematics to enable readers to follow the development of the subject. An introductory chapter contains some of the results involving characters of finite abelian groups by Lagrange, Gauss, and Dirichlet, which were part of the mathematical tradition from which Frobenius drew his inspiration.
This book presents the early history of an active branch of mathematics. It includes enough detail to enable readers to learn the mathematics along with the history. The volume would be a suitable text for a course on representations of finite groups, particularly one emphasizing an historical point of view.
01/1999
Informatique
Foundation Course for Advanced Computer Studies
In the modern world, computer systems are playing a greater and greater part in everyday life. From office work, to entertainment, to providing information, the personal computer is quickly becoming a more integral part of the home. However, most PC users have no idea how most of the parts which make up their computer work internally. I am one of those who find that the framework provided by the school curriculum in the United Kingdom is of great assistance in planning lessons and learning plans but the curriculum does not plan out the work for us. We therefore need to invest a lot of time and effort into developing schemes of work that will suit the people we are going to teach. For me, it is a fantastic opportunity to employ our imagination and creativity to make lessons useful and interesting for children of different abilities. It is why I wrote this book. This book is a foundation course for Advanced Computer Studies and designed as a blueprint to teach users with a basic knowledge of computer science. Computer science is a subject that combines the use of technology which is ICT (Information Communication Technology) and the creation of technology. To use ICT (the subject about how to use technology to communicate information) more effectively, we need to know how technology works. Computing or computer science will create a generation of young people able to work at the forefront of technology change. It is the umbrella term for the subject that comprises 3 elements : computer science, information technology and digital literacy. It is helpful to think of these as the foundations, applications and implications of digital technology. The new focus on computer science will provides a well-defined and rigorous academic discipline and a unique lens through which pupils can understand the world. Children must therefore be taught computing if they are to be ready for tomorrow technology challenges. Our ingenuity to invent new means of communicating with each other, our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries however still a lot remain to be done with the arrival of quantum computing. A more rigorous approach to computer science teaching will help compete across the full spectrum of digital industries. This can only be achieved by equipping ourselves with the foundation skills, knowledge and understanding of computing do the necessity to introduce "computational thinking" at school via the new national curriculum (programmes of study and targets), the 2014 national curriculum that introduces computing which will replace ICT.
11/2015
Antiquité - Généralités
The Italians on Delos
During the second century and into the early first century BC, the island of Delos was home to the largest port of transit in the eastern Mediterranean. As such, it welcomed many Italian traders who prospered among its cosmopolitan population for some fifty or so years. The many buildings, statues, paintings and inscriptions unearthed since 1873 by the French School at Athens have made it possible to trace out the life of this disparate yet influential community.
11/2021
Aristote
De historia animalium. Translatio Guillelmi de Morbeka, Pars altera: lib. VI-X. Edition bilingue anglais-latin
This book forms the complement to the first volume published in 2000. The preface contains some remarks about the transmission of the text as a supplement to the first volume. Then follow the critical edition of books VI-X, and the indices for the whole text. The complete edition gives access to the longest and most important work from Aristotle's zoology, De historia animalium, in the Latin translation by William of Moerbeke. This version was part of the standard university curriculum in the late-medieval West. The bilingual indices give access to the richness of the translator's vocabulary and provide an indispensable tool for the study of his translation method. Except for De partibus animalium, all of Moerbeke's translations from the Aristotelian zoological corpus are now available in critical editions.
05/2021
Physique, chimie
Neutron Physics
Originally just an offshoot of nuclear physics, neutron physics soon became a branch of physics in its own right. It deals with the movement of neutrons in nuclear reactors and all the nuclear reactions they trigger there, particularly the fission of heavy nuclei which starts a chain reaction to produce energy. Neutron Physics covers the whole range of knowledge of this complex science, discussing the basics of neutron physics and some principles of neutron physics calculations. Because neutron physics is the essential part of reactor physics, it is the main subject taught to students of Nuclear Engineering. This book takes an instructional approach for that purpose. Neutron Physics is also intended for all physicists and engineers involved in development or operational aspects of nuclear power.
09/2008
Littérature française
Handicapped
The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.
10/2020
Non classé
Temporal Logic, Omniscience, Human Freedom - Perspectives in Analytic Philosophy
The work shows the usefulness and limitation of modern logic in the study of traditional metaphysical problems. As is the usual case in all criticism of analytic philosophers against traditional philosophy, word usage must be limited to what the human mind can know. The notion of timeless knowledge for example contradicts our normal mode of word usage and cannot serve as adequate in reference to knowledge be it that of man or of God. If timeless knowledge applied to divine mode of knowing then there cannot be human freedom.
09/1991
Mondes fantastiques
The Remnant Chronicles Tome 3 : The Beauty of Darkness
Retenus prisonniers de Venda, Lia et Rafe ont réussi à s'échapper. Il leur faut désormais rejoindre Morrighan au plus vite afin de prévenir le royaume de la menace qui se profile. Car durant sa captivité, Lia a vu de ses propres yeux l'armée que rassemblait le Komizar pour envahir les terres de son peuple. Et elle sait aussi que des traîtres se cachent à la cour de son père... Mais Lia a été gravement blessée durant leur fuite, Kaden s'est lancé à leurs trousses et Rafe est rattrapé par ses devoirs de prince de Dalbreck... Marquée par les épreuves mais consciente du cataclysme qui s'annonce, Lia n'a plus le choix et va devoir endosser le rôle qu'elle a si longtemps fui : celui de Première Fille, de guerrière, de meneuse. Le dénouement de la trilogie épique et flamboyante de Mary E. Pearson !
04/2023
Mondes fantastiques
The Remnant Chronicles Tome 2 : The Heart Of Betrayal
Pour échapper à un mariage arrangé qui l'aurait privée de sa liberté, Lia s'était enfuie le matin de ses noces. La voici rattrapée par son destin de princesse et incarcérée à Venda, territoire de redoutables barbares.
Loin de chez elle et sans aucun espoir de s'échapper, Lia ne sait à qui faire confiance. Rafe, le garçon qu'elle aime, lui a menti, mais il a aussi sacrifié sa liberté pour elle. Quant à Kaden, elle a découvert qu'il était en réalité un assassin envoyé pour la tuer. Il lui a pourtant sauvé la vie en faisant croire au Komizar, le tyran qui règne sur Venda, qu'elle avait le don de seconde vue. Et ce mensonge a pris une ampleur qui la dépasse complètement, car aux yeux du peuple de Venda, elle pourrait incarner la sauveuse d'une très ancienne légende. . .
Tiraillée entre deux hommes, contrainte de jouer la comédie, Lia devra faire des choix qui détermineront son avenir, mais aussi le destin de tout le continent.
05/2022
12 ans et +
The rest of the story
Emma Saylor regarde son père danser sur la piste, un peu désabusée : elle assiste à son mariage avec une femme adorable, qui leur permet d'échapper enfin aux difficultés qui les poursuivent depuis la mort de sa mère, cinq ans plus tôt, d'une overdose. La jeune fille ne sait pas grand-chose de ce qui est vraiment arrivé. Et, pour pouvoir aller de l'avant, elle aussi, elle aimerait bien connaître... la fin de l'histoire. Or elle n'a plus revu sa grand-mère maternelle ou ses cousins depuis un séjour chez eux quand elle était toute petite. Mais le destin va lui donner un coup de pouce : pendant la lune de miel de son père, elle doit justement passer un mois au bord du lac où vit cette énigmatique famille. Car si, pour son père, elle est Emma, aux yeux de sa mère, de ses cousins et des amis d'autrefois, en revanche, elle était quelqu'un d'autre - elle était la petite Saylor, même si ce ne fut que le temps d'un été. Et c'est ce passé enfoui qu'elle va redécouvrir comme un trésor. Un parquet qui grince sous ses pas, une odeur familière... Elle qui ne se rappelle pas même le visage de sa grand-mère se rend compte qu'elle connaît cet endroit. Elle retrouve sa cousine, qui joue avec le feu comme la mère d'Emma avant elle, et Roo, le garçon dont elle était inséparable enfant. Tel un détective, elle va remonter le temps en arrière, pour découvrir non seulement qui elle est, mais aussi quelle adolescente a été sa mère. Car avant de tomber amoureuse d'un fils de famille privilégié, celle-ci a perdu son meilleur ami dans un étrange accident de bateau à moteur... Un roman de Sarah Dessen n'est jamais, jamais une déception. La reine de la fiction young adult observe les mouvements du coeur d'un adolescente dans la tourmente avec une justesse stupéfiante - ce qui fait dire à tout le milieu littéraire aux Etats-Unis qu'elle est, ni plus ni moins, une rock star. Emotion à fleur de peau et regard acéré sur les choses : venez savourer en sa compagnie une gourmandise à nulle autre pareille...
06/2019
Lectures graduées
The Turn of the Screw
Plongez en VO dans ce livre incroyable. Pour vous aider, des traductions en marge vous permettront de bien comprendre le texte original. Ces textes en VO font partie des lectures imposées pour les classes de Première dans le cadre du nouveau bac de 2022.
05/2023
Livres 0-3 ans
The discovery of magic
Queen Vispa and King Dungammei are the beloved rulers of their respective kingdoms. The two territories live in harmony, sharing a temple that crosses their mutual border, but they pray to different gods and have little in common outside of geography. The monarchs seem an unlikely pair, but when each violates the rules of the temple - one by entering the temple as a woman, and the other by praying to the other kingdom's god - both find themselves abandoned by their people, deciding soon after to declare the approval and presence of both gods in their hearts, as well as their love for each other. The King and Queen's subjects also abandon the shared temple, leaving it to the disobedient pair and building separate temples in their own territories. The monarchs' happy life together is, however, short-lived, as Queen Vispa dies upon giving birth to their child Delarai. The King is urged to repent and return to his kingdom. He complies, leaving princess Delarai with Magi, a nurse from a remote village, to raise her. Delarai rows up in near isolation, far from other people, spending most of her time among flowers and animals of the beautiful temple garden. Meanwhile, battles rage between the two kingdoms following the King's return. Delaware, a son begotten to the King and his next wife, gets badly wounded some years later in an attempt to stop the fighting. On his deathbed, the Prince insists on being taken to the forbidden temple to be buried there. The King, though ill himself, agrees to fulfill his son's dying wish. It is there where Delarai, having become quite an expert at herbal remedies, comes to their aid, preparing a special potion while praying to the temple's two gods in her nurse Magi's native language. As Delarai completes the life-saving act of curing the Prince, she tries to call for Magi, but the word that leaves her lips is "magic". Those who witness the event soon spread the word, and Delarai becomes recognized across both kingdoms as the creator of magic. The King, however, succumbs to old age, imparting his last kernel of wisdom unto his daughter : the two temple gods are one and the same. With this knowledge and their newfound inner strength, Delarai and Delaware unify the two kingdoms, and live happily ever after.
09/2021
Shonen/garçon
Country Girl : Alice in the Country of the Three-Sided Mirror Tome 1
Mikihiko Inaba est un jeune garçon particulièrement doué dans ses études et au sport. Il a trois grandes amies, Keiko Futatsumori, Miya Natsuki et Iyo Hikawa. Il prévoit de rentrer dans un lycée privé de Tokyo, mais échoue aux examens. Depuis, il ne vient plus en classe et ne contacte plus personne. Le temps passe, et toute la bande d'amis finit par se perdre de vue. Lorsque Keiko retrouve Iyo et Miya, bien plus tard, elle décide alors de tout faire pour rétablir les liens que les quatre camarades avaient à l'époque du collège et pour faire sortir Mikihiko de chez lui...
03/2021
Comics Indépendants
Something is killing the children Tome 1 : The angel of archer's peak
Lorsque les enfants de la petite ville d'Archer's Peak se mettent à disparaître les uns après les autres - certains sans laisser la moindre trace, d'autres dans des circonstances extrêmement violentes - la peur, la colère et la suspicion envahissent l'entourage des victimes et laissent la police locale dans le plus grand désarroi. Aussi, quand le jeune James, seul témoin oculaire du massacre de ses trois camarades, sort de son mutisme pour parler de créatures terrifiantes vivant dans la pénombre, le coupable semble tout trouvé. Son seul espoir viendra d'une étrange inconnue, Erica Slaughter, tueuse de monstres capable de voir l'impensable, ce que l'inconscient des adultes a depuis longtemps préférer occulter.
04/2024
Monographies
Burmese Silver from the Colonial Period
This stunning catalogue presents an exceptional collection of rare Burmese silver. Accompanied by detailed photographs and explanatory texts, this ground-breaking book proposes a new way of looking at Burmese silver. Names, dates, places, and stories - identifying the who, when, where, and what of Burmese silver has been the focus of publications on the topic. Are these questions the best way to understand silver, however ? Alexandra Green argues that they are not. Too few pieces provide reliable information about silversmiths, production locations, and dates to allow for a comprehensive understanding of the subject. Instead, a close examination of silver patterns reveals strong links with Burmese art history reaching as far back as the Bagan period (11th to 13th centuries), connections with contemporary artistic trends, and participation within the wider world of silversmithing. The first European to write about Burmese silver was H L Tilly, a colonial official from the late 19th into the early 20th century. Tasked with collecting objects for various fairs and exhibitions, he took an interest in Burmese art, publishing articles and books from the 1880s onwards. While much of what he wrote was factually inaccurate and coloured by the prejudices and stereotypes common at the time, his two volumes on Burmese silver published in 1902 and 1904 contain pictures of pieces from the early to mid 19th century. These enable a reconstruction of how silver designs evolved as the country was absorbed into the Indian Raj, and British and other Westerners became consumers of local silver products. Tilly was also correct in his interest in silver designs. Green uses the visual information from his books to describe the continuities and innovations of designs found on silver from the mid 19th through the mid 20th century, and she places these trends within local, regional, and global flows of ideas. Many studies of Burmese silver have been plagued by a lack of understanding of the Burmese context. In contrast, Green examines silver from a local perspective, drawing on Burmese texts and information that allows for a nuanced view of the motifs, designs, and patterns that appear repetitively on silver pieces. Using Graham Honeybill's collection, formed over many years, as a basis, she explores how designs and patterns circulated around the country and were innovatively combined and recombined on pieces by silversmiths producing objects for Burmese, Western, and commercial clients.
09/2022
Non classé
Thomas Carlyle 1981
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), essayist, biographer, historian, philosopher, translator, literary and social critic, was one of the great intellectual forces of his period, indispensable to our understanding of Victorian Britain and the 19th century in general. Scholars from Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the United States assembled at the Scottish Studies Centre of the University of Mainz in Germersheim for the International Thomas Carlyle Centenary Symposium 1981. Their papers, published in this volume, open up a new - European - dimension of Carlyle's personality, work and thought. They offer evidence that the subject is not exhausted, quite the reverse, and that in many aspects Carlyle is as topical today as in his own time.
12/1982
Histoire ancienne
Rock and Ritual
This book is the outcome of the analysis and discussion of the links between ritual practices and some natural spaces, particularly caves, but also rockshelters and stones. The articles gathered in this volume show very diverse contexts and researches, mainly from Bronze Age to Roman times. They offer new perspectives about religious landscapes as well as the role of these spaces in territorial organisation. Several contributions try to reconstruct ritual movements, regulated religious itineraries and social practices, whereas others focus on the circulation inside caves and rockshelters, considering the multi-sensoriality of these natural spaces, linked also with the material offerings. Rock & Ritual volume is another evidence of the complexity and variability of ritual practices linked to natural spaces.
04/2022
Religion
Glasgow Urban Writing and Postmodernism
Alasdair Gray is one of the most innovative and imaginative writers to have appeared on the Scottish literary scene for many years. Gray radically challenges the vision of Glasgow and Scotland as defined by the traditional Glasgow novel. This study first looks back into the past of Glasgow writing to locate some specific novelistic models which Gray echoes in his fiction. The main part of the study then illustrates that Gray's literary attitude of looking beyond Glasgow (or Scotland) is much more helpful in "imagining Glasgow" than to follow the established and trodden paths of Scottish urban writing. In this sense, Gray proves that the narrative techniques characteristic of postmodernist writing are not only helpful in expressing the often quoted Scottish experience of fragmentation, but also in overcoming the artistic stalemate of the Glasgow novel.
04/1991
Manga
Highschool of the dead Tome 3
Après avoir tiré in extremis une fillette des griffes des morts vivants, Takashi et ses amis repartent en quête de leurs familles. Mais alors qu'ils font route vers la maison de Saya, ils se heurtent à une meute de zombies ! La situation semble désespérée, lorsque soudain...
11/2009
Manga
Highschool of the dead Tome 4
Le monde entier a sombré dans le chaos. Les grandes puissances recourent à la bombe IEM (bombe à impulsion électromagnétique), détruisant définitivement une immense partie des appareils électroniques. Dans la panique, la barricade de la résidence Takagi cède et les morts vivants s'engouffrent dans la brèche !
01/2010
Manga
Highschool of the dead Tome 5
Takashi et sa bande ont trouvé provisoirement refuge dans un centre commercial, mais d'autres survivants étaient déjà présents avant eux. Pour éviter les heurts, ils vont devoir désamorcer les tensions, mais y parviendront-ils ? &nbs ...
03/2010
Manga
Highschool of the dead Tome 6
Kôta intervient pour consoler la jeune policière Asami Nakaoka, profondément sous le choc suite à la découverte de la mort de sa supérieure partie chercher des secours. Mais pas le temps de sécher ses larmes ! Le comportement irresponsable d'un adolescent met tout le monde en danger : les zombies investissent le centre commercial, il faut évacuer !
01/2011
Manga
The Empire of Corpses Tome 3
Les humains font désormais face aux nécromates, et l'heure de la bataille finale approche ! Les Etats-Unis sont en proie au chaos, et le groupe du Dr Watson retourne en Angleterre à bord du Nautilus pour tenter de sauver l'humanité. Alors que le destin du monde repose sur les épaules du Dr Watson et de ses compagnons, Friday pourra-t-il retrouver son âme ?
03/2019
Manga
The Empire of Corpses Tome 2
Alexeï Karamazov brise un des plus grands tabous de la nécromatique afin de montrer le terrible danger que fait peser cette nouvelle technologie sur l'humanité... C'est ainsi que Watson et Burnaby, à la recherche du mystérieux journal de Victor Frankenstein, embarquent pour le lointain pays du soleil levant...
02/2019
Manga
Highschool of the dead Tome 7
Le groupe a quitté le centre commercial et avance désormais en direction du quartier de Rei et de Takashi. Éprouvé par la disparition de l’agent Asami, Kôta semble craquer psychologiquement. Ses amis sauront-ils le soutenir pour l’aider à retrouver son équilibre ?
01/2012
Manga
Magus of the library Tome 4
A travers les livres, deviens le héros de ta propre histoire ! Lors de la dernière épreuve du concours, Shio et ses camarades ont été confrontés à un problème de taille : parvenir à déterminer l'origine d'un texte en un temps record... Grâce à leurs efforts conjoints, et malgré bien des disputes, le petit groupe a réussi à résoudre l'énigme ! Hélas, le trio a perdu de précieuses minutes et a été finalement disqualifié. Convaincu d'avoir échoué, le jeune garçon retourne dans son village natal et, alors qu'il est sur le point d'abandonner son rêve, les résultats tombent ; le voilà désormais apprenti kahuna ! Pour Shio, c'est une toute nouvelle aventure qui débute...
11/2020
Manga
Highschool of the dead Tome 2
Les morts vivants sont partout ! Pour leur échapper, Takashi et ses amis ont fui leur lycée, mais ils sont loin d'être tirés d'affaire pour autant ! L'égoïsme des survivants est encore plus dangereux que les cadavres ambulants décérébrés ! Les films de Romero vous ont terrorisé ? Les séries des Resident Evil et Dead Rising trônent en bonne place dans votre ludothèque ? Shaun of the Dead vous a fait mourir de rire ?Alors, vous allez adorer Highschool of the Dead !
09/2009
