Heart of the Ocean
Extraits
Littérature française
Heart of the Ocean
Mathéo n'a que 9 ans, il est le grand et unique frère de Mélissa. Parents absents, la maladie de leur fils les oblige à travailler trois fois plus afin de financer ses soins. Mathéo a un cancer au coeur. Il se tue à vivre et profite comme il le peut du "temps qu'on lui laisse". Mélissa veille tous les jours à ce qu'il se sente bien, il est pour elle son unique héro et elle s'y est attaché bien plus que de raison. Elle fera tout pour réaliser le rêve de son frère avant que celui-ci ne l'emporte. Mais que réserve l'avenir à ces deux enfants ?
08/2020
Informatique
The Heart of Dead Cells
A la fois artbook et making of, les ouvrages de la collection The Heart Of, avec l'appui d'informations et de propos inédits provenant des équipes de développement, reviennent en détail et en images sur une ouvre vidéoludique, sa conception, son univers et ses mécaniques de jeu. Brillant héritier de Rogue et Castlevania, Dead Cells a bâti son succès sur le perfectionnisme de ses concepteurs et leur capacité d'écoute. Ce livre s'intéresse au jeu, mais aussi à l'histoire et à la philosophie singulière du studio français Motion Twin. A l'instar de ce qui se fait dans les grands studios, les développeurs de Motion Twin ont insufflé un peu d'eux-mêmes dans leur jeu. Découvrez le coeur de Dead Cells.
01/2019
Théâtre
Gem of the Ocean
J'ai la mémoire puissante. J'ai la mémoire longue. Les gens disent que je suis folle de me souvenir. Mais j'ai pas peur de me souvenir. J'essaye de me souvenir tout haut. Je garde mes souvenirs en vie. Je les nourris. Il faut les nourrir sinon ils me rongent. Mes souvenirs remontent à très loin. Je les porte pour bien des gens. Les gens du temps jadis. Je porte leurs souvenirs et je porte les miens. Après la mort d'un ouvrier à Pittsburgh en 1904, un jeune Africain-Américain appelé Citoyen Barlow se présente à la porte de la maison de Tante Ester, un lieu de paix et de fraternité. Il demande à cette ancienne esclave de deux cent quatre-vingt-cinq ans de "laver son âme". Dans une ville en proie aux manifestations ouvrières au début du XXe siècle, le jeune Citoyen devra traverser "la grande eau" et retrouver la "Cité des Os" afin de se réconcilier avec son histoire, celle de sa courte vie et celle de son "peuple".
02/2020
Gestion
Ambition, at the Heart of Change
Le management s'invente et se renouvelle, d'abord et avant tout, dans les entreprises et dans les moments extrêmes qu'elles rencontrent. Bénéficiant d'un accès privilégié au coeur de l'action, l'auteur nous restitue l'incroyable transformation de la première entreprise du Maroc, l'Office chérifien des phosphates (OCP), acteur stratégique et mondial dans une activité industrielle hautement concurrentielle et sensible. Cet ouvrage est d'abord le récit d'une aventure managériale, avec ses difficultés, ses heurts et ses rebondissements. Mais il nous donne aussi les clés de compréhension d'un processus d'une extraordinaire complexité : celui de la transformation radicale, improbable et réussie d'une entreprise pourtant figée et sans marge de manoeuvre apparente. Cette leçon de management, techniquement audacieuse et conceptuellement novatrice, saura parler aux dirigeants et aux managers animés de la volonté de peser sur le cours des événements. Elle nous vient d'un de ces pays dits "émergents", pays qui ouvrent des voies nouvelles, y compris dans le management, jusqu'ici dominé par des standards anglo-saxons.
05/2014
Tourisme étranger
Moroccan tracks Volume 11. The sagho djebel
The Sagho djebel is the eastern extension of the Anti-Atlas, a volcanic mountain with granitic mamelons, basaltic organs, chaos of black shales, pink sandstones... at the gates of the Sahara. As far as the eye can see, large wild, arid spaces. A desolate land made for the lonely DPM. And for a thousand miles around, silence is the only companion. Absolute plenitude and the desire to take to the track. From flat expanses to rolling hills, from sharp relief to steep canyons : pure, original nature. The character is strong, rustic but the heart is soft. The colours are soft and gentle. Ochre, pink, brown, violet, the colour chart stretches in a gradation of shimmering pastels, sometimes accompanied by an overwhelming heat. Eldorado in the heart of the desert, rare are the oases ; modest green spots in the infinitely large, they are the reminders that we are on African soil. The wild charm of the Sagho is due to its exceptional geology : high cliffs and steep peaks, tabular escarpments and deep canyons in the middle of which caravans of camels and mules circulate. When you arrive on these immense plateaus, the lunar horizon is so vast that you want to go everywhere at once to see if it is really as beautiful elsewhere ! The Sagho also surprises by the richness of its lights : limpid like those of the nearby Sahara, or sometimes in half-tone, as in the neighbouring Dades valley. The Sagho is also the Morocco of the last Berber nomads, descendants of the ancient lords Aït Atta. In autumn, after leaving the snows of the High Atlas, they set up their dark wool tents on the slopes of the jebel until spring. They can neither read nor write, but they are sure of their way through the Atlas Mountains and the Moroccan desert. In the Sagho, they have built houses of unbaked stone, dug wells, planted almond trees, grown wheat, barley and various vegetables. Others built herds of goats and sheep, and caravans of camels. Most of them are now sedentary, semi-nomadic or nomadic...
08/2022
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
Beaux arts
New worlds
"New Worlds" presents a selection of five outstanding nautical atlases known as portolan charts, or "portalans".These historic documents are the work of eminent scholars from Majorca, Lisbon, Le Havre, and Amsterdam. Cartographers by trade, and sometimes also skilled illuminators, they mapped what was the most probable imago mundi for their time, each exemplar crafting a fascinating visual chronicle. Jean-Yves Sarazin, head of Charts and Maps at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, scrutinizes thèse charts or atlases, and situates them in the great history of European discoveries and voyages from the early 14th to the late 17th century, from the Portuguese reconnaissance of the coasts of Africa, through the adventures of Columbus,Vespucci, and Magellan, to the Dutch voyages in the Pacific and Australia.The book's many colour reproductions are alive with picturesque details: camel caravans in the heart ofAsia, Portuguese andArab ships sailing in the Indian Ocean, wild beasts or chimaera, countless exotic plants, naval battles, and not least the frequent strangeness of the indigenous people.
10/2012
Romance sexy
Heart Players Tome 2 : The heart beat
Ashley court après les mecs, court après l'amour, court après son père. Niais la vérité, c'est qu'elle ne cesse jamais d'être déçue par les hommes. Elle collectionne les plans cul sans attaches et,les coups d'un soir qu'elle finit toujours par regretter. Cette fois, c'en est trop pour son petit coeur malmené : les hommes, c'est terminé ! Mais difficile de fuir ses mauvaises habitudes lorsque le joueur le plus sexy des Giants lui tourne autour, pour des raisons qu'elle ne parvient pas à saisir. Au football comme dans ses activités illégales, Ted Greyson ne joue que pour gagner. Il gérait plutôt bien sur les deux fronts, jusqu'à ce que ses erreurs le rattrapent. Il échappe alors de peu à la suspension, grâce à un accord particulier passé avec son coach, qui s'avère plus mesquin qu'il n'en a l'air... L'objectif ? Faire chavirer le coeur d'Ashley Hawkins.. Même s'il sait que rester loin d'elle, comme il en a l'habitude depuis toujours, est la plus sage des décisions. Même si toute cette histoire ne peut que mal finir... Quand Ted veut quelque chose, il l'obtient. A n'importe quel prix ?
01/2024
Romans policiers
The tears of the mysterious forest
At the start of the school year in Massata, Galia, an enticing young lady showed up in one of the university classes. Her homeric intelligence and her magical beauty would make her the focus, the subject of monologues and desire. Her allure enticed lecturers and mates, the brightest of the class included. They found her interesting and desirable but mysterious and reluctant about her life. The day before her birthday, the young lady decided to open up to the one she was already falling for. That night, something heart-rending happened.
12/2021
Littérature érotique et sentim
Senses Tome 2 : The sound of your heart
"Dans le premier tome de la série Senses, The taste pf your lips, Allan et Sofia ont aiguisé vos papilles. Ecoutez maintenant l'histoire poignante de leur amie Béa. . ". Difficile de se reconstruire après une rupture douloureuse. Abandonnée par son amour de jeunesse, Béatrice ne vit plus que pour le fruit de cette relation : Ben, un adorable petit garçon. Et si Jay faisait un retour fracassant dans leur quotidien de la jeune femme ? IL suffit d'un contrat, d'un tournée pour que le musicien soit confronté à ses erreurs passées. Il ne sera pas le seul à lutter contre ses démons... Et si la vie ne tenait qu'à un battement de coeur ?
10/2019
Anglais apprentissage
Acacia thorn in my heart
I started writing "Acacia thorn in my heart" after reading the book of a white South African woman about her childhood in the same region as mine but relating a completely different experience. She had maids, her father drove her to school and she played with real toys. I lived in the heart of the country, away from everything and had to walk five miles to go to school. I was born in Natal. My father rented a plot of land from a white owner to do market gardening. Although Indian families tended not to educate daughters, our parents decided that education was a priority for us. Despite financial difficulties, they were able to send us to school. We had to get up at five o'clock in order to catch the school train. In winter, as we were scantily clad, we shivered all the way to the station.
09/2001
Littérature française
My Ulster haven
1989, a 23-year-old French woman, an English student with a burdensome family background, leaves for Northern Ireland. She's on her way to start her French assistant job. She discovers this unknown part of Ireland, so underestimated and still plunged into civil war. There, she settles down and blossoms until she decides she actually wants to live there. An unexpected event will bring her back to France in 1991, but the link with this country will carry on until the Brexit announcement in 2016, and well beyond. An intimate journey to the core of Irish History, that reaches the depths of its wars, its men, its women, a journey at the very heart of the past. "A page of history - and of my history - is turning and it throws me off."
02/2022
Littérature française
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba)
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba) This book is dedicated to the unique One who has assumed a form and name to lead the play of universal existence. He throbs in our loving heart ; He breathes in our living soul. He sings in our fervent spirit and he thinks in our purified mind. That infinite Ancient One from his supernal height, bends towards us to embrace us in his love, and to feed our soul with the nectar of his bliss. Blessed are they that have the mind to know him, the heart to feel him and the love to live in his consciousness ! He may have been born to human parents in Poona, studied in a college, played cricket, left home, have seen great souls, sat alone silent, spoken in gestures, written books - but that is not his history. Many live such a life ; many scholars write books ; many saints sit in contemplation ; many monks leave home for mountain resorts ; but they cannot be one like him. Millions of bulbs challenge in vain the darkness of night. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. We have seen monks, yogins and saints. Some live alone for peace. Some open Ashrams and collect donations to run them. Some comercialise their name and form. Some display miracles to surprise human minds ; some offer boons ; some predict the future ; some curse you when you do not offer them what they want. Some seek pleasure and treasure. But who seeks God and finds God in the self to awaken God-awareness in other men and women ? Who says "I am God and you are God too"? Who rises above the prattle of words, the rattle of weapons and battle of ideologies to the lofty peace of supersonic silence and pours his blessings from the dizzy height of the soul in tune with God ? Who is he that embraces all in the heart and awakens the soul which has none of the human creations of caste, religion, race, pedigree nor colour ? Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
07/2017
Anglais apprentissage
Heart of darkness
Le capitaine Marlowe, qui commande un bateau destiné au commerce de l'ivoire, remonte le fleuve Congo pour s'enfoncer avec son équipage au coeur d'une Afrique primitive et sauvage. Sur sa route, il croise le mystérieux Kurtz, chef d'un comptoir perdu dans une jungle étouffante et entouré de ses hommes, cour cruelle et violente. L'expédition de Marlow devient alors un hallucinant voyage aux sources de la folie et du Mal...
09/1996
Poésie
Epilepsy: the invisible pain
They say life is a long stretch of a calm river, but not for everyone ! She was for me until the day when everything rocked, the day my destiny was changed dramatically. People do not realize how life can be so sweet and so beautiful. They complain all day long for trivialities. They are not even aware that they have before their eyes the most beautiful wealth : the luck and happiness of living in good health. I was rich before. Now I am poor because my child has an incurable disease, that has currently no hope of being healed. As a parent, how can we accept that ? , How to continue living carrying the bundle of pain in my head ? , How to overcome this feeling of helplessness ? When I started speaking to my heart, I didn't know myself that this was the beginning of a new life : a rebirth as a poet. When I learnt that my 7-year-old daughter was suffering from the Dravet Syndrome, a rare genetic epileptic encephalopathy, this was like an earthquake in my life. Then, I needed to write in order to express my sorrow and my pain. Words and rhymes came naturally to my mind. This was obvious that poetry would be my survival weapon.
01/2019
Comics
Nomen Omen Tome 1 : Total Eclipse of the Heart
Dans le monde de Nomen Omen, il est plus important de voir avec son coeur qu'avec ses yeux. Becky, Rebecca Kumar de son vrai nom, est une jeune New-Yorkaise plutôt dégourdie et geek qui a deux mères attentionnées et deux chiens. Elle est atteinte d'achromatopsie, ce qui signifie qu'elle est incapable de voir les couleurs. Mais cela ne l'empêche pas de poster des photos sur son compte Instagram _nomen.omen_. La nuit de son vingt et unième anniversaire, entourée de ses amis, la jeune femme découvre bien malgré elle que le monde est plus vaste qu'elle ne l'avait jamais imaginé...
01/2020
Lectures graduées
Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman is a salesman who believes in the American Dream. He has spent his whole career on the road, going all over New England to sell products. At sixty, he is far from retiring : he needs to keep on working to earn money in order to pay his mortgage and loans. But he does not sell as much as he used to and struggles to make ends meet. His relationship with his elder son, Biff, is chaotic : he does not understand why his son does not live up to his expectations. Thus, they fight all the time. But at the heart of the tension between them lies a secret that only the two of them know... Death of a Salesman explores the depth and complexity of human relationships and shows what happens when a man gets lost in his own dreams.
08/2021
Critique littéraire
To catch the sun in the water
Marie was born around the end of World War II in a small village near Chaveniac-Lafayette where General Lafayette lived. It is the mountainous region of Auvergne known as the heart of France. Take Marie's hand and she will guide you through her humble childhood. Through her eyes you will see what it was like to live in the country in France. With Marie's many brothers end sisters you will participate in hay making, harvesting... At this time, they used traditional methods and tools. Her parents will demonstrate the making of bread, butter and cheese... It's here that you meet Mathias, a boy her age, who becomes her best friend. Later, their love story unfolds... Just after the war, it was a time when the French countryside was populated with farmers that still lived in economic self-sufficiency. In the story, the author makes these peasants from depths of France come alive. The feeling, the candor, and the authenticity of the book will remind you of the Little House on the Prairie
07/2001
Monographies
Venice. A Private Invitation
Venice of a thousand reflections ; Venice of mirror and glass, of silk and gold ; Venice of light and lace, of transparency and porcelain. With her expert knowledge and insight, Servane Giol takes us to the heart of the Venetian art de vivre, a warm and private invitation to meet some of the most creative people living in the city today. Accompanying us into historic private palazzi as well as more recently restored houses and apartments, she introduces us to a new generation of artists and designers who are attracted by the radiant beauty, energy, and lifestyle of the Serenissima-a charmed circle of talented friends who are bringing a fresh dynamism and elegance to the city, shining a new light on some of its rarest and most exquisite traditional crafts, and lovingly safeguarding them for future generations. This love letter to the hidden beauties of Venice and to the skills for which the city is famed is brilliantly complemented by the photography of Mattia Aquila. It offers both a revelation and an everlasting memory for all those who will never forget their dazzling first sight of the domes, the campaniles, and the shimmering golden silence of this legendary city that floats between sea and sky.
09/2022
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Rebel Heart. The Hating Game #1
Le père de Rose a été assassiné quand elle avait seize ans. Seul indice sur les lieux du crime : un flyer. Un ridicule flyer. Traumatisée par ce drame, Rose a tout fait pour se reconstruire. Elle s'efforce de laisser le passé sombre là où il est, et lutte pour avancer un pas après l'autre dans l'océan de sa vie. Plus jamais on ne la fera souffrir. Plus jamais on ne l'atteindra. Elle a cadenassé son coeur et se protège derrière une carapace épaisse. Le décès de sa grand-mère la ramène à Londres, là où elle a vécu les pires horreurs. Décidée à en terminer très vite avec tout ça, elle ne pensait pas tomber sur lui. Kane. Bad boy aux iris océan, dont les mauvaises manières n'ont d'égal que son tempérament explosif. Kane, celui qui lui a brisé le coeur, celui qu'elle déteste. Kane, toujours aussi ténébreux et dangereux. Kane, à la réputation douteuse. Le passé, c'est le passé, n'est-ce pas ? Mais quand elle est invitée à une soirée de combats illégaux de free fight, elle sait que ce n'est pas vrai. Que parfois, on ne guérit jamais du passé. Car il est là, sur le ring. Et il la veut. Et elle le veut aussi. Peut-elle lui faire confiance ? Est-il qui il prétend être ? Entre amour, passion et dangers, plongez dans The Hating Game !
02/2022
Sociologie
Nationalism in Education
The comparative Reader, with authors from 6 continents and 9 countries analyses, to what extent the nation concept is still at the heart of international organizations and agreements, under which circumstances nationalism rose in specific regions and cultures at different times, and, to what extent education was influenced by or used for nationalistic doctrines and policies. Case studies as well as systematic analyses illustrate, that education can hardly change its own socioeconomic and political context. However, education and educational policy can support a prevention of and balance to nationalism in the long run, if they counteract stereotyping and scapegoating, familiarize with overlapping and competing loyalties, and, encourage human rights, international cooperation and cultural relationalism.
10/1993
Histoire internationale
After The Last Ship
After the Last Ship illustrates the author's own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of ‘mixed race'. She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal in the 1960's and 1970's and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia. Further, the author shows the devastation that labels such as ‘half-caste', ‘canecos' and ‘monhe' can cause, when they eat at your flesh, your being, and your body. She sheds light on how identity and culture can serve as vehicles of empowerment, how experiences of belonging can germinate and take root post-diaspora.
04/2014
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
The Undergrowth of Science. Delusion, self-deception and human frailty
Walter Gratzer's themes in the stories he relates in The Undergrowth of Science are collective delusion and human folly. Science is generally seen as a process bound by rigorous rules, which its practitioners must not transgress. Deliberate fraud occasionally intrudes, but it is soon detected, the perpetrators cast out and the course of discovery barely disturbed. Far more interesting are the outbreaks of self-delusion that from time to time afflict upright and competent researchers, and then spread like an epidemic or mass-hysteria through a sober and respectable scientific community. When this happens the rules by which scientists normally govern their working lives are suddenly suspended. Sometimes these episodes are provoked by personal vanity, an unwillingness to acknowledge error or even contemplate the possibility that a hard-won success is a will o' the wisp; at other times they stem from loyalty to a respected and trusted guru, or even from patriotic pride; and, worst of ail, they may be a consequence of a political ideology which imposes its own interpretation on scientists' observations of the natural world. Unreason and credulity supervene, illusory phenomena are described and measured, and theories are developed to explain them - until suddenly, often for no single reason, the bubble bursts, leaving behind it a residue of acrimony, recrimination, embarrassment and ruined reputations.
Here, then, are radiations, measured with high precision yet existing only in the minds of those who observed them; the Russian water, which some thought might congeal the oceans: phantom diseases which called for heroic surgery; monkey testis implants that restored the sexual powers of ageing roués and of tired sheep; truths about genetics and about the nature of matter, perceptible only to Aryan scientists in the Third Reich or Marxist ideologues in the Soviet Union; and much more. The Undergrowth of Science explores, in terms accessible to the lay reader, the history of such episodes, up to our own time, in ail their absurdity, tragedy and pathos.
01/2000
Littérature française
Saint Shuddhananda Bharati A visionary
Foreword To my friend, to my guide, to the mahatma of my heart, to the visionary of a united world living in peace and harmony in the earthly paradise that God has given us. Life and destiny is like an iceberg ; most of us is hidden, and for some, this is the start of the long path of questioning... For souls that are searching, the time then comes when the seeker finds what is being sought : the precursor, the one that has opened the path, cleared it out and illuminated the way. Thus in the deepest part of our Selves, at the centre of our soul, Joythi, the Divine Light is revealed and works on meeting all those who seek it. Kavi Yogi Maharshi Shuddhananda Bharati was a scholar, linguist, scientist, seer poet, saint and the sage of the Cosmic Age. He was ever agile and active, writing, singing, doing good and observed silence for 30 continuous years. He was a universalist, who was not bound to caste, religion, colour and race or geographic bounds. He was an apostle of Sama Yoga, which seeks for a synthesis of science and yoga, West and East, the actual and the ideal in life. Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati is the author of creative and literary works with diverse writing styles : epic and lyric writings, melodramas, operas, comedies, pastoral theologies, novels, short stories, biographies, notes on famous works, essays. Bharata Shakti Kavi Malayam is his magnum opus. Editions ASSA, Christianananda Bharati
11/2013
Monographies
Hilma af Klint. The Five Notebook 1
In 1896, Hilma af Klint and four other like-minded women artists left the Edelweiss Society and founded the "Friday Group", also known as "The Five". They met every Friday for spiritual meetings, including prayers, studies of the New Testament, meditation and séances. The medium exercised automatic writing and mediumistic drawing. Eventually they established contact with spiritual beings whom they called "The High Ones". In 1896, the five women began taking meticulous notes of the mediumistic messages conveyed by the spirits. In time, Hilma af Klint felt she had been selected for more important messages. After ten years of esoteric training with "The Five", aged 43, Hilma af Klint accepted a major assignment, the execution of The Paintings for the Temple. This commission, which engaged the artist from 1906 to 1915, changed the course of her life. In 1908, Rudolf Steiner, leader of the German Theosophical Society, held several lectures in Stockholm. He also visited af Klint's studio and saw some of the early Paintings for the Temple. In 1913, Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society, which af Klint joined in 1920 and remained a member for the rest of her life.
01/2022
Littérature érotique et sentim
The Midnight Demons Tome 2 : Straight to the heart
Judicaëlle a trouvé le job parfait ! Du moins, c'est ce qu'elle se dit en garant sa voiture devant une jolie bâtisse en bois rond, portant le nom de "Gates of Paradise" . Son expérience lui permet d'être embauchée immédiatement, mais lorsqu'elle découvre qu'elle se trouve au beau milieu d'un gang de bikers, elle préfère décliner. Est-ce leur pouvoir de persuasion ou de persécution qui la fait changer d'avis ? Cela étant, elle accepte de travailler avec eux, mais elle va devoir composer avec un biker aux allures de Viking nommé Thor, qui la percute en plein coeur. Entre esquive et uppercut, la belle ne sait plus où donner de la tête.
01/2021
Non classé
Fast Darkness III: Moonwords. Sextet for flute, clarinet, piano and string trio. flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello. Partition et parties.
Fast Darkness III is the last part of the trilogy Fast Darkness, 2020-2022. Written in 2022, it is a 16 minutes long virtuosic, wild, and overgrown exploration. Fast gestures, drawn by a sharp pen and loaded with excited energy inform the listener of a large universe that they are enveloping. Just like an entangled climbing branch may give a sense of the house it is climbing on, the energy-laden gestures in Fast Darkness III, reveal the presence of the universe they are enveloping. This revelation never comes to be heard in the piece, but hopefully, it is an after-effect of it. Chaya Czernowin Instrumentation : flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello
03/2023
Théâtre
Arrival of Mira, Love story between Bhojan and Mira
Arrival of Mira Foreword Arrival of Mira tells the story of a beautiful young woman who held true to her faith despite many severe hardships. Mira was still only a child when she decided that Ginidhara Gopal (Lord Krishna) was her 'husband' and that she wanted to devote her life to serving and worshipping him. Later, the now orphaned Mira was married to Bhojan, the prince of Mewar and son of Rana, the king of Chittoor. Bhojan fell in love at first sight but found it hard to understand Mira's utter devotion to Ginidhara. Mira suffered at the hands of her in-laws who could not understand the depth of her love for Ginidhara and wanted her to follow their worship of Kali (in the form of Durga). Mira suffered imprisonment in a haunted palace and then exile for her beliefs. Even her friends were persecuted because of her uncompromising love for Lord Krishna. Eventually Bhojan came to understand his wife's piety. The story is told in the form of a musical play where the love story is interwoven with delightful songs and dances. The character of Mira is one to win the hearts of all who read of her. Her gentle devotion and steadfast belief are an inspiration to everyone. Thank you, Dr Shuddhananda Bharati for having made this beautiful story available to us. Daye Craddock Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
03/2013
Philosophie
«Phädon», or «On the Immortality of the Soul»
This is the first modern translation of Moses Mendelssohn's classic work of 1767, the Phädon. It includes Mendelssohn's own introduction and appendix, as well as footnotes and explanatory introduction by David Shavin. (Charles Cullen's translation of 1789 is the only other extant translation.) The "modern Socrates" of the German classical period, Mendelssohn has created a beautiful translation and elaboration of Plato's Phädo led to a revolution in thought, and a subsequent renaissance in Germany. The debt of the German classical period to ancient Greece is embodied in Mendelssohn's Phädon, as is the promise of the American Revolution. The translation and accompanying notes recapture Mendelssohn's unique marriage of depth of thought and breadth of appeal.
12/2006
Romance sexy
Queen of Hearts
Il est l'un des vingt célibataires les plus convoités de la Silicon Valley, beau, riche et célèbre, mesdames, si vous souhaitez passer la bague au doigt d'Ephraïm Shuster, il vous suffit d'être l'une des dix candidates de The Queen of Hearts ! Peut-être que Virginia, productrice plébiscitée dans le monde de la télé-réalité, a eu raison de rempiler pour une huitième saison. Le but ? Former le couple le plus sulfureux et sexy du moment. Les moyens pour y parvenir ? Tous. Sans exception. Mais cette fois-ci, le prétendant semble plus malin que ses prédécesseurs. Le play-boy à la langue bien pendue et au charme ravageur partage son objectif : transformer l'émission en un carton d'audience. Rien de plus simple pour celle qui connaît les mensonges et secrets de tous les participants, et qui n'hésitera pas à les utiliser pour créer l'étincelle entre le prince et sa future reine. Du moins, à l'écran.
06/2021
