La quête en épouse : The quest for a wife. Avec CD
Extraits
Littérature étrangère
La quête en épouse : The quest for a wife. Avec CD
Littérature de la voix. En ce début de XXIe siècle, en Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est, mais aussi en Asie dit Nord, en Asie centrale, an Proche-Orient et en Afrique, il est des sociétés traditionnelles toujours vivantes où l'aède, ce sage-poète-musicien, chante le récit des transgressions, des épreuves et des hauts faits d'un héros et d'une héroïne.
Bien souvent, cette épreuve initiatique, cette crise au cœur de l'histoire que l'épopée dénoue et apaise, chante la quête d'une épouse. Elle déploie en outre un monde total, une réalité vivante, un ensemble de représentations sociales, politiques, religieuses, un code moral, les attitudes psychologiques et émotionnelles qui en émanent. Elle nous donne à entendre tout cela par la grâce de la poésie, de la musique, et parfois de la danse.
Ce livre présente d'abord le chant en palawan et, en regard, la traduction en deux langues de diffusion, le français et l'anglais, puis une analyse interprétative de l'épopée dans ces deux langues.
L'ouvrage est illustré par huit photos et divers documents relatifs à la musique. il est accompagné par un CD de 45 minutes du chant de l'époque.
07/2000
Non classé
The Quest for Modernity
The work of Arno Holz embraces a wide diversity of literary forms ranging from activist poetry and Naturalist prose to formalism and experimental writing. By tracing Holz's persistent concern with form and relating him to literary developments in the twentieth century this study assesses the claim made by Holz himself and reiterated by literary criticism in the sixties that he was the real pioneer of modernism in German literature.
12/1981
Non classé
The Quest for Constitutionalism in Africa
Since the wave for national rule and independence from the colonial powers during the 1960's Africa's struggle for democratic rule has often been frustrated by an uneasy relationship between civil society and the military. This relationship has brought about grave human right abuses and lack of respect for the democratic values enshrined in constitutional rule. The end result was political instability and a retarded process of political development. This book, therefore, examines constitutional development in selected East Africa countries, the role of the army, the nationality question and constitutional accommodation and political parties, elections and political instability.
05/1994
Poésie
D'ouest en ouest, En/quête
"Chez Michel Cossec, pas de naturalisme, de réalisme, pas de tableaux exotiques, les paysages traversés sont issus de la trajectoire de l'auteur, du tissage humain qui fait les rencontres, la flagrance de la nécessité : dans les sentes des Montagnes Noires ou de Casamance, le promeneur tient à jour le journal de sa vie, ses angoisses, ses désirs et son émerveillement à écrire. L'ombre est partie prenante. Voyage initiatique sans cesse renouvelé, pôles réinventés, exprimés, imprimés sous la langue. Rien d'aléatoire dans les axes de lecture. Mélodies sourdes, arias ciselés dans la césure du souffle et des horizons du mètre : entre soupirs et illumination les frontières s'estompent, le silence est cependant toujours scandé". - Jean-Claude Chenut
10/2023
Textes médiévaux
La queste 12599. Quête tristanienne insérée dans le ms BnF fr. 12599
Interpolées dans un des plus intéressants témoins du Tristan en prose, les aventures inédites relatées dans les f. 269-320 du ms BnF fr. 12599 constituent une Quête du Graal alternative. Jouant de multiples effets de cyclicité et d'intertextualité, prolongeant les techniques et enjeux narratifs du Tristan en prose, racontant une Quête somme toute peu intéressée par le Graal, ce récit, qui met en scène de nouveaux champions à côté de Tristan, Galaad et Lancelot, est un témoignage précieux de la réception des romans arthuriens en prose à la fin du XIIIe siècle et de tentatives de renouvellement dont nous avons peu de traces.
01/2021
Divers
Dirty Panties (English Edition)
Roxane is a young Parisian whose Bohemian life seems stuck in an endless loop of idle afternoons and wine-soaked nights with her roommate. Strapped for cash and novelty, she starts selling her used underwear online. Dirty Panties chronicles her first steps in this marketplace, from the creation of her online persona to the real-life rendezvous with shady customers. This new business soon impacts Roxane's daily life and the people around her. The world she has just stepped into might be much more bizarre than what she expected. Roxane's journey exploring her own appetite for transgression tackles such contemporary themes as sex work, consent and economic domination. How far will she go and where will this end ? Maybelline Skvortzoff's drawing is detailed and vivid and the story is in turn hilarious, awkward, touching and dark. Much like Phoebe Waller-Bridge's character in her TV series Fleabag, Roxane is at the same time completely clueless and determined to make it on her own in this world where everything can be bought and sold. Roxane vend ses culottes -- the original edition of Dirty Panties -- won the 2023 Artemisia award for best humor comic and has been shortlisted for many awards including the official selection of the 2023 Angouleme Festival.
01/2024
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
Anglais apprentissage
The Scarlet Letter
Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter " A " stands for " Adultery ". In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child bore outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her tife. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne. And what will happen to her sinful lover - the father of her child?
07/2009
Littérature française
Georges Couderc, his Life, his Work, the Wine
VERSION EN ANGLAIS // Depuis son plus jeune âge, Georges Couderc est un travailleur captivé. Devenu ingénieur agronome, il n'a de cesse d'approfondir ses connaissances, tout en les diversifiant. Quand le phylloxéra ravage les vignobles à la fin des années 1860, ses recherches contribuent à la sauvegarde et à la protection des exploitations. Mondialement connus et reconnus, ses travaux sur les hybrides de vigne, la botanique, les cryptogames, la maladie de l'encre, les aurantiacées et la reforestation ont traversé les décennies, faisant de lui l'un des grands noms de la vigne. Dans cette biographie richement illustrée, Averelle et François Morisson-Couderc retracent le parcours extraordinaire de Georges Couderc, chercheur passionné et passionnant, revenant, à l'aide de documents originaux et de correspondances personnelles, sur ses nombreuses découvertes.
01/2022
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
Littérature étrangère
The Peacekeeper's Wife
Lorsqu'Issa rejoint, comme des milliers d'hommes, la mission pour le maintien de la paix au Congo, sa nouvelle épouse, Malika l'attend impuissante et les voit avec horreur s'embourber dans une guerre qui n'est pas la leur. Issa protège la base de l'ONU, empêche les rebelles de violer des enfants, patrouille aux frontières d'un territoire en ruines, bien que toujours riche. Dans leur maison à Ségol, Malika est écrasée par cette séparation et vit une descente aux enfers dévastatrice. Fatimata, sa belle-mère, désespérée par l'absence de son fils, l'accuse d'être une sorcière et la remet à un marabout, Bintou. Le conflit entre Malika et Fatimata a dégénéré, attisé par le feu de leurs deux solitudes. The Peacekeeper's Wife montre la catastrophe qu'est la guerre.
11/2015
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
Anglais apprentissage
THE CANTERBURY TALES. Avec cassette audio
'In April when the sweet showers fall... then people want to go on pilgrimages.'
A group of pilgrims travelling from London to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should tell a story. The Knight tells a tale of high romance. The Pardoner tells a story of death. And the Wife of Bath tells the story of her five husbands and her fight to control the men in her life. But The Tales end with the story of the perfect marriage and how, if we are generous to one another, we can find the perfect society.
A selection of stories from Chaucer's masterpiece depicting life in fourteenth century England is presented here in modern English. There is a wide range of activities and special informative sections on Chaucer and his times. The accompanying cassette contains the complete story and the extra listening activities.
06/1999
Littérature française
Life Source Quest - Cervoclonis
Bien que l'aventure commence en 2 080, elle prend réellement ses racines... 62 millions d'années avant. Ce livre éclaire, grâce aux découvertes de cette fin de 21e siècle, des événements ayant eu lieu au plus profond de la genèse humaine. Le Mont Laoshan où se situe cette odyssée, abrite bien la demeure des immortels. Il n'y a aucun doute !!! Un étrange vieillard rencontré sur ce lieu, raconte une épopée invraisemblable... Faut-il le croire ? Son incroyable histoire conforte la quête du personnage principal, "le Président" , dont le but est de découvrir ses lointains aïeux depuis qu'il a inventé cet invraisemblable "ordinateur cerveau biochimique" baptisé : Cervoclonis. A cause des règles coercitives édictées par la société néo individualiste de cette fin de siècle, ce dernier va réunir discrètement une équipe d'experts et d'ingénieurs en leurs proposant de confortables salaires, sous le prétexte fallacieux de vérifier la cohérence de jeux édités par sa société ; la multinationale ERT. Parmi cette équipe, six d'entre eux ont déjà été choisis au début de l'aventure sur la base de critères aux fins insoupçonnées. Au cours de cette histoire, les membres de l'expédition agressifs et individualistes, sauront trouver le fil qui les guidera peu à peu vers l'apaisement, la tendresse, l'amour sublimé... l'abandon... ou pire... Le chemin sera long et les surprises de tailles... Jusqu'où ira le Président pour connaître ses racines ? Peut-être jusqu'à la source de l'Humanité !
04/2013
Littérature française
Life Source Quest - Complotseden
Intégré au centre de la Saga Life Source Quest, Complotseden rebondit sur la fin apocalyptique du premier tome : Cervoclonis. Cette attaque mortelle sur le mont Laoshan se transforme en une lutte sans merci du mal (3 Empires constitués sur des bases économique et militaire, abandonnant le reste du monde à la mendicité), contre l'offensive humanitaire du président Aristide Adhémar Prasigarett et de son organisation ; une épopée qui donnera une certaine image de notre société vieillie de 70 ans. La destinée de l'être humain passera encore par des épreuves pénibles qui lui enseigneront les qualités de partage, et d'entre aide... Une traversée du monde avec un suspense palpitant entre l'Atlantide, l'archipel de Svalbard, Kyoto, qui se terminera par un immense espoir de renouveau...
02/2014
Littérature érotique et sentim
Love for life
Alors que Mila file le parfait amour avec Lucas, Andreas revient pour quarante-huit heures, plus décidé que jamais à la reconquérir. Si cette dernière pense que son coeur appartient désormais à Lucas, la venue de son ancien amant va faire voler en éclats toutes ses certitudes. Amoureuse enflammée, romantique, incorrigible fleur bleue, Mila saura-t-elle surmonter les rancoeurs, les désillusions, pour avoir droit au bonheur ? Avec lequel des frères Bellefond finira-t-elle sa vie ? D'Andreas ou de Lucas, qui aura sa préférence ?
07/2018
Anglais apprentissage
LA VIERGE ET LE GITAN : THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY
When the vicar's wife went off with a young and penniless man the scandal knew no bounds. Her two little girls were only seven and nine years old respectively. And the vicar was such a good husband. True, his hair was grey. But his moustache was dark, he was handsome, and still full of furtive passion for his unrestrained and beautiful wife. Why did she go ? Why did she burst away with such an éclat of revulsion, like a touch of madness ? Nobody gave any answer. Only the pious said she was a bad woman. While some of the good women kept silent. They knew. The two little girls never knew. Wounded, they decided that it was because their mother found them negligible. The ill wind that blows nobody any good swept away the vicarage family on its blast. Then lo and behold ! the vicar, who was somewhat distinguished as an essayist and a controversialist, and whose case had aroused sympathy among the bookish men, received the living of Papplewick. The Lord had tempered the wind of misfortune with a rectorate in the north country. [...] "Lorsque la femme du pasteur s'enfuit avec un jeune homme sans le sou, le scandale ne connut pas de bornes. Ses deux fillettes n'avaient que sept et neuf ans respectivement. Et le pasteur était un si bon mari. Certes, il avait les cheveux gris, mais sa moustache était restée noire, il était bel homme et brûlait encore d'une passion furtive pour sa belle épouse immodeste. Pourquoi était-elle partie ? Pourquoi s'était-elle arrachée à lui, dans un tel éclat de dégoût, comme un grain de folie ? Personne n'apporta de réponse. Seules, les dévotes dirent que c'était une mauvaise femme. Cependant que certaines femmes de bien gardaient le silence. Elles comprenaient, elles. Les deux fillettes ne comprirent jamais. Blessées, elles jugèrent que c'était parce que leur mère les tenait pour quantité négligeable. Le vent du malheur qui est censé être bon à quelque chose balaya de son souffle les habitants de la cure. Puis, miracle, le pasteur, qui avait une certaine éminence comme essayiste et polémiste, et dont la situation avait su émouvoir certains intellectuels, fut nommé à la paroisse de Papplewick. Le Seigneur avait adouci l'ouragan du malheur par un bénéfice de recteur dans le nord du pays. " [...]
02/1993
Manga
The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms
Cachée au milieu de la forêt, la prestigieuse école de magie "Wttzdoms" accueille les animaux de toutes races, dotés d'intelligence. En son sein, ils étudient, vivent et découvrent même l'amour sous toutes ses formes !
06/2020
Humour
The Quest of Redemption
Le youtubeur Sheshounet vous présente sa bande dessinée irrévérencieuse faisant la part belle à un humour aussi décomplexé qu'adulte ! Etre un influenceur impertinent est un métier qui peut s'avérer dangereux ! Sheshounet en fait l'expérience le jour où sa vie bascule suite à " la vidéo de trop " ! Le youtubeur spécialiste du gaming s'apprête à jouer au jeu le plus réaliste de toute sa carrière. Entre action et rédemption, il va pénétrer une dimension inconnue, parcourir des mondes qui ne sont pas sans en rappeler d'autres et payer le prix de son arrogance. Et PIX est tout ! Sheshounet est un youtubeur qui se retrouve au coeur d'un plan machiavélique ourdi par une ancien directeur de studio ruiné à cause d'une l'une de ses vidéos à charge. Il se retrouve happé dans un jeu vidéo à plusieurs niveaux (affichant des inspirations allant de Poltergeist à Cineman) dont il devra se sortir ou mourir. Les différents niveaux de jeux qu'il parcourt sont tous inspirés de jeux mythiques (Tomb Raider, Mario Kart...).
10/2022
Policiers
The life game
Jade Neville, une jeune Franco-américaine étudiante en criminologie à Paris, rêve d'intégrer le FBI. Quand elle entend parler de The Life Game, un jeu de télé-réalité qui fait fureur aux Etats-Unis, elle saisit sa chance : si elle sort gagnante de la nouvelle saison, la production s'engage à tout faire pour qu'elle entre à Quantico. Sur ces promesses, elle se lance sur les traces de Scott Eden, un acteur disparu suite à une série de meurtres non élucidés. Tous ses faits et gestes sont filmés, enregistrés, analysés pour être diffusés sur des centaines de milliers d'écrans télévisés. Dans sa quête, elle peut compter sur l'assistance de son ami Chang, un geek pour qui la technologie n'a aucun secret. The Life Game est un jeu. Mais Jade joue sa vie. Car Jade est prise au piège : d'un tueur, de ses rêves et de sa popularité.
11/2017
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
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes & Specimen Lists from H.M.S. Beagle
Two long sets of scientific notes were made by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. Those transcribed here are concerned with natural history, and although in 1839 he drew on them quite extensively in writing his famous " Journal of Researches ", neither they nor his geology notes have previously been published. He was a superb observer, and recorded vividly and accurately his first impressions of the appearance and behaviour of the wide range of animals, from ants to ostriches, encountered during his travels. Often he performed little experiments on the creatures that he captured, and he was never happy until he had exhaustively explored the why and wherefore of every one of his observations. During the long periods on board ship, he carried out a thorough analysis of hitherto unrecognised features of the internal anatomy of a variety of marine invertebrates, and made elegant pencil drawings of them under his dissecting microscope. The volume also includes his lists of 1 500 specimens preserved in Spirits of Wine, and some 3 500 not in Spirits, with impeccably accurate cross references to the main notes. Although his notes were made strictly for his own use, and were often highly technical, they were well written throughout, and contain many highly readable passages. Only towards the very end of the voyage were his first doubts about the immutability of species consciously pressed, but here are to be found the first seeds of his theory of evolution, and of the important new fields of behavioural and ecological study of which he was one of the principal founders.
01/2000
Littérature française
Sons of Fantasy
When we were children, we believed anything was possible... This book is a fantasy novel originally written for children. But, if you are a father or a mother, a teacher or a writer, if you still have some bits of fantasy in your soul... then, this novel is for you too. We all know how geniuses changed the world with their childlike Imagination, and how people use creative thinking to solve problems. This is a story about hope ; "Sons of Fantasy" shares the story of M. Alger, a father grieving for the loss of his dear wife, who left him with two beautiful kids. Norris and Socrates were adjusting to life without Mom... But things got more complicated when one of them was paralyzed because of a severe psychological trauma due to an overdose of fantasy... This family has a very interesting neighbor who lives a few feet away. He has a weird little hobby, reading books in the most unlikely places... He for example travelled to Romania and read "Dracula" by Bram Stoker in the Castelul Bran Castle, because it's said that the main character Dracula lived in it. And then all of a sudden he stopped travelling... He got a month ago a big long hat that belongs to the greatest witch that lived during the middle ages, "Moje Gayla". In fact, after being burned by the church, one of her relatives kept her belongings inside a wooden box... and in the twentieth century one of her grandchildren donated the box to "The Magic Square Museum" in London. Genius bought the hat at a public auction as an art relic to decorate one of his rooms. Could this weird neighbor be the reason of Socrates' psychological trauma ? Or maybe he is the one who will cure him ? And what has the hat to do with all this ?
08/2018
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
THE WOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. Alice Stewart and the secrets of radiation
THE WOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH tells the engaging life story of the epidemiologist whose discoveries about radiation risk have revolutionized medical practice and challenged international nuclear safety standards. For more than forty years, Dr. Alice Stewart has warned that tow-dose radiation is far more dangerous than has been acknowledged. Although an outstanding scientist with more than 400 peer-reviewed papers to her name, her controversial work has only recently begun to receive significant attention, because it lies at the center of a political storm.
In the 1950s when doctors would routinely x-ray pregnant women, she began research at Oxford that led to the discovery that fetal x-rays doubted a child's risk of developing cancer. When she was in her seventies, she again astounded the scientific world by showing that the U.S. nuclear weapons industry was far more dangerous than commonly believed, a finding that embroiled her in an international controversy over radiation risk. In recent years, she has become one of a handful of independent scientists whose work is a lodestone to the antinuclear movement. In 1990, the New York Times called her "perhaps the Energy Department's most influential and feared scientific critic."
The Woman Who Knew Too Much traces Dr. Stewart's life and career from her early childhood in Sheffield and medical education at Cambridge to her research positions at Oxford and the University of Birmingham, where she still maintains an office. The book joins a growing number of biographies of pioneering women scientists such as Barbara McClintock, Rosalind Franklin, and Lise Meitner and will find a wide range of appreciative readers, including those interested in the history of science and technology and of the history of women in science and medicine. Activists and policymakers will also find the story of Alice Stewart compelling reading.
02/2000
Sociologie
En quête de terre. Des Belges en Normandie, avec 1 CD audio
Vandenbroucke, Demaegdt, De Brabandere, Vandepopuliere... Dès le XIXe siècle, de nombreux Belges flamands ont immigré en Normandie. Dans les années 1920, ils reprennent les fermes à l'abandon d'une population paysanne décimée par la Grande Guerre et s'installent avec leurs familles. De 2008 à 2012, Sonia Ringoot, issue de cette immigration belge, a parcouru la Normandie à la rencontre de ces migrants et de leurs descendants. A son micro, ils ont livré leurs témoignages. Ces récits de vie dessinent une histoire du monde agricole et de ses mutations, tracent le portrait d'une génération. On y parle de pays natal, de rejet et d'intégration, de vies à reconstruire. On y parle de terre et d'agriculture, de travail et d'ambition. On y parle de la guerre, de souvenirs tus ou exhumés, d'éducation et de religion. On y parle enfin de mémoire et d'héritage, d'amour et de transmission. En quête de terre est aussi un livre de photographies : images de femmes et d'hommes, images d'une terre, images d'archives et de souvenirs.
05/2013
Europe
La queste du Saint Graal
La queste du Saint Graal / translatée des manuscrits du XIIIe siècle par Albert Pauphilet Date de l'édition originale : 1923 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
DELF-DALF
DALF C1-C2. Avec 1 CD audio
Ouvrage de préparation au DELF en français langue étrangère (FLE), dans la collection ABC Delf, pour pour grands adolescents et adultes, niveaux C1/C2. ABC DALF C1/C2 est destiné aux grands adolescents et adultes préparant les épreuvres du Diplôme d'étude de la langue française (DELF) et existe pour chaque niveau du Cadre européen commun de référence pour les langues (CECR). ABC DALF C1/C2 prépare aux nouvelles épreuves en intégrant les formats actuels. Jusqu'en 2023 et dans tous les pays du monde le DELFpeut être passé sous "l'ancienne" et la "nouvelle" formule. Ce livre vous prépare aux deux ! ABC DALF C1/C2 propose un parcours permettant d'aborder les épreuves avec les meilleures chance de réussite : présentation et explication du déroulement des épreuves 110 activités type DALF C1 et 40 activités type DALF C2 épreuves blanches DALF C1 et DALF C2 pour se placer en situation d'examen rappel des points de grammaire et du lexique essentiels pour ces niveaux Les "plus" d' ABC DALF C1/C2 : un CD mp3 inclus avec près de six heures d'enregistrements sonores pour le travail de l'oral, avec des documents authentiques, Les corrigés et transcriptions inclus pour un travail en autonomie. Un livre-web d'ABC DALF C1/C2, 100% en ligne A utiliser seul ou en classe.
12/2021
Histoire internationale
Each Child Is My Only One
In Each Child Is My Only One : Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi's Wife, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach (1883–1942), last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg and its surroundings, describes her childhood in the lively household of a rabbi's family with nine children, focusing on the special personality of her mother, Lotte Carlebach, née Preuss (1900–1942). The book starts with the history of the Preuss family, goes on to describe the marriage of Lotte to Joseph Carlebach, and portrays in detail their dynamic family life – until their deportation with their four youngest children to a Latvian concentration camp in 1942. The book is composed of two main parts. In the first section the reader learns about the events up to 1938, both inside and outside the Carlebach home ; the second section covers the years 1938–1941, in which there was a lively correspondence mainly between the mother and those of her children who succeeded in emigrating from Nazi Germany. This part concludes with several testimonies portraying the special personalities of Rabbi Carlebach and his wife and their devotion to the unfortunate who benefited from their unbounded assistance and altruism during the Holocaust. Many photographs are included in the book, several of them taken by Lotte Carlebach herself. The book is a unique and personal testimony about Jewish life in Germany during the years of persecution that relentlessly led to the conflagration of the Holocaust.
05/2014
Non classé
Bonoure and Buxum
If married in church, medieval women vowed before God and their husbands to be ‘bonoure and buxum', that is, meek and obedient in bed and at table. This book is a study of wives in a variety of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century romance, fabliaux, cycle drama, life-writing, lyrics and hagiography. The volume examines key moments that defined life as a married woman : her eligibility to become a wife, the wedding ceremony, her conjugal rights and duties, childbirth and her contribution to the family economy. The book explores the way in which the literary representation of wives is in dialogue with discourses that strove to construct and regulate the role of ‘wife'; canon and secular law, marriage liturgy, medical treatises on the female body, sermons, manuals of spiritual instruction, biblical paradigms, conduct books and misogamous writings. Moreover, the volume examines the possibilities for subversion of these paradigms by listening to literary wives speak both within and against these discourses. Real women's attitudes, and strategies of subversion, are woven into the volume throughout, as recorded in church and manorial court records, in their wills and in their writing.
08/2006
Non classé
From the village to presidential suite, my life journey
I did not intend to write a scholarly book, for I did not want to intellectualize my life. Nor did I wish to romanticize it. I wanted to describe it as I lived it, with emphasis on people. I wanted to express in this book the joy I experienced in giving generously of myself, my time, and my modest material possessions, to make others happy and to share the many gifts of life. I wanted also to share with those who aspire to become academic leaders the myriad lessons my upbringing, education, and professional life have taught me. I thought they might find these lessons learned useful, as they strive for successful careers and, more importantly, for rewarding personal and professional lives. Again, this book is a story, the story of my life, wherein the personal and the professional have intermingled and strengthened each other, making a better whole of my person, personality, aspirations, and talents. This unique alliance between the professional and the personal dimensions of my life, I am happy to say, always triumphed and accounted for the successes that so many good people helped me achieve. Without the guidance, advice, cooperation, and support of others, I am sure my life would not have been as fulfilling.
08/2022
