Le critique africain et son peuple comme producteur de civilisation : The African Critic and His People as Producers of Civilization. Colloque de Yaoundé, 16-20 avril 1793
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Critique littéraire
Le critique africain et son peuple comme producteur de civilisation : The African Critic and His People as Producers of Civilization. Colloque de Yaoundé, 16-20 avril 1793
Ce Colloque sur " Le critique africain et son peuple comme producteur de civilisation " a été organisé à Yaoundé du 16 au 20 avril 1973 par la Société Africaine de Culture et l'Université fédérale de Yaoundé.
Cette réflexion plurielle est inaugurale qui met en chantier, au plan théorique, le domaine de la critique en Afrique Noire. Elle est, au sens large du terme, politique, dans la mesure où elle articule l'exercice critique à l'instance populaire. Elle est, enfin, culturelle, car elle engage le critique africain lié au peuple, dans un projet de civilisation. Telles sont, entre autres, les voies de première importance ouvertes par ce Colloque.
04/1977
Livres 0-3 ans
YAOUNDÉ BABA SCARED?....ME?....NO WAY!
YAOUNDE BABA SCARED ? ... ME ? ... NO WAY ! YAOUNDE goes off in search of his little goat, BEEE, who, in spite of the young boy's watchful eye, has gone missing. On the way he meets ZOULÏA, a friendly mouse, and ARWANE, a little ant, who help him to find the little goat. Their search will lead them to an isolated hill where a very strange creature lives - a creature capable of transforming itself into unimaginably frightening shapes and forms to scare away anybody who dares to set foot on its steep hill. In order to find BEEE, YAOUNDE and his two friends will have little choice. They will have to cross its territory and confront this incredible and terrifying creature. 6 to 10 Years.
10/2017
Ethnologie
Glimpses of african cultures. Echos des cultures africaines, Edition bilingue français-anglais
This book covers various aspects of African traditional cultures that include: communication, marriage ceremonies, funerals, traditional rites, witchcraft, traditional cultural activities, and traditional beliefs. It will undoubtedly appeal to anyone who wants to understand better our African cultures. The reading of some of the stories will certainly raise existential questions about the nature of spirits, truth, and the place of God in the collective mind of the Africans. Some of the questions are the following: how is it possible that a human being has his double in an animal known as his totem ? How corne that, for people who do not believe in reincarnation, it is the chief who determines the future of the soul of the deceased ? In "Mourning habits in the West province of Cameroon," it appears that, if the soul is not taken care of, it will cause physical havoc in the society. Could there be a link between our souls and the physical elements of nature ? Is skull worshiping among the Bamileke merely a traditional practice or are they really able to communicate with their ancestors through the skulls ? What has led the Aghem people to firmly believe that lakes can physically move, that the dead live in their lakes, that children live in their pre-human state as caterpillars and may transform into reptiles when they are still babies ? What makes it possible for the human mind to communicate with animais, exchange messages as is shown in "How animais and things can speak and communicate in the Yambassa culture" ? Apart from the physical world as we know it, could there truly be a spiritual world that witches and wizards have access to and which system of values could this spiritual world be subjected to ? Every single paper of the more than 80 papers and squibs this book comprises is truly an invitation to explore further the untapped richness of African cultures.
04/2011
Musique, danse
L'homme qui titubait dans la guerre - CD. Les musiciens de la grande guerre
Commande de l'Etat et créé en 1998 à l'Historial de la Grande Guerre à Péronne, c'est un oratorio profane, à la fois chatoyant et émouvant pour soli, récitant, choeur et orchestre. Le livret est conçu par Arielle Augry, d'après des écrits d'Ernst Jünger, Cendrars, Apollinaire, Barbusse, Rolland... Isabelle Aboulker (1938) est la petite-fille du compositeur Henry Février qui écrivit plusieurs mélodies à Verdun pendant le conflit (volumes 4, 16 et 29 de la collection Les Musiciens et la Grande Guerre). 1. Prologue4'02 2. La nuit descend... 0'39 3. C'est le sang1'41 4. La douleur2'10 5. Terre, ô terre... 2'31 6. Amour, vous ne savez pas... 3'17 7. Les Horreurs de la guerre0'58 8. Guerre ! Guerre ! Guerre ! 1'23 9. Les tranchées2'14 10. Il pleut, the rain, Regen2'14 11. L'Histoire s'enrichit... 0'52 12. Le sol n'a plus soif2'34 13. J'ai emporté le capitaine... 1'20 14. La valse de l'arrière... 1'26 15. Petite chanson des mutilés0'49 16. Lettre au gentil militaire3'34 17. C'est le sang... 2'03 18. Le grand troupeau1'01 19. La java des profiteurs2'30 20. Testament2'25 21. La lettre de Paul2'20 22. Cimetières3'17 1918, l'Homme qui titubait dans la guerre (Instrumental) 23. "J'ai emporté le capitaine. ". . 1'22 24. Petite chanson des mutilés0'53 25. La java des profiteurs1'16 26. La valse de l'arrière... 1'29 Françoise Choveaux (1953) 27. Toccata op. 2245'22 La Bataille de Verdun Vincent Bouchot (1966) 28. La nuit descend comme une fumée rabattue5'05
04/2018
Histoire internationale
L'histoire cachée du peuple africain
A la croisée du dialogue des civilisations, cet ouvrage révèle des aspects insoupçonnés de la traite des Africains et de leur histoire. Vous en sortirez avec l'impression que l'on vous avait caché quelque chose de capital, d'essentiel. Mais encore, et surtout, avec le sentiment que vous ne serez plus jamais le même ! Vous poserez désormais un regard novateur sur les immenses ressources du génie africain qui nous invite à un rendez-vous fraternel. Quand il s'éveillera, l'Afrique et ses diasporas deviendront peut-être une lumière du monde !
06/2012
Histoire internationale
Nationalism and reparation in west Africa
After more than 50 years of independence, sustainable reconstruction in the form of effective African integration and development has not been in line with the aspiration of African people. This has been symbolised by the transformation of the Organisation of African Unity to the African Union in 2002. Will the new African Union be able to remedy this situation ? What is the essence of African reparation in this modern age of diplomacy and globalisation ?
04/2013
Non classé
Read Ancient African scripts from any current African language. Volume 2
The son of Douaouf, the brilliant, scribe of the early XIIth Dynasty Xty " Khety " said this : "The man continues to subsist after reaching the haven of death and his actions are beside him in a heap. " If regression is the main cause of the alarming situation of Africa and its tails the perceptibles consequences at all levels, the solution to this problem is eminently political. It inevitably involves the constitution of a pan-African State. For men, there is no unity without memory of the past. In fact, the construction of a federal state inevitably involves the restoration of African historical consciousness. There is no national and federal identity without a common language. The unification of Africa will only be possible if it takes the measure of its linguistic unification issue. To a lesser extent but like Cheikh Anta Diop in his book titled the Cultural Unity, I was animated throughout this heuristic by the idea that only the true knowledge of the past can maintain the consciousness and the feeling of a historical continuity essential to the consolidation of a nation for the purpose of building a multinational state in line with its past. Like Cheikh Anta Diop, I build my sureness on the legitimate idea that a people who lost a significant part of their historical memory must engage in the investigation of their past in every possible way. This investigation can take the contours of a reconnection with its past through so-called old languages. But a people can not live only with by merely repeating of what others tell them about themselves. The investigation through its linguistic past allows especially a direct knowledge of oneself. In addition to the fact that this knowledge simply highlights its weaknesses, it allows also to become aware by an introspective and therefore reflective of its real abilities and strengths. It structures being and the consciousness of being to resist any form of servile and degrading ideology. This quest for the past, not founded on blind passion but objectivity, nourishes a healthy ambition for a real universalism. To know one's past is already to project one's future. To know one's past is to give oneself the capacity to be able to bring to others in a perspective of giving and receiving. To know one's past is to refuse intellectual guardianship and wait-and-seeism. To know one's past is to be reborn.
05/2020
Non classé
Read Ancient African scripts from any current African language. Volume 1
The son of Douaouf, the brilliant, scribe of the early XIIth Dynasty Xty " Khety " said this : "The man continues to subsist after reaching the haven of death and his actions are beside him in a heap. " If regression is the main cause of the alarming situation of Africa and its tails the perceptibles consequences at all levels, the solution to this problem is eminently political. It inevitably involves the constitution of a pan-African State. For men, there is no unity without memory of the past. In fact, the construction of a federal state inevitably involves the restoration of African historical consciousness. There is no national and federal identity without a common language. The unification of Africa will only be possible if it takes the measure of its linguistic unification issue. To a lesser extent but like Cheikh Anta Diop in his book titled the Cultural Unity, I was animated throughout this heuristic by the idea that only the true knowledge of the past can maintain the consciousness and the feeling of a historical continuity essential to the consolidation of a nation for the purpose of building a multinational state in line with its past. Like Cheikh Anta Diop, I build my sureness on the legitimate idea that a people who lost a significant part of their historical memory must engage in the investigation of their past in every possible way. This investigation can take the contours of a reconnection with its past through so-called old languages. But a people can not live only with by merely repeating of what others tell them about themselves. The investigation through its linguistic past allows especially a direct knowledge of oneself. In addition to the fact that this knowledge simply highlights its weaknesses, it allows also to become aware by an introspective and therefore reflective of its real abilities and strengths. It structures being and the consciousness of being to resist any form of servile and degrading ideology. This quest for the past, not founded on blind passion but objectivity, nourishes a healthy ambition for a real universalism. To know one's past is already to project one's future. To know one's past is to give oneself the capacity to be able to bring to others in a perspective of giving and receiving. To know one's past is to refuse intellectual guardianship and wait-and-seeism. To know one's past is to be reborn.
05/2020
Notions
Romantisme et critique de la civilisation
Benjamin et le monde "civilisé" du XXe siècle : le plus pessimiste des penseurs révolutionnaires de l'entre-deux-guerres propose dans ce recueil de textes peu connus une critique radicale de la civilisation capitaliste-industrielle moderne et une déconstruction de l'idéologie du progrès.
04/2022
Histoire internationale
Bomb N : ressources, mysteries and opportunities of the Congo basin. Advocacy of Denis Sassou N'Guesso for the protection of the planet
This book of Michel Innocent Peya is devoted to the Congo Basin, the second largest reserve in the world : its natural ressources, its mysteries, legal and institutional frameworks, national, subregional and international levels that protect it. The basin of Congo is an African opportunity for the whole world. Its preservation and its protection over time are an action of conscience, will, commitment, determination and sacrifices for the benefit of humanity. Nature cannot be defending alone ; the Congo Basin finds among his children in love with nature a spokesperson or a soulmate in the person of the President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou N'Guesso. He is one with nature. This is why, time and time again, he cries out against the abusive and irrational exploitation of the Earth, which is the source of delayed natural disasters, irreversible, and mass destruction : the Bomb "N". This saving son of the world demonstrates his involvement by his career and his advocacy at several international, subregional and national summits on protection of the global environment. This book puts in the world place the intrinsic qualities of its international environmental policy, an arduous fight for thirty years for the preservation of nature, the balance of global climate. It plays the role of a climatoecological pivot in the Congo Basin subregion. His climate leadership is the result of coordinated sectoral planned policies, implemented, objectives clearly defined and adapted, credible and effective diplomacy. His sacrifices for humanity, its dedication to the cause of our planet and its management for the future of humanity and future generations give it the status of patrimonium of mankind. Protector as well as defender of the Congo Basin, he receives the blows and the backlash from mafia networks who wish to illegally exploit the huge ressources of this part of the Earth. It reveals to the donor community climatic conditions and to all human civilization the opportunities offered by the Congo (ecotourism, development of the pharmaceutical industry and the market Common Forest of Central African Countries). Peat bogs constitute for the Congo Basin the largest terrestrial reserve of organic carbon. They store twice as much carbon as other forests in the world. He calls on the conscience of climate hinders, because the peat bog is an essential source of ecological stability, a precious reserve of carbon and the cradle of unique flora and fauna to the world and its survival also requires the integration of local communities' indigenous peoples through sustainable projects. This book is a reference tool for understanding and analyzing the basin of Congo, its natural wealth, its legal and institutional framework, in the dynamics of climate-political leadership and its myriad opportunities for the planet. As a result, the author believes that the achievement of these objectives is dependent on climate-political leadership that the Congo Basin space exerts in the concert nations. As it is said in Africa, one finger cannot wash the whole face.
08/2018
Sciences politiques
Socialismes en Afrique
Ce volume est un état de la recherche internationale sur les socialismes africains. Y sont rassemblés des articles traitant de débats théoriques autour de ce thème et de ses sources intellectuelles mais aussi d'expériences très concrètes de socialisme, tant dans les villes que dans les campagnes : coopératives, comités de quartier, camps de rééducation... La situation de l'Afrique lusophone, parent pauvre des études africaines en France, et dont l'ensemble des pays ont justement fait l'expérience de régimes socialistes, a fait l'objet d'une attention particulière. Les rapports de l'Afrique avec l'URSS, les démocraties populaires, Cuba, la Chine, ou encore Israël sont également abordés. Les communications faites dans les colloques ont été repensées, avec pour résultat un fructueux dialogue avec les auteur. e. s et des articles complémentaires. Les auteurs espèrent ainsi donner à l'étude des socialismes africains une légitimité dans le champ plus général de l'histoire des socialismes, de même que dans celui de celle de la guerre froide. This volume is intended to be a state of international research on African socialisms. It brings together articles dealing with theoretical debates about socialism in Africa and its intellectual sources, but also very concrete experiences of socialism, both in cities and in the countryside : cooperatives, neighborhood committees, re-education camps, etc... Particular attention was paid to the situation of Portuguese-speaking Africa, the poor relation of African studies in France, and whose countries as a whole have precisely experienced socialist regimes. Africa's relations with the USSR, the People's Democracies, Cuba, China, and Israel were also discussed. For the sake of coherence, the papers given in the colloquia have been rethought in a fruitful dialogue with the authors and complementary articles have been requested... In this way, it is hoped to give legitimacy to the study of African socialisms in the more general field of the history of socialism, as well as in that of the Cold War.
06/2021
Littérature française
REVUE PRESENCE AFRICAINE N°181-182 - Centenaire Alioune DIOP
Centenaire Alioune Diop -Colloque du 3 au 5 mai 2010 (Dakar) DISCOURS D'OUVERTURE / OPENING ADDRESSES Son Excellence, Maître Abdoulaye WADE, Président de la République du Sénégal. Wole SOYINKA, écrivain, président de la Communauté Africaine de Culture : "Alioune Diop - At the Centennial" Abdou DIOUF, secrétaire général de la Francophonie Assane SECK, président de la Communauté Africaine de Culture, section sénégalaise (CAC-SEN Yandé C. DIOP, directrice de Présence Africaine Editions, secrétaire générale de la Communauté Africaine de Culture. Panel I : PRESENCE AFRICAINE : DECOLONISATION ET DEVENIR CULTUREL DE L'AFRIQUE ET DE SES DIASPORAS. PRESENCE AFRICAINE : DECOLONIZATION AND THE CULTURAL FUTURE OF AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORAS. Panel II : PEUT-ON PARLER AUJOURD'HUI DU PANAFRICANISME ET DU MONDE NOIR ? PANAFRICANISM AND THE BLACK WORLD TODAY ? Panel III : LE ROLE SPECIFIQUE DES INTELLECTUELS AFRICAINS DANS L'ACTUALISATION DU PROJET ALIOUNE DIOP. THE SPECIFIC ROLE OF AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN THE UP-DATING OF ALIOUNE DIOP'S PROJECT. Panel IV : ACTUALITE DU PROJET PRESENCE AFRICAINE DANS LA PRODUCTION ET LA DIFFUSION DES SAVOIRS AU XXIE SIECLE CURRENT INTEREST OF THE PRESENCE AFRICAINE PROJECT IN THE PRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY Panel V : DIALOGUE AVEC LES JEUNES. ACTUALITE DU PROJET PRESENCE AFRICAINE : LA QUESTION DE LA TRANSMISSION DES MEMOIRES DIALOGUE WITH YOUNG PEOPLE. RELEVANCE OF THE PRESENCE AFRICAINE PROJECT : TRANSMITTING MEMORY DISCOURS DE CLÔTURE/CLOSING ADDRESSES Théophile OBENGA, égyptologue Noureïni TIDJANI-SERPOS Sous-Directeur général de l'UNESCO pour l'Afrique, président du comité de soutien de la Communauté Africaine de Culture - Discours de remerciements SERIGNE MAMADOU BOUSSO LEYE, ministre de la Culture de la République du Sénégal.
03/2011
Histoire de France
Protestant resistance (version poche)
Strategically located between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, criss crossed by major communication axis joining north to South ant east to West, the South of France has always been a melting pot of people and ideas... No wonder then that as soon as the Reformation started, it received and enthusiastic welcome in many of the towns and villages and soon swept most of the Southern half of France. In many of these villages, the descendants of the Cathars and the Vaudois had been living quietly and were among the first to join the new churches. However, challenging the spiritual, and in some cases the secular, power of Rome wasn't without danger ; soon the "heretics" were being persecuted, harassed and burned with their seditious books. As the French Kings (with the notable exception of Henry IV), sided with the Pope, a culture of resistance developed and has remained to this day. This book shows the clear link and shared ideas between the Huguenots who fought Louis XIVth and their descendants who hid Jewish children and fought nazi occupation forces. Richar Maltby, retired Professor of History at King's School in Canterbury and the author of a successful illustrated history of Canterbury takes us through the villages, towns and hideouts of the Huguenots and follows the Renaissance to WWII. His well-researched and well-illustrated book describes how the influence of the Bible and protestant theology permeated a whole civilization with a strong love for freedom and rejection of oppression.
07/2018
Civilisation américaine
La Civilisation américaine. American Civilization, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Cet ouvrage bilingue aborde les principaux aspects de la civilisation américaine : fondements géographiques et historiques, partis politiques, population, éducation, Constitution, religion, institutions politiques, fédéralisme, élections, économie, etc. Il est conçu pour répondre de façon précise et exhaustive aux questions historiques et d'actualité que se posent les étudiants en licence et master LLCER d'anglais et LEA, aux élèves de classes préparatoires, ainsi qu'aux candidats aux concours de l'enseignement. Ils y trouveront : 19 chapitres thématiques bilingues, des cartes et des tableaux, une chronologie 1565- 2022, la Constitution américaine, un index. Elvis Buckwalter est maître de conférences en langues étrangères appliquées (anglais) à l'université Paris-Nanterre.
10/2022
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
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
Critique littéraire
Radio pluralism in West Africa
RADIO PLURALISM IN WEST AFRICAThe present survey has been compiled from a project regarding radio broadcasting pluralism in West Africa. This project is part of Regional Programme of the Paris Panos Institute. It includes research as well as a back up plan for the development of radio broadcasting pluralism in West Africa. This survey covers ECOWAS 16 member-countries with the exception of Liberia which is excluded for political reasons. It has been monitored by a committee of participants who are all interested, for various reasons, in the development of radio broadcasting pluralism in West Africa. Surveys were carried out by african journalists and researchers.
09/1993
Tourisme étranger
Album MAP 2018. Images du Maroc
Dans le sillage de la COP22, la participation du Souverain au sommet du bassin du Congo adonné à notre pays une voix prépondérante dans le débat environnemental africain et un leadership incontesté sur cette question. L'Afrique à la quête d'une industrialisation pourvoyeuse d'emploi et d'un modèle économique plus efficient, ne devrait pas ignorer les questions clé de son avenir : la crise environnementale, la transition énergétique et les conséquences du réchauffement climatique subi. In the wake of COP22, the participation of the Sovereign at the Congo Basin Summit has given our country a preponderant voice in the African environmental debate and undisputed leadership on this matter. Africa, in search of an industrialization that provides employment and a more efficient economic model, should not ignore the key issues of its future : the environmental crisis, the energy transition and the consequences of global warming. Khalil Hachimi Idrissi
02/2019
Histoire internationale
Perfect fundamental values and the development of Africa. From African Renaissance to Illumination
This book is the result of fundamental research on the thorny issue of Africa's development. It demonstrates that the development of human societies is first and foremost a resultant of true, perfect and eternal knowledge, a process of conversion of the soul to the True, the Good and the Beautiful, before becoming a quest for material and financial means. To acquire this knowledge, one must resort to all knowledge that deals with life and man, beginning with that of God who is the source of this authentic knowledge. Man, made in the image of God, if he goes back to this source, finds the universal fundamentals of perfect knowledge which open to him the path of complete and eternal knowledge. This enables him to launch victoriously into development. All human cultures have this opportunity to resort to the original sources of knowledge : Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and animism. This true and perfect knowledge sets the man in the certainties that renew his intelligence and make him a new, perfect and creative being of development. All the people who have developed have gone through this salutary way. Africa cannot be an exception to this golden rule. With the assistance of CERCUDE and OVAFOPAC.
02/2020
Poésie
Les voix d'un seul peuple. Voices of one people
Influencé à la fois par la poésie yoruba et la culture européenne, Thony Babarinde nous livre à travers ce poème une ode puissante à l'harmonie, la paix et l'union entre les peuples. Dans ses vers à l'air de chants de gloire et d'amour, il appelle l'humanité tout entière à regarder en face cette beauté douce, lumineuse et pourtant implacable que nous avons tous en nous avant de la chercher ailleurs, celle que certains nomment liberté. Influenced both by Yoruba poetry and European culture, Thony Babarinde sings and praises harmony, peace and unity. A powerful ode to the uniqueness of the quest for freedom in every society. This poem underlines his interconnection between Yoruba, English and French language.
06/2021
Non classé
CD He is alive ! Yes, he has changed our lives - CD 1
01. Yes, he has changed our lives 02. Behold him, he comes 03. Father, Lord of heaven and of earth 04. Jesus, he is the way 05. Alleluia, Jesus, Saviour 06. Veni, Sante Spiritus 07. For you, o Lord 08. O Lord, I am yours 09. Alle, Alleluia 10. Ave Maria 11. Sing out your praises 12. In God alone 13. Ave Maria (instrumental) 14. Sing out your praises (instrumental) 15. In God alone (instrumental)
07/1998
Actualité médiatique internati
Unboss the Boss. How to empower your team for more profitability
The contented boss of a flourishing group, Alexandre Gérard took a hit in the crisis of 2009. He promptly decided to revolutionize his management style by basing it on a fundamental principle : a contented employee is more effective than an infantilized one whose every move is scrutinized. Learning to trust, to share information and decision-making with his team members, he channeled the creativity of all and in the process did away with all marks of hierarchy. An important figure in the liberated business arena, here Alexandre Gérard tells the story of his "great leap, " of the people he met who inspired him and of the stages in the process-not forgetting its pitfalls... . Above all, there is the necessary and profound transformation of the boss himself. An inspiring book that aims to put people back at the center of the system.
09/2023
Histoire de France
Missionnaires de la République. Les représentants du peuple en mission (1793-1795)
Printemps 1793. La Convention fait de certains de ses membres des «représentants du peuple en mission» envoyés à ce titre dans toute la France : en ces temps troublés, l'Etat entend renforcer son contrôle sur l'espace national. Pendant près de trois années, ces missionnaires de la République s'emploient, par centaines, à mobiliser leurs concitoyens dans un vaste effort de guerre. Tout en se faisant les agents d'une véritable acculturation politique, relayant symboles et pratiques révolutionnaires auprès d'un peuple qu'il fallait éduquer aux idées de progrès et de raison. Une poignée d'entre eux, comme Carrier à Nantes, allèrent jusqu'à exercer de sanglantes répressions de masse. Cet ouvrage retrace pour la première fois, dans le détail des parcours individuels, l'extraordinaire engagement de ces hommes - leurs convictions aussi, leurs désillusions, leur goût du pouvoir ou leur esprit de sacrifice...
08/2015
Non classé
Philip Freneau- Tomo Cheeki, the Creek Indian in Philadelphia
Philip Freneau (1752-1832) was one of the first Americans to gain wide recognition as a writer. He is generally remembered as the "father of American poetry," but his prose writings have not always received the attention they deserve. As the editor of three important papers in the late 18th century (The National Gazette. The Jersey Chronicle, and The Time-Piece and Literary Companion) and as a contributor to many others, Freneau produced a large number of political and literary essays. The "Tomo Cheeki Essays", which were published in 1795 and in 1797, constitute an excellent example of Freneau's prose work. These pseudo-autobiographical accounts of an Indian visiting a city of the Whites are based upon the model of the European "oriental tale," while simultaneously incorporating American subject matter. The essays are representative of a decisive period of American literary history, since they reveal both Freneau's indebtedness to European culture and his role in the process of overcoming this indebtedness in the beginning creation of an independent national literature. The present edition provides the first complete and separate modern collection of the essays, which gives the reader an opportunity to get acquainted with an important example of early American prose writing that has been virtually inaccessible up to now.
12/1987
Histoire internationale
The power of hope. The First Lady of Burundi. My story
She was born in Mwumba, in the north of Burundi. Shy and hardworking, Denise Bucumi met a man, Pierre Nkurunziza. But in 1993, war broke out in this central African country formely known as "the Switzerland of Africa", taking with it the dream of a peaceful household. When the family's father left for the bush, Denise found herself face to face with her worst enemy : loneliness. What a lot of fighting and many tears to reunite her again with her family for a more beautiful destiny : the Presidential Palace.
07/2013
Non classé
The Inculturation of Christianity in Africa
This book demonstrates that the encounter between Christianity and various African cultures gives rise to a number of problems for Africans who become Christians. It draws attention to certain traditional African beliefs and practices that seem to be incompatible with Christianity and create problems for Africans who embrace Christianity. Against this background it argues for the need to inculturate Christianity. It contends that in this exercise African Christianity can learn from the attempts at inculturation found in the New Testament times and in the early church. It offers examples of how the early church sought to make use of non-Christian categories of thought and elements in its articulation of the Christian message and in worship. It suggests a few areas of Ghanaian and African life where inculturation could and should take place. These include funeral rites, widowhood rites, child-naming rites, the rites of marriage, libation and christology. It concludes by offering some guidelines for use in the process of the inculturation of Christianity in Africa today.
10/2005
Décoration
Stories and Reflections
Eminent tastemaker Axel Vervoordt recounts the pivotal moments in his life that formed the foundation of his guiding philosophy and signature aesthetic. Axel Vervoordt is one of the world's foremost tastemakers. Revered for his discerning eye in art and interior design through a career that has spanned more than fifty years, he is renowned for his captivating minimalist interiors. An iconic figure at the most prominent international art fairs and exhibitions, he incarnates a singular philosophy for how to live with style. In Stories and Reflections, Vervoordt recounts stories about the people who have influenced him most throughout his life - his family, friends, artists, colleagues, clients, and unforgettable mentors - in this memoir that is personal, funny, insightful, and permeated with humility, wisdom, and lessons learned. He reflects on the key moments in his life from childhood to the present - Rudolf Nureyev's visit to the Vervoordt's new castle, his youthful acquisition of a Magritte, discovering Japanese Gutai art, his legendary Venice exhibitions, and insights gained from artists such as Cy Twombly, Anish Kapoor, and musician Mstislav Rostropovich. He details his greatest successes, as well as his personal regrets, while offering first-hand insight into the work that has forged his reputation. A larger-than-life and inspiring man, this book offers snapshots from his life, which paint an overall portrait of his guiding philosophy.
12/2017
Monographies
Peter Doig
Accompanying a major exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig at The Courtauld, London, this publication will present an exciting new chapter in the career of one of the most celebrated and important painters working today and will include paintings and works on paper created since the artist's move from Trinidad to London in 2021. Doig (born Edinburgh, 1959) is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading artists. He secured his early reputation in the 1990s as a highly original figurative painter, producing large-scale, immersive landscape paintings that exist somewhere between actual places and the realms of the imagination. Layered into his paintings is a rich array of inspirations, such as scenes from films, album covers, and the art of the past. His works are often related to the places where he has lived and worked, including the UK, Canada and Trinidad. In 2021, Doig moved back to London where he has set up a new studio. This new studio has become the crucible for developing paintings started in Trinidad and New York and elsewhere, which are being worked up alongside completely fresh paintings, including a new London subject. The works produced for the exhibition at The Courtauld convey this particularly creative experience of transition, as Doig explores a rich variety of places, people, memories and ways of painting that have accompanied him to his new London studio. For Doig, printmaking is an integral part of his artistic life : his prints and his paintings often work in dialogue with one another. The catalogue will also showcase the artist's work as a draughtsman and printmaker by exploring a series of his new and recent drawing and prints, allowing readers to consider the full span of Doig's creative process. Doig has long admired the collection of The Courtauld Gallery. The Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists who are at its heart have been a touchstone for his own painting and printmaking over the course of his career. His works presented here will reflect his current artistic preoccupations, from remarkable landscapes to monumental figure paintings. Readers will be able to consider Doig's contemporary works in the light of paintings by earlier artists in The Courtauld's collection that are important for him, such as those by Cézanne, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Pissarro and Van Gogh. The publication will explore how Doig recasts and reinvents traditions and practices of painting to create his own highly distinctive works.
06/2023
Non classé
RoferonÎ-A in Chronic Viral Hepatitis
Chronic liver infection due to viral hepatitis B and C is a major public health problem. Worldwide, an estimated 750 million people are carriers of these two viruses. Alpha-interferons, such as RoferonI-A, are currently the therapy of choice in chronic viral hepatitis B and C. They are effective in preventing disease progression and life-threatening sequelae : liver cirrhosis, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, and variceal hemorrhage and/or hepatocellular carcinoma. On the other hand, discussion has been raised on the potentially enormous cost impact of these genetically engineered drugs in the treatment of an already costly disease. This study identifies and evaluates the long-term clinical and economic effects of RoferonI-A treatment in chronic viral hepatitis B and C over a time period of 10 to 20 years. Clinical and epidemiological data, as well as the detailed health care resource use and cost assessment, reflect the clinical and economic reality in Germany in 1993. A Markov model is used to predict the long-term clinical benefits of RoferonI-A therapy in terms of reduced morbidity and mortality. Based on this, direct costs, savings, and cost-effectiveness are analysed, including : RoferonI-A therapy initiation and follow-up, physician services, laboratory services, medicotechnical services, drug therapy, hospitalization as well as surgical interventions (liver transplantations).
06/1994
Ecrits sur l'art
Seeing loud. Basquiat and music
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, New York City was financially and socially bankrupt, but the art and music scene was flourishing. During these years, the downtown New York music scene - no wave, hip-hop, disco funk and club culture - shaped Jean-Michel Basquiat as both a musician and an artist. This catalog for a traveling exhibition explores how Basquiat's painting has parallels in his music (sampling, cut-up, rapping), and takes a new look at his production as a writer and a poet in light of his connections with the then-emerging hip-hop culture. This beautifully illustrated exhibition catalog of rarely seen photographs and images sheds new light on Basquiat as a musician, exploring how his art and music are related, and how they reflect on his identity as a Black artist in the United States, the downtown New York music scene, and contemporary culture.
08/2023
