The One Tome 5
Extraits
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
Art contemporain
Hassan Khan. Catalogue de l'exposition, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Tell me about clowns. Once upon a time, there was a species that thought they were better than everyone and everything else. What is the difference between a clown and a joker ? Sometimes they're one and the same. And the knife ? Some humans can be kind, surprising even, while others can act out of fear and negative emotions. Really ?
03/2022
Manhua
The One Tome 5
La triste nouvelle inacceptable ! Après être rentrée pleine d'enthousiasme à Taïwan, Lele est accueillie par la triste nouvelle du décès de sa grand-mère bien aimée !! Ne pouvant pardonner à sa tante de lui avoir caché la vérité, Lele, sous le choc, tombe dans le coma.
12/2022
Manhua
The One Tome
Après s'être assurée de ses sentiments, il s'agit de faire tous les efforts nécessaires pour avancer ! Lele comprend les sentiments qu'elle éprouve pour Eros, et cherche donc à se rapprocher de lui. Eros commence aussi à s'en rendre compte, et fait beaucoup d'exceptions pour elle. Angus et Lele participent ensemble au shooting de la publicité pour ZAC. Mais les propos du célèbre photographe, Marshall, ravivent des souvenirs insoutenables chez le top model et révèlent à Lele une toute autre facette du jeune homme. Cela pourrait-il allumer une étincelle entre eux ?
02/2023
Architecture
The Turkish Boudoir of Marie Antoinette and Joséphine at Fontainebleau
Ten years apart, Marie Antoinette gives to Fontainebleau two jewels made by the greatest artists of her time : the Turkish boudoir (1777) and the silver boudoir (1786). In these homes of retirement, the queen escapes the label of the Court and combines a fancy Orient with the expression of the most extravagant novelties. The craze for turqueries did not fade in the early nineteenth century and the Empress Joséphine moved a few years later in this women's shelter offering a new sparkle to this universe of the Thousand and One Nights. She had a sumptuous and atypical furniture, which combines mahogany and gilded bronzes with lamé fabrics, embroidered and fringed with gold. After a painstaking restoration, the graceful carved, painted and gilded paneling of Marie Antoinette's boudoir is once again the setting for Joséphine's luxurious furniture. Nestled in a corner of the ancestral castle of Fontainebleau, the Turkish boudoir is the only decoration of its kind preserved in France and one of the most exceptional sets of furniture created for Joséphine.
03/2023
Manhua
The One Tome 6
Une nouvelle rencontre avec Eros ! Lele est signée par le PDG de DGM, Nick, et se rend donc à New York ! Une réception de bienvenue a lieu le soir même, mais la naïve Lele manque de peu d'y perdre sa virginité ! Au moment critique, c'est étonnamment Eros qui vient à son secours !
12/2022
Manhua
The One Tome 10
Un futur avec des chemins différents, où se trouve l'intersection ? Après s'être rendu à Los Angeles sous prétexte de tourner une publicité, Eros est ramené de force en Suède à la place d'Angus. Sous la surveillance stricte de Taylor, Angus est sur le point de prendre une décision dangereuse pour sauver son frère. Seule à Paris pour continuer sa carrière, Lele doit faire face à une sérieuse épreuve...
06/2023
Manhua
The One Tome 9
Le danger latent caché derrière le bonheur est sur le point de surgir ! Après sa collaboration avec Angus, Lele reçoit, non seulement l'approbation du mannequin et du photographe, mais stupéfait tout le monde une fois les photos du shooting publiées ! La veille de Noël, le père des jumeaux vient les trouver, et déclare vouloir ramener Angus avec lui, en Suède. Dans le but de protéger son frère, Eros abandonne cruellement Lele, la laissant inconsolable et le coeur brisé...
06/2023
Manhua
The One Tome 3
La flamme de l'amour est-elle sur le point de naître... ? Lele, sous l'effet de l'alcool, finit par énerver Eros. Celui-ci la ramène donc de force à l'hôtel en la portant sur son épaule ! Quelle coïncidence qu'Eros loge justement dans la chambre juste en face de la sienne ! Mais soudain, il devient tout pâle et s'écroule inconscient au sol...? !
07/2022
Manhua
The One Tome 4
Une crise pourrait faire perdre sa place à Lele ! La grand-mère de Lele est dans le coma à l'hôpital après une chute ? ! Malgré les inquiétudes de Lele, sa tante la convainc de terminer son shooting au Japon avant de rentrer à Taiwan et de ne surtout pas laisser transparaître ses sentiments... Cependant, le shooting se passe mal et Steve lui pose un ultimatum : si elle ne se reprend pas, il changera de mannequin !
07/2022
Manhua
The One Tome 11
Le papillon silencieux va finir par sortir de son cocon ! A son insu, Lele inspire Glenn Deveraux et devient l'une des mannequins de son défilé ! C'est ainsi que s'ouvre, officiellement, la route vers une reconnaissance internationale... Pour sauver son frère, Angus décide de tout risquer pour se confronter à son père. De son côté, Eros parvient à séduire Dame Manda. Les deux frères lancent en même temps leur vengeance...
10/2023
Manhua
The One Tome 12
Les retrouvailles après les souffrances, leurs mains peuvent-elles se serrer plus fort encore ? Eros échappe aux griffes de son père mais sombre dans les tourments de la drogue et de sa mauvaise conscience ! Sur le point de rentrer en France, Lele apprend la situation et abandonne les podiums pour rester à New York. Elle parvient, peu à peu, à percer la carapace d'Eros à qui elle prodigue des soins tout en offrant sa compagnie. Mais le retour de Feidna pourrait à nouveau créer des remous et empêcher les deux jeunes gens de se rapprocher...
10/2023
Manhua
The One Tome 16
Les ailes poussent pour accueillir une nouvelle fois une renaissance parfaite... Pour remédier à la crise amoureuse qu'ils traversent, Yin fait tout son possible. Mais Lele reste froide et dure face à ses efforts. Qui aurait pu imaginer que la vie de Lele serait menacée en plein shooting ? Ayant réussi à remonter sur le devant de la scène du monde de la mode, la jeune mannequin parviendra-t-elle à être heureuse en amour également ?
03/2024
Manhua
The One - Tome 13
Le bonheur après la tempête est l'antidote parfait au cauchemar. Yin accepte progressivement la compagnie de Lele, laissant peu à peu tomber sa carapace. Ses confessions sincères décident la jeune fille à trouver un antidote au "cauchemar éternel". Mais contre toute attente cela plonge Yin dans une colère noire, qui met à nouveau à l'épreuve leurs sentiments mutuels... Feidna en profite pour aller voir Glenn Deveraux escomptant s'accaparer l'attention du monde de la mode !
12/2023
Manhua
The One - Tome 14
Le moment magique sous les projecteurs ! Le moment de se quitter arrive toujours si soudainement ! Alors que leurs sentiments viennent difficilement de s'épanouir, le moment de la séparation prend tout le monde au dépourvu ! Sous l'incitation de Yin, Lele, qui est très attachée, doit faire le choix difficile de sa carrière ou de ses sentiments. Que doit-elle faire si elle veut rester fidèle à ce que lui dicte son coeur ?
12/2023
Manhua
The One Tome 2
Le premier pas sur la scène de la mode ! Pour le premier défilé de sa carrière, Lele fait un énorme faux-pas ! _Pour la ramener sur le podium, Eros la porte dans ses bras, couvrant ainsi de honte la jeune fille ! Qui aurait cru néanmoins que cela ferait exploser sa popularité au point de la voir surnommée la " Gemma Ward " d'Asie ! De son côté, la grand-mère de Lele fait, par hasard, la connaissance du " vagabond heureux "...
06/2022
Manhua
The One Tome 1
La somptueuse métamorphose d'une mannequin ! Même si Teng Lele est la fille d'une mannequin célèbre, elle n'a pas vocation _à entrer dans le milieu de la mode, jusqu'au jour où elle voit, dans un magazine, le mannequin numéro un dans le monde : Angus Lanson. _Dès lors, elle comprend que le mannequinat est une forme d'art, _ce qui fait naître en elle la vocation d'en devenir un, elle aussi ! _Mais lors de sa première audition, elle subit une grande désillusion... A la conquête du monde de la mode... Et du coeur d'Angus !
06/2022
Manhua
The One Tome 7
La graine de l'amour de Lele pour Eros aurait-elle déjà germé ? Lorsque Lele côtoie Eros, elle peine à contrôler les battements de son coeur, qui ne cesse de s'emballer. Après en avoir appris davantage sur l'enfance malheureuse d'Eros, Lele se sent encore plus attachée émotionnellement à lui. Elle met en place une thérapie à base d'étreintes : tous deux s'enlacent passionnément en pleine rue...
01/2023
Manhua
The One Tome 15
Après la douceur, un vent de folie surgit à nouveau... La colocation de Lele et Angie débute officiellement. Devant l'harmonie qui règne entre eux, semblable à celle d'un couple, Yin est fou de jalousie ! Parallèlement, Feidna élabore un piège ayant pour but d'anéantir les sentiments liant Yin et Lele. Ces derniers pourront-ils traverser, main dans la main, cette épreuve ?
03/2024
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
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
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Don’t leave me
Jordan and Florence had made a promise never to part with each other, having managed to heal their past pains. Unfortunately, one day she will return to France, leaving Jordan, alone, in Boston. Their love, their carnal complicity in which they always found refuge and had fun in unusual places, cannot be ended on a whim. The death of a child, of a parent, suicide, disability, so many trials that will test their love, so that they admit they are nothing without the other. Will they succeed, knowing that when one is loved, one strength is increased tenfold when one encounters an obstacle ? Besides, distance is nothing when two people love each other so passionately, destiny is supposed to bring those who love each other together.
07/2022
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
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
WHY SEX MATTERS. A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
Why are men, like other primate usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to maximize their reproductive success and seek resources to do so.
Low begins by reviewing the fundamental arguments and assumptions of behavioral ecology: selfish genes, conflicts of interest, and the tendency for sexes to reproduce through different behaviors. She explains why in primate species-from chimpanzees and apes to humans-males seek to spread their genes by devoting extraordinary efforts to finding mates, while females find it profitable to expend more effort on parenting. Low illustrates these sexual differences among humans by showing that in places as diverse as the parishes of nineteenth-century Sweden, the villages of seventeenth-century China, and the forests of twentieth-century Brasil, men have tended to seek power and resources, from cattle to money, to attract mates, while women have sought a secure environment for raising children. She makes it clear, however, they have not done so simply through individual efforts or in a vacuum, but that men and women act in complex ways that involve cooperation and coalition building and that are shaped by culture, technology, tradition, and the availability of resources. Low also considers how file evolutionary drive to
acquire resources leads to environmental degradation and warfare and asks whether our behavior could be channeled in more constructive ways.
Why Sex Matters is a compelling work of biology, sociology, and anthropology and a penetrating study of the deep motivations that underlie individual and social behavior.
01/2000
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
Black Orpheus. Edition en langue anglaise
This text, one of the finest written by Jean-Paul Sartre, dates from 1948 and is the accomplishment of the understanding of poems whose aim was not merely literary. To a large degree, it inaugurated the still lively reflexion on Negritude. This text dealing with liberty wich at that time could only be written or spoken about, has lost none of its virtue in a world where many of the profound demands of the black voice have still to be met.
02/1963
Archéologie
Fantastic Beasts in Antiquity. Looking for the monster, discovering the Human, Textes en français et anglais
Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented mysterious and intriguing creatures populating their world. During Antiquity, every culture had its own strange creatures, that mixed the forms of one or more animal, plant and human species in an infinite number of more-or-less fanciful combinations. Griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, pygmies, werewolves, winged monsters and unspeakable hybrids, fantastic beasts abound in the imagination of many populations throughout Antiquity. Most of them continue to live, sometimes transformed, through fairy tales, literature, movies and videogames. Faced with the abundance and variety of the ancient fantastic bestiary, the questions that come to mind are : Where do fantastic beasts come from ? How do they appear in different cultures ? What is their history, how did they survive until now ? And above all, what are fantastic beasts ? This book will explore these questions through the lens of archaeology, art history, philology and philosophy. The result is a hybrid book, precisely like the fantastic animals that constitute its object, a book which offers different approaches of analysis while being aware that our means are often vain to capture these elusive figures, which ultimately are more like us than they seem. Man, like Oedipus, will often prove to be more monstrous than the Sphinx...
02/2021
Romance sexy
The Golden Trinity Tome 2 : The Evil One
Il la désire mais cherche à la détruire... La sentence est tombée : Cassiel est exclu pendant un mois du lycée pour avoir frappé un élève. Appartenant à une famille riche et réputée, il sait que cela n'entravera pas son entrée à Harvard. Pourtant, aux yeux de Cassiel, le directeur doit payer, et la vengeance du brun ténébreux est toute trouvée : il va séduire Elyn, la précieuse fille du directeur, et la détruire. Sérieuse et intelligente, Elyn rêve de devenir ballerine et consacre presque tout son temps à la danse. Alors, quand son père lui demande d'aider Cassiel à rattraper les cours, la jeune femme est loin d'être ravie. Elle le connaît depuis toujours et, aussi attirant soit-il, il n'en est pas moins un joueur de poker manipulateur et cruel dont il faut se méfier. Malgré tout, la danseuse d'apparence sage n'a pas peur de relever le défi... et lorsque Cassiel se rapproche d'elle et s'amuse à la provoquer, elle prend un malin plaisir à répliquer.
06/2023
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
Mouvements artistiques
Frank Auerbach. The Charcoal Heads
Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, Frank Auerbach : The Charcoal Heads presents a remarkable series of hauntingly beautiful largescale drawings by the artist. The catalogue includes a new piece of writing on one of the drawings from critically acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. This catalogue explores one of Frank Auerbach's most remarkable bodies of work - a series of large-scale portrait heads made in charcoal, produced during his early years as a young artist in postwar London. Auerbach (b. 1931) spent months on each drawing, working and reworking them during numerous sessions with his sitters. This prolonged and vigorous process of creation is evident in the finished drawings, which are richly textured and layered. Auerbach would sometimes even break through the paper and patch it up before carrying on. His heads thus emerge from the darkness of the charcoal with burning vitality, born of an artistic as well as a physical struggle with the medium. The process of repeated creation and destruction, of which these images bear the visible scars, speaks profoundly of their times, as people rebuilt their lives after the ruination and upending of the war. The exhibition will be the first time Auerbach's extraordinary drawings, made in the 1950s and early 1960s, have been brought together as a comprehensive group. They will be shown together with a selection of paintings he made of the same sitters ; for the artist, painting and drawing have always been deeply entwined. The accompanying catalogue - by Deputy Head of The Courtauld Gallery, Barnaby Wright, and with an essay by one of the greatest contemporary voices in the English language, Colm Tóibín - is the first publication to explore in depth this magnificent series. Tóibín spent several hours one afternoon in front of Auerbach's Self-Portrait (1958), which features on the front cover of the book, looking closely and taking notes. His essay is an account of his experience and offers new insights into the work and the nature of self-portaiture.
03/2024
