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Pass Culture : l'accès aux oeuvres et aux loisirs pour les jeunes

Proposition culturelle centrale du programme culturel du candidat Emmanuel Macron au cours de la campagne de 2017, le Pass Culture se présentait comme l'opportunité, pour les jeunes de 18 ans, de se saisir de leur citoyenneté et de leur liberté pour découvrir la richesse culturelle de leur territoire, ainsi que la diversité de la production culturelle. Ce sont ainsi 500 € qui seront « offerts » à chaque jeune, le jour de ses 18 ans, et qu'il pourra utiliser à travers une application conçue sur mesure pour le Pass Culture.

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Portraits de traductrices et traducteurs du passé

« Traduire, c’est trahir », selon l’adage italien, mais sans eux, pas de livres venus d’ailleurs dans les mains des lecteurs. Traductrices et traducteurs, penchés sur des textes antiques ou des publications plus récentes, ont enrichi les bibliothèques de leurs apports. Coauteurs de ces œuvres, souvent oubliés, voici un dossier qui rend hommage à un métier essentiel.

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Les Chroniques du Confiné : au temps du coronavirus, le critique se fait booktuber

Chaque jour apporte son lot de mauvaises nouvelles — ou de nouvelles qu’on préférerait meilleures. Il fallait bien que la rédaction tente d’offrir un moment de pause humoristique. Et même si les librairies sont fermées, et qu’il devient plus difficile de se procurer des nouveautés, pas question de renoncer à la découverte de livres, d’auteurs, de coups de coeur.

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Le métier d'éditeur : mythes et légendes au pays des histoires

Comment l’industrie qui vend des romans, des albums, des récits fantastiques, terrifiants, pourrait échapper à faire elle-même l’objet d’histoires ? Pas la Grande Histoire Littéraire, que l’on invoque avec des majuscules, non. Celle des rumeurs, du qu’en-dira-t-on, entre bruits de couloirs et légendes urbaines.

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Uchronie biographique : les figures littéraires du passé plongées dans un monde moderne

Et si Samuel Beckett n’avait jamais connu Godot, né dans une Irlande changée « en tigre celtique » ? Qu’est-ce que Diderot aurait pu imaginer à l’époque d’internet et des réseaux sociaux ? Et Alphonse de Lamartine, aurait-il opté pour une carrière d’influenceur politico-poético-dépensier ? Excellentes questions…

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Midam et Kid Paddle : l'appel du blork plus fort que tout

Savez-vous capturer un Blork ? Utiliser au mieux un copy 2000 ? Ce que devient l'argent une fois glissé dans le fente d'un bouffe-fric ? Kid Paddle est là pour répondre à toutes ces importantes questions existentielles, à une époque où jeux vidéo, ordinateurs et autres CD-ROM dirigent les loisirs des enfants... et des adultes.

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Roman d'amour, roman sentiment

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Dernière année de lycée pour Kale, énième déménagement. Il n'a qu'une envie, que cette année se termine, pour pouvoir tourner la page et partir loin. Très loin. Mais sa voisine, la jolie et populaire Joana, l'intrigue. Elle l'attire. Il l'interpelle. Il ne peut pas la vouloir, son monde est trop sombre. Elle le veut, malgré sa noirceur et les ténèbres qui l'entourent. Entre amour, jalousie, rivalités et noirceur, leur amour sera-t-il assez fort pour braver l'orage qui se dirige droit sur eux ? Bienvenue à Lexington Hight School !

01/2023

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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