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Axolot : entrez dans un monde d'étranges étrangetés

Patrick Baud est conteur et créateur du blog et chaîne YouTube Axolot. Énigmes, expériences scientifiques, bestioles incroyables, tout y passe pour assouvir son but : partager son étonnement face à l'étrangeté de l'univers. Depuis octobre 2010, ces récits ont été transformés en bande dessinées, avec les dessins de nombreux et talentueux illustrateurs – différents à chaque tome.

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Nota Bene : visiter et apprendre l'Histoire, autrement

NotaBene – « L'histoire est devenue ma passion quand j'ai créé ma chaîne Youtube », explique Benjamin Brillaud, fondateur de Nota Bene. Ses émissions, qui recensent aujourd’hui 2,16 millions d’abonnés, travaille à rendre l’Histoire plus abordable. Une approche pédagogique et ludique qui devait, assez logiquement, conduire à puiser dans d’autres supports comment rendre le sujet plus populaire encore.

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Rentrée littéraire 2017, la fashion week des libraires

Rentrée littéraire, le dossier complet : auteurs, français et étrangers, premiers romans, tous ceux qui feront l’actualité du livre. Au menu : chroniques, entretiens, prix littéraires et billets d’humeur. 

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Robots, extraterrestres, IA, humains... qui aura le dernier mot ?

Ah, l'ère technologique ! Une époque où nos téléphones sont plus intelligents que nos animaux de compagnie, où nos montres peuvent nous dire combien de pas nous avons faits (comme si cela comptait vraiment après cette pizza quatre fromages) et où nos réfrigérateurs peuvent nous rappeler d'acheter du lait. Mais attendez, ce n'est pas tout ! 

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Dossier

Nos amies les bêtes : les animaux dans la littérature

Depuis l’intérêt des Mésopotamiens dans des récits mythologiques aux premières fables d’Ésope, nos amies les bêtes occupent une place particulière. Tout à la fois créatures choyées et craintes, compagnons ou ennemis, elles bénéficient d’une affection particulière chez les écrivains. Et loin de ce que l'on imaginerait, pas uniquement en littérature jeunesse.

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Dossier

Redécouvrir Colette, à travers les femmes qui l'ont lue

Ce 28 janvier, Colette aurait eu 150 ans. Et depuis quarante années, les éditions des femmes - Antoinette Fouque mettent à l'honneur les écrits de Colette à travers leur collection de livres audio, La Bibliothèque des Voix. L'occasion de retrouver les femmes qui, au fil du temps, ont prêté leur voix pour que vivent les textes de l'autrice.

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Poésie

Who knows not what to seek / Étrange vagabond

Né en 1921, fils d'un pasteur anglican, John Bradburne a longtemps cherché la voie qui était la sienne, ne la trouvant ni dans l'enseignement, ni dans l'armée, ni dans le mariage, bien qu'il y ait souvent pensé, ni dans les ordres, bien qu'il fait de nombreuses tentatives dans ce sens. En 1947 il devient catholique. Depuis 1956, disciple laïc de saint François, il entre en 1969, comme directeur et homme à tout faire, à la léproserie de Mtemwa, en Rhodésie du Sud, le futur Zimbabwe. En 1979, lors des conflits pour l'indépendance du pays, il est assassiné par un groupe de rebelles. Il laisse une oeuvre poétique immense, peut-être 200 000 vers. On verra, dans le choix ici présenté, que, lyriques ou cocasses, inspirés ou plus terre-à-terre, savants ou naïfs, ces vers témoignent d'abord d'une immense tendresse pour la beauté de la vie.

09/2016

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Sociologie

The Fakir's Travels

Advising people to take this attitude or that are a waste of time. Those who see or/and are aware realise also that it is none of their business to goad and advise others. Our job at best can be to answer questions by the light of our knowledge but in no way can anyone be dogmatic about it. Let us all be first aware of - Do we know ? What do we know ? How do we know that we know ? To me it is the part where we first accept that there is room for change for the better in us. Then we observe ourselves. And finally we try to bring in the change in ourselves with our will with sincerity and objectivity.

04/2014

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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

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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

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Physique, chimie

What is energy?

The word 'energy' was used to confuse me. I know that energy is. It is the capacity of a physical system to perform work, the ability to do work. Work is moving something against a force. I also know that without energy life cannot exist. At the same time, I could not picture Energy in my mind to better understand what it is. This book is design to given you a concrete understandasing of that energy is. Remember in reallity, no one can see, touch or observe energy. We can only constact the presence of energy by mouvement, motion and mesure it by its speed. We shall use this opportunity to introduce you to a pattern, the geometric shape torus that holds the key to the fuel of the future, to the world that works for everyone - Clean and universal energy. I consider the torus to be the best ever explanation of our evolutionary process. Evolution means to enfold, to roll out. The question is what the universe is rolling out ? I realised that we are not a mistake, we are simply mistaken. We have been blended to our brilliance, ignorance to our genius, unaware of our true power and magnificence. The Torus, the Zero Point Energy Field = Creation Story

01/2016

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Lectures graduées

Death of a Salesman

Willy Loman is a salesman who believes in the American Dream. He has spent his whole career on the road, going all over New England to sell products. At sixty, he is far from retiring : he needs to keep on working to earn money in order to pay his mortgage and loans. But he does not sell as much as he used to and struggles to make ends meet. His relationship with his elder son, Biff, is chaotic : he does not understand why his son does not live up to his expectations. Thus, they fight all the time. But at the heart of the tension between them lies a secret that only the two of them know... Death of a Salesman explores the depth and complexity of human relationships and shows what happens when a man gets lost in his own dreams.

08/2021

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