Amazon France The Winds of Winter
Extraits
Littérature française
Roza the amazon. Roza l'amazone
Rosine Dubois est une mère célibataire de quarante-sept ans qui a survécu à un cancer du sein et qui a été abandonnée par son mari pendant le traitement. Les médecins ont été obligés de lui enlever la totalité du sein droit pour éviter qu'elle meure. Deux ans plus tard, elle tente de retrouver une vie normale, mais elle a du mal à supporter la pression que son entourage et la société font peser sur elle pour qu'elle ait de nouveau un corps normal. Son quotidien est chamboulé lorsqu'elle vient en aide à une jeune fille détenant un objet magique qui est poursuivie par une créature dangereuse. L'artefact choisit Rosine et la transforme en super-héroïne en lui donnant la force et les armes d'une guerrière amazone. Rosine Dubois is a forty-seven-year-old single mother who survived breast cancer and was dumped by her husband during treatment. Doctors were forced to remove her entire right breast to prevent her from dying. Two years later, she is trying to get her life back to normal, but she finds it difficult to cope with the pressure from people around her and from society to have a normal body again. Her life is turned upside down when she rescues a young girl with a magical object who is being chased by a dangerous creature. The artifact chooses Rosine and transforms her into a superhero, giving her the strength and weapons of an Amazon warrior.
11/2022
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
The coldest winter
Ce n'est qu'après notre aventure d'une nuit que j'ai su qu'il m'était interdit de l'aimer... Une histoire dont le héros est prêt à tout pour la personne qu'il aime Lorsque j'ai rencontré Milo Corti, il était en plein dans sa période autodestructrice alors que j'entamais la mienne. Lors d'une soirée étudiante, quand nos chemins se sont croisés, nous n'avions en tête qu'une seule chose : passer un bon moment et oublier temporairement nos orages personnels. En nous séparant au matin je pensais ne jamais le revoir. Jusqu'au jour où, prenant mes fonctions de professeur stagiaire, je le trouvai assis juste en face de moi. Je me vis alors contrainte de côtoyer cette personne qui n'était pas censée être plus qu'un souvenir qui s'estompait. Plus nous passions de temps ensemble, plus il m'attirait. Lorsque son monde s'écroula je ne pus m'empêcher de me rapprocher de lui. J'avais toujours fait ce qui était bien. Pour la première fois de ma vie, j'eus envie de faire quelque chose de très mal. J'eus envie de tomber amoureuse de la seule personne qui était intouchable. Le problème lorsqu'on tombe amoureux d'une chose d'interdite ? Une fois la descente entamée il n'y a pas d'autre issue que s'écraser et partir en flammes. "The Coldest Winter a touché des fissures situées au plus profond de mon âme et au final m'a fait atteindre des sommets. " Crystal's Bookish Life
03/2024
Droit
The Winter of Democracy. Partitocracy in Belgium
In itself, partitocracy can be simply defined as a political regime where power is - in an excessive degree - in the hands of political parties. In Belgium, partitocracy has perhaps reached its highest level of elaboration, with complex interactions between citizens, candidates and elected representatives, parties as well as parliaments and governments. The Winter of Democracy : Partitocracy in Belgium aligns a dozen of scientific contributions that tackle the mutltifaceted concept of partitocracy from multiple perspectives. The book also celebrates the academic career of Lieven De Winter, almost five decades of a rich research commitment that spanned both at Université catholique de Louvain and at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, as well as across numerous institutions, projects and networks all around Europe. Lieven De Winter has significantly contributed to the study of all dimensions that constitute the core object of this book : Partitocracy in Belgium.
06/2022
Anglais apprentissage
HAROLD PINTER. The Caretaker of the Fragments of Modernity, Etude de l'oeuvre de Pinter, anglais
Le présent ouvrage offre une analyse détaillée des œuvres de Harold Pinter, notamment The Caretaker, The Birthday Party et The Dumb Waiter, ceci afin de dégager les thématiques récurrentes, les procédés dramatiques et les intérêts philosophiques.
Cette étude est acccompagnée d'un glossaire bilingue de termes sur la dramaturgie et de concepts spécifiques à l'univers de Pinter, et d'un index des œuvres de l'auteur et de ses principaux inspirateurs.
10/1996
Policiers
Kinds of love, kinds of death
Viré de la police parce qu'il était chez une femme au lieu d'épauler un collègue qui s'est fait descendre, Mitch Tobin se morfond, rongé par la culpabilité. Rembek, un mafioso, lui demande alors de retrouver le meurtrier de sa maîtresse. Celle-ci s'était enfuie en emportant un magot, qui a disparu. Pour mener sa tâche à bien, il devra enquêter dans l'entourage de Rembek et pénétrer dans l'univers secret de la mafia. Un boulot vraiment taillé sur mesure pour Tobin, mais qui ne va pas sans poser quelques problèmes moraux... La série Mitch Tobin est republiée dans des traductions revues et complétées.
01/2013
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
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
Divers
The Wings of the Dove. Henry James, Edition 2021-2022
Traitant d'un des sujets 2021 et 2022 des agrégations externe et interne d'Anglais, cet ouvrage propose tout ce dont le candidat a besoin pour passer les épreuves. Comme tous les Clefs-concours de littérature anglophone, l'ouvrage est structuré en quatre parties : Repères : le contexte historique et littéraire ; Thématiques : comprendre les enjeux du programme ; Perspectives : ouvertures pour des pistes de réflexion ; Outils : pour retrouver rapidement une définition, une idée ou une référence.
02/2021
12 ans et +
Les 8 royaumes mortels Tome 1 : La cité de Pierre-de-Vie
Raised as a slave in the Darkoath camps of Aqshy, Kiri dreams of a better life. Of a city of wonders, the place of her birth… Lifestone ! She despairs of ever reaching it until a fateful day arrives when her barbarian captors are attacked by Sigmar's noblest warriors, the Stormcast Eternals. Seizing her chance, Kiri flees through a mysterious realmgate that takes her far from the fiery lands of Aqshy. She arrives in the realm of Ghyran and finds the city of Lifestone. But a curse lies on this place, withering its noble spirit. Her path leads her to a special group of children who, like her, are realm-marked the prophecised saviours of Lifestone. There's Thanis, the fighter ; Alish, the inventor ; Kaspar ; the sneak and Elio, the healer. But dark forces are allying against the children and will do anything to stop them achieving their destiny.
06/2019
Littérature française
Les inventeurs. Essai
What do Christopher Columbus, Reneke, Zénobe Gramme and Louis Pasteur have in common ? They were all inventors. Well fine, but who invented the crab's claw, the suction cups and the flight of squids or the proboscis of blood sucking insects ? Is invention intellectual fantasy, an industrial tool or a fundamental biological reaction ? How is this riddle to be solved ? Should we go through the list of inventions or inventors ? Is it a question of circumstances or motivations ? Who is in charge ? The Material or the Spirit ? In order to try to find a way of answering these questions, first a few very different inventors and their inventions will be presented. A few paradoxes emerge from this first part. Then we will devote an entire chapter to an exceptional inventor whose extraordinary work revolutionized how we now approach this topic. Finally, what can be said about all the inventions like the wings of birds or butterflies, the eyes of fish or insects, the leaves of trees or the social organization of beehives ? In these cases, man is not the inventor. There are countless marvels like these in the world around us. Can we explain them ? This will be the subject of the third part of this essay.
02/2017
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
Récits de voyage
Winter
Winter est le récit de l'installation de Rick Bass et de sa femme dans un coin reculé du Montana en plein hiver. Pas d'électricité, pas de téléphone, juste un saloon à une demi-heure de route. Mais une vallée comme au début du monde, une nature splendide et cruelle. Par moins trente-neuf degrés, le rêve se fait parfois souffrance. Dans une prose lumineuse, le défenseur de l'environnement Rick Bass redécouvre, au terme d'un progressif dépouillement, l'essentiel.
05/2010
Anglais apprentissage
Acacia thorn in my heart
I started writing "Acacia thorn in my heart" after reading the book of a white South African woman about her childhood in the same region as mine but relating a completely different experience. She had maids, her father drove her to school and she played with real toys. I lived in the heart of the country, away from everything and had to walk five miles to go to school. I was born in Natal. My father rented a plot of land from a white owner to do market gardening. Although Indian families tended not to educate daughters, our parents decided that education was a priority for us. Despite financial difficulties, they were able to send us to school. We had to get up at five o'clock in order to catch the school train. In winter, as we were scantily clad, we shivered all the way to the station.
09/2001
Sciences de la terre et de la
Stars and Stellar Evolution
The diverse forms that stars assume in the course of their lives can all be derives from the initial conditions : the mass and the original chemical composition. In this textbook the basic concepts of stellar structure and the main roads of stellar evolution are described. First, the observable parameters are presented, which are based on the radiation emerging from a stellar atmosphere. Then the bascphysics is described, such as the physics of gases, radiation transport, and nuclear processes, followed by essential aspects of modelling the structure of stars. After a chapter on star formation, the various steps in the evolution of stars are presented. This leads us to brown dwarfs, to the way of star changes into the red-giant state and numerous other stages of evolution and ultimately to the stellar ashes such as white dwarfs, supernovae and neutron stars. Stellar winds, stellar rotation and convection all influence the way a star evolves. The evolution of binary stars is included by using several canonical examples in which interactive processes lead to X-Ray binaries and supernovae of type la. Finally, the consequence of the study of stellar evolution are tied to observed mass ans luminosity functions and to the overall evolution of matter in the universe.
02/2009
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
Droit
Facilitations of Proof in Medical Malpractice Cases
In medical malpractice cases, the American as well as the German systems of law are faced with a basic dilemma : since liability is based on fault, the plaintiff who suffers bodily harm in the course of medical treatment often finds it very difficult to carry the burden of proof incumbent on him according to the normal rules of evidence. In most cases, he was harmed while unconscious or in ways not understandable to him because of his lack of knowledge in the area of medical science. Moreover, he frequently faces the reluctance of medical expert witnesses to testify about matters unfavorable to one of their professional colleagues. Therefore, American and German courts are trying to alleviate the plaintiff's burden of proof. The present study investigates these facilitations and queries whether they are still compatible with the system of fault liability.
12/1982
Philosophie
«Phädon», or «On the Immortality of the Soul»
This is the first modern translation of Moses Mendelssohn's classic work of 1767, the Phädon. It includes Mendelssohn's own introduction and appendix, as well as footnotes and explanatory introduction by David Shavin. (Charles Cullen's translation of 1789 is the only other extant translation.) The "modern Socrates" of the German classical period, Mendelssohn has created a beautiful translation and elaboration of Plato's Phädo led to a revolution in thought, and a subsequent renaissance in Germany. The debt of the German classical period to ancient Greece is embodied in Mendelssohn's Phädon, as is the promise of the American Revolution. The translation and accompanying notes recapture Mendelssohn's unique marriage of depth of thought and breadth of appeal.
12/2006
Non classé
The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates
The articles which are published in this volume investigate, on the basis of selected cases of mainly European winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, the meaning of the Prize and the award in the Prize winner's own countries. The case studies, which are mainly of a biographical nature, offer a varied picture with regard to the reactions of public opinion in the respective countries. They consent, however, in so far as the immediate impact of the award was only limited and of short duration.
05/1994
Monographies
Karl. No Regrets
The artist Patrick Hourcade met Karl Lagerfeld in 1976, initiating a friendship that would last more than twenty years, nourished by a shared passion for the arts of the eighteenth century. Patrick Hourcade tells us the story of this aesthetic meeting of minds. Together they would construct a magnificent world of refinement and luxury-at times bordering on the extravagant-from the Château de Grand-Champ in Brittany to the Hôtel Pozzo di Borgo in Paris and villa La Vigie on the Côte d'Azur. Drawing on unpublished photographs and documents, the author paints an intimate portrait of Karl Lagerfeld, both shadow and light. He gives us a unique and singular perspective, populated by the exceptional personalities who accompanied the great couturier throughout his life.
10/2021
Littérature française
Saint Shuddhananda Bharati A visionary
Foreword To my friend, to my guide, to the mahatma of my heart, to the visionary of a united world living in peace and harmony in the earthly paradise that God has given us. Life and destiny is like an iceberg ; most of us is hidden, and for some, this is the start of the long path of questioning... For souls that are searching, the time then comes when the seeker finds what is being sought : the precursor, the one that has opened the path, cleared it out and illuminated the way. Thus in the deepest part of our Selves, at the centre of our soul, Joythi, the Divine Light is revealed and works on meeting all those who seek it. Kavi Yogi Maharshi Shuddhananda Bharati was a scholar, linguist, scientist, seer poet, saint and the sage of the Cosmic Age. He was ever agile and active, writing, singing, doing good and observed silence for 30 continuous years. He was a universalist, who was not bound to caste, religion, colour and race or geographic bounds. He was an apostle of Sama Yoga, which seeks for a synthesis of science and yoga, West and East, the actual and the ideal in life. Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati is the author of creative and literary works with diverse writing styles : epic and lyric writings, melodramas, operas, comedies, pastoral theologies, novels, short stories, biographies, notes on famous works, essays. Bharata Shakti Kavi Malayam is his magnum opus. Editions ASSA, Christianananda Bharati
11/2013
Japon
D’un empire, l’autre. Premières rencontres entre la France et le Japon au XIXe siècle
Au début des années 1800, les Japonais apprennent avec stupeur l'existence d'un empire en constante expansion dirigé par un certain Napoléon alors que les orientalistes parisiens commencent à réunir des livres sur cet archipel de l'autre bout du monde. La circulation de l'information établit une forme de "diplomatie de l'esprit" . A l'orée du XXe siècle, une nouvelle ère a déjà commencé : Japonais et Français ont établi des relations officielles depuis un demi-siècle et se côtoient désormais sur l'échiquier politique international. D'un empire, l'autre parcourt le premier siècle des contacts (indirects puis directs) entre la France et le Japon. Alors que les ombres d'un ancien monde se voient congédiées de la scène de l'histoire, la marche des temps modernes apparaît inexorable. Les auteurs de ce volume ont délibérément choisi d'explorer des thématiques différentes de celles souvent associées aux relations bilatérales telles que l'histoire diplomatique stricto sensu ou encore le succès du japonisme. Ils visent à interroger ce qui caractérise d'ordinaire les premières rencontres - l'espoir et l'incompréhension, le dialogue et la crainte, l'imaginaire et le réel - et éclairer ainsi des facettes méconnues de la relation franco-japonaise. In the early 1800s, the Japanese discovered to their amazement the existence of an ever-expanding empire ruled by a man called Napoleon. Meanwhile, Parisian orientalists started to acquire books on Japan and to dispel the shrouds of mystery surrounding this island country on the other side of the world. In authorized coteries and circles, the circulation of information encouraged the emergence of a "diplomacy of minds. " By 1900, a new era had dawned : official diplomatic ties had been established between the two countries since half a century and they were now rubbing elbows in the international political arena. Empire to Empire studies the first hundred years of indirect, then direct, contact between France and Japan. As shadows of an ancient world are ushered away from the stage, modernity appears to be unstoppable in its march. The contributors to this volume have chosen to explore subjects different from the issues most often associated with bilateral relations such as diplomatic history in the narrower sense or the triumphant success of Japonisme. They aim to reconsider some of the defining traits associated with first encounters-a mixture of hope and error, dialogue and fear, and imagination and reality-and to shed light on lesser-known aspects of Franco-Japanese relations.
10/2021
Littérature française
Tu me copieras 100 fois:"Tu n'es pas Miss Univers et je ne suis pas un tueur en série.". Devoir
Il y a 3 sortes de femmes : les intelligentes, les normales et les dissolues. Je n'approuve pas le style de vie débauchée du troisième type. Ce texte y répond. There are 3 kinds of women : intelligent, normal and profligate. I don't approve of profligate lifestyle women of the third kind. This text answers them.
03/2024
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
Sociologie
A Handbook of Global Citizenship Education. The Belgian perspective
Presented as a response to contemporary global issues (such as sustainable development, interculturality or democracy), Global Citizenship Education (GCE) aims to "open people's eyes and minds to the realities of the world and awaken them to bring about a world of greater justice, equity and human rights for all". Given that GCE is now perceived as a means of bringing contemporary world issues into classrooms, teachers and school principals are increasingly encouraged to adopt it. Indeed, new skills frameworks require students to develop knowledge on global issues, while students themselves are demanding this education because they seek the means to play a greater role in the world. Often addressed in the form of social or environmental issues perceived as being of serious concern, GCE is expected to feature increasingly in the curricula of schools and universities in the future. But in Belgium and around the world, Global Citizenship Education (GCE) has been the subject of debate in recent years. This handbook reflects these various debates. Initially published in French, it is, above all, an attempt to compensate for the absence of texts on the subject from the French-speaking world, notably from the Belgian research and practice world. This English version enhances the international visibility of the vital academic, institutional, and professional sectors addressing GCE in Belgium, and highlights the specific features of GCE in this country. It will be particularly useful for students, teachers and practitioners, and everyone who wants to understand the challenges of Global Citizenship Education today.
01/2023
Instruments de musique
Alariana. For recorder or flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin and cello. recorder (flute), clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello
To mark the 100th birthday of Ursula Mamlok (1923 - 2016), Boosey & Hawkes Bote & Bock, in collaboration with the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Foundation, is publishing a series of works from the composer's estate that were not published during her lifetime. Alariana, composed in 1985, is in many respects a "typical Mamlok" : The mixed instrumentation of winds and strings in distant registers makes for a transparent sound, the movement is airily polyphonic, and the five aphoristically short movements, together lasting about seven minutes, follow classical movement types in a contrastful alternation of characters. Of particular charm are a passacaglia over ostinato bassoon staccatos in the middle section of the fourth movement and the quiet ending of the fifth movement. Instrumentation : recorder (flute), clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello
04/2023
Sciences politiques
The Structure of Political Communication in the United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany
Political Communication in The United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany differs in terms of what the peoples expect to take issue with, how they are prepared to talk about them, which choices they can make to solve problems and, finally, whom or which organizations they delegate to resolve them. This comparative media study of The Economist, Time and Der Spiegel attempts to extract the differences in politics of the three societies.
11/1987
Fantastique
Winter Queen
Qui peut arrêter les forces du mal ? Tout droit sortie du XVIIème siècle, Liz se retrouve mystérieusement projetée à la Nouvelle Orléans en 2019 ! Princesse d'Ecosse et éphémère reine de Bohème, celle qui se nomme en réalité Elizabeth Stuart, est recherchée dans une sombre affaire de meurtres ... Incarcérée par la police locale, son seul espoir de revoir la lumière est... Eddie, un pro des arnaques vaudous ! Mais ce petit escroc a, par le passé, déjà résolu une affaire similaire, et les policiers qui ont fait appel à lui sont dépassés : la première victime, mutilée, est un druide carbonisé dont il ne reste plus rien, et ce meurtre en rappelle d'autres... Liz et Eddie le comprennent rapidement : le meurtre dont Liz est accusée est l'oeuvre d'une puissance maléfique. Une entité qui a déjà tué par le passé, et va continuer de le faire. Pour avoir une chance de l'arrêter, Liz et Eddy vont devoir unir leurs forces, et maîtriser des talents qu'ils ne pensaient pas détenir... . Fernando Dagnino signe ici un thriller ésotérique d'un genre nouveau, où univers policier et fantastique résonnent avec force. Un moment de suspense intense à la croisée des chemins entre Elric, et Seven, porté par un dessin généreux et dynamique.
08/2023
Policiers
Deep Winter
Danny ne sait pas quoi faire du cadavre qu'il vient de découvrir le soir même de son anniversaire. Ce corps, c'est celui de Mindy, sa seule amie dans la petite ville de Wyalusing, en Pennsylvanie. Depuis la tragédie survenue dans son enfance qui l'a laissé orphelin et simple d'esprit, tous les habitants de Wyalusing méprisent Danny, le craignent et l'évitent. Immédiatement, l'adjoint du shérif, un homme violent et corrompu, le désigne comme l'assassin, et tout le monde se plaît à le croire. Mais Danny n'est pas prêt à se soumettre. En quelques heures, l'équilibre précaire qui régnait jusqu'ici chavire. Commence alors une chasse à l'homme au coeur des bois alentour. Le shérif, son adjoint et les frères de la victime qui viennent en renfort se lancent dans une course éperdue dont personne ne sortira indemne. Capturant vingt-quatre heures d'une journée des plus noires dans l'Amérique des laissés-pour-compte, ce premier roman doté d'une puissance d'évocation à couper le souffle expose la violence qui gît sous l'eau qui dort.
08/2014
Comics
Winter Station
Lisa Langlois, jeune agent immobilier, est envoyée sur le projet de restauration d'une station de ski à moitié abandonnée dans la Sierra Nevada. Chalets délabrés, hôtels désaffectés et remontées mécaniques rouillées : le lieu est glauque à souhait. Pour une femme seule au milieu d'ouvriers, isolée dans cet enfer de glace, les deux mois sur place risquent d'être interminables. D'autant que quelques jours après son arrivée, Lisa est victime d'un cambriolage : quelqu'un a forcé la porte de chez elle pour lui voler sa lingerie ! Quelque temps plus tard, le cadavre d'un homme est retrouvé, égorgé. Visiblement, un psychopathe semble avoir élu domicile dans la station...
04/2018
Histoire internationale
On the Border - The Otherness of God and the Multiplicity of the Religions
The Christian theology of religions at present faces a crisis. What precisely is the task of the theology of religions ? Does it merely consist in interpreting the non-Christian religions as steps, phases or contributions in the light of Christianity ? Has one from the theological side conceded the maximum to the non-Christian religions by acknowledging them as anonymous Christianity (Karl Rahner)? This study is an exploration on how one shall liberate the religion of the other from anonymity : how one shall leave the other with his/her own name. The model of thought employed in this study is gained through an analysis of the intercultural process of understanding, explained with instances from Africa and South America.
01/1994
