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LEGO Brick Erasers

Ce paquet de huit gommes en forme de briques LEGO® est un plaisir pour les amateurs de LEGO : il s'agit d'un ajout remarquable aux fournitures scolaires d'un élève, d'une déclaration nostalgique au bureau ou simplement d'une manière créative et colorée d'effacer les erreurs. - Le plateau et la pochette découpés à la forme (4 x 5oe pouces) contiennent 8 gommes à effacer de 4 couleurs. - Les gommes à effacer ont 8 crampons réalistes sur le dessus pour leur donner une apparence de briques LEGO classiques 2 × 4 - Idéal pour les amateurs de LEGO de tous âges, des enfants à l'AFOL (fans adultes de LEGO)

05/2020

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Monographies

The Gregory Gift

Presenting for the first time the Alexis Gregory Gift to The Frick Collection, this exquisite publication provides illuminating insights into Gregory's magnificently eclectic collection, cataloging his fine and decorative works of art in detail. Twenty-eight works of art bequeathed to the Frick by Alexis Gregory range from Limoges enamels to Saint-Porchaire ware to pastels by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera. This remarkable gift has introduced new types of objects to the Frick : works in ivory and rhinoceros horn are the first of their kind to be held in the collection. Gregory's gift includes fifteen Limoges enamels, one of them produced in the workshop of Suzanne de Court, the only woman known to have led an enamel workshop in Limoges. Also part of the gift are a gilt-bronze sculpture, an ivory hilt, a pomander, ewers, saltcellars, and two clocks. Many of Gregory's objects came from such prestigious owners as the French royal collections and the Rothschilds. Included in the publication are commentaries on each gift. This lavishly illustrated publication accompanies an exhibition that will be on view at The Frick Collection February 16 through May 14, 2023.

02/2023

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Beaux arts

Tiepolo in Milan. The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto

Tiepolo in Milan : The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto brings together preparatory drawings and paintings, as well as documentary photographs, to commemorate an extraordinary fresco cycle by the Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Painted for Palazzo Archinto in Milan, the frescoes were destroyed in a bombing during World War II. The catalogue accompanies an exhibition at The Frick Collection. In 1730-31, Tiepolo undertook his first significant project outside the Veneto, frescoes for five ceilings in Palazzo Archinto in Milan. The paintings were commissioned by Count Carlo Archinto (1670-1732), likely in honor of the marriage of his son, Filippo, to Giulia Borromeo. Tiepolo's mythological and allegorical scenes-Triumph of Arts and Sciences ; Apollo and Phaëton ; Perseus and Andromeda ; Juno, Fortune, and Venus ; and Nobility-were painted in some of the largest rooms of the palazzo. Unfortunately, the palazzo was bombed during World War II and its interior completely destroyed. Only a series of black-and-white photographs, taken between 1897 and the late 1930s, preserves the frescoes' appearance, but a number of preparatory drawings and paintings provide precious information, including three painted sketches (Triumph of Arts and Sciences, the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon ; Apollo and Phaëton, Los Angeles County Museum ; and Perseus and Andromeda, The Frick Collection). Three drawings from the British Museum in London, the Museo Civico in Trieste, and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum in Helsinki are the only related graphic works. These-along with other drawings and prints by Tiepolo and some books- have been reunited for the first time in order to bring to life these extraordinary works of art. On view at The Frick Collection from April 16 to July 14, 2019, the exhibition is curated by Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick, with Andrea Tomezzoli, Professor at the University of Padua, and Denis Ton, Curator of the Musei Civici in Belluno. Included in the publication are essays on Tiepolo's work in Palazzo Archinto (Salomon), on the role of the frescoes in Tiepolo's career (Tomezzoli), on the intellectual world of the Archinto family (Ton), and on the architectural history of the palace (Kluzer).

04/2019

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Loisirs

LEGO Note Brick. 224 note sheets (Blue-Green)

Les briques LEGO® rencontrent l'art ! Ressemble à des briques LEGO® empilées ! Les briques LEGO® rencontrent la papeterie : Prendre des notes n'a jamais été aussi amusant ! Cette boîte contient plus de 200 feuilles de notes colorées, chacune avec un motif en briques LEGO d'un côté et une pièce de l'autre pour les notes à enregistrer ou à envoyer. En plus de servir de boîte à souvenirs, la brique LEGO® Note est un moyen idéal d'apporter de la joie à vos amis, votre famille et les amoureux de LEGO dans votre vie. - La boîte contient 224 notes en couleur, chacune avec un motif de briques LEGO d'un côté. - Lorsque vous avez utilisé toutes les notes, la boîte peut également servir d'emplacement pour organiser et stocker vos briques et constructions LEGO préférées. - Un excellent cadeau pour les jeunes amateurs de LEGO et les fans adultes de LEGO (AFOL), ainsi que pour ceux qui aiment la papeterie unique

05/2020

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Loisirs

LEGO Note Brick. 224 note sheets (Yellow-Orange)

Ressemble à des briques LEGO® empilées ! Les briques LEGO® rencontrent la papeterie : Prendre des notes n'a jamais été aussi amusant ! Cette boîte contient plus de 200 feuilles de notes colorées, chacune avec un motif en briques LEGO d'un côté et une pièce de l'autre pour les notes à enregistrer ou à envoyer. En plus de servir de boîte à souvenirs, la brique LEGO® Note est un moyen idéal d'apporter de la joie à vos amis, votre famille et les amoureux de LEGO dans votre vie. - La boîte contient 224 notes en couleur, chacune avec un motif de briques LEGO d'un côté. - Lorsque vous avez utilisé toutes les notes, la boîte peut également servir d'emplacement pour organiser et stocker vos briques et constructions LEGO préférées. - Un excellent cadeau pour les jeunes amateurs de LEGO et les fans adultes de LEGO (AFOL), ainsi que pour ceux qui aiment la papeterie unique

05/2020

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Manga guides et revues

The Art of Radiant

Pour fêter les 10 ans de la série Radiant, Tony Valente vous emmène à la découverte de ses secrets de création.

09/2023

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Illustration

The Art of Feefal

Que votre média favori soit numérique, traditionnel ou un mélange des deux, Feefal, basé à Stockholm, l'aura utilisé pour explorer son monde unique fait de personnages anthropomorphisés, d'animaux évoluant dans des décors oniriques ou de filles terriblement cools imprégnées de magie. Son style effrayant et mignon a été une constante tout au long de sa carrière, rassemblant plus d'un million d'abonnés Instagram qui non seulement adorent son art, mais sont toujours désireux de connaître les histoires et l'inspiration qui se cachent derrière.

11/2022

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Jeux

Steelrising. The Art of the videogame

Plongez dans les coulisses du fascinant Steelrising à travers ce luxueux artbook réalisé en partenariat avec Nacon et le studio Spiders ! Sur plus de 250 pages, cet ouvrage exclusif grand format regroupe plusieurs centaines de documents et illustrations inédites ayant servis à la création du jeu vidéo français Steelrising : décors, personnages, concept arts, musique...

12/2023

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Comics

The Art of Mutafukaz the movie

The Art Of Mutafukaz The Movie vous plonge au cour du long-métrage d'animation Mutafukaz, l'adaptation de la bande dessinée éponyme de Guillaume "RUN" Renard. Découvrez les différentes étapes de création, séquence par séquence, au sein du mythique Studio 4°C (Mind Game, Amer Béton, Genius Party...), accompagnées de nombreux croquis, genga, illustrations, décors, extraits du storyboard et anecdotes. Bienvenue à Dark Meat City, New California !

05/2018

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Monographies

The Eveillard Gift

This beautiful publication presents for the first time the Eveillard Gift of drawings to The Frick Collection, the most important gift of drawings and pastels in its history. It accompanies an exhibition at the Frick and includes a catalogue of the works and commentaries by noted scholars. Twenty-six works of art promised to The Frick Collection by Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard dramatically advance the museum's commitment to the research and display of European drawings. Included in this transformative gift from two longtime supporters of the Frick are exquisite drawings, pastels, prints, and one oil sketch by François Boucher, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Thomas Lawrence, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, John Singer Sargent, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and Jean-Antoine Watteau, among others. The works include fi gurative sketches, independent studies, portraits, and landscape scenes, each either deepening the museum's celebrated holdings or bringing the work of an artist who is not-but should be-represented in the collection. This lavishly illustrated publication, which accompanies an exhibition at the Frick, includes a catalogue of the works, as well as comprehensive commentaries on each of promised gifts written by noted scholars in their fi eld.

10/2022

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Beaux arts

The art of Davor Gromilovic

Depuis de nombreuses années, Davor Gromilovic a construit par son grand talent un univers artistique unique d'une force et d'une originalité rares. Véritable enfant des années 80 et 90, il mélange la culture pop de ces années bénies, l'art underground et le classicisme d'un Jérôme Bosch ou d'un Pieter Brueghel. Entrer dans le monde de Davor Gromilovic, c'est découvrir quelque chose de totalement nouveau avec des références qui nous sont pourtant familières : Science fiction, Cyber Punk, Heroic Fantasy, Davor explore tous les styles et courants qui lui sont chers mais y apporte son style unique. Exposé dans le monde entier, déjà connu hors des frontières de sa Serbie natale, Davor sera à coup sûr, un artiste qui marquera le monde de l'art par son empreinte ! Ce premier livre rassemble des dessins et des encres de 2016 à 2019.

01/2023

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Monographies

The Art of Simon Hanselmann

LE PREMIER ARTBOOK DU GRAND SIMON HANSELMANN ! Depuis maintenant une grosse dizaine d'années , Simon Hanselmann s'annonce comme la plus grosse star mondiale de la bd Underground. Retrouvez une sélection des plus belles peintures et illustrations de cet artiste fou furieux dans ce luxueux artbook qui s'annonce d'ors et déjà comme un moment de grâce dans l'hystérie de son oeuvre

09/2023

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Illustration

The Art of Dofus Manga

Après avoir publié 30 tomes de la série Dofus Manga, ses auteurs ont fait le ménage dans leurs tiroirs pour vous livrer leurs archives et tous leurs secrets de création de cet univers loufoque et épique !

07/2023

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Sociologie

The Art of Positive Communication

How we communicate with each other matters greatly. Our identity, our friendships and marriages, our families, and our culture are the product of how we speak to one another. Our words affect our hopes and dreams, as well as those of our children. We insult, complain, or criticize. We compliment, offer support, and inspire. These are choices that take place in the crevices of our most private and public conversations with others. This book bridges communication theory and practice to foreground an important message : positive communication matters. By examining closely how people talk to each other at home or at work, this book enables undergraduate and graduate students to communicate more positively. The Art of Positive Communication is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in interpersonal communication courses and as a supplemental text to inspire all students to communicate better.

09/2014

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BD tout public

The art of Frank Cho

Initialement influencé par Walt Kelly (Pogo), Al Capp (Lil'Abner) ou encore Frank Frazetta, Frank Cho crée "Liberty Meadows" en 2006 et obtient rapidement un succès fulgurant. Publiée en France sous le titre "Psycho Park", "Liberty Meadows" reste sa série majeure. Il travaille également sur "Marvel Knights Spider Man", "The mighty Avengers", réalise des couvertures pour "Red Sonja" et entame une nouvelle série à succès: "Jungle Girl" ("Shanna"). Particulièrement apprécié pour ses personnages féminins élégants et sensuels, Frank Cho fait partie des dessinateurs américains les plus célèbres de sa génération. Ce livre est le catalogue de la première exposition réalisée en France à la Galerie 9e Art (Paris).

01/2010

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Jazz, Blues, Soul, Rap, Reggae

The Art Ensemble of Chicago

The Art Ensemble of Chicago est le premier livre sur ce groupe, l'un des plus influents du jazz et de la musique expérimentale. Il offre une histoire détaillée de l'Art Ensemble, depuis sa fondation en 1966 dans le quartier sud de Chicago jusqu'à ses représentations de la fin des années 2010. A cette contribution essentielle s'ajoutent ses analyses des performances de l'Art Ensemble. Par ce biais, The Art Ensemble of Chicago propose une nouvelle théorie de l'improvisation de groupe, qui explique comment les membres de l'Art Ensemble sont capables d'improviser ensemble dans de nombreux styles différents tout en s'appuyant sur un vaste répertoire de compositions notées. Le livre examine également les dimensions intermédiales des performances de l'Art Ensemble, qui intègrent la musique à la poésie, au théâtre, aux costumes et au mouvement. En outre, cet ouvrage aborde les liens entre les performances du groupe et son modèle distinctif de relations sociales, pratiques de coopération et d'autonomie personnelle que les membres du groupe ont adaptées de l'Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), le collectif de Chicago dont est issu l'Art Ensemble.

04/2021

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Mouvements artistiques

The Artist Helen Coombe (1864–1937). The Tragedy of Roger Fry's Wife

This fascinating book presents the ? rst biography of Helen Coombe, a woman admired not only for her artistic skill, but also for her intellect, personality and wit. It reveals her family background and education, her place in the Arts and Crafts Movement and her outstanding artistic output. Helen Coombe was married to Roger Fry, an artist who was to achieve most fame as an art critic, historian and protagonist of the Bloomsbury Group. Soon after their marriage in 1896, she displayed symptoms of schizophrenia. After the ? rst episode, she temporarily resumed her career and had two children with Fry, but for the last thirty years of her life she was sectioned under the Lunacy Act and committed to an institution. This thoroughly researched book makes full use of archival material, including correspondence, diaries and medical records. It illuminates late Victorian and Edwardian society and culture. It throws new light, by no means all of it favourable, on Roger Fry. It is a 'must' for all interested in the Bloomsbury Group, art history, and the handling of mental illness at a time before ef ? cacious antipsychotic drugs were available.

11/2023

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Tourisme étranger

Moroccan tracks Volume 11. The sagho djebel

The Sagho djebel is the eastern extension of the Anti-Atlas, a volcanic mountain with granitic mamelons, basaltic organs, chaos of black shales, pink sandstones... at the gates of the Sahara. As far as the eye can see, large wild, arid spaces. A desolate land made for the lonely DPM. And for a thousand miles around, silence is the only companion. Absolute plenitude and the desire to take to the track. From flat expanses to rolling hills, from sharp relief to steep canyons : pure, original nature. The character is strong, rustic but the heart is soft. The colours are soft and gentle. Ochre, pink, brown, violet, the colour chart stretches in a gradation of shimmering pastels, sometimes accompanied by an overwhelming heat. Eldorado in the heart of the desert, rare are the oases ; modest green spots in the infinitely large, they are the reminders that we are on African soil. The wild charm of the Sagho is due to its exceptional geology : high cliffs and steep peaks, tabular escarpments and deep canyons in the middle of which caravans of camels and mules circulate. When you arrive on these immense plateaus, the lunar horizon is so vast that you want to go everywhere at once to see if it is really as beautiful elsewhere ! The Sagho also surprises by the richness of its lights : limpid like those of the nearby Sahara, or sometimes in half-tone, as in the neighbouring Dades valley. The Sagho is also the Morocco of the last Berber nomads, descendants of the ancient lords Aït Atta. In autumn, after leaving the snows of the High Atlas, they set up their dark wool tents on the slopes of the jebel until spring. They can neither read nor write, but they are sure of their way through the Atlas Mountains and the Moroccan desert. In the Sagho, they have built houses of unbaked stone, dug wells, planted almond trees, grown wheat, barley and various vegetables. Others built herds of goats and sheep, and caravans of camels. Most of them are now sedentary, semi-nomadic or nomadic...

08/2022

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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

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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

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The Concept of Man in Igbo Myths

In the vast silence of their isolation, the traditional Igbos have learnt the ways of living in harmony with nature. From their origin in distant time, they have kept a sacred perspective on the natural world. In our age, there is the need for traditional wisdoms to retain their validity and be intrinsic to our philosophic and scientific perceptions of the cosmos. We cannot do without their knowledge, their spiritual perspective, and their deep faith in the harmony of all nature. Ignoring these qualities has profound environmental implications. Global warming, environmental pollution, and the exhaustion of nature's resources are but a few of the symptoms of the nature's experiences as we continue to mistreat it in order to satisfy our own ends. This work helps us to realise that wherever we are, we are a part of nature. All the things around us are as presences, representing forces and powers of life that are not ours and yet are all part of us. Then we find them reflecting in ourselves, because we are nature, though not identical with it.

11/1999

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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

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Anglais apprentissage

A multitude of Sins. Richard Ford

A sequel to Rock Springs and Women with Men, the collection of short stories entitled A Multitude of Sins was published in 2001 and immediately achieved worldwide recognition. If this series of ten short stories seems to feature adultery, it would be a major mistake to believe that the stories can be reduced to what is actually a side issue or a pretext to something else, sometimes of much greater importance. As often with great writers, Richard Ford tackles several other topics along with the sin of unfaithfulness which is a base camp from which to go further up into the knowledge of human deficiency, lack and want. Pondering these sins, Richard Ford lays them all bare while often unveiling the issue of the story right from the beginning, instead of cautiously preserving it as a last chance literary trick to pull it off at the fast moment. Showing insight through observation, his writing is deceptive in as much as it seems natural and easygoing when it requires close analysis and several successive readings to yield up its literary and humane secrets. The comparison some critics have made to Chekhov is not overblown and Agregation students, certainly among the most perceptive readers in the world, should naturally enjoy both reading and studying A Multitude of Sins, pleasure and scholarship being complementary, not antagonistic. The exclusive interview of Richard Ford at the end of the book will certainly be appreciated by Agregation students, who will thus be able to finish off their knowledge of Ford's works.

11/2007

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Histoire et Philosophiesophie

Thinking about Physics

Physical scientists are problem solvers. They are comfortable "doing" science: they find problems, solve them, and explain their solutions. Roger Newton believes that his fellow physicists might be too comfortable with their roles as solvers of problems. He argues that physicists should spend more time thinking about physics. If they did, he believes, they would become even more skilled at solving problems and "doing" science. As Newton points out in this thought-provoking book, problem solving is always influenced by the theoretical assumptions of the problem solver. Too often, though, he believes, physicists haven't subjected their assumptions to thorough scrutiny. Newton's goal is to provide a framework within which the fundamental theories of modem physics can be explored, interpreted, and understood. "Surely physics is more than a collection of experimental results, assembled to satisfy the curiosity of appreciative experts," Newton writes. Physics, according to Newton, has moved beyond the describing and naming of curious phenomena, which is the goal of some other branches of science. Physicists have spent a great part of the twentieth century searching for explanations of experimental findings. Newton agrees that experimental facts are vital to the study of physics, but only because they lead to the development of a theory that can explain them. Facts, he argues, should undergird theory. Newton's explanatory sweep is both broad and deep. He covers such topics as quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, field theory, thermodynamics, the role of mathematics in physics, and the concepts of probability and causality. For Newton the fundamental entity in quantum theory is the field, from which physicists can explain the particle-like and wave-like properties that are observed in experiments. He grounds his explanations in the quantum field. Although this is not designed as a standalone textbook, it is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and researchers. This is a clear, concise, up-to-date book about the concepts and theories that underlie the study of contemporary physics. Readers will find that they will become better-informed physicists and, therefore, better thinkers and problem solvers, too.

01/2000

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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

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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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Jeux

Worlds. The Art of Raphaël Lacoste

Worlds nous offre une sélection des travaux de Raphaël Lacoste de ces 15 dernières années, allant des plus iconiques (Assassin's Creed) à des illustrations personnelles en passant par des couvertures de livres de fantasy ou de science-fiction (Bragelonne, Random House, Thor Books...), du concept-art ou des décors de films.

09/2021

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Illustration

Instants. The Art of Julie Mellan

Un artbook à l'ambiance douce et poétique... Julie Mellan n'a pas son pareil pour mettre en scène des animaux tendres et malicieux, rêveurs ou pleins de fougue, auquel elle donne vie avec talent. Cet artbook à l'ambiance douce et poétique plaira autant aux adultes amateurs de belles illustrations qu'aux enfants déjà friands de son univers.

03/2024

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Non classé

Experimental Social Dilemmas

Most of the papers on social dilemmas were presented at a conference on social dilemmas that was held at the University of Groningen in the spring of 1984. Social dilemmas are interpersonal situations that are characterized by a conflict between private and collective interest, i.e. in attempting to further their private interests, participants may end up worser off than if they had abandonned self-interest and worked for the good of the community. The chapters in this book describe efforts made by social psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to advance our understanding of the psychological processes that influence people's behavior in social dilemmas. It is assumed that understanding of these processes can help our search for solutions.

12/1986

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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