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Extraits
Photographie
The City of Possibilities
En 2006, les Emirats arabes unis décident d'entreprendre le projet fantasque de faire pousser une ville entière en plein désert. Masdar City, catégorisée "ville verte", a pour but premier d'atteindre le 0% d'émission de CO2. Ce projet pharaonique conçu par le bureau d'architecture londonien Foster + Partners arrive à l'heure où les préoccupations écologiques liées à la consommation d'énergie et la pollution sont grandissantes. Aujourd'hui, seulement quelques bâtiments sont sortis du sable : une université scientifique, des laboratoires de recherche ainsi que des sièges de grandes multinationales tel que celui de Siemens. "The City of Possibilities" présente une série de photographies réalisées par Etienne Malapert lors de son voyage à Masdar City, cette ville verte au pays de l'or noir.
11/2021
Fantasy
The City of Stardust
Les Everly sont maudits depuis des siècles. A chaque génération, le membre le plus prometteur de la famille est voué à disparaître, en réparation d'un crime dont nul ne se souvient. Celle qui vient les chercher, la mystérieuse et glaçante Penelope, ne connaît ni la vieillesse ni la maladie. Et pour elle, une dette est une dette. Lorsque sa mère se volatilise au beau milieu de la nuit, la malédiction s'abat sur Violet Everly... et il n'y a plus qu'elle pour en briser le cycle. Commence alors un voyage dans un monde magique et envoûtant, peuplé d'érudits avides de pouvoir, de divinités instables et de monstres en quête de vengeance. Sans oublier l'énigmatique assistant de Penelope, Aleksander, à qui Violet sait ne pouvoir faire confiance mais dont les secrets l'attirent irrésistiblement. La vie de Violet est en jeu, et le temps lui est compté. Aux confins du monde, elle espère trouver sa mère, mais aussi la cité de la poussière d'étoile, où tout a commencé pour les Everly... car après tout, les malédictions ne sont-elles pas faites pour être déjouées ? " Une merveille d'histoire, noire comme le ciel à minuit. Summers explore admirablement les mondes séparés du nôtre par des portes magiques et les change en contrées traîtresses, sombres et oniriques, où des monstres ailés exercent leur sanglante séduction. Et quand ces monstres veulent assouvir leur appétit, un choix s'impose entre aimer et trahir, survivre et se sacrifier. Captivant jusqu'à la dernière page. " Shelley Parker-Chan, Celle qui devint le soleil " Ouvrir ce roman, c'est entrer dans un univers à la Neil Gaiman, peuplé de génies manipulateurs et de dieux voleurs d'âmes, où la quête d'une jeune fille cherchant à comprendre l'absence de sa mère porte autant le récit que sa lutte contre une malédiction ancienne. Le fantôme de la cité, victime de sa propre arrogance et d'une promesse rompue, hante chaque page de ce mémorable premier roman, très maîtrisé. " Lucy Holland, Sistersong " Dès ses premières pages, The City of Stardust tisse un sort à l'image de la magie déployée dans le récit. Un premier roman dont l'atmosphère vénéneuse, riche en monstres, démiurges et malédictions, raconte en filigrane l'amour des siens et la fidélité qu'on leur voue. " Sangu Mandanna, La Société très secrète des Sorcières extraordinaires " Georgia Summers nous entraîne dans une aventure faisant la part belle à la magie, à la fatalité et aux clés. Que ferions-nous pour rompre une malédiction, fermer une porte, en ouvrir une autre ? Les lecteurs qui ont aimé La Mer sans étoiles ou Les Dix Mille Portes de January vont adorer le sombre enchantement de ce livre. " Kat Howard, An Unkindness of Magicians " Une histoire de magie et de malédictions, de lettrés et de dieux. Autant d'astres lui conférant une beauté ensorcelante. " M. A. Kuzniar, Midnight in Everwood " Un récit travaillé avec un soin d'orfèvre et servi par une écriture flamboyante. " Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen
04/2024
Policiers
The City & the City
Deux villes, un seul territoire… Beszèl et Ul Qoma se partagent un labyrinthe de rues enchevêtrées, s'ignorant mutuellement. Le passage de l'une à l'autre, un simple regard même, implique l'intervention d'une milice transnationale et omnipotente. Côté Besz, l'assassinat d'une jeune étudiante en archéologie va mettre le feu aux poudres… En charge d'une enquête délicate, entre secrets d'histoire et brouillard juridictionnel, l'inspecteur Borlù avance en terrain miné… Ce roman a reçu cinq prix en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis. Il a été cité dans la liste des meilleurs livres de l'année par le Los Angeles Times, le Seattle Times et Publishers' Weekly.
03/2013
BD tout public
The lust of us
Scarlett et Lexi, deux jeunes femmes très sexy, ont grandi dans un monde où une pose lascive et un joli sourire suffisent à leur assurer une vie confortable. Mais le jour où ce paradis américain est ravagé par une apocalypse zombie, les choses se compliquent pour elles. D'autant que ces zombies nouvelle génération ne se contentent pas de dévorer leurs proies vivantes : dotés de membres démesurés et d'une énergie sans limite, ils veulent aussi satisfaire leurs besoins primaires ! Désormais contraintes à la fuite et au monnayage de leur corps, Scarlett et Lexi vont devoir donner un peu plus qu'un joli sourire pour espérer survivre... Une saga zombie porn inspirée par The Walking Dead et The Last of Us, tout droit venue des USA !
05/2018
Monographies
Venice. A Private Invitation
Venice of a thousand reflections ; Venice of mirror and glass, of silk and gold ; Venice of light and lace, of transparency and porcelain. With her expert knowledge and insight, Servane Giol takes us to the heart of the Venetian art de vivre, a warm and private invitation to meet some of the most creative people living in the city today. Accompanying us into historic private palazzi as well as more recently restored houses and apartments, she introduces us to a new generation of artists and designers who are attracted by the radiant beauty, energy, and lifestyle of the Serenissima-a charmed circle of talented friends who are bringing a fresh dynamism and elegance to the city, shining a new light on some of its rarest and most exquisite traditional crafts, and lovingly safeguarding them for future generations. This love letter to the hidden beauties of Venice and to the skills for which the city is famed is brilliantly complemented by the photography of Mattia Aquila. It offers both a revelation and an everlasting memory for all those who will never forget their dazzling first sight of the domes, the campaniles, and the shimmering golden silence of this legendary city that floats between sea and sky.
09/2022
Thèmes photo
Lost Films
Planches contact, photos inédites, floues, brûlées... Lost Films rassemble les archives secrètes du célèbre photographe Fifou. Pour donner suite au succès de son premier livre photo Archives, Fifou plonge dans ses 2000 planches contact et sélectionne les clichés les plus forts. Des tirages exclusivement en argentique qui, depuis dix ans, n'attendent que d'être vus. Ce livre, c'est l'âme de Fifou. Son journal de bord, de vie. New-York, Los Angeles, le Cap vert, l'Albanie, l'Egypte, la France... Le street reporter a parcouru le monde en enchainant les shootings. Il s'agit d'un travail artisanal, noir et blanc comme couleur, dans lequel chaque cliché est accompagné d'une légende succincte. Un livre photo à la mise en page graphique. Au fil des pages, on suit son road trip artistique, découvrant ainsi une autre facette de l'artiste.
03/2024
Religion
Legal Friction
Legal Friction : Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel tracks the mystery of narratives in the Hebrew Bible and their allusions to Sinai laws by highlighting intertextual allusions created by verbal resonances. While the second and the third parts of the volume illustrate allusions to Sinai narratives made by some narratives occurring in the post-Sinaitic era, twenty-three Genesis narratives are analyzed to show that the protagonists were bound by Sinai Laws before God supposedly gave them to Moses, anticipating the Book of Jubilees. Legal Friction suggests that most of Genesis was composed during or after the Babylonian exile, after the codification of most Sinai laws, which Genesis protagonists consistently violate. The fact that they are not punished for these violations implies to the exiles that the Sinai Covenant was unconditional. In addition, the author proposes that Genesis contains a hidden polemic, encouraging the Judean exiles to follow the revisions of laws of the Covenant Code by the Holiness Code and Deuteronomy. Genesis narratives, like those describing post-Sinai events, often cannot be understood properly without recognition of their allusions to biblical laws.
05/2010
Aventure
RAJ Vol. 1 - The Missing Nabobs of the City of Gold
Au 19eme siècle, au Raj - l'empire colonial britannique aux Indes - un jeune agent de la couronne idéaliste se heurte aux sordides réalités du colonialisme et de ses conséquences. Tome un sur deux. Bombay, 1831. Fraichement débarqué de Londres, Alexander Martin prend son poste à l'Indian Political Service - un organisme gouvernemental dont la fonction n'est guère plus que d'aider l'East India Company à étendre son monopole sur les Indes. Le jeune homme, enthousiaste et un peu idéaliste, déplait vite à l'establishment britannique, et est tenu à l'écart de la bonne société ... jusqu'au jour où certains membres influents de celle-ci commencent à disparaitre, forçant Alexander à enquêter ...
06/2022
Monographies
Gustave Moreau. The Fables
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) is one of the most brilliant and enigmatic artists associated with the French Symbolist movement. This book accompanies an exhibition of some of the most extraordinary works he ever made, unseen in public for over a century. Moreau's watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau's ' keen apprehension of the weird. ' There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour - many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau's storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau's visions. Prints after Moreau's Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau's response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine's canonical work, whose sources include Aesop's fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times.
08/2021
Histoire internationale
After The Last Ship
After the Last Ship illustrates the author's own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of ‘mixed race'. She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal in the 1960's and 1970's and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia. Further, the author shows the devastation that labels such as ‘half-caste', ‘canecos' and ‘monhe' can cause, when they eat at your flesh, your being, and your body. She sheds light on how identity and culture can serve as vehicles of empowerment, how experiences of belonging can germinate and take root post-diaspora.
04/2014
Autres éditeurs (A à E)
Le clown qui avait perdu ses couleurs. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Livre jeunesse illustré, texte bi-lingue Français-Anglais. Le clown Arturo a perdu toutes ses couleurs ! Et il ne fait plus rire les enfants. Il demande alors au lion, mais le lion qui tricote une jolie écharpe de laine bleue ne les a pas vues. Peut être qu'elles sont chez le caméléon ? Et si l'amitié était la plus belle des couleurs ? ---- Illustrated children book, bi-lingual text French-English Arturo the clown had lost all his colors ! And he doesn't make the children laugh anymore... He asks the lion, but the lion who is knitting a pretty scarf of blue wool has not seen them. Maybe they are with the chameleon ? What if friendship was the most beautiful color ?
07/2022
Espagne
Secret Seville
Far from the crowds and the well-worn clichés, Seville still has many hidden gems it only reveals to locals and visitors who head off the beaten track. An essential guide for those who thought they knew Seville well or are seeking to discover another side of the city. Why is there a stone relief of Grace Kelly on the wall of Seville Town Hall and how can you track down the railway from the Ibero-American Expo of 1929 ? Where might you find the legacy of Christopher Columbus' son, a medieval Jewish cemetery in a car park, the oddest of barbershops, forgotten souvenirs from the Guadalquivir steamboats, Masonic symbols in a church, the last remaining vestiges of the Andalusian pavilions from the '29 Expo, a little-known Modernist electric power station, an example of the Nazi Enigma machine, a collection of Chinese and Japanese art in a Renaissance mansion or the pillars of a medieval synagogue ?
04/2022
Non classé
The Cost-Benefit of Measles Immunization
In view of the importance of measles and the scarcity of resources in developing countries a cost-benefit study of measles immunization was carried out in the Southern Province of Zambia. It was concluded that economic benefits can only be expected from a measles immunization programme in urban areas with 24 hours electricity supply while in rural areas it would be an additional economic burden. Less thermolabile measles vaccines and/or a more reliable cold chain might make the extension of measles vaccination programmes to rural areas more economic.
12/1979
Lecture 6-9 ans
L'énigme du sabre. Edition bilingue français-anglais
C'est dimanche et comme souvent Louise et Arthur viennent rendre visite à leur grand-mère. Ils aiment bien y aller, elle joue avec eux et leur raconte plein d'histoires. Mais aujourd'hui, elle n'a pas le temps et les deux cousins s'ennuient. Alors, ils décident de grimper dans le grenier où sont entreposés de vieux souvenirs et objets abandonnés. Ils y ont déjà été, mais maintenant ils sont plus grands et peut-être trouveront-ils un trésor qu'ils n'avaient pas aperçu, lors de la dernière visite. Après un long moment de recherche, dans un coin, Louise découvre une malle poussiéreuse. Les deux cousins, l'ouvrent et entrevoient un sabre avec une inscription. Une trouvaille qui va les mener jusqu'à l'école militaire de Saint Cyr de Coëtquidan, sur les traces de leur grand père. It's a Sunday and often as not, Louise and Arthur go and visit their grandmother. They like to go there, she plays with them and tells them lots of stories. But this Sunday she does not have the time, so the two cousins are bored. They decide to climb up into the attic, where old memorabilia and abandoned objects are stored. They have been there before, but now that they are taller, maybe they will find a treasure they did not see during their last visit. After a long moment of searching, in a corner, Louise discovers a dusty trunk. The two cousins open it and see a sword with an inscription. A discovery that will lead them to the military school at Saint Cyr de Coëtquidan, in the footsteps of their grandfather.
06/2018
Sciences de la terre et de la
Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats
Cuckoos and cowbirds are amongst the select bird groups renowned as professional parasites, who always lay their eggs in the nests of other species. Occasional parasitic laying is also widespread in many other birds, who gladly parasitise the nests of their own kind when the opportunity arises.
In this fascinating new book, Nick Davies describes the natural histories of all the brood parasites and examines the exciting questions they raise about the evolution of cheating and the arms race between parasites and their hosts. Brood parasites fill their armoury with adaptations including exquisite egg mimicry, rapid laying, ejection of host eggs, murder of host young, chick mimicry and manipulative begging behaviour: ploys shown by recent research to have evolved in response to host defence behaviour or through competition among the parasites themselves. While many host species appear defenceless, accepting parasite eggs quite unlike their own, others are more discriminating against odd-looking eggs and some have evolved the ability to discriminate against odd-looking chicks as well. How does this arms race proceed? Will defenceless hosts improve their armoury in time, or are there sometimes constraints on hosts which allow the parasites to gain the upper hand? And why are so few species obliged only to lay eggs in host nests? Have host defences limited the success of brood parasitism, or is it in fact much commoner than we suspect, but occurring mainly when birds parasitise the nests of their own kind?
All of these puzzles are examined in descriptions of the natural history of each of the groups of parasites in turn. Here is a book with wide appeal, both to amateur naturalists fascinated by this most singular and macabre of behaviours and to ornithologists and ecologists interested in the evolution of ecology and behaviour. The story takes us from the strange tales of folklore to the classic field work earlier this century by pioneer ornithologists such as Edgar Chance, Stuart Baker, Herbert Friedmann and others, through to the recent experimental field work and molecular techniques of today's leading scientists. We visit brood parasites in Europe, Asia, Japan, Africa, Australasia, and North and South America, to look at some of the world's most interesting birds and sortie of biology's most interesting questions, many of which still beg answers from ornithologists in the future.
Brilliant illustrations by David Quinn depict many behaviours for the first time and convey the thrill of watching these astonishing birds in the wild.
04/2000
Mexique
Secret Mexico City
An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew the city well or who would like to discover its many other facets. The forgotten café where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara used to meet, a tribute to the city's ghosts, a mammoth in the metro, a cave transformed into a shrine, an underground parking lot with mosaics dating from 1930, a Baroque altarpiece made from papier mâché, a village based on the principles of Thomas More's Utopia, secret masterpieces of colonial art in rooms only open around two hours a week, the largest roof garden in Latin America, the photo on which the Oscar statuette is modelled, the first building in the world faced with a material that can trap urban smog, a road surface designed for praying as you walk ...
02/2024
Josei/femme
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen - Tome 2
La future boss finale sauve tout le monde en utilisant ses compétences cheatées ! J'ai réalisé que je m'étais réincarnée en l'infâme reine Pride, la boss finale d'un otome game. Ayant appris qu'une troupe de nos chevaliers s'est fait attaquer, nous prêtons main-forte depuis l'arrière avec mon frère adoptif Stale, mais le risque d'effondrement de la falaise se renforce de minute en minute et le capitaine est piégé sous un éboulement ! Je dois le sauver de cette mort certaine ! Puisque c'est décidé, je dois vite me rendre sur le champ de bataille et sauver tout le monde du malheur en exploitant à fond mes capacités cheatées !
11/2023
Josei/femme
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen Tome 3
La future boss finale est aimée de son entourage ! J'ai réalisé que je m'étais réincarnée en l'infâme reine Pride, la boss finale d'un otome game. Avec mon influence et mes capacités cheatées, je sauve les personnages du jeu et construis une relation paisible avec les membres de mon entourage. Un beau jour, lors de mes treize ans, un événement familier se produit. Serait-ce dû à un personnage caché du jeu ? Ne me dites pas que c'est... encore une tragédie ? !
03/2024
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
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
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
Allemagne - Berlin
Soul of Berlin. A guide to 30 exceptional experiences
Berlin. We tried 1, 000 places and kept only 30.
The 'Soul of ' collection is a new approach to travel that's all about vagabonding around town, chance encounters and unforgettable experiences. Guides for those who want to unlock the hidden doors of a city, feel out its heartbeat and plumb every last nook and cranny to reveal its soul.
The world's smallest nightclub, an exceptional private collection of ancient Asian art, Berlin's best beaches, the most beautiful bike ride, a fabulous spa that'll make you feel like you're in Bali, exploring the city's underground spots, an ice cream shop that makes its own cones right in front of you, the city's best restaurants (not necessarily the ones you'd think), where to go kayaking just like in Venice, the best places to have lunch by the water, an outstanding burger, spending a night in a mattress workshop, some unique architectural curiosities and psychedelic metro stations . . .
06/2022
Science-fiction
The Day the Great Flood Came
The Day the Great Flood Came The Saga of the Annunaki, Volume 2 This is the story of Atlantis, of its high culture and of the people who lived there and loved and fought and died. It is a story of bravery and personal courage, of betrayal and of friendship, in the face of a looming cataclysm... Ea Anki, Lord of Ki, and Lady Anta In-Anna, his wife, find themselves lost in Hyperspace -- the Abzu -- with their space ship. They are carried along by a torrent in spacetime, where Anki has a vision of the future : he sees a gigantic flood drowning Atlantis, or Atalantash as the Ancients called it ! So, he sends Anta to warn Ashan, King of Atalantash, of the threat to his beloved city of learning and of knowledge. And he knows that he must find a way to alert the other Annunaki, in spite of the opposition from a hidden power on Ki.
06/2019
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
Thrillers
The clash city
New York, 1958. A Manhattan, une modeste boutique de pressing dissimule depuis des années une société de tueurs à gage. Theodore Woodrow, employé exemplaire de son Entreprise de chasse à l'homme, se voue entièrement à son travail et à sa hiérarchie. Une routine sanglante menacée par un acte passé, fait resurgir les cadavres du placard et remet en question tout une vie d'obéissance envers cette organisation du crime.
03/2023
Littérature française
Lost in the Bush
Entre Carrie Bradshaw et Bridget Jones, Suzelle est une femme moderne, bien décidée à ne pas rentrer dans les cases, ni à faire ce que l'on attend d'elle. Un peu paumée, mais toujours droite dans ses bottes à talons, elle se moque qu'on la trouve jolie, grosse ou mal fagotée. Elle mange des frites quand ça lui chante, et des graines si ça lui dit. Elle cherche l'amour, et des amis, mais surtout une carrière. Partie sur un coup de tête en Australie, elle décide de reprendre sa vie à zéro. Mais entre ses nouvelles copines prêtes à tout pour un sac de luxe et son travail pour une styliste tyrannique, l'aventure se révèle bien moins facile que prévue. Il lui faudra une bonne dose de courage, (ou peut-être est-ce son goût immodéré mais mal assumé pour le masochisme ? ) pour ne pas prendre ses jambes à son cou et remonter dans le premier avion pour Paris.
06/2017
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
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
Littérature anglo-saxonne
The Town and the City
The Town and the City est le premier roman de Jack Kerouac. Publié en 1950, la critique salue alors l'apparition d'un nouveau talent. Pour peindre l'univers de la famille Martin, Kerouac s'inspire de sa propre enfance en Nouvelle-Angleterre ; il suit tous les personnages, dispersés à travers le monde, du début du siècle à la fin des années quarante, et les réunit finalement pour l'enterrement du père. Moment crucial où chacun voit son destin enfin scellé et l'accepte. Tous, sauf Peter, le petit dernier, qui refuse le retour à la normalité et s'interroge sur ce monde qui lui est étranger. Dans l'oeuvre de Jack Kerouac, The Town and the City est en quelque sorte le prélude incontournable d'une longue saga intime.
03/2022
Shojo/fille
Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost Tome 2
Pour éclaircir le mystère de sa naissance et tenter de retrouver sa mère, Belle accepte de travailler comme couturière au château de la Bête, le Prince Cyril, qui lui a sauvé la vie. Mais sa curiosité la pousse à ouvrir une porte interdite, derrière laquelle elle découvre le secret du Prince... De son côté, la Médium, cette cruelle sorcière, essaie de retrouver la trace de son ennemi juré : la Bête !
06/2023
