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Extraits
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
Comics
Président Lex Luthor
Ennemi juré de Superman depuis des années, Lex Luthor cache derrière une façade de businessman humaniste un esprit aussi machiavélique que brillant. Sa dernière lubie ? Devenir le Président des Etats Unis ! Une campagne sans précédent est lancée, qui voit les plus grands héros de la Terre divisés face à ce candidat inédit !
12/2014
Non classé
Ruling Class Men
What is it like to be a master of the universe ? The authors have researched the desires and fears of the world's most powerful men. The Murdochs, Packers, Kennedys, Agnellis and other men like them, directly determine the fates of thousands and influence the future of the world like no other people. Described as ‘sacred monsters' by one of their own, they are carefully created to be what they are and to enjoy shaping the world in their own likeness. To learn about these often reclusive men, the authors extended the life-history technique to interrogate autobiographies, diaries and biographies and have created a composite picture, a collective portrait, of tycoons over three generations. The book carefully explores the childhoods, schooling, work and play, sexual activities, marriages and deaths of the wealthiest men who have ever lived. It exposes the nature of ruling-class masculinity itself.
02/2007
Non classé
Dislocated Identities
This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century : Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas' writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition. Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas' writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland – always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists' identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas' writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus.
04/2012
Religion
Everyday Men
This study is about everyday men. They are approached through a unique marriage of biblical theology and empirical research which gives birth to a missionary challenge. Part One attempts to build a theological foundation for looking at people from the aspect of belief and unbelief. It sees this distinction as a crucial theme in the biblical material which remains relevant to men everywhere. The author discovers five elements of Christian belief in the biblical material while unbelief spans the five elements by its void, denial, or choice of an alternative. Part Two starts with a random sample, in-depth interview of fifty men in a "working-class" area of Birmingham, England. The interviews attempt to discover the nature and saliency of the men's belief and unbelief in the Christian faith. The analysis stresses the qualitative response with the emphasis on listening to the men describe their lives, values, beliefs, and lack of beliefs in their own words. The findings are also compared to other related studies, prompting some conclusions regarding the meaning of these findings. The author attempts to bring the biblical material to bear on the findings about ordinary people and asks whether they can be described as believers or unbelievers. From this starting point, it becomes obvious that the scope of unbelief is very broad. Part Three takes the understanding of God's Word and men's words and moves toward a missiological goal of approaching unbelievers with a gospel for today. It sees both the content and context of the gospel as important. The cultural problem is briefly considered and specific approaches are suggested in relation to the climate of unbelief in "working-class" English culture.
08/1987
Droit
Europe's Role in a South African Methodology
This work consists of essays on the so-called Middle Ages, seen from two perspectives. Writing from a sideline perspective, as opposed to the perspectives of historically mainstream theologies, in the first part of the book the author proposes a method for reading religious political texts with European philosophical insights but with a relevance for South Africa. This is done by comparing so-called Medieval texts with South African texts and situations within the demands of liberation, contextualisation, and communalism.In the second part of the book, from a female perspective, the author reevaluates the post-Biblical history of Christianity, criticising the terms "Patristics" and "Middle Ages". A South African women's theology is then offered as the outcome of the sideline perspective on the Bible, history and theology discussed in this book.
12/1991
Non classé
Living in Two Worlds
This is a study of Singapore pastors' worldview & understanding of the epidemiology, symptomatology and management of possession behaviour. The pastors' accounts are compared with those from the scientific disciplines, and convergences and divergences noted. Factors shaping both the pastors' and the scientific discourses are examined. The pastors are shown to respond to competing scientific paradigms by reinforcing their two-worlds worldview. They either live mainly in the other world, or in each world at a time, or between the two worlds. Based on theological reflection focusing on epistemology, theodicy & cosmology, the author shows that the paradigm of living in both worlds simultaneously is the most appropriate pastoral response. The theological vision of the coexisting worlds and the pastoral task of unmasking and resisting evil in all its varieties and depths are then discussed.
05/1994
Non classé
Studies in Elizabethan Audience Response to the Theatre
The aim of this volume is to give an analytic description of how Elizabethan Spectators in documentary evidence responded to the theatre performances they watched or knew to be about. It also considers why they responded in that way. Opposing dual consciousness to the reification of the character (its 'ideal presence'), the author concludes that Elizabethan spectators were predominantly interested in the characters' 'ideal presence'. Why they were, is explained by relating their statements to the Renaissance theory of visual perception, (demonic) transformation, and ideas on acting.
02/1993
Musique classique
Songs of Love. 12 Romances. 12 Lieder. Soprano (tenor) and piano.
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s, but her career petered out after 1920. Songs of Love was first published in 1904. No evidence survives of any public performance in Kashperova's lifetime although it is very likely that they were performed at her regular 'musical evenings at home on Tuesdays' mentioned in her Memoirs. The transparency of the piano writing strongly suggests that she would accompany herself singing. Kashperova, by all accounts, possessed a fine voice, and in the summer of 1906 she decided 'to learn from the artistry', as she put it, of the tenor Raimond von Zur-Mühlen who was widely celebrated for having developed (with Clara Schumann) the Lieder-Abend tradition. His summer-schools on the Baltic coast were frequented by aspiring singers from all over Europe, even Japan and India. Kashperova herself was responsible for the poetic lyrics of Songs of Love (in both Russian and German), which may well have emerged from her own bittersweet experience of life and love ; she was not to marry until 1916 at the age of forty-four. That Kashperova is the author of both the music and the lyrics of Songs of Love would suggest that they express very personal sentiments. Instrumentation : soprano (tenor) and piano
12/2023
Non classé
Labouring Lives
Labouring Lives unravels the huge changes which have so fundamentally altered the life courses of ordinary women over the past one hundred and fifty years, namely the changes in marriage and fertility patterns. Using dynamic data from Dutch population registers and analytical techniques from the life course approach, the book offers new evidence on women's changing position in the labour market, their role in pre-nuptial sexuality, and their contribution to marriage and fertility change in the Netherlands between 1880 and 1960. The author reconstructs the socio-economic and demographic worlds of different groups of working and non-working women, and by doing so she is able to locate the various groups driving the changes. Advanced statistical tools enable the author to analyse differences in fertility strategies, stopping versus spacing, employed by various social and cultural groups in the Netherlands. This book leads to conclusions which challenge a number of orthodoxies in the field.
10/2014
Décoration
Tricia guild: in my view
Tricia Guild, qui est l'une des plus grands designers d'intérieur du monde, croit passionnément que la façon dont nous choisissons de vivre a une incidence importante sur notre bien-être. Les maisons dans lesquelles nous vivons, les choses avec lesquelles nous nous entourons et les choix quotidiens que nous faisons peuvent affecter profondément notre vision et notre positivité. Il n'est donc pas surprenant que Tricia mette en pratique ce qu'elle prêche : il lui est impossible de séparer son travail de designer des autres aspects de sa vie et elle pense que nous devrions rechercher une inspiration créatrice dans chaque expérience, en particulier pour apprécier les choses qui apportent du plaisir à nos vies. Pour Tricia, l'Italie est une passion particulièrement vivace et elle y a une maison depuis de nombreuses années. Lorsque Tricia et sa famille ont commencé la recherche d'une nouvelle propriété, elle a trouvé l'occasion idéale de créer une maison spéciale - une interprétation contemporaine de la langue vernaculaire locale - qui représente son genre de modernité. In my View nous emmène dans une visite guidée de la magnifique propriété ombrienne, depuis les marches de l'entrée et les pièces/espaces de la maison principale jusqu'aux espaces de restauration en plein air, studios, chambres d'hôtes, jardin potager et pool-house. L'architecte Stephen Marshall et le designer de jardins Arne Maynard expliquent leur collaboration avec Tricia en décrivant, entre autres, le choix des matériaux pour la maison et la plantation sur les terrasses autour des pelouses ondulantes du jardin nichées au milieu d'oliviers verdoyants. Tricia présente également sa nouvelle maison londonienne : une maison de ville victorienne, où, avec la même équipe de Stephen et Arne, elle s'est lancée dans la création d'une retraite urbaine comprenant trois zones distinctes pouvant accueillir la vie, les repas et le repos. Tout au long du livre, Tricia partage les moodboards qui l'ont aidée à réaliser les maisons de ses rêves en Italie et à Londres. Pour Tricia, les moodboards sont essentiels dans les premières étapes de tout projet car ils aident à établir la langue, le rythme et le style de chaque espace. Le processus de sélection et de mise en forme soigné est au coeur de la recherche de son propre style. In my View révèle les choix personnels qui ont façonné le mode de vie de Tricia et inciteront le lecteur à développer son propre style et à créer ainsi son propre point de vue.
09/2019
Littérature française
Guildo blues
"J'ai toujours béni ce vent armoricain, qui lave le ciel et chasse les papillons noirs", s'écrie le narrateur du récit. Le deuil sied moins à la Bretagne qu'à Electre, et la grande marée des criques turbulentes a raison des scories et des laves. Méditation sur la mort et la vie, ou plutôt la survie. Comme le cornet à dés décide de l'avenir hasardeux, sans jamais l'abolir, le narrateur, veuf de fraîche date, prend, au fil des jours, le pouls de sa liberté, apprend à reconnaître, dans la redistribution des cartes sous le ciel délavé du Guildo, dans les Côtes-d'Armor, le visage du bonheur".
09/2013
Droit
Disputes on human rights violation before the ecowas court of justice
Mandated to make judgments on human rights cases since 2005, the ECOWAS Court of Justice has undeniably acquired the reputation of a forum for human rights protection, in the manner of courts of justice as prestigious as the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights or the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. With no systematic study of the Court's human rights jurisprudence having been undertaken till today, this work comes to fill the gap. Part I of the book presents the body of case law emerging after fifteen years of practice. Two feats must be acknowledged here. The feat of the Court itself, whose original mandate was, and is still in force any rate, that of a custodian of the norms of economic integration, not adjudication on human rights violation. The human rights case law of the Court was therefore born out of a sustained effort, not devoid of approximations and sometimes mistakes, all the more deserving of commendation, because unlike similarjudicial bodies, it had succeeded in ridding itself of what the author calls "a pointer of orientation for the norms relied upon", a single codified body of rules of reference. Then, the exploits of the author, who succeeded, in an effort of re-composition, in sustaining, by a consummate art of summary, a reconstitution of the various phases of the trial proceedings, and in retrieving and discussing in a systematic manner, the viewpoints of the Court. Part II is made up of a collection of studies whose themes centre on the major interrogations of international disputes on human rights : the status of the applicants, relations between the Court and other sister or rival courts of justice, the dialectics of relationship between the national judge and the international judge, etc. Part II closes up with a prospective reflexion on "The Future of the Court", where the author expresses his hopes, but also his serious concerns regarding what is to become of a court whose usefulness and cathartic function are not lost on him. The book is, as always, written in pure delightful language, and the analyses, nourished with the experience of the judge that the author was, are remarkable in richness, finesse and depth.
07/2019
Littérature française
What a prank life can be!. Novel
In this tragic narrative, the author makes you discover Peter's stunning story. Admixture of African and Western cultures, in this novel the writer lifts the veil on our new society sprinkled with vices. Perfidy, plot, deceit, dissimulation, stinginess are among so many other aspects of this new society, that the author describes and disapproved.
09/2016
Critique littéraire
To catch the sun in the water
Marie was born around the end of World War II in a small village near Chaveniac-Lafayette where General Lafayette lived. It is the mountainous region of Auvergne known as the heart of France. Take Marie's hand and she will guide you through her humble childhood. Through her eyes you will see what it was like to live in the country in France. With Marie's many brothers end sisters you will participate in hay making, harvesting... At this time, they used traditional methods and tools. Her parents will demonstrate the making of bread, butter and cheese... It's here that you meet Mathias, a boy her age, who becomes her best friend. Later, their love story unfolds... Just after the war, it was a time when the French countryside was populated with farmers that still lived in economic self-sufficiency. In the story, the author makes these peasants from depths of France come alive. The feeling, the candor, and the authenticity of the book will remind you of the Little House on the Prairie
07/2001
Livres 0-3 ans
Les petits coquins : Guili, guili, petit coquin !
"Petit hérisson se promène dans le jardin. Fais des guilis sur ses petites pattes ! Regarde, il se met en boule ! Petit chien veut jouer avec toi. Chatouille-lui le dos et le cou. Il en veut aussi sur le ventre ! Guili, guili, guili ! Tendresse et humour, pour les premiers lecteurs, dès 8 mois. Le livre d'éveil des tout-petits : des matières à toucher et des rabats surprise, pour partager des moments drôles de la vie quotidienne.
06/2017
Histoire internationale
Accomplices
This volume asserts that there was tacit cooperation in the Nazi extermination of the Jewish population of Europe by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Second World War. Although the Allies publicly recognized the Nazi massacre of the Jews in the London Declaration of December 17, 1942, the policies they pursued allowed the genocide to continue. They did so, the author claims, in three ways : (1) refusal to publicly and personally speak about and against the Nazi extermination of the Jews ; (2) refusal to commit even one soldier, one plane, or one warship to any forcible opposition to the "Final Solution" throughout the Second World War ; and (3) obstruction of Jewish escape from Hitler's Europe. This book explores the motivation for the policies Churchill and Roosevelt pursued.
06/2011
Philosophie
Issues in the Philosophy of Language Past and Present
In the light of contemporary perspectives a good deal of traditional philosophical thought can be read as relating to the issue of 'Language versus Reality'. The chapters of this book vindicate this claim ; bringing together thinkers different both in temperament and interests like Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, Heidegger and Gadamer they suggest that some of their major tenets reflect conceptual assumptions concerning linguistic meaning and reference. In trying to both identify and elucidate the assumptions at stake the author shows, both historically and systematically, that some of the problems experienced in the past as well as much of our contemporary concern with the same issue form a continuous line and a common endeavour ; and they have not yet come to an end.
11/1999
Etudes
Quatre ans d'études aux Etats-Unis d'Amérique. L'expérience d'une jeune malienne, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Cet ouvrage retrace l'histoire d'une jeune malienne de 17 ans partie étudier à Richmond, en Virginie. Le long de son récit autobiographique, l'autrice décrit les difficultés qu'elle a rencontrées aux USA ainsi que les belles expériences vécues sur place. This autobiographical work retraces the story of a 17 years-old Malian girl who went to study in Richmond, Virginia. Throughout her story, the author describes the difficulties she encountered living in the USA as well as her beautiful experiences.
04/2021
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN WORLD HISTORY. An introduction
In modern industrial society, the tic between science and technology seems clear, even inevitable. But historically, as James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn remind us, the connection was far less apparent. For much of human history, technology depended more on the innovation of skilled artisans than it did on the speculation of scientists. Technology as "applied science," the authors argue, emerged relatively recently, as industry and governments began funding scientific research that would lead directly to new or improved technologies. In Science and Technology in World History, McClellan and Dorn offer an introduction to this changing relationship.
McClellan and Dorn review the historical record beginning with the thinking and tool making of prehistoric humans. Neolithic people, for example, developed metallurgy of a sort, using naturally occurring raw copper, and kept systematic records of the moon's phases. Neolithic craftsmen possessed practical knowledge of the behavior of clay, fire, and other elements of their environment, but though they may have had explanations for the phenomena of their crafts, they toiled without any systematic science of materials or the self-conscious application of theory to practice.
Without neglecting important figures of Western science such as Newton and Einstein, the authors demonstrate the great achievements of non-Western cultures. They remind us that scientific traditions took root in China, India, and Central and South America, as well as in a series of Near Eastern empires, during late antiquity and the Middle Ages, including the vast region that formed the Islamic conquest. From this comparative perspective, the authors explore the emergence of Europe as a scientific and technological power. Continuing their narrative through the Manhattan Project, NASA, and modern medical research, the authors weave the converging histories of science and technology into an integrated, perceptive, and highly readable narrative.
"Professors McClellan and Dorn have written a survey that does not present the historical development of science simply as a Western phenomenon but as the result of wide-ranging human curiosity about nature and attempts to harness its powers in order to serve human needs. This is an impressive amount of material to organize in a single textbook."
- Paula Findlen, Stanford University
01/1999
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
Sciences de la terre et de la
The Biomechanics of Insect Flight. Form, Function, Evolution
From the rain forests of Borneo to the tenements of Manhattan, winged insects are a conspicuous and abundant feature of life on earth. Here, Robert Dudley presents the first comprehensive explanation of how insects fly. The author relates the biomechanics of flight to insect ecology and evolution in a major new work of synthesis.
The book begins with an overview of insect flight biomechanics. Dudley explains insect morphology, wing motions, aerodynamics, flight energetics, and flight metabolism within a modern phylogenetic setting. Drawing on biomechanical principles, he describes and evaluates flight behavior and the limits to flight performance. The author then takes the next step by developing evolutionary explanations of insect flight. He analyzes the origins of flight in insects, the roles of natural and sexual selection in determining how insects fly, and the relationship between flight and insect size, pollination, predation, dispersal, and migration. Dudley ranges widely - from basic aerodynamics to muscle physiology and swarming behavior - but his focus is the explanation of functional design from evolutionary and ecological perspectives.
The importance of flight in the lives of insects has long been recognized but never systematically evaluated. This book addresses that shortcoming. Robert Dudley provides an introduction to insect flight that will be welcomed by students and researchers in biomechanics, entomology, evolution, ecology, and behavior.
01/2000
Histoire internationale
Ethnicity, Children & Habitus
This book is concerned with the ethnic experience of Chinese secondary school children living in Northern Ireland. The author analyses two sub-groups of Chinese children : those with parents coming from Hong Kong and those with parents coming from Mainland China. The purpose of this study is to investigate how these apparently ‘Chinese' children feel about their ethnic identity. By drawing upon Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, and a cultural studies' approach to ethnicity and identity in general, the author examines the characteristics of cultural specificity and heterogeneity. Methodologically, the author has chosen an ethnographic approach. Prominence is given to the definitions, perspectives and voices of the children themselves by conducting open-ended, indepth and informal interviews and by doing so on an extended basis. The whole process continued for two and half years. Close attention was paid to the children's immediate circumstances, their parental occupations and their general social and cultural conditions.
11/2004
Sciences politiques
Developmental Impact of Technology Transfer
Developmental Impact of Technology Transfer in Nigeria is a major work of its kind which examines the roots of Nigeria's inability to assimilate and institutionalise imported foreign technologies. The author takes unconventional view and fathoms the complex issues encountered in international technology transfer in their various ramifications. The author argues that the traditional theories might have explained away the complex issues involved and have treated the major factors essential for the positive developmental impact of the transferred technology on the receiving society with benign neglect. The empirical results from this work provide a new understanding of the problems which obstruct the process of sucessful technology transfer to the developing countries.
12/1986
Sociologie
Representations of Africa in American and Caribbean Studies N° 1 Dédembre 2021. 1
" "Africa has always shed its light onto the Americas. Although all the contributions highlight the representations of Africa or Africans in American and Caribbean Studies, they also underscore a common humanistic concern ; whether on society, culture or environment. Africa is known to be the craddle of humanity and the main inspirational source to a lot of world authors, especially the American and Caribbean ones". Pr Louis Mendy
02/2022
Technologies
SOIL MECHANICS AND FOUNDATIONS. CD-Rom included
With its simplicity in presentation, this new book makes the difficult concepts of soil mechanics and foundations much easier to understand! The author explains basic concepts and fundamental principles in the context of basic mechanics, physics, and mathematics. From Practical Situations and Essential Points to Practical Examples and Questions to Guide Your Reading the book is packed with helpful hints and pedagogy that make the material crystal clear.
This book also includes a CD-ROM that offers readers hands-on learning. The CD contains interactive animations of basic concepts, interactive problem solving, electronic quizzes, interactive computer programs for special topics, virtual labs and much more. With the help of this CD and text, anyone can quickly master the key principles behind soil mechanics and foundations.
KEY FEATURES
* A What you should be able to do list at the beginning of each chapter alerts readers to what they should learn after studying each chapter.
* The author maintains a solid level of technical rigor despite the simplicity in presentation.
* A large number of examples are worked out step-by-step to illustrate problem-solving techniques.
* The CD-ROM includes The Virtual Soils Laboratory, which allows readers to do sophisticated soil testing at their own convenience.
01/2000
Psychologie, psychanalyse
Research methods. Fifth Edition, avec 1 CD-ROM
Research Methods: A Process of Inquiry explores the entire range of research methodologies in psychology, using a programmatic approach to introduce topics and build on earlier presentations to increase student understanding. The authors emphasize research concepts, rather than simply presenting cookbook-like strategies, to help students develop an understanding of scientific research. Review exercises at the end of each chapter (with answers to select exercises in an appendix) provide students with examples for self-review. Expanded treatment of research ethics gives students an early introduction to considerations vital in research design, and involves them in later discussions of the ethics of human and animal research. A unique decision-tree flowchart takes students step-by-step through the characteristics of any basic research design to the choice of appropriate statistical procedures and allows instructors to pick statistical procedures based on already-learned course material. Every copy of the text comes packaged with a free student tutorial CD-ROM. This free CD is an integrated package of pedagogical features in a cross-platform format. It includes an Interactive Study Guide, a Lab Manual, and tutorials on statistical analysis, library research, and APA writing style. Coverage of advanced topics render this a resource for future use.
01/2000
Paranormal, Bit-lit, Science-f
Shadow Guild Tome 1 : Morsure maudite
Je suis une fille bizarre. Enfin, c'est ce qu'on dit. OK, je ne suis pas du genre fêtarde et j'adore traîner dehors seule avec un raton laveur... Et d'un coup, ma vie bascule. Parce que non seulement je suis accusée de meurtre (moi ? ! ), mais en plus, il paraît que j'ai des pouvoirs surnaturels (vous réalisez ? Moi, des pouvoirs ? ) et que dans Londres se cachent des guildes magiques (le délire...). Et pour couronner le tout, les vampires existent (je rêve ! ) et mon seul espoir est un très sexy spécimen de cette espèce, qui a la légère particularité d'être aussi terrifiant et séduisant que le Diable en personne... Ce n'est pas pour rien qu'on l'appelle le Diable de Valléesombre, et que presque tout Guild City lui appartient. Bref... Certains disent que je devrais laisser tomber et me livrer à la police. Hors de question. Pour m'innocenter, je vais résoudre ce meurtre moi-même. Même si ça signifie plonger dans un univers dangereux et côtoyer un vampire beaucoup trop attirant et au passé sombre. Je ferais mieux de l'éviter, mais si je veux m'en sortir, je n'ai pas le choix.
10/2021
Paranormal, Bit-lit, Science-f
Shadow Guild Tome 4 : Jeux diaboliques
Quand amour rime avec mort... En devenant chef de la Guilde de l'Ombre, un groupe hétéroclite de surnaturels parias, j'ai enfin trouvé ma place. Ma vie devrait être parfaite, mais l'univers n'a pas l'air de cet avis... Le très séduisant Diable de Valléesombre, l'homme que j'aime, est maudit. Pour de vrai. Il est condamné à finir en Enfer. Pour le sauver de ce destin tragique, une seule solution : briser le lien ancien qui nous unit. Et surtout, ne pas retomber amoureux l'un de l'autre. Comment ? En utilisant la magie, bien sûr. Et en faisant preuve de volonté. J'ai donc un plan en deux étapes. La première ? Le rayer de ma vie. La deuxième ? L'oublier. Facile, non ? Hum, hum. Sauf que l'univers a un humour douteux : une série d'enlèvements nous oblige à travailler ensemble. Des vies sont en jeu, pas le choix, on doit s'allier... Sans succomber. A l'amour, à la vie, à la mort... Et à la magie ! Préparez-vous à un tourbillon d'émotions fortes dans ce 4è tome
03/2023
Poésie
Bahareh
The author, like a painter, paints the poetic portrait of his first muse, Bahareh !
07/2022
