The One and Only Sparkella
Extraits
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Only blood
Addison est la femme de ma vie. Comment je le sais ? Car elle est mon double, une part de moi-même. Nous avons vécu dans deux mondes complètement différents, moi, avec des parents tueurs en série et, elle, dans une famille normale. C'est pourtant la plus dangereuse de nous deux, les gènes de son père coulent dans ses veines et elle ne peut pas y échapper. Elle a une vengeance à accomplir, des secrets à découvrir et, moi, je serai là, avec elle, pour l'aider à leur faire du mal. Ils le méritent et elle en a besoin pour soulager son âme. Je suis là pour la sauver, mais elle me sauvera moi aussi, car quand elle a mal, je souffre. Nous sommes faits pour être ensemble dans la vie comme dans la mort, nous sommes le diable réincarné en deux êtres. Un couple qui n'a aucune limite, aucune empathie et nous irons jusqu'au bout...
03/2023
Littérature étrangère
Only love
A la veille de leur départ pour l'Erythrée avec une mission humanitaire, Silvia, fille d'un richissime industriel milanais, et Matthew, modeste médecin américain, sont frappés de ces coups de foudre dont, seul, Erich Segal a le secret. Ils ne partageront pas longtemps la joie de sauver des vies en Afrique et l'espoir de se marier un jour : blessé dans une embuscade, Matthew se réveille seul à l'hôpital, Silvia a disparu.
Pour tenter d'oublier l'inoubliable -l'a-t-elle trahi délibérément ou a-t-elle été contrainte d'épouser son ami d'enfance, le sémillant Nico - Matthew se plonge dans la recherche et découvre une méthode génétique révolutionnaire qui permet de réduire les tumeurs du cerveau.
Au moment où la vie lui sourit à nouveau -un mariage harmonieux et une carrière prestigieuse-, le destin frappe à sa porte avec son cortège de doutes : Silvia, atteinte d'une tumeur irréversible, n'a plus que lui comme recours. L'aime-t-elle encore ? Parviendra-t-il à sauver celle qu'il n'a jamais oubliée ? Et s'il la sauve, ont-ils un avenir ensemble ?
Par l'auteur de Love Story, un roman d'amour fou, de trahisons et d'espoirs douloureux.
07/1998
Photographie
Only Bleeding
Las Vegas. Ville de jeu, de néons, de débauche, d'exagération, d'entertainment. Pourtant, ni casinos, ni palaces, ni machines à sous, ni strip-tease dans ce livre du portraitiste Frédéric Stucin. Only Bleeding rassemble des images réalisées à Las Vegas entre 2011 et 2017, Downtown et le long du Strip, ce boulevard où se concentrent 35 à 40 millions de visiteurs par an. Mais de cette ville mirage, finalement, il est peu question... En noir et blanc pour aller à l'essentiel et gommer tout malentendu documentaire, au format horizontal pour en accentuer la dimension cinématographique, tel un long travelling mémoriel à la façon du début de Down By Law par Jim Jarmusch mais dont chaque image laisserait à chaque fois le lecteur libre d'inventer ses propres souvenirs : ces images n'expliquent rien, elles constatent. Dans la plus pure ligne de la Street Photography, elles sondent l'âme d'une ville somme toute imaginaire, prennent le pouls de son bourdonnement, du mouvement, de l'errance, de la solitude et des marges. Un texte de François Cheval (historien de l'art et commissaire d'exposition) accompagne le récit photographique.
03/2019
Romance sexy
Only lies
Maxine, étudiante en histoire de l'art, a dû quit- ter son ancienne université pour tout recommen- cer à Los Angeles. Chaque instant est une lutte pour se reconstruire, mais elle y arrive petit à pe- tit grâce à ses amis, à ses cours, et surtout grâce aux Narcotiques Anonymes. C'est aux NA qu'elle rencontre Garrett, qui est encore plus secret qu'elle : promis à un brillant avenir au sein de son groupe de rock, la drogue, l'alcool et les filles sont devenus des addictions qu'il doit faire cesser s'il veut poursuivre sa car- rière. Peu importe qu'il ait une bonne raison d'avoir plongé une première fois. Au fur et à mesure des séances, Maxine et Gar- rett vont trouver du réconfort dans les passions de l'autre. Leur relation est cependant dange- reuse, et surtout interdite : on ne remplace pas une addiction par une autre. Les quelques ins- tants de bonheur qu'ils s'accordent leur sont précieux, mais les aideront-ils à faire face ou les entraineront-ils vers la chute ?
02/2023
Thèmes photo
Japanese only
"Cela faisait plusieurs voyages, plusieurs années, que je passais mes nuits dans d'étranges Babylone japonaises. Ici, oui, tout était permis. Ici, tout fantasme avait une réponse, physique, géographique. Ici, tout était solution". Dans ce livre documentaire sur le sexe au Japon, Jérôme Schmidt et Yann Stofer poussent les portes du monde de la nuit, des désirs et de leurs commerces. Des love hotels aux îles de la prostitution, en passant par les cabarets privés et autres love dolls à domicile, ils lèvent le voile sur cet univers codifié réservé aux érotomanes nippons.
03/2024
Romance sexy
Only lies
L'amour les entraînera-t-il vers la chute ? Maxine, étudiante en histoire de l'art, a dû quitter son ancienne université pour tout recommencer à Los Angeles. Chaque instant est une lutte pour se reconstruire, mais elle y arrive petit à petit grâce à ses amis, à ses cours, et surtout grâce aux Narcotiques Anonymes. C'est aux NA qu'elle rencontre Garrett, qui est encore plus secret qu'elle : promis à un brillant avenir au sein de son groupe de rock, la drogue, l'alcool et les filles sont devenus des addictions qu'il doit faire cesser s'il veut poursuivre sa carrière. Peu importe qu'il ait une bonne raison d'avoir plongé une première fois. Au fur et à mesure des séances, Maxine et Garrett vont trouver du réconfort dans les passions de l'autre. Leur relation est cependant dangereuse, et surtout interdite : on ne remplace pas une addiction par une autre. Les quelques instants de bonheur qu'ils s'accordent leur sont précieux, mais les aideront-ils à faire face ou les entraineront-ils vers la chute ?
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy
The concept of mass is one of the most fundamental notions in physics, comparable in importance only to those of space and time. But in contrast to the latter, which are the subject of innumerable physical and philosophical studies, the concept of mass has been but rarely investigated. Here Max Jammer, a leading philosopher and historian of physics, provides a concise but comprehensive, coherent, and self-contained study of the concept of mass as it is defined, interpreted, and applied in contemporary physics and as it is critically examined in the modern philosophy of science. With its focus on theories proposed after the mid-1950s, the book is the first of its kind, covering the most recent experimental and theoretical investigations into the nature of mass and its role in modern physics, from the realm of elementary particles to the cosmology of galaxies.
The book begins with an analysis of the persistent difficulties of defining inertial mass in a noncircular manner and discusses the related question of whether mass is an observational or a theoretical concept. It then studies the notion of mass in special relativity and the delicate problem of whether the relativistic rest mass is the only legitimate notion of mass and whether it is identical with the classical (Newtonian) mass. This is followed by a critical analysis of the different derivations of the famous mass-energy relationship E = mc2 and its conflicting interpretations. Jammer then devotes a chapter to the distinction between inertial and gravitational mass and to the various versions of the so-called equivalence principle with which Newton initiated his Principia but which also became the starting point of Einstein's general relativity, which supersedes Newtonian physics. The book concludes with a presentation of recently proposed global and local dynamical theories of the origin and nature of mass.
Destined to become a much-consulted reference for philosophers and physicists, this book is also written for the nonprofessional general reader interested in the foundations of physics.
01/2000
Non classé
Practice and Problems in English Grammar and Usage
This book aims to bridge the gap between theoretical and didactic grammar by familiarizing students with traditional terminology and notorious problem areas of English grammar - often otherwise ignored or neglected - and presenting them with a range of carefully chosen practice questions including challenging translation exercises for German students. Because it is often not simply ungrammaticality, but a certain un-Englishness, oddness, or awkwardness that marks students' English, this book is also a workbook on usage and style. A grammatical workbook and textbook in one, it has the unique advantage that almost all practice questions can be answered on the basis of information provided within the book and as a result can be used for individual study as well as school and university work. It will greatly help reinforce students' knowledge of grammar and give students the much needed practice and training in not only grammatically correct, but stylistically appropriate and natural English usage.
10/1991
Histoire internationale
Each Child Is My Only One
In Each Child Is My Only One : Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi's Wife, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach (1883–1942), last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg and its surroundings, describes her childhood in the lively household of a rabbi's family with nine children, focusing on the special personality of her mother, Lotte Carlebach, née Preuss (1900–1942). The book starts with the history of the Preuss family, goes on to describe the marriage of Lotte to Joseph Carlebach, and portrays in detail their dynamic family life – until their deportation with their four youngest children to a Latvian concentration camp in 1942. The book is composed of two main parts. In the first section the reader learns about the events up to 1938, both inside and outside the Carlebach home ; the second section covers the years 1938–1941, in which there was a lively correspondence mainly between the mother and those of her children who succeeded in emigrating from Nazi Germany. This part concludes with several testimonies portraying the special personalities of Rabbi Carlebach and his wife and their devotion to the unfortunate who benefited from their unbounded assistance and altruism during the Holocaust. Many photographs are included in the book, several of them taken by Lotte Carlebach herself. The book is a unique and personal testimony about Jewish life in Germany during the years of persecution that relentlessly led to the conflagration of the Holocaust.
05/2014
Non classé
Between Vienna and Jerusalem
One hundred years of Zionism and the protracted conflict in the Middle East are inseparably linked to a small country in Central Europe : Austria. This country, perceived not only as the present republic, but also as the area of the Habsburg Monarchy, has contributed enormously both to the modern Jewish experience (including Zionism) as well as to anti-semitic trends leading (although in a twisted manner) to the Holocaust disaster. The texts in this volume examine this past and its impact on present Austrian policies regarding Israel and Palestine. Names symbolizing this legacy : Herzl, Hitler, Kreisky and Waldheim. With a preface by Uri Avnery.
09/1997
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Don’t leave me
Jordan and Florence had made a promise never to part with each other, having managed to heal their past pains. Unfortunately, one day she will return to France, leaving Jordan, alone, in Boston. Their love, their carnal complicity in which they always found refuge and had fun in unusual places, cannot be ended on a whim. The death of a child, of a parent, suicide, disability, so many trials that will test their love, so that they admit they are nothing without the other. Will they succeed, knowing that when one is loved, one strength is increased tenfold when one encounters an obstacle ? Besides, distance is nothing when two people love each other so passionately, destiny is supposed to bring those who love each other together.
07/2022
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
Non classé
Boethius and the Liberal Arts
This collection of essays by authors in a variety of specialities should demonstrate how, in the Middle Ages, Boethius' texts helped shape the essential concepts of the educated person who underwent a course of the Liberal Arts studies. These essays should be of interest to philosophers, logicians, musicologists, historians of mathematics and ideas and to literary scholars. Not only is each paper written by a known authority in his field, but the collection into one volume shows how closely related these various disciplines were in the principles which Boethius chose as his basis for the Study of the Liberal Arts.
12/1982
Vitraux, enluminures
Holy Hoaxes. A Beautiful Deception
Ce livre fascinant raconte l'histoire de la construction de la collection de faux et de contrefaçons de manuscrits enluminés appartenant à William M. Voelkle. A travers des essais approfondis et de belles illustrations, Voelkle retrace l'histoire de près de soixante-dix faux et contrefaçons. The book takes the reader on a journey that sheds light on the nature and detection of forgery of manuscript illumination. An engaging introduction by Christopher de Hamel raises tantalizing questions that touch on the very meaning of authenticity and our continuing fascination with forgery. Scientific analysis of pigments, the identification of sources, and the scrutiny of the materials all come into play in the unfolding story of the collection. An illustrated catalogue presents the group of nearly seventy fakes and forgeries that display astonishing breadth. They include not only the Spanish Forger and other Western European miniatures by Ernesto Sprega, Caleb William Wing, and Germano Prosdocimi, and others, but fascinating examples from the Christian East, from Ethiopia, from Mexico, and from Persia and India. Published here in its entirety for the first time, the Voelkle Collection is the only comprehensive one of fakes and forgeries of manuscript painting in private hands. Voelkle's fifty-year career at the Morgan Library & Museum was inextricably interwoven with the construction of the collection, which is detailed in the foreword. The personal narrative reveals the author as a collector and a scholar. As an enthusiastic collector, he pursues examples of forgery, marveling at the range of skills of deception. As a scholar, he disentangles the sources that served forgers and the chains of provenance that sometimes led to their exposure. Included also in the book is a comprehensive list of William M. Voelkle's publications.
04/2023
Monographies
Titian : Sources and Documents
Hugely ambitious, Titian : Sources and Documents includes all known documents about Titian and his work dating from his lifetime, and all known references to him in contemporary publications. The relevant section of each text is transcribed in full, preceded by a short summary in English, with extensive annotation and, where necessary, a commentary. The intention of this incredible work of scholarship is to provide a comprehensive survey of the surviving historical evidence about Titian and his career. Titian was one of the most famous, successful and long-lived of Renaissance painters. Much of his output was for rulers or institutions whose archives have been in large part preserved, and many of his family papers have also survived. In addition, he was mentioned in more than a hundred and sixty different publications in his lifetime. Although hundreds of the documents about him and his work have been published, usually in specialised publications based on material in a single archive, there have only been two attempts to provide an overview of the entire body of documents and early published references to him, the first by Crowe and Cavalcaselle in 1877, the second by Adolfo Venturi in 1928. These publications were necessarily selective and included transcriptions of only a small part of the material which was used. The collection, amounting to over two thousand nine hundred items, includes not only texts specifically about Titian himself, but also those concerning his siblings and children, his principal assistants and the other members of the Vecellio family already active as painters before his death, as well as inscriptions on paintings and prints. In addition to texts dating from Titian's lifetime, the collection includes all biographical material published before 1700 and all other texts that could realistically be thought to reflect first- or second-hand anecdotal information about him. The particular strengths and limitations of the principal early printed sources and the circumstances in which they were produced are discussed in a substantial introduction, which also includes an overview of the main archival collections consulted in the preparation of the book. Most of these are in Italy, but others are in Spain, Austria and Germany. New transcriptions are provided for the great majority of the documents that have previously been published, and many hitherto unknown documents have been included. Consideration is given also to documents now known only via secondary sources, and to fake documents, of which a significant number were produced in the past two centuries.
04/2023
Poésie
Nina Simone, l'espace d'un instant
"The incredible, unique, and fantastic, one and only Nina Simone ! " ... A Montreux, au bord du lac, en Suisse, ce soir de juillet 76, "la grenade dégoupillée" est effectivement sur le fil d'une réalité qui nous est parfois invisible, mais qui transcende sa musique. "Nina, que s'est-il passé le soir du 3 juillet 1976 ? "
10/2022
Suspense
The Dead and the Dark
Un roman fascinant qui nous parle des choses tapies dans les coins sombres, des secrets qu'on ne peut garder enfouis éternellement, et des refuges inattendus que la vie peut nous offrir. Il se passe des choses étranges et terribles à Snakebite, Oregon. Des adolescents disparaissent, et tous les soupçons se portent sur les chasseurs de fantôme les plus populaires de l'écran, qui viennent de débarquer en ville. Leur fille Logan comprend vite que si elle veut les innocenter, elle va devoir mener l'enquête de son côté. Car depuis leur arrivée à Snakebite, ses pères semblent multiplier les secrets... De son côté, Ashley, la petite amie du premier garçon à avoir disparu, croit sentir son fantôme la suivre... et comprend que la mystérieuse Logan est peut-être la seule qui puisse l'aider à obtenir des réponses. Unissant leurs forces pour tenter de découvrir quels êtres hantent Snakebite, les deux adolescentes découvrent, au fil de leur enquête, des vérités sur la ville, sur leurs propres familles et sur elles-mêmes, auxquelles ni l'une ni l'autre n'était préparée. Tandis que le danger s'intensifie, ce qui naît entre elles pourrait bien être une lumière au milieu des ténèbres... " Imaginez la série Riverdale croisée avec L'Outsider de Stephen King, et vous aurez un aperçu de ce passionnant thriller surnaturel. " Oprah Daily
06/2022
Historique
The lion and the eagle
1944 : le Japon impérial écrase toujours la majeure partie de l'Asie sous sa botte. Déterminés à reconquérir leur emprise sur la Birmanie, les Britanniques envoient une unité de forces spéciales, les Chindits, loin derrière les lignes japonaises, avec pour mission d'attaquer l'ennemi partout où ils le pourront. Ils vivront un vértaible cauchemar, comme seule la Seconde Guerre mondiale peut en offrir. Le colonel Keith Crosby et le docteur Alistair Whitamore, deux vétérans de la longue retraite à travers la Birmanie deux ans auparavant, ont de vieux comptes à régler avec les Japonais. Mais ni la jungle ni l'ennemi ne sont devenus moins sauvages, et lorsque la fusillade éclate et que les Japonais s'abattent sur la petite force britannique, chaque homme sera mis à rude épreuve. Le scénariste Garth Ennis (The Boys, Preacher, Out of the Blue) et le dessinateur PJ Holden (Stringbags) présentent un récit de guerre infernale dans la jungle, où des êtres humains apparemment civilisés sombrent dans un coeur apocalyptique de ténèbres.
10/2023
Non classé
The Phantom and the Abyss
The book focuses on the evolution of the Gothic fiction in America from Charles Brockden Brown to Herman Melville in the context of the aesthetics of the sublime. Starting with a reading of Brown's Gothic romances – Wieland and Edgar Huntly – and concluding with an analysis of Melville's Pierre, the author demonstrates the relevance of the Kantian concept of the sublime for the nineteenth-century American literature of horror. An inspiration to present the development of the American Gothic in the period under scrutiny as a coherent process has been also the psychoanalytic theory of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. Moreover, the study contains an attempt to place R.H. Dana, Sr and W. Allston in the American literary canon.
11/1999
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
Romans, témoignages & Co
The Dead and the Dark
Un roman fascinant qui nous parle des choses tapies dans les coins sombres, des secrets qu'on ne peut garder enfouis éternellement, et des refuges inattendus que la vie peut nous offrir. Il se passe des choses étranges et terribles à Snakebite, Oregon. Des adolescents disparaissent, et tous les soupçons se portent sur les chasseurs de fantôme les plus populaires de l'écran, qui viennent de débarquer en ville. Leur fille Logan comprend vite que si elle veut les innocenter, elle va devoir mener l'enquête de son côté. Car depuis leur arrivée à Snakebite, ses pères semblent multiplier les secrets... De son côté, Ashley, la petite amie du premier garçon à avoir disparu, croit sentir son fantôme la suivre... et comprend que la mystérieuse Logan est peut-être la seule qui puisse l'aider à obtenir des réponses. Unissant leurs forces pour tenter de découvrir quels êtres hantent Snakebite, les deux adolescentes découvrent, au fil de leur enquête, des vérités sur la ville, sur leurs propres familles et sur elles-mêmes, auxquelles ni l'une ni l'autre n'était préparée. Tandis que le danger s'intensifie, ce qui naît entre elles pourrait bien être une lumière au milieu des ténèbres... " Imaginez la série Riverdale croisée avec L'Outsider de Stephen King, et vous aurez un aperçu de ce passionnant thriller surnaturel. " Oprah Daily
09/2023
Non classé
How Judaism reads the Torah, III
Writing with Scripture, the ancient sages of Judaism made use of Scripture by making Scripture their own, and making themselves into the possession and instrument of Scripture as well, a reciprocal process in which both were changed, each transformed into the likeness and image of the other. This they did by effecting their own selections, shaping a distinctive idiom of discourse, all the while citing, responding to, reflecting upon, Scripture's own words in Scripture's own context and for Scripture's own purpose : the here and now of eternal truth. And the rabbis of the first six centuries A.D. through the compilation presented here not only wrote with Scripture, but set forth a statement that was meant to be coherent and proportioned, well-crafted and well-composed. Since the statement concerned the distinctively-theological question of God's and Israel's relationship with one another, we must classify the writing as theological and find out how, in the compilation before us, their theological structure accomplished the authorship's goals. This anthology aims at doing just that. It presents a complete account of how the classical Midrash-text treat a theme of urgent interest to the world today : how Judaism writes with Scripture about the issues of religion that confront all the faithful.
09/1993
Non classé
How Judaism reads the Torah I / II
Writing with Scripture, the ancient sages of Judaism made use of Scripture by making Scripture their own, and making themselves into the possession and instrument of Scripture as well, a reciprocal process in which both were changed, each transformed into the likeness and image of the other. This they did by effecting their own selections, shaping a distinctive idiom of discourse, all the while citing, responding to, reflecting upon, Scripture's own words in Scripture's own context and for Scripture's own purpose : the here and now of eternal truth. And the rabbis of the first six centuries A.D. through the compilation presented here not only wrote with Scripture, but set forth a statement that was meant to be coherent and proportioned, well-crafted and well-composed. Since that statement concerned the distinctively-theological question of God's and Israel's relationship with one another, we must classify the writing as theological and find out how, in the compilation before us, theirtheological structure accomplished the autorship's goals. This anthology aims at doing just that. It presents a complete account of how the classical Midrash-text treats a theme of urgent interest to the world today : how Judaism writes with Scripture about the issues of religion that confront all the faithful.
10/1993
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
Non classé
The Search for Lyonnesse
Although Mme de Lafayette is acknowledged as the founder of the modern novel, her precise legacy has been understood only in relation to male-authored texts. However, she wrote as a woman, addressing issues that concerned women of her day, particularly the problem of the apparent incompatibility of sexual fulfilment and the institution of marriage. This study seeks to identify how La Princesse de Clèves was interpreted by three of Mme de Lafayette's most talented women successors and to show how their more sombre and subversive view of society was mediated in works of fiction which have strong affinities with the contes de fées for which they are well known. The novels of Mlle Bernard, Mme d'Aulnoy and Mlle de La Force are significant, not simply for what they tell us about themselves as women writers but also for what they reveal about the origins of the eighteenth-century novel.
07/1999
Lectures graduées
Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman is a salesman who believes in the American Dream. He has spent his whole career on the road, going all over New England to sell products. At sixty, he is far from retiring : he needs to keep on working to earn money in order to pay his mortgage and loans. But he does not sell as much as he used to and struggles to make ends meet. His relationship with his elder son, Biff, is chaotic : he does not understand why his son does not live up to his expectations. Thus, they fight all the time. But at the heart of the tension between them lies a secret that only the two of them know... Death of a Salesman explores the depth and complexity of human relationships and shows what happens when a man gets lost in his own dreams.
08/2021
Comics divers
We Only Find Them When They're Dead Tome 3 : La Vie
2452. Cinquante ans après les événements sur la planète l'Envolée de Malik... Thierry-9, intelligence artificielle créée à partir du corps du Dieu Malik se réveille face à Jason Hauer. La discussion qu'ils entament embarque Thierry-9 dans un voyage à travers l'espace, le temps et les souvenirs de Malik, et revient sur le vol tragique du Vihaan II. Une quête qui les mènera, définitivement, à l'origine des Dieux. Les frontières entre l'humanité et le divin s'estompent encore davantage dans cet arc final magistral de Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk, Avengers...) et Simone Di Meo (Tortues Ninjas & Power Rangers) de la série multi-nommée aux Eisner Awards. " Cette épopée spatiale poursuit son éclosion comme une fascinante fleur extraterrestre. " AIPT " C'est l'une des séries les plus complètes que j'ai jamais lues. Le dessin est incroyable, l'histoire est captivante et brillamment menée. " But Why Tho ? " We Only Find Them When They're Dead est un comics cinématographique, tout aussi inventif que passionnant. " Multiversity Comics
07/2023
Comics divers
We Only Find Them When They're Dead Tome 2 : Les voleurs
2414. Cinquante ans se sont écoulés depuis la mission funeste du Vihaan II. L'univers a changé radicalement, partagé entre les Moissonneurs et les Adorateurs. Jason Hauer, le dernier membre survivant de l'équipage du capitaine Malik, mène une vie de prisonnier. Quand l'ambassadrice des Mondes Internes vient négocier la paix entre les deux clans, Jason se retrouve au coeur d'une machination impliquant son ancien capitaine d'une façon qui dépasse l'entendement... Tout juste auréolé du titre de meilleur lancement pour un indé HiComics, We Only Find Them When They're Dead, de Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk, Avengers...) et Simone Di Meo (Tortues Ninjas & Power Rangers), est de retour avec un deuxième tome crucial pour Malik et son équipage. " Si la chronologie du premier tome de We Only Find Them When They're Dead vous a étonné, attendez-vous à être soufflés par la façon dont commence ce second arc. " Comicbook. com " Le changement de rythme donne encore plus de profondeur et de mystère à cet univers fascinant. De la SF de haut vol superbement illustrée, à lire absolument. " Big Comic Page
06/2022
Comics divers
We Only Find Them When They're Dead Tome 1 : Le voyageur
On n'oublie jamais la première fois que l'on voit un Dieu. Les Dieux sont toujours magnifiques. Et les Dieux sont toujours morts. 2367, aux confins de la galaxie. Dans ce futur lointain, l'humanité a épuisé toutes ses ressources et doit sa survie à l'exploitation de dieux morts flottant dans l'espace, dont les cadavres gigantesques servent désormais de matière première. Le Vihan II est l'un des nombreux vaisseaux nécropsiques qui arpentent le cosmos dans l'espoir de trouver ces divinités providentielles. Mais Georges Malik, son capitaine, nourrit une obsession : pourquoi les dieux ne se révèlent-ils que lorsqu'ils sont morts ? Pour tenter de s'émanciper de ce système gangréné par les inégalités et la pauvreté, tout l'équipage s'embarque alors dans un périple sous haute tension à la recherche d'un dieu vivant.
07/2021
Beaux arts
Gauguin. Edition en langue anglaise
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most formidable artists of the late nineteenth century, and one whose work was to have a profound influence on the development of art in the twentieth. He began as an Impressionist, but went on to develop a more two-dimensional, richly-coloured style in his constant search for a 'lost paradise' untouched by nineteenth-century civilization. Gauguin's romande and tragic life story is mirrored in the works in this outstanding anthology. Included are 48 full-page colour plates, not only of his best-known beautiful, atmospheric paintings of Tahiti in which Gauguin attempted to reconstruct the perfect life which he had failed to find in reality, but also of many powerful works which reflect the artist's contact with other early modern masters - Degas, Van Gogh, Cézanne.
Sir Alan Bowness, who was Director of the Tate Gallery until 1988, is the author of the lively introductory essay which provides the background to the paintings, and art historian Lesley Stevenson has written an informative, clear commentary to accompany each colour plate.
01/1991
