Nicola Solomon Society of Authors
Extraits
Non classé
German Elements in the Fiction of George Eliot, Gissing, and Meredith
George Eliot, Gissing and Meredith are the nineteenth-century British novelists who, in their fiction, made the most significant and substantial use of German material. The function of this material is twofold, relating both to the life presented and to the presentation. An elucidation of the German references adds not only to a fuller understandig of the individual novels, but also of the author's theory and practice of fiction, and of one of the experimental tendencies in the "wide" tradition of the English novel.
12/1980
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
Non classé
Margery Kempe
Traditionally, the feminist movement in England is dated at the threshold of the eighteenth century. A close reading of The Book of Margery Kempe has revealed irrefutable evidence of much earlier roots. To her reputation as a minor mystic and the author of the first autobiography in the English language can be added a greater claim. The Book, Margery Kempe's record of her struggle for self-definition, demands inclusion among the serious contributions to feminist literature.
07/1994
Littérature française
Letters of Kavi Yogi, Volume 1, Correspondence of Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati
Preface Letters of Kaviyogi is a book which is an inspiration to any reader. This giant of a man was the author of the epic Bharata Shakti but remained a humble seeker after truth and God's grace. During his lifetime, Kaviyogi wrote many letters to his family, fellow poets, fighters for Indian independence and other great thinkers he met during his travels. In these letters he sets out his philosophy and beliefs, describing the struggles he had to overcome in order to live according to his principles. He offers many wise words of guidance on important matters ; including the correct education of young men and women, and the need for justice and fairness in society. We cannot fail to be touched by the insights he offers and his generosity in sharing his thoughts with us. Daye Craddock Editor's Notes A warm thank you to Daye Craddock for her help in careful editing of this book. It is a real pleasure for me to present Letters of Kavi, Volume 1 to you. Thank you, Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati for having transmitted Letters of Kavi, Volume 1 to us. With the blessing of Aum Shuddha Shakti Aum. Christian Piaget
03/2012
Littérature française
Letters of Kavi Yogi, Volume 2, Correspondence of Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati
Preface Letters of Kaviyogi is a book which is an inspiration to any reader. This giant of a man was the author of the epic Bharata Shakti but remained a humble seeker after truth and God's grace. During his lifetime, Kaviyogi wrote many letters to his family, fellow poets, fighters for Indian independence and other great thinkers he met during his travels. In these letters he sets out his philosophy and beliefs, describing the struggles he had to overcome in order to live according to his principles. He offers many wise words of guidance on important matters ; including the correct education of young men and women, and the need for justice and fairness in society. We cannot fail to be touched by the insights he offers and his generosity in sharing his thoughts with us. Daye Craddock Editor's Notes A warm thank you to Daye Craddock for her help in careful editing of this book. It is a real pleasure for me to present Letters of Kavi, Volume 1 to you. Thank you, Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati for having transmitted Letters of Kavi, Volume 1 to us. With the blessing of Aum Shuddha Shakti Aum. Christian Piaget
05/2012
Sociologie
Black Culture and Experience
Black Culture and Experience : Contemporary Issues offers a holistic look at Black culture in the twenty-first century. It is a collection of work that creates a synergy among authors and leads to a valuable resource on contemporary issues. Part One examines institutional, societal, and political issues like identity politics ; the Rooney Rule ; prosperity gospel ; inequality in the criminal justice system ; the American dream ; the future of Black and Africana studies ; and President Obama's double consciousness. Part Two investigates social, cultural, and community issues such as the Affordable Care Act ; Black women and obesity ; Black men's experience in marriage and relationships ; sexual decision making ; interracial relationships ; and cultural racism. Part Three explores media, pop culture, and technology issues including the rise of urban fiction ; hip hop and feminism ; race in Super Bowl commercials ; the construction of Black Diasporic identities ; Whiteness in Black-oriented films ; Black masculinity in Django Unchained ; and the power of Black Twitter. This anthology contains work from leading scholars, authors, and other specialists who have been brought together to highlight key issues in black culture and experience today. The goal is to help readers understand where we are and where we still need to go, what is working and what we still need to work on, what is right and what is still wrong.
09/2015
Physique, chimie
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMERS. 2nd edition
The widespread use of the first edition of Physical Properties of Polymers as a textbook encouraged the authors to expand and update this introduction to polymer science. All of the original topics have been enriched with the latest developments in these fast-moving areas. Two new topics have been added to provide comprehensive treatment. The contents have been divided into sections on physical states of polymers and characterization techniques. Chapters on physical states include discussions of the rubber elastic state, the glassy state, melts and concentrated solutions, the crystalline state, and the mesomorphic state. Characterization techniques described are molecular spectroscopy and scattering techniques. In addition to academic use, this volume offers a well-rounded source of basic information needed by polymer physical chemists, polymer physicists, polymer engineers, and all scientists whose work involves polymers.
11/1999
Critique littéraire
Etudes anglaises N° 2/2022 : Contemporary Nigerian literature
ARTICLES Vanessa GUIGNERY : Introduction. Contemporary Nigerian Literature in English : An Orchestra of Pluralities Madhu KRISHNAN : Contemporary Nigerian Literature, Literary Activism and Networks of Production in the Twenty-First Century Moradewun ADEJUNMOBI : Male Waithood and Radical Transformation in A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass Cédric COURTOIS : Visibilizing "Those Who Have No Part" : LGBTQIA+ Representation in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction in English Eleni COUNDOURIOTIS : Unruly Stories : Opening up to History in Helon Habila's Travelers Sule Emmanuel EGYA : The Ecopoetics of Flooding in Contemporary Nigeria Isidore DIALA : Paranoid Messiahs : The Military in Wole Soyinka's Later Satirical Drama COMPTES RENDUS Notes on Contributors Guidelines for Authors
07/2022
Histoire ancienne
THE ROMAN CAVALRY. From the First to the Third Century AD
The cavalry was a vital part of the army of Rome and played a significant role in the expansion and success of the Roman Empire. Karen R. Dixon and Par Southern describe the origins of the mounted units of the Roman army and trace their development from temporary allied troops to the regular alae and cohorts. They have drawn together evidence from a wide variety of sources: archaeological, epigraphic and literary, as well as comparing ancient testimony with more recent experience of the use of cavalry.
Now available in paperback, the book covers the subject from the perspective of both the men and the horses. How were the horses selected and disposed of; how they trained, stabled and fed? How were the men recruited, organized and equipped; and what were the conditions of service for a Roman cavalryman?
The authors provide a comprehensive and unique examination of the Roman cavalry, which includes lavish and original illustrations, drawn by Karen R. Dixon.
01/1992
Non classé
Grenzpfähle der Wirklichkeit- Approaches to the Poetry of R.S. Thomas
R.S. Thomas is one of the most important contemporary poets in Great Britain. The author of this study uses a twofold approach in order to sketch a portrait of his work. On the one hand, R.S. Thomas's historical and literary Welsh background with its particular problems of language and identity is delineated. On the other hand, groups of poems which focus on specific themes are analyzed extensively, so that the principles of the poet's thoughts and the development of his work from the 40s up to the present become transparent.
12/1984
Non classé
Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis Book 10 - A Commentary
The final and most important book of Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis is examined as a paradigm for both the compositional techniques and the meaning of the whole poem. These techniques are shown as being reliant on the medieval arts of composition, the strategies inherited from the Biblical paraphrasts and the strict discipline of classical epic hexameter. The author shows that Walter of Châtillon is not simply a classicising epigone of Vergil, but a master poet refining contemporary epic techniques and incorporating scientific and philosophic materials into an elegant moral diatribe against arrogance.
08/1991
Religion
The Christology of Hans Küng
No-one can read christology today without reference to the work of Hans Küng. But has Küng been widely misunderstood ? Alrah L.M. Pitchers maintains that he has, and offers a critique of Küng's christology against the background of the German and Anglo-Saxon traditions with particular emphasis on Küng's brilliant grasp of Hegel. The author concludes that Hans Küng is among the most significant contributors to the christological debate today.
07/1997
Histoire internationale
Histoire légendaire du roi Salomon
Schlomo pour les Hébreux, Sulaymân pour les Arabes, Salomo pour les Grecs et les Latins..., peu de souverains ont laissé une empreinte aussi profonde dans les légendes et dans les contes que le roi Salomon. Tour à tour, prophète élu de Dieu, magicien, bâtisseur du Temple de Jérusalem, Salomon tient les démons sous son empire, et règne sur les vents et les animaux. Mais ce fils de David réputé pour sa sagesse, auteur de livres de médecine et de lapidaires, n'en est pas moins humain et commet volontiers les péchés d'orgueil, de luxure et d'idolâtrie. S'appuyant sur un large corpus de traditions populaires — hébraïques, arabes, russes, indiennes, persanes, mongoles, serbes... —, souvent inconnues car dissimulées dans de vieux manuscrits ou des grimoires, Claude Lecouteux retrace avec brio la riche geste de Salomon, dévoilant ainsi toute l'ampleur mythique du célèbre monarque.
10/2020
Littérature française (poches)
L'Angoisse du roi Salomon
Je vous préviens que ça ne se passera pas comme ça. Il est exact que je viens d'avoir quatre-vingt-cinq ans. Mais de là à me croire nul et non avenu, il y a un pas que je ne vous permets pas de franchir. Il y a une chose que je tiens à vous dire. Je tiens à vous dire, mes jeunes amis, que je n'ai pas échappé aux nazis pendant quatre ans, à la Gestapo, à la déportation, aux rafles pour le Vél'd'Hiv', aux chambres à gaz et à l'extermination pour me laisser faire par une quelconque mort dite naturelle de troisième ordre, sous de miteux prétextes physiologiques. Les meilleurs ne sont pas parvenus à m'avoir, alors vous pensez qu'on ne m'aura pas par la routine. Je n'ai pas échappé à l'holocauste pour rien, mes petits amis. J'ai l'intention de vivre vieux, qu'on se le tienne pour dit !
03/2014
Science-fiction
Bartiméus. L'Anneau de Salomon
Bartiméus, le djinn sarcastique ressort de sa bouteille ! Nous voici 3 000 ans avant la célèbre trilogie. Bartiméus n'est encore qu'un djinn de seconde zone, à cet instant très précis de sa fabuleuse carrière où, pris par un de ses mémorables accès de colère, il mange le magicien qu'il est censé servir ! C'est Asmira, mercenaire aussi débrouillarde que téméraire qui le sauve, et voilà l'irascible djinn à ses ordres. Ce qui n'est pas de tout repos car la jeune femme doit voler l'anneau magique du roi Salomon puis l'assassiner. Heureusement, l'humour et la ruse de Bartiméus, obligé d'aider Asmira, sont aussi grands que les châtiments qui l'attendent. Jonathan Stroud nous emmène dans une aventure sans temps morts et nous offre encore un grand plaisir de lecture avec ce roman fantastique teinté d'humour. Cécile Babois, Page des libraires.
10/2013
Littérature française
L'exil du roi Salomon
Le roi Salomon, ayant reçu tout jeune l'anneau Divin, commence par douter de lui-même et choisit de régner sans s'en servir. Mais il s'ennuie et comprend, avec le temps, combien cet anneau peut le guider vers la sagesse. Il s'engage alors dans sa grande oeuvre : la construction du Temple de la Paix. Tous y participent : rois, hommes, animaux et génies - les purs comme les impurs ! Mais "il y a un temps pour chercher et un temps pour perdre" et Salomon, par une étrange péripétie, perd son trône et se retrouve en Inde... Le chemin du retour sera long, parsemé de rencontres étonnantes, et lui réservera bien des surprises.
11/2011
Littérature francophone
Les six vies de Salomon
A différentes époques, avant Jésus Christ et bien après, les tribulations d'une tribu qui tente de survivre dans un monde violent et dépourvu de sens, ou alors sous la tutelle d'un démiurge fou. Récit nerveux et absurde, drôle et perturbant, Les six vies de Salomon est un conte post-apocalyptique et mystique désespéré qui laisse aux lecteurs et lectrices le sentiment d'un malaise pénétrant, derrière l'apparente gaudriole.
06/2022
Monographies
Hilma af Klint. The Five Notebook 1
In 1896, Hilma af Klint and four other like-minded women artists left the Edelweiss Society and founded the "Friday Group", also known as "The Five". They met every Friday for spiritual meetings, including prayers, studies of the New Testament, meditation and séances. The medium exercised automatic writing and mediumistic drawing. Eventually they established contact with spiritual beings whom they called "The High Ones". In 1896, the five women began taking meticulous notes of the mediumistic messages conveyed by the spirits. In time, Hilma af Klint felt she had been selected for more important messages. After ten years of esoteric training with "The Five", aged 43, Hilma af Klint accepted a major assignment, the execution of The Paintings for the Temple. This commission, which engaged the artist from 1906 to 1915, changed the course of her life. In 1908, Rudolf Steiner, leader of the German Theosophical Society, held several lectures in Stockholm. He also visited af Klint's studio and saw some of the early Paintings for the Temple. In 1913, Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society, which af Klint joined in 1920 and remained a member for the rest of her life.
01/2022
Monographies
Arts du Nigéria Central revisités. Mumuye et peuples environnants
In previous studies, Jan Strybol pointed out that sculpture in Northern Nigeria - contrary to what is generally assumed - flourished. Wood sculptures could be found just about everywhere, with the exception of a part of the Far North. In this study, the author first examines the sculptural traditions of a number of peoples in Central Nigeria, in particular from the Jos Plateau and from the valley of the Middle Benue to the source area of the Taraba River. These peoples can be described as non-centralized communities where mainly art in perishable materials was produced by part-time specialists, in contrast to the centralized empires in the South (Ife, Benin) where full-time specialists created complex works of art in durable materials (stone, bronze, iron). Perhaps the most well-known ethnic group in the Middle Benue region among aficionados of African art are the Mumuye. Since the end of the last century, the traditional rites of the Mumuye have rapidly disappeared as a result of the advance of the world religions and with them the Mumuye sculpture so much admired in Europe and America. In addition to wood sculpture, Jan Strybol also pays attention to objects in bronze, iron, terracotta and other materials. Until now, these art forms have been very underexposed and have now almost completely disappeared. Finally, the author also elaborates on some artistic achievements of a number of little-known residual groups within the Mumuye territory, which can boast a rich art tradition.
05/2023
Comics Super-héros
Justice Society of America Le Nouvel Age Tome 2
Alors que Superman, Green Lantern et la Société de Justice tentent d'arrêter Magog, ce dernier leur fait une révélation : Gog, l'être ancien qui vient de s'éveiller, est en réalité le Dieu qui sauvera la Terre. Si le monde peut être sauvé, cela devra passer la foi et la vénération de l'humanité toute entière. Un marché que les protecteurs de la Terre semblent peu enclins à accepter...
06/2022
Non classé
A linguistic picture of women's position in society
A discussion of English and Polish gender systems, generic words, forms of address, referring expressions and other topics, provides evidence that in these two languages males and females are not treated equally. The main concern of this book is linguistic sexism. The data indicate that speakers of both languages treat male as the norm, attribute less desirable qualities to the speech and behaviour of women, stereotype women more than men, or simply make women linguistically invisible members of society.
12/1986
Comics Super-héros
Justice Society of America Tome 1 : Le nouvel âge
La Société de Justice a connu de nombreux changements depuis sa création lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, mais une chose sera toujours vraie : ils forment une famille. Alors qu'ils accueillent une nouvelle génération de héros et forment une alliance avec la Ligue de Justice et la Légion des super-héros, le Marchand de Sable partage une terrible prémonition : le Multivers s'apprête à vivre un grand bouleversement...
01/2022
Ethnologie
Les structures élémentaires de la parenté
In Les Structures Elémentaires de la Parenté, the early opus magnum of French Structuralism, Lévi-Strauss tries to explain the systems of kinship and-marriage in their enormous diversity and their frequently bizarre institutions, by means of a single principle: the exchange. Exchange is perceived to be the manifestation of fundamental structural constants of the human mind which may also be discerned in other subsystems of culture, most obviously in language. This book represents the first great result of the author's life-long research, dedicated to exploring this relationship, which also led him into the fields of the classification-systems of language and of mythology.
01/2002
Non classé
«In the Interest of Democracy»
Until recently, there has been little concrete evidence linking the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to the U.S. government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In this book, based upon recently opened archival collections, the author investigates this controversial and complicated early Cold War relationship. Contrary to arguments that the AFL's international activities were entirely controlled by the U.S. government to the detriment of the independent international labor movement, or that the AFL acted on its own without government involvement to foster legitimate anti-communist trade unions, the author's examination of the archival sources reveals that the AFL and the CIA made an alliance of convenience based upon common goals and ideologies, which dissolved when the balance of power shifted away from the AFL and into the hands of the CIA. In addition to tracing the complicated historical threads which resulted in an apparently unlikely relationship, three specific examples of how the AFL worked with the CIA are investigated in this book : the development of the anti-communist trade union federation Force Ouvrière in France ; the AFL campaign against the Soviet Union's use of "slave labor" at the UN ; and labor's role in the activities of the National Committee for a Free Europe, including Radio Free Europe and the Free Trade Union Center in Exile.
07/2011
Ouvrages généraux
Représentations et symbolique de la guerre et de la paix dans le monde arabe. Textes en français et en arabe
Les recherches publiées dans ce livre portent sur les représentations et les symboliques de la guerre et de la paix dans le monde arabe de l'époque médiévale à nos jours. Les recherches publiées dans ce livre portent sur les représentations et les symboliques de la guerre et de la paix dans le monde arabe sur la longue durée. Les auteurs sont spécialistes de différentes disciplines (sociologie, anthropologie, histoire, études linguistiques et littéraires) et portent une attention particulière à la langue de leurs corpus, depuis des textes fondateurs, Coran ou hadiths, en passant par les sources classiques de l'historien (les textes des auteurs du patrimoine classique arabe), jusqu'aux productions qui nous sont contemporaines, des textes militants aux oeuvres de fiction, tous témoignant des représentations que l'on tente d'interpréter ici. -- The studies published in this book focus on representations and symbolics of war and peace in the Arab world over the long term. The authors are specialists in various disciplines (sociology, anthropology, history, linguistic and literary studies), and pay particular attention to the language of their corpus, from the founding texts, Koran or hadiths, through the historian's classical sources (texts by authors of the classical Arab heritage), up to contemporary productions, from militant texts to works of fiction, all testifying to the representations we are trying to interpret here.
03/2024
Non classé
Autobiography: Self Into Form
"The autobiographical impulse" dominated German-language literature of the 1970's, finding its expression in autobiographies of crisis, women's coming-to-consciousness, and disrupted childhoods. This study examines the historical, sociological, political and literary-historical context for this phenomenon, and in so doing engages the critical international discussion of autobiography as a changing genre. Detailed analyses of works by Ingeborg Bachmann, Elisabeth Plessen, Christa Wolf and Peter Handke suggest new critical approaches to autobiographical form. The author provides an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, as well as a chronological table of autobiographical works of the decade.
12/1983
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
Informatique
ORACLE8i. Database Administration
Here's a practical book based on the authors long experience managing Oracle systems. It runs the gamut from the important details of database administration to advanced topics like Oracle replication and the standby database. It shows you how to implement a host of new features offered by Oracle8i.
Written for intermediate and advanced database administrators, Oracle8i Database Administration is also a great resource for database users, application programmers, systems analysts, project managers, system administrators and data warehousing professionals. If you've had any questions about Oracle8i, the answer is probably right here. This book shows you solutions, teaches you workarounds, and provides you with tips that will save you time.
What's inside
- Detalled solutions to, common database problems
- How to, implement range, hash and composite partitioning
- Steps to, implement a standby database environment
- Details on installation, tablespaces, objects, triggers, stored procedures, PL/SQL, backup and recovery
- Real-world examples for OLTP and data warehousing applications
- New features of Oracle8i such as online index creation, transportable tablespaces, function-based index and more
- Advanced topics like performance and timing, parallel execution, advanced replication
- Hundreds of tested scripts for UNIX, LINUX and Windows NT
11/1999
Critique littéraire
Marsilio Ficino in Germany from Renaissance to Enlightenment. A Reception History
The philosopher and humanist Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) has attracted scholarly attention as translator of Plato, the Corpus Hermeticum, Plotinus and other Neoplatonists, and for his complex synthesis of Platonism and Christianity. While most previous studies of Ficino's reception have focussed on Italy, France, England and Spain, this book presents a comprehensive study of his reception in Germany and neighbouring areas, examining how Northern writers between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries remembered and reinvented Ficino's person and work. Focused chapters examine the ways German authors adapted his theories of the Ancient Theology, melancholia, celestial influence and poetic inspiration, and used his writings in related fields such as alchemy and witchcraft. It also studies those who rejected Ficino's work, providing context for those who embraced his ideas. The most comprehensive bibliography of printed editions of Ficino's work since Kristeller forms the basis for a bibliometric analysis.
06/2022
Histoire internationale
Voyages to the "Spice Islands". The spice trade as a point of departure for European penetration into Asia
In order to describe the role played by spices during the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age, the author Anna Unali focuses on the reports written by merchants, travellers, geographers and government officials. Their voices emerge powerfully and incisively in any recreation of this topic as the most important interpretative elements.
10/2021
