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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 !

Une reine, un pèlerin, un démon - et un roi censé sauver un monde. Né à l'aube des temps, à l'époque où le Dragon prit forme, le puissant Lailoken s'est retrouvé emprisonné dans un corps humain qui seul peut circonscrire ses pouvoirs. Il est devenu Merlinus, un sage itinérant expert en magie, destiné à oeuvrer pour le bien des hommes. Sa rencontre avec la Licorne, elle-même une puissante créature éternelle, va le conduire à Ygrane, reine des Celtes, qui lui confie pour mission de trouver son roi, qu'un jour elle a entrevu en songe. Merlinus s'acquitte de sa tâche, mais l'homme qu'il découvre est tout sauf un roi. Peut-être cependant le mage saura-t-il modeler son destin. C'est l'histoire épique d'une quête, celle de l'immortalité, qui va couvrir l'ensemble de l'histoire de l'humanité - et celle des créatures magiques qui peuplent les recoins de son imaginaire. C'est une quête qui finit - et commence - en un lieu légendaire situé au bord de la mer Occidentale, avec le premier cri d'un roi nouveau-né. Un lieu nommé Tintagel. Un roi, héritier des Pendragon, nommé Aigle de Thor ou Arthor. Dans la droite lignée des Brumes d'Avalon de Marion Zimmer Bradley, A A Attanasio unit toutes les légendes de création et de rédemption dans un songe aussi intemporel que les chants des druides, aussi puissant qu'un sortilège de Merlin.

Merlinus, le puissant démon enfermé dans un corps humain afin de contenir ses pouvoirs, a accompli la mission qu'Ygrane, reine des Celtes, lui a confiée: trouver son roi, qu'un jour elle a entrevu en songe. Mais l'homme qu'il a rencontré est tout sauf un souverain-né. Héritier déchu d'une noble lignée, il vivait d'expédients quand le magicien a décidé de modeler son destin. Au terme d'une ascension irrésistible vers le pouvoir, qui aura vu son frère succomber à son ambition vengeresse, celui qu'on nomme désormais Uther Pendragon va entre-prendre l'unification de son royaume insulaire au prix de luttes sans merci. Un combat qui en dissimule un autre, plus impitoyable encore: celui opposant le démon Merlinus à la fée Morgane, qu'on surnomme la Louve... Voici l'histoire épique d'une quête, celle de l'immortalité, qui va couvrir l'ensemble de l'histoire de l'humanité - et celle des créatures magiques qui peuplent les recoins de son imaginaire. C'est une histoire qui finit - et commence - en un lieu légendaire, avec le premier cri d'un enfant nouveau-né. Un lieu nommé Tintagel. Un roi nommé Aigle de Thor, ou... Arthor. Dans la droite lignée des Brumes d'Avalon de Marion Zimmer Bradley, A.A. Attanasio unit toutes les légendes de création et de rédemption dans un songe aussi intemporel que les chants des druides, aussi puissant qu'un sortilège de Merlin.

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.

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.

Contributeurs : Catherine Ailloud-Nicolas, Maria Baïraktari, Marion Danlos, Odile Dussud, Ioana Galleron, Stéphane Kerber, Anca-Daniela Mihut, Kaori Oku, Monica Pavesio, Patrice Pavis, Paola Ranzini, Laura Ricciardi, Françoise Rubellin, Rafael Ruiz-Alvarez, Ana Clara Santos, Michela Zaccaria et Izabella Zatorska.

The author, like a painter, paints the poetic portrait of his first muse, Bahareh !

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.

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.

Cet ouvrage est avant tout un livre de fan, de passionné, de collectionneur, écrit pour ses congénères de la " geekosphère " toujours en manque d'informations sur leurs personnages préférés. Il faut constater que la littérature spécialisée ne met que peu à l'honneur les super-vilains. Les informations précises sur un personnage en particulier sont éparses et difficiles à recouper, d'autant plus lorsque vous n'êtes pas anglophone. Ce livre est ce travail de " codification " des informations inhérentes à Lex Luthor. Cet ouvrage est aussi la biographie la plus vaste que vous puissiez trouver et un dictionnaire de plus de six-cent-cinquante citations ordonnées par ordre chronologique et thématique. Ces citations mettent en évidence les pensées du super-vilain

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.

This study describes from an ontological perspective the foundation of freedom in two of Kleist's dramas. The novelty of this approach lies in the author's departure from the ontic considerations of freedom characterizing traditional Kleist scholarship. The present study advocates a de-construction of Kleist's concept of freedom back to its ontological basis : freedom is a cooperative enterprise of man and his situation. It is the author's contention that freedom in Kleist's works, rather than being defined by "a priori" categories, ensues primarily from the situation wherein it is being enacted. Man's relation to this situation is explored in a universal (Schroffenstein) and particular (Penthesilea) environment.

This dissertation treats a problem which originally stems from Marxist political economic thinking : why do representatives of the working-class compromise with representatives of the capitalist class on major socio-economic topics on a national level, and what do such compromises look like ? The author establishes the claim that macro-economic compromises between organized classes are both likely to result and unstable in their nature. It is shown how the state may act as an actor supporting the establishment of an institutionalized class compromise and how it may try to prevent the breakdown of it. After elaborating these claims in a dynamic macro-economic model, the author describes developments of class compromises in post World War II Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands to illustrate the theory.

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.

Escrito em 1885, A Escrava Isaura é um dos romances que mais notoriedade granjearam ao seu autor. Através do drama da jovem Isaura, o autor soube fixar e verberar a infamante condiçâo dos escravos. Perpassa através de toda a obra o sopro de romantismo que caracteriza a produçiio do autor. Mas a prôpria historia de amor, que linearmente se desenvolve através das suas paginas, longe de atenuar, serve para acentuar ainda mais o libelo acusatôrio que esta obra constitui contra a escravatura.

Fra Francesc Moner (1462/3-1491/2) is a Catalan author, who flourished in Barcelona during the second decade subsequent to the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1469. Moner's extant production amounts to seventy-four pieces, a collection of poems and prose works of various genres, written in Catalan and in Castilian. A comprehensive study that profiles the creativity of a whole career is a rare occurrence for a Hispanic author like Moner, whose lifetime straddles the boundaries between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This book highlights the two main aspects of Fra Francesc's contribution : first, the resourceful bilingualism stemming from Moner's mastery of not only his native Catalan but also Castilian, the language that in the late 1400s kept gaining the ascendancy and prestige of officialdom throughout the Spanish realm ; second, the fashioning of an iconic text of subjectivity in the wake of the landmark innovations brought about by Ausiàs March, the Valencian luminary of the first half of the fifteenth century. Moner develops a love-centered poetics that integrates the distinctive strains of multiple traditions. By probing into Moner's poetics of love and reason, the reader catches a glimpse of an author engaged in intense soul-searching. Moner, in turn, shares with his readers some extraordinary insights into the compelling moments of the human condition – precisely the condition of the human being torn between the allure of the flesh and the aspiration toward the Divine.

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The present study Brecht and France, (as distinct from "Brecht in France") addresses an area in Brecht Studies which has been rather unjustly neglected. The author attempts to assess Brecht's relationship with France, its impact on his creativity and the image of France as reflected in his works. A thorough examination of Brecht's own writings (including minor and lesser-known works), his private library, published as well as unpublished biographical, autobiographical and contemporary records reveals that France was an intellectual treasure-house from which he could derive great benefit in terms of source-materials, socio-political ideas, dramaturgical principles and, above all, artistic inspirations. Particularly those works based on what the author calls the "Matière de France" and dealing with France in crisis are vested with artistic conviction, emotional poignancy and universal message that well merit the pronouncement made by Jean-Paul Sartre that "Brecht est nôtre".

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.

Raymond Delambre, curator-in-chief, longstanding specialist in Asian cinema, civilization, contemporary art, Zhou Xuan, Paul Claudel, Jules Verne. Author of numerous books, articles, which addressed major social concerns, on topics ranging from the legal system to the media, in order to unpack the complex rise as a global power. Also playwright.

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.

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.

From an investigation of the way of life of the inhabitants of this little-known region, the author attempts to deduce and evaluate the system of thought which governs, at least implicitly, the life-style of the tribal people in question. The significance of the highly spiritual quality of their mental attitudes is discussed from the philosophical angle.

Starting from the frequent observation that the work capacity of a tropical rural population is rather restricted, the author examines whether this may be attributed to the immediate influence of the tropical climate and/or the state of health of the working population, and what influence work capacity restraints per worker have on agricultural development and planning.

The scarlet haze embody a door opening onto a world of sadness and joy, where everyone can find themselves. In this collection of poems written according to her inspiration and significant events, the author recounts the sorrow of a one-sided love, the angst felt during a deep depression or the happiness caused by the single view of her heart's desire.

War and violence are of eminent importance in the accounts of history in our school text-books. The author examines whether efforts to mitigate violence and to strengthen peace are given similar weight in standard history books used in the schools of the Federal Republic of Germany and other European countries such as England, France, Switzerland, the German Democratic Republic, and Poland.

Après sa défaite douloureuse contre la Légion Fatale de Perpetua et Lex Luthor, la Ligue de Justice a disparu de la surface de la Terre. De son côté, le Batman Qui Rit, toujours en liberté, a infecté plusieurs super-héros ainsi que le Commissaire Gordon qu'il garde comme sbire personnel. La confrontation entre Luthor et le Batman Qui Rit va conduire le monde dans un nouvel abîme de folie où des versions déformées des plus grands héros ne vont pas tarder à se soulever.

Après sa défaite douloureuse contre la Légion Fatale de Perpetua et Lex Luthor, la Ligue de Justice a disparu de la surface de la Terre. De son côté, le Batman Qui Rit, toujours en liberté, a infecté plusieurs super-héros ainsi que le Commissaire Gordon qu'il garde comme sbire personnel. La confrontation entre Luthor et le Batman Qui Rit va conduire le monde dans un nouvel abîme de folie où des versions déformées des plus grands héros ne vont pas tarder à se soulever.

Après sa défaite douloureuse contre la Légion Fatale de Perpetua et Lex Luthor, la Ligue de Justice a disparu de la surface de la Terre. De son côté, le Batman Qui Rit, toujours en liberté, a infecté plusieurs super-héros ainsi que le Commissaire Gordon qu'il garde comme sbire personnel. La confrontation entre Luthor et le Batman Qui Rit va conduire le monde dans un nouvel abîme de folie où des versions déformées des plus grands héros ne vont pas tarder à se soulever.

Après sa défaite douloureuse contre la Légion Fatale de Perpetua et Lex Luthor, la Ligue de Justice a disparu de la surface de la Terre. De son côté, le Batman Qui Rit, toujours en liberté, a infecté plusieurs super-héros ainsi que le Commissaire Gordon qu'il garde comme sbire personnel. La confrontation entre Luthor et le Batman Qui Rit va conduire le monde dans un nouvel abîme de folie où des versions déformées des plus grands héros ne vont pas tarder à se soulever.