The In Between
Extraits
Romans, témoignages & Co
The In Between
L'amour ne meurt pas. Après avoir pass. la majeure partie de son enfance dans des foyers, Tessa Jacobs, 17 ans, ne pense pas qu'elle mérite l'amour - si ce n'est de ses parents adoptifs, certainement pas de quiconque au lycée. Mais tout change lorsqu'elle rencontre Skylar au cinéma local. Leur relation naissante mène rapidement au genre d'amour passionné qu'on ne voit que dans les films. Et Tessa commence à croire qu'elle mérite peut-être son conte de fées, après tout... Lorsque la tragédie frappe, Tessa se réveille seule à l'hôpital sans aucun souvenir. Et Skylar n'est plus là. Alors que Tessa commence sa recherche incessante de réponses, l'esprit de Skylar semble lui tendre la main de l'autre côté. Désespérée de le voir une toute dernière fois, Tessa doit démêler les fragments éparpillés de leur relation - et la vérité pourrait même la conduire au-delà de ce que la raison peut accepter.
Romans, témoignages & Co
The in between
L''amour ne meurt pas. Tessa Jacobs ne pense pas mériter l'amour. Mais lorsqu'elle rencontre Skylar, tout change. Le destinsemble vouloir les rassembler coûte que coûte. Très vite, les deux amoureux se retrouvent dans une de ces histoirespassionnées qu'on ne voit que dans les films ! Ellecommence à croire qu'elle mérite peut-être son conte defées, après tout... Jusqu'au jour où la tragédie frappe. Tessa se réveille seule àl'hôpital, sans aucun souvenir. Et Skylar n'est plus là. Alorsqu'elle se lance dans une quête éperdue à la recherche deréponses, on dirait que l'esprit de Skylar lui tend la main, de l'autre côté... Désespérée de le voir une toute dernièrefois, Tessa doit démêler les fragments éparpillés de leurrelation - la vérité pourrait la conduire au-delà de ce que laraison peut accepter.
04/2023
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
The elements. The fire between high & lo
The Fire Between High & LoTout les oppose mais rien ne pourra les séparerSérie The Elements, Livre 2Second volume d'une série de 4 titres de Brittainy Cherry, 4 standalones qui se lisent de manière indépendante, dont chaque volume correspond aux 4 éléments de l'univers : l'air, le feu, l'eau, et la terre. The Air He Breathes #1 (L'air)Fire Between High & Lo #2 (Le Feu)The Silent Waters #3 (L'eau)The Gravity of Us #4 (La terre)Tout les oppose mais rien ne pourra les séparer Il était une fois Logan, et je l'aimais. Tout nous opposait, mais nous étions plus proches l'un de l'autre que quiconque ne pourra jamais l'être. Il faisait partie de mon être, de toutes les manières possibles, nos vies étaient jumelles au point de ne former qu'une seule et même flamme qui se consumait. Jusqu'au jour où je l'ai perdu. Il était une fois un garçon, et je l'aimais. Et le temps de quelques soupirs, de quelques murmures, de quelques instants, je crois qu'il m'a aimée, aussi. Parviendra-t-on à vivre l'un sans l'autre ?
03/2024
Romans, témoignages & Co
Between us
Après des années bien douloureuses, Aria décide de partir du domicile familial afin de reprendre sa vie en main. Accompagnée de sa meilleure amie, elle entame l'année scolaire dans un climat calme et serein, loin des atrocités subies dans sa ville natale. Du moins, c'est ce qu'elle pensait... Une rencontre inattendue avec un jeune homme va pourtant chambouler le quotidien paisible d'Aria et Mathilde. Ce beau garçon va leur faire connaître un univers dont elles ignorent l'existence. Entre amitiés profondes, petits et gros drames, joies et pleurs, l'amour parviendra-t-il à triompher ?
10/2021
Non classé
The Connection between Base Structure and Linearization Restrictions in German and Dutch
Recently, generative linguists have been concentrating on underlying principles of grammar rather than dealing with the connection between surface data and base structure. This book is an attempt to establish that connection by writing a grammar of the German and Dutch sentence. Moreover, it stresses the value of the Topological Fields Theory as a "prefiguration" of later transformational analyses.
12/1986
Littérature française
Tina shot me between the eyes and other stories
"Tidjani Alou's writing sketches the commonplace and the metaphysical, with heft, honesty, and audacity. The range is compelling, as she takes us through lives in places as diverse as Accra and Niamey. The prose is deft, her metaphors sting with accuracy. This is a writer to think and feel with". - Emmanuel Iduma, editor, Saraba Magazine. In fifteen formidable lyrical prose, Tina Shot Me Between the Eyes explores how the self is shaped and transformed by the knots we yearn to tie around ourselves : familial, spousal, parental, and societal. It tackles how we struggle in relationships for nourishment and fulfilment, and how connections could kill us and how we could kill to survive - a potent force for understanding humanity and the nuances of acts of violence, tolerance, faith and love.
11/2017
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
Littérature érotique et sentim
Landon Tome 2 : Between
Landon vit un enfer : deux jeunes femmes se disputent son amour. Il y a Dakota, sa petite amie depuis l'enfance, sa moitié. Jusqu'à ce qu'elle le quitte au moment où ils devaient s'installer ensemble. Et il y a Nora. Il ne sait pas grand-chose d'elle mais espère bien découvrir son histoire. Elle a éveillé en lui des désirs qu'il ignorait. Seulement, il n'arrive pas à savoir si Nora lui ment ou si elle cache de trop lourds secrets. Dakota et Nora se connaissent, elles sont amies avec Tessa, la coloc et meilleure amie de Landon. Leur rivalité va dégénérer en une lutte où tous les coups sont permis pour gagner le coeur du beau célibataire... Landon se décide enfin à dénouer les fils enchevêtrés de ses relations avec chacune d'elles, mais les découvertes qu'il va faire ne seront pas sans laisser de traces. Ce dernier opus de la saga After termine la série comme elle avait commencé : au rythme des doutes, des secrets et des passions de ses héros. Encore une fois addictif !
11/2017
Thèmes photo
Between Fears and Hope
"En 1992, un jeune Bosnien, Arman Soldin, était évacué de Sarajevo dans l'avion présidentiel français pour échapper au siège de la ville. Entré à l'Agence France-Presse en 2015, il a été tué près de Bakhmout, par les forces russes, le 9 mai 2023. Cet épisode tragique symbolise l'écho des guerres de Yougoslavie qui se fait entendre en Ukraine. Le travail de Fabrice Dekoninck est un hommage à tous les reporters de guerre, dont le travail est indispensable aux citoyens mais aussi aux historiens. En montrant la réalité humaine de la guerre, il montre l'inhumanité de celle-ci. Nombre des photographies présentes dans ce volume pourraient d'ailleurs avoir été prises il y a quelques semaines ou quelques mois en Ukraine". Bruno Tertrais, extrait de la postface du livre Between Fears and Hope
11/2023
Non classé
Languages of Exile
Languages of Exile examines the relationship between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century literature. Like no period before it, the last century was marked by the experience of expatriation, forcing exiled writers to confront the fact of linguistic difference. Literary writing can be read as the site where that confrontation is played out aesthetically – at the intersection between native and acquired language, between indigenous and alien, between self and other – in a complex multilingual dynamic specific to exile and migration. The essays collected here explore this dynamic from a comparative perspective, addressing the paragons of modernism as well as less frequently studied authors, from Joseph Conrad and Peter Weiss to Agota Kristof and Malika Mokeddem. The essays are international in their approach ; they deal with the junctions and gaps between English, French, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and other languages. The literary works and practices addressed include modernist poetry and prose, philosophical criticism and autobiography, DADA performance, sound art and experimental music theatre. This volume reveals both the wide range of creative strategies developed in response to the interstitial situation of exile and the crucial role of exile for a renewed understanding of twentieth-century literature.
10/2013
Religion
The Threat of Logical Mathematism
The present survey of the critique of mathematical logic in Germany at the turn of the 20th century attempts to answer several interesting questions : How did the contemporary German philosophers see the role and significance of logic ? What kind of relationships did they claim to exist between logic, mathematics, linguistics and psychology ? Pulkkinen starts by giving a historical survey of the development of German logic 1830-1920 as it appears against the background of German academic philosophy. Next he studies the interrelationships between logic and psychology, logic and linguistics, and logic and mathematics. After this the author presents the general features of the reception of mathematical logic in Germany between 1880 and 1920. This is followed by a more detailed account of the arguments of three individual critics : Fritz Mauthner, Heinrich Rickert, and Theodor Ziehen.
07/1994
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
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
Religion
The History of German Lutheran Congregations in England, 1900-1950
Between 1900 and 1950, the development of German congregations in England was characterised by sudden unprecedented changes. Growth was followed by decline, marginalisation by expansion. The situation during and after World War I contrasted sharply with that during and after World War II. Being drawn into the German Church struggle German congregations in England experienced the conflict between nationalistic and ecumenical attitudes. They were challenged in particular by Bonhoeffer's theological stance and became a meeting-place for different cultural, political and spiritual traditions. World War II saw a new emphasis on the ministry among German-speaking refugees, as well as among civilian internees and military prisoners.
08/1987
Religion
La rhétorique catéchétique. A New Catechism, set forth Dialogue-wise in Familiar Talk between the Father and the Son by Thomas Becon
Parmi les Réformateurs anglais, Thomas Becon (1512-1567) est connu pour son goût du dialogue, pour son talent de prédicateur, pour le don presque lyrique dont il fait preuve dans l'écriture de la prière, comme en témoignent les nombreuses prières de sa plume qui figurent dans le Primer de 1559. C'est un homme d'Église qui manifeste un amour certain pour les mots. La très grande majorité de ses œuvres ont été publiées par la Parker Society au XIXe siècle : déjà, la variété et la qualité de l'intitulé de ses traités et de ses dialogues sont l'indice, chez cet homme de son époque, du goût de la recherche dans l'expression des idées. Dans son œuvre monumentale de plusieurs centaines de pages, le New Catechism, il expose personnellement la doctrine de l'Église d'Angleterre au moyen d'un dialogue entre un père et son fils, qui offre une panoplie riche et variée de ressources didactiques et rhétoriques.
08/2015
Divers
Charlotte Lennox, "The Female Quixote". Agrégation d'anglais, Edition 2024-2025
Picture a resolute heroine from a seventeenth-century French romance who has been unknowingly teleported to mid-eighteenth-century Britain. Equipped with her worldview fashioned by the beliefs and values of those romances, how would she navigate this unfamiliar world ? Would her journey be a seamless progression from one comically ridiculous error to the next ? How would she assess the morals and customs of her newfound society, and how would its members perceive her ? In The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox embarks on this imaginative experiment. Her Cervantean parody fosters a dynamic reading experience, swinging between complicity and detachment. It projects an image of the parodied romances but also of the social world of eighteenth-century Britain. Encouraging readers to contemplate the fluid interplay between fiction and the real, the novel prompts reflection on the disparities between the social norms of both realms. This study takes a multifaceted approach to Lennox's novel, situating the work in its literary-historical context and examining the narrative features aligning it both with realist novels and romances. Additionally, it analyses key themes and provides summaries of characters and chapters. The study also offers a selection of texts that shed light on the debates accompanying the transition from an older codification of prose fiction to a new contender : the realist novel. The overarching objective is to showcase The Female Quixote's significance in shaping the modern novel's early history.
11/2023
Géographie
RIVIERES DU SUD. Sociétés et mangroves ouest-africaines, 2 volumes
Les mangroves sont bien plus que des palétuviers.
Forêts dans la mer, ou encore marais maritimes convertis en rizières, elles constituent l'un des paysages les plus originaux des littoraux intertropicaux. Dès leur découverte par les navigateurs portugais, elles suscitent des discours contradictoires et sont l'objet d'enjeux multiples et souvent conflictuels entre " conservationnistes " et " productivistes ".
Cette synthèse régionale dresse un état des connaissances sur la mangrove, met en évidence les interactions variées entre les sociétés et leur environnement littoral, explicite la spécificité des " Rivières du Sud ", littoraux à mangrove compris entre le Sénégal et la Sierra Leone. Elle réunit un ensemble d'informations originales (volume 1) et un recueil bibliographique de plus de 3 000 références (volume 2), et constitue un outil indispensable pour les acteurs, scientifiques comme décideurs, concernés par la gestion des littoraux ouest-africains.
Par un dialogue entre sciences de la nature et de la société, cet ouvrage ouvre des perspectives conceptuelles et méthodologiques et contribue ainsi à la réflexion plus générale sur les rapports entre environnement et développement, sciences et société.
Mangroves are much more than just mangles.
Forests in the sea or sea marshes converted into rice fields, they form one of the most original coastal landscape types in the tropics. Since their discovery by Portuguese navigators, they have generated contradictory statements and have been the centre of many issues often leading to contention between 'conservationists' and those in favour of 'productivity'. This regional synthesis reviews the state of knowledge on mangrove, shows the varied interactions between societies and their coastal environment and explains the specific features of the 'Rivières du Sud' (southern rivers), the coastal mangrove areas from Senegal to Sierra Leone. It consists of a set of original information (Volume 7) and a bibliography of more than 3,000 references (Volume 2), forming an essential tool for all those - both scientists and decision-makers - involved in the management of West African coastal zones.
By establishing a dialogue between natural and social sciences, the work opens up conceptual and methodological prospects and contributes to more general reflection on the relations between the environment and development and between science and society.
04/1999
Art contemporain
Hassan Khan. Catalogue de l'exposition, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Tell me about clowns. Once upon a time, there was a species that thought they were better than everyone and everything else. What is the difference between a clown and a joker ? Sometimes they're one and the same. And the knife ? Some humans can be kind, surprising even, while others can act out of fear and negative emotions. Really ?
03/2022
Histoire mondiale
Operation Al-Aqsa flood. 75 years of war between Israel and Palestine
Why is the conflict between Israel and Palestine still unresolved ? What are the Israeli and Palestinian strategies and how have they evolved over the past 75 years ? What are the relations between Israel, Palestine and its neighbors ? Why did Operation Deluge Al Aqsa take place ? What has happened on the ground since October 7 ? What is the impact of this conflict on our security ? What are the possible options for Israel and Palestine in the coming years ? Following on from his best-selling books Putin, the Master of the Game, Operation Z and Ukraine Between War and Peace, which won international acclaim for their analysis, Jacques Baud revisits the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from its origins, analyzes the "Deluge Al Aqsa" operation of October 7, 2023, and in particular its impact on the region and Western countries, and explains the workings of Israeli intelligence services in matters of terrorism. Colonial Jacques Baud is a former member of the Swiss Strategic Intelligence, a specialist in Eastern Europe and former head of Doctrine of the United Nations Peace Operations. Within NATO, hewas involved in programs in Ukraine, including after the Maidan Revolution of 2014 and 2017. He is the author of several books on intelligence, war and terrorism, including Putin, Game master ? , Governing by Fake News and The Navalny Affair, all published by Max Milo.
03/2024
Archéologie
Etudes sur l'histoire et l'archéologie de Lydie de la période proto-lydienne à la fin de l'Antiquité. Textes en français et anglais
Lydia, lying between the Aegean coast and the Anatolian plateau, has been associated since Antiquity with the Pactolus river, which carried gold from the Tmolus mountain, and with the wealth of Croesus. Populated by Lydians and Maeonians, and marked by the presence of Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines, it has attracted the attention of researchers since the end of the 18th century. This book aims to cover the chronology of Lydian studies from the protohistoric period to the beginning of the Byzantine period and to bring together the contributions of international researchers and scholars from a wide range of disciplines that includes history, archeology, epigraphy, and numismatics, and from different perspectives. The various studies discuss society, social structures, military aspects, economy, religion, arts, architecture, and material culture. This diachronic approach makes it possible in particular to question continuity and discontinuity between the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, as well as with those that preceded them.
02/2023
Développement durable-Ecologie
Native Land, Stop Eject. Edition en anglais
Created by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, the exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject proposes a dialogue between filmmaker Raymond Depardon and philosopher Paul Virilio on the notions of being rooted and uprooted today, an epoch in which human migration flows are taking place on an unprecedented scale. In his film Hear Them Speak, created with Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon gives a voice to those who wish to remain on their land but are threatened with exile. Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, and Ben Rubin give form to Paul Virilio's concepts in six dynamic maps which examine new trends in contemporary human movement due to environmental, political, and economic factors. The texts included here, published for the first time in the catalog Native Land, Stop Eject (Prix Nomad's 2009), offer a chance to explore the themes raised in the exhibition. Accompanied by exhibition views, they incite contemplation on the meaning of sedentariness and nomadism, as well as related questions of identity.
05/2010
Non classé
Artificial Intelligence and the Sociology of Knowledge
A central topic of the latest research in the philosophy of science is the question of what kind of relationship there is between the cognitive and social factors which underlie scientific knowledge. At present, this problem has manifested itself in a heated and still unfinished controversy between the proponents of artificial intelligence research and the sociologists of knowledge. By resolving the antagonism of these two positions, the book aims at developing a modular approach to an integrated philosophy of science which can handle the interaction between cognitive and social factors in a way which differs considerably from all current proposals.
10/1993
Policiers
The poet assassin
Some mysterious graffiti on the walls of the Castillet, a crowned reptile in Saint Jean Cathedral, the Campo Santo defiled : these are some of the bizarre clues in Lieutenant Dominique d'Astié's latest investigation. Is there a link between their symbolism, the enigmatic poems strewn all over the streets of Perpignan and the bloody assassination of "King Arthur Pendragon" ? The young Parisian police officer, newest member of La Police Judiciaire de Perpignan, will need to brush up on the old Arthurian legends if she is to solve this very non-Catalan murder !
05/2012
Littérature française
Sunflower at the eclipse
Like ink to a paper so does a word to the brain On the face it draws its temper and on the back lays its stain Lamentation is a hefty hamper only to those who can't bear the pain When the whim unleashes its thunder there is no time for restrain Then set the quill for plunder and the hand to be morally slain Between the lines lurks the gender what is left is meant to be plain.
10/2017
Thèmes photo
Stable Vices. Edition bilingue français-anglais
French-language supplement to the acclaimed book Stable Vices by Polish artist Joanna Piotrowska, accompanying a major solo show opening at Le Bal, Paris in February 2023 Includes a new series entitled Tata and French translations of essays by Sara De Chiara, Joanna Bednarek, and Dorota Maslowska Piotrowska's work explores themes between protection, oppression, shelter, and self- defence in visceral photographic series and short films Themes of protection, freedom and oppression resonate across Polish artist Joanna Piotrowska's oeuvre. Bringing together all her primary photographic series and short films of to date, Stable Vices crystallises and explores this spectrum of concerns. This supplementary booklet is published to coincide with a solo exhibition at Le Bal, Paris, and expands the original publication with a further series, entitled Tata. It also includes French language translations of the book's texts, by Sara De Chiara, Joanna Bednarek, and Dorota Maslowska, between them unpicking the complex tensions between domesticity and danger, aggression and tenderness that emanate from Piotrowska's celebrated work. Co-published with Le Bal, Paris
02/2023
Droit
Activation Policies for the Unemployed, the Right to Work and the Duty to Work
Since the 1990s and the 2000s, Western social protection systems have experienced a turn towards activation. This turn consists of the multiplication of measures aimed at bringing those who are unemployed closer to participation in the labour market. These measures often induce a strengthening of the conditions that must be met in order to receive social benefits. It is in this well known context that the authors gathered in this book decided to take a closer look at the relationship between activation policies for the unemployed and the right and the duty to work. If activation measures are likely to increase transitions towards the labour market, we can also make the assumption that they may, particularly when they are marked with the seal of coercion, hinder or dramatically reduce the right to freely chosen work. In such circumstances, the realisation of the "right to work", which is often stated to be the aim of those who promote activation, tends in practice to be reduced to an increasing pressure being exerted on the unemployed. In this case, isn't it actually the duty to work that is particularly reinforced ? After an historical and philosophical perspective on the issue, this assumption is confronted with the developments observed in the United States and in France, and then with the guidelines laid down in international human rights instruments. What follows is a discussion of two alternatives to the dominant activation model : the basic income guarantee and the employment guarantee.
06/1987
Sociologie
Experiencing Same-Sex Marriage
This book provides an understanding of how the legal and cultural debates and advances and limitations on same-sex marriage are experienced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people, same-sex couples, and their social networks. Using data collected from hundreds of GLBT people, same-sex couples, and their social networks over the past decade, the book examines the following topics : same-sex marriages' impact on how GLBT individuals view their relationships and community ; same-sex couples' decision making regarding whether to marry or not ; the interactions between same-sex couples and members of their families-of-origin regarding same-sex marriage ; the same-sex marriage experiences of understudied members of the GLBT community ; and the interactions between same-sex couples and members of their social networks in locations with restrictions against legally recognized same-sex marriage. These findings are examined through the lens of the social scientific study of relationships. They are based on a communication studies perspective on personal relationships, and therefore emphasize communication concepts and theories relevant to the understanding of same-sex marriage experiences.
01/2014
Sociologie
The Search for Meaning in the Australian Novel
This thesis grew out of an epistemological interest centered on the search for meaning in literature, and out of a reading of Australian novels. Reaching beyond signification, the creation of meaning in literature refers to the significance a text acquires for the recipient's existence. The potential of this meaningfulness fluctuates between a process of explanation, of uncovering hidden meaning, and deception. Assuming that this range is best demonstrated in the literary treatment of negative experiences in human existence, of pain and suffering, we analyse how Australian novelists and critics set paradigms of meaning against the "Non-Sense" in experienced reality, who and what the agents of meaningfulness in Australian literature are, how they relate to each other and how they affect our reading experience.
10/1991
Anglais apprentissage
The Scarlet Letter
Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter " A " stands for " Adultery ". In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child bore outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her tife. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne. And what will happen to her sinful lover - the father of her child?
07/2009
Sciences de la terre et de la
Coral reef ascidians of New Caledonia
Ascidians are common marine animals present on all types of substrata but abundant and highly diversified in warm oceans. They represent a large portion of the underwater pictures taken by divers of the ORSTOM center in Noumea.
One millimeter to some decimeters in size, cryptic or brightly coloured, motionless, often in the shade, ascidians are not well known, but are present everywhere. They are surprising not only in their variable shapes but also in their unique biological characteristics. They represent the boundary between invertebrates and vertebrates, although the adults look like stones or sponges.
With a beautiful selection of photographs, the authors discuss the essential anatomy, the modes of budding, the pigments, and the spicules. The ecological requirements are detailed and symbionts, parasites and predators are reviewed. The relationship with man concerns fouling species on ships, their use as food end as a source of pharmacological products.
The final section provides a key for the identification of the most common or spectacular species.
08/1991
