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L'attractivité des librairies, malgré Amazon ou Netflix

Blâmons internet, blâmons les GAFA, blâmons le commerce du livre d’occasion… il n’empêche que les librairies demeurent, et parviennent à tirer leur épingle du jeu. Si les Français sont accusés de moins lire, comment les libraires parviennent-ils à capter l’attention du public, et inciter à franchir le pas de leur établissement ?

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Prix du livre de la Ville de Lausanne 2024 : 10 ans déjà

Depuis son inauguration en 2014 par le Service des bibliothèques & archives de Lausanne, responsable de la stratégie littéraire, le Prix du livre de la Ville de Lausanne s'est consacré pendant une décennie à soutenir les auteurs de Suisse romande et leurs fidèles lecteurs. Une odyssée littéraire qui promet de perdurer !

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Team AlexandriZ : pirates de livres ou distributeurs de savoir ?

La Team était spécialisée dans la diffusion d’ebooks, spécifiquement de romans transformés en version numérique. L’une de leurs grandes marottes était d’ailleurs de procéder à la numérisation d’ouvrages que les éditeurs ne commercialisaient pas en format ebook. Mais ils étaient aussi qualifiés, en regard du Code de la propriété intellectuelle, de pirates.

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Courir ou mourir : Le Labyrinthe, la saga de James Dashner

Depuis la publication du premier livre en 2009, la saga Le Labyrinthe (titre original : The Maze Runner), écrite par James Dashner, a marqué une génération d'adolescents et jeunes adultes par son intrigue captivante, ses personnages attachants et sa représentation métaphorique des défis de l'adolescence. Cette saga dystopique a séduit des millions de lecteurs à travers le monde et a inspiré une série de films à succès.

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Les 5 Terres : une saga médiévale où règnent les animaux

Cinq continents abritent les peuples qui occupent Les 5 Terres : autant d’espèces dont les luttes de pouvoir ont forgé les relations. Félins, reptiles, herbivores, primates ainsi qu’ours et loups, qui se partagent un territoire, chacun a affiné avec le temps des savoir-faire. Leurs terres, reflets de leurs coutumes autant que de leur passé, font cohabiter les êtres… mais n’enfouissent pas les rivalités.

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En série ou en film, les adaptations de livres crèvent l'écran

Le Parrain, Les Dents de la merRaisons et sentiments, Le Seigneur des Anneaux, la saga Harry Potter, Le Nom de la Rose, Orange mécaniqueVol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou, Le GuépardLettre d'une inconnue... Tous ces films ont un point commun, celui d'être des adaptations de romans ou de sagas littéraires...

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Ville des anges. Ou The Overcoat of Dr Freud

En automne 1992, trois ans après la chute du mur, puis deux ans après la réunification des deux Allemagnes en octobre 1990, Christa Wolf, 63 ans, foule le sol américain pour la première fois de sa vie et séjournera neuf mois dans la lumière californienne. La narratrice de ce roman, une écrivaine de l’ex-RDA -Christa Wolf elle-même ?- s’éloigne d’une Allemagne qu’elle ne supporte plus. Grâce à une bourse d’auteur en résidence, elle se rend à L A pour éclaircir un mystère : son amie Emma lui avait remis avant de mourir un paquet de lettres signées L. Qui est cette L? Une amie exilée aux Etats-Unis pour fuir le nazisme? Pourquoi Emma lui a-t-elle caché son existence ? Au rythme d’une prose d’une grande virtuosité, Christa Wolf entremêle narration et réflexion, le récit du séjour californien (reportages sur les quartiers pauvres de Los Angeles, sur les visites à Pacific Palisades des villas de Thomas Mann et de Bertolt Brecht, écrivains qui hantent l’ouvrage) et les évocations des moments clefs de sa vie : son enfance sous le Troisième Reich, l’exode du printemps 45, les premières années enthousiastes dans une Allemagne de l’Est portant l’espoir d’un monde meilleur. Puis le temps des désillusions, des graves conflits, enfin le bouleversement de l’automne 89, et le rôle important qu’elle y joua. Mais une blessure habite aussi le coeur de ce récit : les accusations de collaboration avec la Stasi de 1959 à 1962 portées contre Christa Wolf, en son absence, par les médias ouest-allemands. L’auteure s’oblige alors à exhumer ses souvenirs personnels, à s’y confronter : un douloureux travail sur soi que l’éloignement permet enfin.

09/2012

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Histoire et Philosophiesophie

The Undergrowth of Science. Delusion, self-deception and human frailty

Walter Gratzer's themes in the stories he relates in The Undergrowth of Science are collective delusion and human folly. Science is generally seen as a process bound by rigorous rules, which its practitioners must not transgress. Deliberate fraud occasionally intrudes, but it is soon detected, the perpetrators cast out and the course of discovery barely disturbed. Far more interesting are the outbreaks of self-delusion that from time to time afflict upright and competent researchers, and then spread like an epidemic or mass-hysteria through a sober and respectable scientific community. When this happens the rules by which scientists normally govern their working lives are suddenly suspended. Sometimes these episodes are provoked by personal vanity, an unwillingness to acknowledge error or even contemplate the possibility that a hard-won success is a will o' the wisp; at other times they stem from loyalty to a respected and trusted guru, or even from patriotic pride; and, worst of ail, they may be a consequence of a political ideology which imposes its own interpretation on scientists' observations of the natural world. Unreason and credulity supervene, illusory phenomena are described and measured, and theories are developed to explain them - until suddenly, often for no single reason, the bubble bursts, leaving behind it a residue of acrimony, recrimination, embarrassment and ruined reputations. Here, then, are radiations, measured with high precision yet existing only in the minds of those who observed them; the Russian water, which some thought might congeal the oceans: phantom diseases which called for heroic surgery; monkey testis implants that restored the sexual powers of ageing roués and of tired sheep; truths about genetics and about the nature of matter, perceptible only to Aryan scientists in the Third Reich or Marxist ideologues in the Soviet Union; and much more. The Undergrowth of Science explores, in terms accessible to the lay reader, the history of such episodes, up to our own time, in ail their absurdity, tragedy and pathos.

01/2000

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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

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Sons of Fantasy

When we were children, we believed anything was possible... This book is a fantasy novel originally written for children. But, if you are a father or a mother, a teacher or a writer, if you still have some bits of fantasy in your soul... then, this novel is for you too. We all know how geniuses changed the world with their childlike Imagination, and how people use creative thinking to solve problems. This is a story about hope ; "Sons of Fantasy" shares the story of M. Alger, a father grieving for the loss of his dear wife, who left him with two beautiful kids. Norris and Socrates were adjusting to life without Mom... But things got more complicated when one of them was paralyzed because of a severe psychological trauma due to an overdose of fantasy... This family has a very interesting neighbor who lives a few feet away. He has a weird little hobby, reading books in the most unlikely places... He for example travelled to Romania and read "Dracula" by Bram Stoker in the Castelul Bran Castle, because it's said that the main character Dracula lived in it. And then all of a sudden he stopped travelling... He got a month ago a big long hat that belongs to the greatest witch that lived during the middle ages, "Moje Gayla". In fact, after being burned by the church, one of her relatives kept her belongings inside a wooden box... and in the twentieth century one of her grandchildren donated the box to "The Magic Square Museum" in London. Genius bought the hat at a public auction as an art relic to decorate one of his rooms. Could this weird neighbor be the reason of Socrates' psychological trauma ? Or maybe he is the one who will cure him ? And what has the hat to do with all this ?

08/2018

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Sciences politiques

The Structure of Political Communication in the United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany

Political Communication in The United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany differs in terms of what the peoples expect to take issue with, how they are prepared to talk about them, which choices they can make to solve problems and, finally, whom or which organizations they delegate to resolve them. This comparative media study of The Economist, Time and Der Spiegel attempts to extract the differences in politics of the three societies.

11/1987

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Mouvements artistiques

The Medieval Body

This fascinating and richly illustrated book accompanies The Medieval Body, the third in a series of vanguard exhibitions that places medieval masterpieces within a contemporary context. The title of the exhibition refers to both a literal thread of figuration that runs throughout the works in the presentation, as well as the complex and often shifting symbolism of the human body in the medieval period. For thinkers and artists of that time, the human body served as a rich source of religious and philosophical significance, one that was in a constant state of flux between idealism and disfigurement. While the early Middle Ages reserved representations of suffering bodies to the margins of their world, the later Middle Ages displayed wounded bodies in the most central spaces of public life. The crucified body of Christ and the wounded bodies of saints assumed important positions as they were displayed on altars, in processions, and on the exteriors of churches. The Medieval Body tells a unique story about the human form as both a physical entity and a recognizable metaphor. Presenting works spanning the course of a thousand years, this exhibition offers insight into the body as an essential imagemaking tool with far-reaching implications for the development of art in the European Middle Ages.

08/2022

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