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Vladimir Fédorovski nous dévoile les secrets des plus grands créateurs du XXe siècle. Enigmatiques, flamboyants, magnifiques, ils traversèrent le siècle comme une fulgurante traînée de poudre, suscitant passions et émerveillement. Mêlant l'amour à l'art, la poésie et la politique, Vladimir Fédorovski propose aux lecteurs un voyage dans le temps et dans l'espace.
De Matisse à Picasso, de Chagall à Modigliani, il nous offre une méditation...
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El estudio de Paulette Ramsay analiza la producción cultural y literaria de los afromexicanos de Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, México, para socavar y subvertir la pretensión de mestizaje u homogeneidad mexicana.
Para la investigación interdisciplinaria, la autora se sirve de varios marcos teóricos: los estudios culturales, la antropología lingüística, los estudios sobre masculinidad, los estudios de género, la crítica feminista y...
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Dans la continuité de Histoires de la mythologie grecque pour les enfants et les parents, Contes et légendes oubliés de la mythologie grecque vous emportera, petits et grands, dans un voyage fantastique à la découverte des légendes fabuleuses de la Grèce Antique. Inspirées des écrits des plus grands auteurs de l'antiquité, comme Ovide, Eschyle, Platon, Diodore de Sicile, Plutarque, Hésiode et bien évidemment Homère, ces histoires forment...
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Essays about baseball's past, present, and future-and the wisdom of Ichiro Suzuki
The Only Way Is the Steady Way is a baseball memoir in scorecards and baseball cards, a recollection of the game's biggest stars and outlandish personalities, and introspective letters to a legendary player. These essays examine the meaning of baseball across international borders and at all levels of the game-from Little League diamonds to big league ballparks. Parents...
41385) Monsters
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1814: Mary Godwin, the sixteen-year-old daughter of radical socialist and feminist writers, runs away with a dangerously charming young poet - Percy Bysshe Shelley. From there, the two young lovers travel a Europe in the throes of revolutionary change, through high and low society, tragedy and passion, where they will be drawn into the orbit of the mad and bad Lord Byron.
But Mary and Percy are not alone: they bring Jane, Mary's young step-sister....
41387) Being a Boy
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"Being A Boy" is Charles Dudley Warner's profound and entertaining memoir of his childhood spent growing up on a Massachusetts farm. Contents include: "Being a Boy", "The Boy as a Farmer", "The Delights of Farming", "No Farming Without a Boy", "The Boy's Sunday", "The Grindstone of Life", "Fiction and Sentiment", "The Coming of Thanksgiving", "The Season of Pumpkin-pie", "First Experience of the World", "Home Inventions", "The Lonely Farmhouse", etc....
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However divergent their analyses may be in other ways, some prominent anti-capitalist critics have remained critical of contemporary debates over reparative justice for groups historically oppressed and marginalized on the basis of race, gender, sexual identity, sexual preference, and/or ability, arguing that the most these struggles can hope to produce is a more diversity-friendly capital. Meanwhile, scholars of gender and sexuality as well as race...
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Réédition du texte de l'historiographe de la mission relatant la fameuse aventure à travers l'Asie. Palmyre 1931... Pékin 1932. Un texte important du grand érudit Paul Pelliot présente à grands traits l'histoire de la Haute Asie. Écrit à l'origine pour la présentation de l'exposition organisée au retour de l'expédition, il ajoute au très vif intérêt de cet ouvrage.
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Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon-'a history book for Scots'. It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the Pharaoh's daughter, from Egypt with the Stone of Destiny. The land that her sons discovered in the Western Ocean was named after her: Scotland. It goes on to describe the turbulent events that followed,...
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Robo Sacer engages the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory to interrogate how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descent-both within Mexico and in the United States-since the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. As the book argues, robo-sacer identity emerges as transnational flows of bodies, capital, and technology become an institutionalized...
41392) The Snowman
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He's found five pounds of top--quality Peruvian cocaine in a suit-case. Pur-sued by the police and drug traffickers the luckless Blum falls prey to the frenzied paranoia of the cocaine addict and dealer. This is a fast-paced thriller written with acerbic humour, a hardboiled evocation of drug-fuelled existence and a penetrating observation of those at the edge of German society. Having broken his addiction to on heroin at the age of thirty, Jörg...
41393) Motherland Hotel
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Zeberjet, the last surviving member of a once prosperous Ottoman family, is the owner of the Motherland Hotel, a run-down establishment a rundown establishment near the railroad station. A lonely, middle-aged introvert, his simple life is structured by daily administrative tasks and regular, routine sex with the hotel's maid. One day, a beautiful woman from the capital comes to spend the night, promising to return "next week," and suddenly Zeberjet's...
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"Death is a release from and an end of all pains: beyond it our sufferings cannot extend: it restores us to the peaceful rest in which we lay before we were born."
Dealing mainly with the themes of death and suffering, Seneca makes philosophy appear here as a form of therapy, Stoic introspection allowing to find meaning in the most painful situations. Therefore it is essential to cultivate self-control and focus on the positive. Death, moreover,...
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Read a story between sips of coffee, while running errands, or on your commute home. Vine Leaves Press 50-word stories are a welcome break from a busy day. The 50 Give or Take newsletter series delivers a bite-sized piece of literature straight into your inbox. This anthology contains our first year's worth of stories.
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This work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1878 and it is now republished with a brand new introductory biography. 'Tropical Nature, and Other Essays' is a collection of essays including Wallace's observations on equatorial vegetation, animal life, and sexuality.
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Here are twenty-five tales about the Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan following the opening of the country to foreign trade in 1859, and an additional ten strange stories that revoke around those times. The tales are historically accurate, sociologically significant and, most important of all, eminently readable. These Tales of Foreign Settlements in Japan are the product of years of painstaking and scholarly research by a writer who is...
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After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from three Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay fled to the West and was charged as a traitor in his homeland of Kyrgyzstan in Soviet Central Asia. Chingiz Aitmatov became a hero of Kyrgyzstan, propelled by family loss to write novels about the everyday lives of his fellow citizens. While both came from small villages in the beautiful mountainous countryside, they found themselves...
41399) Une maison de grenades
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Extrait : "C'était le soir du jour qui précédait la date fixée par son couronnement, et le jeune roi était assis seul dans sa belle chambre. Tous ses courtisans avaient pris congé de lui, en courbant leur tête jusqu'à terre, ainsi que le prescrivait la cérémonieuse étiquette du temps, et ils s'étaient retirés dans la Grande salle du Palais, pour recevoir quelques dernières leçons du Professeur de Cérémonial..."
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Maria Heim is the George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion at Amherst College and a Guggenheim fellow. Her books include The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy and The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional...
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