Goya, le génie tourmenté.1793, Cadix. Alité, Francisco de Goya se rétablit suite à une étrange affliction qui va le laisser sourd. Maladie ou malédiction ? Alors qu'il est au sommet de son art, il se retrouve affaibli par la fièvre et les migraines, assailli par des visions grotesques et morbides. Epouvanté, le peintre en appelle à sa raison : peut-être que ces monstres ne sont pas réels ? Persécuté par des créatures cauchemardesques, il est épaulé dans cette épreuve par son amie et confidente, la duchesse d'Alba. Elle aussi semble voir ces figures terrifiantes qui vont inspirer à l'artiste ses fresques les plus célèbres.
Un roman graphique magnifique aux reflets flamboyants qui nous invite à partager les tourments et l'univers fantasmé d'un des artistes majeurs de la peinture espagnole. Une oeuvre originale à mi-chemin entre fiction et histoire, qui nous permet de mieux comprendre une période sombre de la vie de ce peintre de génie.
Le baron de Sigognac, dernier rejeton d'une famille noble désargentée, se morfond en son château délabré de Gascogne. Lorsqu'une troupe de comédiens frappe à sa porte, le baron est ébloui par les yeux de la jeune Isabelle, il prend la décision d'accompagner la troupe à la grand-ville ; voyage durant lequel il se fera comédien et prendra un nom de guerre... Il sera le capitaine Fracasse !
Lorsque Nancy et Lucifer se libèrent de l'Enfer, les portes restées ouvertes, laissent les démons se répandre sur Terre. Dans ce chaos, les anges décident que détruire la planète est le mal nécessaire pour sauver le monde des humains de l'invasion iinfernale. Nancy et Lucifer décident de s'allier à leur pire ennemi, Mr Macabre, pour arrêter ce carnage. Mais cela suffira-t-il pour vaincre les forces divines ?
Les langages de Rabelais, écrit avec vigueur, talent et conviction, étudie Rabelais et sa pensée à travers la problématique du langage, soulignant l'ambiguïté délibérée du père de Gargantua. Chez ce grand illusionniste du verbe qu'est Rabelais, la production du message n'est jamais simple: elle pose des problèmes de signification que la linguistique, dans la mesure où celle-ci consent à s'appuyer sur la philologie et l'histoire, peut nous aider à résoudre. Au-delà d'une lecture transparente et sans équivoque de la fiction rabelaisienne, François Rigolot opte donc pour l'ambiguïté et la pluralité de l'écriture de Rabelais et analyse les différents langages qui structurent son oeuvre.
Georges Bataille - pour qui la «communication profonde veut le silence» - a successivement défendu et désavoué l'auteur du Journal du voleur. Des deux articles qu'il lui consacre, le second est le seul qui ait connu une postérité, car il figure dans ,La Littérature et le Mal. La teneur en est nette et sans appel: l'oeuvre de Jean Genet est un «échec», elle contrevient aux exigences de la communication. Une telle sévérité tranche avec la défense sans réserve, quelques années plus tôt, de Haute Surveillance. Pour quelles raisons Bataille révise-t-il de manière si drastique, entre 1949 et 1952, son jugement sur Genet? L'objet de cet essai est d'éclairer le mystère de cette volte-face. Outre l'effet majeur de l'intervention de Jean-Paul Sartre et de sa préface, Saint Genet, comédien et martyr, François Bizet interroge la possibilité d'un rejet plus profond, lié au jeu des affects, que seul un examen attentif des textes, replacés dans le contexte intellectuel qui les a suscités, peut faire apparaître. Ce qui est appelé ici «communication» sans échange ne désigne toutefois pas seulement les rapports complexes et conflictuels des deux philosophes, mais bien la relation littéraire telle que la concevait le poète Jean Genet, lequel, dans les années 1960, las de la polémique dont il avait été l'objet, déclarait écrire «pour l'innombrable peuple des morts».
Moïka la petite Amérindienne est émerveillée par la beauté des étoiles qu'elle voit dans le ciel. Son désir le plus cher est d'en tenir une dans le creux de sa main et de voir de plus près comme elle brille. Elle s'adresse aux sages de sa tribu, puis aux animaux de la forêt, mais ni les uns ni les autres ne savent comment détacher une étoile du ciel. Moïka est sur le point de se contenter d'admirer les étoiles de loin quand, soudain, elle voit son rêve se réaliser...
Conte inspiré du folklore amérindien qui allie le fantastique aux beautés de la nature.
Au sortir de la seconde guerre mondiale, en 1945, Eugénie Droz fondait les Textes Littéraires Français, une collection dévolue à l'édition critique des textes significatifs du patrimoine littéraire de langue française du moyen âge au XXe siècle. Accessibles, dans un petit format maniable, chaque édition est accompagnée d'une introduction, de notes, d'un glossaire, si nécessaire, et d'index. Cet appareil critique exigeant accueille l'érudition des meilleurs spécialistes pour éclairer la genèse des oeuvres et, quelle que soit leur époque, livrer au lecteur contemporain les explications les plus minutieuses sur le contexte historique, culturel et linguistique qui les a vues naître. Depuis soixante-dix ans, la collection a accueilli, outre quelques édicules, plus de 600 monuments littéraires français.
Jean Crespin est connu comme l'auteur du fameux martyrologe protestant ; les bibliophiles connaissent ses livres et les spécialistes de la Réforme savent que le principal de la production théologique genevoise vers 1550-1572 est sorti de ses presses. C'est cependant la première fois que ses publications font l'objet d'une étude de cette importance. Jean-François Gilmont s'est attaché à utiliser toutes les sources d'archive disponibles et tout d'abord les livres eux-mêmes qu'il examine à la lumière des récentes techniques de "bibliographie matérielle" mises au point par les Anglo-saxons. En annexe, la bibliographie la plus complète à ce jour des ouvrages édités par Crespin.
La biographie de Coligny par François Hotman est un texte de 1575 presque totalement inconnu, parce qu'écrit en latin. Emile V. Telle, qui reproduit ici la version française anonyme des environs de 1600, nous la révèle comme une oeuvre d'une extraordinaire valeur documentaire et d'une exceptionnelle qualité biographique et littéraire, saisissant pour la première fois dans son ampleur la pensée religieuse de Coligny, la psychologie du soldat et le rôle éminent qu'il a joué dans le mouvement huguenot. L'introduction situe le texte de Hotman dans le contexte des guerres de religion. Un très riche appareil de notes agrémentées de nombreuses citations de Brantôme et d'autres chroniqueurs, forme un commentaire savoureux cuisiné "aux petits oignons et épicé d'une pointe d'ail".
Donner à voir sous un jour nouveau les représentations de la masculinité : tel est le projet de cet ouvrage. La question du regard et des dispositifs de visibilité sert ici de fil rouge à l'étude de textes filmiques, télévisuels et littéraires où apparaissent des formes de masculinités en marge, qu'elles soient rendues « exotiques » ou qu'elles marquent un déplacement face au modèle hégémonique du masculin. Au croisement des études cinématographiques, de la littérature comparée et des études de genre, l'ouvrage interroge les processus de décentrements et de recentrements de la masculinité qui se déploient au coeur de la fiction
Marc Vachon was born in Montreal in 1963. He went from one foster home to another. He knows the injustices that the weak must suffer in any society. He knows the violence, the abuse, and the emptiness that life can offer in so-called developed countries.
He dealt with it the only way possible: through drugs and crime. He turned into "a bad egg" as he puts it.
Until the day when, escaping an unbearable situation at home, he came across Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Paris. Since he had some experience in construction, he was hired to supervise the logistics of a cholera camp in Niaminthutu, Malawi. From that point on, he drew on the survival instincts he picked up on the streets, delving into his work to forget the pain, never looking back. He made himself indispensable, quickly becoming the frontline logistician for MSF, moving mountains, commanding respect, afraid of nothing or no one, able to build shelters for tens of thousands of refugees in record time.
Power struggles often occur in the humanitarian sector, and Marc Vachon could never really accept them. They always seem to go hand-in-hand with injustice. This has inspired him to deliver a biting and fascinating review of humanitarian aid, or at least the way it is in the present "news-entertainment" era.
How can the needs and perspective of patients be incorporated in the design and redesign of health services? Health organizations are focusing more and more on patients - and requiring their employees to practise patient focused care. The Modernisation Initiative described in this book explores in three health service areas (kidney, stroke and sexual health services) how patients' and carers' involvement may inform and shape quality improvement work This book guides you through the issues and challenges that teams seeking to involve users in changing health services are likely to face. It offers a wealth of practical knowledge about involving users. Those undertaking similar programmes, whether in primary care or hospital based, will find ideas and examples in this book to inspire and guide them.
Découvrez 10 romans mis en avant dans le cadre de l'opération promotionnelle Devenez accro au thriller !10 auteurs à découvrir d'urgence ! 12-21 vous offre les premiers chapitres de dix romans policiers et thrillers, par les auteurs stars du catalogue :
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Hollywood Monsters, Fabrice Bourland
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À toute épreuve, Harlan Coben
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La Confidente des morts, Ariana Franklin
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Maudit mercredi, Nicci French
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Satan était un ange, Karine Giebel
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Une nuit éternelle, David Khara
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Black Coffee, Sophie Loubière
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Reflex, Maud Mayeras
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Le Fléau d'Eden, James Rollins
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Angor, Franck Thilliez
The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism presents a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of bilingualism, covering language processing, language acquisition, cognition and the bilingual brain. This thorough introduction to the psycholinguistics of bilingualism is accessible to non-specialists with little previous exposure to the field Introduces students to the methodological approaches currently employed in the field, including observation, experimentation, verbal and computational modelling, and brain imaging Examines spoken and written language processing, simultaneous and successive language acquisition, bilingual memory and cognitive effects, and neurolinguistic and neuro-computational models of the bilingual brain Written in an accessible style by two of the field's leading researchers, together with contributions from internationally-renowned scholars Featuring chapter-by-chapter research questions, this is an essential resource for those seeking insights into the bilingual mind and our current knowledge of the cognitive basis of bilingualism
Meeting the needs of patients while minimizing blood transfusions requires special expertise, precise monitoring and innovative techniques. This cutting-edge resource covers all the important clinical aspects of transfusion medicine in diverse clinical settings, with a special emphasis on alternatives to transfusion. Edited by a multidisciplinary team consisting of a transfusion specialist, an anesthesiologist and an intensive care specialist this book is endorsed by the Network for Advancement of Transfusion Alternatives. The contributors review the appropriate use of fluids and of blood products, and describe the latest treatment options available to decrease the need for allogeneic blood products including: Argon beam Cell saver Harmonic scalpel Normovolemic haemodilution Synthetic erythropoietin Antifibrinolytics Recombinant factor VIIa Advanced monitoring of hemostasis Intravenous iron The new edition is a key reference source for all those involved in the practice of blood management and conservation.
Avec ce numéro, la revue JEU se présente à vous sous une toute nouvelle forme. Dirigé par Christian Saint-Pierre, le dossier concerne l'engouement que ressentent certains créateurs de théâtre québécois pour la capitale allemande. On lira les lettres d'amour de Marie Brassard, Daniel Brière, Evelyne de la Chenelière, Martin Faucher, Sarah Lachance, Catherine De Léan, Éric Noël et Marie-Lyne Rousse. En complément, le traducteur Frank Weigand explique pourquoi, selon lui, la pratique théâtrale berlinoise fascine autant. Hors dossier, on trouve notamment des textes de Justin Laramée et de Jean-Philippe Lehoux, ainsi que des entretiens avec le jeune metteur en scène français Julien Gosselin et la directrice sortante du FTA Marie-Hélène Falcon.
Twelve-year-old Jess and her friends have been playing hockey with the boys in Fort Desperation, Northwest Territories, since they were six years old. They'd like to start a girls' team in their community, but is tiny Fort Desperation ready for it? Somebody is trying to scare them off through acts of vandalism. Not only do Jess and her friends have to organize a team, find a coach and learn to play together, they have to unmask the Hockey Vandal. Can they do it before the Vandal destroys their team's hopes?
This book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students in applied mathematics or computer science, as a tool for solving real-world design problems. The present work covers fundamentals in multi-objective optimization and applications in mathematical and engineering system design using a new optimization strategy, namely the Self-Adaptive Multi-objective Optimization Differential Evolution (SA-MODE) algorithm. This strategy is proposed in order to reduce the number of evaluations of the objective function through dynamic update of canonical Differential Evolution parameters (population size, crossover probability and perturbation rate). The methodology is applied to solve mathematical functions considering test cases from the literature and various engineering systems design, such as cantilevered beam design, biochemical reactor, crystallization process, machine tool spindle design, rotary dryer design, among others.
This book compiles the main findings of the multidisciplinary long-term research program developed in the continental margin of one of the more productive and unknown areas of the world oceans, Northwest Africa. The more than 25,000 preserved fishes and benthic invertebrates and quantitative data collected in 342 trawling stations, the 267 oceanographic profiles, the 211 sediment samples and the 28,122 km2 prospected by multi?beam echo sounding allowed to obtain an overview of the amazing biodiversity of the demersal and benthic fauna inhabiting soft- and hard-bottom habitats, as well as the fascinating geomorphology and oceanography, hidden in the Mauritanian slope.
This up-to-date reference on the nutrition management of inherited metabolic diseases (IMD) covers a wide range of these disorders, including phenylketonuria and other aminoacidopathies, organic acidemias, urea cycle disorders, fatty acid oxidation disorders, galactosemia and glycogen storage diseases. Guidance is also provided on laboratory evaluations and biochemical testing and monitoring. Topics such as newborn screening for IMD, as well as nutrition management during pregnancy and transplantation, are addressed. The book is based on 7 years of lectures delivered through Metabolic University - an interactive, didactic program designed to provide training to dietitians who work with individuals with IMD. This book provides the basic information required to manage nutrition care and is a resource for clinicians new to this complex field.
Strategic planning becomes visual with strategy maps and the tools, techniques, and guidance for turning them into effective action. Developed as a companion workbook to John Bryson's best-selling Strategic Planning in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Visual Strategy: A Workbook for Strategy Mapping in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, goes beyond making the case for good and effective strategic planning to making strategy visual through effective strategy mapping. Strategy mapping prevents groups of people from talking over one another and going around in circles. It helps people speak and be heard, produce lots of ideas and understand how they fit together, make use of causal reasoning, and clarify ultimately what they want to do in terms of mission, goals, strategies, and actions. Strategy mapping can join process and content in such a way that good ideas worth implementing are found and the agreements and comments needed to implement them are reached. The result is living strategic plans that act as useful guides to action. With detailed examples, actual strategy maps, process guidelines and hand-drawn illustrations, the book will help leaders, managers, students and other professionals see patterns across mission, goals, strategies and actions while helping to identify areas of alignment and misalignment and determine, real time, where elements are needed, missing or not useful in a strategic plan. For leaders and managers of public and nonprofit organizations, facilitators and consultants, professors and students of strategic planning, strategic management, strategic mapping, and public policy, professional development workshops focused on strategic planning and strategy mapping.
The forces that shape America's most powerful consumer agency Because of the importance of what it regulates, the FDA comes under tremendous political, industry, and consumer pressure. But the pressure goes far beyond the ordinary lobbying of Washington trade groups. Its mandate-one quarter of the national economy-brings the FDA into the middle of some of the most important and contentious issues of modern society. From "designer" babies and abortion to the price of prescription drugs and the role of government itself, Inside the FDA takes readers on an intriguing journey into the world of today's most powerful consumer agency. In a time when companies continue to accuse the FDA of nitpicking and needlessly delaying needed new drugs, and consumers are convinced that the agency bends to industry pressure by rushing unsafe drugs to market, Inside the FDA digs deep to reveal the truth. Through scores of interviews and real-world stories, Hawthorne also shows how and why the agency makes some of its most controversial decisions as well as how its recent reaction to certain issues-including the revolutionary cancer drug Erbitux, stem cell research, and bioengineering of food-may jeopardize its ability to keep up with future scientific developments. Inside the FDA takes a closer look at the practices, people, and politics of this crucial watchdog in light of the competing pressures and trends of modern society, revealing what the FDA is supposed to do, what it actually does-and fails to do-who it influences, and how it could better fulfill its mandate. The decisions that the FDA makes are literally life and death. Inside the FDA provides a sophisticated account of how this vitally important agency struggles to balance bureaucracy and politics with its overriding mission to promote the country's health.
An in-depth look at big pharma's flagship company
The Merck Druggernaut takes readers inside Merck, the world's second most profitable drug company and maker of the world's bestselling drug, Prilosec. Consistently named one of Fortune magazine's Most Admired Companies, Merck struggles to maintain its reputation for being the most ethical of the big drug makers, refusing to slash research and development budgets in the face of declining profits, falling stock market prices, and questionable accounting. Author Fran Hawthorne, one of the leading journalists covering healthcare, has written an excellent examination of a business paragon with much-needed insight on the cutthroat world of pharmaceuticals. It's a story that will interest the business world as well as consumer and healthcare advocates by detailing the vital issues in medicine and healthcare today. More than just a compelling story of success in a difficult industry, more than simply the biography of one of big business's most recognizable names, The Merck Druggernaut takes a thoughtful look at some of the major issues of our time and the way those issues intertwine with the world of business. Fran Hawthorne (New York, NY) is the Assistant Managing Editor at Crain's New York Business. She has been covering business for more than twenty years for such publications as Fortune, BusinessWeek, and Institutional Investor, with a prevailing interest in healthcare and pharmaceuticals. At Crain's, she spearheads the publication of two to three special healthcare issues per year.
"Any architect doing small or medium scaled projects who is also vested in sustainable design but is not yet doing BIM will enjoy this book's overall focus."-Architosh.com This work is the leading guide to architectural design within a building information modeling (BIM) workflow, giving the practitioner a clear procedure when designing climate-load dominated buildings. The book incorporates new information related to BIM, integrated practice, and sustainable design, as well information on how designers can incorporate the latest technological tools. Each chapter addresses specific topics, such as natural ventilation for cooling, passive solar heating, rainwater harvesting and building hydrology, optimizing material use and reducing construction waste, and collaborating with consultants or other building professionals such as engineers and energy modelers.
