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After Tome 2 – After We Collided (After, 2)
Après un début tumultueux, la relation de Tessa et Hardin semblait s arranger. Jusqu'au moment où Tessa découvre les secrets du passé d'Hardin, qui la bouleversent. Elle savait qu'il pouvait être cruel, mais à ce point... Est-il vraiment l'homme dont Tessa est tombée éperdument amoureuse, ou ment-il depuis le début ? Ce n'est pas si facile. Le souvenir de leurs nuits passionnées trouble son jugement. Tessa n'est pas sûre de supporter une autre promesse non tenue, mais elle a besoin de lui pour avancer. Hardin sait qu'il a fait une erreur, peut-être la plus grande de sa vie, et qu'il peut perdre Tessa. Il sait aussi qu il faut parfois se méfier de ses amis. Il veut se battre pour elle, mais pourra-t-il changer par amour ?Le deuxième tome d une série phénomène, véritable best-seller planétaire.
Algerian Sketches
In the late 1950s, like tens of thousands of young men of his generation, Pierre Bourdieu, having recently passed the agrégation in philosophy, found himself immersed in the Algerian war. Motivated by an impulse that, as he himself says, ‘was civic rather than political’, nothing seemed more important to him than to understand the Algerian situation and provide the elements that would enable others to come to an informed judgement about it.In extremely tough conditions and along with a small group of students, Bourdieu undertook a series of studies across an Algeria that was tightly patrolled by the army, leading him to discover the shocking reality of the resettlement camps and to analyse the mechanisms of destruction of Algerian society of which they were emblematic. To achieve the objectives he had set himself, Bourdieu had to carry out a genuine intellectual conversion, acquiring an ethnographic understanding of Algerian society, learning sociological analysis at a breakneck pace and inventing new instruments - both theoretical and empirical - that would enable him to understand the relations of domination specific to colonialism. These new tools also enabled him to analyse the nature of the crisis that the war had both produced and manifested.This unique volume brings together the first texts written by Bourdieu in the midst of the Algerian conflict, as well as later writings and interviews in which he returns to the topic of Algeria and the decisive role it played in the development of his work.
Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilization itself.'A wonderful book, full of good stories and burning with passion' SUNDAY TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Compelling, fascinating and rewarding' LITERARY REVIEW'When books burn, it is more than just words under attack . . . this extraordinary book should stir us to thinking and to action' FINANCIAL TIMES'A tale of ingenuity and deep courage' GUARDIAN'A stark warning - the truth itself is under attack' THE TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Ariel (Faber Poetry)
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez in the Observer
Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and South East Asia.Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists and theologians, not to mention rulers, statesmen and soldiers, have been occluded. This book rescues from oblivion and neglect some of these personalities and institutions while offering the reader a new narrative of this lost Islamic history. The Umayyads, Abbasids, and Ottomans feature in the story, as do Muslim Spain, the savannah kingdoms of West Africa and the Mughal Empire, along with the later European colonization of Muslim lands and the development of modern nation-states in the Muslim world. Throughout, the impact of Islamic belief on scientific advancement, social structures, and cultural development is given due prominence, and the text is complemented by portraits of key personalities, inventions and little known historical nuggets. The history of Islam and of the world's Muslims brings together diverse peoples, geographies and states, all interwoven into one narrative that begins with Muhammad and continues to this day.
The Politics of Aesthetics (Bloomsbury Revelations)
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the impossible. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive introduction to Rancière's work to date, ranging across the history of art and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic revolution of the modern age.Available now in the Bloomsbury Revelations series 10 years after its original publication, The Politics of Aesthetics includes an afterword by Slavoj Zizek, an interview for the English edition, a glossary of technical terms and an extensive bibliography.
Disordered World
In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September 11, 2001 world as a 'clash of civilisations' Maalouf sees it as the 'exhaustion of two civilisations', a period in which humanity has reached its threshold of 'moral incompetence'.'Disordered World' is a plea by one of the major writers of our time for intelligence, tolerance and a sense of urgency in order that we develop a mature vision of our patrimony, our beliefs, our differences and the future of the planet which is our common home.
A History of Britain in Just a Minute
The story of us - without hesitation, repetition or deviation.Join national treasure and Just a Minute regular Gyles Brandreth on a hilariously addictive romp through British history. This isn't just another history book - there's a catch! From Stonehenge and Boudicca to Megxit and Brexit, each topic is written in 60-second installments, without hesitation, repetition, or deviation.A History of Britain in Just a Minute celebrates key moments, people and places from our past: kings and queens, heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters, inventions and events, battles and bonnets, art, science, literature, entertainment, sport, gossip, and more. Some entries are uninterrupted minutes, while others feature challenges for repetition and even, er...hesitation. You'll even find other Just a Minute panellists occasionally grabbing the pen to regale us with their witty takes on history.You've never heard the history of Britain told quite like this. You'll enjoy every uproarious minute of it.
Tannhäuser: (English National Opera Guide 39)
English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. What can explain Wagner's obsession with Tannhäuser,which he first conceived in 1845 and still considered unfinished at his death in 1883? Describing of the struggle of a man torn between erotic love and spiritual fulfilment,the opera contains the kernels of all his later works: man's need for love and artistic satisfaction,his desire for an existence beyond death,the operation of memory and the nature of madness. The essays in this volume examine the legends which Wagner chose to weave into his text,while Carolyn Abbate also considers the effect of his many revisions upon the score,pointing out that the initial idea already involved a contrast of musical language to focus the conflict.
Histoires de la chirurgie Jeux de mains, jeux de mots – Mustapha Maaoui
Définie comme l’œuvre de la main, la chirurgie est guidée par l’intelligence humaine et modulée par des règles éthiques qui la rattachent à l’humanité. La chirurgie a évolué en éloignant subrepticement le soignant et le soigné, passant d’un contact direct, palpable et sensuel à un rapport indirect et virtuel. Cette évolution qui s’est étalée dans le temps, de l’Antiquité à nos jours, a vu le barbier-chirurgien passer du rang de subalterne du médecin à celui de chirurgien transplanteur des temps modernes, auréolé d’une gloire devenue illusoire face à une intelligence artificielle et aux progrès technologiques soumis aux lois de la finance.
Au cours de ses études de médecine, entamées au milieu des années 1960 à l’université d’Alger, le hasard du premier choix a fait atterrir Mustapha Maaoui dans le service d’orthopédie Bichat-Nélaton à l’hôpital Mustapha, où la qualité chirurgicale des prestations et de l’enseignement ont déterminé une vocation qui n’a jamais été ébranlée. Chirurgien « nomade », pérégrinant dans des spécialités variées sous la houlette de plusieurs grands patrons, et côtoyant l’essentiel des chirurgiens algériens, il a vécu des périodes charnières majeures, qui ont vu la chirurgie passer du stade conventionnel à celui d’une réalité technologique aux bienfaits indéniables mais confrontée aux dérives financières et aux risques éthiques qu’elle induit.
Postfaces :
- Messaoud Zitouni, professeur de chirurgie, ancien ministre algérien de la santé, actuel coordonnateur du Plan Cancer
- Omar Aktouf, professeur titulaire honoraire d’économie (HEC) à Montréal (Canada).
Clap de fin Une aventure journalistique – Hachemi Souami
Clap de fin est ponctué par des événements devenus des repères dans l’Histoire du monde ; singulièrement de l’Algérie. Le journaliste en est le témoin privilégié Ici, l’auteur en cite quelques-uns qu’il a découverts et qui l’ont marqué. Ayant pratiqué le métier pendant plus de trente ans, il explique comment a pris fin une carrière qu’il a vécue avec enthousiasme. Cette profession, intellectuellement et humainement enrichissante, a aussi, comme tant d’autres, ses contraintes, parfois ses violences. La catastrophe aérienne du Viet Nam, qui a coûté la vie à quinze de ses collègues, en est un dramatique exemple.
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