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Omar Khayyam, le philosophe mystère
Poète, philosophe, mathématicien et astronome, Omar Kheyyam est un personnage phare qui a illsutré le début du XI ième siècle. Son histoire, entourée de mystères, inspire jusqu'à nos jours artistes et écrivains tandis que ses quatarins sèment, depuis toujours, controverses et admiration.
Educated: The international bestselling memoir
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected.
She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn’t believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn’t exist.
As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d travelled too far. If there was still a way home.
EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, from her singular experience Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.
She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn’t believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn’t exist.
As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d travelled too far. If there was still a way home.
EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, from her singular experience Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.
AMERICAN PASTORAL
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEPhilip Roth's masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding (and lucrative) business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope. Until the sunny day in 1968, when the Swede's bountiful American luck deserts him.The tragedy springs from devastatingly close to home. His adored daughter, Merry, has become a stranger to him, a fanatical teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism that plunges the Levov family into the political mayhem of sixties America, and drags them into the underbelly of a seemingly ascendant society. Rendered powerless by the shocking turn of events, the Swede can only watch as his pastoral idyll is methodically torn apart.Extraordinarily nuanced and poignant, American Pastoral is the first in an eloquent trilogy of post-war American novels and cemented Roth's reputation as one of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century.'Full of insight, full of sharp ironic twists, full of wisdom about American idealism, and full of terrific fun... A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years' Financial Times
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, 50th Anniversary Edition (The MIT Press)
The fiftieth anniversary edition of a landmark work in generative grammar that continues to be influential, with a new preface by the author.Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, published in 1965, was a landmark work in generative grammar that introduced certain technical innovations still drawn upon in contemporary work. The fiftieth anniversary edition of this influential book includes a new preface by the author that identifies proposals that seem to be of lasting significance, reviews changes and improvements in the formulation and implementation of basic ideas, and addresses some of the controversies that arose over the general framework.Beginning in the mid-fifties and emanating largely from MIT, linguists developed an approach to linguistic theory and to the study of the structure of particular languages that diverged in many respects from conventional modern linguistics. Although the new approach was connected to the traditional study of languages, it differed enough in its specific conclusions about the structure of language to warrant a name, “generative grammar.” Various deficiencies were discovered in the first attempts to formulate a theory of transformational generative grammar and in the descriptive analysis of particular languages that motivated these formulations. At the same time, it became apparent that these formulations can be extended and deepened. In this book, Chomsky reviews these developments and proposes a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes them into account. The emphasis in this study is syntax: semantic and phonological aspects of the language structure are discussed only insofar as they bear on syntactic theory.
Talk to Strangers: The Yes Theory Story
If you were 99 years old and on your deathbed and had a chance to come back to today, what would you do right now?
Matt Dahlia was a recent college grad with no direction in his life: his business was dead on arrival and all his friends had left town. He was broke and searching for belonging in a world that didn’t understand him. That is, until he serendipitously met Thomas, who not only felt the same way he did, but had a project in mind: Together, along with two more like-minded strangers, they were going to move into a one-bedroom apartment and film themselves doing 30 things they had never done before in 30 days.
That summer project changed their lives forever: it pushed them out of their comfort zones, bonded them for life, and allowed them to reach a wide audience online. Their journey would eventually become Yes Theory, a massive movement of millions of people living by the philosophy of seeking discomfort.
In this memoir, Matt reveals the extreme highs and lows of Yes Theory, sharing his own along the way. This is a story about the sacrifices it takes to make a dream come true, what happens when a small group of friends suddenly have the attention of millions of strangers online, and what it means to say goodbye when everything seems to be going so well.
But most of all, it’s a reminder to ask yourself that most important question: what do you want out of life?
Matt Dahlia was a recent college grad with no direction in his life: his business was dead on arrival and all his friends had left town. He was broke and searching for belonging in a world that didn’t understand him. That is, until he serendipitously met Thomas, who not only felt the same way he did, but had a project in mind: Together, along with two more like-minded strangers, they were going to move into a one-bedroom apartment and film themselves doing 30 things they had never done before in 30 days.
That summer project changed their lives forever: it pushed them out of their comfort zones, bonded them for life, and allowed them to reach a wide audience online. Their journey would eventually become Yes Theory, a massive movement of millions of people living by the philosophy of seeking discomfort.
In this memoir, Matt reveals the extreme highs and lows of Yes Theory, sharing his own along the way. This is a story about the sacrifices it takes to make a dream come true, what happens when a small group of friends suddenly have the attention of millions of strangers online, and what it means to say goodbye when everything seems to be going so well.
But most of all, it’s a reminder to ask yourself that most important question: what do you want out of life?
Hopeless
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us comes the beginning of Sky and Dean’s passionate love story – where well-kept secrets threaten to open wounds of a dark past.
Would you rather know a truth that makes you feel hopeless, or keep believing the lies?
Beloved and bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with the spellbinding story of two young people with devastating pasts who embark on a passionate, intriguing journey to discover the lessons of life, love, trust – and above all, the healing power that only truth can bring.
Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of her deeply troubled past, a time she’s tried so hard to bury. Though Sky is determined to stay far away from him, his unwavering pursuit and enigmatic smile break down her defenses and the intensity of the bond between them grows. But the mysterious Holder has been keeping secrets of his own, and once they are revealed, Sky is changed forever and her ability to trust may be a casualty of the truth.
Only by courageously facing the stark revelations can Sky and Holder hope to heal their emotional scars and find a way to live and love without boundaries. Hopeless is a novel that will leave you breathless, entranced, and remembering your own first love.
Would you rather know a truth that makes you feel hopeless, or keep believing the lies?
Beloved and bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with the spellbinding story of two young people with devastating pasts who embark on a passionate, intriguing journey to discover the lessons of life, love, trust – and above all, the healing power that only truth can bring.
Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of her deeply troubled past, a time she’s tried so hard to bury. Though Sky is determined to stay far away from him, his unwavering pursuit and enigmatic smile break down her defenses and the intensity of the bond between them grows. But the mysterious Holder has been keeping secrets of his own, and once they are revealed, Sky is changed forever and her ability to trust may be a casualty of the truth.
Only by courageously facing the stark revelations can Sky and Holder hope to heal their emotional scars and find a way to live and love without boundaries. Hopeless is a novel that will leave you breathless, entranced, and remembering your own first love.
Fables Livres I à VI (Pocket classiques)
LES GRANDS TEXTES DU XVIIe SIÈCLE À quarante-sept ans, La Fontaine n'a guère connu de grands succès avec son théâtre et ses contes grivois. Avec les premiers livres des Fables, dédiés au Grand Dauphin, fils aîné de Louis XIV, le miracle se produit. La fable, cette " chose légère ", est tour à tour récit, comédie, farce, fabliau, féerie. Le fabuliste devient enchanteur et sorcier, inventeur d'un opéra où hommes, animaux et nature sont observés par un poète incomparable de malice et de sagesse. Rien n'égale son naturel, son rythme, sa musique, sa tendresse, sa souveraine liberté. Son sourire et sa légèreté atteignent le comble de l'art et relèvent bien du miracle. @ Disponible chez 12-21 L'ÉDITEUR NUMÉRIQUE About the Author Jean de La Fontaine est né en 1621 à Château-Thierry. Après des études marquées par l'influence janséniste, il monte à Paris (1645), où il étudie le droit et fréquente les milieux littéraires. Devenu avocat au Parlement, il traverse de graves difficultés financières et succède à son père dans les Eaux et Forêts en 1652. La chute du surintendant royal Nicolas Fouquet, qui l'avait pris sous sa protection, entraîne sa disgrâce et un " exil " momentané en Limousin. De retour à Paris, il entre au service de la duchesse-douairière d'Orléans (1664), menant alors une vie mondaine et littéraire brillante (Contes, 1665, premières Fables, 1668). Auprès de Madame de la Sablière, il rencontre les grands auteurs de son temps. En 1675 ses Nouveaux Contes, jugés trop licencieux, sont interdits de publication : cependant, il est élu à l'Académie française en 1683. La suite de ses Fables paraît en 1679, les dernières en 1693. Frappé par la maladie en 1692, il se convertit et consacre la fin de sa vie à la poésie religieuse. Il s'éteint à Paris en 1695.
Paris 1961… Les Algériens, la terreur d’État et la mémoire – Jim House
Paris, 17 octobre 1961 : alors que le soir enveloppe peu à peu les badauds, des dizaines de milliers d'Algériens, marchant en rangs serrés, jaillissent de l'obscurité. Venus protester pacifiquement contre la répression policière, ils appréhendent la rencontre avec les forces antiémeutes. Ils sont loin d'imaginer l'extrême brutalité des attaques meurtrières qui vont suivre.
Le massacre du 17 octobre 1961 est l'un des événements les plus contestés de l'histoire contemporaine française. D'abord étouffée, sa mémoire fut longtemps entretenue par une minorité d'immigrés et de militants, avant de revenir au premier plan, de façon dramatique, dans les années 1980. Les historiens britanniques Jim House et Neil MacMaster se livrent à une enquête serrée, scrutant l'ensemble des éléments disponibles : archives inédites, sources orales, journaux, tracts... Ils déjouent les pièges à la fois du militantisme et de l'histoire officielle, qu'il s'agisse de l'impossible comptabilité des morts ou des accusations mutuelles de fascisme et de terrorisme échangées entre les autorités françaises et le Fln. Le 17 octobre pose d'autres questions, plus graves. Car il n'eut rien d'une explosion de violence incontrôlée ou d'une succession de « bavures ». Ce jour-là, c'est la terreur d'État, coloniale et raciste, qui surgit, nue et brutale, au cœur du pays des droits de l'homme. Les techniques de la contre-insurrection, importées d'Afrique du Nord et mises en œuvre par le préfet Papon décidé à briser le mouvement nationaliste algérien, aboutirent à une vague d'exactions, de tortures et de meurtres sans précédent, dont le 17 octobre fut le couronnement sanglant. L'histoire et la mémoire de cet épisode sont au cœur du rapport trouble qu'entretinrent – et qu'entretiennent encore – la France et ses colonies.
Jim House enseigne à l'université de Leeds, où il dirige le Centre d'études culturelles françaises et francophones.
Neil MacMaster est maître de conférences honoraire à l'École d'études politiques, sociales et internationales de l'université d'East Anglia (Norwich). Leurs recherches ont porté sur la guerre d'Algérie, l'émigration algérienne, les minorités ethniques, le colonialisme, le racisme et l'antiracisme en France et en Europe.
En couverture : Manifestation des travailleurs algériens. Paris, 17 octobre 1961. Roger-Viollet Graphisme Aurélia Lombard-Martin.
Les filles de la villa aux étoffes (2)
Augsbourg, hiver 1916. La villa aux étoffes est devenu un hôpital militaire et la Première Guerre mondiale s'apprête à bouleverser les vies de la famille Melzer...Augsbourg, hiver 1916.Trois ans se sont écoulés depuis le jour où Marie a frappé pour la première fois à la porte des Melzer. Seulement trois ans... et pourtant tout a changé. Si la jeune femme est à présent l'épouse de Paul et la maîtresse des lieux, l'heure n'est plus à la fête dans la somptueuse demeure transformée en hôpital militaire. Les hommes ont rejoint le front, femmes et domestiques oeuvrent jour et nuit aux côtés des blessés et Marie se consacre à la gestion de l'usine familiale, dont elle découvre avec stupeur la situation critique.Alors que s'éloigne un peu plus chaque jour l'espoir de voir Paul revenir rapidement de cette guerre terrible et que le destin de toute la famille repose sur ses seules épaules, Marie se sent vaciller. Qu'est-ce qui la retient alors d'accepter l'aide du séduisant Ernst von Klippstein, qui n'a jamais dissimulé l'intérêt qu'il lui porte ?Au coeur des tumultes de l'Histoire, une saga familiale au souffle romanesque puissant, digne de Downton Abbey." Un roman historique qui saisit magnifiquement l'esprit de ce début de XXe siècle. "Fränkische Nachrichten
India: Land of Celebration
Dracula and Dracula's Guest & Other Stories Edited and Introduced by David Stuart DaviesThe above is followed with a rich collection of Stoker's macabre tales including Dracula's Guest (which was omitted from the final version of Dracula): a devilishly dangerous haunted room in 'The Judge's House': a fatalistic tragedy in 'The Burial of the Rats': a terror of revenge from beyond the grave in 'The Secret of Growing Gold', and a surprising twist in the tail in 'The Gypsy's Prophecy'. Other strange and frightening episodes provide a feast of terror for those readers who like to be unnerved as well as entertained.DraculaIntroduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath: the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood: he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.' Thus Bram Stoker, one of the greatest exponents of the supernatural narrative, describes the demonic subject of his chilling masterpiece Dracula a truly iconic and unsettling tale of vampirism.