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La littérature Algérienne
Quand on évoque la littérature algérienne, des noms comme Mouloud Feraoun, Mohamed Dib et d’autres encore surgissent tout de suite,
La littérature Algérienne
Quand on évoque la littérature algérienne, des noms comme Mouloud Feraoun, Mohamed Dib et d’autres encore surgissent tout de suite,
Ways of Seeing
Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.' 'But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.' John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the Sunday Times critic commented: 'This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures.' By now he has. John Berger (b. 1926) is an art critic, painter and novelist.born in Hackney, London. His novel G. (1972) won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize. If you enjoyed Ways of Seeing, you might like Susan Sontag's On Photography, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of professional art critics ... he is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation' Peter Fuller, Arts Review 'The influence of the series and the book ... was enormous ... It opened up for general attention areas of cultural study that are now commonplace' Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling 'One of the most influential intellectuals of our time' Observer
Animal Farm (Wordsworth Classics)
In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Germany, and criticism of Stalin’s brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still celebrated the Soviet Union, claiming that the terrors of its show trials, summary executions and secret police were either exaggerated or necessary. But, to Orwell, Stalin was always a “disgusting murderer” and he wanted to remind people of this fact in a powerful and memorable way. But how to do it? A political essay would never reach a wide enough audience: a traditional novel would take too long to write. Orwell hit on the inspired idea of combining the moralism of the traditional ‘beast fable’ with the satire of Gulliver’s Travels. A group of farmyard animals, led by the pigs, overthrow their human masters. Their revolution is inspired by high ideals: the farm will be run in the interests of its animals with no more slaughtering, plenty of food for all and comfort in retirement. But when Napoleon the pig takes command, he quickly corrupts their principles, creating a new tyranny worse than the old. Orwell wrote Animal Farm in the middle of the Second World War, but at first no publishers wanted to touch it. It was finally published in August 1945, once the war was over. This little book quickly became a seminal text in the emerging ‘cold war’ (a phrase that Orwell himself coined). It also became a site of that conflict itself, suffering various attempts to subvert or change its meaning. Today, Animal Farm remains a powerful fable about the nature of tyranny and corruption which applies for all ages. Our edition also includes the following essays: Shooting an Elephant: Charles Dickens: Inside the Whale: The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda: Literature and Totalitarianism: Fascism and Democracy: Patriots and Revolutionaries: Catastrophic Gradualism: Some Thoughts on the Common Toad: Why I Write: Writers and Leviathan
Origin: (Robert Langdon Book 5)
Sunday Times #1 Bestseller
New York Times #1 Bestseller
The spellbinding new Robert Langdon novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code.
'Fans will not be disappointed' The Times
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever”. The evening’s host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he will reveal an astonishing scientific breakthrough to challenge the fundamentals of human existence.
But Langdon and several hundred other guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrated evening is blown apart before Kirsch’s precious discovery can be revealed. With his life under threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape, along with the museum’s director, Ambra Vidal. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret.
In order to evade a tormented enemy who is one step ahead of them at every turn, Langdon and Vidal must navigate labyrinthine passageways of hidden history and ancient religion. On a trail marked only by enigmatic symbols and elusive modern art, Langdon and Vidal uncover the clues that will bring them face-to-face with a world-shaking truth that has remained buried – until now.
‘Dan Brown is the master of the intellectual cliffhanger’ Wall Street Journal
‘As engaging a hero as you could wish for’ Mail on Sunday
‘For anyone who wants more brain-food than thrillers normally provide’ Sunday Times
New York Times #1 Bestseller
The spellbinding new Robert Langdon novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code.
'Fans will not be disappointed' The Times
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever”. The evening’s host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he will reveal an astonishing scientific breakthrough to challenge the fundamentals of human existence.
But Langdon and several hundred other guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrated evening is blown apart before Kirsch’s precious discovery can be revealed. With his life under threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape, along with the museum’s director, Ambra Vidal. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret.
In order to evade a tormented enemy who is one step ahead of them at every turn, Langdon and Vidal must navigate labyrinthine passageways of hidden history and ancient religion. On a trail marked only by enigmatic symbols and elusive modern art, Langdon and Vidal uncover the clues that will bring them face-to-face with a world-shaking truth that has remained buried – until now.
‘Dan Brown is the master of the intellectual cliffhanger’ Wall Street Journal
‘As engaging a hero as you could wish for’ Mail on Sunday
‘For anyone who wants more brain-food than thrillers normally provide’ Sunday Times
La Plus belle histoire de l’intelligence
" Une plongée passionnante et toujours accessible dans l'évolution de l'intelligence. "Les ÉchosL'intelligence a émergé avec la vie, elle s'est magnifiée avec l'espèce humaine... Grâce à elle, nous avons tout inventé. Au fil d'un dialogue fascinant, le grand spécialiste du cerveau Stanislas Dehaene et celui des neurones artificiels Yann Le Cun racontent, avec Jacques Girardon, cette longue aventure, des origines animales à nos jours, et s'interrogent sur notre futur. Les machines peuvent-elles nous dépasser ? Un livre qui change radicalement le regard que nous portons sur nous-mêmes.Stanislas Dehaene est chercheur en psychologie et en neurosciences cognitives, professeur au Collège de France.Yann Le Cun, professeur à l'université de New York et ancien chercheur aux Bell Laboratories, est le fondateur et le directeur du Centre de recherche en intelligence artificielle de Facebook.Jacques Girardon est journaliste et écrivain.About the AuthorStanislas Dehaene est chercheur en psychologie et en neurosciences cognitives, professeur au Collège de France, président du conseil scientifique de l'Éducation nationale et membre de l'Académie des sciences. Il dirige le centre NeuroSpin, l'un des plus grands centres internationaux d'imagerie cérébrale.Yann Le Cun, professeur à l'université de New York et ancien chercheur aux Bell Laboratories, est le fondateur et le directeur du Centre de recherche en intelligence artificielle de Facebook. Pionnier des réseaux de neurones, qui dotent les ordinateurs de la capacité d'apprendre, il est le chef de file du deep learning (" apprentissage profond "), sujet qu'il a enseigné en 2016 au Collège de France.Jacques Girardon est journaliste et écrivain. Il a notamment été grand reporter à L'Express et rédacteur en chef de Sciences et Avenir.
Shams de Tabriz, un soleil se levant de l’orient
Poète, philosophe, humaniste et grand spirituel soufi. Shams de Tabriz figure parmi les personnages qui ont su transcrire en or,
You’d Be Home Now: From the bestselling author of TikTok sensation Girl in Pieces
From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a stunning novel that Vanity Fair calls “impossibly moving” and “suffused with light”. In this raw, deeply personal story, a teenaged girl struggles to find herself amidst the fallout of her brother's addiction in a town ravaged by the opioid crisis.
For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. Everything was turned on its head, though, when she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire. The car accident that revealed just how bad Joey's drug habit was.
Four months later, Emmy's junior year is starting, Joey is home from rehab, and the entire town of Mill Haven is still reeling from the accident. Everyone's telling Emmy who she is, but so much has changed, how can she be the same person? Or was she ever that person at all?
Mill Haven wants everyone to live one story, but Emmy's beginning to see that people are more than they appear. Her brother, who might not be "cured," the popular guy who lives next door, and most of all, many "ghostie" addicts who haunt the edges of the town. People spend so much time telling her who she is--it might be time to decide for herself.
A journey of one sister, one brother, one family, to finally recognize and love each other for who they are, not who they are supposed to be, You'd Be Home Now is Kathleen Glasgow's glorious and heartbreaking story about the opioid crisis, and how it touches all of us.
For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. Everything was turned on its head, though, when she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire. The car accident that revealed just how bad Joey's drug habit was.
Four months later, Emmy's junior year is starting, Joey is home from rehab, and the entire town of Mill Haven is still reeling from the accident. Everyone's telling Emmy who she is, but so much has changed, how can she be the same person? Or was she ever that person at all?
Mill Haven wants everyone to live one story, but Emmy's beginning to see that people are more than they appear. Her brother, who might not be "cured," the popular guy who lives next door, and most of all, many "ghostie" addicts who haunt the edges of the town. People spend so much time telling her who she is--it might be time to decide for herself.
A journey of one sister, one brother, one family, to finally recognize and love each other for who they are, not who they are supposed to be, You'd Be Home Now is Kathleen Glasgow's glorious and heartbreaking story about the opioid crisis, and how it touches all of us.
Factfulness
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty: why the world’s population is increasing: how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future.
Les douze lois du bonheur amoureux & sexuel
Vous connaissez sans doute la loi de la gravitation ou la loi d'Archimède, mais saviez-vous que notre vie amoureuse et sexuelle est régie, elle aussi, par des lois universelles ? La plupart des femmes et des hommes se disent insatisfaits de leur vie amoureuse et sexuelle : la routine a pris le dessus. Julie du Chemin et Pascal de Sutter vous proposent de découvrir les douze lois qui vont changer votre vie, de mieux comprendre les mystères de l'amour, de réinvestir votre vie amoureuse sur le long terme et de cheminer, en pleine confiance, vers le bonheur sexuel, une ambition accessible à tous ceux qui souhaitent sincèrement l'atteindre. Pascal de SUTTER est docteur en psychologie et sexologue. Julie du CHEMIN est sexologue. About the Author Pascal De Sutter est docteur en psychologie et sexologue. Il enseigne à la faculté de psychologie de l'université de Louvain, en Belgique. Ses travaux de recherche portent sur la sexologie clinique et la psychologie politique. Il est aussi auteur de nombreux ouvrages à succès tels que La Sexualité des gens heureux, Les Nouveaux Psys, Ces fous qui nous gouvernent, La Mécanique sexuelle des hommes (2 tomes). Il anime également des émissions de sexologie sur M6 et RTL TVI. Julie Du Chemin est sexologue. Elle a fondé en 2014 l'Académie des arts de l'amour et, dans ce cadre, elle propose des conférences et des formations pour accompagner le développement personnel du couple et de la sexualité. Elle a également écrit Le Manuel d'une parfaite petite jouisseuse.