12 Déc

Algerian Sketches

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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.
09 Jan

Dust Child

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From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga about family secrets, hidden trauma, and the overriding power of forgiveness, set during the war and in present-day Việt Nam. In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village and become “bar girls” in Sài Gòn, drinking, flirting (and more) with American GIs in return for money. As the war moves closer to the city, the once-innocent Trang gets swept up in an irresistible romance with a young and charming American helicopter pilot, Dan. Decades later, Dan returns to Việt Nam with his wife, Linda, hoping to find a way to heal from his PTSD and, unbeknownst to her, reckon with secrets from his past. At the same time, Phong—the son of a Black American soldier and a Vietnamese woman—embarks on a search to find both his parents and a way out of Việt Nam. Abandoned in front of an orphanage, Phong grew up being called “the dust of life,” “Black American imperialist,” and “child of the enemy,” and he dreams of a better life for himself and his family in the U.S. Past and present converge as these characters come together to confront decisions made during a time of war—decisions that force them to look deep within and find common ground across race, generation, culture, and language. Suspenseful, poetic, and perfect for readers of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, Dust Child tells an unforgettable and immersive story of how those who inherited tragedy can redefine their destinies through love, hard-earned wisdom, compassion, courage, and joy. Read less
09 Jan

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology

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***Winner of the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award***'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible ' New York Times An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource—microchip technologyPower in the modern world - military, economic, geopolitical - is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. (Virtually everything runs on cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now that edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by the naïve assumption that globalising the chip industry and letting players in Taiwan, Korea and Europe take over manufacturing serves America's interests. Currently, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more on chips than any other product, is pouring billions into a chip-building Manhattan Project to catch up to the US. In Chip War economic historian Chris Miller recounts the fascinating sequence of events that led to the United States perfecting chip design, and how faster chips helped defeat the Soviet Union (by rendering the Russians’ arsenal of precision-guided weapons obsolete). The battle to control this industry will shape our future. China spends more money importing chips than buying oil, and they are China's greatest external vulnerability as they are fundamentally reliant on foreign chips. But with 37 per cent of the global supply of chips being made in Taiwan, within easy range of Chinese missiles, the West's fear is that a solution may be close at hand. 'A riveting history. Features vivid accounts and colourful characters' Financial Times'Fascinating…A historian by training, Miller walks the reader through decades of semiconductor history – a subject that comes to life thanks to [his] use of colorful anecdotes' Forbes 'Indispensable' Niall Ferguson
10 Nov

Berbères LES TAVERNES DE GADÈS – Mourad Chetti

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Après avoir fait ses adieux à Safanis Baal, Massinissa, accompagné de sa mère Titrit, quitte Karthage et se rend en Espagne à la tête d’un régiment de cavalerie numide. Aussitôt arrivé, il se fait connaitre sur les champs de bataille par sa tactique de guerre particulière et sa témérité, contribuant à la mort des généraux romains, les frères Scipion. Sur le front italique, Hanni Baal marche sur Rome pour soulager le siège de Capoue et tente de recruter le savant Archimède, mais celui-ci meurt à la chute de Syracuse, soldée par une victoire romaine. Le jeune Scipion, que l’on surnommera l’Africain, débarque avec ses légions en Espagne et assiège Karthagena alors qu’à la bataille de Bascula, Massiwa le neveu de Massinissa est capturé puis libéré par Scipion à qui il transmet un message implicite pour son oncle. Hanni Baal subit une première défaite en Italie, attristé par la mort de son frère Sadar Baal, tandis qu’à Kirthan, au pays des Massyles, l’aguellid Gaïa se meurt, seul, après le départ vers l’Espagne de son épouse et de son fils, avec des renforts. Le vieil Oulzasen, successeur de Gaïa,  ne résiste pas aux ambitions du prince Maztoul qui utilise l’épouse de ce dernier pour arriver à ses fins et faire empoisonner l’Aguellid, puis écarter son fils légitime Kabassen avant de le provoquer et le faire assassiner sur le champ de bataille et de mettre son jeune frère Lukmasès sur le trône. Scipion cherche à porter la guerre en Afrique et s’approche de Syphax chez qui il se rend pour demander son appui et rencontre son ennemi le général Azrou Baal Giscon, de retour à Karthage, de retour du front ibérique. Une alliance secrète se trame entre Syphax et le Karthaginois avec, pour enjeu, la vie de Massinissa et la main de sa promise Safanis Baal offerte, en définitive, au vieux roi sexagénaire.
12 Déc

An Immense World

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Wonderful, mind-broadening... a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any you'll find in science fiction' The Times, Book of the Week'Magnificent' GuardianEnter a new dimension - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into previously unfathomable dimensions - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth's magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and humans that wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile's scaly face is as sensitive as a lover's fingertips, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision.We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved.Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the threads of scent, waves of electromagnetism and pulses of pressure that surround us. Because in order to understand our world we don't need to travel to other places: we need to see through other eyes.'A stunning achievement - steeped in science but suffused with magic'Siddhartha Mukherjee, author The Emperor of All Maladies'Magnificent - an unbelievably immersive and mind-blowing account of how other animals experience our world'Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees and The Inner Life of Animals'A delightful sensory experience: to see the world through the touch-vision of a scallop, to taste through the feet of a mosquito and hear through the feet of an elephant'Gaia Vince, author of Transcendence
09 Jan

King Leopold’s Ghost

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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million—all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust.

Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo—too long forgotten—onto the conscience of the West.
12 Déc

A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories)

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For readers of E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World, an equally irresistible volume that brings history’s greatest philosophers to life“A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so easy to enter into. . . . A wonderful introduction for anyone who’s ever felt curious about almost anything.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How To Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an AnswerPhilosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy and explores their most compelling ideas about the world and how best to live in it.In forty brief chapters, Nigel Warburton guides us on a chronological tour of the major ideas in the history of philosophy. He provides interesting and often quirky stories of the lives and deaths of thought-provoking philosophers from Socrates, who chose to die by hemlock poisoning rather than live on without the freedom to think for himself, to Peter Singer, who asks the disquieting philosophical and ethical questions that haunt our own times.Warburton not only makes philosophy accessible, he offers inspiration to think, argue, reason, and ask in the tradition of Socrates. A Little History of Philosophy presents the grand sweep of humanity’s search for philosophical understanding and invites all to join in the discussion.
09 Jan

Mes grands classiques de la pâtisserie : 50 recettes à faire à la maison

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Les grands classiques de la pâtisserie proposent 50 recettes organisées en 4 grands chapitres : les gâteaux, les tartes, les petits gâteaux, les crèmes et les mousses. Chaque recette est présentée en double page : d'une part le texte - temps de réalisation, niveau de difficulté, ingrédients, ustensiles, corps de la recette -, de l'autre l'illustration de la réalisation. À la fin de l'ouvrage, un index permet de choisir selon ses envies, le temps de réalisation ou le niveau de difficulté. Un glossaire explique les termes techniques utilisés dans les recettes pour parler comme un vrai pâtissier !
About the Author
Pierre-Olivier Lenormand est le chef cuisinier du restaurant "Le Casse-Noix", dans le 15e arrondissement de Paris. Tombé tout petit dans la cuisine grâce à son père, meilleur ouvrier de France charcutier dans le Loiret, Pierre-Olivier Lenormand est vainqueur du championnat de France des desserts à 17 ans. Il se forme auprès des grands : Christian Constant au Crillon, Alain Solivérès aux Élysées du Vernet, Benoît Guichard au Jamin, Didier Varnier... jusqu'à voler de ses propres ailes au Casse-Noix. Il a déjà publié chez Milan, dans la collection "Les Recettes du casse-noisette" : "Mes petits gâteaux du mercredi", "Desserts et gâteaux de fête", et les cahiers thématiques : "Les Biscuits", "Le Chocolat", "La Fraise", "La Vanille", "Les Gâteaux", "Les Petits Gâteaux", "Les Pâtes", "La Pomme de terre", "Le Fromage", "La Tomate".

Née en 1985, Amélie Falière grandit dans la campagne bourguignonne. Elle intègre l'école Estienne à Paris en 2004. Armée d'un BTS de communication visuelle, elle se lance dans l'illustration et publie son premier album en 2012. Dans son travail, elle s'amuse à chercher des graphismes simples et efficaces, un brin rétro. Elle accorde une grande importance à la composition de ses images et au choix de ses couleurs, qu'elle veut éclatantes. Elle collabore régulièrement avec la presse jeunesse Bayard et Milan. Elle a publié une dizaine d'albums chez Hatier, Bayard, Le Seuil, Frimousse. Aux éditions Milan, elle a illustré aussi bien des fictions que des documentaires : "Le Petit Poucet" dans la collection "Contes et comptines à écouter", "Le Vilain Petit Canard" dans "Mes p'tits contes" et "Pipi, Caca et Crottes de nez" dans la collection "Mes p'tites questions".