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Votre temps est infini – Et si votre journée était plus longue que vous ne le pensiez ?
Fabien Olicard est un sérieux procrastinateur abstinent... C'est justement pourquoi il sait mieux que personne par où commencer pour devenir le meilleur de soi-même. Il vous raconte ici ses expériences, celles qui lui ont permis d'avancer, celles qui l'ont fait réfléchir, et bien sûr la méthode qu'il applique désormais dans son quotidien. Découvrez avec lui vos propres mantras, faites le tri dans votre vie et devenez aussi productif qu'épanoui ! Et surtout, suivez ses conseils et ses hacks pour gagner du temps à chaque instant. En appliquant cette méthode, Fabien Olicard a réussi simultanément, en trois ans, à créer plus de 700 vidéos sur sa chaîne YouTube, à écrire 3 livres et 1 nouveau spectacle qu'il a été jusqu'à autoproduire à l'Olympia, à donner plus de 500 représentations dans toute la France, tout en ayant du temps pour lui. Bref : à faire des choses extraordinaires qui le rendent heureux !C'EST À VOTRE TOUR, REJOIGNEZ LE MOUVEMENT !Fabien Olicard est suivi chaque jour par plus d'1,3 million d'abonnés sur Internet. Ses deux précédents livres parus chez First se sont vendus à plus de 140 000 exemplaires et sont traduits en plusieurs langues.
The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry
Dellaria Wells - petty con artist, occasional thief, and partly educated fire witch - is behind on her rent. To make ends meet, Delly talks her way into a guard job in the city of Leiscourt, joining a team of unconventional women to protect an aristocrat from unseen assassins.It looks like easy money and a chance to romance her confident companion Winn - but when did anything in Delly's life go to plan? With the help of a necromancer, a shapeshifting schoolgirl and a reanimated mouse named Buttons, Delly and Winn find themselves facing an adversary who wields a twisted magic and has friends in the highest of places.
Giovanni’s Room (Penguin Modern Classics)
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight.
Modern Classics Siddhartha (Penguin Modern Classics)
Hermann Hesse's moving and inspirational chronicle of spiritual evolution, Siddhartha, includes a new introduction by bestselling author Paulo Coehlo in Penguin Classics. Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity, has touched the lives of millions since its original publication in 1922. Set in India, Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's search for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, from the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) suffered from depression, endured criticism for his pacifist views, and weathered series of personal crises which led him to undergo psychoanalysis with J. B. Lang: a process which resulted in Demian (1919), a novel whose main character is torn between the orderliness of bourgeois existence and the turbulent and enticing world of sensual experience. This dichotomy is prominent in Hesse's subsequent novels, including Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) and his magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game (1943). Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil and has become one of the most widely read authors in the world. Especially renowned for The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, he has sold more than 100 million books worldwide and has been translated into 66 languages. If you enjoyed Siddhartha, you might like Hesse's Steppenwolf, also available in Penguin Classics.
Animal Farm
All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others' When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. 'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished: its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic. This Penguin Modern classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury.
Modern Classics Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Penguin Modern Classics)
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Simone de Beavoir describes her early life, from her birth in Paris in 1908 to her student days at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul sartre - 'the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen'.
Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Books Ltd)
A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopherDespite being born into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus became one of the most influential thinkers of his time. Discourses and Selected Writings is a transcribed collection of informal lectures given by the philosopher around AD 108. A gateway into the life and mind of a great intellectual, it is also an important example of the usage of Koine or “common” Greek, an ancestor to Standard Modern Greek.
Existentialism and Humanism
Over the past sixty years the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre have probably been more influential in the West than those of any other philosopher and literary figure. In his theoretical writings, Sartre laid the foundation for an original doctrine of Existentialism. His concern, however, was to relate his theory to human response and the practical demands of living. To achieve this, he carried his philosophical concepts into his novels and plays, and there subjected them to the test of imagined experience. His uniqueness lies in the success with which he demonstrated the utility of Existentialist doctrine while creating, at the same time, works of the highest literary merit. Thus Sartre became the populariser of his own literary thought. Originally delivered as a lecture in Paris in 1945, "Existentialism and Humanism" is Jean-Paul Sartre's seminal defence of Existentialism as a doctrine true to Humanism, as opposed to a purely nihilistic creed, and a plan for its practical application to everyday human life. This exploration of one of the central tenets of his philosophical thought has become the essential introduction to his work, and a fundamental text for all students of philosophy.
Leading from Purpose: Clarity and the Confidence to Act When It Matters Most
Cheese is a metaphor for what you want in life - be it a good job, a loving relationship, money or possessions, health or spiritual peace of mind. And the maze is where you look for what you want - the organization you work in, or the family or community where you live. This book shows how to anticipate change, adapt quickly, enjoy the change and be ready for more, so that you suffer from less stress and enjoy more success in life.
Culture et impérialisme – Edward Saïd
Dans Culture et impérialisme, Edward Said sonde des chefs-d’œuvre de la tradition occidentale et montre comment quelques-unes des productions culturelles les plus vénérées - y compris Mansfield Park de Jane Austen, Heart of Darkness de Joseph Conrad, Aida de Giuseppe Verdi, et L’Etranger d’Albert Camus - font appel aux mêmes énergies qui entrent dans la construction des empires. Il éclaire brillamment la manière dont la culture et la politique ont coopéré, sciemment et incons-ciemment, pour produire un système de domination qui a contribué, plus que les canons et les sol-dats, à construire une souveraineté qui s’étendait sur les formes, les images et l’imaginaire aussi bien des dominants que des dominés. Cet essai retrace également le développement d’une « souche oppo-sitionnel » qui a identifié et exposé les mécanismes de contrôle et de répression. Travaillant essen-tiellement dans les langues de leurs maîtres coloniaux, des écrivains autochtones comme William Butler Yeats, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Kateb Yacine, et Chinua Achebe ont participé au pro-cessus de décolonisation en réclamant le droit pour leurs peuples à l’autodétermination de l’histoire et de la culture.
Enfin ce livre passionné et immensément documenté montre comment, aujourd’hui encore, l’héritage impérial imprègne les relations entre l’Occident et le monde anciennement colonisé à chaque niveau de la pratique politique, idéologique et sociale. Sa vision révèle néanmoins un vrai espoir : l’Occident et les peuples anciennement « assujettis » peuvent atteindre une cohabitation harmonieuse. Au-delà des nationalismes de division, Edward Said montre le chemin vers une prise de conscience que la véritable communauté humaine est mondiale.
« De nos jours, pour l’essentiel, le colonialisme direct a pris fin. L’impérialisme, nous le verrons, perdure là où il a toujours existé, dans une sorte de sphère culturelle générale et dans des pratiques politiques, idéologiques, économiques et sociales spécifiques. »
Edward W. Said.
Ennemis Mortels, représentations de l’islam et politiques musulmanes en France à l’époque coloniale – Olivier Lecour Granmaison
Pour mieux comprendre la place singulière de l’islam aujourd’hui en France, cet ouvrage étudie les représentations de cette religion et des musulmans élaborées de la fin du XIXe siècle jusqu’à la guerre d’Algérie par les élites académiques, scientifiques, littéraires et politiques.
S’appuyant sur des sources diverses, parfois ignorées ou négligées, Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison analyse la façon dont ces élites ont, pendant des décennies, conçu et diffusé un portrait pour le moins sombre des colonisés musulmans. Pendant qu’Ernest Renan, par exemple, soutient que l’islam « n’a été que nuisible », Guy de Maupassant se passionne pour la sexualité prétendument débridée et « contre nature » de ses adeptes.
Conçues par des personnalités souvent célèbres, diffusées par des institutions prestigieuses, ces représentations sont rapidement incluses dans de multiples ouvrages de vulgarisation. Jugé rétif au progrès, le « musulman » est décrit comme un danger protéiforme et existentiel qui menace les bonnes mœurs, la sécurité sanitaire, celle des biens et des personnes, l’avenir de la nation et de la civilisation occidentale.
Ces représentations éclairent également les « politiques musulmanes » mises en œuvre par la France. Enfin, comme le montre l’auteur, ce passé affecte toujours notre présent et alimente les obsessions islamophobes de beaucoup de nos contemporains.