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L’oreille absolue
Agnès DesartheAgnès Desarthe situe l’intrigue de son nouveau roman dans un village normand où un sort étrange empêche les personnages de mourir. Tous jouent d’un instrument ou connaissent quelqu’un qui en joue, et la musique les réunit autour du concert de...
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The four points of the compass. The unexpected history of direction
Jerry BrottonThis book by the historian and writer Jerry Brotton is about the four cardinal directions and the significance they have beyond navigation and exploration and which vary across cultures. The knowledge they all have in common is that they provide...
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Vie de Yolande de Vianden
Ms 860Longtemps censé perdu, égaré ou volé, le manuscrit du Leben der Gräfin Yolanda von Vianden fut miraculeusement retrouvé au vieux château d’Ansembourg, près de Marienthal (d’où l’appellation alternative de Codex Mariendalensis), en novembre 1999. Probablement écrit par le dominicain Hermann...
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Künstliche Intelligenz
Chancen und Risiken auf dem Weg zur „Superintelligenz“Folgen und Möglichkeiten der künstliche Intelligenz werden seit geraumer Zeit diskutiert und erzeugen das, was technische Neuerungen zu allen Zeiten auslösten: Faszination und Ängste.
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Bildung, Wahrheit und Demokratie: eine Selbstverständlichkeit?
In vielen Ländern gewinnen autoritäre und populistische Tendenzen zunehmend an Einfluss und stellen unsere demokratischen Grundwerte in Frage. Es geht hier ganz direkt um unsere Zukunft, vor allem aber auch um die Lebensbedingungen der jungen Generation.
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Product design: designing products, designing identities
While principles of planning and design can be traced back to written sources from antiquity, product design (or industrial design) in the modern sense only developed in the middle of the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution.
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The BnL makes available online two manuscripts bearing witness to the history of Luxembourg
As part of its programme to digitise Luxembourg’s written heritage, the National Library is making available online two millennial manuscripts of exceptional historical value: the Codex Mariendalensis and the Giant Bible of Saint Maximin.
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Galerie digitised and published online by the BnL
Blending in-depth articles, literary texts, book reviews, and reflections on heritage, Galerie established itself – alongside Nos Cahiers and Cahiers luxembourgeois – as one of Luxembourg’s leading literary and cultural journals.
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Cleaning work in the Reading Room
From 18 to 28 August 2025, you may hear the sound of a vacuum cleaner and other cleaning equipment, resulting in higher-than-usual noise levels in the Reading Room.
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