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Que justice soit rendue : roman
Giorgio Fontana«A la veille de la retraite, le procureur de Milan Roberto Doni est chargé de poursuivre en justice un jeune Maghrébin accusé d'un crime. Une journaliste apporte au magistrat les preuves de l'innocence du suspect. Grand bourgeois pétri de certitudes, Doni va découvrir l'envers de la société milanaise.»
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Une renaissance sartrienne
Annie Cohen-Solal«La biographe de Sartre porte un regard nouveau, nourri de ses voyages, sur la fortune de son oeuvre dans le monde après sa mort. Les hommages en provenance des cinq continents s'accordent sur un point : le message de Sartre reste, aux yeux des intellectuels, un outil de référence pour déchiffrer leur époque, au point de devenir, par la contribution de ses nombreux disciples, un véritable modèle.»
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Blown covers : New Yorker covers you were never meant to see
Françoise Mouly«In an era of amped-up political speech and proliferating news outlets magazine covers still have the power to influence public opinion and even change minds. New Yorker covers under the art direction of Francois Mouly since 1993 have broken through the clutter of journalistic cliches using traditional means; hand-drawn illustrations, satire and caricature. In Blown Covers M ouly takes us behind the scenes at The New Yorker and reveals how the magazine creates its signature visual commentary. She describes how the artists, who conceptualise and realise their images on tight deadlines, end up capturing accurately all the benchmark moments of the past two decades. Mouly explains why she encourages artists to send outrageous images never censuring the ideas as too crude, savage, obvious or partisan and shows how these are essential stages in the evolution of a cover that stands the test of time by retaining its edge. Moulys book captures contemporary history, from the farce of Monica Lewinsky, to the adventures of Michelle and Barak, to nuclear meltdown in Japan, in images that are as accurate as they are outrageous. More than that, it shows how the magazine that exem plifies journalistic excellence also dares to cultivate a sense of humour when grappling with complex moral and political issues.»
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A hologram for the king : a novel
Dave Eggers«In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving story of how we got here.»
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My lunches with Orson / conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles
ed. and with an introd. by Peter Biskind«When his first film, Citizen Kane, was released, Welles had already achieved fame in theater and radio. He followed Kane with several masterpieces, including The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and Touch of Evil (1958) and was famous as Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949). By the 1980s, his films already classics, he hadn’t made a new film in nearly a decade, making it impossible to get funding for future projects, which led to lending his voice to wine commercials. Dining frequently with filmmaker Henry Jaglom, Welles allowed him to record their conversations. These recordings reveal Welles, the raconteur, as he recalls lovers (Rita Hayworth, Lena Horne); disses actors and directors (John Houseman, Joan Fontaine, Chaplin); tells outlandish stories (Carole Lombard’s plane was shot down by Nazi agents in America); and bemoans lack of respect from his peers. He is unguarded in his comments, revealing a vain, prickly personality, uncompromising and brilliant. Film buffs will find Welles’ commentary endlessly fascinating, though the director’s fans might be saddened to see him as a washed-up has-been. A worthy addition to the Bogdanovich, Leaming, and Callow accounts of Welles.»
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Anywhere out of the world : the work of Bruce Chatwin
Jonathan Chatwin«By the time of his death in 1989 at the age of 48, Bruce Chatwin had become one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. Though his career spanned merely twelve years, his impact and influence was profoundly felt; Chatwin's first book In Patagonia 'redefined travel writing', whilst his later work The Songlines became one of the literary sensations of the 1980s. Incorporating original and extensive archival research, as well as new interviews with his family and friends, this book provides the definitive critical perspective upon the literary life and work of this enigmatic and influential author. In subjecting his work to such analysis, the study uncovers a striking thematic commonality in Chatwin's oeuvre: his work is fundamentally preoccupied with the subject of human restlessness. This volume provides detailed insight into Chatwin's treatment of the subject in his work, identifying and discussing the biographical and philosophical sources of this defining preoccupation.»
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Tai pei : a novel
Tao Lin«“At some point, maybe twenty minutes after he'd begun refreshing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Gmail in a continuous cycle - with an ongoing, affectless, humorless realisation that his day 'was over' - he noticed with confusion, having thought it was early morning, that it was 4:46PM” Lin's writing here is intricate – even beautiful, and as a portrait of an internet-shaped psyche, it's unmatched. When Paul first meets his wife, he reads "all four years of her Facebook wall… one night looking at probably 1,500 of her friends' photos to find any she might've untagged." Taipei is an ode - or lament - to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas. From one of this generation's most talked-about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal and uncompromising novel about memory, love, and what it means to be alive.»
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The supplicant : Mexico 1971-2007
photogr.] Paolo Gasparini ; [texts] Juan Villoro«Italian-Venezuelan Paolo Gasparini is a key figure in contemporary documentary photography. Known for his emblematic images of conflict zones--the border between the United States and Mexico, the Zapatista territory (from Morelos to Chiapas), the Sierra Tarahumara and Mexico City--Gasparini weaves an ambiguous narrative by fusing contemporary and traditional themes, with the aim of demonstrating that photography can be an act of political conscience. With an uncompromising gaze, Gasparini celebrates the vitality of these regions while denouncing the tragedies that besiege them. Superbly designed by Yvette Garcia, "Paolo Gasparini: The Supplicant" presents a wholly unique vision with a decade's worth of images taken throughout Latin America. Poetic and unflinching, Gasparini's images confront the stark reality, which is equal parts beauty and brutality.»
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Leaving the Atocha station : a novel
Ben Lerner«The narrator of Ben Lerner’s subtle, sinuous, and very funny first novel, is a young American poet who, in 2004, is spending a fellowship year in Madrid, where he spends his time reading Tolstoy, Ashbery, and Cervantes, going to parties, downing tranquillizers, smoking spliffs, trying and largely failing to love and be loved by two Spanish women. Ben Lerner, a poet in his early thirties who has written three books of verse, is interested in whether words truly belong to us. This can make the novel sound more heavy-going than it is; in fact, like his verse, it has a beguiling mixture of lightness and weight. There are wonderful sentences and jokes on almost every page. Lerner is attempting to capture something that most conventional novels, with their cumbersome caravans of plot and scene and “conflict,” fail to do: the drift of thought, the unmomentous passage of undramatic life.»
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Z : a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Therese Anne Fowler«When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen and he is a young army lieutenant. Before long, Zelda has fallen for him, even though Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. When he sells his first novel, she optimistically boards a train to New York, to marry him and take the rest as it comes. What comes, here at the dawn of the Jazz Age, is unimagined success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. Each place they go becomes a playground: New York City, Long Island, Hollywood, Paris, and the French riviera - where they join the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed Lost Generation that includes Ernest Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy, and Gertrude Stein. Everything seems new and possible, but not even Jay Gatsby's parties go on forever. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous - sometimes infamous - husband? With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler brings us Zelda's irresistible story as she herself might have told it.»
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Boccace : conteur et passeur de la Renaissance
Marina Marietti«Biographie de l'écrivain italien, précurseur de la prose italienne et du genre de la nouvelle. Ses écrits s'inspirent de la littérature chevaleresque ou d'auteurs latins comme Tacite ou Homère. Citoyen engagé et républicain, il fut le témoin de son temps.»
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Resistere non serve a niente : [romanzo]
Walter Siti« Premio Strega 2013. Par son roman Walter Siti nous emmène dans un monde où l’argent commande et déforme, où la possession est le seul critère de la valeur individuelle, où le corps est monnaie et où la violence représente un avantage commercial. »
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Game changer : animal rights and the fate of Africa’s wildlife
Glen Martin« Are conservation and protecting animals the same thing? In "Game Changer", award-winning environmental reporter Glen Martin takes a fresh look at this question as it applies to Africa's megafauna. Martin assesses the rising influence of the animal rights movement and finds that the policies championed by animal welfare groups could lead paradoxically to the elimination of the very species - including elephants and lions - that are the most cherished. In his anecdotal and highly engaging style, Martin takes readers to the heart of the conflict. He revisits the debate between conservationists, who believe that people whose lives are directly impacted by the creation of national parks and preserves should be compensated, versus those who believe that restrictive protection that forbids hunting is the most effective way to conserve wildlife and habitats. Focusing on the different approaches taken by Kenya, Tanzania, and Namibia, Martin vividly shows how the world's last great populations of wildlife have become the hostages in a fight between those who love animals and those who would save them. »
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Practicing geography
« Whether you are just beginning as a major, taking classes toward a GIS certificate, working on an advanced degree, or considering a career change at a different point in your life, geography can lead to exceptional career opportunities. Practicing Geography: Careers for Enhancing Society and the Environment is a comprehensive new resource from the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and Pearson, designed to prepare students for careers in business, government, and non-profit organizations. Funded by the National Science Foundation, this project brings together members of the geography community to author different chapters that discuss workforce needs, expectations, and core competencies in professional geography, profiling the professional applications of and opportunities in geography today. »
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Hollywood costume
ed. by Deborah Nadoolman Landis« This landmark book celebrates, for the very first time, the costume designer's contribution to the telling of the cinematic story in 100 years of Hollywood. Rocking the conventions of what is considered 'costume', Hollywood Costume reveals what is hidden in plain sight: that films are about people and it is the art of the costume designer who helps create those characters. This book looks at this process of transformation by analyzing some of the finest and most eclectic costumes from the most beloved films of the last 100 years. As well as essays by a wide variety of leading scholars, archivists and private collectors, the book incorporates contributions by key costume designers, actors and directors working in Hollywood today. Fabulous golden age of Hollywood costumes are juxtaposed beside all the contemporary classics including The Tramp, Ben Hur, Cleopatra, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ocean's Eleven, Sherlock Holmes and Avatar. »
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Wooden churches : travelling in the Russian North = Derevi︠a︡nnye t︠s︡erkvi : puteshestvie po russkomu severu
photogr.] Richard Davies"80% of Russian wooden architecture that existed pre-1917, no longer exists. But luckily, there is still something left to fight for." Professor Vyacheslav Petrovich Orfinsky, Architecture Department, Petrozavodsk State University, August 2008 « The photographs in this book have been taken over a period of nine years. These churches are the remnants of thousands that were built all over Russia from the time of Prince Vladimir, who, on his conversion to Christianity in 988, 'ordained that wooden churches should be built and established where pagan idols had previously stood. Most of those that survive are to be found in the sparsely populated north-western corner of Russia - specifically, in the Leningrad, Vologda, Murmansk, and Archangel Regions and the Republic of Karelia. The area is vast and many thousands of miles have been travelled by car, jeep, aeroplane, boat, train, snowmobile, sledge and foot to track them down. These fragile, desecrated structures retain a spiritual presence that commands respect even in the absence of their gilded icons. They are nearing the end of their days. It is extraordinary that a country as rich and powerful as Russia, with a cultural legacy beyond compare, should let these wonderful, life-enhancing treasures slip through its fingers. Along with the photographs of Richard Davies, there are first-hand accounts by Matilda Moreton of their journeys, and the insights and interpretations of writers and artists, travellers and historians, propagandists and politicians. »
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An introduction to scientific research methods in geography and environmental studies
Daniel R. Montello, Paul C. Sutton« This revised, updated, and extended second edition of An Introduction to Scientific Research Methods in Geography and Environmental Studies provides a broad and integrative introduction to the conduct and interpretation of scientific research, now covering both Geography and Environmental Studies. It explains both the conceptual and the technical aspects of research, as well as all phases of the research process. »
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No joke : making Jewish humor
Ruth R. Wisse« Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience. Wisse broadly traces modern Jewish humor around the world, teasing out its implications as she explores memorable and telling examples from German, Yiddish, English, Russian, and Hebrew. Among other topics, the book looks at how Jewish humor channeled Jewish learning and wordsmanship into new avenues of creativity, brought relief to liberal non-Jews in repressive societies, and enriched popular culture in the United States. Even as it invites readers to consider the pleasures and profits of Jewish humor, the book asks difficult but fascinating questions: Can the excess and extreme self-ridicule of Jewish humor go too far and backfire in the process? And is "leave 'em laughing" the wisest motto for a people that others have intended to sweep off the stage of history? »
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Here and now : letters (2008-2011)
Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee« Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, "God willing, strike sparks off each other". "Here and Now" is the result of that proposal: an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, family, marriage, friendship, and love. Their correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection of two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other's friendship is apparent on every page. »
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Un homme trop facile
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt« Alex s'apprête à entrer en scène pour la première du Misanthrope lorsque le véritable Alceste lui apparaît dans son miroir. Ce dernier est furieux d'être interprété par un homme léger et doué pour le bonheur. »
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