Download or read book La mythologie pour les Nuls Vite et Bien written by Christopher W. Blackwell and published by Pour les nuls. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Découvrir et s'initier à la mythologie en 200 notions illustrées ! Médée, Œdipe, Hercules... la collection "pour les Nuls' propose un tour d'horizon de la mythologie à travers 200 notions clés illustrées, pour découvrir ou redécouvrir tous les personnages et les histoires de la mythologie grecque, de la cosmogonie aux disputes entre dieux et à la saga des Atrides, le tout en un seul livre !
Download or read book La Mythologie Pour les Nuls written by Amy Hackney Blackwell and published by Pour les nuls. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plus de 100 pages supplémentaires, pour cette nouvelle Mythologie déjà vendue à 25 000 exemplaires Partez à la découverte des civilisations grâce à La Mythologie pour les Nuls. De la Grèce ancienne à la Rome antique en passant par l'Égypte, voici une introduction claire et amusante à toutes les croyances et autres histoires fabuleuses qui ont façonné le monde. La Mythologie pour les Nuls, c'est aussi un accès aux plus grands textes anciens de Virgile, Homère ou encore Ovide et aux définitions à connaître absolument : qu'est-ce qu'un héros, une vestale, qui étaient les dieux de l'Olympe, etc. La Partie des dix, enfin, propose un récapitulatif des 10 monstres les plus célèbres (la Licorne, les dragons, le Phœnix...) et des 10 lieux mythiques (Les Champs-Élysées, Avalon, l'Atlantide...). Un livre passionnant pour comprendre l'humanité et les fondements mêmes de notre culture ! Dans cette édition augmentée, découvrez encore plus de mythes et légendes ! Plus de 100 pages supplémentaires sont consacrées aux mythologies celtes, aux légendes des pays nordiques ou encore au continent amérindien. Retrouvez également de nombreux bonus tels que des arbres généalogiques des grandes familles de l'antiquité, des tableaux de correspondances entre les univers grecs et romains.
Download or read book La Mythologie grecque de A Z pour les Nuls D couvrez l histoire des mots et expressions issus des mythes grecs written by Luc Ferry and published by First. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une fantastique épopée au coeur des mythes grecs ! Saviez-vous que l'expression " être saisi de panique " faisait référence au dieu Pan ? " Une force titanesque ", " tomber de Charybde en Scylla ", " un talon d'Achille ", sirène, typhon, python, méduse, autant de mots et expressions qui habitent, sans que nous y pensions, notre langue de tous les jours et qui sont issus des grands mythes grecs. Ce livre se propose de réveiller ces références en racontant les histoires magnifiques d'où elles nous sont venues. À travers de nombreux extraits de textes originaux, Luc Ferry nous entraîne à la découverte des mythes grecs et nous propose des clés d'interprétations philosophiques. De la création du monde à l'avènement des Olympiens, revisitez la mythologie grecque et partez à la rencontre de ses héros légendaires !
Download or read book La mythologie grecque pour les Nuls written by Luc Ferry and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uranie written by Camille Flammarion and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics.
Download or read book Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages written by Gaia Gubbini and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines, the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness, the five senses, the role of memory and passions, in order to shed new light on the complex nature of the medieval Self.
Download or read book Torture Garden written by Octave Mirbeau and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One evening some friends were gathered at the home of one of our most celebrated writers. Having dined sumptuously, they were discussing murder—apropos of what, I no longer remember probably apropos of nothing. Only men were present: moralists, poets, philosophers and doctors—thus everyone could speak freely, according to his whim, his hobby or his idiosyncrasies, without fear of suddenly seeing that expression of horror and fear which the least startling idea traces upon the horrified face of a notary. I—say notary, much as I might have said lawyer or porter, not disdainfully, of course, but in order to define the average French mind. With a calmness of spirit as perfect as though he were expressing an opinion upon the merits of the cigar he was smoking, a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences said: “Really—I honestly believe that murder is the greatest human preoccupation, and that all our acts stem from it... “ We awaited the pronouncement of an involved theory, but he remained silent. “Absolutely!” said a Darwinian scientist, “and, my friend, you are voicing one of those eternal truths such as the legendary Monsieur de La Palisse discovered every day: since murder is the very bedrock of our social institutions, and consequently the most imperious necessity of civilized life. If it no longer existed, there would be no governments of any kind, by virtue of the admirable fact that crime in general and murder in particular are not only their excuse, but their only reason for being. We should then live in complete anarchy, which is inconceivable. So, instead of seeking to eliminate murder, it is imperative that it be cultivated with intelligence and perseverance. I know no better culture medium than law.” Someone protested. “Here, here!” asked the savant, “aren't we alone, and speaking frankly?” “Please!” said the host, “let us profit thoroughly by the only occasion when we are free to express our personal ideas, for both I, in my books, and you in your turn, may present only lies to the public.” The scientist settled himself once more among the cushions of his armchair, stretched his legs, which were numb from being crossed too long and, his head thrown back, his arms hanging and his stomach soothed by good digestion, puffed smoke−rings at the ceiling: “Besides,” he continued, “murder is largely self−propagating. Actually, it is not the result of this or that passion, nor is it a pathological form of degeneracy. It is a vital instinct which is in us all—which is in all organized beings and dominates them, just as the genetic instinct. And most of the time it is especially true that these two instincts fuse so well, and are so totally interchangeable, that in some way or other they form a single and identical instinct, so that we no longer may tell which of the two urges us to give life, and which to take it—which is murder, and which love. I have been the confidant of an honorable assassin who killed women, not to rob them, but to ravish them. His trick was to manage things so that his sexual climax coincided exactly with the death−spasm of the woman: 'At those moments,' he told me, 'I imagined I was a God, creating a world!”
Download or read book Fables De Florian written by Florian and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Equality of the Human Races written by Joseph-Anténor Firmin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first paperback edition of the only English-language translation of the Haitian scholar Antnor Firmin's The Equality of the Human Races, a foundational text in critical anthropology first published in 1885 when anthropology was just emerging as a specialized field of study. Marginalized for its ""radical"" position that the human races were equal, Firmin's lucid and persuasive treatise was decades ahead of its time. Arguing that the equality of the races could be demonstrated through a positivist scientific approach, Firmin challenged racist writings and the dominant views of the day. Translated by Asselin Charles and framed by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban's substantial introduction, this rediscovered text is an important contribution to contemporary scholarship in anthropology, pan-African studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies."
Download or read book Bibliotheca orientalis written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives written by Shane Denson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading international scholars, this book surveys transnational dimensions of graphic narratives, covering popular comics and graphic novels from the USA, Asia and Europe.
Download or read book The Blue Lantern written by Colette and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1972 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pronunciation of the French language written by Félix Émile Darqué and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Madness and Social Representations written by Denise Jodelet and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking account of a colony for the mentally ill that forces a reconsideration of madness in society. What happens when the mentally ill are not isolated from society but are instead welcomed into it and invited to take a place in the fabric of the community? Are fear and rejection replaced by the understanding and sympathy often engendered by familiarity? Or are the barriers between the sane and the mad only strengthened? We have experienced a taste of this scenario in the U.S. in the last decade with the new emphasis on de-institutionalization, but Denise Jodelet takes us to an extraordinary community in France where the mentally ill have assumed a visible and prominent role for more than seventy years. The small French town of Ainay-le-Ch�teau and its environs are the site of a "family colony" for men, established in 1900. Here the patients ("lodgers") live with ordinary families ("foster parents"), hold jobs, and are free to move about the countryside. Jodelet's chronicle of daily life in the colony is made rich and vivid by extensive ethnographic material as she unravels a complex set of relationships, ultimately finding that while some of the barriers between the "other" and the larger society have been overcome, new ones have arisen in their place. This unique social experiment provides invaluable social and cultural insights, illuminating many fundamental issues in psychology, psychiatry, and sociology.
Download or read book Prince of Europe written by Philip Mansel and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.
Download or read book Anti Gender Campaigns in Europe written by Roman Kuhar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection offers a transnational and comparative approach to understanding anti-gender mobilizations in Europe.
