Uranie
Uranie

Author: Camille Flammarion

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-07-30

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781478269533

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I WAS seventeen. She was called Uranie. Was Uranie, then, a young girl, fair, with blue eyes, innocent, but eager for knowledge? No, she was simply what she has always been, one of the nine muses; she who presided over astronomy, and whose celestial glance animated and directed the spheral choir; she was the heavenly idea hovering above earthly dullness; she had neither the palpitating flesh, nor the heart whose pulsations can be transmitted through space, nor the soft warmth of humanity; but she existed, nevertheless, in a sort of ideal world, superior to humanity, and always pure; and yet she was human enough in name and form to produce in the soul of a youth a vivid and profound impression; to awaken in that soul an undefined and undefinable sentiment of admiration: almost of love.

L'atome expliqué à mes petits-enfants
L'atome expliqué à mes petits-enfants

Author: Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond

Publisher: Média Diffusion

Published: 2016-09-22T00:00:00+02:00

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 2021285553

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L'atome : tant de questions autour d'une si petite chose ! C'est que, derrière les connaissances enseignées dès le collège et le lycée – structure, taille, propriétés, etc. – se cachent bien des surprises. Quels rapports entre l'atome et l'électricité, l'atome et la lumière, l'atome et la guerre, voire l'atome et la religion, et même, l'atome et les ornithorynques ? Il fallait l'habileté et l'humour de l'auteur, physicien et grand-père, pour nous inciter à relier joyeusement ces éléments et à secouer une fois encore nos certitudes. Au fil du dialogue, nous apprivoisons électrons et nucléons, bosons et fermions, quarks et gluons et plongeons au cœur même de la matière ! Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, professeur émérite de l'université de Nice, est physicien, essayiste et éditeur. Il est aujourd'hui l'un des meilleurs artisans de la " mise en culture " des sciences. Bonus : 7 erreurs se sont glissées dans le dessin de couverture. Retrouvez-les au cours de votre lecture.

Economic Fallacies
Economic Fallacies

Author: Frederic Bastiat

Publisher: Simon Publications

Published: 2001-08-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931541022

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This book, written by the celebrated nineteenth century French economist propagating free trade, reads as it was written yesterday.

Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks

Author: Frantz Fanon

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780745399546

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Black Skin, White Masks is a classic, devastating account of the dehumanising effects of colonisation experienced by black subjects living in a white world. First published in English in 1967, this book provides an unsurpassed study of the psychology of racism using scientific analysis and poetic grace.Franz Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, his writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation.With an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack.

Terra 2008
Terra 2008

Author: Leslie Rainer

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1606060430

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Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.