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Outreau, l'histoire d'un désastre

Gilles Antonowicz
- Max milo editions
- 9622290230014
parution : 30 Décembre 2022 - Entrée pnb : 2 Mars 2023
"What is true, and I'm actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are. We can't explain how they move, their trajectory. And so I think that people still take seriously, trying to investigate and figure out what that is." Barack Obama, May 17, 2021, the "Late Late Show with James Corden."
Since 2017, UFOs are no longer considered fiction. Declared a "serious subject" by the Pentagon, they have now entered public debate on American, German and Japanese news channels.
Passionate about ufology since his childhood, Egon Kragel is a great French specialist on the subject. He has dug up more than 150 UFO cases, some of which are fascinating and have captivated the international press, while others are more frightening and still raise questions.

You'll read about:
- The hairy cone of Vins-sur-Caramy
- The wave of foo fighters from the Second World War
- The Belgian wave
- Kenneth Arnold, the father of saucers
- The Flatwoods monster
- Malmstrom: deactivated missiles
- The encounter of Herb Schirmer
- The UFOs of the Hudson Valley
- UFOs: Abductions in the sky
- Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum: A scathing remake of Apocalypse Now
- Colares: Deadly encounters in the Amazon
- UFOs and Pilots: A two-step in the sky

Egon Kragel is one of the great specialists in ufology in France. His work is recognized throughout the world, notably by his friend Jacques Vallée who inspired the director Stephen Spielberg for the film E.T. He wrote his first book Ovnis, enquête sur un secret d'Etat. He participates in numerous conferences, appears regularly on television, and takes part in radio programs and podcasts.
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Le syndrome du gisant - un subtil enfant de remplacement

Salomon Sellam
- Éditions bérangel
- 3612226297767
parution : 1 Septembre 2022 - Entrée pnb : 2 Septembre 2022
Nuestra primera muerte es biológica. Nuestro corazón se detiene. Nuestro cerebro entrega las armas. Nuestra alma emprende el viaje. Nuestros omóplatos se despliegan y retomamos el vuelo. Luego viene nuestra segunda muerte, más o menos rápidamente, en el momento en que ya nadie piensa en nosotros. La tumba ya no tiene flores, las malas hierbas invaden progresivamente nuestra "suite". Sola y durante largos años, grabada en el mármol, se queda nuestra identidad de inquilino terrestre: nuestro nombre, nuestro apellido, nuestra fecha de nacimiento y la de nuestra partida. A veces, antes de este olvido definitivo, las personas afectadas por nuestro fallecimiento demasiado prematuro o fuente de sufrimiento, Guardan nuestra memoria ayudados por una fecha, un nombre. Nuestra memoria, en espera, seguirá ligada a la tierra. Un día un niño nacerá. Tal vez sin saberlo, lleve parte de esa memoria... En tal caso, sin darnos cuenta, viviremos de nuevo, A través de su cuerpo, de su voz y de su pensamiento. Para el clan reconfortado el relevo está garantizado... Apoyándose en pruebas concluyentes, el Dr Sellam pone en evidencia la Dinámica Transgeneracional Automática de Reparación que se activa después de un drama familiar, como lo es una muerte prematura, inadmisible, injustificada e injustificable. Su onda de choque puede impactar varias generaciones y manifestarse en distintas patologías de carácter orgánico, funcional, conductual, o bien de orden psicológico y hasta psiquiátrico. Dr Salomon Sellam
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Putin, game master?

Jacques Baud
- Max milo editions
- 9621831550017
parution : 3 Octobre 2022 - Entrée pnb : 15 Décembre 2022
Has Vladimir Putin become the master of the game? Why and how did the Russian President decide to attack Ukraine? Did he seek to prevent Ukraine from associating with Europe? Does he seek to reconstitute the USSR? Did NATO promise not to expand east after 1990? Is the Nord Stream 2 project the sinews of war? Is Ukraine's neutrality the only solution? Has Russia ever lost or won the war?...
Based on the files of the intelligence services and official reports, Jacques Baud thus reviews the events of the recent history of Russia, which led to the war with Ukraine; it analyzes the various disputes between the West and Russia, and sheds light on the role that Putin plays today on the international scene.

Jacques Baud is a former member of Swiss strategic intelligence, a specialist in Eastern European countries and head of United Nations peace operations doctrine. He was engaged in negotiations with top Russian military and intelligence officials right after the fall of the USSR. Within NATO, he participated in programs in Ukraine and in particular after the Maidan revolution in 2014 and 2017. He is the author of several books on intelligence, war and terrorism, and in particular Governing by fake news and The Navalny affair, published by Max Milo.
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Breu historia de les terres catalanes del nord

Alicia Marcet I Juncosca
- Editions trabucaire
- 3612225957518
parution : 24 Septembre 2019 - Entrée pnb : 4 Avril 2020
Utilizant a la vegada els mètodes més científics de la recerca històrica, i els mètodes més moderns de la investigació geopolítica, l'autora ens dóna una visió de conjunt de la història de les terres catalanes del Nord, subratllant-ne tres grans moments :
- Els orígens
- De la integració a la separació (1172-1659)
- D' ença de l'annexió
Història d'une terres obertes a totes les invasions, capaçes d'arrelar les seves poblacions i desenvolupar intercanvis.
Història d'un poble capaç de patir els pitjors sofriments i de demostrar les més vitals aptituds a la resistència i a la recuperació col.lectives.
Història d'un país que ha sempre participat en els esdeveniments a nivell europeu - sent malauradament sovint al cor mateix dels conflictes - tot intentant mantenir la seva especificitat.

Un llibre que ens permet, com a catalans, de considerar el segle XXI amb confiança i orgull.
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Le sens cache des desordres amoureux

Salomon Sellam
- Éditions bérangel
- 3612226297781
parution : 1 Septembre 2022 - Entrée pnb : 2 Septembre 2022
La temática: los flechazos con o sin electricidad, los amores locos, las almas gemelas, la atracción, la repulsión, las separaciones, los divorcios, las relaciones más o menos tumultuosas, el adulterio, las dinámicas complementarias en la pareja, la disminución de la frecuencia de las relaciones sexuales. Éstos son los motivos de consulta que han permitido evidenciar la Psicología Transgeneracional. La Psicología Transgeneracional es un descubrimiento empírico fruto de la investigación clínica y ha sido confirmada por una multitud de casos, algunos de los cuales se describen en este libro. Esta nueva forma práctica de abordar la dinámica psicológica dentro de nosotros permite entender más fácilmente cómo funciona el inconsciente, haciéndolo accesible a todos, particulares y especialistas. Como ya ocurre, la Psicología Transgeneracional revolucionará la Psicología y la hará más asequible para el estudio de la transferencia/contratransferencia y los frecuentes desórdenes amorosos. En este libro, el autor propone un método sencillo y rápido aplicable a tu propia historia. Comparando simplemente los nombres y las fechas que figuran en el árbol genealógico, aparecerá el lugar inconsciente del niño (futuro adulto) dentro de su familia. Asimismo, se podrán localizar rápidamente las identificaciones parentales infantiles que subyacen a la creación del expediente de reconocimiento amoroso, esencial a la hora de encontrar pareja en el futuro. En muchos casos, un incesto simbólico se instala gradualmente dando lugar a una disminución, o incluso a una interrupción total de las relaciones afectivas y... sexuales, lo cual puede explicar ciertos desórdenes amorosos.
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European Correspondence

Perchoc
- Presses universitaires de louvain - ciaco
- 3612225410327
parution : 26 Mai 2014 - Entrée pnb : 9 Décembre 2015
The crisis faced by the European project today is above all a crisis of meaning. After the disappearance of the narratives about peace and prosperity, the reason for Europe is now the one given by millions of Europeans. Together we must therefore explore a Europe whose institutions are a means but not an end, remain open to discovery, attentive to stories and critical of common ideas.
This six-month journey is dotted with eleven stops, eleven letters from eleven cities in nine European countries, from Russia to Sweden, Portugal to Bulgaria. They give rise to eleven debates on major issues such as defence, youth, the wounds of the past and solidarity, all of which are explored via the stories of dozens of Europeans met along the way.
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Revue internationale de philosophie 2021/3

Collectif
- Revues de boeck supérieur
- 3612226259161
parution : 24 Février 2022 - Entrée pnb : 25 Février 2022
La Revue Internationale de Philosophie a été fondée en 1938 avec, entre autres, le soutien de Karl Popper et de Bertrand Russell. Elle a été dirigée par Chaïm Perelman jusqu'à sa mort, en 1984, et elle est depuis lors, entre les mains de Michel Meyer.
Le but de la Revue n'est pas seulement de célébrer par des numéros spéciaux les dates anniversaires des grands philosophes et de leurs oeuvres, mais aussi de traiter de tous les thèmes qui retiennent l'attention de la philosophie: la violence, la religion, le théâtre, le roman, l'histoire, la politique, la bioéthique, la logique, l'épistémologie, la rationalité, le cinéma ou en général, l'esthétique, parmi d'autres sujets.
Les plus grands philosophes contemporains ont été honorés par la Revue, et y ont même souvent contribué, de Popper à Foucault et à Sartre, de Carnap à Derrida, de Bourdieu à Putnam et à Dworkin, de Gadamer à Rawls, Habermas ou Searle.
Ainsi, la Revue Internationale de Philosophie publie chaque fois des volumes qui traitent des sujets ou des auteurs différents, en plusieurs langues le plus souvent, mais surtout en français et en anglais. Les auteurs sont invités par une personnalité marquante du domaine traité, qui a la responsabilité du volume.
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Migration control in practice : before and within the borders of the state

Federica Infantino, Djordje Sredanovic, Collectif
- Editions de l'université de bruxelles
- 9621643960011
parution : 17 Novembre 2022 - Entrée pnb : 6 Mai 2023
The book presents the results of several qualitative research project with different actors that put migration policies into practice. It shows the different ways in which day-to-day activities of organisations shape migration policies on the ground. This book offers a comprehensive exploration on how different migration policies are implemented day by day. Such an approach allows to show the different ways in which migration policies on the ground take a life of their own when compared to the letter of the law. The book shows the need to understand the specific logics and workings of the implementation of policies, while taking into account the continued role played by politicians and the judiciary, non-state actors and migrants. Qualitative research with different public institutions implementing migration policies are combined with an exploration of the role of NGOs, supranational institutions and the migrants themselves. Bringing together the results of several research projects with fieldwork in Belgium, the UK, France, Morocco and Malta, the book covers the different stages of the migratory career. It follows the potential trajectory of a migrant from visa obtention (both in general and for students specifically) to border controls, asylum (including resettlement and gender and sexuality-based asylum), access to residence (with a specific focus on marriage-based residence), healthcare and nationality, or to detention and managed return migration. Through its chapters it shows the day-to-day logics, routines and tactics that bureaucrats and other actors adopt, within the constrains of laws, social interactions, and ideas about policies.
À PROPOS DES AUTEURS
Djordje Sredanovic est chargé de recherche F.R.S.-FNRS au laboratoire GERME de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles. Sociologue spécialisé dans les études de la nationalité, citoyenneté et migrations, il a conduit recherches sur les expériences et l'implémentation des politiques migratoires.
Federica Infantino est Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow au Migration Policy Centre à l'Institut Universitaire Européen à Florence est Maitre de Conférence à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles.
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Safety at work : neuroscience and the avoidance of human error

Isabelle Simonetto, Rebecca Neal
- Mardaga
- 9622288470019
parution : 28 Février 2023 - Entrée pnb : 6 Mai 2023
Why do people with experience still make errors? How can we explain the omission of a step in a process or the reversal of a sample during a medical analysis, for example? What if it's all about neuroscience?We cannot always rely on our brain. The automatisms we acquire, although indispensable, can sometimes play tricks on us and lead us to make errors, which constitutes a danger not only for ourselves, but also for others.With the help of the latest research in neuroscience and 25 years of experience in consulting, observation of work situations and training, Isabelle Simonetto explains the functioning of the human brain in a playful, accessible and innovative way. Thanks to exercises, concrete examples and memo cards, the reader will be able to understand the various pitfalls inherent to the properties of the brain. The author also presents practical advice and techniques that can be directly applied in all professional sectors. An indispensable book for all those who wish to improve their security and reliability in their professional and personal lives.A unique book that mobilizes neuroscience to improve the safety and management of companies!
ABOUT THE AUTHORIsabelle Simonetto is a doctor in neuroscience, a lecturer and a consultant specialized in behavioral neurobiology. Since 2006, she has been working with companies on the themes of human factor reliability, memory and emotional intelligence. She is also one of the most sought-after experts of the APM (Association pour le Progrès du Management), of which she has been a member since 2010.
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Governing by fake news : 30 years of fake news and its bloody consequences

Jacques Baud
- Max milo editions
- 9621831520010
parution : 22 Novembre 2022 - Entrée pnb : 15 Décembre 2022
What are Islamic State is seeking to create a civil war in France; that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons; that Vladimir Putin is trying to destabilise our democracies; that terrorism has struck France, not for what it does, but for what it is; that the genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 victims... Literally none, but these assertions are enough to establish the foreign policy of Western countries.
The author, a former agent of the Swiss strategic intelligence service, reviews the main contemporary conflicts that Western countries have managed with fake news over the last thirty years.
Jacques Baud, a colonel, chemical and nuclear weapons expert, trained in counter-terrorism and counter-guerrilla warfare, designed the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and its Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA). In the service of the United Nations, he served as Chief of Doctrine for Peacekeeping Operations in New York, and was engaged in Africa. In NATO, he led the fight against the proliferation of small arms. He is the author of several books on intelligence, asymmetric warfare and terrorism.
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Defeating jihadist terrorism

Jacques Baud
- Max milo editions
- 9621831540018
parution : 7 Novembre 2022 - Entrée pnb : 15 Décembre 2022
Since the early 1990s, terrorism and its victims have increased exponentially. Without any action strategy or exit solution, through political and military incompetence, stupidity and ideological blindness, Western interventions have only contributed to its development. We eliminate terrorists, but not terrorism. The solution lies in a more holistic, more subtle, more intelligent and less dogmatic approach.
Terrorism is not an ideology. It is a method that takes many forms, including jihadist terrorism. Each form of terrorism is fought with a specific strategy. Based on the original texts of jihadist strategists as well as on their own analyses of attacks in France, Belgium, Great Britain and the United States, Jacques Baud explains the reasons for Western failure. He uses the analyses of Western intelligence services to decipher the mechanisms of jihadist terrorism, in order to extract strategies of action likely to avoid it or to fight it effectively and durably.
The author is a former head of Swiss strategic intelligence and former head of UN peace operations doctrine. In the course of his missions in Africa and Central Asia, the author has had several encounters with jihadists in the field.
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt : detailed summary, analysis and reading guide

Bright Summaries
- Brightsummaries.com
- 9614612860016
parution : 3 Avril 2019 - Entrée pnb : 6 Mai 2023
Unlock the more straightforward side of The Secret History with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Secret History by Donna Tartt, which follows a group of highly intelligent Classics students at the elite Hampden College in New England. Richard Papen, who comes from a humble background in California, joins this small, privileged group and becomes increasingly embedded in their world of wealth and intellectual pursuits. However, darkness lies just below the surface, and soon bursts out when one of the group is murdered. The novel traces the events leading up to the killing and examines its life-changing impact on the remaining students. The Secret History is Donna Tartt's first novel; she is also known for her novels The Little Friend and The Goldfinch.
Find out everything you need to know about The Secret History in a fraction of the time!
This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you:
o A complete plot summary
o Character studies
o Key themes and symbols
o Questions for further reflection
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Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
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Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (Book Analysis) : detailed summary, analysis and reading guide

Bright Summaries
- Brightsummaries.com
- 9614613450018
parution : 3 Avril 2019 - Entrée pnb : 6 Mai 2023
Unlock the more straightforward side of Schindler's Ark with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, which tells the true story of the actions of the German businessman Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust. When the Nazis occupied Poland during the Second World War, the country's Jews were first forced into ghettos, then deported to concentration camps where few survived. However, Schindler offered hope to thousands of Polish Jews by employing them in his factories, at considerable personal risk, to save them from deportation and almost certain death. The Australian author Thomas Keneally brings his story to life in this thrilling novel, which won the 1982 Man Booker Prize and was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List.
Find out everything you need to know about Schindler's Ark in a fraction of the time!
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USA, China and Europe : alternative visions of a changing world

Mario Telò
- Académie royale de belgique
- 3612226144337
parution : 23 Novembre 2020 - Entrée pnb : 25 Novembre 2020
Outstanding specialists of International relations and prominent personalities provide in depth pluralist analyses of the current alternative visions and main geopolitical trends within a heterogeneous world; a world made even more uncertain following the pandemic. Europe is a player, not a playing field. Therefore, the red thread of this multidisciplinary research is: how to combine its values with its own language of power.

Contributions by:
D. Viviers, M. Telò, J. Ikenberry, Qin Y., M. Zürn, M. Calmy-Rey, F. Mogherini, R. Tombs, A. Gamble, M. R. Djalili, P. Goldschmidt, A. A. Yusuf, N. Schrijver
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Patti smith outside

Claude Chastagner
- Presses universitaires de la méditerranée
- 3612225585728
parution : 18 Décembre 2015 - Entrée pnb : 28 Septembre 2016
"Outside. Outside of society. That's where I want to be. If you're looking, that's where you'll find me." This is what Patti Smith sang back in 1978. Where is she in 2015? With all the fame and recognition. With thirteen original albums released, her poetry regularly reprinted, her paintings and photographs on show in galleries around the world, an induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a National Book Award for her first prose work, Just Kids. Is she still outside? Is she still the iconic, rebellious, rock'n'roll figure of her youth? Patti Smith has lived a rock'n'roll life, a life of words and sounds, of poetry and images. She has slept on doorsteps, on park benches. But perhaps she never meant to be outside. Perhaps she did not want to be a rebel. Perhaps being outside is only a price she had to pay. These are the issues addressed in this collection of essays, not from a historical or sociological angle, but through her artistry. An attempt at locating Patti Smith by assessing her trajectory, her complex, unpredictable moves. "Oh I just move in another dimension," she sings on "Ain't It Strange", before inviting us to come and join her. We have tried and followed her.
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Bullecourt 1917 the remembrance of soldiers past

Gilles Durand
- Les lumieres de lille éditions
- 3612225828689
parution : 4 Mai 2017 - Entrée pnb : 5 Mai 2017
In April and May 1917, the village of Bullecourt, near Arras, in the north of France, was the scene of one of the biggest bloodbaths of the First World War. The ground of the former battlefield still retains the bodies of hundreds of missing Australian, British and German soldiers...
The memory of the deadly combat would have remained buried as well were it not for the efforts of a couple of schoolteachers who took an interest in the ordeal of these soldiers in the 1980s.
For more than three decades, Claude and Colette Durand have gathered dozens of accounts of Australian veterans which now allow us to get a clearer picture of the horror that was the battle of Bullecourt. In the process, they formed a long-lasting bond with Australia about the sacrifice of these men who came from the ends of the earth.
But the book also shows the hidden face of the commemorative events that mark the centenary of World War 1, as the official tributes mask a shadier reality.

(The extended version is only available on tablets iPad)
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50 years of financial crises

Jacques de Larosière
- Odile jacob
- 3664181527755
parution : 28 Mars 2018 - Entrée pnb : 12 Juillet 2019
"This story essentially tells of the financial crises that the markets always end up inflicting on those who have abused their innovations, their excesses and the lax atmosphere. Dealing with these crises - in often inventive ways - has taken up much more energy than their prevention or any substantive reforms. I had the privilege of being involved in some of these `ways out of crisis'. I lived through their dramatic intensity and was, sometimes, able to contribute to pragmatic solutions which helped to steady the ship. This was true, for example, of the Latin American crisis, negotiation of the IMF adjustment programmes and aiding the transition of the Eastern European countries. But the picture is still dark. The 2007-2008 crisis, with its trail of unemployment and recession, is an extreme example of what excess debt can do. And quantitative easing policies, implemented to minimize the effects of the `great recession' despite its origins in the abuse of debt, plunge an observer like myself into an abyss of questions and doubts."From the collapse of Bretton Woods to that of Lehman Brothers, a first-hand account of fifty years of financial crises by a participant on the front lines of finance and currency. The memoirs of an exceptional, influential man who worked alongside Jacques Delors, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Raymond Barre, Paul Volcker, and many others. Jacques de Larosière spent his entire career at the head of financial institutions: he was first Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (1978-1987) before becoming Governor of the Banque de France (1987-1993), then president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1993-1998). He is currently Advisor to the president of BNP-Paribas.
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Thomas mcgrath : start the poetry now !

Pamela Sund
- Presses universitaires de la méditerranée
- Horizons anglophones - Série Profils amé
- 3612225771657
parution : 25 Novembre 2016 - Entrée pnb : 26 Novembre 2016
From hard scrabble origins on the Plains of North Dakota, to longshoremen organizing on Manhattan's West Side docks, to living the life of a Bohemian poet in Los Angeles and beyond, Thomas McGrath's literary aspirations took him far from his humble beginnings. For over six decades, McGrath created poems based largely on the themes of love, work, and political justice. His love of the prairie and his early years on a working farm were central to his life. The virtues of the agrarian community plus the Catholic faith of his family, shaped his Old West character. He was a political progressive and at times a member of the Communist Party of America. In the 1950's, he was brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee and blacklisted following his appearance. McGrath was the consummate non-conformist in his life and art. He refused to submit to the philosophy that politics and poetry must be kept separate. His epic work, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, is anchored by progressive politics, political and social theory, his love of family, his love of love, and, arguably, the greatest layering of language idioms in the history of American poetry.
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Another life / une autre vie

Joseph-Vilain M.
- Presses universitaires de la méditerranée
- Horizons anglophones - Série PoCoPages
- 3612225767940
parution : 18 Novembre 2016 - Entrée pnb : 20 Novembre 2016
Many writers started their professional lives in very diverse fields before embracing writing, or on the contrary have turned away from writing. The present volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between that `other life' and writing. The aim is to determine whether a writer's `other life' appears in, influences or even shapes his/her work, and to what extent. What is the part of gestation and that of rupture? A diversity of writers is examined: Patrick Chamoiseau, J. M. Coetzee, Jan J. Dominique, Janet Frame, Amitav Ghosh, L. K. Johnson, Wilson Harris, Dany Laferrière, Yannick Lahens, NourbeSe Philip, Emmelie Prophète, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, but also Bartolomé de las Casas and E. L. Grant Watson. Unpublished autobiographical essays and a poem are included, especially written for the volume by Marie-Célie Agnant, Cyril Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar.
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Gabon: Provoking Change

Laurence Ndong
- Atramenta
- 3612226047898
parution : 24 Septembre 2018 - Entrée pnb : 25 Septembre 2018
Laurence Ndong reveals to us the hidden ways of Gabonese politics. She describes the political misery she actually witnessed, a misery so deep that it threatens her hopes regarding the future of her country.
Most of all, she writes in order to share with every Gabonese her strongest conviction: that it is possible to build a better country, it is possible to change mentalities toward a true prosperity.
Laurence Ndong also wonders about the international community's outrageous silence regarding the violations of human rights. She analyses the underlying factors behind the country's social, values and economical crisis.
This book is definitely more than a political read, it is a Societal piece of work that includes valuable advice andreal-life examples, while recounting Laurence's trials. It also provides a direction for anyone aspiring to a civic, political, institutional and organizational leadership position.
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Healing south african wounds / guerir les blessures de l'afrique du sud

Gilles Teulié
- Presses universitaires de la méditerranée
- Horizons anglophones - Série PoCoPages
- 3612225771664
parution : 25 Novembre 2016 - Entrée pnb : 26 Novembre 2016
On the eve of the democratic elections scheduled in South Africa in 2009, this collection of essays analyses the many ways in which South Africans have been trying to heal the wounds of apartheid, as advocated in Nelson Mandela's famous 1994 speech, delivered at the dawn of the ` new ' South Africa. The articles encompass such diverse fields as politics, literature, cinema, welfare policies or education, and they all seek to explore the sea change which totally reshaped South African identity in the last fifteen years that followed the demise of apartheid. The notion of ` healing the wounds' is used both as a pretext and as a focal point to build up as complete a picture as possible of South Africa today. The specificity of the collection is to define healing as an ongoing process whose result seems to remain a rather elusive goal.

À la veille des élections démocratiques prévues en Afrique du Sud en 2009, ce recueil explore les nombreuses stratégies mises en place par les Sud-Africains pour tenter de guérir les blessures de l'apartheid, obéissant ainsi à la fameuse injonction émise par Nelson Mandela en 1994, à l'aube d'une nouvelle ère pour son pays. S'ils évoquent des questions aussi diverses que la politique, la littérature, le cinéma, la politique sociale ou l'éducation, les articles ici rassemblés s'accordent tous à faire le bilan des changements impressionnants qui ont métamorphosé le paysage identitaire sud-africain au cours des quinze dernières années. Le prisme de la guérison des blessures du passé est à la fois le prétexte et le point focal de ce qui se veut un panorama aussi large que possible de l'Afrique du Sud aujourd'hui. La guérison y est envisagée comme un processus en cours, dont le résultat demeure, dans tous les domaines, pour le moins incertain.
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Rising powers, instructions and elites ; Brasil, China, Russia, Turkey

Nicolas Monceau, Daniel Bourmaud
- Presses universitaires de bordeaux
- 3612226116648
parution : 17 Janvier 2019 - Entrée pnb : 18 Mars 2022
Emerging countries have increasingly acquired a crucial importance in the international area over the last few decades. Their growing influence in the international system and their roles as rising powers in the political, economic and military spheres have been largely analysed and have raised intense debates. However, the relations between their emergence as new dominant powers at an international level and their political evolution at a national level have been less studied. To what extent are the political institutions and the elites of rising powers different from those of western countries? At an international level do their trajectories have any influence on the evolution of their political and institutional characteristics? What is the impact of such rising nations on the organization of internal power structures and the functioning of their national institutions? These are some of the questions raised in this book.
The chapters in this book aim at assessing the links between the international and national dimensions with a pluridisciplinary approach. Focusing on four rising powers (Brazil, China, Russia and Turkey), a large diversity of themes are emphasized including the organisation of institutions, the nature and development of regimes, the political legitimacy of institutions for citizens, the different territorial levels for the organisation of power, ideological debates about the founding principles of regimes as well as the role and the place of elites, and also their ideologies and their transformations and the policies that they implement. The originality of this book relies on the analysis of the rising powers from the inside, with most of the contributions by scholars coming from the very countries under study.
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Revisiting slave narratives ii- les avatars contemporains des recits d'esclaves

Misrahi-Barak Judith
- Presses universitaires de la méditerranée
- Horizons anglophones - Série PoCoPages
- 3612225647075
parution : 25 Mars 2022 - Entrée pnb : 10 Avril 2016
This collection offers a follow up to the first collection of essays Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les Avatars des récits d'esclaves (2005), whose purpose was to bring together African-merican and Caribbean neo-slave novels. In 2007, the year of the bicentennial anniversary of the official abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the British colonial Empire, the memorialisation and commemoration events should not obliterate the fact that, through the prison of slave narratives and neo-slave novels, it is our present that is at stake. In order to show how our societies and minds still need to be manumitted, the essays in this collection examine books of fiction by André Brink, Octavia Butler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Cristina Garcia, Edward P. Jones, Paule Marshall, Phyllis Perry, Susan Straight, and books of non-fiction by Malcom X or John Edgar Wideman ; as well as works by poets like Fred D'Aguiar or Marilyn Nelson, by playwrights like Robbie Mc Cauley, Derek Walcott or August Wilson, and by visual artists like David Boxer, Christopher Cozier, Glenn Ligon, or Kara Walker.
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Rethinking the european union and its global role from the 20th to the 21st century ; liber amicorum Mario Telo

Frederik Ponjaert, Anne Weyembergh, Jean-Michel De Waele
- Editions de l'université de bruxelles
- 9615089320010
parution : 6 Août 2019 - Entrée pnb : 6 Mai 2023
Discover the various scientific debates that Mario Telò has been involved.
This edited volume, which has been drafted in honour of Professor Telò's research career, offers the reader an overview of the various scientific debates that he has been involved in throughout his distinguished career. The aim was to highlight, contextualise and build on his most innovative contributions to each of these debates.
This book revolves around four thematic areas, each of which brings together a number of contributions that offer timely reflections on a given question or challenge covered by Professor Telò's research.
EXTRACT
We wanted to have a personality of international calibre, espousing different political systems across the world. But we also wanted to bring a good teacher into the fold filling students with enthusiasm, able to lead them to develop their study projects, to establish their vocation as researchers and even to train personalities active in every day life, in fact to promote a European conscientiousness.
We know that Mario Telò has perfectly fulfilled these many wishes, in particular through his commitments towards his colleagues as well as his very active role as member and President of the Institut d'études européennes - Institute of European Studies (IEE-ULB), but also through the support that he has given numerous researchers who have completed brilliant doctoral theses under his supervision.
It is difficult to pay him tribute, however, as Mario Telò has engaged in and still engages in multiple and international academic activities. We have lost count of the number of foreign invitations that have been extended to him as well as his numerous speeches to defend and to explain the need for a European area.
Mario Telò knows better than anyone that European values still need to be defended, that European studies cover several aspects, not just the political integration process in Europe but also the analysis of the behaviour of actors, decision-makers and citizens.
We know that the `EU acquis' is often temporary and several times the work has to be redone, as the difficulties of functioning with twenty-eight member states, and soon to be twenty-seven member states, show. The European Union does not always respond to the democratic deficit, the political integration approach needs to show the usefulness and expected benefits of European cooperation essential to its existence in a very tense global context.
The energy of Mario Telò, his creativity, his international engagement, his academic openness will always be essential to the ULB. A member of the Académie Royale de Belgique [Royal Academy of Belgium], in the Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques [section of letters and moral and political sciences], Mario Telò will always find the opportunity to express his analyses and proposals to get through the currently very troubled time of Europe's and the world's evolution.
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