Deconstructs the French woman's views on culture, fashion and attitude. Including 80 black and white and colour pictures, many taken by the authors, this book explains those confusing subjects of clothes, makeup, men, culture and lifestyle as only a true Parisienne can.
From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island or to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat?
Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Collapse also shows how unlike our ancestors we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187424--one of the millions of people who disappear down the rabbit hole of the American penal system. From her first strip search to her final release, Kerman learns to navigate this strange world with its strictly enforced codes of behavior and arbitrary rules. She meets women from all walks of life, who surprise her with small tokens of generosity, hard words of wisdom, and simple acts of acceptance. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and at times enraging, Kermans story offers a rare look into the lives of women in prison--why it is we lock so many away and what happens to them when theyre there.
Praise for Orange Is the New Black Fascinating . . . The true subject of this unforgettable book is female bonding and the ties that even bars cant unbind.--People (four stars) I loved this book. Its a story rich with humor, pathos, and redemption. What I did not expect from this memoir was the affection, compassion, and even reverence that Piper Kerman demonstrates for all the women she encountered while she was locked away in jail. I will never forget it.--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love This book is impossible to put down because [Kerman] could be you. Or your best friend. Or your daughter.--Los Angeles Times Moving . . . transcends the memoir genres usual self-centeredness to explore how human beings can always surprise you.--USA Today Its a compelling awakening, and a harrowing one--both for the reader and for Kerman.--Newsweek Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Readers Circle for author chats and more.
Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a moral universe? Why do ideas such as 'fairness' and 'freedom' mean such different things to different people? Why is it so hard to see things from another viewpoint? Why do we come to blows over politics and religion? This book answers these questions about human relationships.
Sur le continent africain comme ailleurs, les femmes et les enfants sont souvent les premières victimes des atteintes aux droits de l'homme. L'intérêt et la force de ce livre, réalisé sous l'égide de l'Institut danois des droits de l'homme (IDDH), sont d'en rendre compte en privilégiant une approche locale et concrète. Envisageant les difficultés rencontrées par des personnes vulnérables que les lois et les coutumes ne protègent pas suffisamment, les études rassemblées ici ont également l'avantage de prendre la mesure des évolutions à l'oeuvre en Afrique. Cet ouvrage se distingue aussi par sa diversité. Fruit du travail de onze chercheurs africains - pour l'essentiel des juristes ayant à coeur de privilégier une approche pluridisciplinaire -, il se penche sur les situations vécues dans huit pays : Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Niger, Malawi, Ouganda et Togo. À cette diversité géographique, parfois doublée d'une approche comparatiste, s'ajoute une grande variété de thèmes abordés (mariage, divorce, violences faites aux femmes, protection des mineurs délinquants, participation des femmes à la vie politique.) pour tenter de prendre toute la mesure du sujet. Diversité linguistique enfin, dans la mesure où le principe éditorial retenu a consisté à permettre à chaque auteur d'écrire dans sa langue universitaire de prédilection. Les contributions se répartissent ainsi de manière sensiblement égale entre l'anglais et le français.
Blindness and low vision lead to a set of consequences in everyday life and require various adaptations so that visual impaired persons grow in a secure, rich and appropriate environment. This brochure, realized by field professionals from the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind specialized in the support of visually impaired persons, should be considered as a toolbox offering the basis for the first steps with a visually impaired person.Theoretical and practical elements are addressed throughout the reading in order to help professionals who care for these persons in daily reality from an educational point of view as well as on rehabilitation and academic skills. This book is English translation from an initial French version.
Around the globe, people are facing the same problem - that we are born as individuals but are forced to conform to the rules of society if we want to succeed. This title builds on the strategies outlined in The 48 Laws of Power to provide a practical guide to greatness. It helps you learn how to start living by your own rules.
The #1 New York Times Bestseller **A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the Emmy-award winning star of Master of None and one of this generation's sharpest comedic voices** In the old days, most people would find a decent person who lived in their village or neighbourhood, and after deciding they weren't a murderer, get married and have kids - all by the age of 22. Now we spend years of our lives searching for our perfect soul mate and, thanks to dating apps, mobile phones and social media, we have more romantic options than ever before in human history. Yet we also have to confront strange new dilemmas, such as what to think when someone is too busy to reply to a text but has time to post a photo of their breakfast on Instagram. And if we have so many more options, why aren't people any less frustrated? For years, American comedian Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at dating and relationships, and in Modern Romance, he teams up with award-winning sociologist Eric Klinenberg to investigate love in the age of technology. They enlisted some of the world's leading social scientists, conducted hundreds of interviews, analyzed the behavioural data, and researched dating cultures from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to New York City. The result is an unforgettable picture of modern love, combining Ansari's irreverent humour with cutting-edge social science.
A Sunday Times bestseller Longlisted for the Guardian first book award A Radio 4 Book of the Week This book is about learning to live.
In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding and human of experiences.
These are stories about our everyday lives: they are about the people we love and the lies that we tell; the changes we bear, and the grief. Ultimately, they show us not only how we lose ourselves but how we might find ourselves too.
Can you imagine what your life would be like if you could tap into a new source of power - one that has been inside you all along - to solve your own problems and become the master of your life? This title presents a psychological model based on the proven methods of Hollywood's greatest psychotherapists.
Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society. This book argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. It explores the nature of co-operation, why it has become weak and how it can be strengthened.
L'OCP Group, une longue histoire, indissociable de celle des phosphates, de ses produits dérivés, de ses marchés, qui commence en 1921. Avec des cours très bas de la roche jusqu'à la fin du vingtième siècle et un statut d'entreprise publique qui l'empêchaient d'accéder aux marchés financiers internationaux, il était impossible d'engager les investissements nécessaires pour permettre de valoriser cette richesse naturelle dont le Maroc détient 75 % des réserves mondiales. Tout va changer, à partir des années 2006, et l'arrivée d'une nouvelle équipe à la tête de l'Office. Changement de statut permettant d'engager de lourds investissements, révolution managériale prenant en compte, à part égale, l'exigence de la profitabilité et la valorisation du capital humain, n'oubliant pas d'en faire bénéficier les entreprises et les populations locales, développant des relations nouvelles institutionnelles avec l'État, qui détient désormais 95 % du Groupe, mais aussi avec les régions, les villes du Royaume etc. Hier connu pour détenir l'essentiel des ressources phosphatières mondiales, le Maroc l'est désormais, avec l'OCP Group, devenu le leader incontesté du marché international du minerai, des acides et des engrais phosphatés, capable de répondre à 40% de ce marché. Ce livre, initialement publié en français en 2019, a été traduit par Azzeddine El Allam.
Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book discusses about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the 'skills society' and argues that pure competition is a poor way to achieve quality work.
L'essai de Zoran Terzic, vaste et détaillé, étudie la figure historico-culturelle de l'idiot et suit ses nombreuses apparitions dans l'histoire intellectuelle en examinant l'art de l'idiotie qui s'étend au-delà du présent hypertrophique.
Au-delà de l'histoire universelle de l'incapacité humaine, il existe aujourd'hui une nouvelle forme d'idiotie. Alors que l'ancien idiot tirait ses connaissances de l'isolement, le nouvel idiot refuse toute compréhension du monde. Il apparaît uniquement comme la figure d'une incompétence systématique qui touche même les domaines les plus éloignés de la vie politique et médiatique, donnant naissance à des compétences nouvelles, souvent totalement absurdes.
Les débats actuels sur les « fake news » ou la « société post-factuelle » peuvent être lus dans cette perspective comme la preuve d'une large transformation des formes d'autopolitique, dans laquelle l'absurde redéfinit l'image de la réalité. Car si l'on parle beaucoup de conscience et de communauté mondiales, le solipsisme du sujet idiot semble fonctionner d'autant mieux en arrière-plan. En tant que moi isolé du plus grand nombre, il constitue le centre vide d'une idiotie planétaire tournant autour de lui-même.
Given that signs and meanings pervade the world in its different aspects, semiotics is naturally open to interactions with other fields, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural and pure sciences. Open Semiotics aims to explore and expand these interactions, and to facilitate new avenues for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, providing insights into a redeployment of disciplinary fields. Such an endeavor, which is intended to benefit the entire scientific community, has drawn upon extensive cooperation. This has resulted in 141 chapters authored by 178 scholars from 58 countries spanning all continents, which represent a broad array of trends and approaches as well as numerous and diverse disciplinary crossings. Open Semiotics comprises four volumes: (1) Epistemological and Conceptual Foundations, (2) Culture and Society, (3) Texts, Images, Arts, (4) Life and its Extensions. This book is the fourth and last volume of the project.
Given that signs and meanings pervade the world in its different aspects, semiotics is naturally open to interactions with other fields, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural and pure sciences. Open Semiotics aims to explore and expand these interactions, and to facilitate new avenues for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, providing insights into a redeployment of disciplinary fields. Such an endeavor, which is intended to benefit the entire scientific community, has drawn upon extensive cooperation. This has resulted in 141 chapters authored by 178 scholars from 58 countries spanning all continents, which represent a broad array of trends and approaches as well as numerous and diverse disciplinary crossings. Open Semiotics comprises four volumes: (1) Epistemological and Conceptual Foundations, (2) Culture and Society, (3) Texts, Images, Arts, (4) Life and its Extensions. This book is the third volume of the project.
Given that signs and meanings pervade the world in its different aspects, semiotics is naturally open to interactions with other fields, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural and pure sciences. Open Semiotics aims to explore and expand these interactions, and to facilitate new avenues for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, providing insights into a redeployment of disciplinary fields. Such an endeavor, which is intended to benefit the entire scientific community, has drawn upon extensive cooperation. This has resulted in 141 chapters authored by 178 scholars from 58 countries spanning all continents, which represent a broad array of trends and approaches as well as numerous and diverse disciplinary crossings. Open Semiotics comprises four volumes: (1) Epistemological and Conceptual Foundations, (2) Culture and Society, (3) Texts, Images, Arts, (4) Life and its Extensions. This book is the second volume of the project.
Given that signs and meanings pervade the world in its different aspects, semiotics is naturally open to interactions with other fields, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural and pure sciences. Open Semiotics aims to explore and expand these interactions, and to facilitate new avenues for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, providing insights into a redeployment of disciplinary fields. Such an endeavor, which is intended to benefit the entire scientific community, has drawn upon extensive cooperation. This has resulted in 141 chapters authored by 178 scholars from 58 countries spanning all continents, which represent a broad array of trends and approaches as well as numerous and diverse disciplinary crossings. Open Semiotics comprises four volumes: (1) Epistemological and Conceptual Foundations, (2) Culture and Society, (3) Texts, Images, Arts, (4) Life and its Extensions. This book is the first volume of the project.
This introduction to that part of linguistics which is concerned with language as a social and cultural phenomenon ranges over gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics. This edition looks at the development of a language as a result of non-native speakers' use of it.
L'amour a été le fil conducteur du combat mené par Jupiter, Bruon Rahaingo, Ny Malodohasaha. Ils étaient animés par le patriotisme dénué de tout culte exclusif de la nation. Leur attitude vis-à-vis de l'Autre, mise en évidence par leurs écrits respectifs, ne prouve pas le contraire. Pour cela, ils représentent parfaitement bien les écrivains engagés malgaches, car il n'existe pas de poète nationalistes à Madagascar, ce sont tous des patriotes. Ils ont brandi l'amour contre la politique coloniale expansionniste et dominatrice.
Depuis les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, la violence n'a plus pour seul témoin le protagoniste présent au moment des faits. Elle a désormais pour contemporaine une société de lecteurs, de spectateurs, de joueurs et d'internautes. Cet ouvrage souhaite précisément interroger l'apport des différentes pratiques médiatiques dans le processus de transmission de la violence et témoigner de la constante transfiguration de ses contours émotionnels, dont les fictions culturelles, sociales ou politiques tirent parfois profit.
Un livre qui part des questions que se sont posé la plupart des observateurs sur l'après-COVID19 : Est-ce la fin de la Mondialisation ? Est-ce qu'on verra un fort retour de l'Etat ? Que deviendra l'Europe ? Quels développements de la guerre pour la domination entre les Etats Unis et la Chine ? La réponse à ces questions offre à l'auteur -professeur d'Economie à l'Université de Tunis, l'occasion de re-explorer certains concepts fondamentaux comme celui de la domination économique ou ce qu'il appelle « La troisième Division Internationale du Travail ». Le gros du travail comme le suggère le titre porte sur le « Modèle de Développement Dominant » dont il démontre avec rigueur les aspects idéologiques et fallacieux. Passant à des propositions, l'auteur concentre sur ce qui est appelé « L'Economie Sociale et Solidaire » dont il propose une approche novatrice qui en fait un secteur durable qui peut être au coeur d'une rénovation du modèle de développement.
