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The head of Galaxity's Spatio-TemporalService himself has joined Valerian and Laureline at Inverloch Castle. There,among various human and alien allies, he explains to them the threat that loomsover Earth: all of the recent incidents, all those important people gone madand threatening to bring about the apocalypse...All of that is due to themalicious influence of the mysterious planet Hypsis. But Hypsis is a world thatmoves from system to system - it'll need to be pinpointed first...

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Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets introduced audiences to a future populated by weird and wonderful aliens and laced with incredible futuristic technology. Now discover the universe of the original Valerian and Laureline comic books!Valerian: The Illustrated Treasury gives a comprehensive overview of the Valerian and Laureline comic-book universe, featuring information on key locations (including Central Point), transport, galactic anomalies and a timeline of the major events in the series. This richly illustrated book also introduces many of the alien races and characters - friendly and hostile - and there is a special section on the ever-popular Shingouz.Printed in English for the first time, Valerian: The Illustrated Treasury is a wonderful addition to the Valerian franchise and features full-colour artwork by Valerian and Laureline artist Jean-Claude Mezieres.

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Do you know how to draw a square, triangle, and rectangle? Well, then, you know how to draw! Rough: Drawing in 2 Strokes and 3 Moves provides you with a way to start drawing that is based on a very simple observation: the human body, as well as everything surrounding us, can be broken down into elementary and basic geometric shapes. The technique that author and teacher Pierre Pochet shows you here has no fine art or academic ambitions. Instead, it shows you how to quickly draw from memory a facial expression or a bodily movement, to flesh out a picture, to create a perspective, or to sketch a scene. This approach to drawing is particularly useful for those who have no artistic training but who are considering a career in a creative field, whether that be advertising, design, or graphics . . . as well as for anyone who simply wants to learn how to draw!

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Art flourished in France to an exciting and unprecedented degree in the 19th century. Sculpture was a part of this fantastic explosion of creative genius with such artistic giants as Rodin, Barye, d'Angers and Carpeaux. At the same time technological advances in the bronze industry transformed sculpture from an art form for public plazas and the rich to art for living rooms and vestibules of even the middle class. The result has been an abundant supply of nineteenth century French bronzes-some common reproductions, and some extremely valuable limited editions. In this important reference, you can discover a wealth of information. This extraordinary volume contains a complete encyclopedia of almost 750 French artists, with biographies, listings of works (along with size and foundry when known), museum pieces in France and elsewhere, and recent sales. It also includes an overview of 19th century bronze sculpture, the foundries that cast the bronzes, and methods used to cast works. 1000 photographs capture the beauty of the pieces and help identify these and similar works.

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Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment.All he is offered are small, demoralizing jobs. He has reached his very lowest ebb, and can see no way out.So when a major company finally invites him to an interview, Alain Delambre is ready to do anything, borrow money, shame his wife and his daughters and even participate in the ultimate recruitment test: a role-playing game that involves hostage-taking.Alain Delambre commits body and soul in this struggle to regain his dignity.But if he suddenly realised that the dice had been loaded against him from the start, his fury would be limitless.And what began as a role-play game could quickly become a bloodbath.

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The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics. Bourdieu develops a highly original approach to the study of literary and artistic works, addressing many of the key issues that have preoccupied literary, art and cultural criticism in the late twentieth century: aesthetic value and judgement, the social contexts of cultural practice, the role of intellectuals and artists, and the structures of literary and artistic authority. Bourdieu elaborates a theory of the cultural field which situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation and consumption. He examines the individuals in institutions involved in making products: not only the writers and artists, but also the publishers, critics, dealers, galleries and academies. He analyses the structure of the cultural field itself, as well as its position within the broader social structures of power. The essays gathered together in this volume examine a variety of substantive topics, including Flaubert's point of view, Manet's aesthetic revolution, the historical creation of the pure gaze, and the relationship between art and power. The Field of Cultural Production will be of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines: sociology and social theory, literature, art and cultural studies.

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THE NOVELIST KILLS BY THE BOOK For Commandant Camille Verhœven life is beautiful. He is happily married and soon to become a father. HE'S ALWAYS ONE CHAPTER AHEADBut his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. When his team discovers that the killer has form - and each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel - the Parisian press are quick to coin a nickname . . . The Novelist. HE HATES HAPPY ENDINGS With the public eye fixed on both hunter and hunted, the case develops into a personal duel, each hell-bent on outsmarting the other. There can only be one winner. The one who has the least to lose.

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MEET COMMANDANT CAMILLE VERHOEVEN OF THE PARIS POLICE WITH NOTHING ELSE TO LOSEAnne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jeweller's on the Champs-Élysées. Bludgeoned beyond recognition, she is lucky to survive. But her ordeal has only just begun.HE CAN BREAK ALL THE RULESLying helpless in her hospital bed, with her assailant still at large, Anne is in mortal danger. Only one thing gives her hope: Commandant Camille Verhœven.TO PROTECT THE WOMAN HE LOVES For Verhœven it's a case of history repeating itself. He cannot lose Anne as he lost his wife. This time he faces an adversary whose greatest strength appears to be Verhœven's matchless powers of intuition.Winner of the 2015 C.W.A. International Dagger

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"This is not an autobiography." Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu's commitment to a reflexive sociology led him ineluctably to take on the final challenge of a self socio-analysis in which he recounts and analyses, more fully and intimately than ever before, his understanding of the trajectory that led him from the peasant world of Béarn, through sometimes painful years as a lyce boarder, as a student in 1950s Paris and as a conscript in the Algerian War, to the pinnacle of the French intellectual and academic world. "This is not an autobiography," he said of this work but it reveals much of the hitherto implicit experience of his formative years, and gives precious insights into his relationships with Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Aron, Michel Foucault and many others, which deepen our understanding of his unique contribution to sociology and anthropology.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was sent back. Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge, the Colonel refuses, as it is against regulations for officers to work with other ranks. The Japanese give way but, to prove a point of British superiority, construction of the bridge goes ahead - at great cost to the men under Nicholson's command.

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This fascicle contains the complete bibliography up to 1999 of E.F. Konrad Koerner, the founder and director of the journal Historiographia Linguistica (1974-), and editor of Diachronica and of various specialized linguistic series. Koerner's scholarly work, which is surveyed in the introductory "Biographical notice" (by P. Swiggers) focuses on the history of linguistics in the past two centuries, especially on the relationship between historical-comparative grammar and various forms of "general linguistics". The "Biographical Notice" is divided into seven sections: Books and Volumes edited; Articles, Chapters in Volumes and Minor Papers; Review Articles and Reviews; Miscellanea: Papers read; Journals edited; General Editorship. In the first paper that follows the bibliography, Koerner presents a critical overview of linguistic historiography and outlines some prospects. The second paper explores the delicate question of the role of ideological convictions in linguistics, and in human sciences in general.

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Qué es lo que justifica la extraña idea de que el Estado es soberano? Las consecuencias de la soberanía del Estado son inaceptables incluso para la opción light de la socialdemocracia, que conduce en la práctica a un nuevo corporativismo.Al presentar el neoliberalismo como la filosofía de la soberanía individual, este libro sostiene que si alguien es soberano, éste debe ser el individuo. La soberanía individual descansa sobre varios fundamentos: es eficaz (teoría del orden espontáneo) y se identifica con los derechos del hombre, sin los cuales no podemos pensar ni en el orden espontáneo ni en el "contrato social liberal".El autor profundiza en las implicaciones de las tesis neoliberales en el campo de las funciones y de la financiación del Estado. A través de las tres grandes doctrinas neoliberales (el orden espontáneo, el contrato social y el derecho natural), intenta trazar las fronteras del Estado mínimo, y los grandes debates actuales sobre la seguridad social o la fiscalidad

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En este volumen podremos entender mediante detalladas explicaciones cada uno de los evangelios del Nuevo Testamento.

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Os imagináis cómo sería vivir sin sentir resentimiento alguno, incluso cuando nos han hecho daño? O responder de manera plenamente consciente en cada situación, en vez de reaccionar de manera visceral?

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La moneda viva es un texto que resume, quizás como ningún otro, un pensamiento que muchos autores (especialmente Bataille, pero también el propio Foucault, que lo celebra en una carta al autor como el libro más importante de la época) intuyeron y no se atrevieron a formular, pues ponía en solfa la mayoría de las certezas sobre el deseo y el cuerpo que habían alimentado la literatura y la vida durante siglos. Sade fue el primero en advertir la impostura, pero a Sade había que comprenderlo, había que interpretarlo, había que leerlo concienzudamente y no banalizar su pensamiento, reduciéndolo a una patología de los instintos como ha venido haciéndose desde su descubrimiento. Y eso es lo que hizo Klossowski en este lúcido y penetrante ensayo, como también, en otro sentido, hiciera antes en Sade, mi prójimo.Bataille, Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, Agamben, todos ellos y muchos otros reconocieron en La moneda viva la explicitación de lo que constituye

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FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER (19282000) is known around the world for his visionary paintings and architecture. His works and essays make up a lively body of contemporary criticism, promoting clear-sighted concepts for changing social and economic circumstances.

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Anhand des Psalms 113 analysiert Pierre Coulange die zwei Seiten der GröÃe Gottes, der in seinem Glanz und seiner Herrlichkeit im Himmel thront und sich gleichzeitig auf die Stufe der Menschen stellt und sich der Ãrmsten annimmt. Die entgegengesetzten Attribute verdichten sich zu einem göttlichen Merkmal: Gerade, weil Gott so groà und herrlich ist, kann er sich auf den tiefsten Grund und an die äuÃersten Ränder der menschlichen Gesellschaft begeben. Der Autor betrachtet das Thema des Hinabsehens und des Aufrichtens in weiteren biblischen Passagen und endet mit einer Analyse der Beziehung zwischen Gott und den Armen aus der Perspektive der Relation zwischen Schöpfer und Geschöpf.

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Verdeckte Ermittler, Lauschangriff, Online-Durchsuchung: Die heimliche Strafverfolgung greift um sich. Dennoch steht die Rechtsfrage des Privatheitsschutzes beim Ermittlungszugriff auf die begehrten Informationen inmitten eines unklaren interdisziplinären Bezugsfelds: Ist zum Beispiel nur ein Kernbereich privater Lebensgestaltung absolut über das Verfassungsrecht zu schützen und lassen sich wirklich alle sonstigen Bereiche der Privatsphäre der strafprozessualen Relativierung durch Zugriffsrechte preisgeben? Was gilt gegenüber Nichtverdächtigen und was beim Einsatz neuer Medien? Dabei beschreitet Pierre Hauck einen neuen interdisziplinären Pfad: Er gleicht Erkenntnissen der Informationsethik und der Sozialphilosophie ab und entwickelt ein System abgestufter Schutzwürdigkeit privater Informationen. Dieses System dient als Grundlage einer Rekonstruktion der Ermittlungsbefugnisse, hauptsächlich mit dem Ziel einer zukunftsweisenden Neuformulierung der gesetzlichen Ermittlungsbefugnisse in der StPO.

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Using various veterans’ testimonies and memoirs, the reader plunges into the daily life of a unit, the SS-Panzer Regiment 3 “Totenkopf”, which only fought on the Eastern Front. It was one of the most capable. The Kriegestagbuch (log book) of this unit’s tank pointer is the main thread of this book, interspersed with never before published documents. Text in French.

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