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Guide du savoir écrire
Par Jean-Paul Simard. 2005
"Nous sommes nombreux à éprouver de la gêne devant la page blanche, sous-estimant notre capacité de trouver les mots capables…
de traduire convenablement notre pensée. Le présent ouvrage s'adresse à toutes les personnes qui désirent s'exprimer et communiquer par écrit. Étudiants, professeurs, secrétaires, journalistes, ingénieurs, mères de famille ou internautes découvriront grâce à ce guide différentes manières d'apprivoiser les techniques de l'écriture. Ils apprendront comment rédiger un résumé, un rapport, une lettre d'affaires, une lettre d'opinion, une lettre personnelle, un procès-verbal, un curriculum vitæ, un texte publicitaire, un communiqué électronique. Ce livre comporte de nombreux exemples et des exercices qui vous permettront de maîtriser graduellement et avec de plus en plus d'assurance les secrets de l'expression écrite." -- 4e de couv"Alors que la plus grande partie de l'archipel indonésien s'est convertie à l'islam, Bali s'est constituée depuis le XVe siècle…
en une société absolument unique, synthèse réussie entre l'hindouisme et les arts de cour javanais les plus subtils. Bali, baptisée " la petite java " par les premiers explorateurs, c'est d'abord un écrin où la nature et les hommes qui l'habitent dialoguent en permanence avec le monde des dieux et des démons - l'alliance éternelle de la volupté et du sacré. Mais Bali, c'est aussi un mythe, un fantasme lancinant. Dans les années 1930, l'île, avec ses croyances, ses spectacles, ses pratiques magiques, suscite une telle fascination en Europe qu'elle ne quittera jamais plus la carte de notre imaginaire : celui de l'évasion et du retour aux origines. Déclinons ce rêve lointain en compagnie d'Henri Michaux, Roger Vailland, Vicki Baum, Antonin Artaud, Lorenzo Pestelli, Clara Malraux, Christine Jordis et bien d'autres..." -- 4e de couvDeux grandes dames: Bertha Wilson et Claire L'Heureux-Dubé à la Cour suprême du Canada (Biographies et mémoires)
Par Constance Backhouse. 2021
Bertha Wilson et Claire L'Heureux-Dubé ont été les premières femmes juges à la Cour suprême du Canada. L'une représentait le…
Canada anglais, l'autre le Québec. De milieux et de tempéraments opposés, les deux femmes ont affronté des défis similaires. Leurs nominations judiciaires dans les années 1980 ont ravi les féministes et bousculé l'establishment juridiqueGuide de rédaction: les nouvelles radio et l'écriture radiophonique
Par Real Barnabe. 1997
Les oiseaux de malheur: essai sur les médias d'aujourd'hui (Collection Partis Pris Actuels)
Par André Pratte. 2000
Récits bariolés (Papiers collés)
Par Robert Lévesque. 2006
[...] Du potin à l'analyse, de l'anecdote à la réflexion, de Molière à Michael Moore, de Stendhal à Pierre Bourgault,…
Robert Lévesque, accompagné de ses chats amis, se promène dans l'histoire artistique et intellectuelle comme dans un jardin familier, qu'il fréquente depuis toujours mais où chaque sortie, chaque lecture lui fait trouver du nouveau, de l'inédit, du merveilleux. Publiées d'abord dans le journal montréalais Ici, cette soixantaine de chroniques, quel qu'en soit le sujet ou le prétexte, portent toujours la même marque, celle d'un esprit auquel sa culture apporte une liberté et une aisance parfaites. -- 4e de couvHistoires d'Orient
2005
"[...] Cet orient que Victor Hugo décrivait en visionnaire, découvrez-le dans ce qui l'unit, le divise mais toujours nous fascine…
grâce à Omar Khayyam, Villehardouin, Voltaire, Chateaubriand, Charles Nodier, Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval, le Comte de Gobineau, Pierre Loti, Arthur Rimbaud, T. E. Lawrence, Paul Nizan, Naguib Mahfouz, Jean Genet, Jeanne Faivre d'Arcier (récit inédit) et bien d'autres encore." -- 4e de couvThe last outlaws: The desperate final days of the dalton gang
Par Tom Clavin. 2023
The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York…
Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gang. The dreaded Dalton Gang consisted of three brothers and their rotating cast of colorful accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James brothers. They soon became legends themselves, beginning their career as common horse thieves before graduating to robbing banks and trains. On October 5, 1892, the Dalton Gang attempted their boldest and bloodiest raid yet: robbing two banks in broad daylight in Coffeyville, Kansas, simultaneously. As Grat, Bob, and Emmett Dalton and Bill Power and Dick Broadwell crossed the plaza to enter the two buildings, the outlaws were recognized by townspeople, who raised the alarm. Citizens armed themselves with shotguns and six-shooters from nearby hardware stores and were locked and loaded when the thieves emerged from the banks. The ensuing gun battle was a lead-filled firefight of epic proportions. As the smoke cleared, eight men lay dead––including four of the five members of the doomed Dalton Gang. For the first time ever, the full story of the Dalton Gang's life of crime, culminating in one of the Wild West's most violent events, are chronicled in detail––a last gruesome gasp of the age of gunfights. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's PressAnansi's gold: The man who looted the west, outfoxed washington, and swindled the world
Par Yepoka Yeebo. 2023
New Yorker Best Book of the Year "A fascinating story brilliantly told."— The Boston Globe * "A non-fiction masterpiece." —…
Philadelphia Inquirer The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century's longest-running and most spectacular frauds. When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to snatch any assets that colonialism hadn't already stripped. A CIA-funded military junta ousted the new nation's inspiring president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of hiding the country's gold overseas. Into this big lie stepped one of history's most charismatic scammers, a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. Born into poverty in Ghana and trained in the United States, John Ackah Blay-Miezah declared himself custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth billions. You, too, could claim a piece—if only you would "invest" in Blay-Miezah's fictitious efforts to release the equally fictitious fund. Over the 1970s and '80s, he and his accomplices—including Ghanaian state officials and Nixon's former attorney general—scammed hundreds of millions of dollars out of thousands of believers. Blay-Miezah lived in luxury, deceiving Philadelphia lawyers, London financiers, and Seoul businessmen alike, all while eluding his FBI pursuers. American prosecutors called his scam "one of the most fascinating—and lucrative—in modern history." In Anansi's Gold , Yepoka Yeebo chases Blay-Miezah's ever-wilder trail and discovers, at long last, what really happened to Ghana's missing wealth. She unfolds a riveting account of Cold War entanglements, international finance, and postcolonial betrayal, revealing how what we call "history" writes itself into being, one lie at a timeThe art thief: A true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession
Par Michael Finkel. 2023
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief,…
Stéphane Breitwieser. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost. Cover images: (top) Bat by Albrecht Dürer. Bridgeman Images; (bottom) The Sleeping Shepherd (detail) by François Boucher © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NYAward-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he…
worked with some of the biggest names in movies. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top—a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Bob Evans, and Sue Mengers. Over the next forty years, Mamet wrote dozens of scripts, was fired off dozens of movies, and directed eleven himself. In Everywhere an Oink Oink , he revels of the taut and gag-filled professionalism of the film set. He depicts the ever-fickle studios and producers who piece by piece eat the artist alive. And he ponders the art of filmmaking and the genius of those who made our finest movies. With the bravado and flair of Mamet's best theatrical work, this memoir describes a world gone by, some of our most beloved film stars with their hair down, and how it all got washed away by digital media and the woke brigade. The book is illustrated throughout with three-dozen of Mamet's pungent cartoons and caricaturesManipulating the message: How powerful forces shape the news
Par Cecil Rosner. 2023
Journalists hate the term fake news, but there's a troubling reality: spin doctors routinely try to dupe them into reporting…
misleading and distorted stories. Check the news on any given day and here's what you'll find: Governments routinely lie. Companies inflate claims about their products and practices. Institutions release studies with misleading data meant to deceive. Police departments, infected by systemic racism, downplay crimes against Indigenous and racialized people. The public depends on the media to help them understand the world, but are journalists catching all the daily lies, omissions, and distortions? Shrinking newsrooms and an army of spin doctors mean journalists can get duped. Despite valiant efforts by a handful of investigative journalists, the truth is routinely left behind. Award-winning journalist Cecil Rosner insists there is something we can do about this. We can pressure news organizations to stop blindly regurgitating the firehose of press releases and focus instead on determining what is actually true. Rosner empowers listeners by sharing his techniques for detecting misinformation and disinformationUn si long silence (HarperCollins poche)
Par Sarah Abitbol. 2021
La championne française de patinage artistique, aujourd'hui chorégraphe et entraîneuse, raconte les viols qu'elle a subis, entre 15 et 17…
ans, de la part de son entraîneur. Elle accuse également le monde du sport de l'avoir réduite au silence pendant de longues années et d'avoir protégé son agresseur."This is the only book for writers that: 1) Motivates readers to change their writing habits by telling the truth…
about how submissions are screened. 2) Analyzes 150 extracts to show how published authors handle the same problems facing all writers of fiction. 3) Reinforces readers' learning by presenting more solutions in greater depth than other books do and exposing issues not mentioned in any other book. 4) Highlights the techniques of 140 published mystery authors, many of whom have never before been reviewed in book form. 5) Helps readers identify with authors at the beginning of their writing careers by using examples from many first novels. 6) Stimulates readers' imaginations by demonstrating the infinite variety of alternatives for presenting content. 7) Offers 24 Find & Fix summaries for revising, plus resources and little-known tips and tip-offs. 8) Boosts the odds that a manuscript will pass the first screening so its characters and plot can be read in full and evaluated on merit." -- Provided by publisherNaked in Baghdad: The Iraq War As Seen By National Public Radio's Correspondent Anne Garrels
Par Anne Garrels. 2003
Veteran National Public Radio correspondent Anne Garrels, embedded with the U.S. military forces in Baghdad, chronicles her observations before and…
during the 2003 second Gulf War. Includes e-mails that her husband, Vint Lawrence, sent while she was gone and describes hardships endured by her Iraqi driver, Amer.Civil War in the Ozarks
Par Phillip W Steele. 1993
The art of mystery: the search for questions (Art Of... Ser.)
Par Maud Casey. 2018
Where does mystery reside in a work of fiction Maud Casey takes us into the Land of Un a space…
of uncertainty and unknowing to find out and looks at the variety of ways mystery is created through character, image, structure, and haunted texts, including the novels of Shirley Jackson, Paul Yoon, J. M. Coetzee, and more. Casey's wide-ranging discussion encompasses spirit photography, the radical nature of empathy, and contradictory characters, as she searches for questions rather than answers. Adult. UnratedThe familia grande: a memoir
Par Camille Kouchner. 2022
"Camille Kouchner's childhood was marked by sun-drenched summers in the south of France, where a vibrant cast of family and…
friends would gather at their Sanary-sur-Mer house. This familia grande, which included much of the country's elite, spent memorable days and nights laughing, debating, drinking, and dancing. But a long-held secret poisoned Camille's memories. In February 2017, Camille returned to Sanary at forty-one to bury her mother, who died with none of her five children present. Her passing would stir up old emotions, ultimately leading Camille to publicly confront the truth. |The Familia Grande| poignantly explores the dynamics of abuse, and the questions of guilt and shame surrounding it. Published in France in 2021, the book sparked an important conversation about incest, and the attitudes and laws that have so often allowed influential men to evade consequences for their crimes." -- Provided by publisherGrammar Girl's 101 misused words you'll never confuse again (Quick and dirty tips)
Par Mignon Fogarty. 2011
Fly, Colton, fly: the true story of the Barefoot Bandit
Par Jackson Holtz. 2011
Colton Harris-Moore was arrested for the first time when he was ten years old. By the time he was 19,…
he had committed countless burglaries in the San Juan Islands, gone cross country in stolen cars, and crashed the third plane he stole in the Bahamas. Adult. Unrated