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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 couvGuide 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 couvWhat the taliban told me
Par Ian Fritz. 2023
A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When Ian Fritz…
joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career. He'd too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians. This eavesdropping is critical to supporting Special Forces units on the ground, but there is no training to counter the emotional complexity that develops as you listen to people's most intimate conversations. Over the course of two tours, Fritz listens to the Taliban for hundreds of hours, all over the country night and day, in moments of peace and in the middle of battle. What he hears teaches him about the people of Afghanistan—Taliban and otherwise—the war, and himself. Fritz's fluency is his greatest asset to the military, yet it becomes the greatest liability to his own commitment to the cause. Both proud of his service and in despair that he is instrumental in destroying the voices that he hears, What the Taliban Told Me is a brilliant, intimate coming-of-age memoir and a reckoning with our twenty years of war in AfghanistanWaiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD
Par Romeo Dallaire. 2023
Longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize: In this piercing memoir, Roméo Dallaire, retired general and former senator, the author of…
the bestsellers Shake Hands with the Devil andThey Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and one of the world's leading humanitarians, delves deep into his life since the Rwandan genocide.At the heart of Waiting for First Light is a no-holds-barred self-portrait of a top political and military figure whose nights are invaded by despair, but who at first light faces the day with the renewed desire to make a difference in the world. Roméo Dallaire, traumatized by witnessing genocide on an imponderable scale in Rwanda, reflects in these pages on the nature of PTSD and the impact of that deep wound on his life since 1994, and on how he motivates himself and others to humanitarian work despite his constant struggle. Though he had been a leader in peace and in war at all levels up to deputy commander of the Canadian Army, his PTSD led to his medical dismissal from the Canadian Forces in April 2000, a blow that almost killed him. But he crawled out of the hole he fell into after he had to take off the uniform, and he has been inspiring people to give their all to multiple missions ever since, from ending genocide to eradicating the use of child soldiers to revolutionizing officer training so that our soldiers can better deal with the muddy reality of modern conflict zones and to revolutionizing our thinking about the changing nature of conflict itself. His new book is as compelling and original an account of suffering and endurance as Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and William Styron's Darkness Visible.Award-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 disinformationGamelin: la tragédie de l'ambition (Biographies)
Par Max Schiavon. 2021
Biographie de l'officier Maurice Gamelin (1872-1958). L'auteur tente de comprendre pourquoi cet homme a conduit les armées alliées au désastre…
en 1940. Il analyse ses choix tactiques et stratégiques, son comportement et ses failles. Il examine également les motivations de ceux qui l'ont désigné à ce poste. Il évoque sa vie publique et privée, ainsi que ses expériences.Je n'étais pas la bienvenue
Par Nathalie Guibert. 2022
L'auteure est la première femme autorisée à entrer dans un sous-marin nucléaire d'attaque de la Marine française. Elle fait part…
du trajet parcouru pour obtenir l'autorisation d'embarquer à bord d’un tel bâtiment pendant un mois. Puis elle présente son expérience de l'enfermement, seule parmi un équipage masculin, sous l'eau et sans nouvelles du monde extérieur.Dear Delia: the Civil War letters of Captain Henry F. Young, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry
Par Henry Falls Young. 2019
Union soldier Henry F. Young candidly documented his experiences on the front lines of the Civil War through extensive letters…
sent home to his family in Wisconsin. Dear Delia presents his writings faithfully, along with comprehensive notes providing historical context throughout. Adult. Unrated"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 publisherTopgun: an American story
Par Dan Pedersen. 2019
The founder of the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons program, aka "TOPGUN," shares the untold story of how he and eight…
other young pilots revolutionized the art of aerial combat and created the center for excellence and incubator of leadership that thrives to this day. Provided by publisher. Adult. UnratedNaked 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.Forever a soldier: unforgettable stories of wartime service / [edited by] Tom Wiener
Par Tom Wiener. 2005
Veterans recall experiences of battle from World War I to the war in Iraq. Soldiers' letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral…
histories provide personal accounts of D-Day, the Tet offensive, heroic actions, and sinking ships. Includes an interview with Senator John McCain about his captivity in Vietnam. 2005The 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. UnratedGrammar Girl's 101 misused words you'll never confuse again (Quick and dirty tips)
Par Mignon Fogarty. 2011
Inspired: understanding creativity : a journey through art, science, and the soul
Par Matt Richtel. 2022
How does creativity work? Where does inspiration come from? What are the secrets of our most revered creators? How can…
we maximize our creative potential? Creativity defines the human experience. It sparks achievement and innovation in art, science, technology, business, sports, and virtually every activity. This is a book about the science of creativity, distilling an explosion of exciting new research from across the world. Through narrative storytelling, Richtel marries these findings with timeless insight from some of the world's great creators as he deconstructs the authentic nature of creativity, its biological and evolutionary origins, its deep connection to religion and spirituality, the way it bubbles in each of us, urgent and essential, waiting to be tapped. Adult. Unrated