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Le français, langue des affaires
Par André Clas, Paul-A Horguelin. 1979
Les messagers mystérieux ((Lire et savoir. Aventure-policier))
Par Gilles Hersay. 1967
Les bras m'en tombent: anthologie des expressions populaires relatives au corps
Par Mathias Lair. 1990
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Par Anne Lamott. 2019
"A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps."-Los Angeles Times Advice on writing and…
on life from an acclaimed bestselling author: "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Pay Attention
Par Rob Walker. 2019
An imaginative, thought-provoking gift book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life.…
Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost: to think and to see and to listen. Enter Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing. This audiobook edition will spark your creativity-and most importantly, help you see the world anew. Through a series of simple and playful exercises-131 of them-Walker maps ways for you to become a clearer thinker, a better listener, a more creative workplace colleague and finally, to rediscover your sense of passion and to notice what really matters to you.From a Vice magazine columnist whose beat is "the future," here is entertaining speculation featuring both authoritative research and a…
bit of mischief: a look at how humanity is likely to weather such happenings as the day nuclear war occurs, the day the global internet goes down, the day we run out of effective antibiotics, and the day immortality is achieved. If you live on planet Earth you're probably scared of the future. How could you not be? Some of the world's most stable democracies are looking pretty shaky. Technology is invading personal relationships and taking over jobs. Relations among the three superpowers-the US, China, and Russia-are growing more complicated and dangerous. A person watching the news has to wonder: is it safe to go out there or not? Taking inspiration from his virally popular Vice column "How Scared Should I Be?," Mike Pearl in The Day It Finally Happens games out many of the "could it really happen?" scenarios we've all speculated about, assigning a probability rating, and taking us through how it would unfold. He explores what would likely occur in dozens of possible scenarios-among them the final failure of antibiotics, the loss of the world's marine life, a complete ban on guns in the US, and even the arrival of aliens-and reports back from the future, providing a clear picture of how the world would look, feel, and even smell in each of these instances. For fans of such bestsellers as What If? and The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook, The Day It Finally Happens is about taking future events that we don't really understand and getting to know them in close detail. Pearl makes science accessible and is a unique form of existential therapy, offering practical answers to some of our most worrisome questions. Thankfully, the odds of humanity's pulling through look pretty good.I Really Needed This Today: Words to Live By
Par Hoda Kotb, Jane Lorenzini. 2019
From New York Times bestselling author and beloved Today show anchor Hoda Kotb comes an inspiring collection of quotes-drawn from…
her own personal favorites featured on her 1 million+ Instagram account-that offer wisdom, courage, and hope. Every morning, viewers around the country wake up to hear from, and connect with, Hoda Kotb. Beyond her day-to-day reporting, her honesty, humor, and endless supply of generosity have inspired millions and have brought audiences into the folds of her remarkable life. Now, she is ready to share the very ideas and lessons she carries with her each day, the reflections that have pushed her to challenge boundaries, embrace change, and explore relationships to their fullest. This book gathers more than 250 of Hoda's favorite quotes-mantras and reflections that urge us to seek out connection and partnership in our daily lives-augmented by her thoughts on each quotation and why it's so meaningful to her. Too often we believe we are alone in our feelings, our grief, and our joy, when in reality those around us are feeling the exact same way. With quotes covering the emotional life-cycle of a year, I Really Needed That Today is a perfect, portable pick-me-up-a companion guide to the wide range of compassion, empathy, and community needed in our lives.Tom Brown's Guide to Healing the Earth
Par Tom Brown. 2019
As a child he was taught to respect nature by an Apache elder he called Grandfather, now as a bestselling…
author and master tracker Tom Brown, Jr., shares his secrets for nurturing and saving our planet. Tom Brown, Jr., is America's most acclaimed outdoorsman, tracker, and teacher. When he was eight he met Stalking Wolf, an Apache elder who taught the young man how to survive in the wild, and more importantly, how to value our place in the natural order. For more than three decades, Tom Brown, Jr., has shared these insights with the world through teaching, writing, and film. Now, for the first time, he has detailed actions that each of us can take to help heal our ailing planet.The Patch
Par John McPhee. 2018
An "album quilt," an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book.…
The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It is divided into two parts. Part 1, "The Sporting Scene," consists of pieces on fishing, football, golf, and lacrosse-from fly casting for chain pickerel in fall in New Hampshire to walking the links land of St. Andrews at an Open Championship. Part 2, called "An Album Quilt," is a montage of fragments of varying length from pieces done across the years that have never appeared in book form-occasional pieces, memorial pieces, reflections, reminiscences, and short items in various magazines including The New Yorker. They range from a visit to the Hershey chocolate factory to encounters with Oscar Hammerstein, Joan Baez, and Mount Denali. Emphatically, the author's purpose was not merely to preserve things but to choose passages that might entertain contemporary readers. Starting with 250,000 words, he gradually threw out seventy-five per cent of them, and randomly assembled the remaining fragments as "An Album Quilt." Among other things, it is a covert memoir.This is the one guide that anyone who writes-whether student, business person, or professional writer-should keep with them whenever they…
begin to write. Filled with professional tips and a wealth of instructive examples and prompts, this valuable, easy-to-use handbook can help solve any and all writing problemsHandbook for a post-Roe America
Par Robin Marty. 2019
This comprehensive manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law explains how to get the…
healthcare you need-by any means necessary. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides listeners through various worst-case scenarios of a post-Roe America and offers ways to fight back, including how to acquire financial support, how to use existing networks and create new ones, and how to, when required, work outside existing legal systems. She details how to plan for your own emergencies, how to start organizing now, what to know about self-managed abortion care with pills and/or herbs, and how to avoid surveillance. The only guidebook of its kind, Handbook for a Post-Roe America includes an extensive, detailed resource guide for all pregnant people (whether cis, trans, or non-binary), listing clinics, action groups, abortion funds, and practical support groups in each state so that, wherever you live, you can get involved. With a newly right-wing Supreme Court and a Republican Senate, Roe is under threat. Robin Marty observes that When we say abortion will be illegal in half the states in the nation, we are no longer talking about some hypothetical future-we are talking about just years down the road. We have to act now to secure what access remains, shore up the networks supporting those who need care, and decide what risks we are willing to take to ensure that any person who wants a termination can still end that pregnancy-with or without the government's permission. Copy and paste the following link into your browser to retrieve downloadable PDF: http://chilp.it/050f4f8The Man in the Red Coat
Par Julian Barnes. 2019
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending--a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Epoque Paris,…
via the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown, but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England? Answering these questions, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives which play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. Our guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi, the society doctor, free-thinker and man of science with a famously complicated private life who was the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. In this vivid tapestry of people (Henry James, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Proust, James Whistler, among many others), place, and time, we see not merely an epoch of glamour and pleasure, but, surprisingly, one of violence, prejudice, and nativism--with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine. The Man in the Red Coat is, at once, a fresh portrait of the Belle Epoque; an illuminating look at the longstanding exchange of ideas between Britain and France; and a life of a man who lived passionately in the moment but whose ideas and achievements were far ahead of his time.Here is the all-too-true tale of a mother and daughter collaborating on life's ultimate celebration, a dream wedding. Join mother…
and daughter as they wade through piles of flowers and favors, grueling gown decisions, and the cold realities of a budget. With luck, love, and loads of patience, they come out on the other side, bruised but unbowed, and closer than ever beforeThe 99% invisible city: A field guide to the hidden world of everyday design
Par Roman Mars. 2020
From the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast, comes a guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of…
our cities. Narrated by Roman Mars, with a bonus Q&A and a Full Episode of 99% Invisible. Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean? Or stopped to consider why you don't see metal fire escapes on new buildings? Or pondered the story behind those dancing inflatable figures in car dealerships? 99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs. Now, in The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to Hidden World of Everyday Design , host Roman Mars and coauthor Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs. With deeply researched entries, The 99% Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone curious about design, urban environments, and the unsung marvels of the world around themThe highland clans
Par Alistair Moffat. 2021
The story of the Highland clans of Scotland is famous, the names celebrated, and the deeds heroic. Having clung to…
ancient traditions of family, loyalty, and valor for centuries, the clans met the beginning of their end at the fateful Battle of Culloden in 1746. Alistair Moffat traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origins to the coming of the Romans; from Somerled the Viking to Robert the Bruce; from the great battles of Bannockburn and Flodden to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Risings; and from the Clearances to the present day. Moffat is an adept guide to the world of the clans, a world dominated by lineage, land, and community. These are stories of great leaders and famous battles, and of an extraordinary people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. It's a story too about the pain of leaving, with the great emigrations to the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand that began after CullodenScholastic book of world records 2020
Par Scholastic, Cynthia O'Brien. 2019
Collection of amazing world records in the areas of popular culture, sports, science, nature, and technology, and includes a section…
for the United States. For grades 3-6 and older readers. 2019Office-supply enthusiast chronicles the history and development of such mundane tools as pins and clips, pens, paper, pencils, erasers, novelty…
stationery, school-specific supplies, highlighters, glue, business cards, staplers, and more. 2014Dinner in Camelot: the night America's greatest scientists, writers, and scholars partied at the Kennedy White House
Par Joseph A. Esposito. 2018
Account of a dinner on April 29, 1962, hosted by President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy for Nobel laureates, writers,…
scientists, historians, and artists. Discusses the historical context of the dinner, notable interactions, and the many repercussions in the years following the dinner. 2018