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Découvre l'eau dans tous ses états, tout autour du monde ! Des glaciers aux torrents, de la rivière à la mer, du brouillard au givre, de l'écume aux nuages, des nuages à la pluie, du ruisseau à la fontaine... l'eau, essentielle à la vie, est en perpétuel mouvement !
Du glacier au torrent : Histoire de l'eau
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Découvre l'eau dans tous ses états, tout autour du monde ! Des glaciers aux torrents, de la rivière à la mer, du brouillard au givre, de l'écume aux nuages, des nuages à la pluie, du ruisseau à la fontaine... l'eau, essentielle à la vie, est en perpétuel mouvement !
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Weathering
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Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, shifting, solidifying, and weathering. We might spend a little less time on earth, but humans are also weathering: evolving and changing as we're transformed by the shifting climates of our lives and experiences. So, what might these ancient natural forms have to teach us about resilience(...)
Weathering
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Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, shifting, solidifying, and weathering. We might spend a little less time on earth, but humans are also weathering: evolving and changing as we're transformed by the shifting climates of our lives and experiences. So, what might these ancient natural forms have to teach us about resilience and change? In a stunning exploration of our own connection to these enduring forms, outdoor psychotherapist and geologist Ruth Allen takes us on a journey through deep time and ancient landscapes, showing how geology - which has formed the bedrock of her own adult life and approach to therapy - can offer us a new way of thinking about our own grief, change and boundaries.
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Qu'est-ce que le silence ? Est-ce vraiment l'absence de tout ? En écoutant bien, le silence n'est peut-être pas celui que l'on croit. Il n'est ni vide ni singulier, mais plein et pluriel. On découvre les grands silences, peut-être inquiétants, des vastes horizons, les silences naturels qui sonnent tout sauf creux, les silences quotidiens dans l'attaque des prédateurs, la(...)
Histoire naturelle du silence
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Qu'est-ce que le silence ? Est-ce vraiment l'absence de tout ? En écoutant bien, le silence n'est peut-être pas celui que l'on croit. Il n'est ni vide ni singulier, mais plein et pluriel. On découvre les grands silences, peut-être inquiétants, des vastes horizons, les silences naturels qui sonnent tout sauf creux, les silences quotidiens dans l'attaque des prédateurs, la discrétion des proies ou les soupirs des enlacements. Aller chercher les silences dans l'évolution, le comportement animal et l'écologie, c'est aussi découvrir en contrepoint la diversité sonore étoilée du monde sauvage et dénoncer les bruits, ces horribles grincements de nos agitations, qui les menacent. Et si on respirait quelques instants pour écouter le silence et son histoire naturelle ?
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Vintage Alpine postcards
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Featuring almost a hundred years of dispatches from the Alps, ''Vintage Alpine Postcards'' celebrates Europe’s great mountain range. It takes us from men in bowler hats with stout ropes nonchalantly crawling over crevasses, through the gilded age of grand hotels and sleigh rides, to the modernist concrete infrastructure of mountaintop restaurants and cable-car(...)
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Featuring almost a hundred years of dispatches from the Alps, ''Vintage Alpine Postcards'' celebrates Europe’s great mountain range. It takes us from men in bowler hats with stout ropes nonchalantly crawling over crevasses, through the gilded age of grand hotels and sleigh rides, to the modernist concrete infrastructure of mountaintop restaurants and cable-car stations. These postcards frame the changing way we’ve experienced landscape and leisure over more than a hundred years – from the intrepid to the banal, sublime to ridiculous and brutalist to kitsch. And postcards travel through time as well as space, and they arrive with messages from our former selves. Underlying the Alpenkitsch is a serious exposé of our relationship to nature and how we have carelessly misused the beauties of the natural world.
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Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development confirmed a long-standing suspicion: that the world endured a 500-year cold snap -- The Little Ice Age -- that lasted roughly from A.D. 1300 until 1850. "The little ice age" tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable and often(...)
The little ice age: How climate made history 1300-1850
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Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development confirmed a long-standing suspicion: that the world endured a 500-year cold snap -- The Little Ice Age -- that lasted roughly from A.D. 1300 until 1850. "The little ice age" tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today's global warming. With its basis in cutting-edge science, "The little ice age" offers a new perspective on familiar events. Renowned archaeologist Brian Fagan shows how the increasing cold affected Norse exploration; how changing sea temperatures caused English and Basque fishermen to follow vast shoals of cod all the way to the New World; how a generations-long subsistence crisis in France contributed to social disintegration and ultimately revolution; and how English efforts to improve farm productivity in the face of a deteriorating climate helped pave the way for the Industrial Revolution and hence for global warming.
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As a young boy, Sebastião Salgado loved exploring his parents’ farm in the forests of Brazil, always dreaming of what might lie beyond his view. When he went away to school, he met Lélia, who showed him how to use a camera. As he looked through the lens, Sebastião realized he could use photography to capture how the world fits together. Sebastião used his pictures to tell(...)
Planting hope: A portrait of photographer Sebastião Salgado
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As a young boy, Sebastião Salgado loved exploring his parents’ farm in the forests of Brazil, always dreaming of what might lie beyond his view. When he went away to school, he met Lélia, who showed him how to use a camera. As he looked through the lens, Sebastião realized he could use photography to capture how the world fits together. Sebastião used his pictures to tell the stories of people who might not otherwise be seen. But after witnessing too much destruction, he put away his camera and returned to his childhood home. The land was in ruins. So Sebastião and Lélia decided to rebuild the rainforest and photograph the beauty of the world to save it. Through art and activism, they would show that everyone was responsible for caring for the planet and that hope endures if we take action.
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Challenging social inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Moverment and agrarian reform in Brazil
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In ''Challenging Social Inequality'', an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure. They focus on the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST)—Latin America's largest and most prominent social movement—and its ongoing efforts to(...)
Challenging social inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Moverment and agrarian reform in Brazil
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In ''Challenging Social Inequality'', an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure. They focus on the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST)—Latin America's largest and most prominent social movement—and its ongoing efforts to confront historic patterns of inequality in the Brazilian countryside. Several essays provide essential historical background for understanding the MST. They examine Brazil's agrarian structure, state policies, and the formation of rural civil-society organizations. Other essays build on a frequently made distinction between the struggle for land and the struggle on the land. The first refers to the mobilization undertaken by landless peasants to demand government land redistribution. The struggle on the land takes place after the establishment of an official agricultural settlement. The main efforts during this phase are geared toward developing productive and meaningful rural communities. The last essays in the collection are wide-ranging analyses of the MST, which delve into the movement's relations with recent governments and its impact on other Brazilian social movements. In the conclusion, Miguel Carter appraises the future of agrarian reform in Brazil.
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Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grew around them, organizing the specimens into collections. Known as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor. "Herbarium" is a fascinating enquiry into this unique field of plant biology, exploring how herbaria emerged and have changed over time, who promoted(...)
Herbarium: The quest to preserve and classify the world's plants
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Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grew around them, organizing the specimens into collections. Known as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor. "Herbarium" is a fascinating enquiry into this unique field of plant biology, exploring how herbaria emerged and have changed over time, who promoted and contributed to them, and why they remain such an important source of data for their new role: understanding how the world’s flora is changing. Barbara Thiers, director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden, also explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things at both the molecular level and on a global scale can be applied to herbaria specimens, helping us address some of the most critical problems facing the world today.
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Empire: Impressions de Chine
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Souvent amené en Asie pour son travail, J. W. Delano observe, avec des sentiments mêlés, la transformation de la physionomie de la Chine par la ténacité de son peuple. Ses photographies constituent une exploration intense de ce qui affleure sous la surface, une étude de lumière, de formes, d'énergie et d'émotion, de la manière dont le pays réagit à l'intrusion d'un(...)
Empire: Impressions de Chine
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Souvent amené en Asie pour son travail, J. W. Delano observe, avec des sentiments mêlés, la transformation de la physionomie de la Chine par la ténacité de son peuple. Ses photographies constituent une exploration intense de ce qui affleure sous la surface, une étude de lumière, de formes, d'énergie et d'émotion, de la manière dont le pays réagit à l'intrusion d'un observateur étranger.
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La maison chinoise
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« La Maison chinoise » traite principalement d’architecture, mais pas seulement : cet ouvrage vise à montrer comment le système de construction et d’aménagement de l’espace propre à la Chine ancienne se conjugue avec une certaine façon d’habiter et de vivre « domestiquement ». Il entreprend ainsi ce que l’on pourrait appeler une archéologie de l’habitat domestique. De(...)
La maison chinoise
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« La Maison chinoise » traite principalement d’architecture, mais pas seulement : cet ouvrage vise à montrer comment le système de construction et d’aménagement de l’espace propre à la Chine ancienne se conjugue avec une certaine façon d’habiter et de vivre « domestiquement ». Il entreprend ainsi ce que l’on pourrait appeler une archéologie de l’habitat domestique. De nombreux aspects de la maison chinoise ont bien entendu déjà été étudiés et commentés, mais ce que vise cette étude, c’est à montrer et expliquer comment, dans l’architecture et l’aménagement de la maison, tout se tient et forme un système technique cohérent ; comment les questions de charpenterie, de disposition des édifices, de décoration intérieure et extérieure, d’aménagement des cours et des voiries, se raccordent entre elles ; comment « grande architecture » et architecture « vernaculaire » s’articulent.
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