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Author: Jean-François Braunstein
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ISBN: 9782200629175
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Languages : fr
Pages : 0

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Author: Jean-François Braunstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782200268374
Category : French language
Languages : fr
Pages : 370

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L'essentiel, tout l'essentiel, rien que l'essentiel. Le " Braunstein/Phan " s'est imposé comme le manuel idéal pour se préparer aux examens et concours de recrutement comportant une épreuve de culture générale. Mis à jour et augmenté, il intègre tout ce qu'il faut avoir retenu des grandes évolutions récentes (sur le Proche-Orient au XXe siècle, le pétrole, la construction européenne, le " choc des civilisations ", etc.). Un panorama thématique et chronologique complet de la culture occidentale, suivant un plan simple, à travers six domaines (histoire, religions, philosophie, littérature, arts et sciences) et sept périodes : La Grèce ; Rome et les monothéismes ; Le Moyen Age ; Le XVIIe siècle ou l'âge classique ; Le XVIIIe siècle et les Lumières ; Le XIXe siècle ; Le XXe siècle... à travers 120 entrées construites autour d'un sujet ou d'un auteur : des précisions de terminologie, un exposé général, simple et clair, des documents et indications de prolongements culturels. Des instruments de travail immédiatement exploitables : repères chronologiques, citations, bibliographie, index.

Author: Michèle Goyens
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058676714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491

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Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 40Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations of canonical texts assumed great importance. Moreover, translation occurred at two levels in the Middle Ages. First, Greek or Arabic texts were translated into the learned language, Latin. Second, Latin texts became source texts themselves, to be translated into the vernaculars as their importance across Europe started to increase.The situation of the respective translators at these two levels was fundamentally different: whereas the former could rely on a long tradition of scientific discourse, the latter had the enormous responsibility of actually developing a scientific vocabulary. The contributions in the present volume investigate both levels, greatly illuminating the emergence of the scientific terminology and concepts that became so fundamental in early modern intellectual discourse. The scientific disciplines covered in the book include, among others, medicine, biology, astronomy, and physics.

Author: Michele Campopiano
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1903153735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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New perspectives on and interpretations of the popular medieval genre of the universal chronicle.

Author: Julie Barlow
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250102448
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain, in a book as fizzy as a bottle of the finest French champagne, the most important aspect of all: the French don't communicate, they converse. To understand and speak French well, one must understand that French conversation runs on a set of rules that go to the heart of French culture. Why do the French like talking about "the decline of France"? Why does broaching a subject like money end all discussion? Why do the French become so aroused debating the merits and qualities of their own language? Through encounters with school principals, city hall civil servants, gas company employees, old friends and business acquaintances, Julie and Jean-Benoît explain why, culturally and historically, conversation with the French is not about communicating or being nice. It's about being interesting. After reading The Bonjour Effect, even readers with a modicum of French language ability will be able to hold their own the next time they step into a bistro on the Left Bank.

Author: Robert Silvestre
Publisher: Editions d'Organisation
ISBN: 9782708128132
Category : Self culture
Languages : fr
Pages : 345

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Ce manuel a pour but de fournir un support de travail clair et efficace aux étudiants qui préparent un diplôme, examen ou concours incluant une épreuve de culture générale ou de communication écrite. Cette troisième édition reprend et actualise les thèmes développés dans les premières et de nouveaux sujets ont été ajoutés en fonction des questions récentes d'examen et de l'actualité. Les thèmes sont regroupés en chapitres : * le monde politique * la société et ses structures * la société et ses loisirs * pratiquer le monde * la communication * le cadre de vie * l'homme et ses rêves * la connaissance et la raison * sciences et techniques * les périls et les espoirs Ce Manuel de culture générale constitue un excellent support pédagogique pour le travail de groupe. Il offre des idées de débats, des sujets d'exposés, des passerelles avec les autres champs de la connaissance ou les autres matières d'étude (sociologie, philosophie, histoire, droit, économie...). La littérature ou les arts sont souvent évoqués par des suggestions de lectures, des citations, des exemples... Accessible à tous mais loin de proposer des réponses à toutes les questions, il a aussi été conçu comme un outil de réflexion et de travail personnel.

Author: Guille-Allès library and museum, Guernsey
Publisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 1602

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Author: Jean-François Braunstein
Publisher: Armand Colin
ISBN: 2200619715
Category : Study Aids
Languages : fr
Pages : 658

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L’essentiel, tout l’essentiel, rien que l’essentiel ! Stoïcisme, art étrusque, orthodoxie, Aristote, architecture baroque, Galilée, migrations, Dante, jansénisme, surréalisme, laïcité, amour courtois, Heidegger, choc des civilisations, Stuart Mill, chiites et sunnites, Vermeer, construction européenne, shintoïsme, pop art, crise pétrolière, Confucius, séries télévisées, Sartre, transhumanisme... n’auront plus de secrets pour vous. Le manuel de référence incontournable. Un panorama complet de la culture occidentale à travers six domaines : Histoire, Religions, Philosophie, Littérature, Arts, Sciences et neuf périodes : Grèce - Rome et les monothéismes - Moyen Âge - Renaissance et l’époque moderne - XVIIe siècle ou l’âge classique - XVIIIe siècle et les Lumières - XIXe siècle - XXe siècle - XXIe siècle

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Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 2749522897
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Author: The Noranda Lectures/ Expo 67
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487590172
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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The fruits of a unique cultural exchange are brought together in this unusual book. Twenty-eight of the most eminent men and women of our generation – philosophers, historians, and scientists from nineteen countries – here discuss what they consider the most vital issues of our day. Paul-Henri Spaak, Barbara Ward, Gunnar Mydral, Linus Pauling, and many others participated in the Noranda lecture series at Expo 67 in Montreal, and each is concerned here with a special aspect of Expo's theme: Man and His World. The approaches to the theme are as varied as the backgrounds of the speakers. Some of the essays give a revealing and optimistic description of the national and international efforts to ensure a future for mankind; others, less optimistic, stress the increasing insanity of the world and draw attention to the poverty, starvation, hatred, waste, and war which destroy what creative men have built. One group of papers deals with the idea of progress. André Leroi Gourhan offers a panoramic description of man's cultural evolution and sketches the vast possibilities of future development; Karl Löwith questions the very notion of progress and observes that much "progressive" development has resulted in nothing but destruction; Félix Houphouët-Boigny, president of the Ivory Coast Republic, describes progress in one section of the world – Africa, and the Ivory Coast in particular. Other lectures deal with such diverse topics as the proper role of government, the modern scientist, formal and informal aspects of education, the history of architecture, recent biological contributions of chemistry, the population explosion, new advances in physics, and the world as a separate entity from man. "The world as universe is not made by man," Professor Löwith reminds us. "It is there, even without us, existing for and by itself." Originally sponsored by Noranda Mines Ltd., the lectures attracted wide attention at the time of their delivery and again later when some of them were broadcast on radio and television. Collected in this book, they offer a distillation of some of the most significant thinking of today – clear and cogent presentations of ideas that have won Nobel prizes for some of their creators and international recognition for all. In her Introduction, Helen Hogg writes, "It is a book to be sipped and savoured, to be dipped into again and again. Such an approach will enable the reader best to appreciate the penetrating commentaries of some of the world's greatest figures."