Très fervent catholique, Georges de La Tour a mis son talent, son pinceau et son atelier au service de la Réforme catholique, emplissant ses tableaux de saints et martyrs, symboles du renouveau de l'Église voulu par le concile de Trente. Toutes ces oeuvres sont communément réparties en diurnes dans la première partie de sa vie artistique et nocturnes dans la dernière période. L...(展开全部)

Giovanni Battista est l'un des innombrables gardiens d'une Tour immense, sans limites connues, dont les autorités semblent avoir oublié jusqu'à l'existence. Las d'attendre la visite de l'inspecteur, Giovanni décide de partir à sa recherche. Au cours d'une quête difficile, il va rencontrer Elias Aureolus Palingenius, qui veille sur d'étranges tableaux, et tomber amoureux de la j...(展开全部)

Bath History Tour offers a fascinating insight into the illustrious history of this beautiful city in Somerset. Author Jenny Knight guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how i

Know Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China’s early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. In the history of science and civilization in China, pharmacy—as a commercial enterprise and as a branch of classical medicine—resists easy characterization. While China’s long tradition of documenting the natural world through state-commissioned pharm...(展开全部)

Know Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China’s early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. In the history of science and civilization in China, pharmacy—as a commercial enterprise and as a branch of classical medicine—resists easy characterization. While China’s long tradition of documenting the natural world through state-commissioned pharm...(展开全部)

Central Manchester History Touris a unique insight into the fascinating history of the former 'Second City of the British Empire', showing just how much it has changed during the course of the ninetee

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that se...(展开全部)

As science probes the nature of life, society, and technology ever more closely, what it finds there is complexity. The sophisticated group behavior of social insects, the unexpected intricacies of the genome, the dynamics of population growth, and the self-organized structure of the World Wide Web - these are just a few examples of complex systems that still elude scientific u...(展开全部)

In "Boomerang" Michael Lewis, the international bestselling author of "The Big Short", "Liars' Poker", "The Blind Side" and "Moneyball", turns his trademark wit to the subject of how the financial meltdown hit us all in the face. Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by ta...(展开全部)

As science probes the nature of life, society, and technology ever more closely, what it finds there is complexity. The sophisticated group behavior of social insects, the unexpected intricacies of the genome, the dynamics of population growth, and the self-organized structure of the World Wide Web - these are just a few examples of complex systems that still elude scientific u...(展开全部)