"A fanciful romp through a cosmic 1812, Hugo Award–winning Levine's first novel is a treat for steampunk fantasy fans." — Library Journal (starred review)Born on Mars, sixteen-year-old Arabella Ashby enjoys many more freedoms than most girls her age, tramping around the desert with her older brother. But that liberty is not to last. Finding Mars much too unladylike for her daughters, Arabella's mother takes the girls back to London, where they're sure to f...

An inspiring exploration of the establishment of humans on Mars—tying into the National Geographic television documentary series MarsThe next frontier in space exploration is Mars, the Red Planet—and human habitation of Mars isn’t much farther off. In October 2015, NASA declared Mars “an achievable goal”; that same season, Ridley Scott and Matt Damon’s The Martian drew crowds into theaters, grossing over $200 million.Now the National Geographic Channel fas...

Electronic music is now ubiquitous, from mainstream pop hits to the furthest reaches of the avant garde. But how did we get here? In Mars by 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of synthesised tones, from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century, through the musique concrete of the Futurists and radical composers such as Pierre Schaeffer and Karl Stockhausen, to the gradual absorption of electronic instrumentation into the mainstream, be it through the...

Tome 2 de la série Iron HandsChargé de percer le secret de mystérieux appareils Aeldari, le Révérend de Fer Kristos des Iron Hands comprend vite que les xenos ne sont pas seuls à vouloir lui faire obstacle…POURQUOI LIRE CE LIVREC'est la suite de L'Œil de Medusa, et les Iron Hands y sont divisés sous l'effet d'une influence magique mystérieuse qui corrompt le Chapitre.L'HISTOIREDepuis dix millénaires,...

L’amore per la terra e un lavoro appassionante.Una fattoria fra i campi di grano e una famiglia molto unita.Peter Worrom è un ragazzo in gamba che crede nei valori d’altri tempi e non potrebbe desiderare di più. Ma c’è qualcosa che gli manca dalla morte del marito Marc: l’amore di un uomo.L’arrivo di Harry, un consulente agricolo proveniente dalla città, riuscirà a colmare quel vuoto? Basterà la perseveranza e l’ostinazione di Harry per vincere la diffidenza del più...

De son voyage à Nantes au printemps 1790, Jacques Louis David rapporta une vaste composition allégorique, inspirée par l’esprit révolutionnaire qui avait très tôt pris racine dans la cité portuaire. Le présent essai en propose une analyse serrée soulignant que, lors de son séjour dans le premier port négrier de France, le peintre fut inévitablement confronté à la réalité du commerce des esclaves. En déchiffrant la polysémie iconographique de son dessin, Philippe Bordes y voit une métaphore...

Can astronauts reach Mars by 2035? Absolutely, says Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon. Celebrated astronaut, brilliant engineer, bestselling author, Aldrin believes it is not only possibly but vital to America's future to keep pushing the space frontier outward for the sake of exploration, science, development, commerce, and security. What we need, he argues, is a commitment by the U.S. President as rousing as JFK's promise to reach the moon by the end of the 1960s—an a...

All'alba di un giorno di fine inverno, mentre tutti in casa ancora dormono, Angela Da Mar prende la barca e si spinge nell'acqua bassa della laguna di Venezia. Non è consueto, per una ragazza, andarsene in giro da sola, su un barchino a remi, vestita da maschio, ma Angela, nonostante i rimproveri di sua madre, non vuole rinunciare a quella libertà. Proprio quando sta per rientrare, senza che nessuno l'abbia vista, il suo remo urta qualcosa che galleggia. Un uomo in acqua. Un cadavere! Al c...

La Sacerdotisa del Mar es la aclamada novela en la que Dion Fortune presenta a su personaje de ficción más poderoso, Vivien Le Fay Morgan, una iniciada practicante de la Senda Hermética. Vivien tiene la capacidad de transformarse en imágenes mágicas, y aquí se convierte en Morgan Le Fay, sacerdotisa del mar de la Atlántida e hija adoptiva de Merlín. Desesperadamente enamorado de Vivien, Wilfred Maxwell trabaja a su lado en un retiro aislado junto al mar, investigando estos misterios oculto...

For ten thousand years, the Voice of Mars has been a secretive, but powerful position upon the Iron Council. Yet its ambitions, first seeded during the Horus Heresy, are only now beginning to mature. Iron Father Kristos is charged with unlocking the mysterious Eldar devices known collectively as the ‘Dawnbreak Technologies.’ Before he can recover the first element from Fabris Calivant, the Eldar orchestrate a vicious greenskin invasion which descends upon the Knight World. Kristos soon rea...

Arabella is now a hero, but her new status brings attention that could threaten all she holds dear, in this final cosmic adventure.Finally and truly husband and wife, Arabella Ashby and Capt. Prakash Singh are lauded as heroes in England after defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Venus. When they are invited to the Brighton palace of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, a Martian- and Venusian-inspired architectural marvel, the mechanically-bent Arabella finds he...

Leonore Mau a voyagé pendant près de deux décennies avec l'écrivain Hubert Fichte pour explorer les religions afro-diasporiques. Leurs photographies sont pour la plupart restées inédites. Elles nous posent des défis : Que signifie les regarder aujourd'hui - après les débats sur la représentation et le traitement des photographies artistiques et ethnographiques ?En tant qu'étude de cas, Un an et un jour porte son regard sur des images de souris prises en Haïti dans les anné...