En faisant des recherches généalogiques sur les origines de sa famille paternelle, Catherine Kessler découvre la relation amoureuse entre la cousine de son père, Paulette et un jeune sous-officier de la Wehrmacht durant l’occupation de Paris. C’est un choc profond pour elle qui a été élevée dans l’aura de son père résistant et de son oncle, fusillé à 19 ans par les nazis. Décidée à comprendre, elle va remonter le cours de l’histoire et mettre au jour un lourd secret de famille. Ses recherc...

D’Indochine à Potiche, cet ouvrage explore l’évolution de la carrière et de l’image de Catherine Deneuve à travers la figure poétique et symbolique de la maison. Sur la base des star studies et des gender studies, Catherine Deneuve femme maison analyse les moyens par lesquels la célèbre actrice a su réinventer son image pour affronter le passage du temps et s’imposer, à plus de cinquante ans, comme reine incontestée du cinéma français. L’ouvrage entend participer aux recherches sur le deve...

This edited collection disrupts tendencies in feminist science studies to dismiss rhetoric as having concern only for language, and it counters posthumanist theories that ignore human materialities and asymmetries of power as co-constituted with and through distinctions such as gender, sex, race, and ability. The eight essays of Feminist Rhetorical Science Studies: Human Bodies, Posthumanist Worlds model methodologies for doing feminist research in the rhetoric of science. Collect...

German Scholars in Exiledeals with intellectuals who fled Nazi Germany and found refuge in either the United States or in American Services in Great Britain and post-WWII Germany. The volume focuses on scholars who were outside the commonly known Max Horkheimer-Hannah Arendt circles, who are less well-known but not less important. Their experiences ranged from an outstanding career at an Ivy-League university to a return to the German Democratic Republic and a position as an econo...

How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning, policy and practice.This volume establishes a platform for comparison of international systems, trends and outcomes in foster care today. Each contributor provides a commentary on o...

A collection of suspense-filled thrillers from master of the genre Stephen GallagherA listening treat for fans of gripping drama: eight thrillers, plus a bonus story, from ‘the finest British writer of bestselling popular fiction since Le Carré’. Full of suspense and utterly immersive with full-cast production values, this collection is not to be missed.In sci-fi thriller Chimera, there are unexplained killings at a secret research...