This short verse describes all a child sees and does while sitting in the stroller.

During the 20th century, scientists discovered what the Universe is made of; as the 21st century begins, they are preparing experiments to find out how it came to be like this. This great adventure, which will involve a metaphorical journey back in time to within a billionth of a second of the Big Bang, is the latest stage in the quest to understand the nature of the matter that makes our Universe and the forces that govern it. The Particle Odyssey takes the read...

Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes), satellite broadcasting, digital downloads, and streaming. The introductory chapter by the volume editors develops two framing metaphors: “traveling musics” and “making waves.” The wave-making meta...

Animals have been entwined with our lives since the earliest days of civilization. Many of the first cave drawings are of animals and how they interact with humans. Dogs were loyal companions and protectors. Cats kept the home safe from mice and curled up on a lap after a long day of work. Both were worshipped as gods and goddesses.As our society grew, so did our appreciation of our animal neighbors on our Earth. Many of us now care for more unusual pets such as rabbits and geckos....

Musical theater fans first fell for Sutton Foster in her triumphant turn as the title character in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Since then the heralded triple threat performer has charmed Broadway audiences in a wide variety of memorable roles, playing a writer, a princess, a movie star, a nightclub singer and a Transylvania farm girl. Now the two-time Tony Award winner is conquering television as the lead in the critically acclaimed series Bunheads. A children's bio...

After devoted mountain climber Kumakichi Kumada falls into a ravine, he wakes up in the middle of a forest in another world…as a polar bear! Now this tough Ursus maritimus is looking after six werewolf sisters on the run from the humans tyrannizing their clan. Keeping his wits about him and using his knowledge from his past life, the next “mountain” for him to climb will be making a comfortable life in the forest for everyone!

La sélection des 100 dates incontournables qui ont marqué l'histoire de Cambrai de sa fondation à nos jours.

Shocked and distressed by a male writer’s vilification of women, Christine de Pizan has a powerful dreamlike vision in which she is visited by three personified Virtues: Reason, Rectitude and Justice. They tell her she has been chosen to write a book which will be like a city, housing virtuous women and protecting them from feminist attack. Heroines past and present form the foundations of this city biblical and mythical heroines, ruling queens, Christian saints, and inventors are among th...

Des volcans, nombreux… Des forêts, immenses… Des villages aux toits de lauzes, mais aussi aux toits de tuiles rouges ou, plus rares et si beaux, de chaume… Des châteaux de basalte ou de granite, et des églises romanes ou gothiques quelquefois surmontées d’un clocher-peigne… L’Histoire a laissé sa marque dans le département de Haute-Loire qui porte bien son nom, puisque les deux tiers de sa superficie dépassent les 800 mètres d’altitude.Ce livre vous propose une découverte singulière...

Les contes et légendes du Nord-Pas-de-Calais constituent un patrimoine culturel que les « gens du Nord » ont tissé à partir de leur environnement naturel, de leur histoire, de leurs réjouissances ou de leurs terreurs. Ils l’ont tout naturellement transmis à chaque génération au cours des longues veillées hivernales. Nous entrons ici dans un monde étrange et merveilleux, où nous suivons de majestueux géants qui se balancent, tournent et glissent sur les pavés en une marche rituelle. Nous cé...

Kumakichi Kumada, once human, has been reincarnated in another world as a polar bear. After rescuing six animal-eared sisters from some human knights, he now watches over them. Cave dwelling isn’t easy when food is scarce, so what’s a bear to do? Why, build a log cabin, of course! But when Kumakichi encounters a band of adventurers in pursuit of a giant snake, things get more than a little out of paw…

A highly -placed school official is accused of buying drugs on the street. Is he an out-of-control addict or a victim of discrimination? Voir Dire - a legal term meaning “to say what is true”- is the story of the racially-mixed jurors who will decide the official’s fate.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Christine Avila, Barbara Bosson, Shannon Cochran, Ella Joyce, Kevin Kilner and Amy Pietz.Directed by Ken Frankel. Recorded before a live audience.