La Sixième Branche ? Une fondation mystérieuse.Louis Veghe, un Juif roumain installé au Canada depuis 1967. Steve Ferris, un théologien protestant, devenu présentateur de télévision. Gloss, un écrivain velléitaire, compagnon de jeunesse de Louis?Ces personnages et beaucoup d?autres, des femmes surtout, sont-ils complices ? En tout cas, d?un continent à l?autre, rescapés du communisme ou du puritanisme, ils oscillent entre le reniement et le pardon.Le roman de Thomas Pa...

Quand Boileau oppose le gain et la gloire dans des vers célèbres de l’Art poétique, il fait plus que claironner son intention de souscrire ouvertement à la nouvelle politique littéraire et artistique du Roi-Soleil. En même temps, et sans doute plus profondément, il met en relief une angoisse qui traverse tout le XVIIe siècle : comment intégrer dans les circuits d’échange des objets, comme l’« art divin » de la poésie, qui par nature se présentent comme foncièreme...

The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state that emerges during the reception of texts and artefacts, it amounts to the reader's or viewer's sense of having entered the represented world while at the same time keeping a distance from it. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts is an in-depth study of the main questions surrounding this experience of art as reality.Beginning with an introduction pr...

Si le rire accompagne le roman tout au long de son aventure, c’est qu’il apparaît comme l’un des traits les plus sûrs par lesquels cet art protéiforme puisse être défini. Il paraît clair, en effet, que le roman ne peut pas être caractérisé uniquement suivant les principes qui président à la formation des genres canoniques, c’est-à-dire à partir de critères formels et performatifs, ou alors qu’un tel effort de définition, pour valable qu’il soit, ne parvient pas à cerner la spécificité du g...

«Una delle aspirazioni generose, confuse e utopiche, che circolavano intorno al ’68, fu il desiderio di relazioni sentimentali e sessuali non esclusive, che permettessero di innamorarsi e fare l’amore con più persone, non solo successivamente ma anche contemporaneamente.Tali relazioni avrebbero dovuto avere, come presupposto e come conseguenza, l’abbandono della pretesa di possesso esclusivo sulla persona amata, e quindi la sparizione del sentimento...

In Russian historiography, the Moscow School’s paradigm shift from political and legal history to social and economic history was markedly driven by Pavel Miliukov (1859-1943), the late leader of the Constitutional Democrats and foreign minister of the Provisional Government. Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905 develops a narrative of historical sociology’s advancement through the Moscow School under Miliukov’s influence and provides a window into his decision making as a pol...

This edited book is written for students, postdocs and established investigators who want to enter the field of single-particle cryo-EM. This is a recently developed method to determine high-resolution structures of biological macromolecules. A major strength is the fact that cryo-EM does not require prior crystallization of protein complexes. Furthermore, it is especially well suited for larger complexes and molecular machines, although it can also be used for macromolecules as small as 4...

Agriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential growth in computing technology has allowed significant growth in mathematical modelling of the dynamics of agricultural systems. The complexity of approaches has grown in parallel with the availabil...

Die Watergate-Affäre bringt 1974 den US-Präsidenten Richard Nixon zu Fall. Was der Öffentlichkeit zunächst als unspektakulärer Einbruch erscheint, erweist sich durch die Recherche engagierter Reporter als brisanter Polit-Skandal. Bob Woodward und Carl Bernstein von der Washington Post entdecken Spuren zu Hintermännern im Weißen Haus ... Ein fesselndes Feature zu einem der Schlüsselmomente des 20. Jahrhunderts, inszeniert mit Musik, O-Tönen der Zeitzeugen und vielen Sprechern - diese spanne...

Heavy metals always pose serious ecological risks when released into the environment due to their elemental non-degradable nature, regardless of their chemical form. This calls for the development of efficient and low-cost effluent treatment and metal recuperation technologies for contaminated waste water, not only because regulatory limits need to be met but also because the waste itself can be a resource for certain precious metals.Biosorption is a general property of living and ...