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Fighting for Freedom
The former slave gets into the eye of the Caribbean hurricane during the French Revolution there in 1794. He fights in Napoleonic Wars and get English Pow. He returns back to Guadeloupe after his release and takes part in the rebellion of the Bataillon des Antilles in May 1802 when slavery was to be reintroduced by the order of Napoleon. The unit is expelled from the island. François is ordered to serve in Mantua, where he escapes and finds refuge in the Danish duchy of Holstein. He settles there and founds a family in October 1806. François is a direct ancestor of the author. His biography is retraced. The conditions of slave trade are analyzed for Nigeria, the trade itself as are society...
Democratic Work
This book proposes a radical transformation of labour institutions, in order to lay the foundation for the democratization of society rather than capitalist accumulation. Using an empirical analysis of the contemporary world of work, Alexis Cukier examines the democratic meaning of today’s critique of work organization and questions the theoretical models (linked to class struggles and to industrial democracy) to conceive of a "democratic work." Considering particular historical experiments (such as cooperatives, self-management, worker’s councils) that try to realize democracy at work, this book also analyzes the political issue of "democratic work" in relation to issues such as labour law, feminist struggles and political ecology. Ultimately, this book proposes some institutional paths that could overtake the divide between the rights of the citizens and the rights of the workers, arguing finally: if we really want to radicalize democracy, we should begin with democratizing work.
Safe Performance in a World of Global Networks
This open access book provides an analytical and critical outlook, by leading scholars, of the impact of various trends in the quality of collaboration and resulting safety outcomes that arise from the evolution of traditional integrated production within a single firm into a complex web of partnerships and supply chains. In the face of increasing fragmentation within industrial production and the associated rise in the complexity of inter-organizational communication and transaction, this book analyses causal factors such as cost pressures, globalization of demand, increasingly flexible resource allocation and work organization, changes in legal liability and the possibilities afforded by i...
Experiments in Film Appreciation
Experiments in Film Appreciation is the fruit of academic collaboration between India (Banaras Hindu University), Italy (University of Turin) and France (University Lyon 2). It involves both scholars and research students, the latter from BHU and the Department of Oriental Studies Turin. Its articles deal with social and gender issues in Indian contemporary society: communalism, Kashmir, female foeticide, national identity, transgender, a Hindu anthropology of food, educational cinema, problematic conjugality and more. The multicultural approaches are mostly seen through the earnest view of young researchers: the volume stands also as a suggestion of India in the coming.
Philanthropy in the Muslim World
Philanthropy plays an essential role in Muslim practice around the world. Using a new framing, Philanthropy in the Muslim World contributes to the literature by adding Muslim-majority countries that have not been previously included in cross national philanthropy volumes as well as countries that have important Muslim minority communities.
Ambiance, Tourism and the City
Ambiance, Tourism and the City considers how tourism and urban development affect the lived ambiances of contemporary cities around the world. As most of the existing literature on sensory atmospheres says little about the intersection between tourism and atmospheric production, this book affirms the centrality of the notion of ambiance as a mode of inquiry into the making and remaking of urban places for tourist consumption. The book takes the reader into the sensory worlds of a traditional Italian marketplace, a jungle park in Kuala Lumpur, a slum in the Colombian city of MedellÃn, or the "sun and sand" tourism destinations in Southern Spain, among other case studies. It offers new insigh...
Sustainable Architecture – Between Measurement and Meaning
Each day new articles, books, and reports present new methods, standards, and technologies for achieving sustainability in architecture. Additionally, new materials, technological gadgets, and data are increasingly considered the staples of architecture’s future. As we increasingly embrace this techno-advancement, we must be equally aware that we may be pushing architecture into a managerial science and away from its core concerns such as expression, contextuality, functionality and aesthetics. Sustainable architecture that is focused on the abstract measurements of consumption, energy, and emissions loses sight of the vital role that architecture holds in our world: it is the field that c...
Orenoen
An 2013. Les dragons ont envahi la Terre. Il a fallu des centaines de millions de morts pour les repousser. Mais ont-ils réellement disparu de la surface de notre planète ? Ou bien sont-ils juste là , à côté, sur une planète terre parallèle, prêts à resurgir par une des portes entre les "cordes". Orenoen, eu coeur de la forêt indonésienne, est une de ces portes, où l'Ibucc - le nouveau gouvernement mondial - a installé un centre de recherches. Biagio LaMarca, "héros" du premier volet de ce diptyque, "La porte des dragons, est rappelé par l'Ibucc pour replonger au coeur de la bataille. Mais qui sont les plus dangereux des prédateurs, les dragons ou certains humains ?
Moi, Psyché...
Des dieux, des héros et des mythes... Les figures légendaires ont la parole. Psyché est une jeune fille en âge de se marier. Elle a pour atout d'être belle, si belle qu'elle fait peur aux hommes et qu'aucun prétendant n'ose se déclarer... Ses parents, désolés, vont consulter un oracle dont le verdict est le suivant : pour apaiser la colère de Vénus, qui est jalouse de sa beauté, elle devra accepter pour époux une créature affreuse – monstre, démon ou dragon ? – qui viendra la chercher le jour de ses noces. La cérémonie s'accomplit, et Psyché se retrouve dans la chambre d'un palais où son mari la rejoint pendant la nuit, lui ordonnant de ne pas allumer la lumière et, Ã...
L'allemand aux concours
Pour réussir un concours d´entrée dans l´une des Écoles de commerce françaises, il est nécessaire de disposer de certaines connaissances linguistiques et culturelles concernant la langue allemande et l´Allemagne. Cet ouvrage bilingue propose aux candidats un large éventail d´informations et d´outils qui leur permettront de se préparer au mieux aux épreuves écrites et orales des concours. Le présent ouvrage contient : • des informations sur les différentes épreuves ; • un rappel des phénomènes grammaticaux essentiels et élémentaires ; • un large éventail de notions langagières et de lexèmes, ainsi que plusieurs listes permettant aux étudiants d´éviter les erre...
