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A Time to Die
Behind monastery walls, men of God spend their lives preparing for the passage of death. Best-selling French author Nicolas Diat set out to find what their deaths can reveal about the greatest mystery faced by everyone—the end of life. How to die? How to respond to our fear of death? To answer these and other questions, Diat travelled to eight European monasteries including Solesmes Abbey and the Grande Chartreuse. Through extraordinary interviews with monks, he learned that their death experiences are varied and unique, with elements of peace, pain, humility, sorrow, and joy. These monks have the same fears, torments, and sorrows as everyone else, Diat discovered. What is exemplary about them is their humility and simplicity. When death approaches, and its hand reveals its strength, they are like happy and naïve children who wait with impatience to open a gift. They have complete confidence in the mercy of God.
The Artificial Disc
Spine surgery is evolving much like hip surgery did 30 years ago. It is progressing away from fusion towards mobility retention. The LINK SB Charité Artificial Disc is the only motion-retaining disc replacement for which there is long-term clinical experience with thousands of the devices having been implanted. In this book, the topic of artificial disc replacement is thoroughly discussed by the inventors and top spine specialists. Key features, such as the history of the SB Charité Disc, spinal anatomy, technical background, and clinical results are presented. This provides much valuable information to spinal surgeons interested in the state of the art of this exciting treatment. The SB Charité disc replacement, used in dedicated European centers for more than 10 years, is presently creating much interest in the Americas, too. This book is a must for anyone in the field of medicine interested in the operative treatment of low back pain.
Challenging the Pacific
Just two years after rowing solo across the North Atlantic at the age of twenty-five, Maud Fontenoy was ready for a new challenge—crossing the Pacific Ocean. Leaving from Lima, Peru, and traveling 4,400 miles in seventy-three days, Fontenoy landed in Hiva Oa in French Polynesia, becoming the first woman to complete what is known as the “Kon-Tiki” route. Alone at sea for days and nights on end, Fontenoy’s story relates the ups and downs of her time at sea, from circling sharks to the celebrity welcome upon her journey’s end. Named one of Time Magazine International’s thirty most important people of 2005, Fontenoy presents the reader with a terrific, entertaining adventure story on the high seas as she faces the Pacific Ocean. Fontenoy overcame the odds as well as her personal doubts and fears, demonstrating not only her indomitable courage and strength, but proving once again that women can conquer the most difficult and treacherous obstacles.
Between Rome and Rebellion
With Between Rome and Rebellion, Yves Chiron, acclaimed author of dozens of biographies and historical studies, once again proves himself a master historian. Drawing upon a vast fund of information gathered over the course of three decades, including numerous interviews, correspondence, diaries, and archives, Chiron tells the thrilling, at times gut-wrenching, story of the “loyal resistance” of Catholics—especially in France, but soon all over the world—who held fast to the old forms of worship, catechesis, doctrine, and family life, in the midst of a Church roiling with reforms that they viewed as betrayals. Starting with the Modernist crisis and Pius X’s response to it, we follow...
La Mélancolie du renard
1947, en Ardèche. Le docteur Jean-Baptiste Gandois, qui exerçait depuis plusieurs années en Polynésie française, vient de rentrer en métropole, à Largentière. Il ne sait pas encore ce qu’il fera de la maison dont il a hérité à la mort de sa mère quand il rencontre et décide d’y recueillir Clara, une jeune femme désemparée qui semble menacée par un invisible danger. Se noue alors entre le médecin et sa protégée une liaison, interrompue presque aussitôt par la disparition mystérieuse de la jeune femme. Dans l’incertitude, Gandois décide de rester à Largentière. Il s’y installe comme généraliste et met à profit ses tournées dans la région, sinistrée par la faillite de l’industrie de la soie, pour tenter de retrouver sa trace. Jusqu’au jour où il entend parler d’un terrible règlement de comptes dont la victime lui évoque étrangement Clara... Grand reporter, auteur de chansons, réalisateur de films documentaires, Philippe Lemaire publie avec La Mélancolie du renard son neuvième roman.
Mathilde
Dans les années 1940, le parcours initiatique d'une adolescente encore insouciante s'ouvrant à la vie, à ses premières amours, à l'engagement. L'Occupation et l'arrivée d'un officier allemand vont bouleverser son existence. C'est une rêveuse, Mathilde. Ses grands yeux bleus la trahissent. Sur son vélo ou parmi ses livres, l'adolescente, pleine d'impatience, fuit la solitude de la maison familiale ancrée dans un Haut-Jura secret et rugueux. Et la monotonie de l'atelier de couture où elle travaille. Emma, Suzy, Claire, Jean et Pierre forment une bande d'amis à l'image de la jeunesse insouciante et laborieuse d'avant-guerre. Dans leur sillage, Mathilde s'ouvre à la magie des salles obscures, aux discussions engagées dans les cafés. Surtout, elle capte tout de leurs jeux amoureux qui la troublent tant... L'imminence de la guerre puis l'Occupation, un talent révélé pour la photo et les valses-hésitations de son cœur feront grandir Mathilde. De spectatrice de la vie des autres, deviendra-t-elle, enfin, l'actrice de sa propre existence ?
The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism
A profound understanding of the surrealists’ connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works • Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost “psychic” and magical powers • Provides many examples of esoteric influence in surrealism, such as how Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon was originally titled The Bath of the Philosophers Not merely an artistic or literary movement as many believe, the surrealists rejected the labels of artist and author bestowed upon them by outsiders, acce...
