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Robin Wilson

    1 janvier 1980

    Cet auteur explore les profondeurs des concepts mathématiques, les présentant au monde avec clarté et élégance. Son travail plonge souvent dans des idées géométriques complexes, rendant des sujets apparemment inaccessibles abordables à un public plus large. Par son écriture, il offre une perspective unique sur le monde des nombres et des formes, qui est à la fois intellectuellement stimulante et poétique.

    Oxford Figures
    The Gospel of Matthew, Vol 1
    Matthew 14-28
    The Theater of Images
    Meurtres à Séville
    La compagnie des ombres
    • La compagnie des ombres

      • 520pages
      • 19 heures de lecture
      3,6(85)Évaluer

      Lisbonne, 1944. Les nazis laissent entendre qu'ils sont en train de fabriquer la bombe atomique, et les Alliés mobilisent tous leurs moyens pour les en empêcher. Andrea, dix-neuf ans, anglaise, est plongée dans la bataille. Sa mission : récolter toutes sortes d'informations. Mais lorsqu'elle tombe amoureuse de Karl Voss, attaché à la légation allemande, leur liaison déstabilise l'équilibre précaire du petit monde des espions, précipitant les drames... Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, en pleine guerre froide, Andrea piste à Berlin le Léopard des neiges, espion convoité à la fois par les Russes et les Britanniques. Menteuse, tricheuse, manipulatrice, Andrea n'a été fidèle qu'à une seule vérité : son amour pour Karl. Quand elle découvre l'identité du Léopard des neiges, elle doit baisser le masque et choisir sans tricher.

      La compagnie des ombres
    • Meurtres à Séville

      Roman

      • 509pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      A Séville, trois personnes sont retrouvées mortes ligotées devant leur télévision, les paupières découpées. Chargé de l'enquête, l'inspecteur principal Falcon se retrouve confronté à son propre passé pour arrêter le tueur.

      Meurtres à Séville
    • At first encounter with any of Robert Wilson's main stage works can be literally overwhelming. The sheer beauty of his theatrical visions, the dreamy rightness of the action, the hypnotic blend of non-linear disjunction and deeper coherence... all of these seize one's attention and, if one is particularly susceptible to Wilson's power, compel one into thinking that nothing like this can ever have happened on a stage before. To characterize Robert Wilson's work as a summation of his activities as a teacher, writer, sculptor, painter, designer, architect and theater director would be to emphasize the diversity of his talents and overlook the coherence which underlies his work. This exhibition of Wilson's work was designed to expand our perception as we continue to view and review the impact of many arts upon the visual world.

      The Theater of Images
    • What was the original purpose of the Gospel of Matthew? For whom was it written? In this magisterial two-volume commentary, Walter Wilson interprets Matthew as a catechetical work that expresses the ideological and institutional concerns of a faction of disaffected Jewish followers of Jesus in the late first century CE. Wilson's compelling thesis frames Matthew's Gospel as not only a continuation of the biblical story but also as a didactic narrative intended to shape the commitments and identity of a particular group that saw itself as a beleaguered, dissident minority. Thus, the text clarifies Jesus's essential Jewish character as the "Son of David" while also portraying him in opposition to prominent religious leaders of his day--most notably the Pharisees--and open to cordial association with non-Jews. Through meticulous engagement with the Greek text of the Gospel, as well as relevant primary sources and secondary literature, Wilson offers a wealth of insight into the first book of the New Testament. After an introduction exploring the background of the text, its genre and literary features, and its theological orientation, Wilson explicates each passage of the Gospel with thorough commentary on the intended message to first-century readers about topics like morality, liturgy, mission, group discipline, and eschatology. Scholars, students, pastors, and all readers interested in what makes the Gospel of Matthew distinctive among the Synoptics will appreciate and benefit from Wilson's deep contextualization of the text, informed by his years of studying the New Testament and Christian origins

      The Gospel of Matthew, Vol 1
    • Oxford Figures

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture
      4,0(2)Évaluer

      Revealing the richness and influence of Oxford's mathematical tradition and the fascinating characters that have helped to shape it for over 800 years, this second edition brings the story right up to the opening of the new Oxford Mathematical Institute in 2013, with a foreword from Marcus du Sautoy and recent developments from Peter M. Neumann.

      Oxford Figures
    • Cosmic Trigger

      • 250pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      4,2(1517)Évaluer

      "While this, the second volume of the Cosmic Trigger trilogy, continues along the path set by the original Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati, it also stands solidly on its own. Any reader with an open mind and a sense of humor cannot help but be entertained and enlightened while following Wilson's explorations into such subjects as the future of cyberspace; the peculiarities of Irish jurisprudence; links among the Mafia, the CIA and the Catholic Church; anal-eroticism in The White House; the Dog Castrator of Palm Springs; and many more observations from his infinitely fertile brain."--Publisher description.

      Cosmic Trigger
    • The Silent and the Damned

      • 512pages
      • 18 heures de lecture
      4,0(723)Évaluer

      Mario Vega is seven years old and his life is about to change forever. Across the street, his father lies dead on the kitchen floor and his mother has been suffocated under her own pillow. It appears to be a suicide pact, but Inspector Javier Falcon has his doubts when he finds a note crushed in the dead man's hand."

      The Silent and the Damned
    • Spin

      • 624pages
      • 22 heures de lecture
      4,0(37432)Évaluer

      La vie de Tyler Dupree est inextricablement liée à celle des jumeaux Lawton, Diane et Jason. Ils étaient ensemble la nuit où la Terre a été coupée du reste de l’univers par une mystérieuse barrière opaque à l’extérieur de laquelle le temps s’écoule des millions de fois plus vite. Il ne reste donc plus que quelques décennies avant que le Soleil ne transforme la Terre en une boule de feu, exterminant ainsi l’humanité. Jason n’a alors plus qu’un but dans la vie : comprendre pourquoi et par qui la barrière a été installée. Roman de science-fiction vertigineux, Spin gagne le pari de nous transporter dans un futur lointain qui reste familier. Une réussite couronnée aux États-Unis par la plus haute distinction de la science-fiction, le prix Hugo, et en France par le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.

      Spin
    • "Seldom do comics burst onto the scene and shatter our worldview by being entirely poignant, raw, and captivating - but then, most comics aren't Bitch Panet." - Entertainment Weekly Eisner Award-nominated writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel) and Valentine De Landro (X-Factor) team up to bring you the premiere volume of Bitch Planet, a deliciously vicious riff on women-in-prison sci-fi exploitation. In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will hidden agendas, crooked guards, and the deadliest sport on (or off!) Earth take them to their maker?

      Bitch planet. Book one, Extraordinary machine