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    The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
    RÉVOLUTION CRYPTOS
    Isabelle Cornaro
    Silvie Defraoui
    Thorn
    Latifa Echakhch
    • Latifa Echakhch

      Now I Can Shut My Eyes and I Hear the Entire Space

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      A fascinating conversation that offers profound insights into the artistic as well as sociopolitical forces behind Latifa Echakhch’s art. Latifa Echakhch studied at the art academies of Grenoble, Paris-Cergy, and Lyon. Now based in Switzerland, Eckakhch is concerned with the concept of culture as well as personal and collective memory in between the poles of social and political debate. Her work often features installations that make use of a wide variety of materials, such as brick and raw earth, which she mixes with ink.This book is part of the new On Words series presenting conversations with contemporary women artists. Through these conversations, readers come to understand the sources from which they draw inspiration, the themes in their work, and their view of the world. Bringing together a wide range of viewpoints, the On Words series adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history as told by those who actively shape it. 

      Latifa Echakhch
    • Thorn

      • 406pages
      • 15 heures de lecture
      3,0(1)Évaluer

      C'est une rose Anglaise et je suis sur le point d'être une épine dans son flanc. Elle n'a pas sa place ici. À partir du moment où elle met les pieds dans Rosewood High- il est clair qu'elle doit partir. Et je ferai tout ce qui est en mon pouvoir pour me débarrasser d'elle. La trahison dont je me souviens à chaque fois que nos yeux se croisent doit disparaitre. C'est une fille riche perdue qui essaie de se remettre de la mort de ses parents. Mais rien de tout cela ne me m'intéresse. C'est ma vie. Mes règles. Mon année de terminale. C'est moi qui décide. Et je décide que c'en est fini pour elle. Jusqu'à ce qu'elle me prouve que j'ai tort... Avertissement Chers lecteurs, THORN est une romance noire au lycée avec des niveaux élevés d'angoisse, de drame et d'émotions. Il s'agit d'une romance pour Jeunes Adultes et non destinée aux lecteurs de moins de 17 ans. Si vous n'aimez pas vos alphas méchants et vilains, alors ce n'est peut-être pas pour vous.

      Thorn
    • Silvie Defraoui

      A Work is Never Created Alone, but in Conversation with the World

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      In this in-depth interview, Silvie Defraoui talks not only about her projects and practice, but also about her experiences with the national and international art scene. Swiss artist Silvie Defraoui, born in 1935, is a pioneer of video art and art education. Beginning in 1975, she worked in collaboration with her husband Chérif Defraoui (1932–1994). Together they developed the Archives du Futur , a reflection on images, their status, and potential for memory and the future. The two artists also founded the legendary Atelier Médias Mixtes at Geneva’s École supérieure des Beaux-Arts (now HEAD—Genève). Since 1995, Defraoui has pursued a practice using various forms of expression, including projection, installation, ceramics, and serigraphy.This book is part of the new On Words series presenting conversations with contemporary women artists. Through these conversations, readers come to understand the sources from which they draw inspiration, the themes in their work, and their view of the world. Bringing together a wide range of viewpoints, the On Words series adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history as told by those who actively shape it. 

      Silvie Defraoui
    • Isabelle Cornaro

      The Fascination with the Material and the Aversion to it

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      Isabelle Cornaro, born in 1974 and based in Paris and Geneva, holds degrees in art history and visual arts. She has a strong interest in experimental cinema and devotes herself to the narrative, symbolic, or economic origins of things. In her work she almost assumes an anthropologist?s manner to investigate people?s seemingly fixated attachment to often emotionally charged, even fetishized objects, creating large stage installations or short movies.00On Words is a collection of interviews with leading contemporary women artists. In conversation with Julie Enckell Julliard, Federica Martini, and Sarah Burkhalter, they speak about the sources from which they draw inspiration, themes in their work, and their view of the world. The series brings together a wide range of viewpoints and adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history as told by those who actively shape it.00On Words. In cooperation with the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA). 00.

      Isabelle Cornaro
    • Les cryptomonnaies bouleversent les équilibres de la pensée économique et financière. Elles ouvrent devant nous les portes d'un nouveau monde, qui sera, dans 20 ans, si différent de ce que nous connaissons... Quel sera l'impact de la finance décentralisée ? Quels sont les mécanismes qui régissent aujourd'hui le marché des cryptomonnaies, et quelles dynamiques en attendre sur nos modèles politiques, sociaux, économiques et monétaires ? Voilà autant de questions qui feront les nouvelles fortunes de demain. Les auteurs proposent à travers ces pages une grille de lecture jamais abordée à ce jour. Ce livre insiste d'abord sur les caractéristiques économiques de ce qui résonne comme le pilier du monde de demain : la Révolution Crypto ! Dans nos économies digitalisées, tout reste à repenser : les modèles d'investissement, d'épargne, d'enrichissement, d'échange, de financement des entreprises, de création monétaire, de droit de propriété... Ce livre aborde également une approche statistique des cryptomonnaies encore jamais publiée : quel est l'impact des mécanismes de marché sur l'évolution du prix des cryptomonnaies ? Vous y découvrirez de fascinantes conclusions... Enfin, ce livre propose une réflexion sur la véritable utilité de cette technologie et les mécanismes qui ont contribué, et contribueront, à l'émergence ou la transformation de la Blockchain et de son utilisation. Les innovations se succèdent, mais les plus pertinentes finissent toujours par terrasser les plus anciennes. La Blockchain est à Internet ce que la voiture était au train !

      RÉVOLUTION CRYPTOS
    • The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey

      • 368pages
      • 13 heures de lecture
      4,6(32)Évaluer

      The inspiring story of a young Armenian’s harrowing escape from genocide and of his granddaughter’s quest to retrace his steps Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard fragments of her grandfather Stepan’s story, of how he was swept up in the deadly mass deportation of Armenians during World War I and of how he miraculously managed to escape. Longing for a fuller picture of Stepan’s life — and the lost home her family fled — Dawn travels to Turkey and Syria, across a landscape still rife with tension. Using his newly discovered journals as a guide, she reconstructs her grandfather’s odyssey to the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire. There, he found himself alone and on a grueling death march along the banks of the Euphrates River. Part reportage, part memoir, The Hundred Year Walk alternates between Stepan’s tale of resilience and Dawn’s remarkable journey, giving us a rare eyewitness account of the twentieth century’s first large-scale genocide. It’s filled with edge of your seat escapes and accounts of lifesaving kindnesses in the harsh desert. And it’s in the desert that Dawn finds the unexpected: the secret to Stepan’s survival.  

      The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
    • American Framing

      The Same Something for Everyone

      • 136pages
      • 5 heures de lecture
      5,0(3)Évaluer

      From its origins in the Midwest in the early nineteenth century, the technique of light timber framing—also known at the time as "Chicago construction"—quickly came to underwrite the territorial and ideological expansion of the United States. Softwood construction was inherently practical, as its materials were readily available and required little skill to assemble. The result was a built environment that erased typological and class no amount of money can buy you a better 2 x 4. This fundamental sameness paradoxically underlies the American culture of individuality, unifying all superficial differences. It has been both a cause and effect of the country's high regard for novelty, in contrast with the stability that is often assumed to be essential to architecture.American Framing  is a visual and textual exploration of the social, environmental, and architectural conditions and consequences of this ubiquitous form of construction. For architecture, it offers a story of an American project that is bored with tradition, eager to choose economy over technical skill, and accepting of a relaxed idea of craft in the pursuit of something useful and new—the forming of an architecture that enables architecture.

      American Framing
    • "The much anticipated, special tenth anniversary edition features an updated introduction and 65 delicious, updated drink recipes and drinking games. The recipes, including 13 brand new drinks and 2 new bar snacks exclusive to the revised edition, are organized into new chapters for today's modern reader. The handsome package complete with its original three-piece case, deckled edge, and brilliant duo-toned illustrations throughout also includes five brand-new pieces of art"--

      Tequila Mockingbird (10th Anniversary Expanded Edition)