by Colette Boky (2008)
La présente biographie relate une carrière riche, autant à l'opéra qu'au concert et en récital. Le lecteur pénètre dans les coulisses parfois mystérieuses des maisons d'opéra. Colette Boky nous entretient de ses relations avec ses collègues, de sa conception des principaux rôles qu'elle a incarnés, de ses prestations devant maints personnages célèbres. Mais, plus encore, ces pages tracent le portrait d'une femme résolue, fonceuse, au franc parler, qui ne craint pas de mettre sa réputation au service de causes qui lui tiennent à coeur.
Arianna Stassinopoulos
A thorough exploration of the personal life and professional career of the controversial soprano draws on her private letters, her personal tapes, and dozens of interviews to relate her triumphs, battles, passions, and failures.
Erwin Panofsky
This classic text presents the life, times, and works of Albrecht Durer. Through the skill and immense knowledge of Erwin Panofsky, the reader is dazzled not only by Durer the artist but also Durer in a wide array of other roles, including mathematician and scientific thinker. Originally published in 1943 in two volumes, The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer met with such wide popular and scholarly acclaim that it led to three editions and then, in 1955, to the first one-volume edition. Without sacrifice of text or illustrations, the book was reduced to this single volume by the omission of the Handlist and Concordance. The new introduction by Jeffrey Chipps Smith reflects upon Panofsky the man, the tumultuous circumstances surrounding the creation of his masterful monograph, its innovative contents, and its early critical reception. Erwin Panofsky was one of the most important art historians of the twentieth century. Panofsky taught for many years at Hamburg University but was forced by the Nazis to leave Germany. He joined the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1935, where he spent the remainder of his career and wrote The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer. He developed an iconographic approach to art and interpreted works through an analysis of symbolism, history, and social factors.
Pef
Peut-on voyager à dos de baleine ? Quel est le meilleur remède contre l'insomnie : la lecture parcours ou la lecture par coeur ? Est-il possible qu'un rossignol de trois mètres de long offre un peu de lecture à notre oreille ? Que retenir de notre passage dans une "biblioville" ? Et que vient faire l'Homme au casque d'or de Rembrandt dans ce Petit éloge de la lecture ? De nos pieds au ciel étoilé, tout est lecture... Pef nous entraîne dans un voyage sans autre destination que celle du plaisir de lire.
Grant MacEwan
Long considered the dean of prairie history, Grant MacEwan more than any other writer has explored the colourful personalities and important issues that give the Canadian prairies their unique character.Grant McEwan's Fifty Mighty Men is a compelling collection of sotries about men whose vigour, vision and courage shaped an emerging Western Canada. Missionaries, politicians, cowboys, doctors, chiefs and many more all had a share in building the West in their own way. Experience the excitement of Western Canada's history through Grant MacEwan's humourous, fast-paced and entertaining writing.