Susan Pickford

The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain “Had me in its grips from the first page to the astonishing and jaw-dropping ending.” —Samantha M. Bailey, USA Today bestselling author of Woman On the Edge A... Lire la suite

Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux étudiants candidats au CAPES externe d'Anglais nouvelle formule. D'une façon plus générale, le livre s'adresse également à toute personne souhaitant s'entraîner à la traduction à un niveau L3/Concours, ou à l'analyse de... Lire la suite

Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad... Lire la suite

The fashion for eccentric travel writing inspired by Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy lasted a century, challenging the narrative structure and print features of traditional travel writing with paratextual extravagances designed to complicate th Lire la suite

Cultivated in Tuscany and in the south of France, Iris Pallida is the most expensive raw material in the perfumer’s palette. Obtaining this precious absolute requires five to six years of patience after harvest, for that is when the odorous... Lire la suite

La somme d'informations et d'analyses réunies dans 100 000 ans de beauté part d'un constat et d'une ambition. Le constat est que la quête de beauté obsède l'espèce humaine depuis plus de cent mille ans et que le corps humain est son médium... Lire la suite

Cet ouvrage cerne les enjeux de l'enseignement de la traduction dans divers contextes francophones, proposant plusieurs perspectives épistémologiques (sociologie, histoire, didactique contrastive) et abordant les évolutions technologiques du domaine... Lire la suite

Originating in India and cultivated principally in Haiti, vetiver is a topical grass whose tangled roots contain a fragrant essence that can be extracted via steam distillation. At once fresh, citrusy, vegetal, woody and smoky; vetiver’s essential... Lire la suite

This book shines a light on the practices and professional identities of translators in nineteenth-century France, speaking to the translatorial turn in translation studies which spotlights translators as active agents in the international... Lire la suite

Identifying gaps in knowledge is the first duty of any historian who sets out to understand the past. It is impossible fully to understand our forebears without some idea of what they did not know: the history of ignorance is an indispensable part... Lire la suite