Zi: 78 books

This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation. It also focuses on how literary themes in spirituals...

A. Le principe qui peut être énoncé, n’est pas celui qui fut toujours. L’être qui peut être nommé, n’est pas celui qui fut de tout temps. Avant les temps, fut un être ineffable, innommable. B. Alors qu’il était encore innommable,...

Chapitre 1. Vers l’idéal Chapitre 2. Harmonie universelle Chapitre 3. Entretien du principe vital Chapitre 4. Le monde des hommes Chapitre 5. Action parfaite Chapitre 6. Le Principe, premier maître Chapitre 7. Gouvernement des princes Chapitre 8. Pieds palmés Chapitre 9. Chevaux...

Extrait : La voie qui peut être exprimée par la parole n'est pas la Voie éternelle ; le nom qui peut être nommé n'est pas le Nom éternel. (L'être) sans nom est l'origine du ciel et de la terre ; avec un nom, il est la mère de toutes choses. C'est...

The Zhuangzi (or Chuang Tzŭ; Chinese: 莊子) is a work from China in the late 3rd century BC. It contains stories and anecdotes that exemplify the carefree nature of the ideal Daoist sage. Named for its traditional author, "Master Zhuang", the Zhuangzi is one of the two foundational texts of Daoism, along with the Laozi (Dao De Jing).

Galaxity’s orders are rather bizarre, lately. Laureline has been left on stand-by in a Scottish castle. Valerian, haunted by recurrent nightmares, has been sent to capture a sentient being as if it were a wild animal – an unsavoury task, to say the least. And on Earth in the 1980s, members of...

The head of Galaxity’s Spatio-Temporal Service himself has joined Valerian and Laureline at Inverloch Castle. There, among various human and alien allies, he explains to them the threat that looms over Earth: all of the recent incidents, all those important people gone mad and threatening to bring...

Valerian and Laureline take a break from adventuring and go on a cruise, but Valerian feels uncomfortable among the idle and the powerful. He’s not bored for long, though, because when a quartet of mercenaries board the cruise ship to kidnap the son of the Caliph of Iksaladam, they end up taking...

Valerian and Laureline, no longer members of any organisation, are down to doing space deliveries. With Galaxity gone and money getting scarce, their aging spaceship is becoming a hazard, which is pushing Valerian into accepting questionable cargo. After a somewhat rough landing, our two ex-agents,...

The evil hordes of the Wolochs are rampaging through space, and everywhere death and destruction follow. But despite the despair of some and the betrayal of others, Valerian, Laureline and a few other brave souls are resisting. They’re hoping to use a mysterious artefact, the Time Opener, to banish...

The (false?) gods of Hypsis are once again interfering with Human history. Tired of their lower status among their peers, the trinity in charge of planet Earth opens communications with megacorporation Vivaxis at the end of the 20th century – an occurrence Valerian and Laureline’s allies report...

Le roman du film de Luc Besson ! Par Christie Golden, auteure célèbre de novélisation. Au 28e siècle, Valérian et Laureline forment un tandem d’agents spéciaux chargés de maintenir l’ordre à travers tous les territoires humains. Sur ordre du ministre de la Défense, ils s’embarquent...

After years of building her business, Letti now longs for romance and commitment, and thinks she might have found it in Taut Johnson. Unbeknownst to her he is an FBI agent working undercover to find a terrorist using Letti’s dolls to attack innocent people with the powerful toxin, Ricin.  He knows...

If you are a Java developer or administrator with a technical background and want to install and configure Liferay Portal as an enterprise intranet, this is the book for you. In short, reusable recipes help you realize business goals as working features in Liferay. This book will also give you useful hints on how to easily improve the default functionality of the system and its performance.