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The Safe House

A Novel

By: Christophe Boltanski

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In Paris’s exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets. The Safe House tells their story. When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never to be seen again during the war. So far as the outside world knew, the Jewish doctor had fled. The truth was that he had sneaked back to hide in a secret crawl space at the heart of the house. There he lived for the duration of the war. With the Liberation, Étienne finally emerged, but he and his family were changed forever—anxious, reclusive, yet proudly eccentric. Their lives were spent, amid Bohemian disarray and lingering wartime fears, in the mansion’s recesses or packed comically into the protective cocoon of a Fiat. That house (and its vehicular appendage) are at the heart of Christophe Boltanski’s ingeniously structured, lightly fictionalized account of his grandparents and their extended family. The novel unfolds room by room—each chapter opening with a floorplan— introducing us to the characters who occupy each room, including the narrator’s grandmother--a woman of “savage appetites”--and his uncle Christian, whose haunted artworks would one day make him famous. “The house was a palace,” Boltanski writes, “and they lived like hobos.” Rejecting convention as they’d rejected the outside world, the family never celebrated birthdays, or even marked the passage of time, living instead in permanent stasis, ever more closely bonded to the house itself. The Safe House was a literary sensation when published in France in 2015 and won the Prix de Prix, France’s most prestigious book prize. With hints of Oulipian playfulness and an atmosphere of dark humor, The Safe House is an unforgettable portrait of a self-imprisoned family.

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The Safe House

A Novel

By: Christophe Boltanski

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The Safe House

A Novel

By: Christophe Boltanski

When the Nazis came, aEtienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never to be seen again during the war. So far as the outside world knew, the Jewish doctor had fled. The truth was that he had sneaked back to hide in a secret crawl space at the heart of the house. There he lived for the duration of the war. With the Liberation, aEtienne finally emerged, but he and his family were changed--anxious, reclusive, yet proudly eccentric"--Amazon.com.

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Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: How to Tackle Environmental Imperatives in Company Law?

Legal and Management Perspectives

By: Christophe George

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Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: How to Tackle Environmental Imperatives in Company Law?

Legal and Management Perspectives

By: Christophe George

The book first discusses the concepts of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) and provides a new framework to deal with these issues in the context of sustainability. It then explores the requirements of "an end state of global sustainability" and subsequently moves to a detailed analysis of the current governance regime, delving into the CSR-related liabilities and incentives at stake for both corporations and their directors. It concludes with a framework suggesting that there are four normative avenues for addressing environmental and social imperatives in company law, which helps reflect on how to tackle the "potentiality for a sustainability gap" in corporate governance and CSR. The author always discusses practical realities and incentives, at both the policy and corporate levels, in addition to theoretical aspects. The thesis on which this book is based received the distinction "Summa Cum Laude" and the 2023 Law Faculty Prize from the University of Lausanne. Dr Christophe George is a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research in the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in Company Law and Management from the University of Lausanne, a Master of Law (LLM) from the University of Cambridge, a Master in Management from Harvard University, and a Master in Law and Economics from HEC Lausanne.

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954

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Stämpfli Verlag

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3727249846

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Networks Governance, Partnership Management and Coalitions Federation

By: Christophe Assens,Aline Courie Lemeur

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Networks Governance, Partnership Management and Coalitions Federation

By: Christophe Assens,Aline Courie Lemeur

This book explores the governance of networks. A network's governance mechanisms are based on trust and confidence, which go beyond a simple economic logic. As the network's boundaries expand to include clusters of businesses and stakeholders and the emergence of coalitions of all kinds, the trust will gradually dilute and the network's unifying role will be lost. The organization then evolves into the form of a network of networks, where the challenge is to bring together coalitions. Using examples from the European Union and the Regional Health Federation of Networks, this book explores the political and socio-economic challenges, including the decision making and division of tasks, faced by network organizations which move to a federation model of governance.

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Springer

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1137566639

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International Handbook of Organizational Crisis Management

By: Christine M. Pearson,Christophe Roux-Dufort,Judith A. Clair

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International Handbook of Organizational Crisis Management

By: Christine M. Pearson,Christophe Roux-Dufort,Judith A. Clair

International Handbook of Organizational Crisis Management reflects the latest understanding of the field from prominent scholars and practitioners around the globe. Pushing the boundaries of crisis management research and practice, the handbook offers new frameworks and findings that capture insights and guidance for researchers and executives. Key Features · Provides the latest thinking on and encourages growing support of crisis management in today′s business environment: Novel and poorly understood technologies, globalization, changing political climates, and a shifting social landscape are just a few of the forces currently changing the ways in which organizations experience crises. · Challenges core assumptions and goes beyond conventional rules: Numerous books touch on the topic, but many lack rigor with untested fear based prescriptions and quick fixes. · Offers a diversity of angles and levels of analysis: Crisis management is analyzed from societal, interorganizational, organizational, and individual perspectives. · Presents international and multicultural perspectives: Crises are not perceived in the same way globally; therefore, international researchers and practitioners expose their views of crisis management from their own cultural angles. Intended Audience Offering a leading-edge overview of the field of crisis management, this resource is useful for researchers and thoughtful practitioners in business and management, psychology, and sociology. It can also be used in graduate courses such as Strategic Management and Business Policy, Corporate Strategy, Occupational/Industrial Psychology, and Communication Risk Management.

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SAGE Publications

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1452261806

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Birth of the Intellectuals

1880-1900

By: Christophe Charle

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Birth of the Intellectuals

1880-1900

By: Christophe Charle

Who exactly are the ‘intellectuals’? This term is so widely used today that we forget that it is a recent invention, dating from the late nineteenth century. In Birth of the Intellectuals, the renowned historian and sociologist Christophe Charle shows that the term ‘intellectuals’ first appeared at the time of the Dreyfus Affair, and the neologism originally signified a cultural and political vanguard who dared to challenge the status quo. Yet the word, expected to disappear once the political crisis had dissolved, has somehow endured. At times it describes a social group, and at others a way of seeing the social world from the perspective of universal values that challenges established hierarchies. But why did intellectuals survive when the events that gave rise to this term had faded into the past? To answer this question, it is necessary to show how the crisis of the old representations, the unprecedented expansion of the intellectual professions and the vacuum left by the decline of the traditional ruling class created favourable conditions for the collective affirmation of ‘intellectuals’. This also explains why the literary or academic avant garde traditionally reluctant to engage gradually reconciled themselves with political activists and developed new ways to intervene in the field of power outside of traditional political channels. Through a careful rereading of the petitions surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, Charle offers a radical reinterpretation of this crucial moment of European history and develops a new model for understanding the ways in which public intellectuals in France, Germany, Britain, and the United States have addressed politics ever since.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745690378

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Quiet Corners of Paris

Cloisters, Courtyards, Gardens, Museums, Galleries, Passages, Shops, Historic Houses, Architectural Ruins, Churches, Arboretums, Islands, Hilltops . . .

By: Jean-Christophe Napias

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Quiet Corners of Paris

Cloisters, Courtyards, Gardens, Museums, Galleries, Passages, Shops, Historic Houses, Architectural Ruins, Churches, Arboretums, Islands, Hilltops . . .

By: Jean-Christophe Napias

More than eighty of the loveliest, most tranquil, and sometimes hidden places in Paris are celebrated in this charming guidebook Quiet Corners of Paris is a beautifully illustrated peek into eighty-one often overlooked, always beautiful, locales: hidden villas, winding lanes, little-known 19th-century passages, serene gardens, and cobblestone courtyards. Some of the places have breathtaking views, others are filled with historic and architectural details, from stone archways, garden follies, boxwood mazes, ornamental statuary, stained glass, and Renaissance fountains. Follow a stone path under a trellis of blossoms or wander through a gate to discoverÉ

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New York Review of Books

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1892145502

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The Shock of the Anthropocene

The Earth, History and Us

By: Christophe Bonneuil,Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

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The Shock of the Anthropocene

The Earth, History and Us

By: Christophe Bonneuil,Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene” The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a “human species” that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent “environmental awareness,” about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch.

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Verso Books

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1784780812

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Doping in Elite Sports

Voices of French Sportspeople and Their Doctors, 1950-2010

By: Christophe Brissonneau,Jeffrey Montez de Oca

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Doping in Elite Sports

Voices of French Sportspeople and Their Doctors, 1950-2010

By: Christophe Brissonneau,Jeffrey Montez de Oca

Drawing on rich empirical material from elite French sport, this book offers a detailed history of how the concept of doping evolved from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. The first study to span the period from 1950 to 2010, it sheds new light on the extraordinary world of elite sport in France – a world governed by its own moral standards and defined by extreme expectations of physical performance and highly medicalised training regimes. Including exclusive insights from athletes and their doctors, it explains how the use of drugs became an integral part of training in elite French sport. Considering the complex and paradoxical moral arguments that frame this phenomenon, it explores the decades-long social and political process that resulted in the normalisation of this doping culture. Drawing on examples from cycling, athletics, weightlifting, wrestling and bodybuilding, this book compares doping practices in these sports and questions the effectiveness of anti-doping policies. This is fascinating reading for all those interested in the use of drugs in sports, the ethics and philosophy of sport, or sports history.

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Routledge

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1315523515

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Minerais de sang

By: Christophe Boltanski

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Minerais de sang

By: Christophe Boltanski

Qui connaît la cassitérite ? C'est le principal minerai de l'étain. On le trouve partout, dans nos téléphones portables, nos radios, nos télévisions... Mais à quel prix ? Dans ce livre-enquête, cette traque policière sur plusieurs continents, Christophe Boltanski nous révèle l'origine de ces "minerais de sang". Depuis les mines du Nord-Kivu au Congo, où des gamins africains s'enfoncent sous la terre au péril de leur vie jusqu'aux tours de La Défense, où des entreprises mondialisées disent tout ignorer du chemin qu'empruntent les minerais, notre reporter-écrivain a suivi le fil hasardeux, dangereux, qui mène de l'ombre de ces esclaves modernes à la lumière de notre consommation quotidienne. De l'Afrique des gueres oubliées au London Stock Metal Exchange, des usines de Malaisie aux poublelles à ciel ouvert du Ghana, en passant par Bruxelles et Paris, c'est un roman-vrai, tissé d'argent, d'influences obscures, de politique. Le véritable visage du post-colonialisme.

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Grasset

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2246794943

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Bodies in protest

hunger Ssrikes and angry music

By: Christophe Traïni,Johanna Siméant

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Bodies in protest

hunger Ssrikes and angry music

By: Christophe Traïni,Johanna Siméant

Research on social movements has historically focused on the traditional weapons of the working class, especially labour strikes and street demonstrations-but everyday actions, such as eating or singing, which can also be turned into a means of protest, have yet to be fully explored. An interdisciplinary and comparative history of these modes of action, Bodies in Protest reveals how hunger strikes and music ranging from gospel songs to rock anthems can efficiently convey political messages and mobilize the masses. Common to both approaches, the contributions show, is a direct appeal to the emotions and a reliance on the physical, concrete language of the human body.

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Amsterdam University Press

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9048528267

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Le concile de pierre

roman

By: Jean-Christophe Grangé

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Le concile de pierre

roman

By: Jean-Christophe Grangé

Un enfant venu du bout du monde dont le passé mystérieux resurgit peu à peu. Des tueurs implacables lancés à sa poursuite. Une femme prête à tout pour le sauver. Même au prix le plus fort. Un voyage hallucinant jusqu'au cœur de la taïga mongole. Là où règne la loi du Concile de pierre : celle du combat originel, quand l'homme, l'animal et l'esprit ne font plus qu'un. Tous prêts à l'apocalypse. Avec ses deux premiers romans, Jean-Christophe Grange avait déjà stupéfié jusqu'aux plus grands maîtres américains (plus de 20 traductions dans le monde entier) et provoqué l'enthousiasme des cinéastes : productions internationales et budgets records pour les adaptations des Rivières pourpres et du Vol des cigognes. Egalement en cours d'adaptation pour le cinéma, Le Concile de pierre va encore plus loin. Il " explose " littéralement les limites du thriller traditionnel.

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Le Livre de poche

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2253172162

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Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: How to Tackle Environmental Imperatives in Company Law?

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Networks Governance, Partnership Management and Coalitions Federation

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International Handbook of Organizational Crisis Management

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Birth of the Intellectuals

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The Shock of the Anthropocene

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Doping in Elite Sports

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Bodies in protest

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