écologie / environnement

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Résumé : A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens...

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Résumé : Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world. And at its heart is Babel, Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows. Orphaned in Canto..

Résumé : The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate world, but a future that is almost upon us - and one in which we might just o..

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Résumé : In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is strange ? not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. But she has a dark power of her own : witchcraft. When Circe's gift th..

Résumé : Greece in the age of heroes. Awkward young prince Patroclus has been exiled to the court of King Peleus. Despite their differences, Peleus's golden boy Achilles befriends the shamed prince. As they grow into young men, their bond blossoms into something deeper ? de..

It's hard not to become ensnared by words beginning with the letter B, when attempting to describe Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell's third novel. It's a big book, for start, bold in scope and execution--a bravura literary performance, possibly. (Let's steer clear of breathtaking for now.) Then, of cours..