Cinq petits agneaux

Résumé : Un chat ? Elle en a déjà un. Un poisson ou un hamster ? Ah non, trop banal ! Cette petite fille rêve d'un animal de compagnie beaucoup plus original, très gros et très fort, de la taille d'une maison ! Alors pourquoi pas un dinosaure ? Il pourrait l'emmener à l'école sur son dos, faire sa sieste dans le canapé du salon et créer de drôle de frayeurs à papa. Un album pétillant, avec un marquage "peau de dinosaure" sur la couverture, qui saura séduire les petits.

Ce petit livre est fait de bric et de broc: ce sont de petites histoires sortant de l'ordinaire de l'application des mathématiques à la vie quotidienne, et d'autres histoires qui n'en sont pas très éloignées. On peut lire ces cent histoires dans l'ordre qu'on veut: il n'y a aucun ordre caché ni fil d'Ariane sous-jacent. On ne rencontrera le plus souvent que des mots, mais quelquefois aussi des nombres et, de temps en temps, de petites explications qui révèlent les formules dissimulées sous les apparences. Devant les profondeurs de la physique fondamentale et l'immensité de l'univers astronomique, on est habitué à l'idée que les maths sont indispensables. On découvrira très vite ici que des idées simples peuvent mettre en évidence quantité de faits qui, autrement, sembleraient d'une banalité assommante ou passeraient même inaperçus.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) was one of the finest and most distinctive of the Victorian painters. Dutch-born, he moved to London in 1870, and became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean sea and sky. In this original and penetrating study, Rosemary Barrow presents an absorbing and often amusing portrait of an exuberant personality who carved out a brilliant career for himself at the heart of London's artistic and cultural élite. But above all she subjects the paintings to a fresh and rigorous scrutiny, revealing that Alma-Tadema was a highly knowledgeable student of antiquity, who made effective use of precise literary and archaeological allusions to play a game of interpretation with his viewers. Time and again the seeming innocence of the scenes he depicts is subverted by a mischievously placed inscription or statue, suggesting to the initiated a darker and usually risqué meaning. Like his contemporaries, Alma-Tadema was neglected after his death, but his paintings are once again admired for their beauty and their mastery of light, colour and texture. With its fresh and intriguing new insights into his personality and intentions, this book now provides a challenging reassessment of a major artist

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) was one of the finest and most distinctive of the Victorian painters. Dutch-born, he moved to London in 1870, and became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean sea and sky. In this original and penetrating study, Rosemary Barrow presents an absorbing and often amusing portrait of an exuberant personality who carved out a brilliant career for himself at the heart of London's artistic and cultural élite. But above all she subjects the paintings to a fresh and rigorous scrutiny, revealing that Alma-Tadema was a highly knowledgeable student of antiquity, who made effective use of precise literary and archaeological allusions to play a game of interpretation with his viewers. Time and again the seeming innocence of the scenes he depicts is subverted by a mischievously placed inscription or statue, suggesting to the initiated a darker and usually risqué meaning. Like his contemporaries, Alma-Tadema was neglected after his death, but his paintings are once again admired for their beauty and their mastery of light, colour and texture. With its fresh and intriguing new insights into his personality and intentions, this book now provides a challenging reassessment of a major artist