Devoirs écrits, copies d’examen et de concours, mémoires de recherche, rapports à rédiger à titre professionnel, courriers, courriels : la communication écrite est partout et sans cesse nécessaire. Mais, pour beaucoup de personnes, cet exercice indispensable est une source de difficultés, voire de souffrance. Quels mots employer ? Comment les orthographier ? Dans quel ordre les disposer ? Quels signes de ponctuation utiliser ? Comment exposer clairement informations et idées ? Comment les mettre pleinement en valeur ? Toutes ces questions et bien d’autres trouveront leurs réponses dans cet ouvrage, entièrement consacré à la correction et à l’efficacité de l’expression écrite. Orthographe, vocabulaire, syntaxe : à l’aide d’explications, d’exemples et d’exercices systématiques suivis de leurs corrigés, ce livre a été conçu pour aider, pas à pas, ceux qui veulent maîtriser leur écrit, avec confiance et en y trouvant même du plaisir. La première partie de cet ouvrage a pour but d’apprendre à éviter les incorrections. La deuxième vise à améliorer une expression correcte, mais encombrée de maladresses ou de lourdeurs. La troisième indique comment écrire avec élégance. Sarah GREMY-DEPREZ et Denis MERLE sont tous deux agrégés de Lettres classiques et docteurs ès lettres. Ils enseignent la littérature française et les langues anciennes en CPGE littéraires (hypokhâgne et khâgne).

Before he died at the age of twenty, shot in a mysterious early-morning duel at the end of May 1832, Evariste Galois created mathematics that changed the direction of algebra. This book contains English translations of almost all the Galois material. The translations are presented alongside a new transcription of the original French and are enhanced by three levels of commentary. An introduction explains the context of Galois' work, the various publications in which it appears, and the vagaries of his manuscripts. Then there is a chapter in which the five mathematical articles published in his lifetime are reprinted. After that come the testamentary letter and the first memoir (in which Galois expounded on the ideas that led to Galois Theory), which are the most famous of the manuscripts. These are followed by the second memoir and other lesser known manuscripts. This book makes available to a wide mathematical and historical readership some of the most exciting mathematics of the first half of the nineteenth century, presented in its original form. The primary aim is to establish a text of what Galois wrote. The details of what he did, the proper evidence of his genius, deserve to be well understood and appreciated by mathematicians as well as historians of mathematics.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years.

Black Skin, White Masks is a classic, devastating account of the dehumanising effects of colonisation experienced by black subjects living in a white world. First published in English in 1967, this book provides an unsurpassed study of the psychology of racism using scientific analysis and poetic grace.Franz Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, his writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation.With an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack.

"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...