Changer de région, créer sa propre entreprise, passer du privé au public, exercer enfin le métier de ses rêves... Nous sommes nombreux à envisager la reconversion professionnelle pour des raisons aussi diverses que personnelles. Mais franchir le pas n'est pas évident et, bien souvent, on ne sait quel chemin emprunter pour entamer ce processus. Le grand livre de la reconversion professionnelle propose de vous y aider en vous accompagnant dans votre réflexion et vos démarches. Ce guide complet est un outil pratique qui détaille toutes les étapes de la reconversion : s'interroger sur ses motivations profondes à vouloir changer ; faire le point sur ses compétences actuelles ; envisager les différentes possibilités de se former à un nouveau métier ; et bien sûr... passer à l'action. La dimension humaine est très présente dans cet ouvrage à travers les nombreux témoignages de ceux qui se sont lancés dans l'aventure, mais aussi les interventions de professionnels : coach, formateur, directeur d'association, recruteur, spécialiste de réseau, psychologue...

Cet ouvrage propose une approche pratique, concrète et orientée résultats. Sont proposés des tests pour faire le point sur son profil, des quiz et ateliers pour améliorer ses performances et des grilles pour s'auto-évaluer afin de réussir à atteindre, en 10 étapes, son objectif...

Examines differences in taste between modern French classes, discusses the relationship between culture and politics, and outlines the strategies of pretension.

"[W]hat is true of Rwanda is true in each of us; we all share in Africa." -- L'Harmattan "[This novel] comes closer than have many political scientists or historians to trying to understand why this small country... sank in such appalling violence." -- Radio France International In April of 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were killed in what would prove to be one of the swiftest, most terrifying killing sprees of the 20th century. In Murambi, The Book of Bones, Boubacar Boris Diop comes face to face with the chilling horror and overwhelming sadness of the tragedy. Now, the power of Diop's acclaimed novel is available to English-speaking readers through Fiona Mc Laughlin's crisp translation. The novel recounts the story of a Rwandan history teacher, Cornelius Uvimana, who was living and working in Djibouti at the time of the massacre. He returns to Rwanda to try to comprehend the death of his family and to write a play about the events that took place there. As the novel unfolds, Cornelius begins to understand that it is only our humanity that will save us, and that as a writer, he must bear witness to the atrocities of the genocide. From the novel: "If only by the way people are walking, you can see that tension is mounting by the minute. I can feel it almost physically. Everyone is running or at least hurrying about. I meet more and more passersby who seem to be walking around in circles. There seems to be another light in their eyes. I think of the fathers who have to face the anguished eyes of their children and who can't tell them anything. For them, the country has become an immense trap in the space of just a few hours. Death is on the prowl. They can't even dream of defending themselves. Everything has been meticulously prepared for a long time: the administration, the army, and the [militia] are going to combine forces to kill, if possible, every last one of them."

The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day. Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the “new technical order” as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts “modern” and “traditional” functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or “marginal” objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the “schizofunctional.” Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life. The System of Objects is a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for all the live ideas of the day: Bataille’s political economy of “expenditure” and Mauss’s theory of the gift; Reisman’s lonely crowd and the “technological society” of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism of Roland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvre’s work on the social construction of space; and last, but not least, Guy Debord’s situationist critique of the spectacle.