Marilyn ... the word instantly evokes glamour, charm, voluptuous beauty, but also an alluring childlike vulnerability. It's precisely this multi-faceted and complex appeal that created her incredible popularity and ensures her continuing fame. Each of the various photographers she worked with cultivated a different side of Marilyn's beauty and personality. Here are the firsthand accounts by (as well as the photographs of) some of Marilyn's most trusted photographers telling what it was like to photograph this legend: Henri Cartier-Bresson; Andre de Dienes; Cecil Beaton; Richard Avedon and Milton Greene. About the Author Jean-Jacques Naudet is a journalist for Hachette-Filipacchi and served as editor in chief for Photo magazine from 1976 to 1988. 60 illustrations

The present volume looks at the relation between travel writing and cultural memory from a variety of perspectives, ranging from theoretical concerns with genres and conventions to detailed analyses of single texts. As befits the topic, the contributions roam far and wide, both geographically and historically. Some detail early Portuguese voyages of discovery, particularly to the East. Others depict encounters between Early, and not so early, Modern Western travelers and their Other interlocutors. Still others focus on travel writings as literature. Voyages and voyaging in literature form the subject of the last category of essays gathered here. Amongst the authors discussed are Fernão Mendes Pinto, Jean de Sponde, Furtado de Mendonça, Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Elsa Morante, Ingeborg Bachmann, Sophia Andresen, Paul Claudel, Graham Greene, Valéry Larbaud, David Mourão-Ferreira, J.M.G. le Clézio, José Saramago, Michel Leiris, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. The volume concludes with an essay by the French-Lebanese author Salah Stétié.

Les alliages à mémoire de forme sont des matériaux uniques qui ont la propriété de se souvenir des traitements thermomécaniques subis (traction, torsion, flexion, etc.). Ils sont très utilisés dans l'industrie biomédicale, l'aéronautique ou le nucléaire. Cet ouvrage traite de leur compréhension physique et mécanique, et de leur utilisation, en se concentrant principalement sur la nature de la transformation martensitique, expliquée à travers les théorèmes de Ball et James. Les modèles macroscopiques à variables internes donnent les clés pour le calcul des structures en alliage à mémoire de forme, particulièrement utile pour l’utilisation industrielle de ces matériaux. Professeur à l’Ecole nationale supérieure de mécanique et des microtechniques de Besançon, Christian Lexcellent mène des recherches depuis plus de 20 ans sur les alliages à mémoire de forme. Ses enseignements portent sur le comportement linéaire et non-linéaire des matériaux.