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0000 Warbunton Shrine | 0001 Doroshi Hachimangu | 0002 Hamamura Shrine

0003 Katakana Shrine 片仮名神社:

Katakana Shrine is dear to my heart- it is the place I traditionally visit for Hatsumode, my first Shrine visit of the year. Even before that, I would visit the shops high above, full of fun stuff. And for the past few years, I've also been invited to join in the New Year festival- Katakana Shrine has free items and lucky boards to one side to celebrate the New Year, as well as spontaneous parties (hamsters are common attendees!), and for the past few years I have contributed a few little items to their offerings. Make sure to pick up the Hamaya of the year, with the ema prayer board and dragon figure; you can also get the Hamaya for last year with a rabbit theme. Katakana Shrine also has special edition Goshuin books, with 6 special covers that cannot be found anywhere else.

Goshuin Project 2024

0004 Mishima Shrine | 0005 Bazumitama-sha | 0006 pomponne Shrine

0007 Eifuku Shrine | 0008 Eifuku Temple | 0009 Cue Gri Jinja

0010 Princess Shrine | 0011 Tonarino Shrine | 0012 Laem Shrine

0013 Para Shrine | 0014 Kuroneko Jinja | 0015 Yasaka Jinja

0016 Tenmangu Jinja | 0017 Itame Ham Shrine | 0018 Japonica Shrine

0019 Neochi Shrine | 0020 Okinawa Shrine | 0021 Kokuryu Shrine

0022 Ni Jinja | 0023 Piyopiyo Shrine | 0024 Noha Shrine

0025 Saihate Inari Shrine | 0026 Koyagi Shrine | 0027 Hamstar Shrine

0028 Haiku Shrine | 0029 Sen-Cat-Shrine | 0030 Venezia Shrine

0031 Hinamizawa Shrine | 0032 Kanaru Shrine | 0033 Mr. Louis Shrine

0034 Susukino-Inari Jinja | 0035 Shiki-Shinto Shrine | 0036 Apo Hachimangu

0037 Salmaru Grand Shrine | 0038 Il Micio Shrine | 0039 Son Clave Shrine

0040 Drobak Shrine | 0041 SnowPastel Shrine | 0042 Nadeko Shrine

0043 Katsudon Shrine | 0044 Mambo Shrine | 0045 Sessha Mambo Shrine

0046 Umigami Shrine | 0047 Yozakura Shrine Ocean | 0048 Sakura Shrine

0049 Akiba Inari Shrine | 0050 Lazy Shrine | 0051 Honpou Inari Jinja

0052 Togetsu Jinja | 0053 Neko Jinja | 0054 Kusanagi Shrine

0055 Ouse Jinja | 0056 Nekoma Shrine | 0057 Lion Temple

0058 Usagi Shrine | 0059 Kiyomizu Temple | 0060 Kingyo Jinju

0061 Azuki Shrine | 0062 Megumi Jinja | 0063 Sea Butterfly Shrine

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Cold winter: Santa Claus

SANTA CLAUS

Category: American folklore

Of course, I cannot do a series of winter folklore without talking about Santa Claus. We talked about Mithras, Saint Nicholas, Père Fouettard and Krampus… but it all leads to this.

I) Santa Claus: a portrait

Santa Claus is the American gift-giver of Christmas (though due to the American influence over the Western world, he became a character present in many Western countries, sometimes fusing or replacing local gift-givers in Europe).  He is described as a jolly and big-bellied old man with a white beard, a red outfit lined with white fur (coat, trousers, hat, alongside black boots and a big black belt), a big bag in which he carries the toys he offers children – and sometimes small spectacles on his nose. Recognizable by his deep laugh, “Ho ho ho”, he lives in the North Pole for most of the year alongside his wife, “Mrs. Claus” and a bunch of elves, small pointy-haired child-like entities, who assist Santa in his tasks and preparations for Christmas. Nowadays it is said that elves are the ones that create all the toys that Santa then gives to children, in a true factory-like work, but this was a late 20th century invention: in the early 20th century Santa was usually depicted as a craftsman working along in his workshop, making the toys all on his own. While in the original North American tradition Santa lives in the North Pole, due to its spreading to Europe several Northern European countries claim to host the “true home” of Santa Claus: for Finland he lives in Korvatunturi, in Norway he lives in Drobak (with a slashed “o”, I can’t reproduce it), and in Denmark they say he is from Greenland. But all in all he stays in a northern, far-away, cold area.

In the upcoming weeks to Christmas, children have to write letters to Santa, in which they describe their desires and wishes for the upcoming holiday, listing all the toys they want – this list is then sent to Santa Claus, who will bring the gifts if the child was nice, but not bring them if the child was naughty (Santa Claus has a form of omniscience for these things and keeps lists with the name of children on them, divided by nice or naughty). During the night of Christmas Eve, Santa will ride a sleigh pulled by eight magical flying reindeers and visit each house of North America – sliding through the chimneys to put the gifts at the feet of the Christmas tree (and while this belief is deeply rooted, it became quite problematic in the 21st century as chimneys became less and less common in people’s houses). Children typically leave some offering for him near the tree before going to sleep: in North America it is usually a plate of cookies and a glass of milk ; in Australia, England and Ireland it is rather a glass of beer and mince pies (or Christmas pudding), and in Denmark/Norway/Sweden children favor rice pudding with sugar and cinnamon. A carrot is also usually given to Santa’s reindeer. Another tradition is to hang stockings above the chimney so that Santa would place his gifts into them, instead of under the Christmas tree, but in modern days it has fallen out of favor ; similarly, early Santa Claus actually brought something to naughty children – coal – but in modern days he rather gives nothing to little brats.

And while it is the parents who take care of the Santa manifestations in their own homes (which notably leads to the whole “belief in Santa” stuff with Americans), there are also actors playing Santa in public places (in a similar way to actors playing Saint Nicholas or the Krampus in Europe): in North America, these Santas usually are set up in malls, in a set identified as “Santa’s Workshop” or “Santa’s Grotto”, and children can line up there to go sit on Santa’s lap (who is sitting on some chair or throne) and tell him their wish for this Christmas. It is such a serious business that you have SCHOOLS teaching people how to behave and act like Santa Claus!

While “Santa Claus” is his most common name, some people still like to use another American term for this character: Kris Kringle, which became a common Santa Claus alternative back in the mid 19th century – for example in 1853 we knew that while he was called “Saint Nicholas or Santa Claus” in New-York, in Pennsylvania he was known as “Krishkinkle”, an older variation of Kris Kringle.

II) How did we come to this?

Santa Claus, like all North American stuff, didn’t come out of nothing: he is the result of a long cultural process of European roots.

Santa Claus has two “parents” – or more precisely “two daddies”. One is Saint Nicholas (I made a brief post about him prior) – or rather its Dutch equivalent, “Sinterklaas”. (Because already the Dutch version of Saint Nicholas is quite unusual compared to the other European Nicholases – I mean, he is the only one living in Spain, the only one publicly arriving on a STEAMBOAT to the country, the only one holding three oranges instead of three bags of gold… Sinterklaas is pretty out there). The other is the British Christmas figure: Father Christmas (which I have not covered and do not plan to in this particular series – unless you ask me for it, of course :p). So Sinterklaas was brought over by the Dutch to America; and the same way the British brought their Father Christmas to America, and the two figures fused together… into Santa Claus. But beyond this general explanation, there are more detailed points of chronology:

# Washington Irving’s “History of New-York”, 1809. Sinterklaas was there Anglicized into “Santa Claus” for the very first time, and similarly for the very first time Sinterklaas/Santa Claus was depicted without Saint Nicholas’ bishop attire: rather, Irving’s Santa Claus is a big-bellied Dutch sailor in a green winter coat smoking a pipe. One thing however was lost on many people upon considering this: Irving’s work, or rather here the way Santa Claus appeared, was meant to be a parody of Dutch culture, and so this “Santa Claus” was a caricature of the actual Sinterklaas. But due to Irving’s fame, this simple satire was soon taken quite seriously…

# “A New-year’s present, to the little ones from five to twelve”, 1821. In this New-York book, an anonymous poem (Old Santeclaus with Much Delight) was the first to describe Santa Claus (here Santeclaus) as arriving on Christmas Eve (instead of the 6th of December) on a reindeer-pulled sleigh, to give gifts to nice children and birch rods to naughty children.

# 1823: another anonymous poem, “A Visit from St Nicholas” (you might know it as “The Night Before Christmas”) in which Santa’s Claus appearance was created – though still called “Saint Nick”, the diminutive of Saint Nicholas, he is described as “chubby and plump”, “jolly and old” with a “little round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly” (quite different from the skinny Saint Nicholas). The poem also included the reindeer-pulled sleigh, and was the first poem to give the reindeer numbers and names: eight reindeers, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder and Blixem. There is however one big difference with modern day Santa… This Saint Nick is not described as a human, but as an “elf”, a “jolly old elf” (which would later lead to the belief of Santa Claus elves), and to fit this “elfish” nature he is described as riding a “miniature sleigh” with “tiny reindeers”… Yep, that’s an imp-Santa.

# Thomas Nast was the next man to play a part in creating the Santa Claus character. In 1860s this cartoonist did a series of Christmas illustrations for Harper’s Weekly which helped build the modern image of Santa Claus: Nast notably popularized the concept of Santa Claus as a big fat man (instead of the miniature chubby elf previously seen), and seems to have invented the concept of Santa Claus living in the North Pole: in one of his drawings he wrote Santa’s address as “Santa Claussville, N. P.” and in a poem by George Webster published alongside a printed collection of Nast’s colorized works (“Santa Claus and His Works”) it was explicitly said that Santa Claus’ home was “in the ice and snow near the North Pole”).

# Katharine Lee Bates invented Mrs. Claus, Santa Claus’ wife, for her 1889 poem “Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride”.

# L. Frank Baum, the author of the “Wizard of Oz”, published in 1902 “The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus”. Taking advantage of this newly formed folkloric character and cultural figure who had no defined legend associated to him, Baum created an entire character, backstory and world out of Santa Claus – and his book definitively helped popularize the character, though little of Baum’s inventions would actually stick to the modern Santa Claus.

# By the 1930s, the figure of Santa Claus was known and recognized enough for actors dressed as him to be used for charity work, Christmas fundraisers, Salvation Army works, etc… While the already existing but little-known Mrs. Claus would have to wait for the 1950s to become popular, thanks to both the song “Mrs. Santa Claus” by Melachrino, and the book “How Mrs. Santa Claus saved Christmas” by McGinley.

# 1939: the creation of the “ninth reindeer” of Santa Claus, Rudolph, in Robert L. May’s novel “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”. The popularity of the character was later doubled by a 1949 song by Gene Autry.

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And let’s end with a big question… the rumor and urban legend. “Santa Claus was invented by Coca-Cola”.

Answer: yes and no.

No, Santa Claus was not invented by Coca-Cola. He existed long before that. BUT Coca-Cola did “reinvent” Santa Claus in a way. They used the recognized and well-known folkloric figure in a series of advertisements for their products in the 1930s – and for these advertisements they reshape and designed a specific “Coca-Cola Santa Claus”. It certainly wasn’t the first time Santa Claus had been used for advertisements: earlier, in the 1910s White Rock Beverages had used Santa Claus for their mineral water advertisements, and in 1920s for their ginger ale campaign – and this Santa Claus was quite similar to Coca’s own. But the difference is that Coca-Cola’s 1930s advertisement campaigns was a HUGE hit, extremely popular across the USA, and as a result the design Coca-Cola had created of Santa Claus became stuck in people’s mind as THE Santa Claus, and they promptly forgot older designs and aspects of the figure. It was such a big hit that Pepsi tried to recreate their rival’s success by also doing Santa Claus-centered advertisement for their soda in the 40s and 50s – further reinforcing Santa’s association with soft drinks.

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A ESCOLHIDA DO MAMUTE SAGRADO - Um Conto de Legião: A Era da Desolação RPG - por Newton Nitro | NITROCONTOS

A ESCOLHIDA DO MAMUTE SAGRADO Um Conto de Legião: A Era da Desolação RPG por Newton Nitro ( https://linktr.ee/newtonnitro ) Noroeste das Montanhas do Passo Drobak, Inverno, 1112 A.D Desde a Grande Guerra, nenhum meio-gigante volda, da montanha ou do gelo, e nenhum norklund ousava entrar no lugar mais assustador das Montanhas do Passo Drobak, o Vale das Névoas de Sangue Em meio à suas névoas…

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MV Ocean Voyager aground #Drøbak #Norway #storegrunnen On December 8, the 107 meter long, 9231 dwt cargo vessel Ocean Voyager ran aground off Storegrunnen Lighthouse near Drøbak, Norway.

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Visitando Drøbak, Noruega Este fin de semana decidimos salir de casa y dirigirnos al pequeño pueblo de Drøbak. Esta localidad se encuentra dentro del fiordo de Oslo a media hora al sur de la capital noruega. Durante el verano es uno de los puntos de parada de los cruceros cuyo destino es Oslo. Este poblado es famoso por sus coloridos atardeceres y el ambiente navideño que lo rodea durante la época de invierno. #drøbak #drobak #noruega #norge #visitnorway #travel #traveler #aroundtheworld #wheretonext #fotodeldia #photography #viajesporelmundo✈️ #unavidadeviajero #nature #viajamucho #wanderlust #viajarépreciso #viajem #viajerosporelmundo🌎 #losviajes #followme #viajar #escandinavo #scandinaviandesign #escandinavia (en Drøbak, Norway) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8dM-5ZAaCe/?igshid=1999gvhxymyn7

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Mardi 3 Mai

Notre réveil au bord de l’eau , au soleil, nous annonce une belle journée, elle le sera 😊.

Nous prenons le bateau taxi gratuit qui nous emmène à la vieille ville , magnifique forteresse qui est semble t il la mieux préservée de Norvège. Une histoire fantastique débutée en 1567 par une garnison du roi Frederik 2, actuellement c’est le centre névralgique des services de la ville.

Pour sa défense on y a compté jusqu’à 200 canons et 2000 soldats. Bâtiment particulier, la caserne de l’infanterie, 1788 , aurait été construite selon les chiffres du calendrier puisqu’elle dispose de 4 entrées comme les 4 saisons, 12 cheminées pour les mois, 52 pièces pour les semaines de l’année, 365 fenêtres pour les jours, 24 carreaux par fenêtre pour les heures du jour et 60 portes représentant les secondes . Ce lieu a été utilisé jusqu’en 2002 par des militaires.

Ensuite nous reprenons le bateau taxi pour constater que la langue locale écrite ou parlée n’est pas encore acquise puisque nous faisons 2 aller - retour avant de constater que nous n’étions pas sur le bon quai d’embarquement 😂😂😅. Ces bateaux taxis gratuits sont le moyen le plus rapide pour se déplacer d’un point à l’autre de la ville. Les gens y montent aussi avec leur vélo pour lesquels la compagnie a même installé des pompes à vélo à l’intérieur du bateau, magique non ?. Pour montrer à bord il faut faire signe au pilote, si tu n’es pas au bon endroit un coup de corne te le fait immédiatement comprendre… c’est du vécu.

Un chantier naval de vieux gréements nous occupe puis nous prenons la route pour Drobak au bord du fjord qui mène à Oslo. Le passage d’un porte container à 200 m de notre lieux de stationnement est impressionnant.

Demain direction Oslo

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#djimavicair #mavic #dji #drobak #norway #dronestagram #drone #drones# flyeresponsibly #dronephotography #dronelife #dronesuavsworldwide

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0000 Warbunton Shrine | 0001 Doroshi Hachimangu | 0002 Hamamura Shrine

0003 Katakana Shrine | 0004 Mishima Shrine | 0005 Bazumitama-sha

0006 pomponne Shrine | 0007 Eifuku Shrine | 0008 Eifuku Temple

0009 Cue Gri Jinja | 0010 Princess Shrine | 0011 Tonarino Shrine

0012 Laem Shrine | 0013 Para Shrine | 0014 Kuroneko Jinja

0015 Yasaka Jinja | 0016 Tenmangu Jinja | 0017 Itame Ham Shrine

0018 Japonica Shrine | 0019 Neochi Shrine | 0020 Okinawa Shrine

0021 Kokuryu Shrine | 0022 Ni Jinja | 0023 Piyopiyo Shrine

0024 Noha Shrine | 0025 Saihate Inari Shrine | 0026 Koyagi Shrine

0027 Hamstar Shrine | 0028 Haiku Shrine | 0029 Sen-Cat-Shrine

0030 Venezia Shrine | 0031 Hinamizawa Shrine | 0032 Kanaru Shrine

0033 Mr. Louis Shrine | 0034 Susukino-Inari Jinja | 0035 Shiki-Shinto Shrine

0036 Apo Hachimangu | 0037 Salmaru Grand Shrine | 0038 Il Micio Shrine

0039 Son Clave Shrine | 0040 Drobak Shrine | 0041 SnowPastel Shrine

0042 Nadeko Shrine | 0043 Katsudon Shrine | 0044 Mambo Shrine

0045 Sessha Mambo Shrine | 0046 Umigami Shrine | 0047 Yozakura Shrine Ocean

0048 Sakura Shrine | 0049 Akiba Inari Shrine | 0050 Lazy Shrine

0051 Honpou Inari Jinja | 0052 Togetsu Jinja | 0053 Neko Jinja

0054 Kusanagi Shrine | 0055 Ouse Jinja | 0056 Nekoma Shrine

0057 Lion Temple | 0058 Usagi Shrine | 0059 Kiyomizu Temple

0060 Kingyo Jinju | 0061 Azuki Shrine | 0062 Megumi Jinja

0063 Sea Butterfly Shrine 海蝶神社:

And now we have reached the last Shrine on our goshuin pilgrimage this year! Located above Club Sea Butterfly, Sea Butterfly Shrine has a waterfall and zen garden which the titulary butterflies flutter around. An animated omikuji machine has been added by the Shrine office- take the time to watch the tiny shrine maiden fetch a fortune from inside the miniature shrine, and drop it into the receptacle for you. These really exist in real life too, and they are pretty great! They do not have one here, but if you have wondered about the standing displays with all the little tied sheets of paper you have seen around (there is one at the previous stop, 0062 Megami Jinja, next to the less animated omikuji booth)- that's what you do with a bad fortune, because some of them are! You tie up the bad fortunes and leave them behind at the Shrine, so the deity can try to protect you from it.

Goshuin Project 2024

Thank you for following along, I hope you have enjoyed visiting new places!

View 2024 New Year Goshuin in order

View SL Goshuin in order

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Blücher

Wir passieren die Stelle im Drobak Fjord, an der im zweiten Weltkrieg der deutsche Kreuzer Blücher durch norwegische Küstenbatterien versenkt wurde. Nicht, dass ich mich großartig für Militärhistorie interessieren würde, trotzdem finde ich es immer wieder spannend zu erfahren, was unter unserem Kiel zu finden ist. Wir sind übrigens zur Zeit doch per Motor unterwegs, da uns der Besitzer der Yacht…

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Les acquisitions de la semaine (22-11-21) en BSPO

À la une : The economics of platforms : concepts and strategy / Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz

Cote de rangement : HD 9999 .M782 B 260607 / Domaine : Économie

« According to historians, European trade took off at the end of the 12th century in what is now the North of France, in the county of Champagne.1 It is at this period that this county started to host regular trade fairs, which lasted for six weeks and rotated across six cities. Merchants came from all over Europe because they were confident that they would meet each other at these fairs. This confidence was instilled by the count of Champagne, through his authoritative and clever running of the fairs. Everything was done to provide merchants with a safe and efficient business environment. The count of Champagne actively selected the participants, especially by keeping away dubious businessmen. Once admitted, all participants were on a level playing field, as the count carefully avoided to grant any privilege to anyone. The fair locations were fortified, and impartial institutions were put in place to enforce contracts and resolve disputes. The count also guaranteed loans and the replacement of cash by notary bills to settle transactions. In exchange of all these services, the count took a small share of each transaction and quickly amassed a fortune.” - Quatrième de couverture

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Finance

Solution du problème social : et autres textes (mars-juillet 1848) / Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Cote de rangement : HG 978 P 260595

Information resolution and subnational capital markets / Christine R. Martell, Tima T. Moldogaziev, Salvador Espinosa

Cote de rangement : HJ 9105 M 260605

Rethinking market regulation : helping labor by overcoming economic myths / John N. Drobak

Cote de rangement : KF 1609 D 260601

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Sciences politiques

Le populisme, voilà l'ennemi ! Brève histoire de la haine du peuple et de la peur de la démocratie des années 1890 à nos jours / Thomas Frank

Cote de rangement : E 183 F 260586

Rethinking American grand strategy / edited by Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols, and Andrew Preston

Cote de rangement : E 183 .7 R 260606

Nationalism, secessionism, and autonomy / André Lecours

Cote de rangement : JC 311 L 260599

Les candidats : novices et professionnels en politique / Étienne Ollion

Cote de rangement : JN 2863 O 260589

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Éducation

Teaching machines / Audrey Watters

Cote de rangement : LB 1028 .3 W 260604

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Technologies

La numérisation du monde : un désastre écologique / Fabrice Flipo

Cote de rangement : HC 79 .E5 F 260588

La technique et la chair / Daniel Cérézuelle

Cote de rangement : T 14 C 260594

Four internets : data, geopolitics, and the governance of cyberspace / Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall

Cote de rangement : TK 5105 .8854 O 260603

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Développement

Organizational change for the human services / Thomas Packard

Cote de rangement : HV 41 P 260602

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Économie

When money talks : history of coins and numismatics / Frank L. Holt

Cote de rangement : CJ 59 H 260598

Remembering and learning from financial crises / edited by Youssef Cassis and Catherine R. Schenk

Cote de rangement : HB 3722 R 260600

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Anthropologie

The moral work of anthropology : ethnographic studies of anthropologists at work / edited by Hanne Overgaard Mogensen and Birgitte Gorm Hansen

Cote de rangement : GN 33 .6 M 260597

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Communication

Fake news in oorlogstijd : Duitse mediamanipulatie en de Flamenpolitik (1914-1915) / Bruno Yammine

Cote de rangement : D 632 .5 Y 260596

Stigmatiser : discours médiatiques et normes sociales / sous la direction de Maëlle Bazin, Frédéric Lambert et Giuseppina Sapio

Cote de rangement : P 410 S 260592

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Marketing

Contagieux : la méthode culte de l'influence sociale / Jonah Berger

Cote de rangement : HF 5415 .153 B 260587

Kids marketing / coordonné par Joël Brée

Cote de rangement : HF 5415 .32 K 260593

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Sciences du travail

Bien-être, questions de gestion / sous la direction de Bénédicte Berthe

Cote de rangement : HD 6955 B 260591

L'insoutenable subordination des salariés / Danièle Linhart

Cote de rangement : HD 6971 .8 L 260584

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Tous ces ouvrages sont exposés sur le présentoir des nouveautés de la BSPO. Ceux-ci pourront être empruntés à domicile à partir du 6 décembre 2021.

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