En lune de miel, Ingram et Rae naviguent sur l'océan Pacifique, mais un calme plat immobilise leur voilier. Un canot s'approche, mené à la rame par un jeune homme à bout de force. Il raconte que son équipage est mort d'une intoxication alimentaire et que son yacht est en train de couler. Méfiant, In...
Cette année-là, Billy passe l'été chez son oncle Sagamore. Entre les visites du shérif, persuadé que Sagamore distille de l'alcool clandestinement, et le lac où il apprend à nager, le garçon ne va pas s'ennuyer. Mais ses vacances deviennent véritablement inoubliables au moment où Choo-Choo Caroline,...
Madox, un vagabond pas vraiment recommandable, arrive dans une petite ville paumée du Texas où il se trouve un emploi de vendeur de voitures. Mais pourquoi s'échiner ainsi, alors que la banque locale paraît si vulnérable ? Comme si de telles idéesne suffisaient pas à risquer de lui attirer des ennui...
Critical Acclaim for ADENAUER "A gripping narrative . . . brings to life an intriguing historical figure . . . an enthralling perspective on the processes that shaped the postwar world." --Daily Telegraph (London) "Charts the ironies of Adenauer's complicated life. This is the story of a marathon ...
Voici le récit de l'évasion clandestine en juin 1961 de soixante africains lusophones. Avec l'aide de la Cimade et du service oecuménique d'entraide français, ils purent quitter le Portugal. Ces étudiants devinrent les leaders de leur pays au lendemain des guerres de colonisation, une fois l'indépen...
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La fin de la guerre du Golfe, il y a un peu plus de neuf ans, marquait, pensait-on, le début de la paix pour la région. Mais elle marquait surtout, au-delà de la joyeuse proclamation par Monsieur Bush d'un « nouvel ordre mondial ». Le début d'une succession d'odieux tourments pour l'Irak, coupable d...
Covers the history of the entire African continent, from prehistory to the present day A Companion to African History embraces the diverse regions, subject matter, and disciplines of the African continent, while also providing chronological and geographical coverage of basic historical developments....
Hailed as prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, William Tecumseh Sherman is the most controversial general of the American Civil War. “War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,” he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta, and his memoir is filled with doze...
The American economy misses opportunities for innovation, growth and job creation because of a neglected problem: the resistance to innovation from Legacy sectors like energy, manufacturing and health care, which constitute most of our economy. The book offers systematic strategies to overcome the s...
The American economy faces two deep problems: expanding innovation and raising the rate of quality job creation. Both have roots in a neglected problem: the resistance of Legacy economic sectors to innovation. While the U.S. has focused its policies on breakthrough innovations to create new economic...
When a man and a bear meet together casually in an American forest, it makes a great deal of difference, to the two parties concerned at least, whether the bear eats the man or the man eats the bear. We haven't the slightest difficulty in deciding afterward which of the two, in each particular case,...
This book deals with the possibility of an ontological and epistemological account of the psychological category 'neurosis'. Intertwining thoughts from German idealism, Continental philosophy and psychology, the book shows how neurosis precedes and exists independently from human experience and lays...
This book takes an in depth look at a novel methodology for analyzing Global Positioning System (GPS) data to obtain the highest possible resolution surface imaging of tectonic deformation sources without prescribing the nature of either the sources or the subsurface medium. GPS methods are widely u...
Charles Edge and Bill Smith provide detailed explanations of the technology required for large-scale Mac OS X deployments and show you how to integrate it with other operating systems and applications.Now in its second edition, Enterprise Mac Administrator's Guide addresses the growing size and spre...
Modern biological understanding is the basis for a multimodality treatment of a tumor. 'Anatomic Basis of Tumor Surgery' is the only book that provides an anatomic basis and description of tumor surgery based on an understanding of both the anatomy and biology of tumor progression. It presents the r...
Compared to many other regions of the world, Africa is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and variability. Widespread poverty, an extensive disease burden and pockets of political instability across the continent has resulted in a low resilience and limited adaptative capacity...
This intriguing and compact book investigates whether or not philosophy can have a use in the face of `capitalist realism' today. Can philosophy study everyday objects like computers and mobile phones? Can it think of advertising, the population, electricity, buildings and even dreams as `objects' i...
Ce guide est un outil pratique d'identification des organismes alliés ou ravageurs et des maladies des arbres fruitiers (pommiers, poiriers, pruniers, pêchers et cerisiers) pour l'est de l'Amérique du Nord. Il contient 188 fiches illustrées de photos et de descriptions détaillées. Un glossaire et un...
The must-have resource for media selling in today's technology-driven environment The revised and updated fifth edition of Media Selling is an essential guide to our technology-driven, programmatic, micro-targeted, mobile, multi-channel media ecosystem. Today, digital advertising has surpassed telev...
Examines current and prospective challenges surrounding global challenges of education, energy, healthcare, security, and resilience This book discusses issues in large-scale systems in the United States and around the world. The authors examine the challenges of education, energy, healthcare, nati...