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Huit écrivains portent un regard sans complaisance et totalement libre sur les Objectifs du MIllénaire pour le Développement. En septembre 2000, pour la première fois, tous les États membres des Nations unies se sont engagés à réaliser un projet commun pour s'attaguer à la fatalité...

"A darkly humorous work, but also very sad-a mortal struggle, where the joy of life grapples with the fear of death, and often there is no way of knowing which of the two is on top. The final chapter is, in one word, thrilling. Sölvi has established himself among the most noteworthy of Icelandic...

Heroes and horses, Sex, swords and sorcery! God-born, God-cursed, he’s a hero forged for a world it may already be too late to save. Created as a weapon by his sorceress mother, Areme is raised on blood, steel and murder. A killer with no conscience and no pity in his heart, he awaits only the day...

Mauricio Kagel was undoubtedly one of the major figures in the new music of the last fifty years. Growing up in the rich cultural atmosphere of Buenos Aires in the 1940s and '50s, where the writer Jorge Luis Borges was one of his teachers, he became a member of avant-garde circles as well as receiving...

Here, Björklund shows that Swedish literary discourses on lesbianism provocatively contrast with a widely accepted view that attitudes toward homosexuality have gradually become more tolerant. The lasting power of negative discourses upends the assumption that Sweden's progressive laws reflect progressive attitudes toward homosexuality.

Bjørn Ottesen provides us with an insight into the future of Christian mission in Northern Europe and beyond. He offers an honest account of the church's successes and failures. His analysis of the Danish Adventist context has relevance beyond Denmark and beyond Adventism. His assessment of the attitudes...

Sophie buries her father today, whom she loved very much. Today of all days, her five year old daughter Florine misbehaves. "Stars in the morning" tears at the heartstrings. This short story about sorrow and kept promises brings a tear to your eyes for sure, but perhaps a smile as...

I am the W(B)itch - A self help book for the modern intelligent girl From the series BEL - Books for Easy Living. Book 3. How to build individual lifestyle. secrets of everlasting beauty, ling vitality and happiness: Practical and easy.Cover by Swedish artist Elena Martem.

On May 17, 1951, Dwight Rugh — a Yale-in-China representative for twenty years and one of the last Americans remaining in China after the Communist Revolution — was taken from his home in Changsha to a mass rally where he was denounced as an imperialist spy. Twenty-three years later, his daughter...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred...

Ovind grew, and became a promising lad. At school he was always among the first, and at home he was industrious, for at home he loved his mother and at school the schoolmaster. He did not see much of his father, who was either away fishing or else attending to the mill. That which at this time had the...

The Estate had probably been acquired by the strong hand, as indeed most domains have been in all countries and at all times; but what proportion forced marriages and fair bargains bore to actual guile, fraud, and such base means, we can no longer determine. Two hundred years ago it was an immense possession,...

The mountains rise high on the horizon, but here they have dwindled down. The families between two long wooded ridges which project into the sea—its buildings so close to the right-hand ridge that to the steamer-passengers it seems as if a man might easily jump from their roofs on to the steep hill-side....

BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON—poet, dramatist, novelist, and politician, and the most notable figure in contemporary Norwegian history— was born, in December 1832, at Kvikne in the north of Norway. His father was pastor at Kvikne, a remote village in the Osterdal district, some sixty miles south of Trondhjem;...