Halpern: 111 books

Le Grenelle de l'environnement est un processus politique lancé par la majorité issue de l'élection présidentielle de 2007. Il réunit des acteurs du développement durable représentant l'État, les entreprises, les salariés, les collectivités territoriales et les associations de défense de...

Lorsque la mécanique quantique a bouleversé le monde ordonné d'Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein et Erwin Schrödinger étaient à l'avant-garde de cette révolution. Cependant, aucun des deux hommes ne s’est jamais satisfait de l'interprétation standard de la mécanique quantique et l’ont critiquée...

What if you closed your eyes, blew out the candles, and your wish came true? Ellie Jerome is a young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old who feels she has more in common with her twenty-nine-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, than her fifty-five-year-old daughter, Barbara. Ellie’s done everything she...

The dark will bring your worst nightmares to light in this gripping and eerie survival story, perfect for fans of James Dashner and Neil Gaiman. On Marin’s island, sunrise doesn’t come every twenty-four hours—it comes every twenty-eight years. Now the sun is just a sliver of light on...

Wenn auf Marins Insel nach 14 Jahren Tag die endlose Nacht hereinbricht, muss ihr Volk fliehen. Denn die eisige Dunkelheit überlebt niemand. Doch Marin und ihr Freund Line verpassen die rettenden Boote. Und das nur, weil Line den Anhänger gesucht hat, den sie verloren hatte. Angeblich verloren....

Anna Bloom has just come home from a three-week stay in a mental hospital. She feels...okay. It's time to get back to some sort of normal life, whatever that means. She has to go back to school, where teachers and friends are dying to know what happened to her, but are too afraid to ask. And Anna...

**Entertain, educate and gently ease your early and transitional readers into bed for the night or down for a nap with fun rhyming poems about sleeping and dreaming. ** The topics in Silly Sleepytime Poems include: * Bedtime stories * Types of beds * Pillows * Pajamas * Alarm clocks * Nap...

“This book is ridiculously hilarious, and makes my father look like a normal member of society.” —Chelsea Handler “Read this unless you’re allergic to laughing.” —Kristen Bell “If you’re wondering if there is a real man behind the quotes on Twitter, the answer is a...

A mysterious "Front," originating in Scotland and slowly expanding outward, threatens humanity's existence.  In defiance of the known laws of physics, it only kills humans and is otherwise undetectable.   Panic-stricken nations struggle against both the advancing menace and a tide of...

The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and history In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously...

Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the 1970s, critical interest in her work has steadily increased. Rediscovery and ultimate canonization, however, have concentrated to a large extent on her major novelistic achievement,...

Richer nations are happier, yet economic growth doesn't increase happiness. This paradox is explained by the Hidden Wealth of Nations - the extent to which citizens get along with other independently drives both economic growth and well-being. Much of this hidden wealth is expressed in everyday...

In recent years, the airport sector has moved from an industry characterised by public sector ownership and national requirements, into a new era of airport management which is beginning to be dominated by the private sector and international players. Airports are now complex enterprises that require...

As global markets toppled during the 2008 financial crisis, the Canadian market for non-bank asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) seemed on the verge of collapsing. Fueled by a top rating from DBRS, ABCP had found its way into the portfolios of some of Canada’s most sophisticated investors as well...