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Un témoin si fragile, Robin Perini Terrifiée, Amanda scrute la maison dévastée où gît le corps sans vie de son frère Vince et serre contre elle Ethan, son fils de cinq ans, seul témoin de ce meurtre odieux. « Tonton Vince a dit d’aller chez Blake », murmure alors le petit garçon....

This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and...

On the night of February 14th, 1945, a strong force of heavy bombers of Bomber Command, carried out a raid on the German city of Dresden. The next day, the raid was followed up by another by heavy bombers of the US 8th Army Air Force.The damage was extremely heavy, as was the death toll: most likely...

It is a great pleasure to offer this volume from Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes, and Shenita Bolstrom as the latest in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society. Its importance to the series and this ?eld of inquiry and practice is readily evident...

Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole.   In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume...

It has always been understood that the central claim of Christianity—that Jesus born of Mary is the Son of God—is as much a declaration of the mystery of the human as it is the mystery of God; just as the claim that in virtue of this identity he is the Christ who restores, and more, transforms,...

« C.J. Box dévoile une Amérique de marginaux revenus aux valeurs des pionniers et qui contestent radicalement la légitimité du gouvernement. Une Amérique en rupture de ban où la voix des armes à feu n’est pas près de se taire. » Les Échos Butch Roberson, homme droit et travailleur, compte...

This is the first book devoted to Horace’s Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.C.E. for choral performance at the Ludi Saeculares, the Secular Games. The poem is the first fully preserved Latin hymn whose circumstances of presentation are known, and it is the only...

« J’aime beaucoup suivre les aventures d’un homme qui n’est ni un héros ni le cliché d’un antihéros.» Destination Polar Le garde-chasse Joe Pickett ne voulait rien savoir du passé de son meilleur ami. Jusqu’au jour où il apprend que Nate Romanowski est clairement en danger....

Acupuncture is rapidly moving out of the arena of "alternative" medicine, in large part because it is grounded more firmly than other alternative treatments in research. This book provides readers with the up-to-date information on the clinical bases of acupuncture.

Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...

A survey of Native American earthlodge research from across the Great Plains. Early explorers initially believed the earthlodge homes of Plains village peoples were made entirely of earth. Actually, however, earthlodges are timber-frame structures, with the frame covered by successive layers...

This issue of Orthopedics Clinics will be surveying a broad range of topics across sub-specialty areas on Evidence-based Medicine in Orthopedics. Each issue in the series is edited by an experienced team of surgeons from the Campbell Clinic. Articles will discuss the following topics, among others:...