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Leonid Petrov, prince des enfers

Auteure: Nanou Ad

Nombre de pages: 576

Depuis l'enfance, Anna Miller subit la tyrannie de son père. Cet homme sans foi ni loi rêve d'intégrer le cercle très fermé des grands mafieux américains et n'hésite pas à utiliser sa fille pour parvenir à ses fins. Seule sa passion pour la danse permet à Anna de survivre. Lorsque son père l'envoie à Moscou voler des documents secrets, Anna sait que cette mission sera plus périlleuse que jamais. Mais est-elle prête à affronter Leonid Petrov, qui règne sur la mafia russe ? Froid et impulsif, avide de pouvoir et de sang, sa vie n’est guidée que par la violence. Pourtant, lorsqu’il capture la douce Anna, la rencontre de leurs deux âmes produit des étincelles... Dans ce monde où règnent la haine et la mort, Anna devra puiser au plus profond d'elle-même pour résister à celui que l'on surnomme « le prince des enfers »...

Leonid Petrov T2

Auteure: Nanou Ad

Nombre de pages: 666

Après avoir été capturée par Leonid Petrov, « le prince des enfers », Anna voit sa vie basculer. Au milieu du chaos, de la mort et de la violence, ils ont appris à s’aimer. Mais pour la garder, il va devoir affronter ceux qui veulent les séparer. Car les ennemis rôdent et l’alliance entre les trois grandes familles de la mafia russe n’a jamais été aussi fragile. Les Petrov se dressent, plus unis que jamais, afin de rappeler que leur nom fait trembler jusqu’aux plus puissants. Mais tous ont sous-estimé Anna, qui est prête à s’imposer et à réclamer la place qui lui revient. Et cette fois, elle a décidé que c’est le monde qui pliera le genou devant elle. De Moscou à New York, leurs destins pourraient bien se lier... ou se briser à jamais. C’est peut-être la fin d’un amour. Ou le début d’une légende...

Leonid Petrov T2

Auteure: Nanou Ad

Nombre de pages: 666

Après avoir été capturée par Leonid Petrov, « le prince des enfers », Anna voit sa vie basculer. Au milieu du chaos, de la mort et de la violence, ils ont appris à s’aimer. Mais pour la garder, il va devoir affronter ceux qui veulent les séparer. Car les ennemis rôdent et l’alliance entre les trois grandes familles de la mafia russe n’a jamais été aussi fragile. Les Petrov se dressent, plus unis que jamais, afin de rappeler que leur nom fait trembler jusqu’aux plus puissants. Mais tous ont sous-estimé Anna, qui est prête à s’imposer et à réclamer la place qui lui revient. Et cette fois, elle a décidé que c’est le monde qui pliera le genou devant elle. De Moscou à New York, leurs destins pourraient bien se lier... ou se briser à jamais. C’est peut-être la fin d’un amour. Ou le début d’une légende...

Dynastie Hariston : Un héritier secret

Auteure: Nanou Ad

Nombre de pages: 744

Elle voulait fuir son passé, mais il est plus séduisant que jamais et bien décidé à la rattraper. Des années après la trahison de Nate, son premier amour, Kara pensait avoir laissé derrière elle ce chapitre douloureux. Mais le destin en décide autrement : elle se voit confier l’organisation du mariage de Nate... avec son ancienne meilleure amie ! Une telle situation pourrait mettre en péril le secret qu’elle protège depuis toujours : Kara était enceinte lorsqu’elle s’est enfuie. Nate est désormais à la tête d’un empire puissant, et n’a plus rien du garçon qu’elle a connu. Il paraît mépriser Kara et ne tolérer sa présence que par obligation. Pourtant, derrière son indifférence glaciale, une possessivité silencieuse continue de le lier à elle. La priorité de Kara est de protéger son secret à tout prix, tout en affrontant celui qui l’a brisée. Mais l’homme d’affaires réveille des émotions qu’elle pensait enterrées à jamais, faisant vaciller les murs qu’elle a érigés pour se préserver...

Gravity, Positioning and Reference Frames

Auteure: Jeffrey T. Freymueller , Laura Sánchez

Nombre de pages: 251

This open access volume contains a selection of papers presented at three different IAG Symposia held in 2022: GGHS2022 – Gravity, Geoid, and Height Systems 2022, Austin, TX, United States of America, September 12 – 14, 2022; IAG Commission 4 – Positioning and Applications, Potsdam, Germany, September 5 – 8, 2022; and REFAG2022 – Reference Frames for Applications in Geosciences, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 17 – 20, 2022. Two of these three conferences were planned for 2020 or 2021, but had to be postponed due to the COVID19 pandemic. They therefore became an important opportunity for the global geodesy community to rebuild professional networks and to resume face-to-face interaction. Scientists from around the world were delighted to once again gather together to present their research progress and findings, and discuss scientific issues.

Rien à envier au reste du monde

Auteure: Barbara Demick

Nombre de pages: 311

"Rien à envier au reste du monde" : telle est la devise de la Corée du Nord. Après six décennies, ce régime totalitaire demeure l’un des vestiges des la Guerre Froide. Pour la première fois, ce livre, qui a fait l’événement aux États-Unis, ne raconte pas une réalité chiffrée et statistique qu’évoquent la plupart des articles et des reportages, mais il montre, dans des détails déchirants, le combat humain des Nord-Coréens pour survivre. Un jeune couple, un orphelin, une ouvrière ou un médecin jadis idéaliste… ce sont ces "vies ordinaires" dont nous parle Barbara Demick, correspondante du Los Angeles Times à Séoul pendant dix ans, Prix BBC Samuel Johnson 2010, pour évoquer un pays qui a sombré dans le chaos par la folie de ses dirigeants. Au-delà du tableau apocalyptique, c’est une réalité humaine, relatée avec un sens du détail romanesque que nous fait partager cette enquête bouleversante. "Ce livre est bien plus qu’un portrait du régime le plus totalitaire de la planète, c’est un livre passionnant et poignante, et une étude de la psychologie totalitaire." The Philadelphia Tribune "Un des rares ouvrages à dresser un portrait des...

Chroniques de la gouvernance 2007

Auteure: Pierre Calame

Nombre de pages: 228

Comment voyager dans les terres oubliées

Auteure: Sarah Brooks

Nombre de pages: 281

" On dit qu'il y a un prix que doit payer tout voyageur s'aventurant dans les Terres oubliées. Un prix dépassant le simple coût d'un billet de train. " XIXe siècle. Quels secrets renferment les Terres oubliées, ces vastes étendues entre la Russie et la Chine totalement coupées du monde ? La seule activité que l'on y connaisse est le passage du Transsibérien Express. Si la traversée est réputée dangereuse, les voyageurs ne manquent pas, tous attirés par les mystères et les légendes de ce territoire isolé. Malgré d'inquiétantes rumeurs à propos d'un accident survenu lors du dernier trajet, la compagnie l'assure, tout est désormais sécurisé. Et le prochain départ est là pour l'attester. À bord, les passagers s'installent, font connaissance. Mais si tout semble se présenter au mieux, certains ont des raisons particulières d'être là. Marya, par exemple, qui a l'impression qu'on lui cache la vérité sur la mort de son père, survenue peu après la dernière traversée. Ou bien Weiwei, l'enfant née dans le train, qui en connaît chaque recoin et secret par coeur. Sans oublier la mystérieuse Capitaine, dont la discrétion confine à l'invisibilité. Alors...

East Asia Beyond the History Wars

Auteure: Tessa Morris-suzuki

Nombre de pages: 226

East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no peace treaty has ever been signed to conclude the Korean War. For over a decade, the region’s governments and non-government groups have sought to confront the ghosts of the past by developing paths to reconciliation. Focusing particularly on popular culture and grassroots action, East Asia beyond the History Warsexplores these East Asian approaches to historical reconciliation. This book examines how Korean historians from North and South exchange ideas about national history, how Chinese film-makers reframe their views of the war with Japan, and how Japanese social activists develop grassroots reconciliation projects with counterparts from Korea and elsewhere. As the volume’s studies of museums, monuments and memorials show, East Asian public images of modern history are changing,...

Korean Peninsula Division/Unification

Auteure: Korea Institute For National Unification (south Korea) , Kyuryoon Kim, Jae-jeok Park

Nombre de pages: 265

This book analyzes the cost of division that the four powers must bear as well as the benefits of nification they will acquire. There has been much research on the same topic, but mostly done from the perspective of Korean scholars. However, this book provides perspectives of scholars from each of the four states as well as Asia-Pacific region. This book is part of an ongoing effort by KINU to strengthen South Korea’s unification diplomacy. This book is divided into 10 chapters. Chapter 1-8 analyze the cost of division and the benefits of unification from the security and economic perspective of the United States, Japan, China, and Russia. Chapter 9 and 10 look at the bigger picture by discussing the division cost and benefits of unification from the standpoint of the Asia-Pacific region as a whole. Based on the analyses of the chapters, the conclusion chapter examines the similarities and differences of the division cost that the four powers must bear as well as the benefits they will obtain. Introduction The Costs of Division and the Benefits of Unification for the Four Northeast Asian Powers/ Kook-Shin Kim, Jae-Jeok Park Chapter 1 The Costs of Korean Division and the Benefits ...

Stars in World Cinema

Auteure: Andrea Bandhauer , Michelle Royer

Nombre de pages: 272

Deflecting the attention from Hollywood, Stars in World Cinema fills an important gap in the study of film by bringing together Star Studies and World Cinema. A team of international scholars here bring their expertise and in-depth knowledge of world cultures and cinema to the study of stars and stardom from six continents, exploring their cultures, their local history and their global relevance. Chapters look at the role of acting, music, singing, painting and martial arts in the making of stars from Australia's indigenous population, Austria, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Japan, North and South Korea, Nigeria, the Philippines, the former Soviet Union, Spain, North and South America. Since the very beginnings of cinema, actors and stars have been central to its history and have been one of the medium's defining characteristics. They have also been fundamental to the marketing of cinema and have played a major part in the reception of films in many cultures. Stars in World Cinema examines stardom and the circulation of stars across borders, analysing how local star systems or non-systems construct stardom around the world. Contributors put into practice their ...

Coral Cemetery

Auteure: Hank Manley

Nombre de pages: 224

Rhonda and Morgan Early visit Spanish Wells in the Bahamas with their fourteen month-old blonde, blue-eyed son Warren. He disappears. After two frantic days they are informed the boy fell in the harbor and drowned. Sharks attacked the body. They wouldnt want to remember their son that way. With no embalming facilities and strict U.S. drug laws, the grieving couple is presented with a tightly sealed casket and ushered off the island. After Warren is buried in Florida, Rhondas torments begin. The boy calls to her in the dark. She is not dreaming. The image is overwhelmingly powerful. She knows her son is alive and she can prove it. Morgan reluctantly agrees to dig up his sons grave. The idea is abhorrent and completely illegal, but it may bring closure to Rhondas grief The casket is empty. Thus begins Rhonda and Morgans desperate quest to find their stolen son and the murderous reaction of the evil culprit.

REFAG 2014

Auteure: Tonie Van Dam

Nombre de pages: 235

This book series is composed of peer-reviewed proceedings of selected symposia organized by the International Association of Geodesy. It deals primarily with topics related to Geodesy as applied to the Earth Sciences : terrestrial reference frame, Earth gravity field, Geodynamics and Earth rotation, Positioning and engineering applications.

Falcon on the Tower

Auteure: Ron Clark Ball

Nombre de pages: 472

Based on real events! Falcon On The Tower delivers the genre of Geopolitical Techno-Thriller ... fast paced, page turning plot. Jump on board & you won't want to get off! Fighting global terrorism, Bryan Craig heads up Pegasus, a London based counter-terrorism team and joint effort of the U.S. and UK. Combining financial tracking, psychological profiling, and the most sophisticated forensics lab in the world, Bryan embarks on a journey from London to the "Skytropolis" of Dubai and finally the high Hindu Kush Mountains, as he tracks a new group of fanatical Islamists. What are the ramifications for the West and Christianity as the new face of Islam is uncovered? Along the way, Bryan retraces footsteps of the old British Empire, and discovers clues to what may be planned, before a climatic, plot twisting, and chilling ending. Falcon On The Tower is insightful and thought provoking; a fresh, new look at a conflict centuries old.

Korea 2013

Nombre de pages: 287

Korea 2013: Politics, Economy and Society contains concise overview articles covering domestic developments and the economy in both South and North Korea as well as inter-Korean relations and foreign relations of the two Koreas in 2012. Additional papers deal with topics such as the promotion of the South Korea-EU trade agreement, the globalisation debate in South Korean higher education, the ideational foundations of the South Korean Unification Church, environmental policy in North Korea, the role of multilateralism in North Korea's foreign policy, and US television portrayal of North Korea. A detailed chronology complements the articles.

Intrepid Americans: Bold Koreans - Early Korean Trade, Concessions and Entrepreneurship

Auteure: Donald G. Southerton

Nombre de pages: 169

Intrepid Americans: Bold Koreans-Early Korean Trade, Concessions, And Entrepreneurship is a fascinating study of noteworthy interactions and significant events in the early development of U.S.-Korean relations. With relevancy in looking at contemporary South Korea, the reader will gain an understanding into how radically Korea's economy has transformed over the last century. Within the book, author Don Southerton provides captivating insights into the birth of modern South Korean entrepreneurialism and commerce. These glimpses presented through numerous photographs, illustrations, narratives, commentary, and comprehensive appendixes will give the reader a greater appreciation into the recent South Korean economic progress. A noteworthy feature of the book is the role played by American businessmen and Protestant missionaries on the peninsula. In fact, Southerton points out that Americans along with bringing new technology to Korea, heralded capitalism and promoted entrepreneurship-characteristics that reemerged in South Korea during the last quarter of the twentieth century and have spurred phenomenal economic and business development.

Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific

Auteure: Shu-mei Huang , Hyun Kyung Lee , Edward Vickers

Nombre de pages: 259

Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on ‘difficult heritage’, this collection advances our understanding of how places of pain, shame, oppression, and trauma have been appropriated and refashioned as ‘heritage’ in a number of societies in contemporary East and Southeast Asia and Oceania. The authors analyse how the repackaging of difficult pasts as heritage can serve either to reinforce borders, transcend them, or even achieve both simultaneously, depending on the political agendas that inform the heritage-making process. They also examine the ways in which these processes respond to colonialism, decolonization, and nationalism. The volume shows how efforts to preserve various sites of ‘difficult heritage’ can involve the construction of new borders in the mind between what is commemorated and what is often deliberately obscured or forgotten. Taken together, the studies presented here suggest new directions for comparative research into difficult heritage across Asia and beyond, applying an interdisciplinary and critical...

Analytic Trends in Mathematical Physics

Auteure: Houssam Abdul-rahman , Robert Sims , Amanda Young

Nombre de pages: 210

This volume contains the proceedings of the Arizona School of Analysis and Mathematical Physics, held from March 5–9, 2018, at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. A main goal of this school was to introduce graduate students and postdocs to exciting topics of current research that are both influenced by physical intuition and require the use of cutting-edge mathematics. The articles in this volume reflect recent progress and innovative techniques developed within mathematical physics. Two works investigate spectral gaps of quantum spin systems. Specifically, Abdul-Rahman, Lemm, Lucia, Nachtergaele, and Young consider decorated AKLT models, and Lemm demonstrates a finite-size criterion for D D-dimensional models. Bachmann, De Roeck, and Fraas summarize a recent proof of the adiabatic theorem, while Bachmann, Bols, De Roeck, and Fraas discuss linear response for interacting Hall insulators. Models on general graphs are the topic of the articles by Fischbacher, on higher spin XXZ, and by Latushkin and Sukhtaiev, on an index theorem for Schrödinger operators. Probabilistic applications are the focus of the articles by DeMuse and Yin, on exponential random graphs, by Saenz,...

Random Growth Models

Auteure: Michael Damron , Firas Rassoul-agha , Timo Seppäläinen

Nombre de pages: 274

The study of random growth models began in probability theory about 50 years ago, and today this area occupies a central place in the subject. The considerable challenges posed by these models have spurred the development of innovative probability theory and opened up connections with several other parts of mathematics, such as partial differential equations, integrable systems, and combinatorics. These models also have applications to fields such as computer science, biology, and physics. This volume is based on lectures delivered at the 2017 AMS Short Course “Random Growth Models”, held January 2–3, 2017 in Atlanta, GA. The articles in this book give an introduction to the most-studied models; namely, first- and last-passage percolation, the Eden model of cell growth, and particle systems, focusing on the main research questions and leading up to the celebrated Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation. Topics covered include asymptotic properties of infection times, limiting shape results, fluctuation bounds, and geometrical properties of geodesics, which are optimal paths for growth.

North Korea

Auteure: Patrick Mceachern

Nombre de pages: 249

Diplomatic expert Patrick McEachern unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the two Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format.

International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry: 1999 Annual Report

Auteure: Nancy R. Vandenberg

Nombre de pages: 322

Asianisms

Auteure: Marc Frey , Nicola Spakowski

Nombre de pages: 293

At the core of this book is a seemingly simple question: What is Asia? In search of common historical roots, traditions and visions of political-cultural integration, first Japanese, then Chinese, Korean and Indian intellectuals, politicians and writers understood Asianisms as an umbrella for all conceptions, imaginations and processes which emphasized commonalities or common interests among different Asian regions and nations. This book investigates the multifarious discursive and material constructions of Asia within the region and in the West. It reconstructs regional constellations, intersections and relations in their national, transnational and global contexts. Moving far beyond the more well-known Japanese Pan-Asianism of the first half of the twentieth century, the chapters investigate visions of Asia that have sought to provide common meanings and political projects in efforts to trace, and construct, Asia as a united and common space of interaction. By tracing the imagination of civil society actors throughout Asia, the volume leaves behind state-centered approaches to regional integration and uncovers the richness and depth of complex identities within a large and...

North Korea, 2009-2012

Auteure: Ian Jeffries

Nombre de pages: 938

North Korea continues to be a country of great concern internationally, where future developments are uncertain, especially as a result of the succession to the leadership of Kim Jong-un following the death of Kim Jong-il. It is also a country which is relatively unknown and relatively little studied. This book provides a comprehensive, detailed survey of economic and political developments in the last few years. As such it provides many insights into the current trends which are likely to shape the country’s future direction.

The Cossack Struggle Against Communism, 1917-1945

Auteure: Brent Mueggenberg

Nombre de pages: 352

The downfall of tsarism in 1917 left the peoples of Russia facing an uncertain future. Nowhere were those anxieties felt more than among the Cossacks. The steppe horsemen had famously guarded the empire's frontiers, stampeded demonstrators in its cities, suppressed peasant revolts in the countryside and served as bodyguards to its rulers. Their way of life, intricately bound to the old order, seemed imperiled by the revolution and especially by the Bolshevik seizure of power. Many Cossacks took up arms against the Soviet regime, providing the anticommunist cause with some of its best warriors--as well as its most notorious bandits. This book chronicles their decades-long campaign against the Bolsheviks, from the tumultuous days of the Russian Civil War through the doldrums of foreign exile and finally to their fateful collaboration with the Third Reich.

The Koreas between China and Japan

Auteure: Lee Guen , Victor Teo

Nombre de pages: 228

Most discussions pertaining to the nuclear proliferation and reunification issues on the Korean Peninsula privilege the position and role played by the United States. In the first volume of its kind, this collection of essays presents the challenges faced by the Koreas against the context of the changing relations between China and Japan. Strategically nestled between these political giants, the Korean Peninsula has traditionally been “seen” as a sphere of influence by Tokyo and Beijing. Regardless of the escalating difficulties in recent Sino-Japanese relations, this volume argues that avoiding all-out conflict and ensuring a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula are certainly strategic goals that both China and Japan still share. Neither China nor Japan wishes to be dragged into a war started by North Korean belligerence, South Korean aspirations or American adventurism. However, despite alternating between political pressure and diplomatic efforts, Japan and China have found it extremely difficult to guide the tone and direction of politics in intra-Korea affairs. Conversely, both South and North Korea have been extremely adept at fending off any perceived attempts to influence...

Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea

Auteure: Nan Kim

Nombre de pages: 285

Winner of the 2019 Scott Bills Memorial Prize for Outstanding First Book in Peace History. Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide explores the history and tells the story of the emotionally charged meetings that took place among family members who, after having lost all contact for over fifty years on opposite sides of the Korean divide, were temporarily reunited in a series of events beginning in 2000. During an unprecedented period of reconciliation between North and South Korea, those nationally televised reunions would prove to be the largest meetings held theretofore among civilians from the two states since the inter-Korean border was sealed following the end of active hostilities in 1953. Drawing on field research during the reunions as they happened, oral histories with family members who participated, interviews among government officials involved in the events' negotiation and planning, and observations of breakthrough developments at the turn of the millennium, this book narrates a grounded history of these pivotal events. The book further explores the implications of such intimate family encounters for the larger political and cultural ...

Politics in North and South Korea

Auteure: Yangmo Ku , Inyeop Lee , Jongseok Woo

Nombre de pages: 292

Politics in North and South Korea provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the political dynamics of the two Koreas. Giving equal weight to North and South Korea, the authors trace the history of political and economic development and international relations of the Korean peninsula, showing how South Korea became democratized and how Juche ideology has affected the establishment and operation of a totalitarian system in North Korea. Written in a straightforward, jargon free manner, this textbook utilizes both historical-institutional approaches and quantitative evidence to analyse the political dimensions of a wide variety of issues including: Legacies of early-twentieth-century Japanese colonial rule South Korean democratization and democratic consolidation South Korean diplomacy and North Korean nuclear crises The economic development of both North and South Korea The three-generation power succession in North Korea North Korean human rights issues Inter-Korean relations and reunification This textbook will be essential reading for students of Korean Politics and is also suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on East Asian Politics, Asian Studies, and ...

Stochastic Processes and Random Matrices

Auteure: Gregory Schehr , Yan V. Fyodorov , Alexander Altland , Neil O'connell , Leticia F. Cugliandolo

Nombre de pages: 641

This text covers in detail recent developments in the field of stochastic processes and Random Matrix Theory. Matrix models have been playing an important role in theoretical physics for a long time and are currently also a very active domain of research in mathematics.

The Oracle of Pain

Auteure: Alexey Kirsanov

Nombre de pages: 328

Dr. Elena Sokolova, a brilliant neurologist, believed in «Prognosis» – revolutionary AI capable of predicting incurable diseases years before symptoms appear. But her world shatters when she receives a fatal diagnosis herself. Knowledge turns to poison as Elena uncovers a horrifying pattern: the «Oracle Effect.» The prediction doesn’t diagnose; it accelerates the illness, ravaging the bodies and minds of the «Knowing» under the crushing weight of stress.

Stalin's Secret War

Auteure: Robert W. Stephan

Nombre de pages: 422

An animated adaptation of the story of the same title by Maurice Sendak in which a small boy makes a visit to the land of the wild things. Tells how he tames the creatures and returns home. For primary grades.

Reconstructing Ancient Korean History

Auteure: Stella Xu

Nombre de pages: 249

This book examines the contested re-readings of “Korea” in early Chinese historical records and their influence on the formation of Korean-ness in later periods. The earliest written records on “Koreans” are found in Chinese documents produced during the Han dynasty, from the third century BCE to the third century CE. Since then, these early Chinese records have been used as primary sources for writing early Korean history in Korea, China, and Japan. This study analyzes the various reinterpretations and utilizations of these early records that became more diverse by the late nineteenth century, when the reconstruction of ancient history became a crucial part of the formation of Korean national consciousness. Korea’s modern historiography was complicated by a thirty-five year colonial experience (1910–1945) under Japan. During this period, Japanese colonial scholars attempted to depict Korean history as stagnant, heteronymous, and replete with factional strife, while Korean nationalist historians strove to construct an indigenous Korean nation in order to mobilize Koreans’ national consciousness and recover political sovereignty. While focused on Korea and Northeast...

Geodesy for Planet Earth

Auteure: Steve Kenyon , Maria Christina Pacino , Urs Marti

Nombre de pages: 992

These proceedings include the written version of 130 papers presented at the International Association of Geodesy IAG2009 "Geodesy for Planet Earth" Scientific Assembly. It was held 31 August to 4 September 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The theme "Geodesy for Planet Earth" was selected to follow the International Year of Planet Earth 2007-2009 goals of utilizing the knowledge of the world’s geoscientists to improve society for current and future generations. The International Year started in January 2007 and ran thru 2009 which coincided with the IAG2009 Scientific Assembly, one of the largest and most significant meetings of the Geodesy community held every 4 years. The IAG2009 Scientific Assembly was organized into eight Sessions. Four of the Sessions of IAG2009 were based on the IAG Structure (i.e. one per Commission) and covered Reference Frames, Gravity Field, Earth Rotation and Geodynamics, and Positioning and Applications. Since IAG2009 was taking place in the great Argentine city of Buenos Aires, a Session was devoted to the Geodesy of Latin America. A Session dedicated to the IAG’s Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS), the primary observing system focused on the ...

Korea: The Past and the Present (2 vols)

Nombre de pages: 723

Established in 1982, the British Association for Korean Studies has published nine sets of Papers in the period 1991–2005 – the outcome of conferences, study days and workshops. The themes of Korea past and Korea present were selected to give the editors and BAKS council the widest choice of options in terms of scholarship, subject matter and interest.

Jeux et levers de rideau

Auteure: Jacques Raux

Nombre de pages: 108

Mafias, gangs et cartels

Auteure: Jérôme Pierrat

Nombre de pages: 454

Essai sur la criminalité internationale implantée en France depuis les années 1990, des filières d'immigration jusqu'au racket en passant par la prostitution, le trafic d'armes, de stupéfiants et la contrefaçon. Il démontre notamment de quelle façon les bouleversements géopolitiques récents et la mondialisation de l'économie ont changé la face du crime organisé au sein du pays.