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Une famille pour Noël

Auteure: Alison Roberts , Annie O'neil

Nombre de pages: 254

Une famille au pied du sapin, Alison RobertsJack Reynolds... Emma ne peut croire que l’homme admis aux urgences peu avant Noël soit aussi celui qui fait battre son cœur depuis toujours et dont elle n’a plus aucune nouvelle depuis un an. Comme si perdre sa meilleure amie et son époux – le frère jumeau de Jack – dans un terrible accident et devenir la tutrice de leur petite Lily n’avait pas suffi, il a aussi fallu que Jack disparaisse dans la nature. Seulement voilà, face à un Jack si vulnérable, Emma sent sa colère s’évanouir... et se jure de ne plus jamais le laisser fuir, coûte que coûte. La magie de l’hiver, Annie O’NeilComment Josh ose-t-il venir prêter main-forte aux urgences de Cooper Canyon durant les fêtes de Noël alors qu’il sait pertinemment qu’elle y travaille ? Kate enrage. D’abord parce que Josh est toujours son époux puisqu’il refuse de signer les papiers de leur divorce depuis deux ans maintenant. Mais surtout parce qu’il l’a lâchement abandonnée au moment où elle avait le plus besoin de lui. Alors pourquoi cherche-t-il à tout prix à la revoir ? S’il espère la séduire à nouveau, c’est peine perdue, et Kate compte ...

Politicising Ethics in International Relations

Auteure: Gideon Baker

Nombre de pages: 164

The ethics of hospitality – the welcome of the foreigner – is implied in all moral debate in international relations ranging from questions of asylum to those of humanitarian intervention. Why then has there been so little reflection on hospitality in the study of international relations to date? Seeking to correct this striking omission, and making an important and original contribution to debates about ethics in international relations in the process, Baker outlines a theory of cosmopolitanism as hospitality which goes beyond existing cosmopolitanisms. He argues that we must understand cosmopolitanism not as the pursuit of a world in which there are no more foreigners but as the welcome of the foreigner. However, though hospitality calls for a welcome, there is always a decision on the welcome to be made. Cosmopolitanism as hospitality is therefore always as much a politics as it is an ethics. Addressing issues of central concern for those who seek to understand our obligations to strangers, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, security studies, ethics, and political and international theory.

8 romans Blanche (n°1342 à 1345 - Décembre 2017)

Auteure: Collectif

Nombre de pages: 992

Intégrale 8 romans Blanche : tous les romans Blanche de décembre en un seul volume ! Leur mission : sauver des vies. Leur destin : trouver l’amour Cette promesse à honorer, Janice Lynn Séduite par le Dr Ashwood, Amy Ruttan Une famille pour Charlie, Susanne Hampton Mariage sous la neige, Scarlet Wilson Une famille au pied du sapin, Alison Roberts Le gardien de son coeur, Annie O'Neil L'enfant du Dr Carlos Medina, Catherine Mann - Réédité Tentation aux urgences, Sue MacKay - Réédité

Leadership At The Apex

Auteure: Poul Erik Mouritzen , James H. Svara

Nombre de pages: 353

Although the relationship between elected officials and appointed executives has often been viewed as a struggle between master and servant—with disagreements as to which individuals occupy which roles—Poul Erik Mouritzen's and James Svara's comparison of city governments in fourteen countries reveals more interdependence and shared influence than conflict over control.Mouritzen and Svara bring local government to the forefront, emphasizing the sophisticated level of city management in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Their findings lead to a revision of the general view concerning the boundaries of public administration. Leadership at the Apex illustrates in practical ways how the democratic control of government and professional administration can coexist without undermining the logic or integrity of each other.

Orange Coast Magazine

Nombre de pages: 304

Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.

Une famille au pied du sapin - Le gardien de son coeur

Auteure: Alison Roberts , Annie O'neil

Nombre de pages: 255

Un Noël aux urgences TOME 1 & 2 Quand le bonheur est à portée de main... Une famille au pied du sapin, Alison Roberts Jack Reynolds... Emma ne peut croire que l’homme admis aux urgences ce soir soit aussi celui qui fait battre son cœur depuis toujours et dont elle n’a plus aucune nouvelle depuis un an. Comme si perdre sa meilleure amie et son époux – le frère jumeau de Jack – dans un terrible accident et devenir la tutrice de leur petite Lily n’avait pas suffi, il a aussi fallu que Jack disparaisse dans la nature. Seulement voilà, face à un Jack si vulnérable, Emma sent sa colère s’évanouir... et se jure de ne plus jamais le laisser fuir, coûte que coûte. Le gardien de son cœur, Annie O’Neil Quel culot ! Comment Josh ose-t-il venir prêter main-forte aux urgences de Cooper Canyon durant les fêtes de fin d’année alors qu’il sait pertinemment qu’elle y travaille ? Kate est folle de rage. D’abord parce que Josh est toujours son époux puisqu’il refuse de signer les papiers de leur divorce depuis deux ans maintenant. Mais surtout parce qu’il l’a lâchement abandonnée alors qu’ils venaient de perdre leur petite fille... Alors pourquoi...

Scan

Nombre de pages: 402

Newsletter

Nombre de pages: 386

The Nightshift Before Christmas

Auteure: Annie O'neil

Nombre de pages: 139

All through the hospital… magic was stirring It might be Christmas, but Dr. Katie McGann would prefer to bury her head in her work than celebrate. Until her estranged husband Dr. Josh West strides into the ER, turning heads and making her heart flip. Two years ago their world and their dreams ended, and they had to part. But Josh vowed never to stop fighting for his wife, and with the clock about to strike midnight he knows he has one last chance to heal Katie’s heart…one kiss under the mistletoe at a time. Christmas Eve Magic Reunited on the night before Christmas!

Statement of Disbursements of the House

Auteure: United States. Congress. House

Nombre de pages: 1554

Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.

Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials

Auteure: Vincent Terrace

Nombre de pages: 470

The Hollywood Reporter

Nombre de pages: 806

The Oxford Handbook of European Islam

Auteure: Jocelyne Cesari

Nombre de pages: 897

For centuries, Muslim countries and Europe have engaged one another through theological dialogues, diplomatic missions, political rivalries, and power struggles. In the last thirty years, due in large part to globalization and migration from Islamic countries to the West, what was previously an engagement across national and cultural boundaries has increasingly become an internalized encounter within Europe itself. Questions of the Hijab in schools, freedom of expression in the wake of the Danish Cartoon crisis, and the role of Shari'a have come to the forefront of contemporary European discourse. The Oxford Handbook of European Islam is the first collection to present a comprehensive approach to the multiple and changing ways Islam has been studied across European countries. Parts one to three address the state of knowledge of Islam and Muslims within a selection of European countries, while presenting a critical view of the most up-to-date data specific to each country. These chapters analyze the immigration cycles and policies related to the presence of Muslims, tackling issues such as discrimination, post-colonial identity, adaptation, and assimilation. The thematic chapters,...

Αἰσχυλου Ἀγαμεμνων ... A new edition ... with notes, critical, explanatory and philological, by T. W. Peile

Auteure: Aeschylus

Nombre de pages: 440

Dictionary of American Family Names

Auteure: Patrick Hanks

Nombre de pages: 2094

Where did your surname come from? Do you know how many people in the United States share it? What does it tell you about your lineage?From the editor of the highly acclaimed Dictionary of Surnames comes the most extensive compilation of surnames in America. The result of 10 years of research and 30 consulting editors, this massive undertaking documents 70,000 surnames of Americans across the country. A reference source like no other, it surveys each surname giving its meaning, nationality, alternate spellings, common forenames associated with it, and the frequency of each surname and forename.The Dictionary of American Family Names is a fascinating journey throughout the multicultural United States, offering a detailed look at the meaning and frequency of surnames throughout the country. For students studying family genealogy, others interested in finding out more about their own lineage, or lexicographers, the Dictionary is an ideal place to begin research.

50 ans de musique rock

Auteure: Philippe Paraire

Nombre de pages: 259

L'histoire de la musique rock : cinq décennies de gammes et de rythmes noirs dans lesquels le rock américain et européen trouve la source inépuisable de son inspiration, du blues rural à l'afro rock. L'analyse de la culture rock : des mélodies, des poèmes, des modes, des films. Une attitude : le refus. Une ligne de conduite : la création. Un monde d'émotions à l'assaut de toutes les routines. Le guide de la musique rock : ses 200 créateurs les plus marquants : B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Bob Marley, Prince, mais aussi les Beatles, Cure, Bob Dylan, Les Sex Pistols. Une discographie de 500 albums essentiels. L'AUTEUR : Philippe Paraire est professeur de Lettres, guitariste rock, et cinéphile; il a publié dans la collection "Les Compacts" Le cinéma de Hollywood.

Politics in Captivity

Auteure: Lena Zuckerwise

Nombre de pages: 186

From the 1811 German Coast Slave Rebellion to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, from the truancy of enslaved women to the extreme self-discipline exercised by prisoners in solitary confinement, Black Americans have, through time, resisted racial regimes in extraordinary and everyday ways. Though these acts of large and small-scale resistance to slavery and incarceration are radical and transformative, they have often gone unnoticed. This book is about Black rebellion in captivity and the ways that many of the conventional well-worn constructs of academic political theory render its political dimensions obscure and indiscernible. While Hannah Arendt is an unlikely theorist to figure prominently in any discussion of Black politics, her concepts of world and worldlessness offer an indispensable framework for articulating a theory of resistance to chattel and carceral captivity. Politics in Captivity begins by taking seriously the ways in which slavery and incarceration share important commonalities, including historical continuity. In Zuckerwise’s account of this commonality, the point of connection between enslaved and incarcerated people is not exploited labor, but rather...

Managing Cultural Differences

Auteure: Robert T. Moran , Neil Remington Abramson , Sarah V. Moran

Nombre de pages: 747

The world of business for all organizations in the twenty-first century is global, interdependent, complex, and rapidly changing. That means sophisticated global leadership skills are required more than ever today. Individual and organizational success is no longer dependent solely on business acumen. Our ability to understand, communicate, and manage across borders, countries, and cultures has never been as important as it is now. The understanding and utilization of cultural differences as a business resource is a key building block as companies rely on their global reach to achieve the best profit and performance. For this reason, international business and cross-cultural management are key topics in undergraduate business, MBA, and executive education programs worldwide as companies and institutions prepare current and future business leaders for the global marketplace. This exciting new edition of the highly successful textbook, Managing Cultural Differences, seeks to guide students and any person with global responsibilities to understand how culture fits in a changing business world, how to gain a competitive advantage from effective cross-cultural management, and gives...

Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

Auteure: United States. Patent Office

Nombre de pages: 1342

Technicians of Human Dignity

Auteure: Gaymon Bennett

Nombre de pages: 422

Technicians of Human Dignity traces the extraordinary rise of human dignity as a defining concern of religious, political, and bioethical institutions over the last half century and offers original insight into how human dignity has become threatened by its own success. The global expansion of dignitarian politics has left dignity without a stable set of meanings or referents, unsettling contemporary economies of life and power. Engaging anthropology, theology, and bioethics, Bennett grapples with contemporary efforts to mobilize human dignity as a counter-response to the biopolitics of the human body, and the breakdowns this has generated. To do this, he investigates how actors in pivotal institutions —the Vatican, the United Nations, U.S. Federal Bioethics—reconceived human dignity as the bearer of intrinsic worth, only to become frustrated by the Sisyphean struggle of turning its conceptions into practice.

Oarses-Zygia

Auteure: William Smith

Nombre de pages: 1440

Sociology in Post-Normal Times

Auteure: Charles Thorpe

Nombre de pages: 315

The Covid-19 pandemic and the disruptions of climate change are features of post-normal times. In Sociology in Post-Normal Times, Charles Thorpe contends that the modern project of creating normalcy within the nation state has broken down. Integral to this is sociology, which is the science of social reform. Drawing from the work of seminal theorists such as Zygmunt Bauman and Anthony Giddens, Thorpe contends that sociology's “society” is no longer viable because globalization has put an end to social reform, thus the assumptions and goals of sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global humanity. In the face of the pandemic and climate change, Sociology in Post-Normal Times demands no less than the birth of a global humanity beyond nation states as the precondition for human survival.

Conflicted Memories

Auteure: Konrad Hugo Jarausch , Thomas Lindenberger , Annelie Ramsbrock

Nombre de pages: 312

Despite the interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from much of the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century is dominated by national perspectives. This book focuses on the development of a shared conception of European history.

Fault Lines

Auteure: Jonathan Jansen , Cyrill Walters

Nombre de pages: 290

What is the link, if any, between race and disease? How did the term baster as ‘mixed race’ come to be mistranslated from ‘incest’ in the Hebrew Bible? What are the roots of racial thinking in South African universities? How does music fall on the ear of black and white listeners? Are new developments in genetics simply a backdoor for the return of eugenics? For the first time, leading scholars in South Africa from different disciplines take on some of these difficult questions about race, science and society in the aftermath of apartheid. This book offers an important foundation for students pursuing a broader education than what a typical degree provides, and a must-read resource for every citizen concerned about the lingering effects of race and racism in South Africa and other parts of the world.

Abbott's Gambit

Auteure: Carol Johnson , John Wanna , Hsu-ann Lee

Nombre de pages: 456

This book provides a truly comprehensive analysis of the 2013 federal election in Australia, which brought the conservative Abbott government to power, consigned the fractious Labor Party to the Opposition benches and ended the ‘hung parliament’ experiment of 2010–13 in which the Greens and three independents lent their support to form a minority Labor government. It charts the dynamics of this significant election and the twists and turns of the campaign itself against a backdrop of a very tumultuous period in Australian politics. Like the earlier federal election of 2010, the election of 2013 was an exercise in bipolar adversarial politics and was bitterly fought by the main protagonists. It was also characterised (again) by leadership changes on Labor’s side as well as the entry of new political parties anxious to deny the major parties a clear mandate. Moreover, the 2013 election continued the trend whereby an increasing proportion of the electorate has chosen not to vote for one of the main two political parties. While the 2013 election delivered a clear victory to the Coalition in the Lower House, it simultaneously produced a much more mixed outcome in the Senate,...

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Auteure: Aeschylus

Nombre de pages: 462

Perfect Copies

Auteure: Shiamin Kwa

Nombre de pages: 160

Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the “problem” of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa’s Perfect Copies reminds us that the mode of production and the manner in which we perceive comics are often quite similar to the stories they tell. Perfect Copies considers the dual notions of reproduction, mechanical as well as biological, and explores how comics are works of reproduction that embed questions about the nature of reproduction itself. Through close readings of the comics My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris, The Black Project by Gareth Brookes, The Generous Bosom series by Conor Stechschulte, Sabrina by Nick Drnaso, and Panther by Brecht Evens, Perfect Copies shows how these comics makers push the limits of different ideas of “reproduction” in strikingly different ways. Kwa suggests that reading and thinking about books like these, that push us to engage with these complicated questions, teaches us how to become better readers.

Installation Art between Image and Stage

Auteure: Anne Ring Petersen

Nombre de pages: 509

Installationskunsten har gået sin sejrsgang verden over, og er her i det 21. århundrede en både vel- og anerkendt bestanddel af samtidskunsten. Med påvirkning fra og udveksling mellem billedkunst på den ene side og performanceteater på den anden befinder installationskunst sig – som bogens titel viser – netop i feltet mellem billede og scene. I Installation Art: Between Image and Stage undersøger Anne Ring Petersen grundstenene for en af nutidens mest udbredte kunstformer. Installationer er – ligesom skulpturer – tredimensionelle formationer eller billeddannelser, men i modsætning til skulpturen er installationen karakteriseret ved at være formet af rum eller rumlige scenografier, som skaber betydning og sanseoplevelser gennem sit billedsprog. Som resultat af dette er installationer ofte stort anlagte kunstværker, som beskueren kan gå ind i, og de lever dermed til fulde op til nutidens krav om spektakulære, æstetisk iscenesatte events og kulturoplevelser, der taler til sanserne. Gennem grundige analyser af værker af kunstnere som Bruce Nauman, Olafur Eliasson, Jeppe Hein, Mona Hatoum, Pipilotti Rist og Ilya Kabakov som bagtæppe søges der i denne bog svar...

Sensations, Thoughts, Language

Auteure: Arthur Sullivan

Nombre de pages: 326

Brian Loar (1939-2014) was an eminent and highly respected philosopher of mind and language. He was at the forefront of several different field-defining debates between the 1970s and the 2000s—from his earliest work on reducing semantics to psychology, through debates about reference, functionalism, externalism, and the nature of intentionality, to his most enduringly influential work on the explanatory gap between consciousness and neurons. Loar is widely credited with having developed the most comprehensive functionalist account of certain aspects of the mind, and his ‘phenomenal content strategy’ is arguably one of the most significant developments on the ancient mind/body problem. This volume of essays honours the entirety of Loar’s wide-ranging philosophical career. It features sixteen original essays from influential figures in the fields of philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, including those who worked with and were taught by Loar. The essays are divided into three thematic sections covering Loar’s work in philosophy of language, especially the relations between semantics and psychology (1970s-80s), on content in the philosophy of mind (1980s-90s), and...

Improving Oral Health for the Elderly

Auteure: Ira B. Lamster , Mary E. Northridge

Nombre de pages: 528

This excellent new work confronts two important oral health policy concerns in the United States: the disparities in the oral disease burden and the inability of certain segments of the population to access oral health care. The book examines in depth this crucial yet frequently overlooked indicator of seniors’ quality of life. It provides an invaluable set of recommendations to the clinical, research, and administrative communities that will serve the elderly population.

Reconstructing Rawls

Auteure: Robert S. Taylor

Nombre de pages: 364

"Compares the theories of John Rawls and Emmanuel Kant, and offers an internal critique and reconstruction of justice as fairness, reconceiving it as a comprehensive, universalistic Kantian liberalism"--Provided by publisher.

Freedom of Speech and Islam

Auteure: Erich Kolig

Nombre de pages: 255

Freedom of speech and expression is considered in the West a high public good and an important social value, underpinned by legislative and ethical norms. Its importance is not shared to the same extent by conservative and devout Muslims, who read Islamic doctrines in ways seemingly incompatible with Western notions of freedom of speech. Since the Salman Rushdie affair in the 1980s there has been growing recognition in the West that its cherished value of free speech and associated freedoms relating to arts, the press and media, literature, academia, critical satire etc. episodically clash with conservative Islamic values that limit this freedom for the sake of holding religious issues sacrosanct. Recent controversies - such as the Danish cartoons, the Charlie Hebdo affair, Quran burnings, and the internet film ’The Innocence of Muslims’ which have stirred violent reactions in the Muslim world - have made the West aware of the fact that Muslims’ religious sensitivities have to be taken into account in exercising traditional Western freedoms of speech. Featuring experts across a spectrum of fields within Islamic studies, Freedom of Speech and Islam considers Islamic concepts...

European Constitutional Language

Auteure: András Jakab

Nombre de pages: 531

If the task of constitutional theory is to set out a language in which the discourse of constitutional law may be grounded, a question of the utmost importance is how this terminology is created, defined and interpreted. In this groundbreaking new work, András Jakab maps out and analyses the grammar and vocabulary on which the core European traditions of constitutional theory are based. He suggests understanding key constitutional concepts as responses to historical and present day challenges experienced by European societies. Drawing together a great and diverse range of literature, much of which has never before been touched upon by scholarship in the English language, Jakab reconceptualises and argues for a new understanding of European constitutional law discourse. In so doing he shines new light on what constitutes its distinctively European nature. This remarkable book is essential reading for all scholars and students of constitutional theory in Europe and beyond.

The Aias of Sophocles

Auteure: Sophocles

Nombre de pages: 342

Al Muhajiroun

Auteure: Douglas Weeks

Nombre de pages: 384

Grounded in nine years of ethnographic research on the al Muhajiroun/Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah movement (ALM/ASWJ), Douglas Weeks mixes ethnography and traditional research methods to tell the complete story of al Muhajiroun. Beginning with three core events that became a primer for radical Islamic political thought in the UK, Al Muhajiroun, A Case Study in Islamic Activism traces the development of the movement form its incipient beginnings to its current status. Based on his extensive interaction with the group and its leaders, Weeks contextualizes the history, beliefs, methods, and differences between ALM/ASWJ, al Qaeda, and the Islamic State so that the group and the threat it poses is comprehensively understood.

Anthropology and Anthropologists

Auteure: Adam Kuper

Nombre de pages: 171

Anthropology and Anthropologists provides an entertaining and provocative account of British social anthropology from the foundations of the discipline, through the glory years of the mid-twentieth century and on to the transformation in recent decades. The book shocked the anthropological establishment on first publication in 1973 but soon established itself as one of the introductions for students of anthropology. Forty years later, this now classic work has been radically revised. Adam Kuper situates the leading actors in their historical and institutional context, probes their rivalries, revisits their debates, and reviews their key ethnographies. Drawing on recent scholarship he shows how the discipline was shaped by the colonial setting and by developments in the social sciences.

International Politics and Inner Worlds

Auteure: Kurt Jacobsen

Nombre de pages: 235

This book takes radical aim at the conventional conduct of international relations analysis. It reexamines the role of ideas, the usefulness of psychoanalysis, the rage for and at rational choice, the influence of the public on foreign policy, counterinsurgency evangelism, and development orthodoxies at the national and genetic levels. Drawing a bead on conceptual blind spots prevalent both inside and outside the academy, the book urges scholars to reflect on how inner worlds shape the actions of their subjects—and their own research analyses, as well.

Migration, Ethics and Power

Auteure: Dan Bulley

Nombre de pages: 201

In 2014, the ethics and politics of hospitality were brought into stark relief. Three years into the Syrian conflict, which had already created nearly 2.5 million refugees and internally displaced 6.5 million, the UN called on industrialised countries to share the burden of offering hospitality through a fixed quota system. The UK opted out of the system whilst hailing their acceptance of a moral responsibility by welcoming only 500 of the ‘most vulnerable’ Syrians. Given the state’s exclusionary character, what opportunities do other spaces in international politics offer by way of hospitality to migrants and refugees? Hospitality can take many different forms and have many diverse purposes. But wherever it occurs, the boundaries that enable it and make it possible are both created and unsettled via exercises of power and their resistance. Through modern examples including refugee camps, global cities, postcolonial states and Europe, as well as analysis of Derridean and Foucauldian concepts, Migration, Ethics and Power explores: The process and practice of hospitality The spaces that hospitality produces The intimate relationship between ethics and power This is a...

Colonizing Consent

Auteure: Elizabeth Thornberry

Nombre de pages: 381

Using a wealth of court records, Colonizing Consent shows how rape cases were caught up in, and helped shape, the major political debates in colonial South Africa.

Cities as Political Objects

Auteure: Alistair Cole , Renaud Payre

Nombre de pages: 316

Focusing on the city’s role as the nexus for new forms of relationships between politics, economics and society, this fascinating book views the city as a political phenomena. Its chapters unravel the city’s plural histories, contested political, legal and administrative boundaries, and its policy-making capacity in the context of multi-level and market pressures.