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Représailles

Auteure: Scott Turow

Nombre de pages: 546

À l’âge de cinquante ans, l’ancien procureur Bill Dix Boom quitte brusquement tout ce qui faisait sa pour lui : sa carrière juridique, sa femme et même son pays. Engagé par la Cour pénale internationale – une institution chargée de poursuivre les crimes contre l’humanité – il va enquêter sur l’affaire la plus insaisissable de sa carrière. Il y a plus de dix ans, dans le chaos apocalyptique ayant suivi la guerre en Bosnie, tout un camp de réfugiés rom s’est volatilisé. Aujourd’hui, pour la première fois, un témoin s’est présenté : Ferko Rincic prétend que des hommes armés ont emmené les Tsiganes habitant le camp dans une grotte au milieu de la nuit... puis, au moyen d’une grenade, ont provoqué une avalanche, enterrant vivantes quatre cent personnes. Seul Ferko a survécu. La mission de Boom consiste à examiner ces déclarations et à déterminer qui pourrait avoir massacré les Roms. Son enquête le conduit du siège de la Cour pénale internationale aux villes et villages de Bosnie et à des réunions secrètes à Washington. Faire le tri parmi une foule de suspects, allant de paramilitaires serbes à des membres de gangs du crime...

Identique

Auteure: Scott Turow

Nombre de pages: 361

Le sénateur Paul Gianis se présente comme maire à Kindle County tandis que son frère jumeau, Cass, est libéré après avoir purgé une peine de vingt-cinq ans de prison pour le meurtre de son ancienne petite amie, Dita Kronon. Lorsque Evon Miller, frère de la victime et responsable de la sécurité pour la société de Hal Kronon et Tim Brodie, détective privé, reprennent l’enquête sur la mort de Dita, ils se retrouvent pris au piège des illusions et confrontés à une vérité sans fard : les gens ne croient que ce qui les arrange. Passion, meurtre et trahison : dans ce superbe roman, Scott Turow, maître incontesté du thriller juridique, revisite avec brio le thème de la gémellité. Traduit de l’anglais par Antoine Chainas

Scott Turow

Auteure: Andrew F. Macdonald , Gina Macdonald

Nombre de pages: 278

Scott Turow is a novelist, lawyer, and humanist who has fused his two passions, writing and the law, to create challenging novels that raise significant legal issues and test the justice of present laws. In all of his books, Turow reveals the moral ambiguities that afflict both accuser and accused, and challenges his readers to reconsider their preconceived notions of justice. Beginning with One-L, his first published work about the first-year law school experience, Turow continues to capture his readers' imaginations with books such as Presumed Innocent and Burden of Proof.

La doctrine Obama

Auteure: Gilles Vandal

Nombre de pages: 317

Pour beaucoup d’intellectuels, d’analystes et de commentateurs de la scène politique américaine, Barack Obama représente encore une énigme. Cela est particulièrement vrai en ce qui concerne sa politique étrangère. Sa position basée sur la concertation et portant plutôt sur le renouveau du leadership américain que sur le maintien de l’hégémonie des États-Unis amène certains observateurs à affirmer que le président a entamé un processus visant à gérer le déclin de l’Amérique. Pour Gilles Vandal, l’approche multilatérale d’Obama découle davantage de sa vision intellectuelle et spirituelle du monde.Qu’est-ce exactement que cette Doctrine Obama ? C’est ce que l’auteur définit en analysant le parcours intellectuel d’Obama de son enfance jusqu'à son accession à la présidence américaine. Il démontre ainsi comment sa vision particulière du monde s’est forgée non seulement à partir de ses expériences personnelles en Indonésie, à Hawaîi et à Chicago, des aléas de sa carrière politique, mais aussi par ses lectures de Niebuhr et de Kennan. Le livre permettra notamment aux lecteurs de comprendre la position d’Obama sur la guerre en...

Lettres et lois. Le droit au miroir de la littérature

Auteure: François Ost , Laurent Van Eynde , Philippe Gérard , Michel Van De Kerchove

Nombre de pages: 347

Le courant « droit et littérature » très développé aux États-Unis, est encore embryonnaire dans les pays de langue française. Fruit de la collaboration de juristes, de philosophes et de littéraires, cet ouvrage cherche à réduire cette lacune. Deux questions constituent le fil rouge de la recherche : que peut apporter la littérature au droit, ...

The American Popular Novel After World War II

Auteure: David Willbern

Nombre de pages: 265

Through the perspectives of selected best-selling novels from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century--including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, Jaws, Beloved, The Silence of the Lambs, and Jurassic Park--this book examines the crucial issues the U.S. was experiencing during those decades. These novels represent the voices of popular conversations, as Americans considered issues of family, class, racism and sexism, feminism, economic ambition, sexual violence, war, law, religion and science. Through the windows of fiction, the book surveys the Cold War and anti-communism, the prefeminist era of the 1950s and the sexual revolution of the 1970s, forms of corporate power in the 1960s and 1980s, the traumatic legacies of slavery and Vietnam, the American fascination with lawyers, cops and criminals, alternate styles of romance in the era of late capitalism, our abiding distrust of science, and our steadfast wonder about the Great Mysteries.

Hothouse

Auteure: Boris Kachka

Nombre de pages: 448

“Mad Men for the literary world.” —Junot Díaz Farrar, Straus and Giroux is arguably the most influential publishing house of the modern era. Home to an unrivaled twenty-five Nobel Prize winners and generation-defining authors like T. S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, Susan Sontag, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Philip Roth, and Jonathan Franzen, it’s a cultural institution whose importance approaches that of The New Yorker or The New York Times. But FSG is no ivory tower—the owner's wife called the office a “sexual sewer”—and its untold story is as tumultuous and engrossing as many of the great novels it has published. Boris Kachka deftly reveals the era and the city that built FSG through the stories of two men: founder-owner Roger Straus, the pugnacious black sheep of his powerful German-Jewish family—with his bottomless supply of ascots, charm, and vulgarity of every stripe—and his utter opposite, the reticent, closeted editor Robert Giroux, who rose from working-class New Jersey to discover the novelists and poets who helped define American culture. Giroux became one of T. S. Eliot’s best friends, just missed out on The Catcher in the Rye, and played the placid...

The Invisible Scissors

Auteure: Marc Höchli

Nombre de pages: 364

Introduction -- The meanings of censorship -- The origins and evolution of media freedom in Switzerland -- Media and democracy today -- International obligations and the freedom of the media in Switzerland -- National standards -- The secretiveness of the military -- Media organisations and journalists' associations -- Education and training in journalism -- Print media -- Radio and television -- The Internet: progressing by fits and starts -- The power of advertising -- Playing with the truth -- Self-censorship and blind obedience -- The failure of media journalism -- Conclusion.

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Auteure: Abby H. P. Werlock

Nombre de pages: 3855

Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.

French books in print, anglais

Auteure: Electre

Nombre de pages: 2148

Le point

Nombre de pages: 1012

Identical

Auteure: Scott Turow

Nombre de pages: 361

A gripping masterpiece of dark family rivalries, shadowy politics and hidden secrets, Identical is the stunning thriller from bestselling author Scott Turow. Two families entangled in a long and complex history of love and deceit . . . Twenty five years ago, after a society picnic held by businessman and politician Zeus Kronon, Zeus’ headstrong daughter Dita was found murdered. Her boyfriend, Cass Gianis, confessed to the crime. Now Cass has been released from prison into the care of his twin, Mayoral candidate Paul Gianis, who is in the middle of a high profile political campaign. But Dita’s brother Hal is convinced there is information surrounding his sister’s death that remains buried – and he won’t rest until he’s discovered the truth. Hal’s employee, former FBI Special Agent Evon Miller, teams up with Tim Brodie, a retired police officer, to investigate. After all this time, can they find evidence to place Paul Gianis, the ‘innocent’ twin, at the scene of the crime? Soon Paul will find himself struggling to hold his campaign together amidst Hal’s increasingly damning allegations. But what does the mayoral candidate really have to hide? And why has Cass...

Professional Integrity

Auteure: Michael S. Pritchard

Nombre de pages: 216

Examines what it means to be a responsible professional, including the sorts of things thoughtful, conscientious people ought to perceive and care about.

Military Tribunals and Presidential Power

Auteure: Louis Fisher

Nombre de pages: 308

Offers coverage of wartime extra-legal courts. Focusing on those periods when the Constitution and civil liberties have been most severely tested by threats to national security, Fisher critiques tribunals called during the presidencies of Washington, Madison, Jackson, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Truman.

Scott Turow 3 Vol. (Boxed)

Auteure: Scott Turow

The Burden of Proof))Presumed Innocent))One L))3 Vols.

Testimony

Auteure: Scott Turow

Nombre de pages: 436

Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR), returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance. At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire Roma refugee camp vanished. Now for the first time, a witness has stepped forward: Ferko Rincic claims that armed men marched the camp's Gypsy residents to a cave in the middle of the night--and then with a hand grenade set off an avalanche, burying 400 people alive. Only Ferko survived. Boom's task is to examine Ferko's claims and determinine who might have massacred the Roma. His investigation takes him from the International Criminal Court's base in Holland to the cities and villages of Bosnia and...