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Estelle est une jeune femme dynamique, franche, qui ne se laisse pas marcher sur les pieds et qui met tout en œuvre pour obtenir ce qu’elle désire. Frédéric est un jeune homme un brin macho, sûr de lui – enfin c’est ce qu’il essaye de faire croire, mais qui ne parvient pas à faire confiance...

Originally published in 1878, this now-rare collection of designs supplies views of a remarkable variety of modestly priced structures: houses, villas, cottages, many others. Handsome drawings of perspective views and elevations, some of which include floor plans, plus suggestions for interior design. 98 black-and-white illustrations.

Arthur James Marshall Smith — prize-winning poet, essayist, influential anthologist, and critic — died in 1980. His last book, The Classic Shade: Selected Poems, on which Selected Writings is based, stands as his final intention in the world of literature.To this long out of print book the editor...

A simple flow of poetry that was written with love for many of the wonderful people in my life. I have been inspired by many and I share that with words of encouragement, love and happiness.

Restructuring is an international phenomenon, and great stress is placed on the role of the innovative principal in the process. This book offers insights into the ways in which six principals go about leading the change process in their schools, and looks for ways of understanding why and how principals...

Il pretore Gaio Ticio Massimo, ex generale vittorioso e celebrato eroe della guerra contro i Daci, viene convocato con urgenza dall'imperatore Traiano. Mentre venti di guerra soffiano dai confini orientali dell'Impero, dove il grande regno dei Parti sta radunando nuove forze militari, a Roma si incrociano...

When people witness occasions when police use their powers to investigate crime and arrest offenders, how do those members of the public assess what they have seen? This book reports research in which a variety of groups from the West Midlands watched short video-clips of such real-life incidents...

This analysis of policing throughout the modern world demonstrates how many of the contentious issues surrounding the police in recent years - from paramilitarism to community policing - have their origins in the fundamentals of the police role. The author argues that this results from a fundamental...

When Archer is kidnapped by a litch on the eve of his arranged mating, his life has gone from bad to worse. His father, the alpha, goes to the local vampire for help to track down his son, but none of them are prepared for what happens when Reese and Archer meet.​

Farid al-Din Attar, author of the book here pre-sented in an abridged translation, is to be accounted amongst the greatest poets of Persia; his dimensions as a literary genius increase with the further investigation of his writings, which are still far from completely explored, though welcome progress has been made of late in their publication.

Translation of a selection of poems from one of the world's greatest lyric poets. First published 1947.

Ideas abound as to why certain complex societies collapsed in the past, including environmental change, subsistence failure, fluctuating social structure and lack of adaptability. Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? evaluates the current theories in this important topic and discusses why they offer...

Reprint of a classic text.

This book is an introduction to the concept of symmetries in electromagnetism and explicit symmetry breaking. It begins with a brief background on the origin of the concept of symmetry and its meaning in fields such as architecture, mathematics and physics. Despite the extensive developments of symmetry...