List 2 of books by Gary Victor

Maudite éducation

by Gary Victor
Language: French
Release Date: June 4, 2013

Carl Vausier est un adolescent en pleine agitation sexuelle. Ses étreintes imaginaires dans la bibliothèque paternelle et ses folles virées dans les bas-fonds de Port-au-Prince au début des années 1970 vont lui faire découvrir à la fois sa propre nature et le monde qui l'entoure. Carl entre...

Le Diable dans un thé à la citronnelle

by Gary Victor
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2005

Alors qu’elle se rêvait princesse indienne, Mirna, une fillette de douze ans, est violée un après-midi sur la berge du lac Azweï par un groupe d’adolescents mené par Blaise Maldouin, fils aîné d’une famille aisée de Port-au-Prince. Pendant une cinquantaine d’années, elle attend...

Masi

by Gary Victor
Language: French
Release Date: April 17, 2018

On chuchote que, grâce à La flûte enchantée de Mozart, le citoyen Dieuseul Lapénuri est nommé ministre aux Valeurs morales et citoyennes, avec le mandat d’arrêter la dégradation des mœurs et l’abomination qui gangrènent la République. L’île sombre dans la luxure. Le président se...

Nuit albinos

by Gary Victor
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2016

Inspiré de faits vécus, Nuit albinos est l'histoire d'un chien blanc qui, la nuit de la Saint-Sylvestre, se sauve de chez lui et terrorise toute la ville. Le chien blanc serait envoyé par le Diable pour décimer le genre humain. Cette nuit maudite et mémorable montre la confusion entre réel et...

Banal oubli

by Gary Victor
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2008

Pierre Jean, écrivain, cherche l’inspiration pour son nouveau roman. Ébranlé par la rupture avec sa maîtresse Alicia, il se console en buvant quelques gins tonics « Chez James ». Quittant le bar au petit matin, il a la désagréable impression d’oublier quelque chose. « La vérité...

The Locust Effect

Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence

by Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014

A Washington Post bestseller While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, the hidden plague of everyday violence silently undermines our best efforts to help the poor. Common violence like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, and police abuse has...

Racial Transformations

Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States

by Gary Y. Okihiro, Natalia Molina, Victor Jew
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006

Moving beyond the black-white binary that has long framed racial discourse in the United States, the contributors to this collection examine how the experiences of Latinos and Asians intersect in the formation of the U.S. nation-state. They analyze the political and social processes that have racialized...

Gewalt – die Fessel der Armen

Worunter die Ärmsten dieser Erde am meisten leiden – und was wir dagegen tun können

by Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Vier Milliarden Menschen werden von den Rechtssystemen ihrer Länder nicht vor Gewalt geschützt. Polizeigewalt, Raub, Vergewaltigung und Menschenhandel bedrohen täglich das Leben der Ärmsten. Neuen Studien zufolge fürchten sie willkürliche Gewalt sogar stärker als Wasser-, Nahrungs- und Medikamentenmangel. Die...

Beyond Collapse

Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies

by J. Heath Anderson, Christina Conlee, Thomas Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015

The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience...

America's Healthcare Transformation

Strategies and Innovations

by Susan A. Abookire, David W. Bates, Sarah Slight
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016

A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together...

Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials

by Jeff Victor, Jeff Savit, Gary Combs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

Virtualization and related technologies like hypervisors, which create virtual machines on a single hardware machine, and containers (also known as zones), which create virtual operating systems running on a single operating system, are a totally new area for many system administrators. ...

Oracle Solaris 11 System Virtualization Essentials

Orac Sola 11 Syst Virt Ess_2

by Jeff Victor, Jeff Savit, Gary Combs
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017

A Concise, Up-to-Date Guide to Oracle Virtualization Technologies, Including Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle VM Server for SPARC, Physical Domains, and Oracle VM Virtual Box Oracle® Solaris 11 System Virtualization Essentials, Second Edition, has been fully updated for Oracle 11 and...

Violence, Conflict, and World Order

Critical Conversations on State Sanctioned Justice

by Gregg Barak, Mahin Ashki, Gregg Barak
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006

This is an ethnographic collection of 12 edited talks and conversations from a conference on violence, conflict, and the world order held at Eastern Kentucky University. The conference was organized by Carole Garrison, Chair of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at EKU, who arranged for video recording...