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Tout le monde a en tête ce fameux adage de Charles Péguy, lequel redoutait que la mystique se dégrade en politique. On a commémoré l’année dernière le centenaire de sa mort : le moins qu’on puisse dire est que cet anniversaire a montré combien Péguy demeurait présent dans les esprits....

Még előtte? Vagy régen túl, de még mindig olyan, mintha tegnap történt volna? Legyen nagyon jó, vagy kevésbé, mindenki emlékszik AZ ELSŐ alkalomra. Amiről nem beszél senkinek. Vagy épp elmondja mindenkinek. Ami annyiféle történet, ahányan vagyunk. Milyen nehéz szavakat...

From Wall Street to Harlem, the borough of Manhattan is the setting for all-new stories of mystery, murder, and suspense, presented by best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark and featuring an exclusive Jack Reacher story by Lee Child, as well as other takes from top Mystery Writers of America authors. In...

At first sight it may appear strange that a volume of Progress in Pediatric Surgery should be devoted to the history of our specialty. One assumes that progress is concerned primarily with recent developments whilst history deals with matters of the past. However, in the past there has also been considerable...

The predecessor to Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk, T. H. White’s nature writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: what is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself...

“THERE’S AN ANGEL IN THE CHIMNEY!” Mrs. O’Callaghan had come up with some pretty farfetched notions, but when she came running to Mr. White with this announcement, he was convinced she’d lost all touch with reality. Yet when the sensible English writer—whose only mistake had been...

This carefully selected and edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) An English...

The Moguls were an exclusive little pseudo-fraternity -- a sort of club of young guys, a little too law-abiding to be a gang, perhaps. Kurt wanted to join, but Dylan didn't want him to. So Dylan set Kurt an impossible initiation task -- have sex with Fat Maggie, who worked at the convenience store...

The originality of this volume is to reveal to the reader the fascination of some unfamiliar sensory organs that are sometimes ignored and often misunderstood. These receptors have only recently been identified and their functional specificity is in some cases still a matter for discussion. The four...

The basic principles of the phenomenon "erection" have been known since the pioneering work of Kolliker, Eckhard and Langley in the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, under the influence of Freud, erectile dysfunction was predominantly at­ tributed to psychogenic factors. A more liberal perception...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.

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...

ADULT! Okay, I know the picture that came to mind when you read this title -- but if I gave you a tale about white women fawning over well-hung black bulls -- something I'm fully capable of -- that would be kind of predictable, wouldn't it? So -- spoiler alert! -- there are no white women in this...

This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference...