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Groupie : n. f. [gʀupi] Personne (le plus souvent jeune fille) qui suit régulièrement une célébrité dans l’espoir de la rencontrer ou d’apprendre à la connaître. Voir l’exemple de Tiffany Wendel : Pute. Salope. Chasseuse de crampons. J’ai l’habitude...

This timely book provides a wealth of information to help city managers, policy analysts, and government administrators identify relevant urban environmental problems and an array of potential solutions, analyze policy solutions and outcomes, and communicate with the public regarding urban environmental problems and policies.

Steampunk Commander is a set of rules for tabletop gaming using any sort of miniature figurines or models. All that is required to recreate fantastic battles set in a hypothetical Victorian Age are a large table or other playing area, a deck of regular playing cards, an assortment of model figurines,...

Déjouer: verbe. Faire échouer le jeu, les manoeuvres de quelqu'un. Mettre en défaut. Tromper. Exemples: Daniel Zavaro et Quincy Watson Star montante à Houston, Daniel connaît la gloire en tant que capitaine de son équipe de football professionnelle et en tant que l'un des...

Completely revised and updated, this rich and readable history of modern Ireland covers the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural dimensions of the country's development from the origins of the Irish Question to the present day. A new introductory chapter covers the period prior to...

Updated to cover a decade of policy developments and the impact of the recent economic crisis, this classic social insurance text includes in-depth discussion of all major programs to reduce economic insecurity in the United States, including Social Security, Medicare, workers compensation, unemployment compensation, and temporary disability insurance.

Vaincu  [vɛ̃ky] adjectif Qui a subi une défaite (de la part d’un ennemi, d’un rival, d’une force quelconque). S’avouer vaincu : reconnaître sa défaite. Abandonner, capituler, se rendre. Voir l’exemple de Santos et Mariana DeGuajarado. En tant...

A historical novel that vividly brings alive the experiences of the newly freed slaves after the Civil War.

The Knights Templar – Medieval Cult or Modern Nemesis? -- History of this famous group and the organizations that claim descent from them. Were they really destroyed in the fourteenth century or do they survive and even prosper to this day? Who are their descendants? Are there ties to the Nazis and the Mormon Church? A must-read for anyone interested in conspiracies or the occult.

It was a momentous time in India -- the period between 1900 and the early 1930s -- the nationalist movement had become a mass movement; the British colonial power doled out representative institutions; and proponents of India's two major religions, Hinduism and Islam, had become competitors in newly...

History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views that continue to play a fundamental role in today's politics and economics. The Big Three in Economics traces the turbulent lives and battle of ideas of the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez...

Now updated to include more information on Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Joseph Stglitz, "imperfect" markets, and behavioral economics, Mark Skousen's popular work provides an accessible introduction to the major economic thinkers of the past 225 years--including little-known and often amusing facts about their personal lives.

Equally appealing for classroom use and general readers, this book provides a fresh approach to understanding the American combat soldier's experience in Vietnam that integrates such topics as the political culture, the experiences of training, the actual Vietnam experience, and the "homecoming."

Originally published in 1972, The Hessian tells the story of the capture, trial, and execution of a Hessian drummer boy by Americans during the Revolution. At the heart of the story is a Quaker family, who hide the boy after his landing party has been killed in an ambush. Because the captain of the Hessians...