Cecile: 86 books

When Maxx Robertson thought about the saying, "something would be the death of him", he had no true concept of what it meant. That is, until he met her. All of four-foot-nothing and lighter than his duffle bag on an easy gear day, he knew he was lost the minute those brown eyes focused on...

This poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the muse–artist relationship as few works of fiction have done,...

This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Dust-collector Operator. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Dust-collector Operator

This book reflects the first comprehensive survey and dataset of access to financial products by the Pakistani population. In Pakistan, access to financing is at low levels, though expanding quickly. Half of Pakistani adults, mostly women, do not engage in the financial system at all. The formal microfinance...

La terre est bleue comme une mangue... Trois femmes, trois générations, trois pays, trois destins. Inde coloniale. Radhika est mariée par son père à un Major anglais, qui se révèle odieux. La naissance de leur fille, Anita, ne fait qu'exacerber sa tyrannie. Angleterre. Élevée dans la stricte...

Natalie lavora alla Union da quattro anni e da quattro anni conduce una vita ai margini, tenendosi lontana da tutti, reprimendo ogni emozione. Ciò che nessuno sa è che di notte, quando l’istinto prevale sulla ragione, quando i sogni si fanno pressanti e le emozioni prendono il sopravvento, l’introversa...

Following on from Alain Badiou’s acclaimed works Ethics and Metapolitics, Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural...

C'est l'histoire d'un affrontement, d'une révolte que personne n'a vus venir. Le récit d'un face-à-face entre des Gilets jaunes qui n'arrivent plus à vivre dignement et un Président silencieux en son palais. C'est l'histoire de ces semaines qui ont ébranlé le pays, de ces Françaises et ces...

When a Brazilian man's face is disfigured, he attempts a grisly self-surgery in this novel of survival.

This book is the first systematic, detailed treatment of the approaches to ethical issues taken by biotech and pharmaceutical companies. The application of genetic/genomic technologies raises a whole spectrum of ethical questions affecting global health that must be addressed. Topics covered in this...

Sleuth/master chef Charly Poisson is back in this followup to "Appetite for Murder". The winter holidays are over, and Charly and the staff of La Fermette are settling down for a quiet season when a ring of antique thieves terrorize their wealthy, weekend patrons. Things get worse when Charly...

Told in the voice of a five-year-old girl who sees more than she understands, this novel chronicles her passage through sickness, the separation of her parents, and a maze of secret lives, all with the richness of her budding imagination.

What do we understand 'noise' to be? The term 'noise' no longer suggests only aesthetic judgement, as in acoustic or visual noise, and is now relevant to domains as varied as communication theory, physics and biology. This trans-disciplinary usage leads to confusion and complication, and reveals...

This book articulates a cosmopolitan theory of the principles which ought to regulate belligerents' conduct in the aftermath of war. Throughout, it relies on the fundamental principle that all human beings, wherever they reside, have rights to the freedoms and resources which they need to lead a flourishing...