Delphine: 241 books

"I believe with all my heart that I must tell my story. From the moment that it all began on All Souls Day in November of 2008, I knew that God must have a purpose for permitting the Souls in Purgatory to visit me." These words of the author taken from the preface of this book are enough...

In contrast to the linear "take-make-dispose" model of resource consumption, a new industrial model is proposed in the form of a circular economy. This model aims to optimize the use of resources and to reduce or eliminate waste, and is based on re-use, repair, ecodesign, industrial ecology, sustainable...

The goal of this paper is to estimate the additional annual spending required for meaningful progress on the SDGs in these areas. Our estimates refer to additional spending in 2030, relative to a baseline of current spending to GDP in these sectors. Toward this end, we apply an innovative costing...

The past fifteen years have seen Indonesia move away from authoritarianism to a thriving yet imperfect democracy. During this time, the archipelago attracted international attention as the most-populated Muslim-majority country in the world. As religious issues and actors have been increasingly taken...

Invisible Hands in Cultural Markets shines unprecedented light on the activity of talent representatives and production professionals in the American and French film and television industries. Agents and other talent brokers, studio executives, independent producers, casting directors, and film offices—all...

Analytical Archaeometry describes this interesting and challenging field of research - on the border between natural sciences (chemistry, spectroscopy, biology, geology) and humanities (archaeology, (art-)history, conservation sciences). It fills the gap between these two areas whilst focussing on...

EXTRAIT: I   À MADAME MADAME LA VICOMTESSE DE BRAIMES HÔTEL DE LA PRÉFECTURE, À GRENOBLE (ISÈRE).   Paris, 16 mai 18… Vous êtes une grande prophétesse, ma chère Valentine ; tout ce que vous avez prédit est arrivé : grâce...

Trois histoires de bébés animaux tendres et drôles, à lire avec son bébé ! De belles histoires pensées pour les tout-petits pour partager avec eux le plaisir des premieres lectures.

Trois histoires pour le soir douces et câlines à lire avec son bébé ! De belles histoires pensées pour les tout-petits pour partager avec eux le plaisir des premieres lectures.

Corinne est une jeune femme solitaire et sans histoires. Pourtant, sa petite vie tranquille va bientôt voler en éclats. Mue par une impulsivité passagère, elle dérobe un courrier qui était destinée à une parfaite inconnue, Sonia Legrand. La lecture du courrier lui crée un choc,...

En banlieue, Malou, 9 ans, Tulipe, Florimond, les jumeaux Florian et Floriane, Tito et le rat Neige veulent sauver le grand hêtre du terrain vague. Il abrite leurs fous rires et leurs secrets. Pas question qu’une tronçonneuse le mette à terre  ! Pour lutter contre le promoteur, ils ont plein d’armes et des alliés…parfois inattendus !  

For his birthday, Pablo receives exactly what he doesn't want: a chair. Disappointed and angry, he locks himself in his room, determined not to sit on his new chair. But he starts to play around with it and, by the end of the day, becomes a chair acrobat. Pablo sets out into the world, performing...

The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete. This is partly because the number of specimens available is sometimes limited, but also because widely different approaches...

Rebecca, chez qui je squatte depuis six mois, m’intrigue comme personne avec ses tatouages, ses répliques acerbes et sa froideur affichée. Les O’Brian sont les seuls à me regarder comme si je comptais pour eux. Et John est bien trop sexy pour me laisser indifférente. Alors faire cette...