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Rescapée d’un raid mené par des Indiens et des Français en Nouvelle-Angleterre, Sarah, une enfant de douze ans qu’on force à marcher pendant plus d’un mois dans la neige et le froid de l’hiver 1704, n’est pas au bout de ses tribulations. En tant que prisonnière, on la vend à loisir...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...

Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance; Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality; Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...

Ce livre aidera votre enfant à répondre à la fameuse question : "Comment fait-on un bébé ?""À l'aide de belles images et de textes explicatifs, cette petite imagerie initiera les tout petits à la naissance.Cette collection est une reprise des Imageries adaptés aux plus petits. Chaque sujet...

Originally published in 1915, this pioneer study has long occupied an important place in the literature of sociology. An exercise in the statistical correlation of the economic and social institutions of the working classes of the early twentieth century, the book is an important link between contemporary...

«Un'autrice che ha fatto della suspense un'arte.» RT Book Reviews «Una voce che ti rimane dentro a lungo.» Publishers Weekly «È come andare sulle montagne russe: un colpo di scena dietro l'altro.» The Daily Mail Un imprevedibile thriller psicologico. Un'autrice da...

Sono trascorsi sei mesi dalla scomparsa di Billy, quindicenne figlio di Claire e Mark, fuggito di notte dalla casa di famiglia. In quella casa vivono anche ­Jake, il fratello diciannovenne di Billy, e la sua fidanzata, Kira, sottratta a una madre violenta e alcolizzata. Billy è sempre stato un ragazzo...

Sue Jackson è una donna realizzata: ha una famiglia felice, un marito con una solida carriera politica, una bella casa a Brighton, in Inghilterra. Ma quando la figlia quindicenne Charlotte entra in coma dopo essere stata investita da un autobus, tutta la sua felicità va in pezzi. Eppure, se possibile,...

The Ghost in my iPad 3:45 and 4:44, 52,000 wordsFor close to a year, someone has been abducting a middle school girl each holiday. When Jengo’ sister mysteriously disappears on the fourth of July and the FBI can’t find her, he and his buddy launch their own search. Sandwiched into their...

This foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent...

In the current era of health care reform, the pressures to truly manage patient care and to build effective integrated delivery systems are generating intense interest in patient care information systems. Health care institutions cannot provide seamlees access to care without seamless access to information,...

- Includes over 200 delicious snacks and small plate meals, each with a low GI rating. - Offers recipes for each part of the day, including vegetarian andvegan alternatives.

The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing...

The story of the rise of prisons and development of prison systems in the United States has been studied extensively in scholarship, but the experiences of female inmates in these institutions have not received the same attention. Historically, women incarcerated in prison, jails, and reformatories...