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Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Volume 2, Political Regulation, Governance, and Societal Transformations
Report of the International Panel on Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This is the second of three volumes containing a report from the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). The IPSP is an independent association of top research scholars with the goal of assessing methods for improving the main institutions of modern societies. Written in accessible language...
Tough Choices or Tough Times
The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Tough Choices or Tough Times, the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, shows how the dynamics of the global economy will lead to a steady decline in the American standard of living if this country does not undertake the first thorough overhaul of its education system...
The Kavanaugh Battle
The Fight for the Supreme Court and for the Future of the U.S. with speeches by Judge Kavanaugh, Christine Ford and Senator Collins
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
“For the Democratic Party, the Kavanaugh battle was the Little Bighorn, as seen from General Custer’s point of view.” –Pat Buchanan, political commentator, Oct. 2018 One of the most bitter confirmation debates in U.S history has recently ended, when Justice Kavanaugh was sworn in as Justice...
World in Transition 3
Towards Sustainable Energy Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
'The publication of World in Transition: Towards Sustainable Energy Systems is timely indeed. The World Summit on Sustainable Development gave great prominence to this challenge, but failed to agree on a quantitative, time-bound target for the introduction of renewable energy sources. The German Advisory...
by Maurice Garçon
Language: French
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Maurice Garçon (1889-1967) fut l'un des plus grands avocats de son temps. De 1912 à sa mort, il a consigné presque chaque soir les événements, petits et grands, dont il était le témoin ou l’acteur. Ce premier volume de son journal inédit couvre, parfois heure par heure, la guerre, la défaite,...
Making Sense Out of a World Gone Mad: A Roadmap for God's Elect Living in the Final Days of the End Times
Final Days of the End Times, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This is likely to be the most important and most challenging book you have ever read. It is not for everybody. It is written for God’s elect, those chosen individually by God since before the world began, whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life, who would one day become His born again...
by Committee on Maritime and Transport Law Staff
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
It is with great pleasure that as Chairman of the Section on Business Law of the International Bar Association I write this foreword to a series of handbooks on maritime law which have been prepared by the Committee on Maritime and Transport Law of our Section. The first of these handbooks deals with...
World in Transition 4
Fighting Poverty through Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
At the start of the 21st century, fighting poverty and protecting the environment are two of the most urgent challenges facing the international community. Environmental changes will jeopardize people's survival to an even greater extent in the future, and will hit the poor hardest. To meet these...
by Léon J. Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to playing the piano, focusing on the basic techniques and elemental principles. Scale practice is of the utmost importance when learning the violin, and this guide concentrates on this idea, using it as a starting point for the mastery of perfect intonation,...
by Michel Déon
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
A vivid recreation of the interwar period, Michel Déon's fictionalised memoir is a touching and very true depiction of boyhood and how our early experiences affect us. Édouard (Michel Déon's real name) looks back on his 1920s childhood spent in Paris and Monte Carlo. Within a bourgeois yet unconventional...
Les vacances de Riquet et de Madeleine
( Edition intégrale ) illustré
Language: French
Release Date: December 10, 2018
La petite Madeleine, à l’âge de six ans, étant de santé assez délicate et fragile, sa mère, qui habitait New-York, jugea prudent de l’envoyer passer quelque temps en Franconie, où l’air plus salubre, bien que l’on fût au début de la saison froide et neigeuse, lui semblait plus favorable...
by Léon Botkine
Language: French
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Extrait :
De tous les monuments de la littérature anglo-saxonne qui sont parvenus jusqu’à nous le plus curieux est sans contredit le poëme épique de Beowulf. Après être resté longtemps plongé dans un injuste oubli il a enfin pris la place honorable à laquelle sa valeur réelle non...
by Léon Dumont
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2015
EXTRAIT:
À mesure que la théorie de l’évolution et l’explication positive des phénomènes de la nature gagnent du terrain dans les sciences et la philosophie, l’habitude, dans laquelle Auguste Comte signalait avec raison « une des principales...
by Léon Tolstoï
Language: French
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Résurrection – III Léon Tolstoï, écrivain russe (1828-1910)
Ce livre numérique présente «Résurrection – III», de Léon Tolstoï, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet...