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Camie at 14 is a wild Detroit street girl on the run from an abusive suburban home. In the underbelly parlance of Motown, she is a babytrick and ready to do anything to survive. Ella is a beautiful black attorney and former cop, who finds herself accused of the murder of a wealthy businessman she...

For a time in their dating-wars romance, she seemed too good to be true—bright, witty, gorgeous and erotic. Finally when it became clear that she was real—and adored him—there was just this one little problem. This is one of T.V. LoCicero’s shorter works published as an ebook. The others...

It was only a temporary job the summer before graduate school, but when the young fellow clerking at a public course hooked up with an old black caddie, their match became one of the most unusual rounds in the colorful history of golf. This is one of T.V. LoCicero’s shorter works published...

Every week on Friday Martha Parker came to clean Leda Palmieri’s Grosse Pointe home. But this Friday was different. Mrs. Palmieri did not want to do this but knew she must. After all, that narrow slice of life they shared turned on the color of help. This is one of T.V. LoCicero’s shorter...

The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...

«Je suis entrée dans Tokyo très doucement, comme dans l’eau tiède d’un lac. Comme dans une nuit qui aurait eu exactement la même température que mon corps. Sans m’en rendre compte, presque. Tokyo. Une ville qui ne commence ni ne finit jamais. Je suis entrée dans Tokyo en dormant, comme dans un rêve déjà rêvé». Portrait par Véronique Côté d’un archipel phosphorescent.

La naissance du fleuron de l’armée française Janvier 1991. Les Américains déclenchent l’opération « Tempête du désert » contre les Irakiens qui viennent d’envahir le Koweït. Prise au dépourvu, la France se doit d’intervenir si elle veut s’imposer comme un leader au sein...

Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...

There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the...

The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests...

Que reste-t-il de sauvage en nous? De quoi sommes-nous fiers? Que fêter de nous? Dans La fête sauvage, Véronique Côté fait exploser une symphonie de textes et de chansons célébrant les notions de pays, de territoire et d’appartenance. Huit auteurs, comme autant de bombes poétiques pour célébrer...

During the past few years, a considerable number of monographs on bone tumors have been published. They are mainly restricted to bone tumors as clinical-pathological entities, since their diagnosis, more than that of other tumors, requires the interdisciplinary cooperation between orthopedic specialist,...

Yoga hat tiefgreifende heilende Wirkungen auf Körper und Geist. Der indische Yoga-Lehrer R. Sriram - er lehrt in der Tradition von Krishnamacharya und T. K. V. Desikachar - zeigt in seinem Buch, dass Yoga weit mehr beinhaltet als Körpertechniken zur Verbesserung unserer Gesundheit. Yoga zielt in umfassendem...

Cet ouvrage traite des urgences médicales et chirurgicales de manière exhaustive et sous un angle pragmatique. Il comporte près de 200 fiches et est organisé en 4 parties: - partie 1: des fiches de conduites à tenir qui suivent un plan identique en détaillant la prise en charge infirmière,...