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Le Tresor d'Hessaret (Paperback)
Matthew Eager; Translated by Frederic Arsac, James Manez, Stephane Salmons, Wilfried Soret, …
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R360
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Chasse au tresor ou chasse a l'homme?
Avent. Dernier bastion de civilisation avant les terres barbares de la
Longue Chevauchee. Dans cette ville turbulente, nul garde ne patrouille
les rues et les gangs de voyous tabassent volontiers les etrangers
imprudents. C'est ici que Zarand et sa bande de canailles preparent
leur prochain coup : trouver le legendaire tresor du chef barbare
Hessaret. Mais l'avidite des uns et des autres fera voler la bande en
eclats...
Le Tresor d'Hessaret est un scenario pour Mythrasse deroulant dans la
Contree, decor du supplement Contre le Chaos. Les personnages feront
face aux perils d'une region sauvage en compagnie d'individus sans
scrupules et prets a s'entretuer. Vous pouvez utiliser ce scenario
comme un chapitre de la campagne Contre le Chaosou comme une aventure
independante. L'adaptation a la plupart des cadres de jeu fantastiques
est aisee.
Vous desirez vivre des aventures passionnantes dans des univers
varies? Mythras est un jeu de role detaille et flexible qui
repondra a vos attentes.QUI SEREZ-VOUS ?Un guerrier ruse? Un voleur
habile ? Un sorcier sans scrupules ? Un agent des dieux ? Grace a
un systeme de competences particulierement souple, vous pouvez
definir librement votre personnage.D'OU VENEZ VOUS ?Etes-vous un
citadin accoutume au confort ? Un nomade des steppes suivant la
transhumance de ses troupeaux ? Un barbare habitue a piller ses
voisins et a subir les caprices des Dieux ? L'origine de votre
personnage influence sa culture et ses savoir-faire.EN QUOI
CROYEZ-VOUS ?Adorez-vous le terrible dieu de la guerre ?
Respectez-vous les enseignements des esprits ancestraux ? Avez-vous
choisi de suivre votre propre chemin vers l'illumination ?
Preferez-vous la puissance noire de la sorcellerie ? Les croyances
de votre personnage faconneront sa magie et sa destinee.QUE
FEREZ-VOUS ?Vous avez envie de vous inspirer des peplums ou des
classiques du medieval-fantastique ? Vous voulez mettre en scene
des combats spectaculaires ou une enquete complexe ? Mythras vous
fournit tout le necessaire pour donner corps a vos idees.MYTHRAS,
LE COMPAGNON DE VOTRE IMAGINATIONUne creation de personnages
fouillee ;Un systeme de combat innovant ;Cinq types de magie ;Des
montres et creatures issus des mythes et des legendes ;De nombreux
conseils pour les maitres de jeu.Savourez les regles, preparez vos
des, reunissez vos amis, et partez a l'aventure !
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Lost River (DVD)
Barbara Steele, Carey Torrice, Christina Hendricks, Matt Smith, Saoirse Ronan, …
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R53
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Surreal thriller written and directed by Ryan Gosling. In an
abandoned town, single mother Billy (Christina Hendricks), who is
struggling with the expense of her home and two sons, begins work
at a nightclub run by her sinister bank manager Dave (Ben
Mendelsohn). She soon discovers that employees are encouraged to
engage in sadistic acts for the customers' viewing pleasure and she
must develop her own unique performance with help from star
performer Cat (Eva Mendes). Meanwhile her teenage son Bones (Iain
de Caestecker) develops an infatuation with neighbour Rat (Saoirse
Ronan) who lives next door with her mute grandmother (Barbara
Steele). Rat introduces Bones to a mythical underwater town at the
bottom of a resevoir that the pair yearn to explore after escaping
the clutches of neighbourhood tormenter Bully (Matt Smith).
This insightful Handbook scrutinizes alternative concepts and
approaches to the dominant economic or industrial theories of
innovation. Providing an assessment of these approaches, it
questions the absence of these neglected types of innovation and
suggests diverse theories. International contributors provide a
historical and critical analysis of all aspects of innovation,
answering important questions such as 'are we just reinventing the
wheel?'. Examining concepts that have existed for over a decade,
chapters provide clarity on answering this question and investigate
whether progress is actually being made. Split into seven parts,
starting with the visions of innovation and reviewing multiple
approaches and types of innovation, as well as utilising case
studies to illustrate theories, this timely book provides an
excellent update to this field. This Handbook will be an invaluable
resource for scholars and researchers of business management and
public policy as well as policy makers and stakeholders.
This comprehensive Handbook takes a multidisciplinary approach to
the study of parliaments, offering novel insights into the key
aspects of legislatures, legislative institutions and legislative
politics. Connecting rich and diverse fields of inquiry, it
illuminates how the study of parliaments has shaped a wider
understanding surrounding politics and society over the past
decades. Through 26 thematic chapters, expert contributors analyse
parliamentary institutions from various disciplinary perspectives
(history, law, political science, political economy, sociology and
anthropology). A wide range of approaches is covered, including the
sociological study of members of parliaments, gender studies and
the mathematical conceptualisation of legislatures. Exploring the
history of parliament, the concepts and theories of
parliamentarism, constitutional law, and the linkages between
parliaments and the administrative state or with populism, this
incisive Handbook provides a panoramic view of this institution.
Chapters also map the main trends, patterns of developments and
controversies related to parliaments, assessing the strengths and
weaknesses of current research and identifying a range of promising
avenues for further study. Drawing together international and
comparative approaches, the Handbook of Parliamentary Studies will
be a critical resource for academics and students of parliamentary
politics, political science, political economy, public law and
political history. It also provides a vital foundation for
researchers of legislative and political institutions.
This insightful Handbook scrutinizes alternative concepts and
approaches to the dominant economic or industrial theories of
innovation. Providing an assessment of these approaches, it
questions the absence of these neglected types of innovation and
suggests diverse theories. International contributors provide a
historical and critical analysis of all aspects of innovation,
answering important questions such as 'are we just reinventing the
wheel?'. Examining concepts that have existed for over a decade,
chapters provide clarity on answering this question and investigate
whether progress is actually being made. Split into seven parts,
starting with the visions of innovation and reviewing multiple
approaches and types of innovation, as well as utilising case
studies to illustrate theories, this timely book provides an
excellent update to this field. This Handbook will be an invaluable
resource for scholars and researchers of business management and
public policy as well as policy makers and stakeholders.
Concerns have arisen in recent decades about the impact of climate
change on human mobility. Many people affected by climate change
are forced or otherwise decide to migrate within or across
international borders. Despite its clear importance, many questions
remain open regarding the nature of the climate-migration nexus and
its implications for laws and institutions. In the face of such
uncertainty, this Research Handbook offers a comprehensive picture
of laws and institutions relevant to climate migration and the
multiple, often contradictory perspectives on the topic. Carefully
edited chapters by leading scholars in the field provide a cross
section of the various debates on what laws do, can do and should
do in relation to the impacts of climate change on migration. A
first part analyses the relations between climate change and
migration. A second part explores how existing laws and
institutions address the climate-migration nexus. In the final
part, the chapters discuss possible ways forward. This timely
Research Handbook provides much-needed insight into this complex
issue for graduate and post-graduate students in climate change or
migration law. It will also appeal to students and scholars in
political science, international relations, environmental studies
and migration studies, as well as policymakers and advocates.
Contributors include: G. Appave, F. Biermann, I. Boas, M. Burkett,
M. Byrne, C. Cournil, F. Crepeau, F. De Salles Cavedon-Capdeville,
C. Farbotko, E. Ferris, F. Gemenne, K. Hansen, J. Hathaway, C.
Hong, D. Ionesco, A.O. Jegede, S. Jodoin, S. Kagan, M. Leighton, S.
Martin, B. Mayer, S. Mcinerney-Lankford, R. Mcleman, I. Millar, D.
Mokhnacheva, C.T.M. Nicholson, E. Pires Ramos, A. Randall, A.
Sironi, M. Traore Chazalnoel, C. Vlassopoulos, K. Wilson, K.M.
Wyman
The thematic program Quantum and Kinetic Problems: Modeling,
Analysis, Numerics and Applications was held at the Institute for
Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore, from
September 2019 to March 2020. Leading experts presented tutorials
and special lectures geared towards the participating graduate
students and junior researchers.Readers will find in this
significant volume four expanded lecture notes with self-contained
tutorials on modeling and simulation for collective dynamics
including individual and population approaches for population
dynamics in mathematical biology, collective behaviors for Lohe
type aggregation models, mean-field particle swarm optimization,
and consensus-based optimization and ensemble Kalman inversion for
global optimization problems with constraints.This volume serves to
inspire graduate students and researchers who will embark into
original research work in kinetic models for collective dynamics
and their applications.
Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in
Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the
official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and
the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Benoit
Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the husband-and-wife team who chronicled
the history of the French language in "The Story of French"," " now
look at the roots and spread of modern Spanish. Full of surprises
and honed in Nadeau and Barlow's trademark style, combining
personal anecdote, reflections, and deep research, "The Story of
Spanish" is the first full biography of a language that shaped the
world we know, and the only global language with two names--Spanish
and Castilian.
The story starts when the ancient Phoenicians set their sights
on "The Land of the Rabbits," Spain's original name, which the
Romans pronounced as "Hispania." The Spanish language would pick up
bits of Germanic culture, a lot of Arabic, and even some French on
its way to taking modern form just as it was about to colonize a
New World. Through characters like Queen Isabella, Christopher
Columbus, Cervantes, and Goya, "The Story of Spanish" shows how
Spain's Golden Age, the Mexican Miracle, and the Latin American
Boom helped shape the destiny of the language. Other, more somber
episodes, also contributed, like the Spanish Inquisition, the
expulsion of Spain's Jews, the destruction of native cultures, the
political instability in Latin America, and the dictatorship of
Franco.
"The Story of Spanish" shows there is much more to Spanish than
tacos, flamenco, and bullfighting. It explains how the United
States developed its Hispanic personality from the time of the
Spanish conquistadors to Latin American immigration and
"telenovelas." It also makes clear how fundamentally Spanish many
American cultural artifacts and customs actually are, including the
dollar sign, barbecues, ranching, and cowboy culture. The authors
give us a passionate and intriguing chronicle of a vibrant language
that thrived through conquests and setbacks to become the tongue of
Pedro Almodovar and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, of tango and ballroom
dancing, of millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of
people throughout the world.
'This is a landmark study that tackles an important black box in
innovation studies - i.e. communities of innovation. While
conventional work focuses on formal organizations, a select group
of academic leaders highlights the various communities that cut
across firms and form the vital 'underground' for processes of
creativity and ideation. While targeted toward business and
management, this volume is a must-read for all social scientists
interested in the dynamics underlying the current knowledge
economy.'Journal of Economic GeographyThis book describes the
important role played by communities in innovation processes and
how organizations can benefit from it. A community brings together
individuals who share a common passion for a given area of
knowledge and can contribute to innovation at different levels:
capitalization of good practices, problem solving, sharing of
expertise, or development of new and creative ideas. The literature
has progressively identified many variants of communities such as
communities of practice, epistemic communities, communities of
interest, virtual communities, etc. These forms of communities
differ regarding the type of the specialized activities of
knowledge on which they focus. As practitioners and academics
increasingly emphasized the needs of collaborative approaches in
innovation, they progressively challenged the traditional idea that
innovation is mainly generated by hierarchical corporate
departments and highlighted the active role that communities play
in innovation processes. The aim of this book is to shed light,
using multiple examples, on the proactive and fundamental role of
communities in the new innovation practices of organizations.
As discourses and programming to support diversity and inclusion
across higher education are intensifying, Leaps of Faith: Stories
from Working-Class Academics presents a collection of narratives
that highlights the "on-the-ground" experiences of working-class
students and scholars. These are stories of negotiation,
transition, and challenge. These are stories of struggle. These are
stories of beating the odds. The early works of Ryan and Sackrey
(1984), Sennett and Cobb (1993), and Dews and Law (1996) raised the
voices of working class academics, and the subject of class in
higher education has gained traction-especially with the increasing
focus on the enrollment and persistence of first-generation college
students. This project situates contributor stories in adult
learning and development, with the goal of enhancing dialogue and
increasing understanding of a still-hidden population in the
academy. Leaps of Faith: Stories from Working-Class Academics is a
compelling collection of reflections from working-class students
and scholars from diverse demographic and geographic backgrounds
who are currently navigating various transition points and career
stages. Leaps of Faith: Stories from Working-Class Academics
presents the strengths and gifts of the scholar-contributors and
the opportunity to "turn the stories" through accessible and
meaningful reflective "telling." The collection concludes with a
discussion of salient implications for working-class students and
scholars, those who support their learning and development, and
higher education institutions and programs.
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