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'Papa, why do you dance when you walk?' When Aden's 8-year-old
daughter asks him this one morning in Paris, he is taken aback. The
question is innocent, but the answer is not so simple. Unable to
resist Bea's inquisitive spirit, he moves silkily between memories
of his childhood: from his silent, mysterious mother and the shanty
roofs of his neighbourhood to the malicious attack that changed his
life forever and the ensuing struggle that made him a man.
Anchoring his memories is a Djibouti on the cusp of independence; a
land of shifting deserts and immense heat, French-from-France
ex-pats, and one lonely and sick boy finding solace in books. Why
Do You Dance When You Walk is a poignant and timeless story of the
complexity of family, the value of poetry and freedom, and the
ripple effect of the traumas that stalk our movement.
This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and
applications in the field of condition monitoring, plant
maintenance and reliability, as presented by leading international
researchers and engineers at the 5th International Conference on
Maintenance Engineering and the 2020 Annual Conference of the
Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering Network (IncoME-V
& CEPE Net-2020), held in Zhuhai, China on October 23-25, 2020.
Topics include vibro-acoustics monitoring, condition-based
maintenance, sensing and instrumentation, machine health
monitoring, maintenance auditing and organization, non-destructive
testing, reliability, asset management, condition monitoring,
life-cycle cost optimisation, prognostics and health management,
maintenance performance measurement, manufacturing process
monitoring, and robot-based monitoring and diagnostics. The
contributions, which were selected through a rigorous international
peer-review process, share exciting ideas that will spur novel
research directions and foster new multidisciplinary
collaborations.
Global experts, in conjunction with the International Association
for the Study of Lung Cancer, bring you up to date with today's
best approaches to lung cancer diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.
IASLC Thoracic Oncology, 2nd Edition, keeps you abreast of the
entire scope of this fast-changing field, from epidemiology to
diagnosis to treatment to advocacy. Written in a straightforward,
practical style for the busy clinician, this comprehensive,
multidisciplinary title is a must-have for anyone involved in the
care of patients with lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies.
Offers practical, relevant coverage of basic science, epidemiology,
pulmonology, medical and radiation oncology, surgery, pathology,
palliative care, nursing, and advocacy. Provides authoritative
guidance from the IASLC - the only global organization dedicated to
the study of lung cancer. Includes new content on molecular
testing, immunotherapy, early detection, staging and the IASLC
staging system, surgical resection for stage I and stage II lung
cancer, and stem cells in lung cancer. Features a new full-color
design throughout, as well as updated diagnostic algorithms. Expert
ConsultT eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook
experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, Q&As,
and references from the book on a variety of devices.
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The Master (Hardcover)
Nicole Ball, David Ball, Patrick Rambaud
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R588
Discovery Miles 5 880
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The extraordinary life of Zhuang Zhou sits halfway between fable
and philosophy. “It was twenty-five centuries ago in the land of
Song, between the Yellow River and the River Huai: Zhuang Zhou was
born without a cry with his eyes wide open.” Welcome to
China in the fifth century BCE, a colorful, violent, unstable world
into which Zhuang is born. Here royals raise huge armies,
constantly waging wars against one another. They have slaves,
concubines. Gold is everywhere. And so is hunger. Born rich and
entitled, Zhuang learns to refuse any official function. His
travels bring him closer to ordinary people, from whom he learns
how to live a simple and useful life. This is how he will become
one of the greatest Chinese philosophers who gave his name to his
legendary book, the Zhuangzi, one of the two foundational texts of
Taoism—a magnificent procession of lively stories in which we
meet dwarfs, virtuous bandits, butchers, powerful lords in their
castles, turtles, charming concubines, and false sages. In this
remarkable bildungsroman, award-winning French novelist Patrick
Rambaud spins out the extraordinary life of Zhuang Zhou—a poetic,
cruel, and often humorous tale, halfway between fable and
philosophy.
This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and
applications in the field of condition monitoring, plant
maintenance and reliability, as presented by leading international
researchers and engineers at the 5th International Conference on
Maintenance Engineering and the 2020 Annual Conference of the
Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering Network (IncoME-V
& CEPE Net-2020), held in Zhuhai, China on October 23-25, 2020.
Topics include vibro-acoustics monitoring, condition-based
maintenance, sensing and instrumentation, machine health
monitoring, maintenance auditing and organization, non-destructive
testing, reliability, asset management, condition monitoring,
life-cycle cost optimisation, prognostics and health management,
maintenance performance measurement, manufacturing process
monitoring, and robot-based monitoring and diagnostics. The
contributions, which were selected through a rigorous international
peer-review process, share exciting ideas that will spur novel
research directions and foster new multidisciplinary
collaborations.
Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for
Nonfiction Jean Guehenno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is
the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France.
A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in
Paris and a bitter commentary on literary life in those years, it
has also been called "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice"
(Caroline Moorehead, Wall Street Journal). Here, David Ball
provides not only the first English-translation of this important
historical document, but also the first ever annotated, corrected
edition. Guehenno was a well-known political and cultural critic,
left-wing but not communist, and uncompromisingly anti-fascist.
Unlike most French writers during the Occupation, he refused to pen
a word for a publishing industry under Nazi control. He expressed
his intellectual, moral, and emotional resistance in this diary:
his shame at the Vichy government's collaboration with Nazi
Germany, his contempt for its falsely patriotic reactionary
ideology, his outrage at its anti-Semitism and its vilification of
the Republic it had abolished, his horror at its increasingly
savage repression and his disgust with his fellow intellectuals who
kept on blithely writing about art and culture as if the Occupation
did not exist - not to mention those who praised their new masters
in prose and poetry. Also a teacher of French literature, he
constantly observed the young people he taught, sometimes saddened
by their conformism but always passionately trying to inspire them
with the values of the French cultural tradition he loved.
Guehenno's diary often includes his own reflections on the great
texts he is teaching, instilling them with special meaning in the
context of the Occupation. Complete with meticulous notes and a
biographical index, Ball's edition of Guehenno's epic diary offers
readers a deeper understanding not only of the diarist's cultural
allusions, but also of the dramatic, historic events through which
he lived.
Jean Guehenno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most
oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply
observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in Parisand a
bitter commentary on literary life in those years, it has also been
called "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice" (Caroline
Moorehead, Wall Street Journal). Here, David Ball provides not only
the first English-translation of this important historical
document, but also the first ever annotated, corrected edition.
Guehenno was a well-known political and cultural critic, left-wing
but not communist, and uncompromisingly anti-fascist. Unlike most
French writers during the Occupation, he refused to pen a word for
a publishing industry under Nazi control. He expressed his
intellectual, moral, and emotional resistance in this diary: his
shame at the Vichy government's collaboration with Nazi Germany,
his contempt for its falsely patriotic reactionary ideology, his
outrage at its anti-Semitism and its vilification of the Republic
it had abolished, his horror at its increasingly savage repression
and his disgust with his fellow intellectuals who kept on blithely
writing about art and culture as if the Occupation did not exist -
not to mention those who praised their new masters in prose and
poetry. Also a teacher of French literature, he constantly observed
the young people he taught, sometimes saddened by their conformism
but always passionately trying to inspire them with the values of
the French cultural tradition he loved. Guehenno's diary often
includes his own reflections on the great texts he is teaching,
instilling them with special meaning in the context of the
Occupation. Complete with meticulous notes and a biographical
index, Ball's edition of Guehenno's epic diary offers readers a
deeper understanding not only of the diarist's cultural allusions,
but also of the dramatic, historic events through which he lived."
Historians agree: the diary of Leon Werth (1878-1955) is one of the
most precious-and readable-pieces of testimony ever written about
life in France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Werth
was a free-spirited, unclassifiable writer, the author of eleven
novels, art and dance criticism, acerbic political reporting, and
memorable personal essays. He was Jewish, and left Paris in June
1940 to hide out in his wife's country house in Saint-Amour, a
small village in the Jura Mountains: his short memoir, 33 Days
recounts his struggle to get there. Deposition tells of daily life
in the village, on nearby farms and towns, and finally back in
Paris, where he draws the portrait of a Resistance network in his
apartment and writes an eyewitness report of the insurrection that
freed the city in August, 1944. From Saint-Amour, we see both the
Resistance in the countryside, derailing troop trains, punishing
notorious collaborators-and growing repression: arrests, torture,
deportation, and executions. Above all, we see how Vichy and the
Occupation affect the lives of farmers and villagers and how their
often contradictory attitudes evolve from 1940-1944. Werth's ear
for dialogue and novelist's gift for creating characters animate
the diary: in the markets and in town, we meet real French peasants
and shopkeepers, railroad men and the patronne of the cafe at the
station, schoolteachers and gendarmes. They come off the page
alive, and the countryside and villages come alive with them. With
biting irony, Werth records, almost daily, what Vichy-German
propaganda was saying on the radio and in the press. And we follow
the progress of the war as people did then, day by day. These
entries make interesting, often amusing reading, a stark contrast
with his gripping entries on the persecution and deportation of the
Jews. Deposition is a varied, complex, piece of living history, and
a pleasure to read.
Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have
compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift,
Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux "genius," and
Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux's work "is without equal in
the literature of our time." This anthology contains substantial
selections from almost all of Michaux's major works, most never
before published in English, and allows readers to explore the
haunting verbal and pictorial landscape of a twentieth-century
visionary.
The second edition of this title represents a compilation of work
completed by Jim Cooper and his colleagues in the Network for
Cooperative Learning in higher education over the last fifteen
years, including eight new chapters were written specifically for
this edition. It presents a look at the history of small group
instruction research, theory and practice and offers a glimpse at
the future of this powerful instructional strategy.
Nico and Maria, Maltese brother and sister, are separated when
young Nico is abducted by Moorish slavers. Taken to Algiers to be
the personal slave of a wealthy merchant, he becomes a pawn in
household politics and sets out to escape. Extraordinary events
lead him to the court of Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the
Ottomans. Stranded alone on Malta, Maria must learn to survive
helped only by a group of Jewish refugees. A sweeping historical
epic set against the backdrop of the desperate conflict between
Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire, The Sword and the
Scimitar vividly portrays an irresistible and fast-moving world of
adventure, war, treachery and love.
In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric,
this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer
Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down.
On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the
West, from the slums of America and the squalor of Europe, to
escape poverty and desperation in the prosperous United States of
Africa. It is in this world that an African doctor on a
humanitarian mission to France adopts a child. Now a young artist,
this girl, Malaika, travels to the troubled land of her birth in
hope of finding her mother--and perhaps something of her lost self.
Her search, at times funny and strange, is also deeply poignant,
reminding us at every moment of the turns of fate we call truth.
From the acclaimed author of "Empires of Sand" comes a mesmerizing
new adventure that Jean Auel cites as "crowded with events that
both forecast and mirror the conflicts of today." Sweeping from the
drawing rooms of Paris to the palace of Suleiman the Magnificent to
the dark hold of a slave ship racing across the sea, here is a
dazzling story of love and valor, innocence and identity, an epic
novel of the clash of civilizations on a barren island where the
future was forged.
The Mediterranean, the sixteenth century: Lying squarely in the
midst of the vital sea lanes between the Christian West and the
Ottoman Empire in the East, and ruled by the ancient Order of the
Knights of St. John, Malta will become the stage upon which the
fate of the world turns. For one of its sons, the hand of violence
strikes swiftly, when young Nicolo Borg is seized by Barbary
slavers and launched on a remarkable journey to the court of the
supreme ruler of the Muslim world. Renamed Asha, plotting his
escape even as he swears allegiance to the god of his masters and
is schooled in the arts of culture and war, the innocent boy will
be transformed into one of the Sultan's deadliest commanders.
For Nico's beloved sister, Maria, his loss fires her hatred for the
knights who did nothing to save him and her dreams of escape from
her stifling home. As the headstrong girl grows into a fierce
beauty, she will capture the attention of one man in particular,
Christien de Vries, a surgeon-knight torn between duty and desire,
caught up in Malta's frantic preparations against the coming
Ottoman storm. Around Nico and Maria are men and women who will
share their destinies: Dragut Rais, a brilliant corsair, arch-rival
of the knights...Giulio Salvago, a priest in full flight from his
carnal nature...Alisa, a young beauty hidden away in a harem...Jean
de La Valette, the master knight who is Malta's only hope for
survival.
As the mighty Ottoman fleet bears down on the tiny island, as Nico
Borg makes his way back to his homeland at the helm of a warship,
Ironfire moves inexorably to a shattering climax where all will
face ultimate justice in the murderous cauldron of siege warfare.
Brilliantly capturing the crosscurrents of a storied age, Ironfire
is historical fiction in the grand tradition, a stirring
realization of a pivotal moment in time that irrevocably shaped the
world we inhabit today.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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The Horror Collection (DVD)
Lourdes Colon, Lendon LeMelle, Valerie Feuer, Angela Rachelle, Andrea Chung, …
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R528
R408
Discovery Miles 4 080
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Collection of six horror films. 'The Kiss' (2008) tells the story
of a nerdy teenager who resurrects a hot Latina vampire from the
brink of death. Jeremy (Lendon LeMelle)'s biggest problems in life
have hitherto been par for the course for the average teenage geek:
bullying, boredom and a bad attitude. But his life is set to change
when he inadvertently stumbles into an ancient feud between two
warring vampire clans. In 'Bloodstained Romance' (2009) a young
man's infatuation with a woman turns into something much darker. As
student Holden (Chris Burchette) becomes dangerously obsessed with
the attractive Sadie (Cameron Wright), he begins to lose his mind.
Soon he becomes entangled in a dark and seedy world of pornography,
violence and murder. Holden's grip on reality slackens with each
kill he makes and he finds he can no longer keep his distance from
Sadie. In 'Deadly Manor' (1990) a group of youngsters, on their way
to begin a camping trip, find themselves lost during a violent
storm in a remote wooded area. They decide to pick up a mysterious
hitchhiker and take shelter in an abandoned mansion. But by the end
of a bloody night how many of them will be left alive? In 'Demon
Wind' (1990) Cory (Eric Larson) and his friends must find the
demons that were unleashed by his grandparents 60 years earlier in
order to restore peace to Earth. 'Hard Rock Zombies' (1985) follows
lead singer Jesse (EJ Curcio) and his heavy metal band who play
small clubs and socials while waiting for their big break. Although
they are warned about playing in Grand Guignol, owing to the
less-than-hospitable locals, the band members ignore the warning
and the locals are soon conspiring with werewolves, killer dwarves
and psychopaths to murder them one by one. But a local girl's chant
brings the band back from the dead to take revenge on the killers
and play their final concert - and soon the entire town is crawling
with zombies. The townspeople have no choice but to offer up a
virgin for sacrifice, but luckily the re-animated Hard Rock Zombies
step in to save the girl and the day. In 'Invader' (1997) a Viking
space capsule returns from Mars with an alien on board who is
intent on destroying all life on Earth. While in military hands,
the alien escapes and goes on a killing rampage with the army hot
on its trail.
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The Wound (Paperback)
Laurent Mauvignier; Translated by David Ball, Nicole Ball; Foreword by Nick Flynn
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R517
R481
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“Where is your wound?” asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent
Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound. By the time we have
finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound
lies four decades back in “the Events” that people have
tried to not talk about ever since: the Algerian War.
Chronicling the lives of two cousins—Bernard and
Rabut—both in the present and at the time of the Algerian War of
Independence in the 1960s, we get a full picture of the lasting
effects this event had on the men who were involved. Through the
fragments of their stories we see the whole history of the war: its
atrocities, its horrors, and its hatreds. Mauvignier shows readers
how the Algerian War, always present yet always repressed, has
sickened the emotional and moral life of everyone it touched—and
France itself, perhaps. The epigraph, like the novel, suggests that
wounded men may even become the wound itself.
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Marseille Noir (Paperback)
Cedric Fabre; Translated by David Ball, Nicole Ball
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R384
Discovery Miles 3 840
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A text that truly embodies its name, CHEMISTRY: PRINCIPLES AND
PRACTICE connects the chemistry students learn in the classroom
(principles) with real-world uses of chemistry (practice). The
authors accomplish this by starting each chapter with an
application drawn from a chemical field of interest and revisiting
that application throughout the chapter. The Case Studies, Practice
of Chemistry essays, and Ethics in Chemistry questions reinforce
the connection of chemistry topics to areas such as forensics,
organic chemistry, biochemistry, and industry.
Master problem-solving using the detailed solutions in this manual,
which contains completely worked-out solutions to all odd
end-of-chapter exercises and problems.
With its easy-to-read approach and focus on core topics, PHYSICAL
CHEMISTRY, 2e provides a concise, yet thorough examination of
calculus-based physical chemistry. The Second Edition, designed as
a learning tool for students who want to learn physical chemistry
in a functional and relevant way, follows a traditional
organization and now features an increased focus on
thermochemistry, as well as new problems, new two-column examples,
and a dynamic new four-color design. Written by a dedicated
chemical educator and researcher, the text also includes a review
of calculus applications as applied to physical chemistry.
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