Le récit du naufrage et de la survie de Robinson Crusoé sur une île, de son installation et de la rencontre de Vendredi avec qui il se lie d'amitié, à lire en VO dans une version adaptée et illustrée pour les élèves de 5e !
The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligence
'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking, and utterly, completely brilliant' Guardian
'A timeless tearjerker' Independent
Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius.
But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.
Readers can't stop reading Flowers For Algernon:
'I am finding it hard to put into words the vast range of emotions I experienced while reading this tale of hope, perseverance, truth and humanity . . . I'm a huge fan of science fiction that doesn't seem too far away; something that I could imagine being just around the corner - and that's how I felt about Flowers for Algernon' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'You're watching Charlie, the main character, go through an experimental procedure that increases his IQ. The whole book, written in diary entries, let us see how it affects his life and how he struggles through it. I rarely cry while reading a book but I couldn't help myself here. It's a classic for a reason. Read it. You won't be able to put it down' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Heartbreaking and beautiful. Required reading, as far as I am concerned' Wil Wheaton
'This book is extraordinary, one of my favorites. It is a fast read but is is very powerful and heartbreaking. I read it in the plane and I felt a little embarrassed when I started to weep at the end of the book' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'One of those stories I wish I would have read years earlier. It's simply marvellous. It's about the nature of intelligence and how intelligence can be divisive. It's a very emotional book' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
The great war cannot be stopped.
The tyrant Geder Palliako begins a conquest aimed at bringing peace to the world, though his resources are stretched too thin. When things go poorly, he finds a convenient target among the thirteen races and sparks a genocide.
Clara Kalliam, freed by having fallen from grace, remakes herself as a 'loyal traitor' and starts building an underground resistance movement that seeks to undermine Geder through those closest to him.
Cithrin bel Sarcour is apprenticing in a city that's taken over by Antea, and uses her status as Geder's one-time lover to cover up an underground railroad smuggling refugees to safety.
And Marcus Wester and Master Kit race against time and Geder Palliako's men in an attempt to awaken a force that could change the fate of the world.
The last battle draws near in The Spider's War, the thrilling final volume in Daniel Abraham's acclaimed Dagger and Coin series.
Lord Regent Geder Palliako's great war has spilled across the world, nation after nation falling before the ancient priesthood and weapon of dragons. But even as conquest follows conquest, the final victory retreats before him like a mirage. Schism and revolt begin to erode the foundations of the empire, and the great conquest threatens to collapse into a permanent war of all against all.
In Carse, with armies on all borders, Cithrin bel Sarcour, Marcus Wester and Clara Kalliam are faced with the impossible task of bringing a lasting peace to the world. Their tools: traitors high in the imperial army, the last survivor of the dragon empire and a financial scheme that is either a revolution or the greatest fraud in the history of the world.
The dragons are gone, the powerful magics that broke the world diluted to little more than parlour tricks, but the kingdoms of men remain and the great game of thrones goes on. Lords deploy armies and merchant caravans as their weapons, manoeuvring for wealth and influence. But a darker power is rising - an unlikely leader with an ancient ally threatens to unleash again the madness that destroyed the world once already. Only one man knows the truth and, from the shadows, must champion humanity. The world's fate stands on the edge of a Dagger, its future on the toss of a Coin . . .
THE RISE OF THE DRAGON AND THE FALL OF KINGS
Lord Regent Geder Palliako's war has led his nation and the priests of the spider goddess to victory after victory. No power has withstood him, except for the heart of the one woman he desires. As the violence builds and the cracks in his rule begin to show, he will risk everything to gain her love - or her destruction.
Clara Kalliam, the loyal traitor, is torn between the woman she once was and the woman she has become. With her sons on all sides of the conflict, her house cannot stand, but there is a power in choosing when and how to fall.
And in Porte Oliva, banker Cithrin bel Sarcour and Captain Marcus Wester learn the terrible truth that links this war to the fall of the dragons millennia before, and that to save the world, Cithrin must conquer it.
War casts its shadow over the lands that dragons once ruled. Only the courage of a young woman with the mind of a gambler and loyalty to no one stands between hope and universal darkness.
The high and powerful will fall, the despised and broken shall rise up and everything will be remade.
And an old, broken-hearted warrior and an apostate priest will begin a terrible journey with an impossible goal: destroy a Goddess before she eats the world.
***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***
'ATMOSPHERIC AND FASCINATING' Joe Abercrombie
'SPECTACULAR' Django Wexler
From New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author Daniel Abraham, co-author of the Expanse, comes a monumental epic fantasy trilogy that unfolds within the walls of a single great city, over the course of one tumultuous year, where every story matters, and the fate of the city is woven from them all.
Kithamar is a centre of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories unfold. This is Alys's.
When her brother is murdered, a petty thief from the slums of Longhill sets out to discover who killed him and why. But the more she discovers about him, the more she learns about herself, and the truths she finds are more dangerous than knives.
Swept up in an intrigue as deep as the roots of Kithamar, where the secrets of the lowest born can sometimes topple thrones, the story Alys chooses will have the power to change everything.
Praise for Daniel Abraham:
'EVERYTHING I LOOK FOR IN A FANTASY' George R. R. Martin
'A RICH, SATISFYINGLY COMPLEX EPIC FANTASY' Publishers Weekly
'PREPARE TO BE SHOCKED, STARTLED AND ENTERTAINED' Locus
It's the start of the 1860s, and the Old West is changing-a change that comes as a shock to the Daltons when they're arrested not by Lucky Luke, but by... Allan Pinkerton! The man is determined to turn bandit-hunting into a modern, rational business-even at the cost of the American people's personal freedom. It'll be up to Lucky Luke to ensure that the USA is protected against all evil-doers, rascals and lawmen alike...
A memoir by the master pianist, conductor and internationalist Daniel Barenboim - 'the closest thing that classical music can offer to Nelson Mandela' [THE TIMES]
'The power of music lies in is its ability to speak to all aspects of the human being-the animal, the emotional, the intellectual, and the spiritual. Music teaches us, in short, that everything is connected'
Daniel Barenboim's new book vividly describes his lifelong pursuit of knowledge and understanding, not only of music and of life, but of one through the other.
La historiografía tradicional, española y europea, ha considerado la Guerra de Granada (1482-1492) como un hecho de naturaleza y alcance exclusivamente hispánicos. Se trataba del último episodio de un proceso ibérico, la « Reconquista », el enfrentamiento secular entre el Islam y la Cristiandad, consustancial al Medievo peninsular. El nacionalismo romántico del siglo XIX y la dictadura de Franco (1939-1975) lo marcaron a fuego en la identidad nacional española. Sin embargo, en las últimas décadas se han revisado estos postulados, hasta culminar en una revisión radical. Librado el conflicto de la carga ideológica que lastraba su estudio, se ha podido abordar bajo una luz nueva, que tiene un doble marco infinitamente más amplio y complejo. De una parte, las Guerras de Granada - en plural - como manifestación ibérica de lo que en Europa se ha denominado « cruzadas tardías ». De otra, el reordenamiento geopolítico del Mediterráneo, como un tablero de ajedrez, en el que el Islam avanzaba en Levante y retrocedía en Occidente. El presente volumen reúne textos de especialistas europeos que abordan tanto las cruzadas contra el Reino de Granada en el siglo XIV - con participación de borgoñones, escoceses, franceses e ingleses - como la guerra final de conquista en el siglo XV. Se identifican los canales de difusión de noticias, la implicación y diferente repercusión en las cortes renacentistas de la Península Italiana, o el eco atenuado de las hostilidades en el Sacro Imperio Romano-Germánico. Emerge así una imagen insólita, novedosa, de un conflicto de dimensión y alcance internacionales.
« Idolâtrie » est un terme dépréciatif qui sert à désigner les cultes des faux dieux en face d'un dieu considéré comme unique et véritable. Plongeant ses racines dans les réflexions antiques sur la religion des « autres », cette notion se trouve au coeur des débats qui, des Pères de l'Église aux explorateurs modernes, interrogent la diversité des cultes et des pratiques religieuses. Au fil des siècles, cette catégorie polémique a fabriqué l'altérité tout en reléguant l'« autre », le « païen », le « sauvage », l'« hérétique », l'« ignorant », du côté de l'erreur et de l'aberration. La notion d'idolâtrie condamne comme fausse la religion de l'« autre », voire lui refuse la qualité même de religion. Cette histoire, où les « sauvages » du Nouveau Monde rejoignent les peuples de l'Antiquité, annonce l'émergence d'une véritable science des religions. Ce livre retrace la naissance de « l'idolâtrie » au croisement des réflexions juives et grecques sur l'image, les origines de la culture et la diversité religieuse. Des débats grecs sur l'anthropomorphisme à la critique des « idoles » dans le judaïsme ancien, il explore les fondements antiques d'une histoire comparée des religions.
There are numerous texts on the management of spinal deformities and a number texts on spinal tumor management, but to this point each has been considered separately, leaving providers and learners challenged since they need to study both fields to adequately treat patients. Considering spinal deformity often occurs with the initial presentation of spinal tumors (especially in pediatrics and syndromic tumor states) and also commonly occurs after surgery or radiation or with tumor progression, a text on this subject is timely. Providers who study deformity miss out on these conditions, and providers who study tumors often do not understand the alignment issues when seeking tumor control.
Bringing together the latest techniques and management strategies, this book bridges that gap to provide a comprehensive approach to these two related subjects, divided into chapters covering deformities associated with primary tumors, metastatic tumors and iatrogenic deformities as the result of spine tumor treatment. Specific topics such as neurofibromatosis, osteoid osteoma, kyphosis and scoliosis, and spondylolisthesis are presented, along with chin-on-chest deformity, flat-back deformity and pathological fractures as a result of treatment.
Offering a unique perspective combining spinal deformity and spine tumor into a cohesive treatment paradigm, Spinal Tumor Associated Deformity is a terrific resource for orthopedic and spine surgeons, neurosurgeons, and all practitioners treating these patients.
Dieses Buch präsentiert Erfolgsrezepte führender europäischer Unternehmen, die durch Lean-Management und Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien Wettbewerbsvorteile erzielen. Die vorgestellten Unternehmen, Teilnehmer des Lean & Green Management Awards, demonstrieren, wie Effizienzsteigerung und ökologische sowie soziale Verantwortung Hand in Hand gehen können.
In Zeiten wachsender Unsicherheiten, geprägt durch geopolitische Spannungen, regulatorische Anforderungen und Rohstoffknappheit, wird nachhaltige Wertschöpfung zum entscheidenden Erfolgsfaktor. Unternehmen, die Ressourceneffizienz systematisch steigern, senken nicht nur Kosten, sondern erhöhen ihre Widerstandsfähigkeit und Zukunftsfähigkeit.
Das Konzept Lean & Green kombiniert schlanke, effiziente Prozesse mit Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten, um Nachhaltigkeit messbar und operativ wirksam zu machen. Der Autor zeigt, wie Unternehmen Lean-Methoden gezielt für mehr Nachhaltigkeit nutzen können, um wirtschaftlichen Erfolg und ökologische Verantwortung zu vereinen. Praktische Anleitungen und Best-Practice-Beispiele bieten wertvolle Einblicke für Unternehmen, die ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit langfristig sichern wollen.
This book describes methods for improving the maintenance and generalization of behavior analytic treatment outcomes for individuals with autism. It introduces the concept of durability—not just treatments that maintain across days or weeks, or that generalize to a few new settings, but those that remain successful under increasingly challenging situations (e.g., over years, during changing reinforcement conditions, across service providers). Chapters address key topics, such as preventive care, early behavioral intervention, treatment of severe destructive behavior, teaching skills across the lifespan, and medication management. In addition, the book addresses ethical and cultural considerations as they relate to treatment maintenance and concludes with perspectives from autistic voices and caregivers. Chapters include case examples highlighting durable outcomes as well as schematics and materials (e.g., data sheets) to assess and maintain treatment gains.
Key areas of coverage include:
Behavioral persistence, durability of treatment effects, and relapse across the following domains.
Early learner and academic skills.
Toileting and self-care skills, feeding behavior, and verbal behavior.
Social skills and socially reinforced destructive behavior.
Automatically reinforced destructive behavior.
Medical compliance, implementer behavior, and geriatric behavior.
Toward Durability and Generalization in Support of Autistic Individuals is a must-have resource for clinicians, therapists, and professionals as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in clinical child and school psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, developmental psychology, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, pediatrics, physical therapy, occupational therapy, neurology, special education, and all related disciplines.
Das Buch beleuchtet die aktuellen Herausforderungen und innovativen Ansätze, die unser Gesundheitssystem durch die fortschreitende Digitalisierung und Demokratisierung nachhaltig verändern. Es zeigt, wie Smart Health die Konvergenz digitaler Technologien - darunter vernetzte Geräte (IoT), erweiterte Realität (AR/VR), künstliche Intelligenz, Cloud und Blockchain - nutzt und warum wir Smart Health brauchen. Sie erfahren, wie Technologie, Daten und Ökosysteme die Grundlage für das Gesundheitswesen der Zukunft bilden. Dabei stehen agile Strukturen und offene Formen der Zusammenarbeit im Fokus, die durch digitale Innovationen ermglicht werden. Jedes Kapitel bietet nicht nur einen umfassenden Überblick über die digitale Transformation im Gesundheitswesen, sondern liefert auch konkrete, praxisorientierte Handlungsempfehlungen und umsetzbare Lsungen. Empirische Daten und reale Fallstudien machen die vorgestellten Konzepte greifbar und schlagen eine Brücke zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Smart Health integriert Telemedizin, elektronische Gesundheitsakten, mobile Gesundheitsgeräte und personalisierte Medizin in ein ganzheitliches Continuum of Care und erffnet neue Perspektiven für eine effizientere, gerechtere und zukunftsfähige Gesundheitsversorgung.
This open access book explores the linkages between geopolitics and hosting mega-events. It encompasses and transcends the international and domestic dimensions of soft power to unpack how mega-events shape cities and societies through notions of unity and greatness, but also investigates local developments beneath the Potemkin surface of the global spectacle. Drawing on a global range of case studies from Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia, this volume features the sensitivity of grounded local research framed within geopolitical perspectives. Together, they present an international and transdisciplinary understanding of the local and global political implications of hosting mega-events. The volume reveals what hides under the mega-event spectacle: problems that - regardless of national context - most often occur to the detriment of host populations.
Der demografische Wandel sowie die gesteigerte Bedeutung der individuellen Gesundheit lassen auch im Fitness- und Gesundheitsmarkt neue und interessante Tendenzen erkennen. Doch können die Einrichtungen diesen Ansprüchen in Angebot und Personal nachkommen? Und wie schafft es die Branche heute, ihre Beschäftigten fit für den Markt von morgen zu machen und dabei mit modernen und attraktiven Arbeitsmodellen das aktuelle und zukünftige Fachpersonal für sich zu begeistern?
Neben einer Beschreibung des Status quo des Fitness- und Gesundheitsmarktes liegen die Hauptziele dieses Buches in der Analyse der durchgeführten Expertenbefragung sowie auf den daraus resultierenden Strategien, Handlungsempfehlungen und Checklisten.
This book presents an overview of Facial gender confirming surgery (FGCS) and the importance of it in the surgery and transgender communities. FGCS uniquely requires blending together surgical and artistic abilities in order to transform the face into a new identity. Given the recent emphasis of providing care to transgender patients, the area of FGCS has experienced rapid evolution and growth. This text is essential to protect patients and arm surgeons with the knowledge needed to safely perform these surgeries.
This text is divided into three parts to let the reader fully digest what FGCS includes. Part 1 discusses general care of the transgender patient and provides the physician with an overview of the health and societal issues specific to this patient population. Part 2 is the main focus of the book and discusses facial gender confirming surgery and such as feminizing surgeries. Lastly, part 3 discusses voice surgery and voice therapy.
Gender Affirming Surgery of the Face and Neck can be applied in multiple medical fields, including Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Laryngology, Speech Pathology, Oculoplastic Surgery, and Dermatology.
This volume provides in-depth discussions on the challenges of intercultural encounters in Brazil. It analyzes existing policies related to migration and minorities and proposes innovative approaches to policy-making. It also highlights policies that have had a real social impact. The volume consolidates theoretical contributions from authors of different but convergent fields to indicate the role of culture and cultural processes in a wide range of phenomena such as psychosocial intervention with immigrants, emigrants, returnees and refugees, homelessness, mental health and interculturality, mobility in urban settings, monolingualism and monocultural curriculum at Brazilian schools and universities, besides narratives of new and older immigrants. Displacement is one of the 21st century's greatest challenges, and this volume provides interdisciplinary perspectives on mobility and people in cultural contact in Brazil, the largest country in South America and the fifth most populous in the world. Although seen from a Brazilian scenario, issues discussed here permeate all other countries that are diverse and receive immigrants, and shed light on the complex socio-cultural world in which we live.
This book makes the argument that comparing AI to humans leads us to diminish similar outcomes from AI across situations. This may be taking a human’s advice for a restaurant recommendation over an AI’s or believing that AI can’t be as biased as people can when denying loans to others. This machine penalty is caused both by comparing humans and AI in terms of appearance, identity, behavior, mind, and essence, and by situations involving controllable, personal, important, subjective, or moral decisions. It can be applied across many different situations, where we diminish different AI outcomes. We penalize machines’ influence when they give advice, fairness when they evaluate people, blame when they cause harm, value when they produce art, and satisfaction when they provide companionship. The result is immediate consequences in those domains and downstream consequences for society. This monograph brings together diverse research from human-computer interaction, psychology, sociology, and communication including theories such as Computers Are Social Actors, anthropomorphism, mind perception, and algorithm aversion to present an expansive argument and evidence for the machine penalty.
The untold story of OC punk—the loud, rebellious force behind the ‘90s explosion of the Orange County music scene, featuring stories about legendary bands. When it comes to punk communities across the world, the Orange County punk scene stands out as an undeniable trendsetter that helped define the sound and style of the rapidly evolving genre. From hard luck storytellers Social Distortion and multi-platinum sellers like The Offspring to cult heroes like The Adolescents and T.S.O.L., there’s much insight to gain from the story of this popular though often misunderstood music scene. In Tearing Down the Orange Curtain, journalists Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn explore the trajectory of punk and ska from their humble beginnings to their peak popularity years, where their cultural impact could be felt in music around the world. Delving deep into the personal and professional lives of bands like Social Distortion, The Adolescents, The Offspring, and their ska counterparts No Doubt, Sublime, Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, and more, this book gives readers a deeper look into the very human stories of these musicians, many of whom struggled with acceptance, addiction, and brutal teenage years in suburbia. Through exclusive first-hand interviews, Tearing Down the Orange Curtain brings the 20-year period of OC punk and third-wave ska (1978-2000) to life, focusing specifically on the historical and musical roots of this creative explosion. Thought-provoking, meticulously researched, and refreshingly candid, this book presents a compelling narrative of how a suburban wasteland turned into a hub for rock-n roll culture, just over 30 miles away from the bright lights of LA.
This book is the first volume of proceedings from the 18th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik held in Paderborn, Germany, in 2023.
In the context of the global trend toward digitalization, it presents the results of innovative, high-quality research in the field of information systems and digital transformation. The book covers a broad range of topics, including digital innovation, business analytics, artificial intelligence, and IT strategy, each of which has and will continue to have significant impacts on companies, individuals and societies alike.
