They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima is a groundbreaking and dramatic reexamination of world history that challenges long-held assumptions about who first reached the Americas.Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, historical records, and oral traditions, Van Sertima builds a powerful body of evidence showing that African civilizations crossed the Atlantic centuries before Columbus. He examines advanced African navigation and shipbuilding, striking cul...

Fußball oder Leben? Die Philosophie der Ballesterer Eine Alltagsfibel von Leidenden für Leidende. Im Mittelpunkt steht jemand, der eigentlich immer im Vordergrund stehen sollte - der Fan. Fußballfan zu sein, ist in erster Linie die unaufhörliche Leidensgeschichte persönlicher Rückschläge. Es ist eine Tatsache, dass jener Verein, auf den man Woche für Woche besonderes Augenmerk legt, schlechter spielt, schlechter geführt wird und überhaupt weniger erfolgreich ist als jeder andere Verein der...

Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner reveals the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and delivers “a withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients” (The New York Times Book Review).Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet...

Desde la publicación de su primera edición, esta obra, centrada en la interpretación de las imágenes de radiografía simple, se ha convertido en un referente esencial para todos aquellos profesionales que trabajan en los servicios de urgencias. La precisión en el diagnóstico radiológico depende, principalmente, de un sólido conocimiento de la anatomía normal. El cumplimiento de este requisito esencial se ha visto reforzado en esta tercera edición con la inclusión de innovadores dibujos anat...

Hidden in the vastness of the Saudi Arabian desert, a camel caravan of fugitives moves slowly toward its goal. Deep in the sand and out of sight are the men they seek, leaders of al-Qaeda, regrouping to strike again. One man in the caravan stands out for his strength and self-discipline. His identity is masked, his past blanketed from memory. His obsession is to be briefed on his next target. Searching for him in the limitless sands are American and British counterterrorism experts with th...

A deeply reported, New York Times bestselling exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican—the world’s biggest, most powerful religious institution—from an acclaimed journalist with “exhaustive research techniques” (The New York Times).From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, God’s Bankers traces the political intrigue of the Cath...

Das Lexikon erörtert zentrale Begrifflichkeiten im Themenfeld der Inklusion. Expertinnen und Experten geben Antworten auf Fragen zu Bedeutung und Inhalt wesentlicher Stichworte im Diskurs von Inklusion. Kompetenz, Barrierefreiheit, Inklusion, Koedukation, Kybernetik, Partizipation, Resilienz, Schulbegleitung/Schulassistenz, Sprachbehinderung, Segregation, Trisomie 21, Vielfalt – diese und weitere zentrale Begriffe im Kontext von Inklusion werden von Expertinnen und Experten des jeweiligen ...

Comment certains sbires d'Hitler ont-ils échappé à la justice après la chute du III Reich ? Pour la première fois, les filières d'évasion, et les responsabilités du Vatican, de la Croix-Rouge et de la CIA sont dévoilées.Entre la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et le début des années 1950, plusieurs dizaines de criminels de guerre nazis sont parvenus à fuir l'Allemagne et à échapper à la justice internationale. Quelles filières ont-ils suivi ? De quelles complicit...

Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets. This volume, produced by the Institute for Policy Studies, which since 1963 has been the nation's leading progressive policy organization, offers a set of specific policy proposals for the incoming national administration on every major domest...

Corruption in Society: Multidisciplinary Conceptualizations is the first book to address the notion of corruption in a truly multidisciplinary manner, augmented with empirical evidence. The prevalent definition in books and articles on corruption is that it is a dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those with political and/or economic power, typically involving bribery. This political-economy or public choice denotation, while very useful, is inadequate for a comprehensive understanding of t...

Mr. Simon lives alone in a big castle. On Christmas Eve, he watches people setting off through a fierce storm to visit their families. Then, there is a knock on his door...

Le cycle démocratique, vieux de deux siècles, est-il arrivé à son terme ? On pourrait le penser à en juger par les signes inquiétants que constituent la poussée des populismes, la défiance des citoyens, la montée de l'abstention électorale. Et si la démocratie telle que nous la connaissons se révélait en fin de compte inadaptée aux conditions sociales nouvelles créées par la mondialisation ? Telle est l'interrogation que poursuit Raffaele Simone dans ce livre. La démocratie, explique-t-il,...