Ouvrage sous la direction de : Bénédicte Shawky-Milcent, Nathalie Brillant Rannou, François Le Goff, Nathalie Lacelle.Résumé :Dès la fin des années 1990, une génération de didacticiens de la littérature, soucieux de la subjectivité des élèves entreprend d’interroger l’expérience vécue des lecteurs, experts ou apprentis. Depuis l’intérêt porté aux autobiographies de lecteurs de Pierre Dumayet, Annie François, Agnès Desarthe..., l’objectif est de dépasser les...

Bicycling Maximum Overload for Cyclists is a radical strength-based training program aimed at increasing cycling speed, athletic longevity, and overall health in half the training time. Rather than improving endurance by riding longer distances, you’ll learn how to do it by reducing your riding time and adding heavy strength and power training. Traditionally cyclists and endurance athletes have avoided strength and power training, believing that the extra muscle weight will slow t...

Ce dictionnaire des concepts, techniques et champs d'application de la sophrologie recense près de 400 termes. Son objectif est d'apporter une connaissance à la fois immédiate, délimitée et pointue des termes fondamentaux de la sophrologie.Chaque définition étant très développée, cet ouvrage fournit un état des lieux des savoirs actuels de la sophrologie, ses fondements, ses différentes techniques et méthodes, sans pour autant privilégier ou ignorer aucun des courants légitimes de la sophr...

Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world finally understood its deadly diagnos...

This book brings fresh insights into how social spaces shape the way we experience and understand security. Chapters unite voices from critical security studies, urban geography, criminology and political science to rethink the link between security and space, from neighbourhood crime to global conflict.By viewing security through a spatial lens, the book uncovers the social, economic and political forces that shape security issues in everyday life offering vital insights for curre...

This is a book explaining what causes memory problems, including Alzheimer's, the blight facing modern man today. It covers quite thoroughly the causes, both in what toxins can affect the brain as well as the defects that the brain itself does to bring upon this problem. This is to date the most extensive natural therapy to stop and in some cases reverse the effects of the problem. There is no cure for this to date, it can only be managed, as is the case with many defects. Although it is n...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

This field guide will enable the identification of a range of invasive plants and animals now found in Britain.The impact of invasive organisms is second only to habitat loss as a threat to biodiversity and yet, despite increasing ecological awareness, people remain largely unaware of these plants and animals and their potentially devastating impact. Although most biological introductions fail, many prove successful and these can prove disastrous for native fauna a...

"My life was the result of my crazy childhood." With these words began an extraordinary correspondence, between Roy Tester, a double-murderer serving a life sentence in the notorious Arkansas prison, Tucker Maximum Security Prison, and Doug Carnine, a meditation teacher and lay Buddhist minister on the other side of the country. In the letters that followed -- more than 700 over seven years -- these two men, along with three other prisoners at Tucker Max, developed a profound spiritual par...

CONTENTS:ALGERNON BLACKWOODConfessionARTHUR B. REEVE2. The Beauty MaskARTHUR CONAN DOYLE3 to 14. The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH15. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-SandsARTHUR STANWOOD PIER16. The Best FriendARTHUR STRINGER17. The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven18. The Bell19. The Benevolence of Montana Bill20. The Button ThiefBARRY PAIN

CONTENTS: ALGERNON BLACKWOOD 1. Confession ARTHUR B. REEVE 2. The Beauty Mask ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 3 to 14. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH 15. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands ARTHUR STANWOOD PIER 16. The Best Friend ARTHUR STRINGER 17. The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven 18. The Bell 19. The Benevolence of Montana Bill 20. The Button Thief BARRY PAIN 21. The Bottom of the Gulf 22. With a Clear Conscience CAROLYN WELLS 23. The Adventure of the Clothes-line COMPTON M...

In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.From the legendary author of Road to Perdition comes another riveting “movie,” this one ...