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Le Gall

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Theodore Poussin

More mayem and misadventures follow Theodore Poussin after he's left stranded in Singapore, desperately trying to work his way toward a return passage to Europe. Things seem to be looking up when he inadvertently inherits a pirate ship and starts making a living peddling merchandise to various ports in the Pacific, until his fate catches up with him yet again. Soon he's wanted for murder, hiding out in opium dens, running from law enforcement with the help of mysterious new allies, and bei...

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Le Gall

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Theodore Poussin

The dreams of a pencil pusher longing for adventure and distant shores come true when the maritime transport company where he works sends him on a trip to 1928 French Indochina. But Theodore Poussin is about to get more than he bargained for as he sets sail on the Cap Padaran: a mysterious, poetry-reciting man with ominous predictions about his future follows him everywhere; stories surrounding his late uncle Captain Steene, whose grave he promised his family he would find, are vague and c...

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Jean Michel Le Gall

War, murder, corruption, terrorism are the breaking news from our newspaper or TV. Some people are always making war in order to get more power, more money. In our daily life, we have to suffer so many struggles, with colleagues, bosses, neighbors, administration that destroy our time, our life, and our mind! Stress, fear, despair, and sadness are present everywhere around us. When we look for help, when we look at the most excellent people who are the essence of this materialist society a...

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Jean Giono, Jacques Le Gall

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Paul Eprile

A nomad and a swindler embark on an eccentric road trip in this picaresque, philosophical novel by the author of The Man Who Planted Trees.The south of France, 1950: A solitary vagabond walks through the villages, towns, valleys, and foothills of the region between northern Provence and the Alps. He picks up work along the way and spends the winter as the custodian of a walnut-oil mill. He also picks up a problematic companion: a cardsharp and con man, who...

A wealth of historical writing dealing with the Maghrib (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) has been published during the roughly forty years since European colonial control ended in the region. This book provides a "state of the field" survey of this postcolonial Maghribi historiography.The book contains thirteen essays by leading Maghribi and North American scholars. The first section surveys the Maghrib as a whole; the second focuses on individual countries of the Maghrib; an...

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Lothar Gall

Translated by

J. A. Underwood

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Routledge Library Editions: German History

Originally published in English in 1986, these volumes are far more than the story of the life of a powerful statesman. The name Bismarck sums up the entire political, social, economic and intellectual development of central Europe in the second half of the 19th Century and the internal and external shape that Germany then assumed. This book analyses how much of this was Bismarck’s personal achievement or whether he was the man who put the nation on the disastrously wrong course that reach...

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Chris Gall

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Dinotrux

The second book in the rip-roaring mash-up of dinosaurs and trucks that inspired the Netflix TV series!Millions of years ago, DINOTRUX ruled the earth. But in the present day, people rule them! Their rusty fossils have spent decades stuck in a drafty museum surrounded by screaming kids, and now they're ready to break out and let off some really old steam.HONNNK!!! DINOTRUX ARE ON THE LOOSE!Garbageadon eats cars, Craneosaur...

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Gregor Gall

Joe Strummer was one of the twentieth century’s iconic rock’n’roll rebels. As frontperson, spokesperson and chief lyricist for The Clash, he played a major role in politicising a generation through some of the most powerful protest songs of the era, songs like ‘White Riot’, ‘English Civil War’ and ‘London Calling’. At the heart of this protest was the struggle for social justice and equality.The punk rock politics of Joe Strummer examines Strummer’s beliefs on a range of i...

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Springer Protocols

This fully updated volume presents a diverse collection of protocols and methodologies for studying various molecular motors. The book explores the dynamics of the bacterial flagellar motor, the mechanisms of ATP synthase, the assembly and function of cytoskeletal motors, and the role of nucleic acid motors in cellular processes, while placing a strong emphasis on state-of-the-art techniques, highlighting innovative methods such as single-molecule visualization and high-resolution tracking...

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Nadina Galle

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, protecting the planet’s cities from the effects of climate change and safeguarding the health of their inhabitants.We live in an age when humanity spends 90% of its time indoors, yet the nature around us—especially in America’s cities—has never been more v...

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Jillian E. Galle, Amy L. Young

“A welcome publication, this book will nicely supplement the other books that are now appearing in the field of African American archaeology.”—Charles E. Orser Jr., Illinois State UniversityOver the last decade, the field of American historical archaeology has seen enormous growth in the study of people of African descent. This edited volume is the first dedicated solely to archaeology and the construction of gender in an African American context. The common thread running through ...

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Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2019, held in Paris, France, in October 2019. The 14 regular papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. This year also included an additional industrial paper. ICTSS is a series of international conferences addressing the conceptual, theoretic, and practical problems of testing software systems, including c...