In Inequality and Governance in an Uncertain World: Perspectives on Democratic & Autocratic Governments, the authors address structural and systemic inequalities in democratic and autocratic governments from a multidimensional perspective in nine world regions (Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Eurasia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North America, and Latin America). Their focus is on issues of race, caste, class, gender, religion, culture, and ...

Thomas Morales pratique une discipline particulière : la nécrologie de papier. Auteur et chroniqueur, ce témoin de son époque fait revivre, dans ce livre, toutes ces figures qui nous ont quittés, comme un générique aux mille visages qui compose le refuge de nos plus beaux souvenirs des Trente Glorieuses. D’Anémone à Jean-Paul Belmondo, de Jean d’Ormesson à Karl Lagerfeld, de Michel Legrand à Roger Moore, cette galerie de portraits est le miroir d’un monde que nous avons tant aimé, croqué a...

The posthumous memoirs of a World War II Pathfinder pilot and Distinguished Flying Cross recipient who flew target-marking missions in enemy territory.Denys A. Braithwaite was born of a well-to-do Yorkshire family and joined the Auxiliary Air Force on his eighteenth birthday in 1939. On the occasion of Chamberlain's speech to the British nation on September 3, the situation changed dramatically and from being a "super weekend club," his squadron was assigned coasta...

A LONG, DESPERATELY FOUGHT BATTLE BETWEEN THE BRITISH FRIGATE "SAN FIORENZO" AND THE FRENCH FRIGATE "PIEMONTAISE" IN THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1808…In the path of the three India merchantmen setting out on their long voyage home lurked the French raider based on Mauritius, then known—the year in 1808—as the Ile de France. The frigate San Fiorenzo was despatched to escort them past the danger point. The enemy frigate, Piemontaise, sighted the convoy first, but was in turn sighted by the Sa...

CFHI's first book on patient engagement. Case studies from healthcare delivery organizations in three countries, catalyzing improvement and innovation in healthcare illustrates patient engagement strategies and their impacts.

Un matin de décembre, en Espagne. C'est le moment de vérité pour deux cent sept joueurs venus de divers pays mais qui ont tous la même ambition. Ils rêvent de faire fortune sur les plus beaux parcours du monde et de club-houses remplis de leurs admirateurs : une vie comme un long dimanche à la campagne, une continuelle garden-party. En fait d'invitation au château, il n'y aura que cinquante rescapés après six jours d'une épreuve sans merci, qui évoque aussi bien la chasse primitive, que le...

Arfel Booker is a great young blues musician in the 1940s South. One night, after playing a blues gig in a new town, a beautiful woman takes him back to her log cabin to make love. In the morning (after blacking out from too much liquor), he awakens to an unwelcome surprise. Instead of the woman, an unfamiliar white man is in the bed, and the mans throat has been slashed with Arfels knife.Arfel knows hes been framed, so he makes a run for it and heads north by hopping trains. Once ...

Young and brilliant poet Elizabeth Graeme comes of age in colonial Philadelphia bearing an exceptional talent for writing and an unwillingness to be like all the other young women around her.After a successful trip to England and an audience with the king, the sudden death of her mother and two failed romances leave Elizabeth reeling. Back in Philadelphia, she uses her literary talent, intellect, widening social circle, and status as a prominent physician's daughter to navigate her...

Young and brilliant poet Elizabeth Graeme comes of age in colonial Philadelphia bearing an exceptional talent for writing and an unwillingness to be like all the other young women around her.After a successful trip to England and an audience with the king, the sudden death of her mother and two failed romances leave Elizabeth reeling. Back in Philadelphia, she uses her literary talent, intellect, widening social circle, and status as a prominent physician’s daughter to navigate her...

Young and brilliant poet Elizabeth Graeme comes of age in colonial Philadelphia bearing an exceptional talent for writing and an unwillingness to be like all the other young women around her.After a successful trip to England and an audience with the king, the sudden death of her mother and two failed romances leave Elizabeth reeling. Back in Philadelphia, she uses her literary talent, intellect, widening social circle, and status as a prominent physician’s daughter to navigate her...