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La transformation de Joanne Kathleen Rowling, mère célibataire en difficulté, en phénomène littéraire est l'une des réussites les plus extraordinaires de l'histoire de l'édition. Née en 1965 dans le Gloucestershire, elle est l'auteure de la série Harry Potter, sept romans qui se sont vendus à plus de 500 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde, ont été traduits dans plus de 80 langues et ont donné naissance à un empire du divertissement pesant plusieurs milliards de livres sterling.Les...

Joanne Kathleen Rowling's transformation from struggling single mother to literary phenomenon stands as one of publishing's most extraordinary success stories. Born in 1965 in Gloucestershire, she created the Harry Potter series—seven novels that have sold over 500 million copies worldwide, been translated into more than 80 languages, and generated a multi-billion-pound entertainment empire.Rowling's early life featured ordinary struggles that later influenced her fiction. After stu...

Eine schicksalhafte Begegnung, ein lang gehütetes Geheimnis, ein verloren geglaubtes Schmuckstück.- Abgründig und sinnlich, berauschend und geheimnisvoll. An Männern und Beziehungen hat Kate Prescott absolut kein Interesse. Davon lässt sich Matt Turner jedoch nicht beeindrucken. Der attraktive Engländer besteht auf vier Dates, denn er hat äußerst überzeugende Argumente, die Kate nicht ignorieren kann. Die Anziehungskraft zwischen den beiden ist am Ende stärker als Kates Angst. Aber kann si...

Now that prohibitions against stem cell research are relaxing, it is time for the field to move forward with the advances that promise to eliminate so much human suffering. However, it would be naive to ignore the fact that regenerative medicines pose a whole new set of challenges to an industry sector that for decades has geared itself to the deve