In recent decades there has been a burgeoning interest in the development of blue-green corridors: areas where waterways are complemented by adjoining green spaces and related paths and leisure facilities. Urban planners have increasingly favoured such zones as a means of refreshing inner-city spaces. In many cases, such projects have involved the rehabilitation of former industrial and/or otherwise polluted waterways and adjacent land. These newly configured blue-green spaces have benefit...

If you’ve always wanted to lose weight and increase your mental clarity but feel like no diet seems to fit you, then pay attention...Two manuscripts in one audiobook:Intermittent Fasting: How to Lose Weight, Burn Fat, and Increase Mental Clarity Without Having to Give up All Your Favorite FoodsKeto Diet: The Ultimate Ketogenic Diet Guide for Weight Loss and Mental Clarity, Including How to Get into Ketosis, a 21-Day Meal Plan, K...

St. Benedict of Norcia (480-547) is indisputably one of the most influential figures in the development of the culture and spirituality of Western Europe and is recognized as the "patriarch of all monks of the West." Shortly after Benedict's death, his monastery at Monte Cassino was destroyed by Lombard invaders. It was at that point that one of the greatest mysteries of medieval monasticism arose--the true location of the mortal remains of this revered saint. This volume presents the firs...

If you’ve always wanted to lose weight and live a healthier and simpler lifestyle but have struggled to find something that works for you, then pay attention.Here’s just a tiny fraction of what you’ll discover:How to increase brain energy, clarity, and decrease aging of the brain by using ketones as a fuel sourceThe ketosis process and seven things you can expect when getting into ketosisAmazing ketogenic tips and tricksH...

Fancy a trip to Pluto? Or how about a fearful drive along a stretch of country road, or a long, hot, dusty walk to Nairobi? Unless you prefer to go to church with a strange woman in green tights, her hair alive with electricity. Here you have 34 stories, each one a journey, whether planned or unexpected, funny or frightening, real or figurative, shared or dreadfully alone. ‘They had a long journey ahead of them’ was the prompt: the writers here, from award-winning authors to exciting new t...

Le présent ouvrage constitue l’une des premières monographies francophones sur l’euphémisme. Au moyen d’une sélection de corpus historiques, il explique certains usages de cette figure dans la diachronie. Il donne également un aperçu critique des études significatives sur le discours euphémique, qui appartiennent à trois étapes : la traditionnelle, la transitoire et la linguistique. De plus, ce livre propose de nouvelles théories sémantico-pragmatiques et rhétoriques sur le langage fleuri....

In the analysis of communicational practices — whether in the form ofaudience, audience, consumers, users, recipients, participants, spectators —there is an imprecision of terms and occurrences that leaves room forterminological and theoretical indecision. Hence the desire to clarify thecontours of the notion of public, while relying on empirical material, and toexamine its multiple transformations.Thanks to a collective interdisciplinary program,...

Multinationals from Brazil, Russia, India and China, known as the BRIC countries, are a new and powerful force in global competition and are challenging the incumbency of much older global companies from the developed world. Emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) now account for a quarter of foreign investment in the world, are a prolific source of innovation and make almost one in three cross-border acquisitions globally. Despite this, traditional theories of international busi...