"Frank Howard Smith, Private Eye. My friend just turned up dead, and it's up to me to catch the killer."Frank Howard Smith's friend Kevin McCake was a history teacher at a local private school. Kevin was supposed to be on an archaeological dig on the other side of the world, not murdered in the parking lot of his school. Frank Howard Smith doesn't have much to go on, but soon discovers a student with a possible motive, some troubling facts about his friend's archaeological dig, and...

با وجود گذشت پانزده سال از وقایع یازدهم سپتامبر ۲۰۰۱‌‌‌‌،‌‌‌‌ وضعیت هنوز در عرصه‌های مختلف به طور اساسی تغییر نکرده است. افغانستان هنوز درگیر جنگ است‌‌‌‌.‌‌‌‌ پاکستان نیز با خطر افراط‌گرایی در داخل مواجه است و تصور‌‌‌ می‌کند که این خطر از جانب خط دیورند نیز آن کشور را تهدید‌‌‌ می‌کند. قدرت‌های غربی نیز نگران پیامدهای افراطیت و تروریزم در افغانستان‌اند. البته این به معنای آن نیست که ما هنوز در نقطة اول ایستاده‌ایم، زیرا بسیاری از مسایل در پرتو رویدادهای پانزده سال گذشته متحول شده‌اند. با ای...

Dix-neuf textes, dix-neuf personnalités.Dix-neuf voies issues de la nouvelle génération d'auteurs SFFF (Science-Fiction, Fantastique, Fantasy) qui se font le reflet de l'âme humaine. Chaque histoire révèle une facette de ce qui se tapit en chacun de nous, de beau, de terrible, de sordide ou simplement de banal.Oserez-vous affronter votre alter ego ? Laissez tomber les artifices et plongez votre regard dans ce miroir tendu.Qu'y verrez-vous ?...Qui ve...

Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama was both ancient homeland and new frontier where a complex network of allegiances and agendas was playing out. The fabric of that network stretched and frayed as the Creek Civil War of 1813-1...

With a foreword by Robert Grenier, former Director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, learn the art of influence from the best salespeople in the world—spies.Tapping into the history of intelligence-gathering and his work with former agents of the CIA, FBI, and other federal departments, Jeremy Hurewitz, a foremost corporate sales and security expert, offers field-tested spycraft strategies and government-agency tactics anyone can use to build relationships, persuade, and sell anything....

"If you have a dog you will likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and prospectively, to equally profound sadness."-Marjorie Garber, William R. Kennan Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard UniversityTurtle Point Press is pleased to announce the publication of the first English translation of Jean Grenier's book of meditations on the death of his beloved dog. Originally published by Gallimard in 1957 as Sur la mort d'...

Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation.In Assessing War, military historians, social scientists, and military officers explore how observers have analyzed the trajectory of war in American conflicts from the Seven Years’ War through the war in Afghanistan. Drawing on decades of acquired expertise, the contributors examine wartime assessment in both theory and practic...

Roman inspiré de Joshua Slocum, marin et aventurier, Canadien de la Nouvelle-Ecosse, émigré aux Etats-Unis, qui fut le premier à faire le tour du monde en solitaire entre 1895 et 1898. L'auteur, lui-même navigateur, anime (en 1988-1989) l'émission quotidienne L'aventure à Radio-Canada.

L’Afrique est devenue un continent d’avenir, entend-on ici ou là. Elle affiche un appétit sans limite pour les téléphones portables et les nouveaux riches ont adopté tous les tics des classes moyennes mondialisées. De « pré carré » de l’ancienne Europe coloniale, l'Afrique devrait devenir en 2030 membre à part entière de la nouvelle triade (Chine-Inde-Afrique) en lieu et place des États-Unis-Europe-Japon. Les pays émergents – dont la Chine – y trouvent les potentialités naturelles rares et...

Aucune revue ne s’était jusqu’alors vraiment penchée sur le phénomène SAS. Des articles avaient paru ici et là mais il manquait un dossier conséquent sur Gérard de Villiers. Sans préjugé, la Revue des Deux Mondes propose une enquête soigneuse et originale sur un des plus grands succès populaires des cinquante dernières années. Pour mener à bien l’investigation, Olivier Cariguel, chef d’orchestre de cette livraison estivale, a fait appel à des personnalités aussi ...