Une tour de mille étages où l'humanité est enfermée. Un homme s'y réveille, seul, amnésique, invisible, hanté par des images insoutenales de salles obscures, remplies de corps décharnés enchaînés les uns aux autres. Qui est-il? Quelle est sa mission?Une société reconstituée dans tous ses excès, sous la tyrannie arbitraire et sadique du mystérieux Muller : tel est ce cauchemar dystopique incroyablement visionnaire écrit en 1929, qui pointe, avec une acuité douloureuse, toutes les dé...

When a beautiful college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastary, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. Could the killer be a professor the student had been sleeping with? A blind monk who loved her? Or perhaps a member of the brutal Napali criminal organization, the Camorra? As Natalia pursues her investigation, the crime families of Naples go to war over garbage-hauling contracts; and all across the city heaps of trash pile up, uncoll...

A young girl seeks answers from an itinerant augur. A carnival menagerie introduces the oddities of the world to a rural Siberian town, and to an eccentric lovelorn man. An Armenian soviet bureaucrat has a brush with the afterlife.Stories by Sergey Gerasimov, Chloe Smith, and Jan Weiss. Translation by Julie Nováková. This issue illustrated by Sophie Derevianchuk.Welkin is magazine of fantastic literature, a journal devoted to the obscure and the outré, to narrowing the gap ...

9 Erfolgsgeschichten, 73 Standpunkte, 10 Key Learnings, 1 Mission: erfolgreich innovieren. Das Successbook wirft einen Blick in die Innovationsprozesse eines Schweizer Großunternehmens. Erfolgsfaktoren und Innovationsmythen werden zusammen mit Expert:innen beleuchtet.

74 Fails, 10 Key Learnings, 1 Mission: Fehlerkultur in den Unternehmen voranbringen. Was andere geheim halten, zeigt das Innovationsteam eines Schweizer Grossunternehmens mit Charme, Mut und Humor – und einer ironischen Bildstrecke aus dem Arbeitsalltag. Statt Fehlschläge schönzureden, wird demonstriert, wie sich aus gescheiterten Vorhaben wertvolle Erkenntnisse ziehen lassen, um im Innovationsumfeld weiterzukommen.

For more than forty years, professionals in the field of disability studies have engaged in debates over the use of aversive interventions (such as electric shock) like the ones used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Advocates and lawyers have filed complaints and lawsuits to both use them and ban them, scientists have written hundreds of articles for and against them, and people with disabilities have lost their lives and, some would say, lived their lives because of them. All of these famil...

The first book to be written on the Judge Rotenberg Center and their use of painful interventions to control the behavior of children and adults with disabilities.For more than forty years, professionals in the field of disability studies have engaged in debates over the use of aversive interventions (such as electric shock) like the ones used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Advocates and lawyers have filed complaints and lawsuits to both use them and ban them, scie...

What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss trace the origins of humanitarianism, its social movement, and the institutions (international humanitarian law) and organizations (providers of assistance and protection) that comprise it. They consider the international humanitarian system’s ability to regulate the conduct of war,...

In the Italian city of Naples, senior police officer Captain Natalia Monte is called to investigate the theft of a painting from the medieval Church of San Domenico Maggiore. No sooner is the investigation underway than the city is rocked by a much graver crime: the murder of a talented and much-loved female violinist, known across the city and beyond.As Captain Monte and her fellow Carabinieri interview close friends and family of the victim, they sense all around them the dark fo...

4 parties : Humanae litterae, Divinae litterae, L'homme Erasme, Fortune européenne d'Erasme.Articles de A. Michel, J.A. Osario, A. Jolidon, D. Kinney, J. Hirstein, A. Weiler, L.-E. Halkin, M.-M. de La Garanderie, I. Backus, E. Kinowaki, P.G. Bietenholz, C. Augustijn, G. Marc’hadour, Ch. Béné, J.P. Vanden Branden, J. Chomarat, A. Godin, J. Pendergrass, M. Weiss, L. Gualdo Rosa, M. Mann-Phillips, J. Céard, J.-C. Margolin, A. Gerlo et K. Garber.

Der Schamane und die Frau wandten Clint Wingfield, dem Moses der Arwenacks, den Rücken zu. Die Frau wirkte wie eine Schlafwandlerin. Mit eckigen Bewegungen schritt sie in dem Tempelhof auf die Statue zu. Jetzt erst entdeckte der Moses, dass der Schoß der scheußlichen Skulptur wie ein hochlehniger Stuhl geformt war. Ein Thron womöglich. Also wurde die weiße Frau von den Kopfjägern als Göttin angesehen. Hatte sie deshalb zwei Jahre überlebt? Weil ihre helle Farbe und die Länge des Haares die...

9 success stories, 73 viewpoints, 10 key learnings and 1 mission: successful innovation. The successbook takes a look at the innovation processes at a major Swiss corporation. Success factors and innovation myths are examined with the input of experts.