The strength of the right-to-die movement was underscored as early as 1991, when Derek Humphry published Final Exit, the movement's call to arms that inspired literally hundreds of thousands of Americans who wished to understand the concepts of assisted suicide and the right to die with dignity. Now Humphry has joined forces with attorney Mary Clement to write Freedom to Die, which places this civil rights story within the framework of American social history. More than a chronology of the...

Les situations d’exclusion, dans lesquelles certaines personnes sont coupées des circuits habituels d’échange constituant le tissu social, sont de plus en plus fréquentes et représentent un problème contemporain majeur, tant d’un point de vue individuel que collectif. Conséquence de transformations économiques, de crises politiques, de catastrophes naturelles, de changements sociaux ou de ruptures individuelles, cette évolution est souvent associée à des mouvements migratoires qui accentue...

The chapters in this new book span the range of reading processes from early visual analysis to semantic influences on word identification, thus providing a state-of-the-art summary of current work and offering important contributions to prospective reading research.Basic Processes in Reading examines both future plans and past accomplishments in the world of word identification research. Three chapters provide a futuristic view taking a parallel distributed processing app...