Radical changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the realities of these changes? What significant differences have emerged between African countries? What is the future for democracy in the continent?The editors have chosen eleven key countries to provide enlightening comparisons and contrasts to stimulate discussion among students. They have brought together a team of scholars who are actively working in the changing Africa of today.Each chapter is structured around ...

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships betwee...

SOUS L'ÉGIDE DU CLUB THORAX Après le succès de la première édition parue en 2003, il était essentiel que cette nouvelle édition rende compte des formidables évolutions réalisées dans le domaine. Ce traité indispensable vous apportera une synthèse complète de l'ensemble des connaissances actuelles sur l'imagerie thoracique de l'adulte et de l'enfant, normale et pathologique. Après une mise au point sémantique réactualisée, la radioanatomie normale est largement développée dans un chapitre i...

Klarissa Dreams Redux is an anthology of stories and poetry by a myriad of authors, set against the paintings of Klarissa Kocsis and produced by her daughter, author, Shebat Legion.Klarissa Kocsis has contributed to the Toronto, Ontario, Canada art scene for over twenty years, regularly exhibiting within the city where she has won numerous juried competitions. She is a painter who specializes in egg tempera, and has earned a reputation for portraiture and nudes.Shebat Legio...

Bad Dad, from Children's author David Walliams.Dads come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.There are fat ones and thin ones, tall ones and short ones.There are young ones and old ones, clever ones and stupid ones.There are silly ones and serious ones, loud ones and quiet ones.Of course, there are good dads, and bad dads …

En écho à l’album Boom Boom de Richard Desjardins — à l’occasion du 25e anniversaire de sa sortie —, treize auteurs et autrices, comme autant de chansons, joignent leurs voix en une œuvre célébrant le grand poète et auteur-compositeur-interprète québécois. BOOM BOOM donne à voir à la fois les univers littéraires propres aux écrivains et écrivaines conviés.es à la fête, mais aussi l’importance qu’a pu prendre l’artiste dans notre imaginaire collectif. Les mots de Desjardins agissent comme é...

Pour souligner le dixième anniversaire de la collection Noire, dix auteurs et autrices ayant publié dans la collection ont uni leur talent pour offrir aux jeunes lecteurs et lectrices dix nouvelles sous le thème de l’anniversaire. Dans chacune des histoires rassemblées dans ce recueil, un phénomène inquiétant vient perturber la fête : vœu qui tourne mal, apparition maléfique, rencontre menaçante… Dix raisons de se méfier avant d’accepter une invitation ou de souffler ses bougies. Ces texte...

Examining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including details of physical description, diet, introduction and invasion pathways, breeding behaviour, natural habitat. It also looks at the environmental impact of each species, as well as current and future...

Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements offers new perspectives on southern Africa’s wars of national liberation, drawing on extensive oral historical and archival research.Assuming neither the primacy of nationalist loyalties as they exist today nor any single path to liberation, the book unpicks any notion of a straightforward imposition of Cold War ideologies or strategic interests on liberation wars. This approach adds new dimensions to the ri...

From the age of five, I knew one thing: Blake Jacobi was going to be in my life for a very long time.For years, he was my protector, my best friend, my shoulder to cry on. I even followed him to Chicago when he got picked up by an NHL team. Then lines got blurred and we landed in each other's beds, but we were able to push feelings aside and not let a few little slips ruin our friendship.At least, that's what I keep telling myself.Somewhere along the line, I fell in...

The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the land was the focus of the African war of liberation war, and was partially modified following Independence in 1980. A dramatic further episode in this history was launched at the start of the last decade with the occupation of many farms by groups of African veterans of the liberation struggle and t...

Le praticien dispose d'un grand nombre de techniques d'imagerie et de tests de laboratoire qui lui permettent d'effectuer des examens poussés pour ses patients. Cependant, il faut resituer cet arsenal technique au sein d'une médecine globale, car tous ces moyens modernes et pointus n'ont pas diminué la proportion des erreurs médicales. Aujourd'hui encore, recueillir de façon exhaustive les antécédents et les symptômes du patient et procéder à un examen physique approfondi, sont les étapes ...