Les grandes théories du cosmos : du Big Bang aux trous noirs.Premier livre de Stephen Hawking écrit à l'intention du non-spécialiste, succès incontournable dès sa parution, ***Une brève histoire du temps***présente dans un langage simple et accessible les développements contemporains de l'astrophysique.Retraçant les grandes théories du cosmos, de Galilée et Newton à Einstein et Poincaré, racontant les avancées prodigieuses de la recherche sur l'espace et le ...

"The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo" by Ernest William Hawkes is a captivating exploration of the rich cultural heritage of the Alaskan Eskimo communities. Through detailed observations and vivid descriptions, Hawkes delves into the significance of dance festivals, which serve as vital expressions of identity, tradition, and community bonding. The book highlights various dances, their meanings, and the role they play in the social fabric of Eskimo life, showcasing the intricate rela...

A young boy, a ginormous kite, and a blustery mountaintop. What could go wrong?Ever since he could sit upright, young Aaron Hawk shared a passion for flying with his father. That is, until his father’s tragic death. Making Aaron forget all the things that were close to his heart. But in an effort to revive his dreams, Aaron builds a huge kite, and in a daring quest, sails it across the skies. However, his perilous journey ends when he crashes to earth, deep in the woods. He finds h...

In the summer of 2013 the Central Intelligence Agency and the Clinton Presidential Library made an unprecedented declassification of more than 300 documents showing the role of intelligence in supporting American decision-making on Bosnia in the 1990s, and in particular the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, which brought an end to the fighting in Bosnia. The following spring, James Madison University hosted a conference in which scholars from all over the world assessed what the documents show ...

Mark West thinks his life is pretty close to perfect—until he learns that his wife Laura has been cheating on him with a co-worker. Faced with this rude awakening, Mark accepts an offer of a job transfer to Leipzig, Germany, to help start up an Eastern European branch of his company. But his escape doesn't turn out to be quite as peaceful as he expected. Mark soon finds himself entangled with Sophia, a glamorous artist with some disturbing connections, and Frau Wachter, his mysterious conc...

Shocked into psychic awakening, a university gardener enters a realm of subtle forces and finds himself enmeshed in a murder cover-up and a secret surveillance project on campus, while bearing the pressures of a relationship with a femme phenom who inspires and devastates him at every turn.

Ever since he could sit upright, young Aaron Hawk shared a deep passion for flying like his father. That is, until his father's tragic death. Making Aaron forget all the things that were close to his heart. Aaron builds a huge kite and, in a daring quest to revive his dream, he fearlessly rides it across the skies. However, his harrowing ride ends when he crashes to earth deep in the woods. He finds himself tangled in the wreckage of his glider, fortunately, mostly unharmed. And so begins ...

Aaron Hawk thought flying through the portal on a magical wing, to find the mythical island of Solistasia home to a legendary school was the hard part... he was wrong.Arriving at the School of the Skies was meant to be a new beginning, a chance to escape the shadow of his late father's legacy and forge his own name as a flyer. But as he navigates new friendships and a bitter rivalry with the talented but cruel Drake Corvus, he finds his father's past is inescapable...

The hangman's rope!Jared Hawk stank of death. It hung about him like gunsmoke and the sour smell of drying blood. He thought he'd take life easy for a while: enjoy whisky and women and nothing more. Leave his Colt .45 in its greased holster.But things turned bad and he took a job riding herd on a prisoner due to be hanged. It should have been simple...Before Hawk could earn his four hundred dollars and the hangman could settle his rope around the killer's neck, Hawk's ...

Jared Hawk was a gunfighter. His talent for killing was up for hire – if the price was right. His code was simple: stay alive to deliver the goods and collect the dues, and don't step aside for any man.Philip Garrett hired Hawk to take him and his niece, Sarah Lee, through to Los Angeles, but a pack of professional guns blocked the road. Before Hawk reached the City of the Angels all his gun skills were brought to bloody use, and the old California trail was marked with gravestones…...

Jesus Martinez was worth $1,000 to Jared Hawk—dead.The Mexican had killed Matthew Kilpatrick. The dead man's daughter hired Hawk to bring her the Mexican's corpse.That kind of meeting had only one outcome. And only one survivor …

Jared Hawk wasn't looking for a fight. But he wasn't walking away when the Mexican called him out … he killed the pistolero.He didn't know the man's brother headed an outlaw gang working the Border country. But he had been warned: 'My name is Luis Brava. Remember that. I want you to know my name when I kill you.'And Luis Brava took his revenge.He left Hawk to die.It was a mistake, because Hawk wasn't the kind of man to die easy. He went looking for his own perso...