L’Europe vieillit et se dépeuple. L’Afrique déborde de jeunes et de vie. Une migration de masse va se produire. Son ampleur et ses conditions constituent l’un des plus grands défis du xxie siècle.L’Union européenne compte aujourd’hui 510 millions d’habitants vieillissants ; l’Afrique 1,25 milliard, dont quarante pour cent ont moins de quinze ans. En 2050, 450 millions d’Européens feront face à 2,5 milliards d’Africains. D’ici à 2100, trois personnes sur quatre venant au monde naîtro...

What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London, it's also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca lies beneath Platform 10 at King's Cross (legend has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Stree...

Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist.Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar...for thirteen years.Starved and beaten, the little boy's world was a darkened room that measured just eight feet by ten with a single makeshift bed, bare light bulb, and a solitary table. Steve would spend his days conjuring up an imaginary world full of monsters he would draw to try an...

If environmental protection is costly, how much should we spend on pollution control? Is it worth reducing pollution to zero, or should we accept some level of pollution because of the economic benefits associated with it? How can we assess the benefits that people get from a less-polluted atmosphere? In broad terms, environmental economics looks at how economic activity and policy affect the environment in which we live. Some production generates pollution, such as power station emissions...

UNDERGROUND ENGLAND takes an extraordinary and original look at our island nation - from below.Stephen Smith quite literally delves into the unknown country underneath ploughed fields, clifftops and market towns. UNDERGROUND ENGLAND will explore rudimentary earth dwellings and hidden Cold War cities; sulphurous natural springs and manmade underground waterways; priest holes and subterranean nooks created with more sinister purposes in mind. The author visits the endless military tu...

Le 16 août 1972, le général Mohamed Oufkir tente d'assassiner Hassan II. Son coup d'Etat échoue. Oufkir est criblé de balles au palais. Version officielle : un "suicide de trahison". Quatre mois plus tard, Fatima, la veuve du général, et ses six enfants sont arrêtés. Pendant dix-neuf ans, ils disparaissent de la surface de la terre, emmurés dans le jardin secret du roi du Maroc.De la palmeraie d'Assa, leur premier lieu de détention, à Bir-Jdid, un mouroir spécialeme...

Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist.Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar...for thirteen years.Starved and beaten, the little boy's world was a darkened room that measured just eight feet by ten with a single makeshift bed, bare light bulb, and a solitary table. Steve would spend his days conjuring up an imaginary world full of monsters he would draw to try an...

Reviews key challenges and advances in maize breeding methods;Discusses the development of varieties with enhanced nutritional and other properties such as improved protein content and abiotic stress resistance;Summarises key steps being taken to support smallholders growing maize in developing countries

Le 29 octobre 1965, au cœur de Paris, « disparaît » Mehdi Ben Barka. Tel un fantôme, l’opposant radical au roi du Maroc, véritable leader de la lutte de libération du Tiers-monde, va hanter la vie politique française, le Maghreb et le Moyen-Orient jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Soixante ans plus tard, alors qu’on n’osait plus espérer percer les mystères du plus grand scandale de la Ve République, des documents inédits permettent enfin de raconter, du début à la fin, l’affaire Ben Barka : un thriller...

The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Winner – Theological StudiesModern theology claimed that it ignited a renaissance in trinitarian theology. Really, it has been a renaissance in social trinitarianism. Classical commitments like divine simplicity have been jettisoned, the three persons have been redefined as three centers of consciousness and will, and modern agendas in politics, gender, and ecclesiology determine the terms of the discussion. Contemp...

Christianity Today Book Award—Biblical StudiesForeword INDIES Book of the Year Award Honorable MentionSOLA Network's Asian American Book Awards Honorable MentionIn a first-of-its-kind volume, The New Testament in Color offers biblical commentary that is:MultiethnicDiverseContextual

Heh, Heh, Kiddies! They say that you can always tell a GOOD BOOK by its COVER! Well, after you BONE UP on the front of this first BEST OF volume of THE WORLD S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY by legendary artist NORMAN SAUNDERS, you ll be left SPELLBOUND by some of the most SIZZLING fiction ever published in this AWARD-WINNING series. Between these covers are DEVILISHLY GOOD STORIES by RAMSEY CAMPBELL, HARLAN ELLISON, CHRISTOPHER FOWLER, NEIL GAIMAN, CAITLIN R. K...