Comment a-t-on prouvé que la Terre était ronde ? Pourquoi plaçons-nous le Nord en haut sur nos cartes ? L’a-t-on toujours fait ? Et comment une frontière peut-elle être de longueur différente d'un pays à l'autre ?Dans ce livre, les géographes-cartographes Françoise Bahoken et Nicolas Lambert mettent en lumière les grandes découvertes et les concepts qui ont permis aux hommes de représenter le monde dans lequel ils vivent. Dans une approche progressive, ils reprennent notamment la ma...

Ce manuel de cartographie tout en couleurs propose l’ensemble des outils et méthodes nécessaires pour concevoir, comprendre et interpréter des cartes.Quels fonds de cartes choisir ? Comment traiter les différents types de données ? Comment les traduire en langage cartographique ? Quelles variables visuelles (taille, forme, texture, couleur, etc.) utiliser, et pour quels effets ?Dans une approche plus critique...

Sie war die Grande Dame der Westschweizer Literatur und verstummte nach dem tragischen Tod ihres einzigen Kindes im Jahr 1960. Von der Zeit danach blieben ihre Tagebuchskizzen, sensible Momentaufnahmen einer liebenden, trauernden und endlich wieder hoffenden Mutter - ein Gang durch die existentiellen Empfindungen des menschlichen Herzens: Esther Montandon, geschaffen vom Autorenkollektiv AJAR. Die Vereinigung junger Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller aus der Romandie verwirklicht in ih...

An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade. In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway in the world. After the Navy failed to breach Turkish defenses, British and allied ground forces stormed the Gallipoli peninsula but were unable to move off the beaches. Over the course of the year, the Allied landed hundreds...

Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping-the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade-to create a controlled implosion of the world economic system.In this revisionist account, Nicholas Lambert shows in lively detail how naval p...

Winner of the 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval LiteratureThe Neptune Factor is the biography of an idea—the concept of “Sea Power,” a term first coined by Capt. A.T. Mahan and the core thread of his life’s work.  His central argument was that the outcome of rivalries on the seas have decisively shaped the course of modern history. Although Mahan’s scholarship has long been seen as foundational to all systematic study of naval power, Neptune Factor...

GEORGE SAND, FEMME D’AVANT-GARDEFascinante, amoureuse, rebelle et engagée. La description de George Sand dessine le portrait d’une femme qui a revendiqué sa liberté, assumé ses plaisirs et ses désirs et cassé les codes féminins. « Une femme se choisissant un prénom masculin, vêtue comme un homme, cigarettes aux lèvres, divorcée, multipliant les conquêtes amoureuses et célébrant la République : même les héroïnes d’Alexandre Dumas sont moins hautes en couleur », écrit Aurélie Julia, ...

Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction PrizeHomage to Jean Genet’s antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge.As a millworkers’ strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workers—but when a lockout renews t...

Strong focus on conserving and exploiting genetic resources for breeding improved varietiesDetailed review of specific diseases such as witches broom as well as insect pests and nematodesCovers key aspects of sustainability such as agro-forestry, organic cultivation and measures to support smallholders

Cyber weapons and the possibility of cyber conflict—including interference in foreign political campaigns, industrial sabotage, attacks on infrastructure, and combined military campaigns—require policymakers, scholars, and citizens to rethink twenty-first-century warfare. Yet because cyber capabilities are so new and continually developing, there is little agreement about how they will be deployed, how effective they can be, and how they can be managed.Written by leading scholars, ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education, TIE 2023, held in Cambridge, UK, in September 2023.The 17 full papers were carefully selected from 44 submissions and cover four areas: international school projects; technology in education; technology for content creation and future content delivery.

The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors' own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.This new anthology includes stories by: Charles Boyle, Reg...