When a beautiful college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastary, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. Could the killer be a professor the student had been sleeping with? A blind monk who loved her? Or perhaps a member of the brutal Napali criminal organization, the Camorra? As Natalia pursues her investigation, the crime families of Naples go to war over garbage-hauling contracts; and all across the city heaps of trash pile up, uncoll...

Une tour de mille étages où l'humanité est enfermée. Un homme s'y réveille, seul, amnésique, invisible, hanté par des images insoutenales de salles obscures, remplies de corps décharnés enchaînés les uns aux autres. Qui est-il? Quelle est sa mission?Une société reconstituée dans tous ses excès, sous la tyrannie arbitraire et sadique du mystérieux Muller : tel est ce cauchemar dystopique incroyablement visionnaire écrit en 1929, qui pointe, avec une acuité douloureuse, toutes les dé...

A young girl seeks answers from an itinerant augur. A carnival menagerie introduces the oddities of the world to a rural Siberian town, and to an eccentric lovelorn man. An Armenian soviet bureaucrat has a brush with the afterlife.Stories by Sergey Gerasimov, Chloe Smith, and Jan Weiss. Translation by Julie Nováková. This issue illustrated by Sophie Derevianchuk.Welkin is magazine of fantastic literature, a journal devoted to the obscure and the outré, to narrowing the gap ...

9 Erfolgsgeschichten, 73 Standpunkte, 10 Key Learnings, 1 Mission: erfolgreich innovieren. Das Successbook wirft einen Blick in die Innovationsprozesse eines Schweizer Großunternehmens. Erfolgsfaktoren und Innovationsmythen werden zusammen mit Expert:innen beleuchtet.

74 Fails, 10 Key Learnings, 1 Mission: Fehlerkultur in den Unternehmen voranbringen. Was andere geheim halten, zeigt das Innovationsteam eines Schweizer Grossunternehmens mit Charme, Mut und Humor – und einer ironischen Bildstrecke aus dem Arbeitsalltag. Statt Fehlschläge schönzureden, wird demonstriert, wie sich aus gescheiterten Vorhaben wertvolle Erkenntnisse ziehen lassen, um im Innovationsumfeld weiterzukommen.

The first book to be written on the Judge Rotenberg Center and their use of painful interventions to control the behavior of children and adults with disabilities.For more than forty years, professionals in the field of disability studies have engaged in debates over the use of aversive interventions (such as electric shock) like the ones used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Advocates and lawyers have filed complaints and lawsuits to both use them and ban them, scie...

For more than forty years, professionals in the field of disability studies have engaged in debates over the use of aversive interventions (such as electric shock) like the ones used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Advocates and lawyers have filed complaints and lawsuits to both use them and ban them, scientists have written hundreds of articles for and against them, and people with disabilities have lost their lives and, some would say, lived their lives because of them. All of these famil...

In the Italian city of Naples, senior police officer Captain Natalia Monte is called to investigate the theft of a painting from the medieval Church of San Domenico Maggiore. No sooner is the investigation underway than the city is rocked by a much graver crime: the murder of a talented and much-loved female violinist, known across the city and beyond.As Captain Monte and her fellow Carabinieri interview close friends and family of the victim, they sense all around them the dark fo...

Jan gerät zunehmend in eine Sinnkrise und beschließt seinem Leben ein Ende zu setzen. Ines, die Schwester seines Freundes, erfährt davon und kann ihn in langen Gesprächen zu neuen Perspektiven anregen. Während Jan seine kreativen Fähigkeiten entdeckt, kommt Ines für sich selbst zu einer verstörenden Erkenntnis.

Ganz schnell brach die Zeit der Masken an. So manchen warf sie aus der Bahn, nicht jeder kam heil aus den pandemischen Wirren. Die Gedichte führen in unser Nachbarland Tschechien, ein Besuch in Prag wird abgestattet. Friedenslinien in Nordirland kommen in Sichtweite. Der Leuchtturmwärter steigt die Stufen hinauf. Ungelebtes Leben rückt an uns heran, die Ablagerungen nach versagten Freiheiten. In den Büchern stehen die Namen von Königen, vom Scheitern wird zu wenig geredet. Rote Listen wach...

What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss trace the origins of humanitarianism, its social movement, and the institutions (international humanitarian law) and organizations (providers of assistance and protection) that comprise it. They consider the international humanitarian system’s ability to regulate the conduct of war,...

4 parties : Humanae litterae, Divinae litterae, L'homme Erasme, Fortune européenne d'Erasme.Articles de A. Michel, J.A. Osario, A. Jolidon, D. Kinney, J. Hirstein, A. Weiler, L.-E. Halkin, M.-M. de La Garanderie, I. Backus, E. Kinowaki, P.G. Bietenholz, C. Augustijn, G. Marc’hadour, Ch. Béné, J.P. Vanden Branden, J. Chomarat, A. Godin, J. Pendergrass, M. Weiss, L. Gualdo Rosa, M. Mann-Phillips, J. Céard, J.-C. Margolin, A. Gerlo et K. Garber.