365 gestes pour sauver la planète


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Depuis près de quinze ans, Philippe Bourseiller photographie la nature sous tous ses angles : de l'irruption du volcan Pinatubo aux grands déserts de glace et de sable, il capture les couleurs insoupçonnées et les lumières irréelles de notre terre. Mais nos modes de vie contemporains menacent cette fragile beauté. Pour inciter à plus de mesure, Philippe Bourseiller associe 365 photographies à un geste écologique quotidien. Chacune de ces actions protectrices est accompagnée de chiffres et d'études qui expliquent les risques engendrés par nos comportements et les conséquences bénéfiques de ces gestes. Chaque jour dévoile une image, une merveille de la nature et le mode d'emploi pour préserver notre planète. Ainsi, au fil des pages, se dessine une véritable éthique de vie.







Economic Fallacies


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This book, written by the celebrated nineteenth century French economist propagating free trade, reads as it was written yesterday.




365 gestes pour sauver la planète


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Depuis plus de quinze ans, Philippe Bourseiller photographie la nature: de l'irruption du volcan Pinatubo aux grands déserts de glace et de sable, il capture les couleurs et les lumières de notre terre. Mais nos modes de vie contemporains menacent cette fragile beauté. Pour inciter à plus de mesure, ce livre associe 365 photographies à un geste écologique quotidien. Chacune de ces actions protectrices est accompagnée de chiffres et d'études qui expliquent les risques engendrés par nos modes de vie et les conséquences bénéfiques d'un comportement responsable. Chaque jour dévoile une image, une merveille de la nature et le mode d'emploi pour mieux préserver la planète. Ainsi, au fil des pages, se dessine une véritable éthique de vie.




Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century


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This volume incorporates the national standards for the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Classical Languages, French, German, Italian, Japanese Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.




French Ecocriticism


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This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Éric Chevillard. The diverse approaches in the volume signal a common desire to bring together form and content, politics and aesthetics, theory and practice, under the aegis of the environmental humanities.




How to Hold a Crocodile


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Explains how to do practical and improbable things, such as how to roast an ox, handle a hamster, photography a fish, play the bagpipes, and vanquish a vampire.].




Twilight


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Fall in love with the addictive, suspenseful love story between a teenage girl and a vampire with the book that sparked a "literary phenomenon" and redefined romance for a generation (New York Times). Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife -- between desire and danger. Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite. It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the highly anticipated companion, Midnight Sun: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. "People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time "A literary phenomenon." -- The New York Times




UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition


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"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description




Incubus Dreams


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Vampire hunter Anita Blake finds her life is more complicated than ever, caught as she is between her obligations to the living-and the undead.