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Michel Marini - douze ans en 1959, élève à Henri IV - a une passion, la littérature. Il ne s'en intéresse pas moins au rock'n'roll. Et au baby-foot. Au café où il joue tous les jours se réunit un club d'échecs fréquenté par Tibor, Léonid, Sasha, et les autres, tous réfugiés de l'Est qui ont dû s'exiler pour survivre.

Dans cette compilation, Michel Pastoureau retrace la longue histoire sociale, artistique et symbolique du noir, du vert et du rouge dans les sociétés européennes, de la Grèce antique jusqu’à nos jours.

What if every setback you have endured was secretly self inflicted? In "The Will to Fail," Kevin L. Michel rips away the comforting myths that blame luck, talent, or circumstance for a life stuck in neutral. With a voice as sharp as a drill sergeant and as precise as a neurosurgeon, Michel exposes the hidden psychological payoffs that keep intelligent people courting disaster and then hands you the tools to redirect that same relentless energy toward unstoppable progress. * CONFRONT YOUR SABOTEUR. Discover why a part of you wants the chaos, drawing on Nietzsche’s warlike man, Freud’s ...

Archibald is a changed boy. He stands up to bullies and hangs out with the gargoyles that used to scare him. But for all his new toughness, he’s also a lost boy who misses his friends in Lemurea. When strange footprints are discovered on the manor grounds, he realizes a piece of that world has followed him home. Without golems, witches, or magic, Archibald knows there’s little to stop what’s prowling the London suburbs, which means he’ll have to return to Lemurea to seek Faerydae’s help.

Are you trapped in a never-ending cycle of deadlines and demands, feeling disconnected from the job you once loved? Is your organization turning a blind eye to burnout, despite your colleagues and team experiencing similar struggles? While workplace burnout is gaining recognition, executives remain slow to act, skeptical of the need for change. It's time for you to take meaningful action, not only to prevent burnout for yourself, but also to foster a thriving work environment.

Après la mort de son père, Michel, fonctionnaire quadragénaire et blasé, décide de partir en Thaïlande pour goûter aux plaisirs exotiques. Il y rencontre Valérie, cadre dans une grande société de voyages, à qui il soufflera sa théorie sur les vraies motivations des Européens en quête de sensations fortes. Embarqué dans la lutte pour le profit à tout prix, où le corps est plus que jamais une marchandise, Michel jette un regard cynique sur la société occidentale.

Nostradamus’s The Prophecies presents hundreds of tightly compressed quatrains that fracture time and history into symbolic glimpses of upheaval, power, and ruin. The work avoids narrative order; instead it disperses images of kings, empires, celestial disturbances, plagues, and wars across a fog of allegory, where each vision feels suspended between history and imagination. The language is deliberately opaque—layered with astrological references, classical allusions, and oblique metaphors—forcing the listener to navigate a shifting terrain of potential meanings rather than fixed predictions.

Three Urban Audiobooks authors have teamed up to bring the drama in this latest installment of the popular Girls from Da Hood series.

Konrad Michel, a leading psychiatrist and acclaimed expert, draws on decades of experience to offer necessary new ways of understanding—and preventing—suicide. Michel shows that suicide is not just a consequence of mental illness, but an action related to a person’s life story. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with suicidal patients, he argues that suicide and suicide attempts occur when someone experiences extreme emotional pain that severely impairs the ability to think and act rationally.

A staggering examination of how America's wealthiest infiltrated the government and allied with dictators, transforming the U.S. from democracy to oligarchy. For years, a small group of billionaires has amassed increasing power, steering American politics for their own benefit. Many of these...

Sixième jour de l'Armada 2008. Un marin est retrouvé poignardé au beau milieu des quais de Rouen ! Quel tueur invisible a pu commettre ce crime impossible ? Quel étrange pacte semble lier des matelots du monde entier ? De quels trésors enfouis dans les méandres de la Seine sont-ils à la recherche ? Une implacable machination... qui prend en otage huit millions de touristes, une course effrénée contre la montre avant la parade de la Seine.

Tired of living below your hopes, capabilities, and expectations? Should you keep your business or "take the money and run"? What would you have others do? Discover the common mistakes that may have cost you success, happiness, and opportunity in the past...and how you can avoid them in the future. In the dazzling Town Hall discussion you'll learn the unexpected payoffs, prices and possibilities from this distinguished panel of business leaders.

Survey after survey confirms how the success of businesses has become increasingly dependent on the ability and skills of their staff. And because talented workers are in short supply the hunt for people of unusual ability will continue in earnest. Hiring such people is the relatively easy part; keeping them engaged so that they don't move on and getting the best out of them while they are with you is what really matters.

Lillian Phillips could not imagine how her quiet, simple life had come to this. Blackmailed by the Mad Duke of Thornwood into accepting one wild dare after another...all because of a pocket watch. Desperate to recover her beloved father's pawned timepiece, Lily did something reckless and dangerous and delicious-something that led to a night she'd never forget.

Mensonges ou secrets ? Manipulation ou vérité ? Sang famille. Dans la veine des meilleurs suspenses de Michel Bussi. "Tel un soleil brutal, la lumière du phare des Enchaînés inonde la pièce. Une seconde à peine. Puis l'obscurité reprend le dessus, simplement percée du halo des lampes torches. Je vais mourir ici. C'est une certitude. Une seule question me hante, la dernière : jusqu'où sont-ils prêts à aller pour me faire avouer ? A fouiller ma mémoire, comme s'ils pouvaient en arracher les souvenirs qu'ils convoitent ? Tout est allé si vite, à peine quatre jours."

Everyday Wins is a plain-language field manual that turns the best ideas from physics, biology, and decision science into everyday tools for work and life. Learn how to break problems to first principles, size bets with probabilities and base rates, design systems that reduce rework, and harness leverage, inertia, and activation energy to make progress stick. Each concise chapter delivers a single model, a real-world example, red flags to avoid, and a quick practice you can run in minutes. Transfer prompts show you how to carry what you learn into meetings, money choices, product calls, ...

Es gibt Zeiten, in denen uns Angst, Unsicherheit und negative Gedanken überwältigen und blockieren. Was wäre, wenn wir...

Urban Books' popular Around the Way Girls series is back, bringing readers more dramatic tales about the lives of some tough, resourceful women who can hold their own when things get rough on the streets. Growing up poor and biracial, Shannon never quite fit in. Not truly accepted by either side of her family, the confused teenager turns to the one thing that loves her back unconditionally - the streets. With a bottle of liquor at her side and a worthless mentality in tow, Shannon allows the local strip club and the pole to become her new family.

What remains when words are no longer enough to explain our fears, our blocks, our repeated patterns or the quiet pain we carry? Family constellation work offers a surprising and profound answer. It reveals the burdens we inherit without knowing it, the stories that began long before us and continue to echo through our lives. It uncovers hidden loyalties, silent wounds, unspoken truths and interrupted love that shape our relationships, choices and emotional landscapes. In this unique book, Michel Tessier invites readers into the sensitive, human and deeply moving world of constellations. ...

What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget. - Michel Thomas Experience significant results in a remarkably short period of time thanks to the unique Michel Thomas Method, perfected over 50 years by celebrated psycholinguist, Michel Thomas. The method works in tune with...