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Françoise Combes vient de recevoir la médaille d'or du CNRS. Cette astrophysicienne est spécialiste de la dynamique des galaxies et, non contente de les observer, elle réalise de spectaculaires simulations numériques de leur formation, de leur croissance, de leurs rencontres. Cela aide à comprendre l'origine de leurs formes, variées et souvent surprenantes. Le décodage des différentes étapes de leur évolution montre que les trous noirs supermassifs, qui occupent les centres de ces galaxies, y jouent un rôle majeur. Il est donc indispensable de mieux les comprendre.

C'est le premier portrait de femme profondément destructrice, rancunière et laide que Balzac ait produit. Elle se voit apparentée à un animal malfaisant : ses sourcils épais réunis par un bouquet, sa face longue et simiesque laissent deviner derrière la paysanne des Vosges un caractère...

Une mystérieuse force à l'œuvre dans les galaxies et les amas de galaxies. Une masse manquante dans l'univers. L'idée de la matière noire est née de l'analyse de la dynamique des amas de galaxies, et des galaxies elles-mêmes: la force gravitationnelle engendrée par la matière répertoriée dans ces systèmes astronomiques ne semble pas suffisante pour assurer leur cohésion. D'où l'idée que, en plus de la matière visible, existerait également de grandes quantités de matière invisible, la matière noire, qui exercerait l'attraction suffisante pour retenir les galaxies dans les amas, les étoiles dans les galaxies.

Que se passe-t-il quand une championne d'équitation voit son rêve détruit suite à un accident ? La vie de Lucie bascule le jour où elle se fait renverser par une voiture dont le chauffeur prend la fuite. Tourmenté par le remords, ce dernier tentera de se racheter. Handicap, rééducation, culpabilité, espoir et résilience habitent les héros du nouveau et très attendu roman de Laëtitia Milot.

En 1964, le jury de la Biennale de Venise décerna pour la première fois son Grand Prix à un artiste américain, Robert Rauschenberg. Une initiative que l'on interpréta communément comme une reconnaissance définitive de la migration de la scène artistique mondiale, de Paris vers New York.

An essential introduction to trans history, from ancient times to the present day. Deeply researched, highly readable, and featuring a broad range of voices. Odyssey Award winner for Excellence in Audiobook Production for Young Adults! What does “trans” mean, and what does it mean to be...

What does resilience really look like? What does it mean to live a life of courage? At a certain point, the word “service” takes on a whole different meaning—a meaning each of the female Veterans profiled in this book know well. Each chapter in Wonder Women shares the story of a different...

To catch the perfect killer, she must become the perfect victim. After discovering that her estranged sister is missing, Carolina McKay heads to Pittsburgh where she stumbles into an FBI investigation. The same time her sister, Scarlet, vanished, so did $300,000. And Scarlet is the prime suspect.

Detective Carolina McKay survived a serial killer and saved the town she used to call home. Now she finds herself more alone than ever...until a stranger knocks on her door.

After she’s shot in the line of duty, Detective Carolina McKay returns to her hometown hoping to rebuild her life and conquer her demons. But before she can even unpack, a college student is found dead in a ditch. The crime scene looks familiar. Too familiar. Has the madman who terrorized Carolina’s childhood, reemerged? Or is a new killer copying those old murders?

The Fiction of Our Realities is the first book of our six part series entitled "Perspective Versus Perception"

Have you ever wondered... Why do bad things happen to good people? Why did this happen? Why me? Why my family? Why didn't God show up and stop this catastrophe? Did God forget me? Is God mad at me? Is God even listening? Is God even real? Those are some heavy and often heartbreaking questions. The reality is that there are no simple or easy answers, but there are answers. So, if you are ready to wrestle with mystery and find truth in the middle of a trial, this book is for you.

Part memoir, part self-empowerment guide, this book is designed to provide resources for anyone experiencing abuse. Listeners who are survivors of abuse, those struggling to recognize if their relationship is unhealthy or dangerous, and those wondering how to leave an abusive relationship safely will all benefit from this powerful book. What I Wish I Knew can also serve as a valuable resource for those in helping professions or for loved ones supporting someone in an abusive relationship.

In the enchanted hills of rural New England, a reward awaits those who would take that one extra step and discover a world long forgotten about. Experience the wonders of the fae, and their subtle influence on our seelie Earth.

Jenna Sutton is nothing like Buffy—the iconic vampire slayer of TV fame. She’s the antithesis of a cheerleader. She’s not peppy. And she sucks at gymnastics. She has nothing in common with the fictional Buffy, other than being blonde and in high school. Oh, and occasionally she kills vampires for a living, as well as other things that go bump in the night.

In a world that can feel shaky and uncertain at times, one fact holds true: nobody gets anywhere alone. Susan L. Combs has learned that lesson many times over, and she’s held onto the advice that has guided her on her journey—one that’s taken her from a tiny town in Missouri to the hustle of New York City. She’s faced immense grief and fostered immense growth, personally and professionally. Through it all, she leaned on guidance from mentors in her life.

Winnifred Winters has agoraphobia. Winnifred Winters hasn’t left the house, not for two years, not since her mama passed. So when she wakes up in the backseat of a taxicab in a town she’s never been to, she’s extremely alarmed. Panicked, even. As if she needs anything more to add to her anxiety, she's been losing time lately—something made all the more frightening because dead girls have been showing up on the side of the road every other week.

Do you believe in impossible things? Cutie Grackle does. She has to. Otherwise, she’ll never be more than a lonely 10 year old in a cursed family. Cutie Grackle is used to being different—she lives alone on a mountain withher feeble-minded uncle, and when she’s not sucking pebbles to trick...

Can a woman with no faith in men learn to trust the half-Cheyenne trail guide determined to protect her? Young Irish widow Bry Brennan doesn’t want another husband to break her spirit. When she and her brother Con join a wagon train headed to Montana Territory, Bry ignores her fascination with Nick Laramie, the handsome trail guide.

This book is about an inspired (some say anointed) song, the man who wrote it, the successful music business that grew from it, and the millions of people whose lives continue to be touched by the music. Musician and master storyteller Dave Combs brings to life his journey through up close and personal stories of the many steps along the way. Elevate your joy and peace through the power of his soft, soothing, relaxing music and inspirational stories.