Résultats de "Gerard" dans Toutes les catégories

The nightmare of generations has finally come true: A huge comet is on collision course with Earth, a holocaust is imminent. But from the Comet come a million copper tentacles that snatch up gorgeous, feral news reporter Kate Spencer and intergalactic bank robbers Jimmy and Henry. Escaping from the most improbable prison-cell in the universe, these three must destroy the brain of the Comet before the day is out, or Earth and several thousand alien species will die.

For more than 80 years, the British Government has been keeping something hidden. Now it can no longer be kept secret. With a Weapons Crisis Committee standing in Geneva, Captain Alice Wells of UNIT is given the task of investigating the mysterious deaths of allied and UN troops. When her investigation leads her to an ultra secure safe house in England she discovers just what it was that the government thought too dangerous to be made public...a Sontaran!

3 conférences de l'Université de Tous Les Savoirs, sous la direction d'Yves Michaud : "Le développement durable" - Laurence Tubiana - Economiste, Directrice de l'IDDRI ; "Guerre et paix à l'âge de la mondialisation" - Pierre Hassner - Philosophe et Géopolitiste IEP de Paris ; "La mondialisation culturelle et le rôle des intellectuels" - Gérard Leclerc - Sociologue Université Paris 8.

Conceived in the early 1800s and completed in 1825, the Erie Canal was the boldest and biggest American engineering project of its century, with enduring political, social, and economic effects. It was the Erie Canal that first opened up the West to American enterprise and imagination, bringing vast riches and a far-reaching vision to a rapidly expanding nation.In this compelling narrative, author Gerard Koeppel tells the complete, sweeping story of the creation of the canal.

Before marrying, Emma Bovary believed she would enter a life of luxury and passion like the sentimental stories she'd read in her novels and magazines. Now married to an ordinary country doctor her life is not the romantic ideal she imagined and seeks an escape through having extra-marital affairs. This devastating spiral into deceit and despair leads to catastrophic consequences. Emma Bovary continues to be enjoyed to this day because of its profound humanity, still as fresh today as when it was first written.

May - the fifth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and popular for May Day and Workers Rights celebrations. for our poets, including Milton, Hopkins, Von Goethe, Wordsworth, and Longfellow, much else is on their minds, and of course, it's beautifully put.

This dirt-under-the-fingernails portrait of a small-time farmer follows Zack Killebrew over a single year as he struggles to defend his cotton against weeds, insects, and drought, as well as 21st-century threats such as globalization.

Gerard Schwarz examines the life of this impolitic composer who lived in the political world of revolutionary Russia. Prokofiev's failure to interest himself in political realities, together with his tremendous confidence in his own genius, led him to ignore the darkening climate for artists in the Soviet Union. When the Soviets arrested his first wife on charges of spying, Prokofiev issued a public apology for his failure to write in an appropriate socialist style.

In Wonderful Marriage, Lilo and Gerard Leeds share the essentials that all great relationships, including their own 50+year marriage, have in common. From sex to communication, the Leeds discuss all aspects of marriage, offering profound insight and thoughtful advice to help couples improve and maintain their relationships. The Leeds focus on what they term "the Big Six"—Religion, Money, Sex, Children, Recreation, and Acceptable Behavior—covering each topic thoroughly with simple, common-sense dialogue.

Former hedge fund manager, billionaire Cris De Niro and his new counter-terrorism firm, The Watchman Agency, just prevented a nuclear attack on the city of Las Vegas, but not without cost. Charley Santappia, the Agency's vice president of operations sacrificed his life to save the city. While at Santappia's funeral, a remorse-filled De Niro announces to his shocked staff that he needs to decide whether he wants to continue with their mission. In front of Santappia's coffin, the squad leaders of The Watchman Agency's paramilitary arm, ARCHANGEL, decide to raise one last toast to their fallen commander....

When Tralane, an itinerant bard, was captured by the dread Sorcerer King, his only hope lay in stealing the Eye of Wyden. With that powerful amulet, he was able to escape to another variant world. But he could not so easily escape the destiny that seemed to pursue him. As he fled from world to world, each seemed to offer only greater misery and danger. And now he was stalked by the mocking figure of the Jade Warrior, a mysterious creature who waited patiently for his failure or death.

Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Essex, England, in 1844. During his lifetime, his work, at his own insistence, remained unpublished. Hopkins died in 1889, aged just 45, but it was not until 1918 that his work was first published and until 1930 that he first received acclaim. Here, Margaret Rawlings reads a selection of his finest work, including "Starlight Night", "Spring", "Pied Piper", and "Inversnaid".

If the vivid expression of human passion is a hallmark of Romanticism in music, then Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was perhaps the most Romantic of all composers. A sensitive, introspective, and extremely emotional man, Tchaikovsky poured his joys, sorrows, and drams into compositions that have touched listeners for over a century.

Lawrence the lizard is in over his head! Lawrence never thought his dreams of adventure would come true, but as an accidental stowaway on a long distance journey, Lawrence must find his own kind of magic in order to find his way home.

A collection of the best-known poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). One of the Victorian era's greatest writers, Hopkins' reputation has continued to grow since his death. This collection includes "The Windhover", "The Caged Skylark", "Carrion Comfort", "Spring", and "Fall and Inversnaid".

Cris De Niro worked his way up to the top of the hedge fund world. Yet, all of his money couldn't protect him from losing his wife on 9/11. Ten years passed since the tragedy. De Niro and his sons relocated to a sprawling ranch near Las Vegas. Turning to his faith to overcome his anguish, De Niro now lives for a higher purpose. From a biblical passage, he reads about the "Watchman of Ephraim", a defender who kept watch over the land. De Niro decides to acquire a lackluster counter-terrorism agency.

You negotiate every day of your life. Whether you are asking your employer for a raise or persuading your child to do his homework, everything is a negotiation. Written by Gerald Nierenberg, the world's foremost authority on the subject, and recognized as the Father of Contemporary Negotiation, The New Art of Negotiating is an updated, expanded version of the million-copy bestseller, The Art of Negotiating, which was the first on the subject of negotiating.

"Langue de la misère", comme le disait Victor Hugo, langue des marginaux et des "mal vus" depuis le XIIIe siècle, l'argot a pour premier objectif d'exclure tout non-initié de la conversation.

Eivissa, 1999. La Maria i els seus fills, l’Àngel i l'Alba, de cinc i set anys, arriben una tarda plàcida de setembre a la platja després de saber que el vol del pare, el Salvador, ha estat cancel·lat i que torna amb el darrer avió de la nit. El que passarà en aquella petita cala ho canviarà tot per sempre.

Barcelona, 1952. En Pachi Saura fa més d'un any que s'ha traslladat a la ciutat per estudiar a l'Escola de Belles Arts. Instal·lat en un cau prop de la Plaça Real, mira de construir la vida que ha somiat lluny dels dictats familiars. Els primers mesos comparteix el plaer de l'existència i de la música, una de les seves grans aficions, amb algunes noies del barri que li fan de model a canvi de pocs diners.