Il est un redoutable biker des Red Python, elle n'est qu'une gamine de 19 ans. Tout les sépare, et pourtant...
Mason est l'homme de main des Red Python. Son rôle ? Maintenir l'ordre et le respect dans son club de bikers. Il assoit son autorité et celle de son club par le sang.
Quand Fallon débarque en leur réclamant de l'aide alors qu'elle a des ennemis invisibles à ses trousses, il voit rouge ! Hors de question de mettre en danger le club pour cette gamine sortie de nulle part !
Mais quand il comprend qui la menace, les cauchemars du passé ressurgissent et il décide de tout faire pour la protéger. Et il va vite se rendre compte que celle qu'il surnomme « baby » n'a rien d'un bébé !
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Je ne sais pas qui a bougé, je ne m'en suis pas rendu compte, mais nous sommes désormais si proches qu'à chacune de mes respirations, ma poitrine rencontre son torse. Il plante son regard dans le mien, je ne parviens pas à déchiffrer la lueur que j'y lis, mais ses yeux sont brûlants, comme si des flammes y dansaient.
- Arrête de faire ça, murmure-t-il d'une voix sourde.
Je hausse un sourcil interrogateur, ne comprenant pas où il souhaite en venir. Mason lève une main et pose son pouce sur ma lèvre inférieure coincée entre mes dents. Je me fige, incapable ne serait-ce que de remplir mes poumons d'air.
- Ça. (Il plante de nouveau son regard dans le mien.) Et arrête de me regarder ainsi.
- Comment ? demandé-je d'une petite voix.
- Comme si ce n'était pas mon doigt que tu voulais sur tes lèvres, marmonne-t-il d'une voix rauque affreusement sexy.
Je bascule davantage la tête en arrière pour ne pas quitter son regard. Je me sens comme dans une bulle, loin de la réalité et de la peur qui me suit à la trace depuis quatre ans.
- Pourquoi ? Tu as peur de craquer ?
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Red Python, Save Me, d'Alexia Clemens, histoire intégrale.
Few books on statistical data analysis in the natural sciences are written at a level that a non-statistician will easily understand. This is a book written in colloquial language, avoiding mathematical formulae as much as possible, trying to explain statistical methods using examples and graphics instead. To use the book efficiently, readers should have some computer experience. The book starts with the simplest of statistical concepts and carries readers forward to a deeper and more extensive understanding of the use of statistics in environmental sciences. The book concerns the application of statistical and other computer methods to the management, analysis and display of spatial data. These data are characterised by including locations (geographic coordinates), which leads to the necessity of using maps to display the data and the results of the statistical methods. Although the book uses examples from applied geochemistry, and a large geochemical survey in particular, the principles and ideas equally well apply to other natural sciences, e.g., environmental sciences, pedology, hydrology, geography, forestry, ecology, and health sciences/epidemiology. The book is unique because it supplies direct access to software solutions (based on R, the Open Source version of the S-language for statistics) for applied environmental statistics. For all graphics and tables presented in the book, the R-scripts are provided in the form of executable R-scripts. In addition, a graphical user interface for R, called DAS+R, was developed for convenient, fast and interactive data analysis. Statistical Data Analysis Explained: Applied Environmental Statistics with R provides, on an accompanying website, the software to undertake all the procedures discussed, and the data employed for their description in the book.
Table des matières
Le passage de Garonne
Brienne
Entre Bastide et Grave
Ports de batellerie
Douane et Bourse
Quinconces
Chartrons
Bacalan
Industries portuaires
Ce livre a pour origine le désir d'unifier une double expérience, littéraire et philosophique, en une synthèse révélatrice de leurs enjeux actuels. Eric Clemens, qui enseigne la philosophie à Bruxelles et collabore depuis sa fondation à la revue littéraire TXT, montre à la fois comment, dans l'épreuve du langage, s'engendrent les fictions et comment la fiction, dans son mouvement d'apparaître, constitue notre rapport au monde.
Après avoir dégagé les traits constitutifs d'une langue qui ouvre aux phénomènes, l'auteur tente de dépasser la conception subjective de la fiction et les différentes théories de l'imagination. Il esquisse alors une phénoménologie de la fiction où le sujet, entre la représentation et l'irreprésentable du réel, cherche à donner figure, rythme et narration au monde de la vie.
Alors que les liens entre littérature et philosophie font l'objet d'une attention de plus en plus soutenue de la part des philosophes (Deleuze, Derrida, Ricoeur...), Eric Clemens apporte une contribution importante à la compréhension de l'expérience littéraire.
Introduction
Barrière de Bègles
Barrière de Toulouse
Barrière de Saint-Genès
Barrière de Pessac
Barrière d’Ornano
Barrière d’Arès
Barrière Judaïque
Barrière Saint-Médard
Barrière du Médoc
Les quais
Der Markthochlauf der Elektromobilität wird bislang durch die fehlende Ladeinfrastruktur für einzelne Anwendungen erschwert. Gerade in der Taxibranche sind Elektrofahrzeuge unterrepräsentiert, weil durch das an Taxiwarteständen geltende Vorrückprinzip bisherige (kabelgebundene) Ladekonzepte nicht umsetzbar sind.Mit der Technologie des induktiven Ladens lassen sich die Potenziale von Elektrofahrzeugen im Taxisegment nutzen: die Wartezeiten knnen als Ladezeit genutzt werden und Elektrotaxis tragen zur Verbesserung der Luft in Innenstädten bei.Das Buch fasst Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojektes TALAKO (Taxiladekonzept für Elektrotaxis im ffentlichen Raum) zusammen, in dem eine induktive Pilotanlage entwickelt sowie in Kln aufgebaut und getestet wurde.
Das Buch lotet aus, wie das Auftreten des Corona Virus und die Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Ansteckung unser Zusammenleben verändern. Hierzu werden Fachleute aus der Netzwerkforschung befragt, denn fast alle Maßnahmen beeinflussen die Beziehungen zwischen den Menschen. Die Beiträge betrachten die Folgen der Krise für Alltag, Kultur, Wirtschaft, Gesundheit und Politik. Die AutorInnen verarbeiten ihre Forschungserfahrung zusammen mit Beobachtungen und kleinen Fallstudien zu kurzen Betrachtungen darüber, wie die Krise unser Leben bereits jetzt verändert hat.
In a spectacular feat of daring and magic, Elena and her army of outlaws and rebels have defeated the forces of evil and released the arcane secrets of the Blood Diary. But the Dark Lord has unleashed the Weirgates - black wells of perilous energy that are his greatest source of power.
Now Elena and her companions must find and destroy the Gates, as windships carry the fight north to the frozen woodlands, south to the burning desert sands, and east to the blasted regions of dread Gul-gotha.
Not all will return ...
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Long ago the Mages of Alasea, beset by a dark and implacable evil, made a last desperate stand to preserve some remnant of their once-beautiful land. Knowing their own destruction to be inevitable, the Mages gathered the last of their magic and stored it away against the need and peril of a distant time. In doing so the Mages gave the people of Alasea a future and a hope -- and damned themselves forever ...
Now, five centuries after their destruction, a young girl, Elena, inherits the powers that the Mages had so carefully hidden from their enemy. But though the Mages are long dead their ancient foe is not -- and when the Dark Lord learns of Elena's power he turns all of his terrible strength against her. Desperate and alone, fleeing from disaster, escaping into darkness, Elena seeks out the allies and knowledge that can help her to master her bitter gifts and cast down the evil that shattered the land of Alasea ...
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Five centuries after the destruction of the Mages of Alasea, a young girl, Elena, inherits the wild powers the Mages had so carefully concealed from their pitiless enemy. But though the Mages are long dead their ancient foe is not - and Elena must continue their battle with her hard-won outlaw army and her own mastery of the blood magick.
Elena and her forces had defeated evil in an audacious attack, a wound cut deep into the Black Heart, but this isn't enough. The Dark Lord's greatest weapon, the Weirgates, continue their ravenous onslaught and the land's powers wane. The Elementals, those rare folk tuned to the Land's energy, are sickening, their abilities fading. The Mer'ai are losing their sea sense and the link to their dragons and the Elv'in ships can not fly as high or far...
Now an ally dies in violence, whispering of a last betrayal and a stranger foretells victory or the death of all.
Five centuries after the destruction of the Mages of Alasea, a young girl, Elena, inherits the powers that the Mages had so carefully hidden from their terrible enemy. Elena bears the mark of the wit'ch upon her palm, a crimson stain that belies the wild power it may wield. Only a mistress of blood magick can stand against the Dark Lord - but Elena is not yet mistress of her magick. To discover the key to the Dark Lord's defeat, Elena must travel to A'loa Glen - a perilous journey, for if the Dark Lord finds her first, she will become his most fearsome weapon.
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In her hands, the young wit'ch Elena holds the awesome energies of blood magick - and more. For the fate of all Alasea hinges on her recovery of the Blood Diary, a potent talisman forged five hundred years ago, then locked away behind wards too strong for any mage to break. Only with the secrets recorded in its pages can Elena defeat the Dark Lord, but the diary lies hidden in A'loa Glen and from that terrible land no traveller returns ...
Immortal magic and infinite vengeance - the new epic fantasy classic continues.
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Failed Shadowknight Tylar witnessed the death of a god, whose blood healed his deformities but branded him a Godslayer and a hunted criminal. In this second volume of the trilogy, Tylar's struggle for the truth is vindicated when he is officially reinstated as a Shadowknight.
Yet this is a trap, revealed as Naethyn forces flow from the Ice Eyrie to wage a deadly siege, trapping Tylar and his friends. But even Tylar's skill and magic cannot save the Citadel of Tashijan, ancient Shadowknight headquarters, for something foul lies at the heart of their Order. The Cabal has infiltrated the inner council and Tylar and his allies must flee for now there can be no refuge from evil.
Sofern Sie sich für Führung im privaten, ehrenamtlichen oder beruflichen Umfeld interessieren, ist dieser Ratgeber genau richtig für Sie. Auch wenn Sie Ihr eigenes Führungsverhalten reflektieren mchten oder vor kurzem die Funktion als Vorgesetzter bzw. Chef übernommen haben, finden Sie in diesem Buch viele konkrete Beispiele und hilfreiche Tipps zur Umsetzung. So lernen Sie, optimal zuzuhren und Fragen zu stellen, um Bedürfnissen von Mitarbeitenden und anderer besser gerecht werden zu knnen und gemeinsam die gesteckten Ziele zu erreichen.Dieses Buch hilft allen, die erfahren mchten:welche Werte für die Führung von Menschen von Bedeutung sind und wie man diese im Alltag erkenntwarum es in vielen Bereichen wichtig es ist, selbst als Vorbild voranzugehenwie wichtig Ziele im partizipativen Führungsstil sindwie Menschen in Verantwortung nachhaltig zur Zufriedenheit mit diversen Stakeholdern, inkl. Mitarbeitenden und Aufsichtsrat, zusammenarbeitenZielgruppen: Alle Menschen und Führungskräfte, die in irgendeiner Weise führen und ihr Tun reflektieren mchten Neu ernannte Führungskräfte und alle, die gerne in einer Vorgesetzten-Funktion tätig wären und wissen mchten, was sie erwarten knnte Zum Autor: Der Autor Clemens Hasler hat schon immer mit Leidenschaft geführt, sei es in Vereinen, Abteilungen oder Unternehmen als CEO. Er nimmt Sie als Leser mit und lässt sich in diesem Ratgeber über die Schultern schauen.
This book is based on the findings of a long-term (2000-2014) interdisciplinary research project of the University of Hohenheim in collaboration with several universities in Thailand and Vietnam. Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of natural resources and the improvement of living conditions of the rural population in the mountainous regions of Southeast Asia. Having three objectives the book first aims to give an interdisciplinary account of the drivers, consequences and challenges of ongoing changes in mountainous areas of Southeast Asia. Second, the book describes how innovation processes can contribute to addressing these challenges and third, how knowledge creation to support change in policies and institutions can assist in sustainably develop mountain areas and people's livelihoods.
This textbook presents concise chapters written by internationally respected experts on various important aspects of cancer-associated metabolism, offering a comprehensive overview of the central features of this exciting research field. The discovery that tumor cells display characteristic alterations of metabolic pathways has significantly changed our understanding of cancer: while the first description of tumor-specific changes in cellular energetics was published more than 90 years ago, the causal significance of this observation for the pathogenesis of cancer was only discovered in the post-genome era. The first 10 years of the twenty-first century were characterized by rapid advances in our grasp of the functional role of cancer-specific metabolism as well as the underlying molecular pathways. Various unanticipated interrelations between metabolic alterations and cancer-driving pathways were identified and currently await translation into diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Yet the speed, quantity, and complexity of these new discoveries make it difficult for researchers to keep up to date with the latest developments, an issue this book helps to remedy.
This book provides extensive and comprehensive knowledge to researchers and academics who work on strontium contaminated areas. Topics covered include impact on plants and environment, as well as remediation strategies. This book will inform graduate and undergraduate students who are specializing in radioecology, especially strontium uptake via soil to plants, safe disposal of strontium waste, remediation legacies and impact of strontium waste material on the natural and manmade environment. A broad overview of reviews is provided covering a number of original publications on strontium plant uptake, including case studies that present the latest technological developments and future trends for investigating strontium mobility in soil and treatment of strontium contaminated areas.
This book provides extensive and comprehensive information to researchers and academicians who are interested in radionuclide contamination, its sources and environmental impact. It is also useful for graduate and undergraduate students specializing in radioactive-waste disposal and its impact on natural as well as manmade environments.A number of sites are affected by large legacies of waste from the mining and processing of radioactive minerals. Over recent decades, several hundred radioactive isotopes (radioisotopes) of natural elements have been produced artificially, including 90Sr, 137Cs and 131I. Several other anthropogenic radioactive elements have also been produced in large quantities, for example technetium, neptunium, plutonium and americium, although plutonium does occur naturally in trace amounts in uranium ores. The deposition of radionuclides on vegetation and soil, as well as the uptake from polluted aquifers (root uptake or irrigation) are the initial point for their transfer into the terrestrial environment and into food chains. There are two principal deposition processes for the removal of pollutants from the atmosphere: dry deposition is the direct transfer through absorption of gases and particles by natural surfaces, such as vegetation, whereas showery or wet deposition is the transport of a substance from the atmosphere to the ground by snow, hail or rain. Once deposited on any vegetation, radionuclides are removed from plants by the airstream and rain, either through percolation or by cuticular scratch. The increase in biomass during plant growth does not cause a loss of activity, but it does lead to a decrease in activity concentration due to effective dilution. There is also systemic transport (translocation) of radionuclides within the plant subsequent to foliar uptake, leading the transfer of chemical components to other parts of the plant that have not been contaminated directly.
Current developments in air pollution modelling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field. This newest contribution on air pollution modelling and its application is focused on local, urban, regional and intercontinental modelling; long term modelling and trend analysis; data assimilation and air quality forecasting; model assessment and evaluation; aerosol transformation. Additionally, this work also examines the relationship between air quality and human health and the effects of climate change on air quality.This Work is a collection of selected papers presented at the 35th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, held in Chania (Crete), Greece, Oct 3-7, 2016.The book is intended as reference material for students and professors interested in air pollution modelling at the graduate level as well as researchers and professionals involved in developing and utilizing air pollution models.
This book explores the philosophical, and in particular ethical, issues concerning the conceptualization, design and implementation of poverty alleviation measures from the local to the global level. It connects these topics with the ongoing debates on social and global justice, and asks what an ethical or normative philosophical perspective can add to the economic, political, and other social science approaches that dominate the main debates on poverty alleviation. Divided into four sections, the volume examines four areas of concern: the relation between human rights and poverty alleviation, the connection between development and poverty alleviation, poverty within affluent countries, and obligations of individuals in regard to global poverty.An impressive collection of essays by an international group of scholars on one of the most fundamental issues of our age. The authors consider crucial aspects of poverty alleviation: the role of human rights; the connection between development aid and the alleviation of poverty; how to think about poverty within affluent countries (particularly in Europe); and individual versus collective obligations to act to reduce poverty.Judith Lichtenberg
Department of Philosophy
Georgetown UniversityThis collection of essays is most welcome addition to the burgeoning treatments of poverty and inequality. What is most novel about this volume is its sustained and informed attention to the explicitly ethical aspects of poverty and poverty alleviation. What are the ethical merits and demerits of income poverty, multidimensional-capability poverty, and poverty as nonrecognition? How important is poverty alleviation in comparison to environmental protection and cultural preservation? Who or what should be agents responsible for reducing poverty? The editors concede that their volume is not the last word on these matters. But, these essays, eschewing value neutrality and a retreat into technical mastery, challenge us to find fresh and reasonable answers to these urgent questions. David A. Crocker
School of Public Policy
University of Maryland
The free-radical chemistry of DNA had been discussed in some detail in 1987 in my book The Chemical Basis of Radiation Biology. Obviously, the more recent developments and the concomitant higher level of understanding of mechanistic details are missing. Moreover, in the living cell, free-radical DNA damage is not only induced by ionizing radiation, but free-radical-induced DNA damage is a much more general phenomenon. It was, therefore, felt that it is now timely to review our present knowledge of free-radical-induced DNA damage induced by all conceivable free-radical-generating sources. Originally, it had been thought to include also a very important aspect, the repair of DNA damage by the cell's various repair enzymes. Kevin Prise (Cancer Campaign, Gray Laboratory, L- don) was so kind to agree to write this part. However, an adequate description of this strongly expanding area would have exceeded the allocated space by much, and this section had to be omitted. The directors of the Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie (now MPI für Bioanorganische Chemie), Karl Wieghardt and Wolfgang Lubitz, kindly allowed me to continue to use its facilities after my retirement in 2001. Notably, our - brarian, Mrs. Jutta Theurich, and her right-hand help, Mrs. Rosemarie Schr- er, were most helpful in getting hold of the literature. I thank them very much. Without their constant help, this would have been very difficult indeed.
Dieses Buch beschreibt die plastisch-rekonstruktive Chirurgie in der besonderen Situation: Kinder und Jugendliche als Patienten. Die rekonstruktiven Techniken zur Behandlung von Fehlbildungen, Tumoren, Traumata und thermischen Verletzungen werden detailliert dargestellt. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele illustrieren die Abläufe mit vielen Abbildungen, teilweise wird der Verlauf bis ins Erwachsenenalter der Patienten dokumentiert. Das Buch bietet eine Orientierung für die interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit aller beteiligten Fachgruppen und ist für Plastische und Ästhetische Chirurgen, Kinderchirurgen, Kinder- und Jugendmediziner, MKG-Chirurgen sowie Physio- und Ergotherapeuten geeignet.
This book is an analysis of the specificities of public film funding on an international scale. It shows how public funding schemes add value to film-making and other audio-visual productions and provides a comprehensive analysis of today's global challenges in the film industry such as industry change, digital transformation, and shifting audience tastes. Based on insights from fields such as cultural economics, media economics, media management and media governance studies, the authors illustrate how public spending shapes the financial fitness of national and international film industries. This highly informative book will help both scholars and practitioners in the film industry to understand the complexity of issues and the requirements necessary to preserve the social benefits of film as an important cultural good.
This open access book provides a comprehensive perspective on the concept of ageism, its origins, the manifestation and consequences of ageism, as well as ways to respond to and research ageism. The book represents a collaborative effort of researchers from over 20 countries and a variety of disciplines, including, psychology, sociology, gerontology, geriatrics, pharmacology, law, geography, design, engineering, policy and media studies. The contributors have collaborated to produce a truly stimulating and educating book on ageism which brings a clear overview of the state of the art in the field. The book serves as a catalyst to generate research, policy and public interest in the field of ageism and to reconstruct the image of old age and will be of interest to researchers and students in gerontology and geriatrics.
