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We had few means, it was very primitive. Sometimes, to take the temperature, we put a pencil under the armpit of the patient. He thought it was a thermometer... We cured many people. We always put a little Lourdes water in our medicines. Our founder had brought medals from the Shrine. He told us : "Put a medal in a bottle and always fill the bottle with water". So we had our own production of Lourdes water (laughs) (p 55).

This easy-to-use workbook has been designed specificallyfor intermediate learners in French. It includes 180 fun-filled exercises (with answers) which follow a logical progression. You will be able to self-assess your level at the end of each chapter. Every aspect of the language has been covered, including grammar, spelling, vocabulary, syntax, pronunciation and accentuation. 180 fun-filled exercises (with answers) to learn French ; Tasks include : matching, fill the blanks, find the odd one, unscrambling exercises, crosswords, riddles and more ; Grammar, conjugation, spelling, pronunciation and accentuation ; Test yourself with our self-assessment tasks.

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The Pondera Online project aims to collect and study ancient and medieval weights. No attempt for such a global corpus has been successful since the end of the 19th century. Dispersed objects, disparate information and imprecise data together constitute a major obstacle to a comprehensive approach. Therefore, the Pondera Online project is intended to fill a gap in the collection, standardisation, and processing of these archaeological data, thanks to an open access database (https : //pondera. uclouvain. be/). In this framework, four annual workshops have been organised in Louvain-la-Neuve between 2016 and 2019, bringing together specialists in Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic weights and measures. These meetings have led to a rich program of presentations and discussions, and to the preparation of several papers. Thirteen of them are gathered in this second collective volume.

Since the early fifties tourism to developing countries has dramatically increased and in many a developing country it is now a sector of vital importance. This increase has been reflected in an equally impressive rate of growth in scholarly output. Despite this, there are as yet no indexed guides providing in a single volume easy access to the rapidly expanding body of knowledge. This bibliography seeks to fill the gap. It covers a period of 35 years and comprises more than 2000 titles in English, French, German and Dutch, on tourism in the Third World and in richer countries such as Greece, Yugoslavia, Portugal and Spain. The titles are chronologically arranged according to the year of publication, and for each year in alphabetical order. To assist readers the titles are catalogued by three indexes : an author and editor index, a geographical index and a subject index.

Lors d'une descente de police, Gracey Fill est arrêtée à son domicile : la brigade des stups veut Sonny, le plus gros trafiquant de drogue de la ville, accessoirement ex-mari de Gracey. Dans la salle d'interrogatoire, la jeune femme choisit de dévoiler son histoire dans les moindres détails aux deux officiers de garde, l'un, jeune et naïf, l'autre, blasé et corrompu. Gracey retrace ses années de galère et, à travers elles, des destins a priori éloignés qui se croisent dans les enfers de la drogue. La " basse ville " d'Atlanta se dessine : un travelo tapine misérablement et vend des doses à Sonny ; deux adolescents, issus d'un milieu privilégié, plongent dans l'héroïne pour oublier le sentiment d'aliénation qui les hante. Ainsi, d'addiction en rédemption, Gracey donne aux officiers le moyen de coincer Sonny. Mais le mal est fait et certains ne s'en remettront jamais : la Passion, selon Gracey.

Mandated to make judgments on human rights cases since 2005, the ECOWAS Court of Justice has undeniably acquired the reputation of a forum for human rights protection, in the manner of courts of justice as prestigious as the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights or the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. With no systematic study of the Court's human rights jurisprudence having been undertaken till today, this work comes to fill the gap. Part I of the book presents the body of case law emerging after fifteen years of practice. Two feats must be acknowledged here. The feat of the Court itself, whose original mandate was, and is still in force any rate, that of a custodian of the norms of economic integration, not adjudication on human rights violation. The human rights case law of the Court was therefore born out of a sustained effort, not devoid of approximations and sometimes mistakes, all the more deserving of commendation, because unlike similarjudicial bodies, it had succeeded in ridding itself of what the author calls "a pointer of orientation for the norms relied upon", a single codified body of rules of reference. Then, the exploits of the author, who succeeded, in an effort of re-composition, in sustaining, by a consummate art of summary, a reconstitution of the various phases of the trial proceedings, and in retrieving and discussing in a systematic manner, the viewpoints of the Court. Part II is made up of a collection of studies whose themes centre on the major interrogations of international disputes on human rights : the status of the applicants, relations between the Court and other sister or rival courts of justice, the dialectics of relationship between the national judge and the international judge, etc. Part II closes up with a prospective reflexion on "The Future of the Court", where the author expresses his hopes, but also his serious concerns regarding what is to become of a court whose usefulness and cathartic function are not lost on him. The book is, as always, written in pure delightful language, and the analyses, nourished with the experience of the judge that the author was, are remarkable in richness, finesse and depth.

Le portrait Klesch, par Titien, de Guidobaldo II avec son fils Francesco Maria représente le duc d'Urbino dans ses pleins pouvoirs de commandant suprême des troupes papales avec son héritier à ses côtés. Ce rare double portrait en pied vient seulement d'être attribué à Titien après avoir entrepris des analyses et une restauration minutieuses qui révèlent une belle peinture au style "non finito" avec de superbes touches d'empâtement totalement typiques au maître. Tout ceci est illustré et développé dans ce nouveau livre. Titian provided portraits for the greatest men and women of Europe, Charles V and Philip II of Spain primary among them. For years the Klesch portrait was dismissed as a workshop product - partly because poor condition hid its true quality, but also because it was not believed that Titian could have deigned to create one for Guidobaldo, whose father Guidobaldo della Rovere (1514-1574) and family had a long history of patronizing the artist. Recent research, however, has thrown Guidobaldo's geopolitical significance into relief. He was supreme commander of Venice, the Papal States and then Spain. He sent thousands of soldiers to the major conflicts of his day, particularly the defense of Malta (1565) and the Battle of Lepanto (1571) and his engineers were sought throughout Europe for their ingenuity. In this volume full of new research, Ian Verstegen reveals that Guidobaldo was not peripheral but central to Italian politics and was regarded at several points in history as a key figure who could bring peace or who could influence major conflicts on the Italian peninsula, particularly the War of Siena, and then Pope Paul IV's offensive war against Spain. Anne-Marie Eze gives the first comprehensive examination of the painting's provenance, outlining the portrait's vicissitudes and reception at different moments in its near 500-year history, reexamining received wisdom about its past ownership, and presenting new documentary evidence to expand on and fill gaps in our knowledge of its whereabouts. Finally, Matthew Hayes and Ian Kennedy reflect on the technique, date, recent conservation, and authorship of the painting, proving it to be a masterpiece that only the great Titian could have created.

On doit au légendaire scénariste Steve Englehart de mémorables épisodes des séries Avengers et The Defenders, mais aussi Captain America, Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, West Coast Avengers et une prestation époustouflante consacrée au Docteur Strange dans s les pages de Marvel Premiere. Cocréateur du titre Malibu Comics Universe, il participe également à l'élaboration de la série télévisée Night Man et plusieurs production annexes. Il signe pour DC de nombreuses aventures de Batman et la JLA. Et sa production Coyote est publiée par Marvel et d'autres éditeurs. Plus récemment, il a partagé son temps entre scénarios pour la télévision et de jeux vidéo. Dans les années 2000, Englehart revient chez Marvel pour écrire Hellcat, Fantastic Four : Big Town et Avengers : Celestial Quest (la suite de la célèbre saga de la Madonne Céleste qu'il a lui-même écrite dans les années 70 dans Avengers), et poursuit chez DC Comics avec la mini-série Batman : Dark Detective. Dans de bandes dessinées, revient chezcMarvel pour écrire Hellcat, vision t de jeux Fantast Fantastic Dans lesw années n000,gers Englehartel Big estial donne Celeste qu'il a lui-même écrite dans les années 70 dans Avengers), et pouuest (la suite de la célèbre rsuit cha de la ez DC Comics avec la mini-série Batman : Dark Detective. Marv Wolfman est l'un des plus grands scénaristes Marvel et DC Comics des années 70 et 80, ainsi que le rédacteur en chef de la Maison des Idées pendant un temps. C'est lui qui instaure les épisodes fill-ins, ces histoires réalisées par des équipes créatives alternatives en cas de retard des titulaires. Mais c'est surtout pour son travail de scénariste qu'il est entré dans l'histoire. Pour Marvel il écrit Fantastic Four et Amazing Spider-Man. Gene Colan commence à se faire connaître dans les années 50, en travaillant pour diverses maisons d'éditions dont Quality Comics et Timely Comics (l'ancien nom de Marvel), où il rencontre Stan Lee. Après une période difficile pour la bande dessinée, durant laquelle il devient illustrateur publicitaire, Colan retrouve le monde des comics grâce à Warren Publishing et Marvel.

Cuckoos and cowbirds are amongst the select bird groups renowned as professional parasites, who always lay their eggs in the nests of other species. Occasional parasitic laying is also widespread in many other birds, who gladly parasitise the nests of their own kind when the opportunity arises. In this fascinating new book, Nick Davies describes the natural histories of all the brood parasites and examines the exciting questions they raise about the evolution of cheating and the arms race between parasites and their hosts. Brood parasites fill their armoury with adaptations including exquisite egg mimicry, rapid laying, ejection of host eggs, murder of host young, chick mimicry and manipulative begging behaviour: ploys shown by recent research to have evolved in response to host defence behaviour or through competition among the parasites themselves. While many host species appear defenceless, accepting parasite eggs quite unlike their own, others are more discriminating against odd-looking eggs and some have evolved the ability to discriminate against odd-looking chicks as well. How does this arms race proceed? Will defenceless hosts improve their armoury in time, or are there sometimes constraints on hosts which allow the parasites to gain the upper hand? And why are so few species obliged only to lay eggs in host nests? Have host defences limited the success of brood parasitism, or is it in fact much commoner than we suspect, but occurring mainly when birds parasitise the nests of their own kind? All of these puzzles are examined in descriptions of the natural history of each of the groups of parasites in turn. Here is a book with wide appeal, both to amateur naturalists fascinated by this most singular and macabre of behaviours and to ornithologists and ecologists interested in the evolution of ecology and behaviour. The story takes us from the strange tales of folklore to the classic field work earlier this century by pioneer ornithologists such as Edgar Chance, Stuart Baker, Herbert Friedmann and others, through to the recent experimental field work and molecular techniques of today's leading scientists. We visit brood parasites in Europe, Asia, Japan, Africa, Australasia, and North and South America, to look at some of the world's most interesting birds and sortie of biology's most interesting questions, many of which still beg answers from ornithologists in the future. Brilliant illustrations by David Quinn depict many behaviours for the first time and convey the thrill of watching these astonishing birds in the wild.