David Forrest

Stephen ne remarqua l’homme vêtu d’un costume sobre parfaitement taillé qu’au moment où il s’avança à pas mesurés au centre de de la salle du conseil de l'ONU. Il tenait une petite mallette en métal dans la main droite et un sourire détendu s'étalait sur ses lèvres fines. L'’homme attendit que tous les regards soient braquer sur lui et que le silence se fasse. Son sourire s’agrandit alors chaleureusement. « —Mesdames et messieurs, bonjour. Permettez-moi de me présenter : John Smith. Bien sûr, ce n’est pas mon vrai nom, vous ne pourriez le prononcer. Je suis devant vous, représentants des nations de la Terre, pour vous proposer une opportunité commerciale qui ne pourra, j'en suis certain, que vous intéresser au plus haut point... » Par l’auteur best-seller David Forrest ! Découvrez l’univers fascinant et culte de celui qui a défrayé la chronique en étant l’un des premiers succès en auto-publication en France. Un auteur que vous ne pourrez plus oublier.

Lune à vendre

Un thriller angoissant, nourri de faits historiques réels et de légendes urbaines, qui prend le lecteur dans sa toile. L’hôtel-Dieu est-il hanté ? Une série de meurtres sans mobile ni lien apparent fait trembler les murs de l’hôpital nantais. Le capitaine de police Ael Guivarch, perfectionniste maladif et rationaliste méthodique, refuse de croire aux origines surnaturelles de cette escalade de violence, persuadé que sa source est bien plus rationnelle. Mais sa quête de la vérité va mettre en péril ses plus profondes convictions... et peut-être même plus encore... Journaliste spécialisé dans les loisirs audiovisuels (jeux vidéo, cinéma, séries...), David Forrest s'impose dès 2011 comme un des premiers auteurs 2.0 made in France, grâce au formidable succès de son premier roman numérique, En Série - journal d'un tueur. Geek revendiqué, il ne se cantonne pas à un unique genre et réussit à imposer son style nerveux et son humour grinçant dans chacune de ses histoires, qu'elle verse dans l'horreur, le fantastique, la science-fiction ou le thriller.

Légion

Roland Billen

Elsa Joao

With the widespread use of PDAs, wireless internet, Internet-based GIS, and 3G and 4G telecommunications, the technology supporting mobile GIS is rapidly gaining popularity and effectiveness. Dynamic and Mobile GIS: Investigating Changes in Space and Time addresses Web GIS, mobile GIS, and the modeling, processing, and representation of dynamic eve

Investigating Changes in Space and Time

Dynamic and Mobile GIS

Stanley Raymond Dennison

Distributor from label mounted on title page. Includes bibliographical references.

A Review of the Theory and Practice of Minimum-wage Laws

Low Pay Or No Pay?

Quinn Patrick Ankrum

Stacey Jocoy

Coming to terms with Britten’s music is no easy task. The complex, often contradictory language associated with Britten’s style likely stems from his double interest in progressive composition and immediate connection with a broad, popular audience – an apparent paradox in the splintered musical culture of the 20th century – as well as from complicated truths in his own life, such as his love for a country that accepted neither his sexuality nor his politics. As a result, the attempt to describe his music can tell us as much about our own biases and the inadequacies of our analytic tools as it does about the music itself. Such audits of our scholarly language and strategies are vital in light of the still-murky view we have of twentieth century music. This opportunity for academic self-reflection is the reason Britten studies such as this book are so important. The essays included here challenge assumptions about musical constructs, relationships between text and music, and the influences of age, spirituality, and personal relationships on compositional technique. Part One offers nine essays originally compiled for a symposium designed to recognize the composer’s unique and varied contributions to music. The authors include performers, musicologists, and music theorists, and their work will appeal to a wide diversity of readers. The topics and methodologies range from archival research and analysis of text and music to theoretical modelling using techniques such as set theory, metric theory, and prolongation. While the papers were initially conceived in isolation from one another, the collaborative focus of the symposium created opportunities for authors to expose points of intersection. This deliberate reconciliation of lines of inquiry has yielded a more balanced and unified collection of essays than typically found in a simple record of proceedings. Furthermore, the chapters presented here benefit from the wealth of Britten research produced since the 2013 centenary. Part Two provides an account of the symposium performances and lecture recitals that accompanied and enriched the academic presentations. The reader will encounter fully the journey taken by symposium presenters, participants, and attendees by reviewing the concerts, lecture recitals, and papers in the context of the full symposium program.

Essays on Benjamin Britten from a Centenary Symposium

The tradition of British realism has changed dramatically over the last 20 years, where films by directors such as Duane Hopkins, Joanna Hogg, Andrea Arnold, Shane Meadows and Clio Barnard have suggested a markedly poetic turn. This new realism rejects the instrumentalism and didacticism of filmmakers like Ken Loach in favour of lyrical and often ambiguous encounters with place, where the physical processes of lived experience interacts with the rhythms of everyday life. Taking these 5 filmmakers as case studies, this book seeks to explore in depth this new tradition of British cinema - and in the process, it reignites debates over realism that have concerned scholars for decades.

Contemporary British Cinema

New Realism

Markus Breuer

Sport has enjoyed steadily increasing prominence and economic importance since the Millennium. But threats to its integrity appear to have grown in parallel, undermining the very sense of innocence and fun which is an important part of its appeal. Threats to the spirit of sport come from internal, external and even state actors, who seek either to manipulate events on the field or to exploit the institutions of sport for their own ends. As the reputation of sport becomes more tarnished as a result, its sustainability as a significant part of the entertainment industry is called into question and loss of reputation may even result in decline in recreational play. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, the international team of contributors explores the structural economic sources of the problems that beset sport and address the question of ‘what is to be done?’ through economic reasoning. Specific topics covered include doping, match-fixing for betting or sporting gain, the role of forensic statistics in detecting nefarious activity, issues related to club ownership, corruption in the awarding of mega-events and within sports governing bodies, and the role of the law and the Court of Arbitration for Sport. In the final chapter, the Editors pull together the various strands and propose that policy to mitigate the threat to fair play should be built around two themes: improving sports governance and designing incentives to help actors in sport choose honest over manipulative behaviour. The book will appeal to practitioners from sport management as well as to academics including students and researchers.

The Palgrave Handbook on the Economics of Manipulation in Sport

Beth Johnson

This collection is a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary British television drama and its representations of social class. Through early studio-set plays, soap operas and period drama, the volume demonstrates how class provides a bridge across multiple genres and traditions of television drama. The authors trace this thematic emphasis into the present day, offering fascinating new insights into the national conversation around class and identity in Britain today. The chapters engage with a range of topics including authorial explorations of Stephen Poliakoff and Jimmy McGovern, case studies of television performers Maxine Peake and Jimmy Nail, and discussions of the sitcom genre and animation form. This book offers new perspectives on popular British television shows such as Goodnight Sweetheart and Footballers’ Wives, and analysis of more recent series such as Peaky Blinders and This is England.

Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain

Terror can have such simple beginnings -- a child's letter to Father Christmas...a pretty girl glimpsed in a London street...a trip down the Brighton Road...a night spent in an empty mansion for a bet? And the consequences can be fearsome, as the unsleeping dead walk again, as strange emotions stir inanimate things to murderous life, as horrors beyond our imagining cross the threshold into our world; can anyone be sure that all is as it seems. After you read these thirteen tales of terror, can you?

The Undertaker's Dozen

This is the story of a young priest in the tiny French village of St. Pierre-des-Monts who receives a telephone call from God warning that he is about to destroy mankind with a second great flood. Only Father Benoir and his misfit flock will be saved, but they must hurry, said God, and build an ark like Noah's. AFTER ME, THE DELUGE is an outrageous, irreverent comedy which inspired one of Italy's longest running stage musicals which has been seen by over fifteen million people since it's debut in 1974.

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