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Lieutenant Commander Shaila Jain has been given the assignment of her dreams: The first manned mission to Saturn. But there’s competition and complications when she arrives aboard the survey ship Armstrong. The Chinese are vying for control of the critical moon Titan, and the moon Enceladus may harbor secrets deep under its icy crust. And back on Earth, Project DAEDALUS now seeks to defend against other dimensional incursions. But there are other players interested in opening the door between worlds…and they’re getting impatient.

On the planet Nidor the ties of tradition and stability were coming undone. Unprecedented things kept happening, and although nothing could be traced to the Earthmen, it was clear that the troubles had begun with their arrival. Norvis peRahn Brajjyd, unjustly expelled from the Earthmen's school, believed he knew why: The Earthmen were not emissaries of the Great Light, as they claimed, but demons from the Outer Darkness. He vowed that he would stop at nothing to break the hold that the aliens had on the people and the Council of Elders.

The original story of Aladdin is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It concerns an impoverished young man named Aladdin. He is recruited by a sorcerer from the Maghreb, who passes himself off as the brother of Aladdin's late father and convinces Aladdin and his mother of his goodness by making arrangements to set up the lad as a wealthy merchant. His real motive is to persuade young Aladdin to retrieve a wonderful oil lamp from a booby-trapped magic cave.

In the year 2135, dangerous alien life forms freed in the destruction of Saturn's moon, Enceladus, are making their way toward Earth. A task force spearheaded by Lt. Cmdr. Shaila Jain is scrambling to beat them there while simultaneously trying to save crewmember Stephane Durand, who was infected during the mission to Saturn and is now controlled by a form of life intent on reopening a transdimensional rift and destroying the human race.

Ribofunk contains 11 masterful and surprising works of imagination. In all of them, biology is the science that drives the engine of life and of story: the Protein Police patrol for renegade gene-splicers; part-human sea creatures live in the Great Lakes and clean up toxic spills; a river has become sentient; there is a bodyguard who is part wolverine and a thrill-seeker climbs a skyscraper and gets stuck, literally.

Before his victory at the Nile. Before his scandalous personal life made headlines. Before he crushed the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar. Before he died a martyr. Horatio Nelson, England's greatest naval hero, assumed his first command, the 12-gun brig HMS Badger, at the tender age of 20. History tells us his first voyages as captain were unremarkable. Yet in the Known Worlds, where sailing ships ply the Void and the mystic science of alchemy works wonders, Nelson's first command goes quite differently.

Ronnie and Reggie Kray remain two of the most infamous criminals in British history. Legends to many, their fame was built on a fearsome reputation and almost mythical celebrity-like status, but who were the real Kray twins? Born and brought up in the East End of London, the Krays became involved in petty crime at an early age, and their dark and violent temperaments soon became apparent when Ron and Reg became embroiled in all aspects of crime including armed robbery, protection rackets and assault.

A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell. In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as...

Bernard Thurnheer ist seit vierzig Jahren im Medienbusiness tätig. Die Bezeichnung "Schnurri der Nation" hört er ungern...

L'entretien d'évaluation devient souvent pour les deux protagonistes le sommet annuel de l'angoisse. C'est qu'il est malvenu de juger, or évaluer n'est-ce pas juger ? Bernard Jaubert montre qu'il est possible de dépasser sans drame le tabou du jugement si l'on conduit l'entretien avec esprit de finesse plutôt qu'esprit de géométrie. Car cet entretien à risque comporte des pièges à déjouer. Un guide simple, clair, pratique, applicable.

Les générations existent en ce qu’elles partagent une communauté de destins et de références. Et la rencontre entre les générations dans les entreprises s’apparente parfois à un choc contre-productif. Il y a donc un enjeu de la collaboration entre les générations et d’intégration des jeunes dans les entreprises. Avec Bernard Petre, baby boomer de bonne facture, découvrons le point de vue des différentes générations et les facteurs-clés de succès d’une coopération efficace entre les générations.

Sous le règne de Louis XIII, le baron de Sigognac, unique héritier d'une noble famille ruinée, vit pauvrement dans son castel délabré en compagnie d'un unique serviteur. Il accueille un soir d'orage, une troupe de comédiens ambulants venus demander asile. Le baron décide alors d'accompagner la troupe jusqu'à Paris pour y tenter la fortune. Le charme et la grâce d'une des comédiennes : Isabelle, entre d'ailleurs pour beaucoup dans sa détermination.

On July 14, 1895, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 59 years old and deeply in debt, boarded a night train to Cleveland, launching a performance tour designed to alleviate his financial woes, and, more importantly, resuscitate his alter ego, Mark Twain. The journey took him to Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, and led to the resurrection of Twain as a celebrity. Equal parts travelogue, social history, and biography, Around the World with Mark Twain paints a decidedly different portrait of Clemens: a more tragic, darker figure who faced financial ruin and personal loss throughout his life.

La petite sirène vit sous la mer auprès de son père, le roi de la mer, de sa grand-mère et de ses cinq sœurs. Lorsque la petite sirène atteint l'âge de quinze ans, elle est autorisée à nager jusqu'à la surface pour contempler le monde extérieur. Elle aperçoit un navire avec un beau prince de son âge. Une tempête se déclenche, le navire chavire et le prince tombe à l'eau. Elle le sauve en le ramenant, inconscient, au rivage. Mais une jeune femme surgit, la sirène s'éclipse. Le prince, à son réveil, aperçoit la jeune femme et pense qu'elle l'a sauvé.

The City of Qushmarrah is uneasy under the rule of the Herodians - short, balding men whose armies would never have conquered the city had not the great and evil wizard Narkar been killed and sealed in his citadel; had not the savage nomad Datars turned coat and sided with the invaders; had not some traitor opened the fortress to them.

When Farmer Buzzard's collie, Kay, has four puppies, he doesn't know what to do. Three are fine puppies, which he can sell, but the fourth is the ugliest puppy ever. No one wants to buy him and, as he grows, it becomes clear he'll never make a sheepdog – and he certainly isn't house-trained! Farmer Buzzard is too kind-hearted to get rid of Smasher, and eventually, when a burglar calls, the big dog has a chance to prove his worth.

Plus de cinquante ans après sa mort, Camus fait toujours l'objet de nombreuses controverses. Auteur qui ne laisse pas indifférent, la pluralité de ses combats et la force de ses convictions ont parfois souffert de détournements et de simplifications qui posent sujet à débat. Eric Fottorino, directeur du Monde, propose une table ronde autour d'Albert Camus avec Jean Daniel, Bernard-Henri Lévy et Michel Onfray et nous offre ainsi une occasion unique de nous attarder, au-delà de l'œuvre littéraire, sur l'identité de Camus pour en comprendre l'héritage philosophique.

Durandeau est un riche industriel que les scrupules n'étouffent pas. Alors que tant d'autres spéculent sur la beauté et ses accessoires, il va développer une affaire florissante en faisant commerce des filles laides...

Des origines à nos jours à travers légendes et histoire, l'abbaye royale se dévoile : la fondation par un ermite hors du commun, la direction d'un ordre double par trente-six abbesses dont la dernière sera congédiée par la tourmente révolutionnaire, la mutation du lieu en prison centrale puis sa restauration et sa résurrection en centre culturel.

Avec "Les Indes noires", Jules Verne développe une histoire fantastique qui plonge ses racines dans l'histoire de la Révolution industrielle, en Ecosse, au XIXème siècle. Phénomènes mystérieux, apparitions, réouverture après la découverte d'un filon d'une extrême richesse, la mine d'Aberfoyle est décidemment bien étrange.