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Temps des empereurs: Volume 2: Que vienne le Royaume
by Ulrich Richard HambuchLe droit international définit, dans sa doctrine des trois éléments, l’État comme l’unité de territoire, de peuple et de pouvoir. Seul l’État constitutionnel est considéré comme un État de droit, car le droit est une nécessité de la liberté et l’État est une nécessité du droit. Sans État, pas de droit et sans droit, pas de liberté. L’État est donc un État de droit et un État libre, mais pas nécessairement une république parlementaire. La réalité de l’État des partis est oligarchique et veut être justifiée. Presque tous les partisans recherchent des postes, des prébendes et des avantages. Les décisions sont imposées aux dirigeants des partis par des forces extérieures, d’autres États, l’économie, en particulier l’industrie et la finance internationalisées, les associations, etc. Le chancelier fédéral est régulièrement le président du parti le plus fort au Bundestag et a le pouvoir d’attribuer les postes, la compétence la plus importante dans le système de pouvoir, mais aussi le plus grand pouvoir dans la sélection des candidats de son parti. Cela conduit systématiquement à une sélection négative des députés, déjà parce qu’aucun détenteur du pouvoir ne tolère les concurrents. Par conséquent, le Parlement est principalement composé de suiveurs sans substance politique suffisante et généralement sans intérêt particulier pour le bien commun. Cette forme de gouvernement parlementaire conduit régulièrement à ce qu’une décision majoritaire au Parlement représente en même temps la minorité du peuple. L’ère parlementaire est irrévocablement révolue. Ses formes ne produisent plus rien, elles ne nous pèsent que. Celui qui est à la hauteur de son temps devait être démocrate en 1830 et son contraire en 1930, comme il devait être absolutiste en 1730 et non en 1830. En Allemagne, nous sommes un peuple monarchique à travers toute notre histoire et notre situation, que
Tendances Récentes de la Fécondité en Afrique Subsaharienne: Synthèse de l'Atelier
by Engineering Medicine National Academies of SciencesNote: This is the French translation of Recent Fertility Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fertility rates and population growth influence economic development. The marked declines in fertility seen in some developing nations have been accompanied by slowing population growth, which in turn provided a window of opportunity for rapid economic growth. For many sub-Saharan African nations, this window has not yet opened because fertility rates have not declined as rapidly there as elsewhere. Fertility rates in many sub-Saharan African countries are high: the total rate for the region is estimated to be 5.1 births per woman, and rates that had begun to decline in many countries in the region have stalled. High rates of fertility in these countries are likely to contribute to continued rapid population growth: the United Nations projects that the region’s population will increase by 1.2 billion by 2050, the highest growth among the regions for which there are projections. In June 2015, the Committee on Population organized a workshop to explore fertility trends and the factors that have influenced them. The workshop committee was asked to explore history and trends related to fertility, proximate determinants and other influences, the status and impact of family planning programs, and prospects for further reducing fertility rates. This study will help donors, researchers, and policy makers better understand the factors that may explain the slow pace of fertility decline in this region, and develop methods to improve family planning in sub-Saharan Africa.
Tenter son professeur
by Noël Cades"Cela devrait ressembler à un péché. Mais tout ce que je peux ressentir, c'est de l'amour." L'instituteur catholique Carl Spencer fait face à une crise de foi quand il tombe amoureux de son élève Juliet, comment peut-il résister à la tentation d'être avec elle? Juliette, une fille au passé troublé, fait le pari qu'elle peut séduire le nouveau professeur de latin chaud Mr Spencer, un chrétien dévot. Mais alors que M. Spencer se débat avec sa foi alors qu'il tente de résister à son attirance croissante pour Juliette, elle commence à se rendre compte que c'est devenu plus qu'un simple jeu pour elle.
Tenté par un Vampire: Un vampire, une romance rock star (Cœurs immortels de San Francisco #1)
by Susan GriscomCian DeMarco est un musicien talentueux et un vampire. Il se contente de vivre sa vie de célibataire à San Francisco, jouant avec son groupe au Club Royal chaque week-end… jusqu'à ce qu'il rencontre une femme humaine à laquelle il ne peut résister. L'odeur du sang de Magdalena l'a complètement défait, et il commence à remettre en question son heureux existence quand son désir pour elle devient incontrôlable. Magdalena De la Rosa et sa meilleure amie ont récemment déménagé à San Francisco. Elle a commencé un nouveau travail et vit dans un magnifique appartement. Tout est exactement comme elle l'avait imaginé... jusqu'à ce qu'elle se retrouve dans une boîte de nuit haut de gamme et qu'elle soit soudainement emportée par le chanteur sexy du groupe house. Une tentation à laquelle ils ne peuvent résister mène à un avenir qu'ils n'auraient jamais imaginé alors que la passion grésille entre les deux jusqu'à ce qu'une menace du passé de Cian revienne faire des ravages dans leur vie. Leur amour l'emportera-t-il sur la réalité de ce que Cian doit faire pour protéger Magdalena?
Tequila Mockingbird (Série Sinners (Français) #3)
by Rhys FordSuite de Whiskey and WrySérie Sinners, tome 3Le lieutenant Connor Morgan, du SWAT de la police de San Francisco, ne cherchait pas l’amour. Surtout pas avec un homme. Ses projets d’avenir n’incluaient pas Forest Ackerman, un batteur blond aux yeux bruns, aussi sexy que noyé sous les problèmes. Sa famille compte sur lui pour être comme son père : un solide pilier central qui, un jour, guidera le clan Morgan.Non, Connor a déjà tout prévu : une carrière dans les forces de l’ordre, une belle maison et une famille. Cependant, lors d’une descente pour une affaire de drogue, il trouve un homme assassiné et perd son cœur en réconfortant son fils adoptif. Ce n’est pas comme s’il n’avait jamais ressenti d’attirance pour les hommes… c’est juste qu’en aimer un ne rentre pas dans ses plans.Forest Ackerman n’a vraiment pas besoin de convoiter un flic hétéro, même si celui-ci est partout où il pose les yeux, surtout après la mort de Frank. Il vient juste de se dissuader de continuer à désirer le flic baraqué quand son salon de café devient un champ de tir et que Connor intervient pour le sauver.Celui qui a tué son père semble vouloir envoyer Forest le rejoindre dans l’au-delà. Alors que le tueur se rapproche de son objectif, Forest apprend à connaître Connor et se demande ce qu’il va perdre en premier : sa vie ou son cœur.
Terre des rêves - Tome 1 - La quête du passé: Une histoire intéressante significative et pleine de suspense (Terre des rêves #1)
by Adil Ben AllalUne histoire imaginaire qui tente d’évoquer différents sujets liés à notre expérience vécue, dont l’intégrité, l’honneur, la fidélité ... entre autres Le petit poulain « Lumière » a vécu toute sa vie avec son père dans un endroit isolé. Soudain, les conditions changent et le père disparait alors le fils se trouve contraint de partir à la recherche de son père. Le poulain rencontre dans son voyage plusieurs personnages, des bons, des mauvais, qui l’aident à comprendre le passé de son père et à vivre des expériences douloureuses et des aventures dangereuses Est-ce que « Lumière » pourrait atteindre son objectif ?. Et comprendra-t-il la raison de l’isolement qu’il vivait avec son père, et la mission pour laquelle il a été préparé ?
Terreur Sur Wall Street
by Kenneth EadeL’effondrement du marché boursier a crée un effet d’entraînement dans des proportions désastreuses. Les banques ont échoué, et les gens provoquent des émeutes dans les rues de villes, qui sont en feu. Des pannes localisées ont fait naitre les échecs du système dans son entier. Le professeur d’économie de l’Université de Chicago Harry Mason, Conseiller des président Américains et du Département du Trésor, a rassemblé son équipe de rêve de "jeunes prodiges," les étudiants les plus brillants et diplômés en Economie, pour une classe laboratoire spéciale. Leur mission sauver le monde. Mais est-ce trop tard?
Texas Wide Open (Série de Texas Fever Premier Livre #1)
by Kc Klein"Un héros torturé, un amour qui défie la distance et le temps... c'est un livre que vous n'oublierez pas de sitôt." Cat Johnson, Auteur à succès du New York Times" "Passionné, sérieux et au rythme rapide... avec un héros au sang chaud et honorable pour affaiblir les genoux de toutes les femmes." Diane Whiteside" Katie Harris aimait grandir dans un ranch. Elle avait son cheval, la magnifique prairie du Texas, et Cole Logan, le cow-boy d'à côté. Mais il y a beaucoup de secrets cachés sous un ciel texan... Katie a toujours su qu'elle épouserait Cole un jour, jusqu'à ce qu'il brise ses rêves et son cœur. Mais maintenant que le père de Katie est malade, elle est de retour à la maison, plus âgée, plus sage et loin de l'idiot amoureux qu'elle était autrefois. Cole sait que Katie ne veut rien avoir à faire avec lui. Mais après tant d'années, il ne peut pas prétendre qu'elle n'est rien de plus que la fille d'à côté. Il était déjà assez difficile de tenir bon quand elle avait dix-sept ans. Maintenant qu'elle est sa propre femme, le cœur de Cole n'a aucune chance... "Wow ! Je n'ai pas pu lâcher ce livre. Magnifiquement écrit. Beaucoup de surprises, de rebondissements." Réviseur Amazon"
Textes Choisis - Recueil De Contes Et Chroniques
by José Anilto Dos AnjosAprès sept années passées à écrire pour des blogs et des anthologies, l'auteur a réuni dans ce livre ses contes et chroniques les mieux évalués.Divers thèmes y sont abordés, allant de l'univers infantile au quotidien des adultes. Malgré une carrière dans la police militaire, l'auteur a évité au maximum les thèmes comme l'insécurité et la violence. Si certains textes peuvent faire allusion à ces thèmes, on y retrouve également des nuances d'espoir, d'amitié et de joie. Dans beaucoup de textes, on retrouve un grand-père racontant des histoires à ses petits-enfants, comme dans les anciens temps.Grâce à la sensibilité littéraire de l'auteur, sa prose directe et sans détours nous transmet les émotions et sentiments de ses protagonistes.
Thaïlande: Volume 1 (Comment faire... #30)
by Owen JonesThaïlande Volume 1 Bonjour et merci d’avoir acheté cet eBook intitulé « Thaïlande : Volume I ». J’espère que son contenu vous sera d’une aide quelconque, et qu’il vous sera utile et profitable. Les informations de ce livre numérique sur les divers aspects de la Thaïlande, et la vie là-bas sont organisées en 15 chapitres d’environ 500 à 600 mots chacun. J’espère qu’il suscitera l’intérêt de ceux qui ont déjà visité la Thaïlande, ou qui connaissent quelqu’un qui l’a visitée, ou qui ont l’intention de le faire. En guise de supplément, je vous accorde la permission d’utiliser le contenu de l’ouvrage sur votre propre site internet, blog ou newsletter, même si je recommande au préalable la réécriture avec vos propres mots. Vous pouvez séparer le livre en plusieurs articles que vous pouvez revendre. En fin de compte, la seule chose qui ne vous est pas autorisée est la revente ou la cession de l’ouvrage sous la forme dans laquelle vous l’avez obtenu. Merci d’adresser, le cas échéant, vos commentaires à la société de laquelle vous avez acheté ce livre. Je vous remercie encore pour l’achat de cet eBook, Sincèrement, Owen Jones.
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
by Mary Elise SarotteThe Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 to end all traffic between the city’s two halves: the democratic west and the communist east. The iconic symbol of a divided Europe, the Wall became a focus of western political pressure on East Germany; as Ronald Reagan’s famously said in a 1987 speech in Berlin, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” But as award-winning historian Mary Sarotte shows in [Title TK] , the opening of the Wall on November 9, 1989 was not, as is commonly believed, the East German government’s deliberate concession to outside influence. It was an accident. A carelessly worded memo written by mid-level bureaucrats, a bumbling press conference given by an inept member of the East German Politburo, the negligence of government leaders, the bravery of ordinary people in East and West Berlin--these combined to bring about the end of nearly forty years of oppression, fear, and enmity in divided Berlin. When the news broke, Washington and Moscow could only stand by and watch as Tom Brokaw and other journalists narrated the televised broadcast of this critical moment in the thawing of the cold war. Sarotte opens her story in the months leading up to that fateful day. Following East German dissidents, she shows how their efforts coalesced around opposition to the regime’s restrictions on foreign travel. The city of Leipzig, close to the border with Czechoslovakia, became a hothouse of activism, and protests there quickly grew into massive demonstrations. The East German Politburo hoped to limit its citizens’ knowledge of these marches, but two daring dissidents, East Berliners Aram Radomski and Siegbert Schefke, managed to evade the Stasi and film the largest of them from a church tower. They then smuggled their tape to West Germany; broadcast in both nations, the footage galvanized activists across East Germany, and precipitated the stunning developments on November 9. Facing mounting pressure from its own citizens, the East German Politburo planned to put off enacting any meaningful change to its travel policy by issuing a deceptive ruling that would appear to offer more freedom, but which in fact would allow the state to maintain strict control over its citizen’s movements. But the bureaucrats tasked with preparing the "new” regulations misunderstood their task, and instead drafted a declaration that said East Germans could freely leave the country. This declaration ended up in the hands of regime spokesman Günter Schabowski, who announced the rules at a press conference without understanding their import. Stunned reporters were soon broadcasting the news around the world. Crowds of East Germans began streaming to the Wall, prompting a showdown with border guards, who received no support or direction from East German leadership as the throngs multiplied. By 11:30, Harald Jäger, a second-tier passport control officer, had had enough and finally opened the wall to the mob gathering outside his gate. Even though East German forces successfully regained control by the morning, it was too late--for the wall, for the regime, and for Communism in Eastern Europe. Drawing on evidence from archives in multiple countries and languages, along with dozens of interviews with key actors, including Harald Jäger, [Title TK] is the definitive account of the event that brought down the East German Politburo and came to represent the final collapse of the Cold War order.
The Court of Justice and the Construction of Europe: Analyses and Perspectives on Sixty Years of Case-law - La Cour de Justice et la Construction de l'Europe: Analyses et Perspectives de Soixante Ans de Jurisprudence
by E. Levits A. Rosas Y. Bot Court of Justice of the European UnionThis book is a contributed volume published by the Court of Justice of the European Union on the occasion of its 60th anniversary. It provides an insight to the 60 years of case-law of the Court of Justice and its role in the progress of European Integration. The book includes contributions from eminent jurists from almost all the EU Member States. All the main areas of European Union are covered in a systematic way. The contributions are regrouped in four chapters dedicated respectively to the role of the Court of Justice and the Judicial Architecture of the European Union, the Constitutional Order of the European Union, the Area of EU Citizens and the European Union in the World. The topics covered remain of interest for several years to come. This unique book, a "must-have" reference work for Judges and Courts of all EU Members States and candidate countries, and academics and legal professionals who are active in the field of EU law, is also valuable for Law Libraries and Law Schools in Europe, the United States of America, Latin America, Asia and Africa and law students who focus their research and studies in EU law.
The Entrepreneurial Effect: Practical Ideas from Your Own Virtual Board of Advisors
by Donna Price Li Li Deborah Weinstein Andrew Moffat Terry Matthews Mike Gassewitz Tamas Michel Koplyay Jean-Pierre Levy-Mangin Denny Boyle Ray Novokowski Eli Fathi Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu Rob Ashe Adam Chowaniec Ken Wigglesworth Dave Curley Margo Crawford Peter Sommerer Pat DiPietro Nathan Rudyk Tony Bailetti Brian Hurley Jeffrey Dale Lance Laking Bernard Herscovich Bernie Ashe Debi Rosati Antoine Paquin Irving Ebert Bruce LazenbyThe Entrepreneurial Effect is a collection of advice articles by successful high technology entrepreneurs, based on their experiences. Every budding entrepreneur seems to imagine a series of lunch dates with the most successful entrepreneurs in technology and other sectors of the Ottawa area Silicon Valley north. What skills are seen as needed to be successful in starting, growing and managing technology-based business in the 21st century? Every business seems to have some technology base and every entrepreneur needs the skills, knowledge and experience detailed in these lessons from the most successful people in this area. Lessons include management, marketing, planning, people, sales, technology, public relations, financing, outsourcing, alliances, risk management, and many others. When you want to be the best, learn from the best, and this book is your opportunity with 32 of the best lessons in entrepreneurship.
The Entrepreneurial Effect: Waterloo
by Ted Hastings Robert Pavlis Feridun Hamdullahpur Dan Mathers Robert Tong Roger Subowius Jim Estill Dan Latendre Steven McCartney Iain Klugman Vita Gasima Carol Leaman Larry Borsato Steve Carkner Kevin Hood Rick Endrulat Randall Litchfield Tom Hunter Rod Foster Cameron Hay Josie Graham Mike Morrice Adam Zimmer William M. Tatham Ray DePaul Yvan Couture Andrew Maxwell Moren Lévesque Ann Zimmer Brydon Gilliss Dave Caputo Aurélien Leftick Harvey FinkelsteinEvery entrepreneur wants to know more and to able to do more, learning from those that have succeeded is one of the best ways to accomplish that. The entrepreneurs in this book discuss the skills needed to be successful in starting, growing and managing technology-based business in the 21st century. Lessons include being an entrepreneur, marketing, strategy & planning, people, sales, growth, technology, investors, financing, operations, corporate culture and a test of your entrepreneurial capability. When you want to be the best, learn from the best, and here is your opportunity with 25 of the best lessons in entrepreneurship.
The European Experience
by Jan Hansen;Jochen Hung;Jaroslav Ira;Judit Klement;Sylvain Lesage;Juan Luis Simal;Andrew TompkinsThe European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000.
The Fairy Tales in Verse and Prose/Les contes en vers et en prose: A Dual-Language Book
by Charles Perrault Stanley AppelbaumBased on the folkloric tales told by the widowed author to his motherless brood, this collection of traditional stories first appeared under Charles Perrault's name in the 18th century. In the fine tradition of Aesop, the fables enlighten as well as entertain, imparting practical moral advice. This dual-language edition features accurate new English translations on the pages facing the original French, in addition to an informative introduction and annotations. It opens with a trio of tales in verse: "Grisélidis," the legend of a patient wife, derived from Boccaccio's Decameron; "Peau d'Ane" ("Donkey-Skin"), the story of a beauty in disguise; and a familiar farce known as "Les souhaits ridicules" ("The Ludicrous Wishes"). Well-known and much-loved prose tales follow: "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Puss in Boots," "Cinderella," and others. This is the most complete edition available in English, comprising the verse tales as well as those in prose, plus all the original prefaces, letters, introductions, morals, and more. Any student of French language or literature will welcome this comprehensive edition.
The Field Guide to Mixing Social and Biophysical Methods in Environmental Research
by Rebecca Lave;Stuart N. LaneDespite ongoing debates about its origins, the Anthropocene—a new epoch characterized by significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems—is widely acknowledged. Our environment is increasingly a product of interacting biophysical and social forces, shaped by climate change, colonial legacies, gender norms, hydrological processes, and more. Understanding these intricate interactions requires a mixed-methods approach that combines qualitative and quantitative, biophysical and social research. However, mixed-methods environmental research remains rare, hindered by academic boundaries, limited training, and the challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration. Time, funding, and the integration of diverse data further complicate this research, whilst the dynamics and ethics of interdisciplinary teams add another layer of complexity. Despite these challenges, mixed-methods research offers a more robust and ultimately transformative understanding of environmental questions. This Field Guide aims to inspire and equip researchers to undertake such studies. Organized like a recipe book, it assists researchers in the preparation of their field work, as well as offering entry points to key methods and providing examples of successful mixed-methods projects. This book will be of interest to scholars wishing to tackle environmental research in a more holistic manner, spanning ‘sister’ disciplines such as anthropology, statistics, political science, public health, archaeology, geography, history, ecology, and Earth science.
The Future of Canadian Federalism/L'Avenir du federalisme canadien
by C. B. Macpherson Paul-Andre CrepeauBy the beginning of 1964 public debate about the terms on which French and English culture could continue to co-exist within a single Canadian federal state had become intense. Many causes could be assigned for the intensity of the debate, but one of them evidently was the lack of clear formulation of the problems. It was in these circumstances that the Association of Canadian Law Teachers and the Canadian Political Science Association used their annual meeting at Charlottetown in 1964 to get, on each of four aspects of the current problem of Canadian federalism, a vigorously reasoned statement, by a French-Canadian and an English-Canadian scholar, of the essentials of the problem as he saw it and then, by way of invited commentaries, to bring the ideas more fully into play. The four aspects were: competing concepts of federalism, economic problems peculiar to our federal state, legal and political attitudes towards the BNA Act, and institutional problems of a revision of the Act.
The Last Judgment of Kings / Le Jugement dernier des rois: A Bilingual Edition (Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater)
by Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803)First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette’s beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of the remaining kings and queens of Europe—paraded in chains like animals, made to brawl over a barrel of crackers, and finally obliterated by a spectacular volcanic eruption. Such is the shocking context—at once tragic and farcical—of the most infamous play of the French Revolution, familiar to all specialists of the period. Until now, however, no standalone critical edition or English translation of this historic play existed. This bilingual edition revives Maréchal’s play and reveals its centrality to scholarly debates about Revolutionary notions of justice, religion, commemoration, comedy, and propaganda. Provocative, written in accessible prose, and short—perfect for students in a French or history seminar—Le Jugement dernier des rois offers an ideal introduction to the most important and contentious questions of the Revolutionary period. Joué pour la première fois le lendemain de l’exécution de Marie-Antoinette, Le Jugement dernier des rois met en scène le procès burlesque des autres rois et reines d’Europe : exhibés et enchaînés tels des animaux, contraints de se battre pour un tonneau de biscuits, et finalement anéantis par l’éruption spectaculaire d’un volcan. Tel est le contexte scandaleux—tragédie et farce à la fois—de la pièce la plus célèbre de la Révolution française, bien connue de tous les spécialistes de cette période. Jusqu’à maintenant, pourtant, il n’existait ni édition critique ni traduction anglaise de cet ouvrage historique. Notre édition bilingue fait revivre la pièce de Maréchal et la replace au centre des plus grands débats chez les historiens de la Révolution, traitant de justice, religion, commémoration, comédie, et propagande. Provocateur, facile à lire, et concis—parfaitement adapté aux étudiants d’un cours de français ou d’histoire—Le Jugement dernier des rois propose ainsi une introduction idéale à la période révolutionnaire et à ses principales controverses. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
The Life of Saint Eufrosine: In Old French Verse, with English Translation (Texts and Translations #35)
by Amy V. OgdenAs a young woman from a wealthy family, Eufrosine was expected to marry a nobleman. Instead, she wanted to serve God. So she cut her hair, dressed as a man, and traveled to a monastery, becoming a monk named Emerald.Adapted from a Latin source, this saint's life dates to about 1200 CE. Devout yet erotic, lyrical yet didactic, it blends hagiography with romance and epic in order to engage and inspire a broad audience. The tale invites readers to rethink preconceived notions of the Middle Ages, the relation between spiritual and secular values, and ideas about the history of sexuality, identity, and family.Only fragments of the poem have been previously translated. This edition includes the first full translation alongside the Old French original as well as a glossary and other supporting material.
The Life-Writer
by David ConstantineAfter the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, copes with the loss by writing his personal history. While researching the letters and journals he left behind, however, she comes to the devastating conclusion that his life before their marriage was far richer than the one they shared. To understand and recreate the period of his greatest happiness--a period of intense friendship and love in the fall and winter of 1968, with a young French woman named Monique--Katrin embarks on a heartbreaking journey to discover the man she never fully knew.
The Lost Hat and Other Stories
by Elizabeth A. MboyaIn all traditions, humans have always expressed themselves in one way or the other. This expression has always been of joy, sorrow, excitement, shock, horror and so on. In the domain of entertainment and leisure, people have always created stories and songs and other artistic and on-artistic forms of amusement. In this book, we have human-animal tales, which is a class of narratives involving both human and animals in the central action of the narrative. The personified animals in this case act side by side the humans, taking and carrying out daily activities as the plot unveils. The stories explore the known and the unknown in a bid to explain, entertain and teach moral values, which are ideal in the modern society for the younger generation. The stories in The lost Hat and Other Stories are tales which I have heard at one time or the other and I have retold them to make them more interesting. After each and every story, there is a set of questions, which help the reader to understand and analyze the text better.
The Past, Present and Future of Comparative Law - Le passé, le présent et le futur du droit comparé: Ceremony of 15 May 2017 in Honour of 5 Great Comparatists - Cérémonie du 15 mai 2017 en l'honneur de 5 grands comparatistes (Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law #29)
by Katharina Boele-Woelki Diego P. Fernàndez ArroyoThis book is published by the International Academy of Comparative Law to honor five great comparatists: Jean-Louis Baudouin from Canada, Xavier Blanc-Jouvan from France, Mary Ann Glendon from the United States of America, Hein Kötz from Germany, and Rodolfo Sacco from Italy. The five great minds present their thoughts on the past, the present and future of comparative law and in doing so they particularly focus on the future of the International Academy of Comparative Law, comparative law methodology and the teaching of comparative law. The book is essential reading for researchers and academics wanting to know what these respected legal scholars have contributed to comparative law, how they differ and when and why they excelled. Moreover, the views presented suggest how the role of the Academy can be developed in order to deal with the current challenges of comparative law.Ce livre est publié par l'Académie internationale de droit comparé en l'honneur de cinq grands comparatistes : Jean-Louis Baudouin du Canada, Xavier Blanc-Jouvan de France, Mary Ann Glendon des États-Unis, Hein Kötz d'Allemagne et Rodolfo Sacco d'Italie. Ces cinq grands esprits offrent leurs réflexions sur le passé, le présent et le futur du droit comparé et, ce faisant, se concentrent particulièrement sur l'avenir de l'Académie internationale de droit comparé, la méthodologie ainsi que l'enseignement du droit comparé. Ce livre est une lecture essentielle pour les chercheurs et les universitaires qui s’intéressent aux contributions au droit comparé de ces juristes respectés, la manière dont ils diffèrent et quand et pourquoi ils ont excellé. De plus, les points de vue présentés suggèrent comment le rôle de l'Académie peut être développé pour faire face aux défis actuels du droit comparé.
The Pasteurization of France
by Bruno LatourWhat can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist? Although every town in France has a street named for Louis Pasteur, was he alone able to stop people from spitting, persuade them to dig drains, influence them to undergo vaccination? Pasteur’s success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession (both military physicians and private practitioners), and colonial interests. It is the operation of these forces, in combination with the talent of Pasteur, that Bruno Latour sets before us as a prime example of science in action. Latour argues that the triumph of the biologist and his methodology must be understood within the particular historical convergence of competing social forces and conflicting interests. Yet Pasteur was not the only scientist working on the relationships of microbes and disease. How was he able to galvanize the other forces to support his own research? Latour shows Pasteur’s efforts to win over the French public—the farmers, industrialists, politicians, and much of the scientific establishment. Instead of reducing science to a given social environment, Latour tries to show the simultaneous building of a society and its scientific facts. The first section of the book, which retells the story of Pasteur, is a vivid description of an approach to science whose theoretical implications go far beyond a particular case study. In the second part of the book, “Irreductions,” Latour sets out his notion of the dynamics of conflict and interaction, of the “relation of forces.” Latour’s method of analysis cuts across and through the boundaries of the established disciplines of sociology, history, and the philosophy of science, to reveal how it is possible not to make the distinction between reason and force. Instead of leading to sociological reductionism, this method leads to an unexpected irreductionism.
The State in Transition: Challenges for Canadian Federalism
by Brooke Jeffrey Peter Graefe Raffaele Iacovino Thomas O. Hueglin Geoffrey Hale Geneviève Nootens Patrick Fafard Daniel Bourgeois Robert Talbot Jeremy A. Clarke M François Rocher Andrew Bourns France MorrissetteCanadian federalism, as a particular form of political organization for a complex society—with multiple economic, political, geographic, cultural, and national divides—faces important challenges. The political realignment that brought the Conservative Party to power in the last quinquennium has set in motion a significant transformation of the Canadian state and its federal system of governance. The contributors in this collection focus on three recurrent themes: the issues arising from the management of ethno-cultural diversity; the existence of internal nations in Canada (the First Nations and the Quebec nation in Quebec), the presence of linguistic minorities (French and English), and the questions of identity linked to citizenship in a federal context that allows for the presence of multiple loyalties; and the specific challenges raised by globalization and the extension of economic integration, particularly between the United States and Canada. This collection of studies on the role of the state reveals that our understanding of the evolution of the Canadian state, and of the ensuing impact on federalism and federal-provincial relations, is not as complete as it should be.