Après un tragique accident, Fortuna, jeune chatte vivant dans le monde cannibale, doit retracer le long chemin qu'elle a parcouru avec sa famille. Durant ce voyage vers ses origines, la féline va revivre les terribles incidents qui ont forgé son destin, trouver l'amour et devenir adulte. Mais à l'issue de ce douloureux périple semé d'embuches, l'héroïne saura-t-elle trouver sa véritable mission ?

Fortuna connaît désormais la quête qui lui incombe. Repartie à la découverte du monde avec sa fille, elle continue à consigner ses aventures dans le livre des chemins. Alors que de grands dangers la menacent, le mystérieux Siro fait son apparition. L'héroïne doit-elle faire confiance à ce combattant qui semble la connaître et la suivre depuis longtemps ?

Un jour, White Hood, une adolescente isolée, secourt le dernier loup du pays, chassé par les hommes, affamé et blessé. La jeune femme le soigne et en tombe amoureuse au point de se mettre à chasser pour lui. Entre l'héroïne et l'animal traqué dont l'instinct de prédateur se réveille, une relation complexe, passionnée et déchirante va se mettre en place...

Découvrez les aventures d'un jeune chasseur de trésors lancé dans une quête périlleuse pour lever les secrets de son passé et réclamer son héritage. Un régal pour les amateurs de fantasy et de space opera !

Cela fait bien longtemps qu'Ori a déserté la cité des couleurs. Depuis la mystérieuse disparition de son père, le jeune homme mène une vie d'aventures à la recherche d'artefacts et de trésors précieux. Mais, alors qu'un lointain émissaire du passé resurgit, sa quête la plus difficile va se révéler être celle de ses origines, sur les traces des secrets de la secte rouge décimée dont il est l'héritier...

This book features a selection of works presented in the 2nd International Conference on BioGeoSciences in a unified framework. First, it describes several theoretical tools for the mathematical modelling of natural processes and environments, such as Quantitative Habitability Theory, dynamical systems and artificial intelligence. It then outlines applications to the broad and multifaceted area of the natural sciences and environmental engineering. This highly interdisciplinary book includes case studies with a wide range of spatio-temporal scales: from ecosystem- to astrobiological-cosmological scales.

There are alternatives to neoliberal market economies: basic income, the money of the common and degrowth. This study highlights the potential of dissent from the initial questioning of the dominant system to the creation of new political agendas. It discusses the multiple manifestations of dissent and their contributions to shaping political alternatives; it also takes a closer look at organizations and the challenge they face trying to establish forms of resistance. The struggles of current social movements in Brazil, Turkey, Nigeria, Spain and the US exemplify practices of dissent.

New forms of solidarity are being shaped as a response to the European "refugee crisis." The state-in the form of national governments-has not been able to implement any viable or sustainable solution to the crisis, but the solidarity movement has been very visible and active in European countries. This book offers a conceptualization of three types of solidarity: autonomous, civic, and institutional solidarity. This framework is applied to three case studies, illustrating the emergence of different forms of solidarity: the City Plaza Hotel in Athens, the Danish "friendly neighbors," and Barcelona as refuge city.

This book features a selection of works presented in the 3rd International Conference on BioGeoSciences in a unified framework. It focuses on the physical and mathematical modelling of natural processes and environments at different spatial and temporal scales. This interdisciplinary book presents a comprehensive collection of case studies grouped according to the planetary `'spheres'': lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, magnetosphere and biosphere. It serves as a valuable resource for scientists engaged in natural and exact sciences.

Emergency General Surgery has become a cornerstone of Acute Care Surgery over the past decade. Once the scope of community general surgeons, the growing complexity of patients with acute surgical diseases has increasingly driven their care to tertiary referral centers. The aging population confounds this problem further as these patients present with more complex comorbidities, life-threatening physiology, and progressively severe anatomic disease severity. To ensure better outcomes, the practice has evolved to focus on evidence-based practice management guidelines in order to standardize care and optimize outcomes.
The purpose of this text is to be a comprehensive volume for patients with acute surgical diseases. There will be three sections, each comprised of multiple chapters. The first section will be a comprehensive analysis of the background of Emergency General Surgery. The goal of this section will be to provide the reader background into the acutesurgical practice and to introduce the reader to the important concepts discussed in the remainder of the textbook. The second section will be the largest and will discuss specific acute surgical diseases. Individual chapters will outline the diagnostic approach, current treatment standards, operative approaches, and expected outcomes with an emphasis on practice management guideline implementation into practice. As acute surgical diseases and surgical critical care are integral to each other, the last section will be Critical Care for the Acute Care Surgeon. These topics will focus on the critical care concepts essential to surgeons who care for acute diseases.
This comprehensive text is targeted to any surgeon who takes emergency call for any of the listed diseases including community and referral general and vascular surgeons. In addition, this would be an excellent resource for all general surgery residents. Lastly, this would also serve asa resource to intensivists who care for acute surgical patients. Lire la suite Fermer