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Le but de ce livre est d¿étudier la nature de la sensation du dégoût, aussi bien dans le domaine du corps que dans le domaine de l¿esprit, et surtout de chercher suivant quelles causes elle vient à naître, et s¿il faut voir dans la répugnance physique ou morale des hommes pour certains objets un effet du hasard ou le résultat d¿une loi cachée. Un instinct humain, pour être étrange et inexpliqué, n¿en est pas moins digne d¿attention, et le fame...

To Hang Out the Washing is a remarkable account by a man whose memories of World War II are as vivid today as they were authentically lived more than seventy-five years ago. The young soldier's journey begins in Birmingham UK in 1940 during the Battle of Britain and concludes in Germany in 1945.

In her memoir, Releasing Jezebel: Embracing the Lioness Within, Jenelle lived what other children dreamed of on her family's ranch on a reserve with her faithful dog, beautiful horses, turtle-filled pond, and abundant acreage to freely discover. However, her fairy-tale life could not be told without the presence of the villain of child abuse. Jenelle struggled as a victim but also as a witness to the repeated abuse her close friend endured....

My Thirty Years of Speed' is the compelling autobiography of Sir Malcolm Campbell who was the preeminent land and water speed record breaker after the First World War. He tells in his own words the fascinating story of his love of speed and his desire to beat the land speed record after serving in the Royal Flying Corps during The Great War. Knighted by King George V in 1931 for setting the record of 231.4 mph at Daytona Sands, he went on to ...

Book 4 in the Morgan Creek Series. Rosa Ravenwood wants to be a vampire. One of her brothers and her sister are both vampires. Why don't they want her to be one, too? Determined to find a vampire who will turn her, she goes to Morgan Creek to see Rylan Saintcrow, an old family friend. To her surprise, Saintcrow refuses to turn her, but he introduces her to insanely handsome Jason Kincaid. Jason is another powerful vampire, but one who is s...

Jane's #1 rule in Paris: Don't fall in love After ending a disastrous relationship, Jane accepts a job in the City of Love. The trouble is she speaks very little French, has no friends to enjoy Paris with, and she's awfully lonely. Then she meets Jacques DuPont. Rich, handsome, and the cream of the Parisian crop, Jacques is living the dream. Just not his own. His father wants him to follow in his footsteps, but Jacques wants to earn his ...

George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 - January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native Louisiana. His fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner. (wikipedia.org) George Washington Cable is the editor of the title written by various authors. CONTENT War Diary of a Union Woman in the South Edited by G.W. Cable. The Locomotive Chase in Georgia BY...

During my visit to Chennai (formerly known as Madras), India, for a series of lectures in the Winter of 2002, I was confronted with a Fiqh issue concerning the annual payment of Zakaah around which there was much controversy at the time. I immediately addressed it and dealt with it in some of my lectures as thoroughly as was possible, given the limited reference resources which were available to me and the time constraints of my lecture schedule.

A treasure that was taken from the centre of a legendary city. A resurgence of nationalist violence last seen during the darkest days of World War II. Hungary's Budapest. The ultra-nationalist Eröszak party demands vengeance after a priest is killed at the Basilica of St. Stephen and the Holy Right relic is taken, and anti-Semitic violence breaks out in the city. Zoltan Fischer, a Jewish security consultant from Hungary, is trapped inside ...

Xing Yi is a very old fighting art from China, whose techniques are based around the use of the spear. The spear being one of the primary weapons of choice for use upon the battlefield in ancient China. The overarching strategy of Xing Yi relies upon embodying the fighting strategy or 'essence' of different animals. All of which were studied and chosen by the Xing Yi masters of the past, due to their unique and effective fighting abilities. Th...

Nous sommes très fiers de l¿état actuel de nos sciences. Qui sait si dans cent ans nos neveux seront aussi contents de nous que nous paraissons l¿être de nous-mêmes? Qui sait ce qui restera des conceptions auxquelles nous attachons le plus d¿importance, et qui nous guident dans nos travaux scientifiques? Il est bon en tout cas de jeter de temps en temps un regard en arrière sur cette grande route du savoir où l¿humanité s¿avance d¿une allure i...

Ed Artzt's personal memoir traces Procter & Gamble's (P&G, ) transformation from a U.S.centered business into a truly global enterprise. Starting in 1975 through his retirement as CEO in 1995, Ed played a major role in P&G, 's global expansion, quintupling the global reach of P&G, brands from one to five billion consumers and increasing the percentage of P&G, 's sales outside North America from about ten to well over fifty percent. He conv...

This handbook focuses on different aspects of anti-aging and both preventive and regenerative medicine. It includes analysis of the paradigm of ageing and concepts of anti-aging medicine. Standards and technologies are highlighted in over twenty chapters all authored by international experts in regenerative medicine. Topics covered include: ¿ Ageing, aging, and anti-aging: A Decalogue for anti-aging medicine ¿ Lessons from Sicilian centena...

Dernière leçon du cours professé en 1901-1902 par Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904) au Collège de France, La Morale sexuelle ne fut publié qu'une seule fois, en 1907, dans la revue Archives d'anthropologie criminelle, par Alexandre Lacassagne, ami intime de Tarde. De nombreux thèmes y sont abordés, dont la monogamie et la polygamie , le matriarcat et le patriarcat , les transformations contemporaines du mariage , le rôle des conversations, des spectac...

« L'avènement de la monnaie a enrichi le c¿ur humain de sentiments nouveaux et de vices nouveaux. Nous lui devons l'orgueil financier, la béatitude spéciale du milliardaire appuyé sur son portefeuille, comme l'orgueil d'un capitaine se fonde sur son armée. Ce que le guerrier antique dit à sa lance et à son bouclier, dans une épigramme grecque : « Grâce à vous, je suis libre, j'ai des loisirs sans fin, je me fais servir par des esclaves », le r...

Ce livre est la suite et le complément de l'essai de sociologie générale, j'allais dire élémentaire, que j'ai publié il y a quelques années sous le titre de Lois de l'Imitation. Un de ses chapitres, celui qui est intitulé Les lois logiques de l'Imitation, était comme une pierre d'äente placée là pour relier intimement l'un à l'autre cet ouvrage et le nouveau volume - un peu gros, j'en demande pardon au lecteur - que je fais paraître aujourd'hu...

French Kiss" is a Cold War tale from France of birth, growth and death of a huge U.S. Air Force base as relived through the heretofore dormant memories and voices of both the occupier and the occupied. Tens of thousands of American GIs passed through Dèols-Châteauroux Air Station during the sixteen years that it was the largest U.S. Air Force supply base in Europe. Hundreds of hours of interviews and long forgotten photos provide for the first...

FRENCH KISS is a one-of-a-kind look at the Cold War. It has it all: laughter, bizarre behavior by high-ranking Air Force officers, black market, sex, love and tears, and most of all how mutual acceptance overcomes suspicion and distrust. The story was made possible by the generosity of Americans and French who worked at Dèols-Châteauroux Air Station (CHAS) in the Berry region of Central France. They provided more than 250 hours of interviews w...