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Un juge passe aux aveux
Par Jacques Batigne. 1976
Le président Batigne, qui fut successivement juge aux Tribunaux de Metz, de Marseille et de la Seine avant de devenir…
conseiller à la Cour de Sureté de l'État, livre aujourd'hui ses souvenirs. Il dénonce aussi les erreurs de la machine judiciaire, se prononce sur la peine de mort, les violences policières, la psychologie du milieu, sur le problème enfin qui domine tous les autres : l'indépendance de la Magistrature. 1976.A history of an Ontario grassroots disability rights movement, and their unfinished campaign to achieve a barrier-free province for persons…
with physical, mental and/or sensory disabilities, through the enactment of strong new legislation -- the Ontarians with Disabilities Act (ODA). Also provides a thorough description of the legislation which this movement secured in 2001, why it ended up being so disappointing, and the ODA movement's strategies to get the legislation implemented from late 2001 to 2003. It concludes with a look to the future when the ODA movement will seek to get Ontario's new government, elected in October 2003, to substantially strengthen this legislation. 2003.Uncommon will : the death and life of Sue Rodriguez
Par Lisa Hobbs Birnie, Sue Rodriguez. 1994
Written in collaboration with Sue Rodriguez and published soon after her death in February 1994, "Uncommon will" chronicles the years…
following Rodriguez's diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Birnie covers Rodriguez's legal battles for assisted suicide, and the physical and private torment she suffered before her death. c1994.View from a height
Par Isaac Asimov. 1964
The cosmological milk shake: a semi-serious look at the size of things
Par Robert Ehrlich. 1994
A physicist's humourous short essays concerning the size, weight, and distance of objects. Answers such questions as "How Tall Can…
Trees Grow?", "How Far Is the Sun?", and "What Does Air Weigh?" 1994.Tips from the top: 53 bright ideas from Canada's top financial advisors
Par John St. Croix. 1996
The trials of Israel Lipski: a true story of a Victorian murder in the East End of London
Par M. L Friedland. 1984
Relativity: the special and the general theory
Par Albert Einstein. 1961
Scientist Albert Einstein presents his theory of relativity--the measurement and study of space and time--for the layman who "is not…
conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics." Originally published in 1916. This fifteenth edition includes five appendixes. 1961. Uniform title: Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie.Code de déontologie professionnelle: adopté par le Conseil, aout 1987
Par Canadian Bar Association. 1988
Le cantique des quantiques: le monde existe-t-il ?
Par Sven Ortoli, Jean-Pierre Pharabod. 2004
L'esprit, cet inconnu ((Que sais-je? ; 698))
Par Jean Emile Charon. 1977
Des atomes et des hommes ((Idées nrf ; 195))
Par Louis Leprince-Ringuet. 1966
Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
Par Jeffrey Rosen. 2019
An intimate look at the life and career of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her own words, through an extraordinary…
series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center. Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and unique audiobook, an informal portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on a series of her conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with us the justice's observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through. The affection they have for each other as friends is apparent in their banter and in their shared love for the Constitution and for opera. With Justice Ginsburg's approval, Rosen has collected her wisdom from their many conversations in which she discusses the future of the Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade, her favorite dissents, the cases she would most like to see overruled, the #MeToo movement, how to be a good listener, and how to lead a productive, compassionate life. These frank exchanges illuminate the steely determination, self-mastery, and wit that have inspired women and men of all ages to embrace the "Notorious RBG." Whatever the topic, Justice Ginsburg always has something interesting-and often surprising-to say. And while few of us will ever have the opportunity to chat with her face-to-face, Jeffrey Rosen brings us by her side as never before. Conversations with RBG is a deeply felt portrait of an American hero.How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Par Randall Munroe. 2019
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the…
#1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the Moon. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
Par Mark Olshaker, John Douglas. 2019
The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves…
deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process, and divulging the strategies used to crack some of America's most challenging cases.The FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling, former special agent John Douglas, has studied and interviewed many of America's most notorious killers-including Charles Manson, "Son of Sam Killer" David Berkowitz and "BTK Strangler" Dennis Rader-trained FBI agents and investigators around and the world, and helped educate the country about these deadly predators and how they operate, and has become a legend in popular culture, fictionalized in The Silence of the Lambs and the hit television shows Criminal Minds and Mindhunter. Twenty years after his famous memoir, the man who literally wrote the book on FBI criminal profiling opens his case files once again. In this riveting work of true crime, he spotlights four of the most diabolical criminals he's confronted, interviewed and learned from. Going deep into each man's life and crimes, he outlines the factors that led them to murder and how he used his interrogation skills to expose their means, motives, and true evil. Like the hit Netflix show, The Killer Across the Table is centered around Douglas' unique interrogation and profiling process. With his longtime collaborator Mark Olshaker, Douglas recounts the chilling encounters with these four killers as he experienced them-revealing for the first time his profile methods in detail. Going step by step through his interviews, Douglas explains how he connects each killer's crimes to the specific conversation, and contrasts these encounters with those of other deadly criminals to show what he learns from each one. In the process, he returns to other famous cases, killers and interviews that have shaped his career, describing how the knowledge he gained from those exchanges helped prepare him for these. A glimpse into the mind of a man who has pierced the heart of human darkness, The Killer Across the Table unlocks the ultimate mystery of depravity and the techniques and approaches that have countered evil in the name of justice.Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Par Sean Carroll. 2019
Caltech physicist and New York Times bestselling author Sean Carroll shows that there are multiple copies of you. And everyone…
else. Really. Something Deeply Hidden begins with the news that physics is in a crisis. Quantum mechanics underlies all of modern physics but major gaps in the theory have been ignored since 1927. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how contradictory, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line, Carroll says that crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us. The Many Worlds Theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Since the beginning of the universe about fourteen billion years ago, this has happened about ten to the tenth to the one-hundredth power times. Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he sets out the major objections to this utterly mind-blowing notion until his case is inescapably established. The holy grail of modern physics is reconciling quantum mechanics with Einstein's general relativity- his theory of curved spacetime. Carroll argues that our refusal to face up to the mysteries of quantum mechanics has blinded us, and that spacetime and gravity naturally emerge from a deeper reality called the wave function. No book for a popular audience has attempted to make this radical argument. We're on the threshold of a new way of understanding the cosmos.A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices from Guantanamo
Par Peter Jan Honigsberg. 2019
An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world's most innovative planetary geologists.In…
1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon. Even in their poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: the far side is an enormous mountainous expanse, not the vast lava-plains seen from Earth. Subsequent missions have confirmed this in much greater detail. How could this be, and what might it tell us about our own place in the universe? As it turns out, quite a lot. Fourteen billion years ago, the universe exploded into being, creating galaxies and stars. Planets formed out of the leftover dust and gas that coalesced into larger and larger bodies orbiting around each star. In a sort of heavenly survival of the fittest, planetary bodies smashed into each other until solar systems emerged. Curiously, instead of being relatively similar in terms of composition, the planets in our solar system, and the comets, asteroids, satellites and rings, are bewitchingly distinct. So, too, the halves of our moon. In When the Earth Had Two Moons, esteemed planetary geologist Erik Asphaug takes us on an exhilarating tour through the farthest reaches of time and our galaxy to find out why. Beautifully written and provocatively argued, When the Earth Had Two Moons is not only a mind-blowing astronomical tour but a profound inquiry into the nature of life here-and billions of miles from home.The ashes of Waco: an investigation
Par Dick J Reavis, Dick J. Reavis. 1995
An examination of a fifty-one-day standoff between members of the Branch Davidian religious community and federal law enforcement officials in…
Texas in 1993, and events that led up to the crisis. The author argues for increased social tolerance of religious movements and a decreased role for the media in shaping public perceptions of themLe pays qu'habitait Albert Einstein: essai
Par Étienne Klein. 2018
" Albert Einstein, c'est l'audace intellectuelle alliée à une fraîcheur déconcertante, c'est l'imagination ardente soutenue par une obstination imperturbable. Mais…
comment approcher une façon de penser et de créer à nulle autre pareille ? Étienne Klein est parti sur ses traces, il s'est attaché aux époques et aux villes où le destin d'Einstein a basculé : Aarau où, à seize ans, Einstein se demande ce qu'il se passerait s'il chevauchait un rayon de lumière ; Zurich, où il devient ingénieur en 1901 et se passionne pour la physique expérimentale ; Berne où, entre mars et septembre 1905, il publie cinq articles, dont celui sur la relativité restreinte qui révolutionnera les relations de l'espace et du temps, tout en travaillant à l'Office fédéral de la propriété intellectuelle ; Prague où, en 1912, il a l'idée que la lumière est déviée par la gravitation, esquissant ainsi la future théorie de la relativité générale. Puis Bruxelles, Anvers et, enfin, Le Coq-sur-Mer où, en 1933, Einstein se réfugie quelques mois avant de quitter l'Europe pour les États-Unis. Définitivement. "