1895. Sarah Thibault, 17 ans, vit avec ses parents et sa sœur Lydie dans le Val de Loire, où la famille exploite un vignoble. À la suite du décès de son époux, la mère de Sarah est contrainte de vendre le domaine à une famille de négociants, les Lemieux, dont le fils aîné épouse Lydie. Mais une nouvelle tragédie oblige les deux sœurs à quitter la France. …

The goal of this book is to create awareness for a change in mind-set that we will all have to face and go through. The necessity for this new mind­ set is being driven by the situation that a completely new business world, a new reality, is being created at the point where the phenomenon commonly referred to as the "new economy" converges with the well-known old economy. During the very late 1990s, this new reality was being driven by an almost incredible increase in yields in the financial markets, where conventional but value-driven and stable stocks such as Philip Morris, General Electric, or Bayer, did not attract as many investors as before - if we can call some of them investors at all. Companies in the high-tech or the new market segments are all part of the new economy. This new economy has created new business ideas, business models, and a new reality, in which chief executive officers (CEOs) were in the mid twenties and had basically no clue as to what real business is and how much a dollar counts. Now, as this convergence is happening, the painful reality and the business rules of the old economy get us back down to earth. The CEOs become more senior, business plans are validated more carefully, and just having the famous ". com" in your company name does not get you any further or lead you to any of required money.

Today we have more control over how we live and how we die than we ever had before. This fact has produced many ethical problems. While much about life is biologically determined, much else is determined by the social circumstances surrounding it. Unfortunately, little energy is spent dealing with the social and psychological factors within which the medical/biological factors are imbedded. In this volume the authors examine some of the medical social and psychological conditions which affect the way we die.

Marion Millet est détective. Elle l'a toujours été, monnayant déjà ses services au collège : c'est simplement inscrit dans ses gènes. Après son bac, elle ne se voyait pas travailler ailleurs qu'en agence d'investigation, et c'est ainsi qu'elle a brillé au sein de BR Investigations. Mais voilà, cela fait 3 ans que plus aucune agence de la ville ne veut d'elle. 3 ans qu'elle s'efforce de survivre après la tragédie qui a sali sa réputation. Tout ça parce qu'elle est tombée amoureuse du mauvais garçon… Tout ça parce qu'elle s'est retrouvée au mauvais endroit, au mauvais moment. …

With the rapidly increasing penetration of laptop computers and mobile phones, which are primarily used by mobile users to access Internet s- vices like e-mail and World Wide Web (WWW) access, support of Internet services in a mobile environment is an emerging requirement. Wireless n- works have been used for communication among fully distributed users in a multimedia environment that has the needs to provide real-time bursty traffic (such as voice or video) and data traffic with excellent reliability and service quality. To satisfy the huge wireless multimedia service demand and improve the system performance, efficient channel access methods and analytical methods must be provided. In this way very accurate models, that faithfully reproduce the stochastic behavior of multimedia wireless communication and computer networks, can be constructed.