Première traduction française à l'occasion du soixantième anniversaire de la parution de l'ouvrage de Ruth Stout, jardinière américaine des années 1960 qui a révolutionné le jardinage biologique grâce au mulch (paillis). Edition préfacée et commentée par Didier Helmstetter ( Le Potager du Paresseux).
Dans les années 1960, une femme, Ruth Stout, établie dans le Connecticut, aux États-Unis, devient célèbre par sa méthode de jardinage, qui repose sur le fait de couvrir le sol d'une épaisse couche de foin. Son livre affichait sans ambages : Sans bêcher ; sans biner ; sans sarcler ; sans désherber ; sans arroser ; sans traiter... Aucun doute n'est permis : c'était révolutionnaire, et pour le moins radical.
Est-ce sa naissance dans un milieu quaker -; un mouvement religieux issu du protestantisme qu'on peut caractériser par quatre mots : abolitionnisme, pacifisme, simplicité et sobriété -; qui lui a donné cette incroyable liberté de penser ? Qui lui a insufflé cette manière de jardiner, encore totalement innovante de nos jours ? Comment a-t-elle réussi à s'imposer, elle, une femme, face aux scientifiques et autres experts hommes, tenants de l'agriculture conventionnelle ?
La traduction de ce best-seller américain répare enfin ce que l'on peut considérer comme une énorme injustice. Avec beaucoup d'humour, sans s'embarrasser de développements scientifiques mais en s'appuyant sur des années d'expérience et sur ses échanges avec d'autres jardiniers, Ruth Stout nous livre ce qui a été appelé de son vivant la méthode Stout pour produire en abondance sans se fatiguer.
Quand Didier Helmstetter, l'agronome iconoclaste qui a popularisé le Potager du Paresseux, découvre fortuitement l'existence de Ruth Stout, il se rend compte qu'il n'est pas l'inventeur du jardinage sur foin ! D'abord intrigué, puis captivé et emballé par cette femme incroyable et passionnée, il s'est permis d'annoter le texte de ses commentaires pour étayer le propos de Ruth Stout des dernières connaissances en matière d'agronomie. Une rencontre délicieusement détonante.
Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Corinne Smith.
Un ouvrage de référence à consulter tout au long de votre formation !
Cet ouvrage propose plusieurs rubriques, descriptions textuelles, figures, tableaux, schémas qui aident à la compréhension des concepts de l'anatomie et de la physiologie.
Les quelque 800 illustrations de l'ouvrage ainsi que les vidéos, animations, planches anatomiques et photographies histologiques offertes en ligne permettent un apprentissage dynamique en intégrant de façon visuelle et innovatrice les notions abordées dans les chapitres.
Inspirées de situations réelles, les questions du manuel, les études de cas et les applications cliniques sont des stratégies d'apprentissage qui facilitent l'intégration des connaissances et la compréhension des liens entre la biologie humaine et l'environnement pratique des soins.
Tout bon erpétologiste vous le dira : le fer-de-lance, ou bothrops est l'un des serpents les plus agressifs et venimeux qui existent. Quand Nero Wolf en reçoit un en cadeau, Archie Goodwin, son assistant, comprend qu'ils sont à deux doigts de résoudre deux meurtres particulièrement sophistiqués : celui d'un travailleur immigré et celui d'un président d'université. Quand à Wolf, il joue justement les charmeurs de serpents dans une affaire qui a plus de noeuds qu'un anaconda. En sifflant une mélodie séduisante, il espère bien attirer le tueur qui a toujours du venin à cracher.
En ce moment, la vie de Fiona Finkelstein ressemble à un bol de cerises ou du moins à une montagne de crêpes en forme d'animaux. Elle est la plus récente, la plus jeune et la seule Miss Météo en tutu de la station de télévision WORD et ses amis et ses compagnons de classe sont plus qu'impressionnés ! Mais Fiona sait bien qu'à Ordinaire, dans le Maryland, la chance ne peut pas durer éternellement. Et c'est alors que Milo apparaît dans le portrait. Milo est un nouvel élève à l'école. Mais dès qu'il pénètre dans la classe, il agit comme si tout lui appartenait. Fiona sait aussitôt qu'ils ne seront PAS des amis. Il crée même un club de météorologie, même s'il sait que Fiona est la spécialiste de la classe ! Fiona décide que c'est à elle - et à ses amis Harold et Cleo - de ramener sur elle le feu des projecteurs. avec un club de jumelages. Mais quand ses jumelages s'avèrent catastrophiques, elle doit découvrir si c'est la faute de Milo ou vraiment la sienne.
En 1909, à l'université de Harvard, un groupe d'étudiants a créé une sorte de ligue pour compenser les dommages qu'ils ont causés à Paul Chapin, un de leurs coreligionnaires, handicapés à vie à la suite d'une mauvaise plaisanterie. Des années plus tard, en 1935, deux membres de la ligue sont assassinés. Le meurtrier a laissé à chaque fois un message énigmatique : « Vous auriez dû me tuer quand vous pouviez le faire. » Chapin est certes devenu un écrivain à succès, mais ne cherche-t-il pas à se venger ? Andrew Hibbard, un des compagnons de la ligue, demande à Nero Wolfe d'enquêter sur l'infirme, mais le détective refuse. Toutefois, quand Hibbard disparaît à son tour, Wolfe met Archie Goodwin sur l'affaire pour venir en aide aux autres membres de la ligue, qui vivent dans la peur.
This book is devoted to an exposition of the theory of polynomially convex sets.Acompact N subset of C is polynomially convex if it is de?ned by a family, ?nite or in?nite, of polynomial inequalities. These sets play an important role in the theory of functions of several complex variables, especially in questions concerning approximation. On the one hand, the present volume is a study of polynomial convexity per se, on the other, it studies the application of polynomial convexity to other parts of complex analysis, especially to approximation theory and the theory of varieties. N Not every compact subset of C is polynomially convex, but associated with an arbitrary compact set, say X, is its polynomially convex hull, X, which is the intersection of all polynomially convex sets that contain X. Of paramount importance in the study of polynomial convexity is the study of the complementary set X X. The only obvious reason for this set to be nonempty is for it to have some kind of analytic structure, and initially one wonders whether this set always has complex structure in some sense. It is not long before one is disabused of this naive hope; a natural problem then is that of giving conditions under which the complementary set does have complex structure. In a natural class of one-dimensional examples, such analytic structure is found. The study of this class of examples is one of the major directions of the work at hand.
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From his appearance on the Mike Douglas Show at age three (he putted for Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart) to his winning the U.S Junior Amateur title at fifteen (he was the youngest champion ever) to his recent victories in four Grand Slam events in a row (though not in the same year), Tiger Woods has pursued with single-minded determination his dream of becoming the greatest golfer in history. But who is the real Tiger Woods? From his Nike commercials to his conflicting statements on race, Tiger has stirred up plenty of controversy off the golf course. And now in Chasing Tiger—an up-to-date collection of profiles, commentary, and reporting on Tiger's career by both U.S. and British writers from the late 1980s to now –we chart the trajectory of "the chosen one" from young prodigy to the most popular athlete in the world. With stellar profiles by esteemed sports writers such as Gary Smith and Charles Pierce, reportage by Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriters Tom Boswell and the late Jim Murray, and pithy commentary by Ellen Goodman, Maureen Dowd, and Frank Deford, Chasing Tiger is a multi-dimensional portrait of the making of a legend.
This book deals with the events leading up to the 1936 Popular Olympics which would have united the Popular Front in opposition to the Berlin Olympics. It also discusses the days after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War which began on the same day the games were due to start. Using a variety of primary and secondary sources, the book traces the biographies of several Popular Olympians who would go on to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. The book also examines the planned events and locations for the Popular Olympics as well as the international funding that the games secured. The book argues that the events were a departure from Workers' Sport as well as the IOC's Olympic games and represented an important cultural manifestation of the Popular Front.
"Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps his future writing style is still blossoming, certainly his knack for weaving a fantastic tale of mystery and adventure will have most readers anxious for the next phase of adventure at every turn.
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Réunissant le meilleur de la fantasy actuelle, ce deuxième tome de "L'Art de la fantasy" est le guide indispensable de cet univers fascinant et immensément populaire. Que vous soyez un illustrateur en quête d'inspiration ou un amateur d'art désirant admirer des scènes de bataille épiques, de puissants guerriers, des filles torrides ou des paysages envoûtants, ce livre est fait pour vous.
