Depuis plusieurs décennies, dans presque tous les domaines du droit, le Canada et le Québec témoigne d'un passage d'une culture du litige vers une culture de l'entente. Une introduction à la théorie et à la pratique de la résolution des différends offre aux lecteurs et aux lectrices – particulièrement aux conseillers juridiques d'expression française – des compétences essentielles en vue de pouvoir choisir la meilleure façon d'aider...

This Max Lucado's Hermie & Friends® best-selling story now available in easy-to-read format! Hermie and his friend Wormie have always felt common. They don't have stripes or dots, they aren't very strong, and they can't find anything special about themselves. But every time they pray, God tells them that He loves them all the time just as they are and that He isn't finished with them yet. When Hermie becomes a beautiful butterfly, he realizes just...

"Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People's Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila's stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where insurance comes second to genuine care. Each patient eventually lands at Ben Taub, the county hospital where Dr. Nuila has worked for over a decade. Nuila delves with empathy...

"Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an emu egg hunt in constellation stories from diverse cultures. We can see love, betrayal, and friendship in the heavens, if we know where to look. A world expert on cultural understandings of cosmology, Anthony Aveni provides an unconventional atlas of the night sky, introducing readers to tales beloved for generations. The constellations included are not your typical Greek and Roman...

Defining a Nation is set at Simla, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the British viceroy has invited leaders of various religious and political constituencies to work out the future of Britain's largest colony. Will the British transfer power to the Indian National Congress, which claims to speak for all Indians? Or will a separate Muslim state-Pakistan-be carved out of India to be ruled by Muslims, as the Muslim League proposes? And what will...

Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of Bonded Histories and Another Reason (Princeton) and the editor of Noir Urbanisms. A sweeping cultural history of India's largest city A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages,...

I crave the indulgence of the reader whilst I explain as briefly as possible the plan upon which I have written this short life of the great sovereign who firmly established the Mughal dynasty in India.

La electroterapia se ha convertido en una estrategia coadyuvante para la rehabilitación de personas con daño en la médula espinal, y en busca de darla a conocer, este libro recopila avances teórico-prácticos actuales basados en evidencia experimental y resultados de ensayos clínicos en temas relacionados con sus generalidades, usos, aplicaciones y dosificación. Así mismo, describe algunos protocolos de intervención, fundamentados en la práctica...