by Fabrice Colin (2004)
J. Palomino gagne un séjour pour New York. Au collège, il se lie d'amitié avec deux garçons dont un est le fils du président des Etats-Unis. Par accident, les trois garçons assistent à une réunion de crise entre le président et ses conseillers. Ils découvrent que le gouvernement cherche un moyen pour détourner l'attention du public, le temps de régler un conflit avec un Etat sud-américain.
Andi Wei'er (Andy Weir) zhu
The Martian is a 2011 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir. It was his debut novel under his own name. It was originally self-published in 2011; Crown Publishing purchased the rights and re-released it in 2014. The story follows an American astronaut, Mark Watney, as he becomes stranded alone on Mars in 2035 and must improvise in order to survive.
story and lettering, Frank J. Barbiere
Mysterious killers dressed in white, they savaged the Cold War Russian underworld--then disappeared without a trace. Now they have resurfaced in New York, leaving a trail of dead mobsters in their bloody wake. In this tide of death, an amnesiac and a FBI agent bound by loss and haunted memories seek to answer a single question that may unlock their hidden pasts: Who are the White Suits?
Matthieu Simard
Alors qu'il reçoit Anouk en pleurs, qui lui avoue ne plus vouloir voir son père qui a manifestement abusé d'elle, Martin doit intervenir pour que Pavel puisse à nouveau s'autoguérir. Faisant libérer le père de l'adolescent russe, il permet aux deux immigrants d'organiser leur évasion, ce qui se termine par la prise en otage d'un employé du laboratoire. Mais Anouk, ayant accompagné Martin sur les lieux, est alors aussi prise dans le collimateur de Bourgeois ... Situant l'action dans un célèbre collège de Montréal du quartier Côte-des-Neiges, un onzième épisode provocateur et empreint d'émotions troubles, s'insérant dans un feuilleton de 13 épîtres aux accents fantastiques, évoquant les sentiments de solitude profonde puis d'amour naissant chez un garçon en proie au désespoir. La narration, très brève, à la première personne, entrecoupée de réflexions rédigées en italique au style direct, présage une série accessible, inspirée des romans graphiques de type manga dont la première illustration, en clair-obscur, établit l'atmosphère. Teintée d'une pointe de science-fiction qui lui procure tout son souffle, cette série hyperréaliste tiendra le lecteur en haleine, malgré le lourd poids qui pèse sur les épaules de son héros. [SDM].
Designed by Jeffrey P. Williams
"In October 1977, Dan Janzen, an ecologist then in his late thirties, wrote to the famous paleontologist Paul Martin, saying "I've got a screwy idea." What had led to Janzen's "screwy idea" was a mundane observation about the Costa Rican forest that, as he thought about it more and more, made less and less sense: There was a lot of uneaten fruit lying around on the forest floor. Fruit evolved to be eaten - it's a strategy plants employ to get animals to scatter their seeds - so such massive piles of rotting fruit made no evolutionary sense. Janzen wanted Martin to tell him what animals might have eaten the fruit in past eras. The paper the two co-wrote, published in Science in 1982, became an enduring classic in the ecological literature.". "Janzen and Martin had put their finger on an unnoticed contradiction in ecological thought. First, ecologists know that all living species evolve intricate, mutually dependent relationships with other species. Second, ecologists had also assumed that all species are adapted for their present environment. But what happens when a partner in one of these mutually dependent relationships goes extinct? The remaining partner is no longer well adapted: it becomes an ecological anachronism. At first such anachronisms were considered rare curiosities, but as increasing numbers have been discovered, they have emerged as an important element in understanding how ecosystems work. For the first time, the concept of deep time has entered ecological science and is changing the practice of both ecology and conservation biology.". "The Ghosts of Evolution is the first book of any kind to pull together all the various elements of the "missing partners" idea. It's a report on a scientific program in its infancy - so new, in fact, that the cutting edge is well within reach of any amateur naturalist. In this book, Connie Barlow finds new examples of North American anachronisms and does experiments at her kitchen sink that call into question the published theories of professional ecologists. She finds evolutionary ghosts on New York City streets, in her sister's backyard in Michigan, and on her neighbors' ranches in the desert southwest. After reading this book, you won't be able to look at a nearby park or even a shopping-mall parking lot without seeing the remnants of the elephants, camels, rhinos and lions that once roamed North America."--BOOK JACKET.