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de Myriam De Repentigny

Parce qu'il porte un drôle de prénom, Zèbre est la risée de la bande du gros Daniel. Pour se venger, l'enfant moqué aussi narrateur dessine les caricatures de ses intimidateurs et les affiche sur les casiers de l'école. Ceci lui vaut d'être envoyé chez le directeur qui, après l'avoir semoncé, l'invite à participer à un concours d'oeuvres d'art, ce qui lui fera rencontrer la jolie Gazelle et Zachary avec qui il fondera la bande des Z. [SDM]. Un roman réaliste facile à lire, ponctué de quelques amusantes vignettes en noir et blanc et touchant au thème sensible de l'intimidation. [SDM].

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James Kachadorian

This book offers a technique for building homes that heat and cool themselves in a wide range of different climates, using ordinary building materials available anywhere and with methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourselfers. A formerly patented design for author James Kachadorian's Solar Slab heat exchanger is now available for the use of anyone motivated by the desire to build a house that needs a backup furnace or air conditioner rarely if ever. This is a building book for the next century. Applicable to a diversity of regions, climates, budgets, and styles of architecture, Kachadorian's techniques translate the essentials of timeless solar design (siting a home in harmony with nature, using windows as solar collectors, achieving year-round comfort by balancing good insulation with healthy supplies of fresh air) into practical wisdom for today's new generation of solar builders.

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Kate Linker

Noted and notorious for his conceptually based body art and performance pieces of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Vito Acconci has uniquely invigorated the American art scene for more than two decades and has exerted a profound influence on the current generation of artists. This first full-scale study of the artist's career traces the shift from his early "language pieces" to his first visual art in 1969 (photographs that recorded the actions of his body - bending, throwing, jumping - in a landscape) to the filmed live performances and provocative installations of the 1970s and to his sculptural furniture and architecture and the public projects of the 1980s and early 1990s.

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John Francis Guilmartin, Jr

Analyzes all aspects of dominant fleets of sixteenth century Mediterranean (Spain, Venice, and Ottoman Empire) including: the galley and its design, the manning and recruiting of weaponry, the strategy and tactics of galley warfare, the effects of gunpowder, and the impact of social, economic, geographic, and climactic factors.