Women and politics in ancient Rome

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Katarina Mazetti

Elle, c'est Mariana, mais leur rencontre fut assez fracassante pour qu'il la surnomme Tarzan. Lui, il s'appelle Janne, pour de vrai. Mère célibataire, elle élève seule deux enfants, caresse le souvenir de leur fantasque père évaporé dans la nature et tente de nourrir sa petite famille malgré des fins de mois asphyxiantes. Lui, il roule en Lamborghini, papillonne sans s'engager avec de jeunes femmes forcément cadres, élégantes et dynamiques, et déteste que des marmots salissent les sièges en cuir de sa voiture de sport. Ces deux-là peuvent-ils s'aimer? Et si, malgré l'abîme qui les sépare, ils s'attachent l'un à l'autre, sauront-ils vivre une relation décomplexée qui fera fi des conventions et des barrières sociales? Après l'immense succès du Mec de la tombe d'à côté, Katarina Mazetti met en scène un nouveau couple loufoque et improbable pour mieux brocarder les injustices sociales et rire de l'éternelle guerre des sexes dans un roman enlevé, drôle et caustique. L'histoire d'amour entre Mariana, mère de deux enfants, qui lutte contre le manque d'argent, et Jannot, un homme riche désirant combler ce manque par toutes sortes de cadeaux

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Elizabeth L. MacNabb ... [et al

"Transforming the Disciplines is one of the first women's studies books to show feminist scholarship as an active force, changing the way we study such diverse fields as architecture, bioethics, history, mathematics, religion, and sports studies. Its clear, jargon-free prose makes feminist thought accessible without sacrificing the revolutionary power of its ideas. In almost thirty essays, Transforming the Disciplines exemplifies the changes achieved by feminist thought."--BOOK JACKET.

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A. E. van Vogt

Gilbert Gosseyn, a man living in an apparent utopia where those with superior understanding and mental control rule the rest of humanity, wants to be tested by the giant Machine that determines such superiority. However, he finds that his memories are false. In his search for his real identity, he discovers that he has extra bodies that are activated when he dies (so that, in a sense, he cannot be killed), that a galactic society of humans exists outside the Solar system, a large interstellar empire wishes to conquer both the Earth and Venus (inhabited by masters of non-Aristotelian logic), and he has extra brain matter that, when properly trained, can allow him to move matter with his mind.

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[by] Richard A. Nyquist and Ronald O. Kagel

Infrared spectroscopy has proven to be a most useful tool in structural determination and identification of organic compounds. This method of analysis has the advantage of being rapid and unambiguous, it can easily be applied to small quantities of sample, and is accessible to most organic chemists because of the availability of low- cost infrared spectrometers. For these reasons, over the last 30 years large numbers of standard spectra of organic compounds have been collected and catalogued, and are presently available for reference. In contrast, relatively few infrared spectra of inorganic compounds are available for reference, and no present collection covers both the mid- and far-infrared regions from 3800 to 45 cm-1. The present work is intended to help fill this void by presenting a comprehensive compendium of reference spectra of inorganic compounds.