<b>Un agent du FBI rencontre dans d'étranges circonstances une jeune femme morte depuis des années...</b> <br> <br>L’agent fédéral Julian McDonnell enquête sur des fonds occultes aux ramifications multiples et internationales. Rapidement freiné par des règles diplomatiques et certains conflits internes, il comprend que ses recherches touchent un point ultrasensible. Soupçonnant les services secrets mexicains, il fait la connaissance de Sandra lors d’un passage à Las Vegas. Rencontrée dans des circonstances pour le moins particulières, son identité l’est encore plus. Cette jolie jeune femme que ne refuserait aucun homme est centenaire. De l’autre côté de l’Atlantique, aux Pays-Bas, l’homme d’affaires Thomas Eton retrouve sa grand-mère qu’il avait tant aimée et décédée deux ans plus tôt… Contre l’avis de tous et les pressions croissantes, il s’entête et refuse de croire à un fantôme ou une supercherie. <br> <br> <b>Comment se peut-il que des morts ressurgissent du jour au lendemain ? Accompagnez Julian McDonnell au fil de ses recherches dans ce roman de science-fiction absolument glaçant !</b> <br> <br>EXTRAIT <br> <br>— Comme vous le savez peut-être déjà, je travaille pour le FBI et j’ai besoin de vous poser quelques questions, ça va aller pour y répondre ? <br>Très intrigué et relativement sceptique, il avait volontairement adopté une stratégie de compassion, exagérant son empathie. <br>— Ce sont mes jambes qui ont un problème, pas mon cerveau, plaisanta-t-elle. <br>— Justement, parlons-en ! Elles ont été anesthésiées et vous vous êtes retrouvée dans un véhicule incapable de freiner. D’après mes connaissances sur le sujet, c’est peu banal, répondit-il ironiquement. <br>— Je me souviens que des hommes cagoulés m’ont mise dans la voiture et ont posé une brique sur l’accélérateur. J’étais paniquée, je ne savais plus quoi faire. Malheureusement, je ne me souviens pas d’autre chose, comme si mes souvenirs avaient été effacés. J’ignore totalement l’identité de mes ravisseurs, expliqua-t-elle calmement. <br>— Où êtes-vous née ? testa Julian. <br>La jeune femme voulut répondre directement mais aucun son ne sortit de sa bouche. Elle regarda Julian dépitée, prenant progressivement conscience de son amnésie. <br>— Savez-vous en quelle année nous sommes ? poursuivit-il. <br>— J’avoue l’ignorer… probablement à la fin du vingtième siècle, balbutia-t-elle. <br>— Nous sommes en 2020, l’année des Jeux olympiques de Tokyo, dit-il sérieusement. <br>Elle ne sut que répondre, totalement désemparée. Le regard interdit, elle prit le bras de Julian et le serra fortement. <br>— Combien de temps suis-je restée dans le coma ? Que m’est-il arrivé ? demanda-t-elle la voix remplie de sanglots. <br>— Vous n’allez peut-être pas me croire… En réalité, vous n’avez jamais été dans le coma, vous êtes décédée il y a quarante-neuf ans d’un problème au cœur, répondit-il d’un air désolé. <br>— C’est une blague ? demanda-t-elle en levant les sourcils. ...
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<p> ”What a gorgeous day for a sleigh-ride! Did you ever see such sunny, twinkling snow, and such crisp, crackly air? It fairly snaps off as you breathe it! „ Betty McGuire stood on the steps of the veranda as she spoke. Her mother, in the doorway, was smiling down at her, and her pony, Dixie, was jingling his bells and pawing at the snow and ice in the driveway below. It was the first trial of the pretty new cutter, and the joyous excitement of the occasion made Betty’s cheeks as red as her scarlet tam-o’-shanter cap, or her red cloth coat with its high fur collar. Betty drew on her driving-gloves, still talking to her mother. „Isn’t it a darling sleigh, Mother? Did you ever see such a pretty one? And Dixie is so proud of it.” „It’s a beauty, Betty. I know you’ll enjoy it. Are you taking Tilly for a ride? „ „Betty’s Happy Year” is a thrilling tale for younger ladies by Carolyn Wells, written in 1910.</p>
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<p> The stolen trinity of American heroes flies around the globe on a screw machine heavier than air: from Philadelphia – through Canada and the Far West – to Japan, China, India; through Russia, Europe, Africa and the South Pole – to the Pacific Ocean. Due to the fact that the ship „Albatross” moves at breakneck speed, terrestrial landscapes are flashed before the reader in passing. The work has an intrigue that unfolds in a rather interesting way, as well as a very unpredictable ending.</p>
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<p> In the first part of the story, the brave inventor Robur sets off on a world tour on a giant helicopter „Albatross” in order to prove the superiority of aircraft heavier than air over balloons. The work has an intrigue that unfolds in a rather interesting way, as well as a very unpredictable ending. This is in the style of Verne – when the heroes of one work can easily appear in another, remember the same Mysterious Island. There is a similar picture.</p>
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<p>This book examines the application of nanoscience and nanotechnology in military defence strategies. Both historical and current perspectives on military technologies are discussed. The book provides comprehensive details on current trends in the application of nanotechnology to ground, air, and naval specializations. Furthermore, nanotechnology-enabled high energy explosives and propellants, chemical, biological, radiation, and nuclear threats and their detection/protection, and camouflage and stealth for signature management of military targets in multispectral wavelength signals are analyzed. The book also covers nanotechnology-enabled armor and platforms, which may serve as lightweight and high mechanical strength options in contrast to conventional systems. Finally, the book also emphasizes future military applications of nanotechnology and its integration into ‘smart’ materials.</p> <p></p> <ul> <li>Provides comprehensive details on trends in the application of nanotechnology to ground, air, and naval defence systems;</li> <li>Examines the application of nanoscience and nanotechnology in military defence strategies;</li> <li>Offers pathways and research avenues for development of nanotechnology and materials applications in military capacities.</li> </ul> <p></p> <p></p>
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This volume discusses the fundamental dynamic behaviour of granular materials, in particular cohesionless sand, when subjected to shock and blast wave loading. The contents of the book are mainly divided into three parts based on the type of loading imparted to the granular materials: Shock-wave loading (step pulse); Air-blast loading (Friedlander wave); Buried-blast loading. It provides a comprehensive review of the available testing methods, along with the necessary diagnostic measurements for material characterization, making it useful for researchers working in the area of blast protection and Impact engineering. <br>
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<p>This book focuses on interdisciplinary issues of human health in the changing urban environments of India’s largest megacities—Delhi and Mumbai. The authors explore human health concerns related to increased temperatures and air pollution in these cities in a study based on primary data collected through interviews, as well as secondary data on causes of mortality from 2001 to 2012. During this period, the surface temperatures for both megacities were mapped using Landsat Images.</p> <p></p> <p>The rapidly increasing populations of cities and urban centers alter ecosystem services such as water, air and land cover, with disastrous impacts on health and wellbeing, particularly in megacities. In 2015, polluted air was estimated to have been responsible for 6.4 million deaths worldwide, and it is projected that it will cause between 6 and 9 million deaths per year by 2060. In 2017, outdoor air pollution resulted in 1.2 million deaths in India and brought about a 3% loss in GDP. The increase in population, vehicles, and industries has led to changes in land use and land cover and a rise in city temperatures and air pollution, creating urban heat islands (UHIs). Together, UHIs and air pollution have damaging impacts on human health that range from stress and headache to asthma, bronchitis, and chronic diseases, and even to death.</p> <p>Delhi has been experiencing emergency conditions in terms of environmental health over the past two years. At the same time, both the Delhi and Mumbai urban agglomerations are growing at a rapid pace, and the United Nations has projected that they will be the second and third most populous cities in the world by 2025. In this context, the book offers significant insights into the past patterns and responses to the present global urban health emergencies, and explores sustainable means of combating the problem to enable college and university researchers to develop innovative solutions. Further. It presents trans-disciplinary research that cuts across the WHO Action Plan, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Habitat III to help policymakers gain a better understanding of the global challenges of urban health and wellbeing. The book is especially useful for students and researchers in geography, urban demography, urban studies, environmental studies, health sciences, and policy studies.<br></p>
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This book attempts to give a discussion of the physics and current and potential applications of the self-focusing of an intense femtosecond laser pulse in a tra- parent medium. Although self-focusing is an old subject of nonlinear optics, the consequence of self-focusing of intense femtosecond laser pulses is totally new and unexpected. Thus, new phenomena are observed, such as long range lam- tation, intensity clamping, white light laser pulse, self-spatial ltering, self-group phase locking, self-pulse compression, clean nonlinear uorescence, and so on. Long range propagation at high intensity, which is seemingly against the law of diffraction, is probably one of the most exciting consequences of this new sub- eld of nonlinear optics. Because the intensity inside the lament core is high, new ways of doing nonlinear optics inside the lament become possible. We call this lamentation nonlinear optics. We shall describe the generation of pulses at other wavelengths in the visible and ultraviolet (UV) starting from the near infrared pump pulse at 800 nm through four-wave-mixing and third harmonic generation, all in gases. Remotely sensing uorescence from the fragments of chemical and biological agents in all forms, gaseous, aerosol or solid, inside the laments in air is demonstrated in the labo- tory. The results will be shown in the last part of the book. Through analyzing the uorescence of gas molecules inside the lament, an unexpected physical process pertaining to the interaction of synchrotron radiation with molecules is observed.
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