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« Auschwitz ce n’était rien [après Treblinka], Auschwitz c’était un camp de vacances. » Ainsi s’exprimait Hershl Sperling, l’un des très rares survivants du plus effroyable centre de mise à mort de l’Aktion Reinhard. Son propos peut sembler sacrilège au lecteur peu informé de la réalité de Treblinka. En effet si le nom de ce site est connu, son histoire, comme celle de Belzec et de Sobibor, l’est beaucoup moins, les nazis ayant pris grand soin d’effacer les traces de leur entreprise barbare, de liquider les derniers témoins et de raser les vestiges qu’ils abandonnaient. D’où le défi que pose cette « impossibilité de rendre compte ». Ainsi, dès 1943, le sit...
Ignacio Matus is a public school history teacher in Monterrey, Mexico, who gets fired because of his patriotic rantings about Mexico’s repeated humiliations by the United States. Not only did Mexico’s northern neighbor steal a large swath of the country in the Mexican-American War, but according to Matus it also denied him Olympic glory. Excluded from the 1924 Olympics, Matus ran his own parallel marathon and beat the time of the American who officially won the bronze medal. After spending decades attempting to vindicate his supposed triumph and claim the medal, Matus seeks an even bigger vindication—he will reconquer Texas for Mexico! Recruiting an army of “los iluminados,” the en...
MRI has become an important tool in the management of patients with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, such as rectal cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases. This book, written by distinguished experts in the field, discusses in detail the technical, practical, and clinical aspects of MRI of the gastrointestinal tract. The chapters on technique encompass the most recent developments and address such topics as contrast media, high field strength MRI, and perfusion MRI. Subsequently, individual chapters are devoted to the clinical applications of MRI in the different parts of the gastrointestinal tract. Both established applications and new frontiers are considered, with the aid of numerous high-quality illustrations. By combining chapters dedicated to technical aspects and clinically oriented chapters, this book will prove very instructive for the novice while simultaneously offering experienced practitioners further insights into the value of MRI of the gastrointestinal tract.
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