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Olivier Lambert is a private detective trying to gather the pieces of his life together after his beloved wife dies in a freak car accident. When he meets Maude, a mysterious woman with a complex case involving a fatal accident, long-lost relatives and dark secrets, his investigation leads him to Stanstead, Quebec, Boston, USA, and Lisbon, Portugal. Along the way, he unravels the painful truth about Maude’s family—and meets a woman who might be the missing piece he’s been waiting for to make him feel whole again. Riveting, thought-provoking and heartwarming, A Patch of Black Ice explores the depths a family will go to stay together even after they’ve lost so much.
Les plages de la côte d'Opale, le vent, les marées et un restaurateur à succès qui se bat pour faire de l'excellence la norme.Tout destinait Marc à suivre le modeste chemin tracé par son père. Vingt ans plus tard, alors que le perfectionniste a trouvé la notoriété à Paris et à l'étranger, un curieux héritage va totalement changer sa trajectoire et l'éveiller aux autres. Quand on vit intensément, on peut oublier le temps qui passe, la famille et sa propre quête. On peut s'égarer et se prendre pour un autre. Une histoire de tendresse et d'émotion qui replace l'humanisme au coeur de la vie. L'estran est la zone découverte à marée basse et immergée à la pleine mer, c'est une bande de terre sur laquelle il est difficile de prendre racine. Elle oblige à regarder le monde sans aucune certitude.
Ageing populations have gradually become a major concern in many industrialised countries over the past fifty years, drawing the attention of both politics and science. The target of a raft of health and social policies, older people are often identified as a specific, and vulnerable, population. At the same time, ageing has become a specialisation in many disciplines - medicine, sociology, psychology, to name but three – and a discipline of its own: gerontology. This book questions the framing of old age by focusing on the relationships between policy making and the production of knowledge. The first part explores how the meeting of scientific expertise and the politics of old age anchors...
This publication presents the current situation with regard to the magnitude and economic impact of migrants’ remittances to their countries of origin.