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In The Battle for Algeria Jennifer Johnson reinterprets one of the most violent wars of decolonization: the Algerian War (1954-1962). Johnson argues that the conflict was about who—France or the National Liberation Front (FLN)—would exercise sovereignty of Algeria. The fight between the two sides was not simply a military affair; it also involved diverse and competing claims about who was positioned to better care for the Algerian people's health and welfare. Johnson focuses on French and Algerian efforts to engage one another off the physical battlefield and highlights the social dimensions of the FLN's winning strategy, which targeted the local and international arenas. Relying on Alge...
Des incunables ont été perdus, un autre livre ancien se trouve scatologiquement souillé... Après un entretien houleux avec son chef qui l'accuse de négligence envers ces malheureux ouvrages précieux, Glabure, employé de la très sélecte Sud-Université et sous-géreur de la Médiadocuthèque, atterrit incongrûment sur le bitume du boulevard National. Balancé du haut du pont ! L'obscur employé était un passionné de recherches historiques, mais aussi auteur, en duo avec le chartiste homosexuel Larousse-Lalongue, de romans pornos. Son directeur, le très poli Florent Dipinto et Cirta, la femme de celui-ci, auraient-ils eu peur d'une vengeance par livre porno interposé ? Et que vient ici faire... le diable, oui, auquel Glabure semble, là aussi, consacrer d'inquiétantes études ? Heureusement veille un ami, Jean Roy, ancien de la Légion Etrangère et fidèle à la mémoire d'un certain colonel " Œil au noir " qui a fait des trucs pas très éthiques, jadis, pendant une certaine guerre d'Algérie...
This volume of LNICST is a collection of the papers of the 4th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (Bionetics). The event took place in the medieval city of Avignon, known also as the City of the Popes, during December 9 to 11, 2009. Bionetics main objective is to bring b- inspired paradigms into computer engineereing and networking, and to enhance the fruitful interactions between these fields and biology. The program of the conference indeed includes applications of various paradigms that have their origin in biology: population dynamics, branching processes, ant c- ony optimization. The proceedings include 19 papers covering a bro...