IL NE LUI RESTE QU'UN MONDE À CONQUÉRIR... Tant de planètes ont succombé par la main de l'Imperatrix Virago, infectant inéluctablement leur faune et leur flore pour la maintenir en vie. Aujourd'hui, c'est vers la Terre qu'elle se tourne pour satisfaire son appétit. La géomancienne Tama, en tant que protectrice et avatar de la Terre, est la première victime de cette contagion. Son gardien, le Guerrier Éternel, part alors en mission dans le dangereux Monde des Morts, où voyage l'Imperatrix, pour trouver le remède à cette terrible infection, sauver Tama... et la planète tout entière avec elle. Andy Diggle (The Losers, Green Arrow Year One, Shadowman) et Alex Paknadel (Doctor Who) s'associent au légendaire artiste Doug Braithwaite (X-O Manowar, Imperium, Justice) pour un récit complet déchirant à travers les dimensions !
This book looks at the relationships between the physical-social environment and the elderly in Europe and Latin America, from the Environmental Gerontology perspective and through geographical and psychosocial approaches. It addresses the main environmental issues of population ageing, based on an understanding of the complex relationships, adjustments and adaptations between different environments (home, residence, public spaces, landscapes, neighbourhoods, urban and rural environment) and the quality of life of the ageing population, associated with residential strategies and other aspects related to health and dependency. The different levels of socio-spatial analysis are also explored: macro (urban and rural environments, regions and landscapes), meso (neighbourhood, public space) and micro (personal, home and institution). New theoretical and methodological approaches are proposed to analyse the attributes and functions of the physical-social environment of the elderly, as well as new ways of living the ageing process. All will have to respond to the challenges of urbanisation, globalisation and climate change in the 21st century. Also, the different experiences and challenges of public planning and management professionals involved with the growing ageing population are presented, and will require greater association and collaboration with the academic and scientific fields of Environmental Gerontology.
Considerable attention has been given during the past few years to the water crisis that many regions of the world may face in the coming decades. While the mag- tude and the extent of the global water scarcity problems of the future should not be underestimated, a serious analysis of the current trends indicate that the main water crisis in the coming years is most likely to stem primarily from water quality deterioration and lack of investment funds, rather than from physical water scar- ties per se, as is widely expected at present. In spite of the seriousness of continuing water quality deterioration in most countries of the world, water quality management continues to be a somewhat - glected issue in the international water community. Even the magnitudes and - tents of the water quality problems are not reliably known in many developed countries and in nearly all developing ones. Accordingly, in order to assess the current situation in water quality management in the Americas, and to discuss the alternatives available to improve the existing and future water quality conditions in a cost-effective and timely manner, the Third World Centre for Water M- agement in Mexico, the National Water Agency in Brazil (Agência Nacional de Águas), and the Inter-American Development Bank organised a workshop on "Water Quality Management for the Americas," in Fortaleza, Brazil, 12-13 April 2004.
Dans une forêt de Germanie, des hordes barbares ont écrasé trois des meilleures légions romaines et capturé leurs aigles... Humilié, l'empereur fou Néron envoie Antonius Axia, le plus grand détective de l'empire, et Achilla, la championne des gladiateurs, pour les retrouver. La mission va se transformer en un voyage terrifiant, où les forêts des ennemis de Rome révéleront des dimensions inconnues.
