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1974. Back from Vietnam, John Gaines has accepted the position of sheriff in Whytesburg, Mississippi. A quiet little town until the day the body of a teenage girl is discovered buried on the riverbank. The shock is immense: she is none other than Nancy Denton, a young girl who mysteriously disappeared twenty years earlier, her body preserved by the mud. The autopsy reveals that her heart is missing, replaced by a basket containing the remains of a snake. Traumatized by Vietnam, that atrocious war whose end "only the dead saw," John must once again confront horror. He will thus return to the fight, a singular fight this time, for it is true that a single body can be even more disturbing than hundreds. A fight waged for a murdered teenager and a heartbroken mother, a fight against the secrets and hidden truths of his quiet little town. If conducting an investigation twenty years after the crime seems a perilous undertaking, it is nothing compared to what awaits John: another journey through the nine circles of hell.

Immersing myself in drug stories is the only perspective that has allowed me to truly understand things. Observing human weaknesses, the physiology of power, the fragility of relationships, the inconsistency of bonds, the colossal force of money and ferocity. The absolute impotence of all the teachings that emphasized beauty and justice, the very ones I had absorbed. I realized that cocaine was the axis around which everything revolved. The wound had only one name: Cocaine. The world map was indeed drawn by oil, the black oil we're used to talking about, but also by white oil, as the Nigerian godfathers call it. The world map is drawn by fuel, the fuel of morals and bodies. "Oil is the fuel for engines, coke for bodies." After Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano continues his investigative and reflective work on organized crime. But this time, he steps outside the Italian context to think on a global scale. Where does crime get its strength? How did the global economy overcome the 2008 financial crisis? The answer is simple: thanks to cocaine money, white oil. To understand this, Extra Pure invites us on a journey from Mexico to Russia, from Colombia to Nigeria, passing through the United States, Spain, France, and, of course, Italy and the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta. Throughout this exploration, the author recounts, with unparalleled epic power, what criminal clans are all over the world. And he goes even further, because he ruthlessly dismantles the entire workings of the economy. Extra Pure is neither an investigation nor an essay, neither a novel nor a An autobiographical account, but all of that at once and much more. For Roberto Saviano, it is also an opportunity to open up, to confide, to speak with gravity and sincerity about danger and solitude, the desire to lead a life like others and the determination to continue his fight.

Only two feelings make the heart beat: love and fear. On the night of April 14-15, 1912, as the Titanic sank in the middle of its maiden voyage, one of the passengers went down to his first-class cabin, changed into a tuxedo, and went back up on deck. Instead of trying to save his life, he lit a cigar and waited for death. On the evening of April 14, 1916, in the trenches of Mount Fumo, four years to the day after the sinking of the Titanic, an Italian soldier was taken prisoner...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, the brutal collapse of the financial markets in 2008, the Arab Spring revolutions, the global financial crisis... history has accelerated dramatically. *Chronicle of the Clash of Civilizations* offers an analysis of recent major geopolitical events, placing them within the broader context of history. The author presents a veritable atlas of the contemporary world and its fractures.

A computer scientist's role is not to design architectures; rather, they need a model of how the computer works that gives them a good understanding of their program's performance and the impact each program modification will have on that performance. Understanding such a model requires a certain amount of knowledge about how a computer functions, including function calling mechanisms, parameter passing from one function to another, memory allocation and deallocation, and so on.

This book answers the questions that all companies considering outsourcing some of their IT projects ask themselves. Which projects should be outsourced? How do you choose a provider, and in which country? How do you assess the risks and return on investment? Packed with practical advice and checklists, the book offers concrete and operational solutions for successfully completing each phase of the project: preparatory steps, choosing the provider and the outsourcing method (fixed price, time and materials, etc.), contractual aspects, team organization, project monitoring methodology, testing and acceptance, deployment, monitoring, and security.

This book was designed as a resource for general practitioners who deal with traumatic injuries on a daily basis. The two authors, experienced emergency physicians, provide clear, concise, and practical answers to the problems posed by traumatic injuries. Simple procedures, a detailed clinical approach, and the necessity of further investigations or specialist consultation are all explained and justified. The writing style is precise and concise, and a glossary complements the definitions and materials cited in the text. The authors consulted with general practitioners and specialists to define simple and practical management strategies that are compatible with real-world clinical needs.

This guide is intended for doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers in rural clinics and hospitals. It addresses the curative and, to a lesser extent, preventive aspects of the main illnesses encountered in the field. The list is not exhaustive but covers the essential needs. This guide aims to provide the simplest possible answers to the problems faced by healthcare professionals through practical solutions, combining the experience gained in the field by Doctors Without Borders with the recommendations of leading organizations such as the World Health Organization.

Like the stories that animate them, these vagabonds are strange pilgrims, all Latin American, transported to the four corners of an unusual Europe, on adventures where magic and humor are articulated by what Gabriel García Márquez considers essential to the construction of this work: the perspective of time. "I believe I have thus succeeded in creating the book of tales that comes closest to the one I always wanted to write," the author tells us. With its captivating beauty, the strength and narrative power of its heroes, Twelve Vagabond Tales is a marvelously accomplished book, imbued with a tragic dimension that gives it the breath of great literature.

In Macondo, a small, isolated village in South America, the illustrious Buendia family is condemned to one hundred years of solitude by the prophecy of the gypsy Melquiades... In a whirlwind of revolutions, civil wars, plagues and destruction, they live a mythical epic, with an unforgettable flavor, which traverses the three ages of life: birth, life and decadence... This breathtaking novel is a masterpiece of the 20th century.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece and certainly one of the best Latin American novels to date."
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