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La parution de ce livre a provoqué d'énormes remous en Haïti. Lors de sa présentation le 26 mai 2001, le gouvernement Aristide procéda violemment à l'arrestation de son auteur, Prosper Avril, un ancien président de ce pays. Au sujet de cet incident, Yves Colon, du Miami Herald, écrit ceci dans la livraison du 31 mai 2001 de ce journal : "En sa qualité d'ancien président et de général d'armée, Prosper Avril représentait une figure importante en Haïti. Aujourd'hui, ce grand-père de 64 ans se trouve dans le pénitencier bondé de Port-au-Prince... La semaine dernière, il s'était rendu dans un restaurant prisé d'une banlieue de la capitale pour signer des copies de son livre : Haïti: 1995-2000 -Le Livre Noir de l'Insécurité. L'ouvrage attribue une récente vague d'enlèvements, de hold-up, de vols, d'assassinats en Haïti à l'inefficacité de la force de police d'Aristide. Pendant qu'Avril signait les livres, des hommes lourdement armés et portant des masques noirs entrèrent dans le restaurant et s'emparèrent de sa personne."Visiblement furieux que quelqu'un ait osé critiquer sa gestion, l'ex-président Jean-Bertrand Aristide avait donc réagi violemment. Néanmoins, le livre d'Avril était classé deuxième parmi les best-sellers d'Haïti pour l'année 2001, car l'auteur y mettait à nu devant la société un problème crucial qui réclamait une solution urgente : l'insécurité ravageant la population haïtienne.Plusieurs années après l'exécution de l'opération baptisée Support à la Démocratie menée en Haïti en 1994, la paix sociale promise n'a pas été matérialisée dans ce pays. Nombre d'homicides étaient commis en plein jour sans que les assassins aient été identifiés, arrêtés et déférés à la justice. De 1995 à l'année 2000, période couverte par ce livre, Haïti a perdu un nombre considérable de ses filles et fils, victimes de crimes à motivation politique ou de droit commun. Des Etrangers, également, ont été emportés par le spectre de la mort violente qui hantait les coins et recoins du pays. Prosper Avril relate dans cet ouvrage les conditions dans lesquelles un total de 1431 crimes atroces incluant des assassinats par balles, armes tranchantes, lynchages, lapidations, strangulations, supplices du collier, etc... ont survenu. Il met également en évidence l'irresponsable et scandaleuse attitude des autorités en place face à la situation, favorisant une totale impunité aux assassin's.Le 29 février 2004 mit fin au pouvoir Lavalas en Haïti. Alors, Jean-Bertrand Aristide n'étant plus au pouvoir pour bloquer les décisions de justice, Prosper Avril était libéré en vertu des nombreux arrêts ordonnant sa mise en liberté. Une fois libre, il a pris la décision de présenter au public cette deuxième édition de son livre, vu l'épuisement quasi-total du premier stock imprimé. L'auteur espère, par cette initiative, susciter l'intérêt international sur le sujet pour que les nouveaux dirigeants arrivent à trouver le support nécessaire pour la restauration d'une paix sociale véritable en Haïti.

This book is an overview of the United States legal system, with a brief introduction to Islamic and International law. The book is divided into six parts. Part I (The Legal System and Crime) introduces the U.S. legal system and the classification of crime. Part II (White Collar Crime) covers cybercrime, crime the old fashioned way, and healthcare fraud. Part III (Homicide) deals with simple murder, serial murder, mass and spree murder; and assassination. Part IV (Special Groups) covers the mafia; the family; the medical, legal, and teaching professions; the religion profession; celebrities; and stupid criminals. Part V (On the Edge) deals with topics I consider to be a bit strange; that is, quackery, innovative defenses, and dangerous cults. And finally, Part VI (Residue) discusses what is left ... capital punishment and crimes against humanity, including terrorism. Throughout the book, to illustrate points, I have used over 300 cases of actual crimes. The names of the people and the facts of the cases used in the discussions of these crimes are taken directly from referenced news reports.The subtitle, Computer Viruses to Twin Towers, reflects the scope of the book; that is, from computer viruses, which cause only aggravation or loss of money, to the deadly terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 that snuffed out almost 3000 lives.

This study explores pragmatic strategies in disagreement affected by power relations in Mandarin Chinese with data collected in the People's Republic of China.This study first investigates in what ways power relations in Chinese university settings influence pragmatic strategies in disagreement. The study then shows with natural data that a new cultural orientation characterized by new features has emerged among the Chinese people. Thirdly, the author probes the controversial issue of pragmatics and power, and proves that the maxim of Relevance can be taken as a supermaxim of CP, which dominates the analyses of the relationship between language use and social parameters.Si Liu has successfully initiated a combination of statistical analysis and ethnographic approach in pragmatic research. Her findings in the study are valuable contributions to the research both in Chinese culture and in empirical pragmatics.

Adel Safty leads a distinguished group of scholars, researachers, and practitioners in the field of leadership in a multidisciplinary, multicultural, and critical inquirey into leadership in various social contexts. They thus address issues related to leadership and Public Policy, Leadership and Management, Leadership and Capacity Building and Leadership and Self-Development. The contributors include Mrs. Harriet Fulbright (USA), Mr. Enver Yucel (Turkey), Dr. John Kane (Australia), Ambassador Ingmar Karlsson (Sweden), Dr. Mansour Elagab (Sudan), Dr. Hafiza Golandaz (India), Ms. Marina Tyasto (Russia), Ms. Cristina Lamana (Spain), Dr. Carol Allais (South Africa), Dr. Stanley Gryskiewicz (USA), Dr. Nawal Amar (USA), Dr. Bruce Lloyd (England) Dr. Christos Nicolaidis (Greece), Dr. Ajay Chhibber (India), Dr. Muhsin Mengütürk (Turkey), and others.

A selection of writings and speeches on the political evolution of the West African Republic of Liberia from 1978 to 2001 by a Liberian political activist who has been at the centre of the political developments in that country during the period covered.

The book is an examination of education from the inside. It is rooted in a four-year project in which I returned to high school and wrote about 100 columns published in The Kansas City Star from studying with the Class of 1999 at Washington High School in Kansas City, Kan. A teacher's cry for attention to what takes place in an urban school led to the project. This book would appeal to educators, teachers colleges, parents, businesses and community groups. The book is broken into teachable moments pulled from the columns. The manuscript insists that community involvement in the schools and in the classrooms is how education can best be improved. Journalists and schools of journalism also would benefit from the book because it teaches a different way of covering education. The book attacks the No Child Left Behind Act and underscores how public education must be the No. 1 concern in this election year. Platitudes are not enough.

This is a sociological and historical analysis of the conflict between the state and the Catholic Church in China between 1949 and 2001 during half of a century of the socialist regime. The relationship began with conflict, followed by accomodation and finally a cooperative spirit had developed for a complex web of political and diplomatic reasons. Never in the past the Catholic Church has shown a rigorous growth under the encouragement of the Communist Party to shape the Church in the image of a indigenous and local church and to minimize the influence of the Vatican. There remains a persistent struggle between the underground church, those who remain loyal to early missionaries and to the Holy See, and the official national church controlled by the Party/State. The authors argue that there is hope that the conflict will eventually disappear as the new leadership in Beijing may one day restore a diplomatic relationship with the Vatican.

This book describes how an automated patient medical record could be built that could evolve into a universal patient record. Such a universal patient record would change medical care from a focus on short-term care to one oriented to long-term, preventive-care. It would remove patient care from being the province of the single physician to that of the responsibility of many different healthcare providers, possibly located anywhere in the world.

English to Spanish dictionary of computer and Internet terms. Diccionario Inglés a Español de términos de Internet y computación.

Totally addicted to oil, Man in his industrial adventure has transformed nearly all the Earth's ecosystems into "egosystems" designed to serve only his own needs and desires, at the expense of all other species. He persists despite the irreversible damage he is causing to the environment. He has already disrupted the Earth's thermostats.Western society has reached the "Age of Excess," which will last only as long as there is still fossil energy to fuel it. The Earth cannot keep up with Man's demand for natural resources. Her hydrocarbon reserves are shrinking rapidly and by 2010, global production will begin to decrease, setting off a period of unprecedented planetary disorder and turmoil.Today the United States must import most of the oil it needs from faraway countries. Therein lies a terrible paradox: the power of America is rooted in dependency! The free enterprise system that it is imposing on the rest of the world cannot solve this paradoxical situation; it will only amplify it and hasten destabilization.It is high time to wonder whether we in the West, in our suicidal quest for energy, are not running the risk of losing control of the course of our history. The invasion of Iraq by the United States military, in lockstep with American corporations, is a distressing and reprehensible step in this direction.

Unknown to most Americans, more than 10,000 Germans and German Americans were interned in the United States during WWII. This story is about the internment of a young American and his family. He was born in the U.S.A. and the story tells of his perilous path from his home in Brooklyn to internment at Ellis Island, N.Y. and Crystal City, Texas...