This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT'96, held in Avignon, France in March 1996. The 31 full revised papers included were selected from a total of 178 submissions; also included are some industrial-track papers, contributed by partners of several ESPRIT projects. The volume is organized in topical sections on data mining, active databases, design tools, advanced DBMS, optimization, warehousing, system issues, temporal databases, the web and hypermedia, performance, workflow management, database design, and parallel databases.
This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT'96, held in Avignon, France in March 1996. The 31 full revised papers included were selected from a total of 178 submissions; also included are some industrial-track papers, contributed by partners of several ESPRIT projects. The volume is organized in topical sections on data mining, active databases, design tools, advanced DBMS, optimization, warehousing, system issues, temporal databases, the web and hypermedia, performance, workflow management, database design, and parallel databases.
Jean, à peine sorti de prison, devient l'amant de la veuve Couderc qui l'héberge. Ancienne servante qui a épousé le fils de ses patrons, elle doit maintenant se défendre contre l'avidité de ses belles-soeurs et de sa nièce. Elle s'attache à Jean avec une jalousie morbide. Mais lui ne rêvait que d'un bonheur paisible... La veuve Couderc a été porté à l'écran en 1971 par Pierre Granier-Deferre avec Simone Signoret et Alain Delon.
Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a “tour de force” At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement—self exile—on the Normandy coast, writing his anxiously anticipated memoirs and receiving visits from statesman and biographers. In his library is the self-condemning, handwritten confession of the premier’s former attaché, Chalamont, hidden between the pages of a sumptuously produced work of privately printed pornography—a confession that the premier himself had dictated and forced Chalamont to sign. Now the long-thwarted Chalamont has been summoned to form a new coalition in the wake of the government’s collapse. The premier alone possesses the secret of Chalamont’s guilt, of his true character—and has publicly vowed: “He’ll never be Premier as long as I’m alive... Nor when I’m dead, either.” Inspired by French Premier Georges Clemenceau, The President is a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a probing account of the decline of power.
Pourquoi Robert, dit le Grand Bob, a-t-il choisi de disparaître en se noyant au cours d'une partie de pêche ? Ami de Bob et de sa femme Lulu, le docteur Coindreau cherche dans le passé de cet homme au tempérament plutôt boute-en-train des éléments qui puissent élucider ce mystère. Issu d'une famille honorable, Bob a jadis abandonné ses études de droit pour vivre avec la légère et gentille Lulu, chapelière à Paris. Leur vie a été modeste mais heureuse. Alors ? Alors, Coindreau finira par comprendre le destin de deux êtres qui s'aimaient, et qui n'ont pas voulu être indignes l'un de l'autre...Une fois encore, le romancier du Petit Homme d'Arkhangelsk, créateur de Maigret, nous fait pénétrer dans le quotidien d'existences ordinaires, dont il sait comme personne exprimer l'humanité, et parfois la grandeur.
After his shady business deal in Brussels fails and his gorgeous companion Sylvie Baron leaves him for an Antwerp shipowner nicknamed Van der Boomp, Turkish businessman Elias Nagear, stricken ill and consumed with jealousy, kills Van der Boomp
A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces. 'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion ... disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers' Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man. Then he discovers that his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for - and something snaps. Kees used to watch the trains go by to exciting destinations. Now, on some dark impulse, he boards one at random, and begins a new life of recklessness and violence. This chilling portrayal of a man who breaks from society and goes on the run asks who we are, and what we are capable of. 'Classic Simenon ... extraordinary in its evocative power' Independent 'What emerges is the bare human animal' John Gray 'Read him at your peril, avoid him at your loss' Sunday Times
Nobody mentioned the victims, or the terror that had gripped the town. For the last twenty days it had rained and between the usual quiet conversations and card games, only the trickle of water and the air of cold fear could be detected. A serial killer stalks La Rochelle's cobbled streets - and by the most unfortunate of occurrences, Kachoudas, a poor timid tailor and a newcomer to the town, knows exactly who it is... One of Georges Simenon's darkest novels, The Hatter's Ghosts is a riveting portrait of murder and subterfuge, at once a cat and mouse thriller and an acute physiological study of the criminal imagination.
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