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After waiting all year to make a special wish for himself at the Loy Kathong festival, a ten-year-old Thai boy finds himself wishing instead for the welfare of a trapped white elephant.

In hopes of helping their poor village, a fifteen-year-old Lahu boy and his friends secretly sow and harvest a crop of opium poppies they can sell to Chinese traders.

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Accounting Theory 7e is the new edition of this widely respected accounting theory textbook. The new edition has been updated in accordance with ongoing developments the IASB Framework and reporting and disclosure requirements as a consequence of international harmonisation of accounting standards. The strength of this textbook has always been the balanced approach taken to explain and discuss alternative theories. The new edition continues with this tradition and seeks to make a clearer connection for students, studying accounting theory, that accounting theory is important and relevant. The Framework of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has required significant consolidation and rewriting of chapters. More than ever, the focus of this new edition is to provide students with an understanding of the Framework and how accounting information can be interpreted, disclosed and reported in practice. The new edition continues to present the latest research and developments in accounting theory whilst maintaining an objective perspective.

Une femme prise dans l''étau de la justiceUn moment d''inattention, un seul, et une vie peut basculer. Perdue dans la contemplation d''une carte du monde qu''elle avait dessinée jadis, Alice laisse sans surveillance la fille de sa meilleure amie. Lorsqu''elle revient à elle, il est trop tard...Acculée par les accusations de son entourage, prise dans l''étau de la justice, Alice est gagnée peu à peu par la folie. Le début d''un véritable voyage en enfer, entre remords et rédemption.De ce qui pourrait n''être que le récit d''un accident, Jane Hamilton tisse le point de départ d''un roman sur la culpabilité et le pardon qui a bouleversé l''Amérique. Peu d''écrivains ont su évoquer ainsi le sentiment de culpabilité, de trahison, et cette façon dont nos vies peuvent soudain basculer.Il a été adapté au cinéma en 1999, Sigourney Weaver incarnant avec une justesse poignante le rôle d''Alice.Première édition : l''Archipel, 1999

À 17 ans, Henry vit une adolescence tranquille à Chicago entre un père professeur de lycée, une mère pianiste et une soeur cadette qui joue les garçons manqués. Mais le jour où il se connecte par hasard sur la messagerie Internet de Lisa, sa mère, il découvre que, dans le monde des adultes, les apparences sont bien souvent trompeuses, que Lisa est aussi une femme, et qu''elle a une liaison passionnée avec un violoniste... Racontés par le jeune homme, dix ans après, les événements de cette année-là dévoilent les liens subtils et les non-dits au sein d''une famille ordinaire. Désillusions, tensions psychologiques, difficulté à se construire et à se comprendre : un roman d''apprentissage qui témoigne, avec subtilité et compassion, de la fragilité et de l''imperfection de la nature humaine.

When 17-year-old Henry Shaw accidently stumbles into his mother''s e-mail file and finds her confession of infidelity, he can''t resist becoming an electronic eavesdropper. For a year he monitors her correspondence with her lover. But his confused feelings colour his attitude towards love and sex.