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The first title from Andre Schiffrin's publishing house is a major, timely book for an election year. In Terkel's ( Hard Times ) well-established manner--he is one of the great interviewers--he encourages a wide range of Americans, black and white, to speak their minds about race with remarkable frankness, as well as about their perceptions of the Washington leadership. The resulting book is infinitely more informative than polls taken on such issues because the subjects are allowed to explore their thoughts, prejudices, hopes and fears. There is almost universal agreement among the blacks and white sympathizers interviewed that life looks darker for blacks now than it did 20 years ago. A strong commitment to civil rights, meaningful affirmative action and poverty programs and a social climate in which overt racism was unacceptable all apparently suffered during the Reagan years. And now the economic hardships that are also partly a legacy of that era are further polarizing American society in ways that are seldom discussed. As South African author Rian Malan tells Terkel, "I think there's been an unhealthy trend in America for a long time not to discuss race.... I think airing prejudice could be healthy.... Race prejudice is something that thrives in ignorance." But optimism is hard to come by. Black psychologist Kenneth Clark states: "I am not sanguine about any kind of solid decency and justice in the area of race in America. The best we can settle for is appearance." The immediacy with which the interviewees speak about their experiences brings a fine leavening of anecdotes and stories to the mix of opinions, from tales of run-ins with the police ("I don't know one black person who's never had an encounter with cops," says a young middle-class musician) to moments of surprising warmth and understanding, as when a former Klansman finds himself working as a union leader with his arch-enemy, a formidable black woman. The reader comes away with greatly expanded understanding of much recent American social history and a wish that more respondents could display the balance of the well-adjusted mixed couples whose testimonies end the book. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

L'Atlas d'Anatomie Humaine Vigué-Martin répond aux exigences les plus rigoureuses de tous les étudiants en médecine et autres professionnels de la santé. Plus de 160 planches couleur avec de nombreux textes explicatifs (nomenclature internationale). Publié notamment en espagnol, anglais, allemand, portugais, hongrois... il s'est imposé comme la référence dans ce domaine. Son prix très compétitif le destine au plus grand nombre. Broché 24 x 33 - 160 pages - Tout couleur

Moïse reçut dans sa corbeille d'adoption un bel héritage. Et pourtant il se révolta contre son peuple adoptif. Si tout humain se construit avec le complexe d"dipe, l'adopté, lui, doit y ajouter le complexe de Moïse qui caractérise sa filiation. L'amnésie infantile n'efface rien: un enfant adopté est toujours tiré des eaux, celles de sa mère biologique, et il reste inconsciemment imprégné des paroles qui ont été dites en ce temps-là. Comment faire, de ce murmure laissé en héritage, une force vive? Soutenir son processus d'identification à la filiation adoptive? Lui garantir le droit à la double loyauté? L'aider à intégrer dans son histoire la blessure de l'abandon? L'accompagner au cours de ses interrogations sur ses origines?... Quinze adoptés, tous adultes, répondent à ces questions à travers le récit de leur vie, qu'ils ont confié à Colette Frère, celui de leur parcours, jonché de bien des paradoxes dont il faut trouver le sens. Un sens mis en lumière par le regard que Diane Drory, psychanalyste, pose depuis de nombreuses années sur les questions d'adoption."