La mémoire brisée ; Le mystère de la mine. Avec un roman gratuit inclus dans ce livre : Un témoin si

If political science is the study of politics and the use of political power as it presents itself on the public scene, "parapolitics" is the study of the use of political power that is not presented on the public scene. The term seems to have been coined by Prof. Peter Dale Scott of the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1970s. According to Scott, a former Canadian diplomat, poet and author, parapolitics is the study of the "real" use of political power, as opposed to the publicly avowed use of political power. In this work, the authors analyze world political and parapolitical headlines of 2006. This data set or corpus of texts consists of the "Timeline" section of each issue of the electronic journal, " Intelligence " , published in 2006 by the ADI (Association pour le Droit à l'Information or Association for the Right to Information). This unique data set of world political and parapolitical headlines has been made available free of charge to ail fullypaid Intelligence subscribers. It can also be made available to other parties interested in further analysis by contacting the ADI. The authors, Karl M. van Meter and Mathilde de Saint Léger, are specialists in computer-assisted analysis of texts, particularly scientific texts. Their research has included the analysis of major sociology conferences in France, Germany and the United States, which provides detailed overviews of these disciplines and a formal means of comparing them one to anther, and over several years. The present work is based on the first application of this research method in political science and media analysis. The Calliope computer program of text analysis of co-occurrence of key words is applied to approximately 7,000 headlines from 2006, divided into three successive four-month periods. The j analysis of each period results in a "strategic diagram" of the corpus' overall structure and provides a means for further detailed analysis. By following key words forward and backwards in time through these three periods of 2006, the authors reveal some surprising developments that most political observers failed to see in 2006, and that "heavyweight" key words such as "Bush", "Iraq" and "Iran" tended to "drown out" in more informai analyses by specialists.

Il y a mille raisons pour qu'un mariage tourne au fiasco ... un possible désastre n'est jamais bien loin. Pour Evangeline (dite Evie), trois problèmes obscurcissent l'horizon à la veille de ses noces : la carcasse d'une baleine est venue s'échouer dans le petit port de Winter Island ; son fiancé marin-pêcheur est porté disparu en mer au coeur d'une tempête ; enfin sa mère " épisodique" débarque sans crier gare. Mais elle en a vu d'autres. Abandonnée très jeune par sa mère, Evie a grandi trop vite auprès d'un père magnifique à la fois aimant et négligent. Ils ont vécu comme des hobos, des pirates, des explorateurs... Parfois il y avait des tempêtes, parfois des coups de soleil. Ils ont vécu d'impostures et de l'argent du commerce de la Winter Wonderland, la légendaire marijuana locale. Et c'était toujours juste assez pour ne jamais quitter cette île magnétique, "comme germée du fond des eaux, furieuse et solitaire". Le récit se conjugue au passé, présent et futur - au rythme changeant des marées - à mesure qu'Evie évalue les dommages collatéraux de sa drôle d'enfance et les incertitudes inhérentes à la vie insulaire. Créatures sonde les interférences complexes de la culpabilité et du pardon, mais aussi la façon dont notre capacité à aimer dépend de notre courage à apprivoiser le passé. Parce que "l'espace est rempli de tout ce que nous avons perdu et trouvé".