Bücher von Paul Clemens

An elegy-angry, funny, and powerfully detailed-about the slow death of a Detroit auto plant and an American way of life. How does a country dismantle a century's worth of its industrial heritage? To answer that question, Paul Clemens investigates the 2006 closing of one of America's most potent symbols: a Detroit auto plant. Prior to its closing, the Budd Company stamping plant on Detroit's East Side, built in 1919, was one of the oldest active auto plants in America's foremost industrial city-one whose history includes the nation's proudest moments and those of its working class. Its closing also reflects the character of the country in a new era-the sad, brutal process of picking it apart and sending it, piece by piece, to the countries that now have use for its machines. Punching Out is an up-close report, at once tender and angry, from the meanest, sharpest edge of America's deindustrializa­tion, and a lament for a working-class culture that once defined a prosperous America-and that is now on the verge of eco­nomic extinction.

Le russe, une langue difficile ? Pas plus que le latin ou l'allemand. Le problème est de savoir comment s'y prendre pour l'assimiler. C'est ce à quoi s'attache cet ouvrage en regroupant les mots à partir de leurs racines, qui, ne l'oublions pas, dérivent de l'indo-européen. Un peu de méthode permet de décomposer ces vocables pour les comprendre " du dedans " et par là plus facilement les mémoriser. On arrivera ainsi à apprivoiser progressivement cette langue puissante, aussi belle qu'utile.

Pour les étrangers qui apprennent la langue française, il n'est pas toujours simple de déterminer le genre d'un nom ni de trouver spontanément le bon article. Cette méthode originale propose des éléments de réponse. Elle est destinée à toute personne qui, apprenant le français, en a déjà de bonnes notions grammaticales, possède un certain vocabulaire et désire la manier avec plus d'aisance : lycéen, étudiant ou adulte non francophone.You have been learning the French language for some time. You are mastering its main rules of grammar and possess a reasonable amount of vocabulary. But every now and then you come up against the same question : what is the gender of a French noun and which article should be used. If that is the case, this book by a French native speaker is meant for you.