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Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983

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De 1961, date de son retour en France après plusieurs années passées en Suède, en Pologne et en Allemagne, jusqu’à la fin de sa vie, Michel Foucault a été très régulièrement présent à la radio, d’abord sur la chaîne France III National, puis à partir de 1963 sur France Culture. La parution de ses ouvrages est l’occasion de débats : c’est le cas de l’Histoire de la folie, de Raymond Roussel et de Les Mots et les Choses. La radio accueille aussi d’importantes conférences comme « Langages de la folie », « Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques », « Les utopies réelles ou lieux et autres lieux » et « Le corps utopique ». La diversité des émissions et des thèmes traités reflète l’insatiable curiosité d’esprit de Michel Foucault : philosophie, sciences humaines, médecine – en particulier la psychiatrie –, histoire, littérature, politique, théâtre… Vision panoramique d’un Foucault saisi sur le vif, dans la chaleur et la surprise de l’échange, ce volume fournit la meilleure des introductions à l’une des grandes oeuvres de la pensée.

Berühmte Frauen der Weltgeschichte

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"Berühmte Frauen der Weltgeschichte" ist eine Sammlung von Biographien berügmten Frauen, die ihre Kindheit, den Weg zur Macht, ihre persönliche Entwicklung sowie ihre Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft beschreiben. Jede Frau in diesem Buch spielte eine Rolle in der Geschichte ihres Heimats oder in der Weltgeschichte, schuf etwas, wurde ein Vorfahr oder gelang es, kreativ zu sein. Trotz der führenden Rolle der Männer in der vergangenen Jahrhunderten wird klar, dass die Welt ohne Frauen nicht das wäre, was sie heute ist.

Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

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The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutionsMemoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies - an extraordinary, highly entertaining account of a uniquely adventurous and frenzied life. Chateaubriand gives a superb narrative of the major events of his life - which spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era and the uneasy period that led up to the Revolution of 1830.

La piste fauve

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1953. Voici Joseph Kessel dans un Kenya en révolte contre la Couronne d’Angleterre. Puis sur la route des Merveilles, du lac Victoria au Kilimandjaro, entre colons et guerriers Masaï. Partout, il s’émerveille d’une poésie à l’état brut, d’un paysage spirituel de tapisserie de Dame à la Licorne : Quand je me réveillai une minuscule gazelle couleur de châtaigne, avec deux aiguilles pour cornes et deux dés de velours pour sabots, se promenait autour de mon lit… Des reportages exceptionnels, à l’origine du Lion.

Saplings and Spades

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As a young boy, David witnessed bulldozers obliterate a forest for a bypass. Decades later, he resolved to replace the annihilated trees with another wood. Starting from nothing, he set about the task. It was not easy; there was vastly more to woodland establishment than planting saplings. Writing informally, David recalls the triumphs and disasters of his undertaking. Success was hard-won and ultimately depended on an overlooked truth... Splendidly illustrated with aerial photos, this is the must read book for those wanting, or wondering what it is like, to plant a new wood of their own.

True Blue

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As seen on Huckabee A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America.Stephen Friend had his dream job as an FBI special agent. After nearly a decade of combating violent crime, human trafficking, and child predators, he was reassigned to the FBI’s unprecedented investigation of the political unrest at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Friend soon uncovered efforts by the FBI and Department of Justice to manipulate statistics and exaggerate the nationwide threat of domestic terrorism. Friend spotlighted how the politicized FBI was cooking the books to support an ongoing narrative from the Joe Biden administration to label Donald Trump voters as violent extremists. Friend witnessed overzealous practices to harass conservative Americans and realized the FBI was turning its investigative processes into a punishment. When the married father of two made his bombshell allegations in a whistleblower disclosure, leaders within the FBI exposed themselves as partisan, ambitious players who insisted that January 6th protestors killed police officers and attempted to seize American democracy. Hell-bent on suppressing Friend from exposing the truth, FBI officials seized his gun and badge and suspended him from working as a special agent. In this memoir, Friend reflects on the lessons and life experiences that led him to ultimately risk his career to uphold his FBI special agent oath to protect and defend the United States Constitution against all enemies—both foreign and domestic.

Pinheads and Patriots

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Television host, razor sharp political pundit, and #1 bestselling author Bill O’Reilly focuses in on where we all stand in the Age of Obama in Pinheads and Patriots. In this brave, hard-hitting, provocative volume, the author of Culture Warrior and A Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity guides Americans through the extensive transformations sweeping their country and explains exactly what these profound changes mean for every one of us.

Gandhi the Man

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Easwaran's moving account of the turning points and choices in Gandhi's life that made him a great political leader and a timeless icon of nonviolence.Gandhi inspired people of all races, backgrounds, and religions to turn anger into compassion and hatred into love. How had Gandhi done this? How had he transformed himself from an ineffective young lawyer into the Mahatma, the “great soul” who led 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence from the British Empire?To find out, Easwaran went to Gandhi’s ashram and watched the Mahatma absorbed in meditation on the Bhagavad Gita, the wellspring of his spiritual strength. In this book Easwaran, author of the best-selling translations of The Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads, and The Dhammapada, explores "Gandhi: Then & Now"; Gandhi's early years in India, London and South Africa; nonviolence in South Africa and India; the Bhagavad Gita as the source of Gandhi's spiritual strength; and nonviolence in the affairs of life.Quotations highlight Gandhi’s teachings in his own words, and 70 digitally restored photographs from the GandhiServe archive, sidebar notes and a chronology provide historical context.This book conveys the spirit and soul of Gandhi – the only way he can be truly understood.

Jesús Soto in Conversation with Ariel Jiménez

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Jesús Soto in conversation with/en conversación con Ariel Jiménez distills over nine years of conversations between the renowned Venezuelan kinetic artist Jesús Soto (1923–2005), and art historian Ariel Jiménez (former FC/CPPC Chief Curator), provide insight into Jesús Soto’s involvement in the development of kinetic art in Paris in the 1950s and 60s, and his subsequent work in the geometric abstract movements in Venezuela. Soto is recognized today as one of the most important Latin American artists of the century. The digital version includes excerpts from one of Soto’s last interviews; archival documentaries of the artist at work; slideshows of rare images from exhibitions, including his solo show at Galerie Denise René in Paris, 1961, et al. Jesús Soto in conversation with/en conversación con Ariel Jiménez presenta más de nueve años de conversaciones entre el reconocido artista cinético venezolano Jesús Soto (1923-2005), historiador de arte y Ariel Jiménez (ex FC / CPPC conservador jefe), que dan una idea de la participación de Jesús Soto en el desarrollo del arte cinético en París en la década de 1950 y 1960, y su trabajo posterior en los movimientos de abstracción geométrica en Venezuela. Soto es reconocido hoy como uno de los artistas latinoamericanos más importantes del siglo. La versión digital incluye fragmentos de una de las últimas entrevistas Soto, así como documentales de archivo del artista trabajando, imágenes inéditas de exposiciones entre ellas su exposición individual en la Galerie Denise René de París de 1961, entre otros.

The Gray Ghost of Civil War Virginia: John Singleton Mosby

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No name in the annals of the Civil War conjures a more romantic and awe-inspiring image than that of Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby of Virginia.The epitome of the Southern cavalier, Colonel Mosby was a charismatic officer whose small band of partisans outwitted and outfought the Union army on the fields and farmlands of northern Virginia. So great was the panic inspired by this one officer’s military ingenuity, so prominent was the threat he created to the Union forces, that he came to be known in the north as more of a myth than a man.Award-winning historical fiction and Southern romance author Jessica James penned a unique look at this iconic figure as a way to share this real-life soldier's story with her fiction fans. John Mosby was the model for her fictional character Colonel Alexander Hunter in her novel NOBLE CAUSE (originally called Shades of Gray).Rather than a dry biography of the Confederate hero, this book takes readers on a journey with a ragtag group of Rebels who threw aside the established rules of warfare, effectively using fear as their weapon of choice and surprise as their watchword.Read about this forgotten American Hero in the first of a series of books that look back on those who played a role in shaping our nation.

The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 2

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It is is biographical book. Now had I left those spirits, and pursued The steps of my Conductor, when beheld Pointing the finger at me one exclaimed: 'See how it seems as if the light not shone From the left hand of him beneath, and he, As living, seems to be led on. ' Mine eyes I at that sound reverting, saw them gaze Through wonder first at me, and then at me And the light broken underneath, by turns. 'Why are thy thoughts thus riveted?' my guide Exclaimed, 'that thou hast slacked thy pace? or how Imports it thee, what thing is whispered here? Come after me, and to their babblings leave The crowd. Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows! He, in whose bosom thought on thought shoots out, Still of his aim is wide, in that the one Sicklies and wastes to nought the other's strength. '

The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 3

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It is is biographical book. Astounded, to the guardian of my steps I turned me, like the chill, who always runs Thither for succour, where he trusteth most, And she was like the mother, who her son Beholding pale and breathless, with her voice Soothes him, and he is cheered; for thus she spake, Soothing me: 'Know not thou, thou art in heaven? And knowest not thou, whatever is in heaven, Is holy, and that nothing there is done. But is done zealously and well? Deem now, What change in thee the song, and what my smile had wrought, since thus the shout had power to move thee. In which could thou have understood their prayers, The vengeance were already known to thee, Which thou must witness ere thy mortal hour, The sword of heaven is not in haste to smite, Nor yet doth linger, save unto his seeming, Who in desire or fear doth look for it.

Eingekerkerte und Ausbrecher

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Dieses eBook: "Heinrich Conrad: Eingekerkerte und Ausbrecher (Komplettausgabe)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Abenteuer der Eingekerkerte und Ausbrecher: Freiherr Friedrich von der Trenck Fürst Peter Krapotkin Graf von Lavalette und seine Frau Masers de Latude Heinrich Conrad (1866 - 1919), auch Conradt, eigentlich Hugo Storm, war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Verleger, Herausgeber und Übersetzer aus dem Italienischen und Französischen. Nach einem Bankrott, der ihn mit 100.000 Reichsmark verschuldete, verließ Conrad Anfang April 1898 Berlin mit unbekanntem Ziel, angeblich flüchtete er in die USA. Seit 1900 trat er auch als Übersetzer beispielsweise der Werke von Ralph Waldo Emerson und Henri Rochefort hervor. In Siena erschien im Selbstverlag und ohne Jahresangabe seine Übersetzung der Bilder aus dem Privatleben der römischen Cäsaren von Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville. Für den Stuttgarter Verlag Robert Lutz übertrug er Meisterwerke von Fritz Reuter ins Hochdeutsche. Hier und in anderen Verlagen erschien die gemeinsam mit Hanns Heinz Ewers betreute Reihe Rara. Eine Bibliothek des Absonderlichen. Bekannt wurde er unter dem Namen Heinrich Conrad auch in München. Er fand Arbeit als Lektor beim Verlag von Georg Müller, für den er weitere Reihen erotischer und kulturgeschichtlich interessanter Literatur konzipierte und den er auch in Fragen der Buchgestaltung beriet. Inhalt: Vorwort Freiherr Friedrich von der Trenck Fürst Peter Krapotkin Graf von Lavalette und seine Frau Masers de Latude

Churchill

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Baseada em extenso material inédito, a biografia definitiva do político que marcou o século XX. Nesta biografia monumental, Andrew Roberts destrincha Winston Churchill por completo — do nascimento ao legado duradouro como um dos maiores líderes de nossos tempos. Ao longo de sua pesquisa, o premiado historiador consultou dezenas de documentos inéditos e, pela primeira vez, a Família Real permitiu que um biógrafo do estadista tivesse acesso aos diários em que o rei George VI registrava suas reuniões semanais com o primeiro-ministro durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Da capacidade titânica de trabalhar (e beber) à extraordinária propensão a chorar em momentos inesperados; do desejo fervoroso de agradar ao pai à disposição de correr riscos; do bom humor a despeito das circunstâncias adversas à percepção singular que tinha da história, o leitor conhecerá tudo que fez de Churchill não somente um dos grandes políticos e oradores do século XX, mas um exemplo atemporal de coragem e liderança."A melhor biografia de Churchill." — The New York Times "Formidável. […] Com base em muitas fontes jamais exploradas, Roberts produziu um retrato mais completo de seu personagem do que qualquer biografia anterior." — The Economist "É o tipo de biografia que o próprio Churchill desejaria: colossal, enérgica, embasada, devidamente crítica, mas também empática e, em alguns momentos, deliciosamente engraçada." — The Sunday Telegraph

Amerikában születtem

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A Rolling Stone magazin szerint a kötet meglepően eredeti memoár, ami magasan kitűnik a rockéletrajzok közül. Először is azért, mert Springsteen tud írni, a nyelvezete élvezetes, sokszor dallamos, mint egy feszes gitárriff, máskor szinte megfoghatatlanul expresszív, sodró, inkább hat az érzékekre, az indulatokra, mint a tudatra. A történetmesélés módja egészen intim, mert Springsteen folyamatosan láttatja azt is, hogy a karrierje fejlődésével párhuzamosan mikor milyen belső harcokat vívott. Őszintén mesél arról, hogyan küzdött meg az apjától örökölt mániás depresszióval és rettegett attól éveken át, hogy meg fog őrülni, nem fog tudni elköteleződni, sosem találja meg a belső békéjét. Mindezek ellenére a kötet lényege nem egy gyógyulástörténet és nem is példabeszéd, hiszen bevallja, hogy a mai napig küzd a deprersszióval, ami folyamatos feladatot jelent számára (ezzel sokkal szimpatikusabbá és hitelesebbé is válik). Ugyanakkor az olvasó bepillanthat a rock fénykorának kulisszái mögé is: a szerző szemüvegén keresztül látjuk, milyen volt a rock ébredése New Jersey-ben a hatvanas években, milyen volt a koncerthangulat Thatcher hivatali ideje alatt Londonban, és belelátunk néhány ikonikus sztár (többek közt Mick Jagger, Bono, Frank Sinatra és Steven Van Zandt) mindennapjaiba. Ám ami a lényeg: közel kerülhetünk egy érzékeny, gazdag szellemű, nyughatatlan, folyton a helyét kereső művészhez, aki írás közben, az önfeltárás folyamata alatt igyekszik megérteni önmagát, családtagjait, a környezetét, Amerikát, a világmindenséget.

My life. È una lunga storia

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Circa sessant’anni di carriera, oltre 100 album registrati, 10 Grammy vinti e un posto d’onore nella storia della musica. Senza scordare l’attivismo per la legalizzazione della marijuana, la fondazione di un’importante organizzazione filantropica, una carriera d’attore di successo e una vita personale molto chiacchierata: quella di Willie Nelson è una storia come nessun’altra. In questa monumentale autobiografia, il celebre musicista texano di sangue cherokee ci regala l’avvincente racconto della sua esistenza straordinaria: l’infanzia e la giovinezza ad Abbott, Texas, insieme ai nonni; il tentativo di sfuggire al lavoro come raccoglitore di cotone nei campi dell’Arkansas grazie alla radio; il successo con la musica; gli alti e bassi dei suoi matrimoni; le lotte anti-proibizioniste; l’impegno civile; i tour con Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson e Waylon Jennings riuniti nel super gruppo degli Highwaymen; i problemi con la legge; le tante storie “al limite” vissute lungo la strada. Quella di Willie Nelson, il fuorilegge del country rock, è la grande epopea di un uomo libero e appassionato, che con la sua musica ha saputo toccare il cuore e l’anima di milioni di persone nel mondo.

The Use of Photography

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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**Serialized in The New Yorker**An account of Annie Ernaux’s love affair with journalist Marc Marie while she was undergoing treatment for cancer, and their combined project to document images and memories.Includes 14 color still-life photographs by the authors.A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2024“A must-read for lovers of words, images, and Ernaux herself. So. . . everyone?”—Jessie Gaynor, LitHub“Annie Ernaux has long foregrounded physical and emotional sensations as the building blocks of her autobiographical writing. However, it is in The Use of Photography where the connection between the body and subjectivity most powerfully emerges.”—Lisa Connell in French Forum“These photos, in which the bodies are absent, and the eroticism is only represented by the abandoned clothes, were a reminder of my possible, permanent absence.”—Annie ErnauxAnnie Ernaux and Marc Marie met in January 2003 and became lovers almost immediately. A short time later, he accompanied her to the Institut Curie, where she was having surgery for breast cancer. A deep bond formed between Annie and Marc precisely during this time of great uncertainty within Ernaux as to whether she would live or die from the cancer.Early in their affair, Ernaux found herself entranced each morning by the sight of clothes strewn about, chairs out of place, and the remains of their last meal of the evening before still on the table. The two lovers began to take still life photographs, and to write. Their efforts to save the fleeting beauty of these moments were, as Ernaux would describe later in an interview, “material proof of what had happened there, of love.”The Use of Photography is a defining work in Ernaux’s career, leading directly to the book that would come next, her masterpiece, The Years.“Annie Ernaux’s work presents a breathtakingly frank, fearless, many-sided account of the female experience during the past century.”—Liesl Schillinger, Oprah Daily

L'età forte

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Dalle prime esperienze d'insegnante, a Marsiglia, Rouen, Parigi, ai lunghi viaggi attraverso la Spagna, la Grecia, l'Italia e il Marocco, gli incontri e le discussioni con gli intellettuali francesi, da Paul Nizan a Merleau-Ponty, da Camus a Queneau. Dapprima la guerra civile in Spagna, poi la Seconda guerra mondiale, che strappa Sartre e i suoi amici alle loro occupazioni predilette: per Simone, divisa dall'uomo che ama, è la scoperta d'una piú profonda coscienza di sé, è il passaggio dalla «felicità individuale» alla «solidarietà», contro ogni forma di conservatorismo culturale, morale e politico.

Pequeña&Grande Frida Kahlo

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Frida Khalo es la pintora más destacada de la historia del arte mexicano y uno de los grandes iconos artísticos del siglo XX. Gracias a sus cuadros, perosnales y femeninos, y a su asombrosa personalidad, independiente y rebelde, Frida logró superar la enfermedad y el accidente que marcarían su vida. Un ejemplo de tesón, lucha y valentía que hoy sigue inspirando a millones de mujeres.

Brèves

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Faites-moi une brève, exige le rédacteur en chef quand il désire qu'une nouvelle soit donnée dans le minimum de lignes. Ici, le procédé est le même mais le travail n'est pas journalistique, car il n'y a aucune nouvelle à donner. Ces notes ne concernent ni l'actualité, ni l'information. Plutôt la part de comédie de chacun de nous, telle que je l'ai saisie, ici et là, pendant deux années. Sans cette part de comédie, de quoi rirait-on ! Et, finalement, de cet infime, se dégage peut-être ce qui compte le plus : l'amour, les enfants, les voyages, les lectures, l'amitié. Brèves, c'est aussi nos vies à l'âge où l'on s'aperçoit qu'il n'y en a plus pour longtemps. Brèves années d'avant l'échéance, où l'on peut se découvrir enfin moins pressé d'y arriver ; enfin jeune, si jeunesse signifie qu'il n'y a pas d'urgence.

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