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Les secrets du Kremlin (édition revue et enrichie)

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Terreur, grandeur et mensonge, de Raspoutine à Poutine. Le Kremlin. Derrière ses murailles de brique rouge, combien la célèbre forteresse moscovite a-t-elle abrité de complots, de mystères, de crimes et de trahisons ? Elle fut à la fois, pendant près d'un siècle, le centre et le symbole de l'Empire communiste fondé par Lénine, conforté par Staline, géré par Khrouchtchev et Brejnev, mis à bas par Gorbatchev et restauré, tant bien que mal, par Poutine. Combien de questions, d'ombres, d'interrogations et de tabous reste-t-il derrière les tours du Kremlin ? Qui a tué Raspoutine ? Comment le tsar Nicolas II est-il mort ? Comment Staline fit-il assassiner Trotski ? Qui furent vraiment Kravchenko, Andropov ou l'espion " Farewell " ? Comment furent accueillis de Gaulle et Mitterrand par les dirigeants russes ? D'où sort Vladimir Poutine ? Enfin et surtout, quels sont les véritables ressorts de la guerre en Ukraine ?Au lieu d'un récit chronologique ou linéaire, l'auteur a choisi de raconter dix-sept épisodes fracassants et emblématiques de ce siècle de feu et de sang, où se côtoient le drame et le romanesque.Autant de drames, autant de secrets qui méritaient qu'on mène à nouveau l'enquête. Et à cet exercice, l'éminent kremlinologue Bernard Lecomte n'a pas son pareil...

The River of Doubt

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait—the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.“A rich, dramatic tale that ranges from the personal to the literally earth-shaking.” —The New York Times The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived. From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut.Look for Candice Millard’s latest book, River of the Gods.

21 Lições para o Século XXI

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Yuval Noah Harari leva-nos numa viagem emocionante pelas questões mais prementes da atualidade.Criámos os mitos para unir a nossa espécieDomámos a Natureza#para que nos desse o seu poder.Agora, estamos a redesenhar a vida#para que possamos alcançar os nossos sonhos mais ousados.Mas será que ainda sabemos quem somos? Ou será que as nossas invenções acabarão por nos tornar irrelevantes? Como podemos proteger-nos de uma guerra nuclear, de cataclismos ecológicos ou de falhas tecnológicas? O que podemos fazer contra a epidemia de notícias falsas ou a ameaça do terrorismo? O que devemos ensinar aos nossos filhos?Yuval Noah Harari leva-nos numa viagem emocionante pelas questões mais prementes da atualidade. O fio condutor que percorre este seu novo e impressionante livro é o desafio de conseguirmos manter a concentração, tanto a nível coletivo como individualmente, diante de um mundo de mudanças constantes e desorientadoras. Seremos nós ainda capazes de compreender o mundo que criámos?«Yuval Noah Harari é um historiador visionário e um divulgador naturalmente dotado.»The Guardian

Nexus

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Do autor de Sapiens, esta é a história fascinante de como as redes de informação definiram nosso mundo.Nos últimos 100 mil anos, nós acumulamos um imenso poder. No entanto, mesmo com todas as nossas descobertas e conquistas, estamos diante de uma crise sem precedentes, com um colapso ambiental iminente e desinformação correndo solta. A chegada da era da inteligência artificial também representa um perigo para nós. Afinal, por que somos tão autodestrutivos apesar de tudo o que conquistamos?Nexus olha para a nossa história e avalia como o fluxo de informações moldou a nós e o mundo onde vivemos. Em uma narrativa que vai desde a Idade da Pedra e passa pela canonização da Bíblia, pelas primeiras caças às bruxas modernas, pelo stalinismo, pelo nazismo e pelo ressurgimento do populismo hoje, Yuval Noah Harari nos convida a examinar a complexa relação entre informação e verdade, burocracia e mitologia, sabedoria e poder. O autor explora como as várias sociedades e sistemas políticos utilizaram informações para atingir seus objetivos – para o bem e para o mal –, assim como as escolhas que precisamos fazer num momento em que a inteligência não humana ameaça a nossa própria existência.A informação não é a matéria-prima da verdade, tampouco uma mera arma. Nexus explora o meio-termo esperançoso entre esses extremos e redescobre a humanidade que nos une.

The Siege

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A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time—from the true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and The Spy and the Traitor.“[Ben Macintyre is] John le Carré’s nonfiction counterpart.”—The New York TimesAs the American hostage crisis in Iran boiled into its seventh month in the spring of 1980, six heavily armed gunman barged into the Iranian embassy in London, taking twenty-six hostages. What followed over the next six days was an increasingly tense standoff, one that threatened at any moment to spill into a bloodbath. Policeman Trevor Lock was supposed to have gone to the theater that night. Instead, he found himself overpowered and whisked into the embassy. The terrorists never noticed the gun hidden in his jacket. The drama that ensued would force him to find reserves of courage he didn’t know he had. The gunmen themselves were hardly one-dimensional—all Arabs, some highly educated, who hoped to force Britain to take their side in their independence battle against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Behind the scenes lurked the brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who had bankrolled the whole affair as a salvo against Iran.As police negotiators pressed the gunmen, rival protestors clashed violently outside the embassy, and as MI6 and the CIA scrambled for intelligence, Britain’s special forces strike team, the SAS, laid plans for a dangerous rescue mission. Inside, Lock and his fellow hostages used all the cunning they possessed to outwit and outflank their captors. Finally, on the sixth day, after the terrorists executed the embassy press attaché and dumped his body on the front doorstep, the SAS raid began, sparking a deadly high-stakes climax.A story of ordinary men and women under immense pressure, The Siege takes readers minute-by-thrilling-minute through an event that would echo across the next two decades and provide a direct historical link to the tragedy on 9/11. Drawing on exclusive interviews and a wealth of never-before-seen files, Macintyre brilliantly reconstructs a week in which every day minted a new hero and every second spelled the potential for doom.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition)

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold“One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation” (Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times), Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history.Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racist theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for its broadest patterns.The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Around that time, the developmental paths of human societies on different continents began to diverge greatly. Early domestication of wild plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and other areas gave peoples of those regions a head start at a new way of life. But the localized origins of farming and herding proved to be only part of the explanation for their differing fates. The unequal rates at which food production spread from those initial centers were influenced by other features of climate and geography, including the disparate sizes, locations, and even shapes of the continents. Only societies that moved away from the hunter-gatherer stage went on to develop writing, technology, government, and organized religions as well as deadly germs and potent weapons of war. It was those societies, adventuring on sea and land, that invaded others, decimating native inhabitants through slaughter and the spread of disease.A major landmark in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way in which the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be.

Sapiens - En kort historie om menneskeheden

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For 100.000 år siden var Jorden beboet af mindst seks menneskearter. I dag er der kun en tilbage: Os. Homo sapiens. Hvorfor endte lige præcis vores art med at herske over kloden? Hvordan kunne vores jæger- og samlerforfædre enes om at bygge byer og skabe kongeriger? Hvorfor begyndte vi at tro på guder, nationer og menneskerettigheder? At have tillid til penge, bøger og love? Og være slaver af bureaukrati, tidsplaner og forbrugerisme? Og hvordan vil vores verden udvikle sig i det næste årtusinde? Modigt og provokerende udfordrer SAPIENS alt det, vi troede, vi vidste om at være menneske: vores overbevisninger, vores handlinger, vores magt … og vores fremtid.

The White Company

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The White Company is a historical adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the Hundred Year's War. The story is set in England, France, and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile. The climax of the book occurs before the Battle of Nájera. Doyle became inspired to write the novel after attending a lecture on the Middle Ages in 1889. After extensive research, The White Company was published in serialized form in 1891 in Cornhill Magazine. Additionally, the book is considered a companion to Doyle's later work Sir Nigel, which explores the early campaigns of Sir Nigel Loring and Samkin Aylward.

The Secret Man

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In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W. Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the Federal Bureau of Investigation who helped end the presidency of Richard Nixon. The Secret Man chronicles the story in intimate detail, from Woodward's first, chance encounter with Felt in the Nixon White House, to their covert, middle-of-the-night meetings in an underground parking garage, to the aftermath of Watergate and decades beyond, until Felt finally stepped forward at age 91 to unmask himself as Deep Throat. The Secret Man reveals the struggles of a patriotic career FBI man, an admirer of J. Edgar Hoover, the Bureau's legendary director. After Hoover's death, Mark Felt found himself in the cross fire of one of Washington's historic contests, as Nixon and his men tried to dominate the Bureau and cover up the crimes of the administration. This book illuminates the ongoing clash between temporary political power and the permanent bureaucracy of government. Woodward explores Felt's conflicts and motives as he became Deep Throat, not only secretly confirming Woodward and Bernstein's findings from dozens of other sources, but giving a sense of the staggering sweep of Nixon's criminal abuses. In this volume, part memoir, part morality tale, part political and journalistic history, Woodward provides context and detail about The Washington Post's expose of Watergate. He examines his later, tense relationship with Felt, when the FBI man stood charged with authorizing FBI burglaries. (Not knowing Felt's secret role in the demise of his own presidency, Nixon testified at Felt's trial, and Ronald Reagan later pardoned him.) Woodward lays bare his own personal struggles as he tries to define his relationship, his obligations, and his gratitude to this extraordinary confidential source. The Secret Man is an intense, 33-year journey, providing a one-of-a-kind study of trust, deception, pressures, alliances, doubts and a lifetime of secrets. Woodward has spent more than three decades asking himself why Mark Felt became Deep Throat. Now the world can see what happened and why, bringing to a close one of the last chapters of Watergate.

The Final Days

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“An extraordinary work of reportage on the epic political story of our time” (Newsweek)—from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthors of All the President’s Men.The Final Days is the #1 New York Times bestselling, classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon’s dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward portray the taut, post-Watergate White House as Nixon, his family, his staff, and many members of Congress strained desperately to prevent his inevitable resignation. This brilliant book reveals the ordeal of Nixon’s fall from office—one of the gravest crises in presidential history.

Gli orfani di Varsavia

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Dall’autrice bestseller del New York Times La storia vera della donna che salvò migliaia di bambini ebrei 1942. Elzbieta Rabinek ha quattordici anni e vive con i genitori adottivi e lo zio a Varsavia. È consapevole del clima di tensione che si sta diffondendo in città, dove i tedeschi pattugliano le strade e hanno imposto il coprifuoco, ma non può neanche immaginare gli orrori che si consumano nel ghetto ebraico, a pochi isolati di distanza da dove vive. Quando l’amicizia con una giovane infermiera di nome Sara le rivela la brutale realtà, Elzbieta non esita a offrire il proprio aiuto per portare al sicuro i bambini ebrei, sottraendoli ai rastrellamenti dei nazisti. Anche se ciò significa mettere a repentaglio la sua stessa vita. Roman Gorka vive nel ghetto con la famiglia. È ormai allo stremo delle forze: non mangiano da giorni e lui fa il possibile per dare una mano, ma comincia a perdere le speranze. Sua madre e i suoi fratelli più piccoli potrebbero non riuscire a resistere ancora a lungo. Così Roman si trova di fronte una scelta impossibile: consegnare la sua sorellina, ancora neonata, alle cure di una sconosciuta perché la porti fuori dal ghetto oppure guardarla morire…Un’autrice da oltre 1 milione e mezzo di copie vendute Tradotta in oltre 20 lingue «Una storia commovente e piena di speranza. Questo romanzo fa riflettere.»Kristin Harmel «Avvincente. L’autrice è riuscita a ricostruire magistralmente le atmosfere della Varsavia degli anni ’40.»Publishers Weekly «Bello e intenso, si percepisce un imponente lavoro di ricerca.»BooklistKelly RimmerÈ un’autrice bestseller che ha scalato le classifiche di «New York Times», «Wall Street Journal» e «USA Today». I suoi libri hanno venduto più di un milione di copie e sono stati tradotti in oltre venti lingue in tutto il mondo.

The War in South Africa

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Arthur Conan Doyle made his reputation as a novelist, but far stranger than fiction is the creator of Sherlock Holmes' tale of the Boer War in South Africa. The then 40-year-old novelist wanted to see the war first hand as a soldier, but the Victorian army balked at having a popular author wielding a pen in its ranks. The army did accept him as a doctor and Doyle was knighted in 1902 for his work with a field hospital in Bloemfontein. Doyle's vivid account of the battles is in part thanks to the eye-witness accounts he got from his patients. Doyle has thoroughly mastered the details of the campaign, and presents them in a form that can be easily understood. Furthermore, his descriptions of the various engagements are masterpieces of graphic writing.

The Chinese in California. Descriptions of Chinese life in San Francisco. Their habits, morals and manners. Illustrated by Voegtlin.

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The HISTORY OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection refers to the European settlements in North America through independence, with emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain. Attention is paid to the histories of Jamestown and the early colonial interactions with Native Americans. The contextual framework of this collection highlights 16th century English, Scottish, French, Spanish, and Dutch expansion.

Revue des Deux Mondes février mars 2018

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Dossier : Les droits de l’homme font-ils fausse route ?→ Entretien avec Marcel Gauchet : « Que faire des droits de l’homme ? »Marcel Gauchet livra, dans les années 1980, l’une des premières réflexions sur les droits de l’homme. La thématique ne l’a jamais quitté depuis. Le philosophe voit dans la revendication des droits individuels une profonde modification de l’esprit et du contenu de la vie démocratique.→ La IIIe République et les droits de l’homme par Philippe RaynaudLa perception des droits de l’homme en 1789 et sous la IIIe République sont aux antipodes. Philippe Raynaud explique cette évolution, non surprenante pour lui.→ Entretien avec Michel Onfray : « Camus et les droits de l’homme »Albert Camus pensait moins en termes de droits de l’homme qu’en termes de liberté et de justice, affirme Michel Onfray. D’après le philosophe, les principes de la Déclaration sont totalement dévoyés aujourd’hui.→ Les droits de l’homme peuvent-ils être une diplomatie ? par François ZimerayUne menace pèse sur les droits de l’homme, s’inquiète l’ambassadeur au Danemark, François Zimeray. Certains veulent y voir un concept imposé par les Occidentaux.→ Entretien avec Renaud Girard : « Il n’y a pas à choisir entre la paix et la démocratie »La défense de nos intérêts est, pour Renaud Girard, plus importante que la morale. Le grand reporter revient sur les récentes interventions militaires de la France au nom des droits de l’homme.→ La place des droits de l’homme dans la pensée chinoise par Anne ChengRépéter que la Chine ne connaît pas les droits de l’homme revient à servir les auxiliaires de la propagande. De Confucius à Liu Xiaobo, le prix Nobel de la paix, l’homme est au cœur de la pensée chinoise, démontre la sinologue Anne Cheng.→ Le processus d’émancipation des Lumières et les droits des animaux par Corine PelluchonLes droits de l’animal sont-ils l’avenir des droits de l’homme ? C’est toute la question à laquelle réfléchit la philosophe Corine Pelluchon.→ Et aussi : Jacques de Saint Victor, Jean-Paul Clément, Éric Desmons, Annick Steta et Laurent Gayard.Littérature→ Inédit. Teresa Cremisi : « À la tombée de la nuit, j’étais amoureuse »Teresa Cremisi se remémore, cinquante ans plus tard, une rencontre avec un homme dont elle n’a rien oublié.

Up from Slavery

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In 1856, Washington was born into a family of slaves in Virginia. From there it seemed that his fate had been sealed—to live out his life as a worker in Virginia. But, this was not the case for Washington, whose impoverished childhood and undying desire for education fueled him into a dedicated obsession with the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute until he found himself enrolled at the school itself.As an educated man, Booker T. Washington rose to power with his views on civil rights. Washington’s belief in education as well as trade skills for African Americans brought followers, and opposition, from all around. In Up from Slavery, all of Washington’s trials and tribulations are laid out on the page, with nothing left unsaid. Booker T. Washington wrote Up from Slavery over the course of many years in post-Civil War America. It not only contains articles originally published in Outlook magazine, but autobiographical anecdotes as well, which were written throughout Washington’s travels in the south.Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Ocean Passages for the World. First edition. 1895. Compiled for the use of seamen, as an aid for ascertaining the route to be followed, etc. [By Captain Robert Jackson.]

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The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

The Watchdog

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*WINNER OF THE 2024 HARRY S. TRUMAN BOOK AWARD*The story of how a little-known junior senator fought wartime corruption and, in the process, set himself up to become vice president and ultimately President Harry Truman.Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill-prepared. The urgent times demanded a transformation of the economy, with the government bankrolling the unfathomably expensive task of enlisting millions of citizens while also producing the equipment necessary to successfully fight—all of which opened up opportunities for graft, fraud and corruption.In The Watchdog, Steve Drummond draws the reader into the fast-paced story of how Harry Truman, still a newcomer to Washington politics, cobbled together a bipartisan team of men and women that took on powerful corporate entities and the Pentagon, placing Truman in the national spotlight and paving his path to the White House.Drawing on the largely unexamined records of the Truman Committee as well as oral histories, personal letters, newspaper archives and interviews, Steve Drummond—an award-winning senior editor and executive producer at NPR—brings the colorful characters and intrigue of the committee’s work to life. The Watchdog provides readers with a window to a time that was far from perfect but where it was possible to root out corruption and hold those responsible to account. It shows us what can be possible if politicians are governed by the principles of their office rather than self-interest.

Pie XII contre De Gaulle

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15mn d'Histoire : une collection numérique de textes courts pour apprendre et comprendre l'Histoire en 15 minutes !15mn d'Histoire : une collection numérique de textes courts pour apprendre et comprendre l'Histoire en 15 minutes !Comment le pape a évité l'épuration massive des évêques de France à la Libération...

Colonial Records of Virginia. [Edited by T. H. Wynne and W. S. Gilman.]

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The Essential Mythology Collection

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A collection (with an active table of contents) of books on myths, legends , and heroes from around the world: Bulfinch's Mythology Custom and Myth Legends of the Gods Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome Myths of Babylonia and Assyria American Hero-Myths

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