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Ball of fire: the tumultuous life and comic art of Lucille Ball
Par Stefan Kanfer. 2003
Details the life and times of comedienne and sit-com star Lucille Ball (1911-1989), beginning with her difficult childhood in upstate…
New York. Covers her unhappy marriage to Desi Arnaz and the evolution of her career until she became "the first woman with major economic power in postwar Hollywood." Bestseller. 2003Bob Hope: my life in jokes
Par Bob Hope. 2003
The late comedian, who died in 2003 at one hundred years of age, tells his life through jokes--organized by decade--revealing…
his family, experiences, interests, and personal and political thoughts. Reminisces about his long career in show business on the radio, screen, and television--and in the war theater entertaining American troops. Introduction by daughter Linda. 2003Comptes et légendes: la dette et la face cachée de la richesse (CBC Massey lectures)
Par Margaret Atwood. 2009
"Avec un sens de l'à-propos qui n'appartient qu'à elle, avec intelligence, acuité et intuition, Margaret Atwood jette un regard étonnant…
sur le sujet de la dette. Le crédit, nous dit Atwood, est comme l'air que nous tenons pour acquis jusqu'à ce qu'il vienne à manquer. Et alors, tandis que nous essayons d'échapper à l'asphyxie, nous nous découvrons un grand intérêt pour lui. Ce livre est une vaste enquête sur la notion de dette et sur la place centrale qu'elle occupe depuis toujours dans la religion, la littérature et le fonctionnement des sociétés humaines. [...]". -- 4e de couvL'âge de l'accès: survivre à l'hypercapitalisme
Par Jeremy Rifkin. 2000
"Aujourd'hui, l'explosion des communications et des innovations technologiques est à l'origine d'une mutation sans précédent: les marchés laissent la place…
aux réseaux, les biens aux services, les vendeurs aux prestataires et les acheteurs aux utilisateurs...Dans un monde où toutes les activités humaines sont destinées à être sponsorisées, où chacun devra acquitter un droit d'accès à sa propre vie, quelle place restera-t-il aux relations humaines et à la culture? Ce changement de civilisation ne signifie-t-il pas, en réalité, la fin de la civilisation?The company: a short history of a revolutionary idea (Modern Library Chronicles)
Par John Micklethwait. 2003
Economist editors examine the history of the limited-liability joint-stock corporation--"the most important organization in the world"--from 3000 B.C. to the…
twenty-first century. The authors argue that companies have given the West a great competitive advantage and have, on the whole, evolved toward a more socially responsible posture. 2003Kate remembered
Par A. Scott Berg. 2003
Berg's memoir of his twenty-year personal dialog with Academy Award-winning actress Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003). He recalls her reminiscences about her…
family, her acting career, and her relationship with Spencer Tracy, along with his own memories of his time spent with her. Bestseller. 2003Le sel de la terre: confessions d'un enfant de la classe moyenne ((Documents (Atelier 10 (Organisme)) #03)
Par Samuel Archibald. 2013
'' À quoi faiton référence, au juste, quand on évoque la classe moyenne? Comment en est-elle venue à inclure tout…
le monde et son beau-frère? Pourquoi estelle maintenant courtisée, à droite comme à gauche, par des gens qui lui promettent une chose et son contraire? La classe moyenne a de nombreux défenseurs, mais pas beaucoup d’amis. '' -- 4e de couvBaghdad diaries: a woman's chronicle of war and exile
Par Nuha Radi. 1998
A western-educated Iraqi artist depicts her life in Baghdad during the 1991 Gulf War and her virtual exile in the…
years thereafter. Al-Radi records the everyday struggles of her relatives and friends to keep going in the face of bombing raids, the subsequent UN embargo and other fallouts of the warL'histoire des Molson, 1780-2000: 1780-2000
Par Karen Molson. 2001
Comment les riches détruisent la planète (L'Histoire immédiate)
Par Hervé Kempf. 2007
"[...] Pour l'auteur de ces pages incisives et bien informées, on ne résoudra pas la crise écologique sans s'attaquer à…
la crise sociale concomitante. Elles sont intimement liées. Ce sont aujourd'hui les riches qui menacent la planète." -- 4e de couvGénération Seattle: les rebelles de la mondialisation
Par Christian Losson. 2002
Les auteurs décrivent les mouvements d'opposition à la mondialisation, ils précisent leur fontionnement et leur mode d'action et ils expliquent…
les raisons de leur contestation. Chacun des onze chapitres alterne reportage, récit plus général et portrait. [SDMContes et comptes du prof Lauzon: 3, [Lecture de chevet pour ceux qui veulent rester allumés
Par Léo-Paul Lauzon. 2007
"[...] Avec le langage fleuri, l'humour caustique et la franchise qui ont fait sa renommée, le prof Lauzon dissèque des…
rapports arides et dénonce sur la place publique de nombreux abus qu'une minorité, assistée dans ses larcins par une presse bien-pensante et une élite complaisante, nous inflige. Dérives politiciennes, magouilles du patronat, privilèges éhontés des nantis, convergences douteuses, Léo-Paul Lauzon n'épargne personne et nous fournit, dans ce troisième tome de Contes et comptes, toutes les preuves nécessaires à notre éveil de citoyens. Pour que nous restions allumés!" -- 4e de couvIf you would have told me: A memoir
Par John Stamos. 2023
This program is read by the author. " ...I love him, and I respect him, and I need him. We…
all do. " —from the foreword, written and read by Jamie Lee Curtis If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad's fast-food joint that one day he'd be a household name and that, at the height of his success, he'd be living alone, divorced, with no kids, high on a cocktail of forgetting, he might've asked, "You want fries with that?" John burst onto the scene in General Hospital , propelling him into the teen idol stratosphere, a place that's often a point of no return. But Stamos beat the odds and over the past four decades has proved himself to be one of his generation's most successful and beloved actors. Whether showing off his comedic chops on Full House or his dramatic skills on ER , pushing the boundaries on Broadway or living out his youthful dreams as an honorary Beach Boy, John has surprised everyone, most of all himself. A universal story about friendship, love, loss, and the courage to embrace love once more, John Stamos's memoir is filled with some of the most memorable names in Hollywood, both old and new. Funny, deeply poignant, and brutally honest, If You Would Have Told Me is a portrait of a boy who went from believing in Disney magic to a man who learns that we have to create our own magical moments in life. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & CompanyOpposable thumbs: How siskel & ebert changed movies forever
Par Matt Singer. 2023
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten…
Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.” On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they’d ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene Siskel was the film critic for the Chicago Tribune . Roger Ebert had recently won the Pulitzer Prize—the first ever awarded to a film critic—for his work at the Chicago Sun-Times. To say they despised each other was an understatement. When they reluctantly agreed to collaborate on a new movie review show with PBS, there was at least as much sparring off-camera as on. No decision—from which films to cover to who would read the lead review to how to pronounce foreign titles—was made without conflict, but their often-antagonistic partnership (which later transformed into genuine friendship) made for great television. In the years that followed, their signature “Two thumbs up!” would become the most trusted critical brand in Hollywood. In Opposable Thumbs , award-winning editor and film critic Matt Singer eavesdrops on their iconic balcony set, detailing their rise from making a few hundred dollars a week on local Chicago PBS to securing multimillion-dollar contracts for a syndicated series (a move that convinced a young local host named Oprah Winfrey to do the same). Their partnership was cut short when Gene Siskel passed away in February of 1999 after a battle with brain cancer that he’d kept secret from everyone outside his immediate family—including Roger Ebert, who never got to say goodbye to his longtime partner. But their influence on in the way we talk about (and think about) movies continues to this day. Photographer/© ABC/Getty ImagesTupac shakur: The authorized biography
Par Staci Robinson. 2023
The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving exploration of his life and powerful…
legacy, including mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more Artist, poet, actor, revolutionary, legend Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time. More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996 at the age of just twenty-five, he continues to be one of the most misunderstood, complicated, and prolific figures in modern history. Drawing on exclusive access to Tupac’s private notebooks, letters, and uncensored conversations with those who loved and knew him best, this estate-authorized biography paints the fullest and most intimate picture to date of the young man who became a legend for generations to come. In Tupac Shakur, author and screenwriter Staci Robinson—who knew Tupac from their shared circle of high school friends in Marin City, California, and who was entrusted by his mother, Afeni Shakur, to share his story—unravels the myths and unpacks the complexities that have shadowed Tupac’s existence. Decades in the making, this book pulls back the curtain to reveal a powerful story of a life defined by politics and art—a man driven by equal parts brilliance and impulsiveness, steeped in the rich intellectual tradition of Black empowerment, and unafraid to utter raw truths about race in America. It is a story of a mother and son bound together by a love for each other and for their people, and the relationship that endured through their darkest times. It is a political story that begins in the whirlwind of the 1960s civil rights movement, and through a young artist’s awakening to rage and purpose in the ’90s era of Rodney King. It is a story of dizzying success and its devastating consequences. And, of course, it is the story of Tupac’s music, his timeless message that will never die as it continues to touch and inspire us todayThe secret life of john le carre
Par Adam Sisman. 2023
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive. Secrecy…
came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over five decades. To these relationships he brought much of the tradecraft that he had learned as a spy - cover stories, cut-outs and dead letter boxes. These clandestine operations brought an element of danger to his life, but they also meant deceiving those closest to him. Small wonder that betrayal became a running theme in his work. In trying to manage his biography, the novelist engaged in a succession of skirmishes with his biographer. While he could control what Sisman wrote about him in his lifetime, he accepted that the truth would eventually become known. Following his death in 2020, what had been withheld can now be revealed. The Secret Life of John le Carré reveals a hitherto-hidden perspective on the life and work of the spy-turned-author and a fascinating meditation on the complex relationship between biographer and subject. "Now that he is dead," Sisman writes, "we can know him better."La mondialisation racontée à ma fille (Document)
Par André Fourçans. 2001
Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme (L'Histoire immédiate)
Par Hervé Kempf. 2009
"Dans les innombrables débats qui ont accompagné la publication de Comment les riches détruisent la planète, une question fut inlassablement…
posée à l'auteur du livre : que faut-il faire ? C'est pour répondre à cette interpellation et à cette urgence que l'auteur a écrit ce nouvel ouvrage. Il le fait dans le même style à la fois radical et rigoureux. À ses yeux, il est urgent de changer de modèle. Ce n'est pas l'économie de marché en tant que telle qu'il s'agit de dénoncer, mais la forme nouvelle prise aujourd'hui par le capitalisme. Une forme qui, mécaniquement, privilégie le gaspillage, le saccage de la planète, l'inégalité et la consommation ostentatoire. Cette dernière, qui est le fait des plus riches, fixe pour la grande masse des modèles de comportements désastreux. Nul ne peut espérer sauver la planète si une remise en cause drastique de ce système prédateur n'est pas engagée. Face aux périls du moment, l'écologique et le social sont tragiquement liés". -- 4e de couvNom de code: MaChouette : [l'enquête sur le scandale des commandites
Par Daniel Leblanc. 2006
Pierre Péladeau: biographie (Questions de culture #16)
Par François-Xavier Simard. 1996