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Nom 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
Noir Canada: pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique
Par Alain Deneault. 2008
"...] En dénonçant de nombreux abus qualifiables de crimes commis par ces sociétés privées, Alain Deneault s'attaque à l'image factice…
répandue sur la scène internationale d'un Canada intrinsèquement pacifiste, bon et généreux. Il recense avec soin et précision les nombreux cas (déjà rapportés ailleurs dans le monde par plusieurs ONG, journalistes, analystes ainsi qu'experts de l'ONU) dans lesquels les sociétés canadiennes se rendent coupables de corruption, de pillage institutionnalisé des ressources minières ou pétrolières des pays africains, et attisent ou maintiennent l'instabilité et les conflits pour obtenir de juteux contrats. [...]" -- 4e de couvAway from the dead
Par David Bergen. 2023
From Giller Prize-winning novelist David Bergen, an electrifying novel set in early-twentieth century Ukraine amidst the chaos of revolution. As…
anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, David Bergen tells a deceptively stunning story of the restorative power of love amidst the destruction of warParer aux risques de demain: le principe de précaution
Par Dominique Bourg. 2001
Mythes et légendes économiques
Par Alessandro Giraudo. 2007
"Shéhérazade, la fille du grand Vizir, raconte au calife un fragment d'histoire tous les jours, mais la suite est reportée…
au lendemain... Ce livre fait appel à la même technique. Il présente un cocktail de petits chapitres qui parlent de mythes et de légendes économiques, de mouvements d'hommes et de marchands, de militaires et de religieux, d'erreurs économiques stratégiques, de curiosités, de cas d'espionnage dans l'industrie et la finance. Verdun devient une grande place du commerce et de la castration des esclaves avant l'an mil, quand Bagdad est la ville la plus puissante du monde. Comment Venise peut-elle remplacer les foires médiévales de la Champagne ? Qui a réellement financé l'expédition de Christophe Colomb et bouleversé le monde... et la table des Européens ? L'alun permet aux Papes de payer des guerres contre les "Infidèles", les banquiers génois ont le presque-monopole des finances de Charles V et de Philippe II, l'argent et l'or des Indes occidentales financent l'économie européenne qui les exporte vers le Moyen et l'Extrême-Orient pour continuer à importer épices, soies et porcelaines. [...]. De la première grande crise énergétique (celle du bois) à la crise de la patate qui décime la population irlandaise, des grands abattoirs de Chicago inspirant le taylorisme de Henry Ford aux graves crises économiques mondiales très souvent alimentées par des spéculations boursières violentes : le monde se globalise au grand galop. Même les guerres deviennent mondiales". -- 4e de couvClass: A memoir
Par Stephanie Land. 2023
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick "Raw and inspiring." — People "Land is not just exploring her own story,…
but also the larger implications of what it means to fall between the cracks of American capitalism." — The New York Times From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner—a gripping memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid . When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid , she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" ( People ). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid , which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie's escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class , Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn't understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America's educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother's triumph against all oddsLives of the wives: Five literary marriages
Par Carmela Ciuraru. 2023
"The five marriages that Carmela Ciuraru explores in Lives of the Wives provide such delightfully gossipy pleasure that we have…
to remind ourselves that these were real people whose often stormy relationships must surely have been less fun to experience than they are for us to read about."—Francine Prose, author of The Vixen A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of money, power, and fame in these complex and fascinating relationships. "With an ego the size of a small nation, the literary lion is powerful on the page, but a helpless kitten in daily life—dependent on his wife to fold an umbrella, answer the phone, or lick a stamp." The history of wives is largely one of silence, resilience, and forbearance. Toss in celebrity, male privilege, ruthless ambition, narcissism, misogyny, infidelity, alcoholism, and a mood disorder or two, and it's easy to understand why the marriages of so many famous writers have been stormy, short-lived, and mutually destructive. "It's been my experience," as the critic and novelist Elizabeth Hardwick once wrote, "that nobody holds a man's brutality to his wife against him." Literary wives are a unique breed, requiring a particular kind of fortitude. Author Carmela Ciuraru shares the stories of five literary marriages, exposing the misery behind closed doors. The legendary British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan encouraged his American wife, Elaine Dundy, to write, then watched in a jealous rage as she became a bestselling author and critical success. In the early years of their marriage, Roald Dahl enjoyed basking in the glow of his glamorous movie star wife, Patricia Neal, until he detested her for being the breadwinner, and being more famous than he was. Elizabeth Jane Howard had to divorce Kingsley Amis to escape his suffocating needs and devote herself to her own writing. ("I really couldn't write very much when I was married to him," she once recalled, "because I had a very large household to keep up and Kingsley wasn't one to boil an egg, if you know what I mean.") Surprisingly, the most traditional partnership in Lives of the Wives is a lesbian couple, Una Troubridge and Radclyffe Hall, both of whom were socially and politically conservative and unapologetic snobs. As this erudite and entertaining work shows, each marriage is a unique story, filled with struggles and triumphs and the negotiation of power. The Italian novelists Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia were never sexually compatible, and it was Morante who often behaved abusively toward her cool, detached husband, even as he unwaveringly admired his wife's talents and championed her work. Theirs was an unhappy union, yet it fueled them creatively and enabled both to become two of Italy's most important postwar writers. These are stories of vulnerability, loneliness, infidelity, envy, sorrow, abandonment, heartbreak, and forgiveness. Above all, Lives of the Wives honors the women who have played the role of muses, agents, editors, proofreaders, housekeepers, gatekeepers, amaneunses, confidantes, and cheerleaders to literary trailblazers throughout history. In revisiting the lives of famous writers, it is time in our #MeToo era to highlight the achievements of their wives—and the price these women paid for recognition and freedom. Lives of the Wives is an insightful, humorous, and poignant exploration of the intersection of life and art and creativity and lovePoverty, by america
Par Matthew Desmond. 2023
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative…
and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. “Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”— The New Yorker A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, Chicago Public Library Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow. Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedomAgathe de Saint-Père connut un destin à la mesure de son tempérament. Audacieuse, elle créa la première manufacture de tissage…
au Canada et devint une commerçante prospère. Ce fut elle aussi qui commercialisa le sucre d'érable, qu'elle fit connaître en France. Une maîtresse femme et une femme de passion!Passionate mothers, powerful sons: The lives of jennie jerome churchill and sara delano roosevelt
Par Charlotte Gray. 2023
A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian…
Charlotte Gray. Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become the mother of Winston Churchill) refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. Instead, both women concentrated their energies on enabling their sons to reach the epicentre of political power on two continents. In the mid-19th century, the British Empire was at its height, France's Second Empire flourished, and the industrial vigor of the United States of America was catapulting the republic towards the Gilded Age. Sara and Jennie, raised with privilege but subject to the constraints of women's roles at the time, learned how to take control of their destinies—Sara in the prosperous Hudson Valley, and Jennie in the glittering world of Imperial London. Yet their personalities and choices were dramatically different. A vivacious extrovert, Jennie married Lord Randolph Churchill, a rising politician and scion of a noble British family. Her deft social and political maneuverings helped not only her mercurial husband but, once she was widowed, her ambitious son, Winston. By contrast, deeply conventional Sara Delano married a man as old as her father. But once widowed, she made Franklin, her only child, the focus of her existence. Thanks in large part to her financial support and to her guidance, Franklin acquired the skills he needed to become a successful politician. Set against one hundred years of history, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons is a study in loyalty and resilience. Gray argues that Jennie and Sara are too often presented as lesser figures in the backdrop of history rather than as two remarkable individuals who were key in shaping the characters of the sons who adored them and in preparing them for leadership on the world stage. Impeccably researched and filled with intriguing social insights, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons breathes new life into Sara and Jennie, offering a fascinating and fulsome portrait of how leaders are not just born but madeMesdames, prenez vos affaires en main! (Collection Affaires plus)
Par Lison Chèvrefils. 2000
« Les femmes ne voient pas l'argent de la même façon que les hommes, dit Lison Chèvrefils, planificatrice financière d'expérience.…
La gestion des finances personnelles est perçue par beaucoup d'entre elles, même parmi les plus jeunes, comme une affaire de chiffres... qu'elles laissent aux spécialistes ou à leur conjoint! Pourtant, gérer ses avoirs, c'est se donner la liberté de choisir la vie qu'on aime, avec les moyens qu'on a. Et ça, c'est dans les cordes des femmes! » -- 4e de couvUn homme d'influence: Sir Siegmund Warburg, 1902-1982
Par Jacques Attali. 1985
Né avec le siècle dans une très ancienne famille de banquiers juifs, Siegmund Warburg, à l'exemple de ses plus grands…
ancêtres, commence sa carrière comme banquier et conseiller du Prince en Allemagne. Dans les tourbillons de Weimar qui ruinent son père, il participe aux tortueux financements des réparations allemandes. Et lorsque l'économie de la dette laisse place à l'économie de la guerre, l'avènement de Hitler l'envoie à Londres, avec son nom pour tout capital. Il y fonde une petite société financière, y invente les modes de financement des Alliés en guerre, et contribue à briser ceux de l'Allemagne au moment où Hitler détruit, avec son peuple, la banque que sa famille a mis plus de deux siècles à bâtir.Le grand banquet: la suprématie de la cupidité et de l'appât du gain
Par Linda McQuaig. 2004
Le capitalisme a toujours eu pour moteur l'intérêt personnel. De nos jours, cependant, les choses vont plus loin : une…
véritable culture de la cupidité et de l'appât du gain s'est développée. La résistance aux effets dévastateurs du capitalisme et la persistance d'activités non marchandes nous montrent pourtant qu'il est encore possible de vivre autrement, que l'être humain n'est pas unidimensionnel.«Au nom supérieur de la collectivité, éliminer les paradis fiscaux ne serait pas seulement utile à contrer le terrorisme, mais…
aussi, cela mettrait fin à l'évasion fiscale frauduleuse de plusieurs milliards de dollars par année qui y est effectuée par les entreprises et les individus et permettrait, par le rapatriement de ces mêmes milliards, à la population et au gouvernement d'ici de stimuler l'économie locale par des investissements collectifs productifs (santé, éducation, aqueducs, environnement, infrastructures, etc.), plutôt que de permettre à une minorité possédante, qui n'a pas payé sa juste part d'impôts, de stimuler la spéculation et l'épargne à l'étranger. Le travail au noir pratiqué ici par certains est de la petite bière comparé aux milliards détournés ailleurs par d'autres.[...] Pratiquer l'évasion fiscale dans les paradis fiscaux, c'est du vol et ceux qui aident (banques, comptables, avocats) et tolèrent (politiciens) sont leurs complices.»Léo-Paul Lauzon tire sur tout ce qui bouge, pourrait-on croire, mais il n'en est rien, car le populaire professeur n'a dans sa mire que ces affairistes et leurs porte-queue, banquiers, mandarins des grandes sociétés (pétrolières, compagnies pharmaceutiques, entreprises de communication, etc.), spécialistes patentés en économie à la solde des penseurs du néolibéralisme et de la privatisation tous azimuts. Il nous prouve, dans ce deuxième tome, qu'une pensée humaniste peut encore et doit exister, surtout à l'heure où tous les acquis sociaux semblent menacés.La compréhension des mécanismes de notre appauvrissement au profit d'une minorité est plus que jamais à l'ordre du jour. Léo-Paul Lauzon y contribue magistralement.L'inflation: causes et répercussions (Comprendre)
Par Gérard Bérubé. 2022
La sortie de la crise de la COVID 19 et la reprise abrupte de l'activité économique a causé une montée…
de l'inflation brusque qui affecte tous les secteurs, à commencer par ceux des matières premières et de l'énergie. Partant de ce constat, cet essai s'attelle à définir et clarifier le concept de l'inflation, ses multiples déclinaisons et la manière dont les États y répondentThe phoenix economy: Work, life, and money in the new not normal
Par Felix Salmon. 2023
Winner of the 2023 SABEW Best in Business Book Award for I nvesting and Personal Finance An award-winning journalist presents…
a tour-de-force analysis—drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture—of the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for individuals and for the global economy. We are living in a strange world — Salmon calls it "the New Not Normal." The Phoenix Economy explores the ramifications of the pandemic years, many of which are surprisingly positive. In doing so, Salmon makes sense of one of the most disorienting and devastating events of our lifetimes. He examines the critical aspects of our lives that have been transformed in three parts: Time and Space, Mind and Body, and Business and Pleasure. Salmon's keen observations, on everything from meme stocks to lobster rolls, are backed by a deep understanding of financial markets and the quirks of human behavior. His clear-eyed perspective on human and economic events, combined with his considerable analytical and observational skills, make The Phoenix Economy an insightful, fast-paced read. This book is essential for anyone wanting a better understanding of the near- and long-term effects of this new era and what they portend for our lives. It's a penetrating insight into what happened—and, more important, what lies aheadRadiant: the dancer, the scientist, and a friendship forged in light
Par Liz Lee Heinecke. 2021
The war that made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
Par Barry S Strauss. 2022
Suncoast empire: Bertha Honoré Palmer, her family, and the rise of Sarasota, 1910-1982
Par Frank A Cassell. 2017
In 1910, Bertha Honore? Parker ventured to the gulf coast of Florida to investigate real estate opportunities, launching her family's…
decades-long development of the Sarasota area. Parker, a businesswoman, women's rights activist, and Queen of Chicago Society, initiated infrastructure, expanded agriculture, and navigated political hiccups to lay the foundation for Sarasota's growth and legacy. Adult. Some strong language