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On se fait la bise?: le guide international des bonnes manières
Par Mark McCrum. 2008
"Les bonnes manières échappent encore à la mondialisation : on se salue différemment à Pékin et à New York, certains…
gestes flatteurs chez nous sont injurieux ailleurs, on reçoit les cadeaux ici d'une main, là des deux, les chrysanthèmes ne sont pas des fleurs de cimetière sur tous les continents, les heures de repas relèvent de spécificités nationales, et il est fortement déconseillé d'offrir une pendule à un Chinois... Faut pas, faux pas : un guide ludique du savoir-vivre pour apprendre ce qu'il ne faut ni dire ni faire à l'étranger." -- 4e de couvLa préhistoire du sexe
Par Timothy Taylor. 1998
Un essai fascinant sur le rôle qu'aurait joué la sexualité ou le désir sexuel dans l'évolution de l'homo sapiens. L'auteur,…
archéologue, montre à quel point les normes qui régissent nos comportements sexuels, de la répartition des rôles entre les sexes au contrôle des naissances sont profondément enracinés dans notre préhistoireLe pape et Hitler: l'histoire secrète de Pie XII
Par John Cornwell. 1999
Alors que le pape Pie XII est en passe d'être béatifié, cet ouvrage dresse un portrait controversé du souverain pontife…
et de l'attitude de l'Eglise catholique en général durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. [SDMNos enfants de la guerre: récit
Par Jean-Pierre Denis. 2002
Hameau de Massip, hiver 1942 : sur le voeu du cardinal Saliège, des enfants juifs pourchassés trouvent refuge dans le…
pensionnat dirigé par deux religieuses, Denise Bergon et Marguerite Roques. Pendant plus de deux ans, près de 80 personnes partageront la vie de cette minuscule école de la campagne aveyronnaise, à l'insu des élèves catholiques et bien sûr de l'occupant. En dépit de multiples alertes, Massip tiendra jusqu'au bout. Durant une commune traversée du siècle, Denise Bergon et Marguerite Roques resteront volontairement dans l'ombre. Elles confient aujourd'hui le plus intime de leur vocation et de leurs combats. Pourquoi avoir choisi de résister à l'heure où tant d'autres se taisaient ? Que reste-t-il de la mémoire alors que disparaissent les derniers témoins ? Comment raconter cette histoire d'amour entre deux religions que l'histoire déchire ? L'auteur est journaliste dans un hebdomadaire catholique. Sa mère faisait partie des enfants juifs cachés à MassipOpération étoile jaune (Documents)
Par Maurice Rajsfus. 2002
Un récit en deux temps: le port obligatoire de l'étoile jaune, imposé en 1942 aux Juifs de la zone occupée…
par la Gestapo mais appliqué par les policiers français; l'arrestation de l'auteur et de sa famille et leur déportation à AuschwitzNous étions invincibles: récit autobiographique : témoignage d'un ex-commando (Témoignage)
Par Denis Morisset. 2008
"Personne ne connaît réellement ces hommes en noir qu'un hélico vient de déposer aux abords d'un petit village d'Afghanistan. Et…
ces autres qui sortent d'un marais pour abattre un criminel de guerre en Croatie; qui assurent la garde protégée d'un général canadien au Rwanda; qui sévissent contre des preneurs d'otages au Pérou ou qui font mentir le président Milosevic, en faisant la preuve, sur place, du non-désarmement de la Serbie. Denis Morisset a fait partie des seize premiers membres de la Deuxième Force opérationnelle interarmées (FOI2) de 1993 à 2001. Sa formation et son parcours stupéfiant en secoueront plus d'un et il tient du miracle qu'il soit encore là pour tout raconter. Sept de ses compagnons ne peuvent en faire autant. [...]" -- 4e de couvOmoo: adventures in the South Seas (Pacific Basin books)
Par Herman Melville. 1985
This realistic novel recapitulates the ending of Typee (RC 9738), as a British whaler rescues Melville, an American sailor. He…
and the ship's doctor become fast friends and share many adventures in the South Pacific: mutiny, imprisonment, and a beachcombing existence in TahitiWhere They Stood: The Evolution of the Black Anglo Community in Montreal
Par Melis Aysegul Black Community Resource Centre. 2023
What the taliban told me
Par Ian Fritz. 2023
A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When Ian Fritz…
joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career. He'd too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians. This eavesdropping is critical to supporting Special Forces units on the ground, but there is no training to counter the emotional complexity that develops as you listen to people's most intimate conversations. Over the course of two tours, Fritz listens to the Taliban for hundreds of hours, all over the country night and day, in moments of peace and in the middle of battle. What he hears teaches him about the people of Afghanistan—Taliban and otherwise—the war, and himself. Fritz's fluency is his greatest asset to the military, yet it becomes the greatest liability to his own commitment to the cause. Both proud of his service and in despair that he is instrumental in destroying the voices that he hears, What the Taliban Told Me is a brilliant, intimate coming-of-age memoir and a reckoning with our twenty years of war in AfghanistanRoman warfare
Par Adrian Goldsworthy. 2023
From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman…
Empire Roman warfare was relentless in its pursuit of victory. A ruthless approach to combat played a major part in Rome's history, creating an empire that eventually included much of Europe, the Near East and North Africa. What distinguished the Roman army from its opponents was the uncompromising and total destruction of its enemies. Yet this ferocity was combined with a genius for absorbing conquered peoples, creating one of the most enduring empires ever known. In Roman Warfare , celebrated historian Adrian Goldsworthy traces the history of Roman warfare from 753 BC, the traditional date of the founding of Rome by Romulus, to the eventual decline and fall of Roman Empire and attempts to recover Rome and Italy from the "barbarians" in the sixth century AD. It is the indispensable history of the most professional fighting force in ancient history, an army that created an Empire and changed the world1312 raisons d'abolir la police (Instinct de liberté #38)
Par Gwenola Ricordeau. 2023
D'où vient l'idée d'abolir la police et que recouvre-t-elle au juste? Si la police ne nous protège pas, à quoi…
sert-elle? Comment dépasser la simple critique de la police pour enfin en finir avec elle?The secret that exploded
Par Howard Morland. 1981
The author tells the true story of his investigation of the nuclear weapons industry, the inner workings of the H-bomb,…
and the U.S. government's unsuccessful attempt to suppress his discoveries. Morland, a former Air Force pilot, is devoutly anti-nuclear and very forthright about his positionSpoken word: A cultural history
Par Joshua Bennett. 2023
A "rich hybrid of memoir and history" ( The New Yorker ) of the literary art form that has transformed…
the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion "Bennett…transport[s] us back to the city blocks, bars, cafes and stages these artists traversed and inhabited…an instructive text for young poets, artists or creative entrepreneurs trying to find a way to carve out a space for themselves…Shines with a refreshing dynamism." — The New York Times In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for Barack and Michelle Obama, at the same White House "Poetry Jam" where Lin-Manuel Miranda declaimed the opening bars of a work-in-progress that would soon revolutionize American theater. That meeting is but one among many in the trajectory of Bennett's young life, as he rode the cresting wave of spoken word through the 2010s. In this book, he goes back to its roots, considering the Black Arts movement and the prominence of poetry and song in Black education; the origins of the famed Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the Lower East Side living room of the visionary Miguel Algarín, who hosted verse gatherings with legendary figures like Ntozake Shange and Miguel Piñero; the rapid growth of the "slam" format that was pioneered at the Get Me High Lounge in Chicago; the perfect storm of spoken word's rise during the explosion of social media; and Bennett's own journey alongside his older sister, whose work to promote the form helped shape spaces online and elsewhere dedicated to literature and the pursuit of human freedom. A celebration of voices outside the dominant cultural narrative, who boldly embraced an array of styles and forms and redefined what—and whom—the mainstream would include, Bennett's book illuminates the profound influence spoken word has had everywhere melodious words are heard, from Broadway to academia, from the podiums of political protest to cafés, schools, and rooms full of strangers all across the worldEighteen days in october: The yom kippur war and how it created the modern middle east
Par Uri Kaufman. 2023
October 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Middle East. The…
War was a trauma for Israel, a dangerous superpower showdown, and, following the oil embargo, a pivotal reordering of the global economic order. The Jewish State came shockingly close to defeat. A panicky cabinet meeting debated the use of nuclear weapons. After the war, Prime Minister Golda Meir resigned in disgrace, and a 9/11-style commission investigated the "debacle." But, argues Uri Kaufman, from the perspective of a half century, the War can be seen as a pivotal victory for Israel. After nearly being routed, the Israeli Defense Force clawed its way back to threaten Cairo and Damascus. In the war's aftermath both sides had to accept unwelcome truths: Israel could no longer take military superiority for granted-but the Arabs could no longer hope to wipe Israel off the map. A straight line leads from the battlefields of 1973 to the Camp David Accords of 1978 and all the treaties since. Like Michael Oren's Six Days of War, this is the definitive account of a critical moment in historyPourquoi les méduses ne vieillissent pas: ... et autres secrets de longévité de la nature
Par Nicklas Brendborg. 2023
La nature regorge de superpouvoirs en matière de longévité. Saviez-vous qu'il existe un requin âgé de 390 ans, ce qui…
le rend plus vieux que les États-Unis ? Connaissiez-vous cette espèce de méduse capable, lorsqu'elle est menacée, de rajeunir, avant de recommencer à vieillir ? Mêlant exploration scientifique et histoires extraordinaires, Nicklas Brendborg nous emmène à la découverte de cycles de vie si longs qu'ils semblent dépasser la réalité. D'une expérimentation réussie de modification de l'ADN humain aux cellules millénaires des séquoias, en passant par de prometteuses perspectives face au cancer et à la maladie d'Alzheimer, cet ouvrage nous révèle les fascinants secrets de santé et de longévité de la nature dont nous pouvons tous nous inspirer. TABLE DES MATIÈRES Introduction La fontaine de Jouvence Première partie - Les merveilles de la nature Chapitre 1 – Longévité : le livre des records Chapitre 2 – Soleil, cocotiers et longue vie Chapitre 3 – La surestimation des gènes Chapitre 4 – Inconvénients de l'immortalité Deuxième partie - Les découvertes de la science Chapitre 5 – Ce qui ne nous tue pas nous rend plus forts... Chapitre 6 – De l'importance de la taille Chapitre 7 – Les secrets de l'île de Pâques Chapitre 8 – Un pour tous 1 Chapitre 9 – Mitochondries et énergie Chapitre 10 – Au pays de l'immortalité Chapitre 11 – Comment se débarrasser des cellules zombies Chapitre 12 – Remonter l'horloge biologique Chapitre 13 – Bon sang ne saurait mentir ! Chapitre 14 – La guerre des microbes Chapitre 15 – Caché au grand jour Chapitre 16 – Longévité et fil dentaire Chapitre 17 – Rajeunissement immunitaire Troisième partie - Les bons conseils Chapitre 18 – Des volontaires pour la disette ? Chapitre 19 – Faire du neuf avec du vieux Chapitre 20 – Nutrition « culte du cargo » Chapitre 21 – Nourrir... la réflexion Chapitre 22 – Des moines du Moyen Âge à la science moderne Chapitre 23 – Mesurer, c'est assurer Chapitre 24 – Victoire de l'esprit sur la matière Epilogue RemerciementsThe book at war: How reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading
Par Andrew Pettegree. 2023
A top literary historian illuminates how books were used in war across the twentieth century—both as weapons and as agents…
for peace We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath—one ranks among humanity's greatest inventions, the other among its most terrible. But as esteemed literary historian Andrew Pettegree demonstrates, the two are deeply intertwined. The Book at War explores the various roles that books have played in conflicts throughout the globe. Winston Churchill used a travel guide to plan the invasion of Norway, lonely families turned to libraries while their loved ones were fighting in the trenches, and during the Cold War both sides used books to spread their visions of how the world should be run. As solace or instruction manual, as critique or propaganda, books have shaped modern military history—for both good and ill. With precise historical analysis and sparkling prose, The Book at War accounts for the power—and the ambivalence—of words at warRacial emotion at work: Dismantling discrimination and building racial justice in the workplace
Par Tristin Green. 2023
This timely book unravels race and emotion in the workplace-exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations…
and why we must confront it. Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race-and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment, calling for sweeping changes in how the law and work organizations treat and shape racial emotions. Green provides listeners with the latest research on racial emotions in interracial interactions and ties this research to thinking about discrimination and disadvantage at work. We see how our racial emotions can result in discrimination, and how our institutions-the law and work organizations-value and skew our racial emotions in ways that place the brunt of negative consequences on people of color. It turns out we need to reset our institutional and not just our personal radars on racial emotion to advance racial justice. Racial Emotion at Work shows how we can rise to the taskFreedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, palestine, and the foundations of a movement
Par Angela Davis. 2016
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles…
against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles-from the black freedom movement to the South African antiapartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine. Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that "freedom is a constant struggle."Bloodlands: Europe between hitler and stalin
Par Timothy Snyder. 2018
From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny , the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's politics of mass…
killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history. Bloodlands won twelve awards including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought. It has been translated into more than thirty languages, was named to twelve book-of-the-year lists, and was a bestseller in six countriesThe great betrayal: The great siege of constantinople
Par Ernle Bradford. 2023
An engrossing chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, from the bestselling author of…
Thermopylae. At the dawn of the thirteenth century, Constantinople stood as the bastion of Christianity in Eastern Europe. The capital city of the Byzantine Empire, it was a center of art, culture, and commerce that had commanded trading routes between Asia, Russia, and Europe for hundreds of years. But in 1204, the city suffered a devastating attack that would spell the end of the Holy Roman Empire. The army of the Fourth Crusade had set out to reclaim Jerusalem, but under the sway of their Venetian patrons, the crusaders diverted from their path in order to lay siege to Constantinople. With longstanding tensions between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, the crusaders set arms against their Christian neighbors, destroying a vital alliance between Eastern and Western Rome. In The Great Betrayal, historian Ernle Bradford brings to life this powerful tale of envy and greed, demonstrating the far-reaching consequences this siege would have across Europe for centuries to come