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The crisis of Islam: holy war and unholy terror
Par Bernard Lewis. 2003
Princeton historian traces the roots of anti-Americanism in the Islamic world. Explores the conditions that led to terrorism in the…
west, including the Islamic Revolution in Iran, U.S. foreign policy, Soviet influence in the Middle East, and the role of Saudi Arabia in creating Muslim extremism. Bestseller. 2003Depuis le dernier livre du Nouveau Testament jusqu'aux scénarios-catastrophes de nos jours, une certaine psychose a toujours prévalu dans les…
mentalités. L'historien édifie le bilan panoramique de ces craintes et tremblements récurrents à chaque fin de siècle. [SDMGame of freedom: Mestre bimba and the art of capoeira
Par Duncan Tonatiuh. 2023
A meia lua whooshed in the air. The strike was evaded and followed with an aú. Two young men were…
playing capoeira in the middle of the roda. Bimba wanted to play too. Although it is debated when and where capoeira—an art form that blends martial arts, dance, acrobatics, music, and spirituality—originated exactly, one thing is certain: in the early 20th century, Brazil was the only country in the world where capoeira was played, and it was mainly practiced by people of African descent. In 1890, two years after Brazil officially abolished slavery, the game was outlawed. Wealthy, lighter-skinned society feared and looked down on capoeira, seeing it as a game for malandros—what people in power called the poor Black communities they disdained. But in the early 1920s in the city of Salvador, a man called Bimba would advocate for capoeira, and those who practiced it, to be treated with dignity and the respect it deserved. Inspired by pre-Columbian codices, Duncan Tonatiuh tells the story of arguably the greatest capoeirista of all time, who fought to turn a misunderstood, persecuted Afro-Brazilian activity into a celebrated art practiced by millions around the worldLauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart: un amour sans nuages (Les couples célèbres)
Par Jean-Marc Loubier. 2001
Les invasions barbares: scénario (Rivages poche #337. Bibliothèque étrangère)
Par Denys Arcand. 2003
Quelque vingt-cinq ans plus tard, le lecteur retrouve les protagonistes du Déclin de l'Empire américain au chevet d'un Rémy qui,…
dévoré par un cancer, n'a plus que quelques jours à vivre. Mais davantage que ces personnages d'une génération vieillisante et désillusionnée, ce sont leurs enfants qui feront face à cette agonie dans ce qui pourrait être un règlement de comptes entre générations et qui devient une étonnante leçon d'amour. Maniant humour et émotion avec maestria, un regard à la fois critique et tendre sur le début du 21e siècleInvictus: Nelson Mandela : son peuple espérait un leader, il leur a offert un champion
Par John Carlin. 2009
En 1985, Nelson Mandela, alors incarcéré depuis vingt-trois ans, entreprit de vaincre les partisans les plus impitoyables de l'apartheid, de…
ses geôliers jusqu'au commandement de l'armée sud-africaine. Il commença par gagner sa libération, puis remporta la présidence du pays lors de sa première élection libre en 1994. Mais il savait que l'Afrique du Sud était encore dangereusement divisée par presque cinquante ans d'apartheid. S'il ne pouvait l'unir rapidement, d'une façon viscérale et émotionnelle, son pays allait s'effondrer dans le chaos. Il lui fallait mettre en oeuvre tout le charisme ainsi que le discernement stratégique qu'il avait raffiné durant un demisiècle d'activisme, au moyen d'une cause que tous les Sud-Africains pouvaient partager. Mandela choisit l'une des causes les plus improbables que l'on pût imaginer : l'équipe nationale de rugby, les Springboks, allait accueillir le tournoi de la Coupe mondiale de 1995 . -- 4e de couvHollywood, le Pentagone et Washington: les trois acteurs d'une stratégie globale
Par Jean-Michel Valantin. 2003
Un essai qui examine les liens entre les questions de sécurité nationale et de politique étrangère aux États-Unis et la…
production cinématographique hollywoodienne (le cinéma d'action tout particulièrement). L'auteur laisse de côté la thèse simpliste du cinéma américain comme instrument de propagande pour examiner dans le détail dans quelle mesure l'imaginaire cinématographique reflète, critique ou magnifie les stratégies de politique internationale américaines. [SDMLa Flouve, le parfum de Balzac: Le Parfum De Balzac
Par Lise Bissonnette. 2006
"Comme elle l'a fait pour la Grande Bibliothèque, Lise Bissonnette nous invite à visiter son espace intérieur en consacrant ce…
nouvel ouvrage à la maison qu'elle a acquise il y a quelques années et qu'elle a entièrement restaurée depuis. S'inspirant de photos d'archives, des plans de son architecte et de quelques recherches historiques, elle remonte le cours du temps et nous raconte l'histoire de cette maison et de ses habitants, retraçant par le fait même l'évolution de tout un quartier de Montréal au XIXe et XXe siècle. Voici l'histoire d'un lieu, La Flouve - du même nom que cette plante sauvage qui pousse encore dans son jardin - qui a survécu au temps et à la misère, comme l'herbe sous le pavé, indocile, chétive et même rebelle." -- 4e de couvErrol Flynn, ou, Le mal-aimé du cinéma
Par Michael Freedland. 1980
Biographie d'une vedette de cinéma qui eut bien des déboires à cause d'une vie privée qui n'était pas sans reproches.…
L'auteur tente de donner une meilleure image de cet acteur à qui on a peut-être attribué plus de scandales qu'il ne le mérite. [SDMNirvana: The amplifications
Par Michael Azerrad. 2023
An audiobook reflecting on the meaning of the revolutionary band Nirvana, their leader Kurt Cobain, and the band's personal, musical…
and cultural contexts in the '90s. It has been three decades since Nirvana upended the pop cultural landscape with Nevermind, the landmark album that became the soundtrack of Generation X, capturing its confusion, frustration, and passion. In 1993, Michael Azerrad published what stands as the definitive biography of this revolutionary band and its star-crossed leader Kurt Cobain. Written with the band's complete cooperation—the only book to feature interviews with Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic, and drummer Dave Grohl—it became a massive bestseller and, in the words of Cobain, "the best rock book I've ever read." Seven months after the book's original publication, Cobain was dead by suicide, making Come as You Are the only book-length record of the inner life and creative mind of one the most significant songwriters and musicians in rock history—a haunting and haunted artist whose influence continues powerfully to the present day. In this new work, a compelling narrative formed out of the annotations from The Amplified Come as You Are, Azerrad deepens our understanding of this legendary band. He solves former mysteries, reinterprets the key players and the time, investigates depression and other psychic traumas, debunks myths and legends, and offers celebrations of that pivotal moment in the mid '90s as he searches for the answer to the question: Why was this music so extraordinarily powerful? Vivid, evocative, and thought-provoking, this is essential not just for Nirvana fans but for anyone interested in the cultural legacy of the '90s. [Note: This is a unique narrative work created from the essay-like annotations for The Amplified Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, excluding the underlying 1993 bookA groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history: Henry VIII's long courtship, short…
union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn. Hunting the Falcon is the story of how Henry VIII's obsessive desire for Anne Boleyn changed him and his country forever. John Guy and Julia Fox, two of the most acclaimed and distinguished historians of this period, have joined forces to present Anne and Henry in startlingly new ways. By closely examining the most recent archival discoveries, and peeling back layers of historical myth and misinterpretation and distortion, Guy and Fox are able to set Anne and Henry's tragic relationship against the major international events of the time, and integrate and reinterpret sources hidden in plain sight or simply misunderstood. Among other things, they dispel lingering and latently misogynistic assumptions about Anne which anachronistically presumed that a sixteenth-century woman, even a queen, could exert little to no influence on the politics and beliefs of a patriarchal society. They reveal how, in fact, Anne was a shrewd, if ruthless, politician in her own right, a woman who steered Henry and his policies, often against the advice he received from his male advisers—and whom Henry seriously contemplated making joint sovereign. Hunting the Falcon sets the facts–and some completely new finds–into a far wider frame, providing an appreciation of this misunderstood and underestimated woman. It explores how Anne organized her "side" of the royal court on novel and (in male eyes) subversive lines compared to her queenly predecessors, adopting instead French protocol by which the sexes mingled freely in her private chambers. Men could share in the women's often sexually charged courtly "pastimes" and had liberal access to Anne, and she to them—encounters from which she gained much of her political intelligence and extended her authority, and which also sowed the seeds of her own downfall. An exhilarating feat of historical research and analysis, Hunting the Falcon is also a thrilling and tragic story of a marriage that has proved of enduring fascination over the centuries. But in the hands of John Guy and Julia Fox, even the most knowledgeable reader will encounter this story as if for the first timeFrida, a biography of Frida Kahlo: A Biography Of Frida Kahlo
Par Hayden Herrera. 1983
Portrait of the twentieth-century Mexican artist often identified with the surrealists. Discusses the bus accident that brought her chronic pain…
from age eighteen until her death at forty-seven. Covers her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera. Explores the relation between her paintings and her physical and mental anguish. Some strong language. 1983The shadow of the sun
Par Ryszard Kapuściński. 2001
Polish journalist reminisces about his forty years of extensive travel in Africa, reporting on political and social change, hitching rides…
on back roads, and wandering with nomads. In "The Cooling Hell," he describes a trip to chaotic Liberia when it was at the mercy of warlords after Doe's assassination. Some strong language. 2001Opposable 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 ImagesMa vie de stripteaseuse: biographie
Par Lili St-Cyr. 1996
Autobiographie, à base d'anecdotes et de souvenirs, d'une femme d'origine américaine qui fut la reine du "show-business" de la rue…
Sainte-Catherine à Montréal, dans les années 1940 et 1950. Le récit donne une idée de la vie nocturne à Montréal à la même époque. [SDMGandhi's passion: the life and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
Par Stanley Wolpert. 2001
Covers Mohandas Gandhi's childhood, legal training, and transformation into a Mahatma or "great soul," and the international attention that focused…
on his vision of nonviolence. Uses Gandhi's writings to explore his shift from turn-of-the-century campaigns against racial discrimination in South Africa to a leadership role in India's independence movement. 2001Andy Warhol
Par Wayne Koestenbaum. 2001
Examines the enigmatic man behind the public figure of the pop artist who became a cultural icon of the 1960s.…
Discusses Warhol's homosexuality in art and life, and his nearly fatal shooting. Provides psychoanalytically oriented insights into his personality and his work. 2001The road to Kosovo: a Balkan diary
Par Greg Campbell. 1999
A reporter describes his solo sojourn into Kosovo in 1998 just when the Kosovo Liberation Army was becoming known in…
the West. Campbell had been to Bosnia in 1996 and wanted to ascertain the success or failure of the Dayton AccordsLes Filles du Roy pionnières des seigneuries de Varennes et de Verchères
Par Société d'histoire des Filles du Roy. 2022
Qui sont ces jeunes femmes majoritairement pauvres et orphelines qui, entre 1663 et 1673, ont quitté la France et bravé…
la mer sur de frêles navires à voile pour venir se faire une vie dans cette lointaine Nouvelle-France ? Parmi ces femmes, certaines ont osé remonter le fleuve pour venir s'établir un jour à Varennes et à Verchères. Arrivées dans le cadre du seul programme mis en place par la France pour peuple le Canada, elles font ici l'objet d'un recueil qui expose ce qu'a été leur vie en ce pays. Ce livre lève le voile sur ces "mères de la nation", femmes invisibles dans l'histoire, qui, avec d'autres pionnières, ont contribué à peuple et à développer l'Amérique françaiseUnder the black flag: the romance and the reality of life among the pirates
Par David Cordingly. 1997
Dispels the romantic fantasy about swashbuckling pirates and exposes them as brutal, violent criminals. Highlights their daily lives, the major…
ports where they thrived, the pets commonly kept, and the eventual demise of their class by government sanction. Includes notorious women and infamous buccaneers