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Par Ryszard Kapuściński. 2010
À travers ce recueil posthume inédit en France, le grand reporter montre le visage du journaliste engagé. Son regard se…
porte sur trois points chauds du globe dans les années 1970 : Moyen-Orient, Amérique du Sud et Afrique. Comme toujours chez Kapuscinski, l'écriture est précise, intelligente, et le propos férocement actuel. Décrivant des mouvements partisans ou révolutionnaires, le reporter s'attache chaque fois à un destin particulier pour dresser un tableau politique plus général. Mais ce qui frappe surtout, c'est l'engagement du journaliste, sa capacité à s'insurger. Le monde qu'il peint est absurde, cynique, la violence y est omniprésente, la démocratie y est un paravent à toutes les hypocrisies favorisant l'esclavage, la répression, le crime... -- 4e de couvPar Cassidy Hutchinson. 2023
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history.…
Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington. Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in government. Raised in a working-class family with a military background, she was the first in her immediate family to graduate from college. Despite having no ties to Washington, Hutchinson landed a vital position at the center of the Trump White House. Her life took a dramatic turn on January 6th, 2021, when, at twenty-four, she found herself in one of the most extraordinary and unprecedented calamities in modern political history. Hutchinson was faced with a choice between loyalty to the Trump administration or loyalty to the country by revealing what she saw and heard in the attempt to overthrow a democratic election. She bravely came forward to become the pivotal witness in the House January 6 investigations, as her testimony transfixed and stunned the nation. In her memoir, Hutchinson reveals the struggle between the pressures she confronted to toe the party line and the demands of the oath she swore to defend American democracy. Enough reaches far beyond the typical insider political account. It's the saga of a woman whose fierce determination helped her overcome childhood challenges to get her dream job, only to face a crisis of conscience—one that more senior White House aides tried to evade—and, in the process, find her voice and herself. This is a portrait of how the courage of one person can change the course of historyPar Clea Hantman. 2008
Guide for self-preservation in romantic break-ups. Explains the five stages of grief--denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Provides tips and…
empowering daily activities. Also suggests music that makes the transition easier and fun. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2008Par James Reston. 2008
Historian describes serving as adviser to British journalist David Frost for the 1977 televised interviews with former president Richard Nixon.…
Discusses using House Impeachment Committee evidence in Frost's interrogation guide for the Watergate portion of the broadcast, watched by forty-five million Americans. 2007Par Edward Miguel, Deborah Chasman. 2009
Economist Miguel posits that economic and political gains have been made in Africa in the twenty-first century. Nine scholars and…
experts on Africa's economy discuss Miguel's optimistic assertion. They evaluate the stability of Africa's politics, clean-environment technologies, population growth, and more. 2009Par Bonnie Burton. 2009
Discusses why girls hurt each other. Analyzes six common types of girl-on-girl cruelty, the pain caused by such behavior, and…
reasons girls use each method. Also explains meanness recognition, defense, and avoidance, and the optimal response to certain situations. For junior and senior high readers. 2009Par Joel Osteen. 2011
Pastor Osteen discusses research showing that people are happiest on Fridays and suggests allowing joy to infuse every day by…
maintaining a positive outlook. Uses scripture and personal anecdotes to illustrate his principles for happiness. Bestseller. 2011Par Peggy Post. 2006
Manners columnist presents common etiquette problems and advice on dealing with them. Covers breakup basics, playdate rules, handicapped-parking issues, fitness-center…
habits, work situations, sympathy notes, wedding dilemmas, partying politics, and gift giving. Provides quick retorts to ten nosy questions and discusses respectfully disagreeing with one's teenager. 2006Par Candice Millard. 2011
Chronicles the life of James A. Garfield (1831-1881), the twentieth American president. Highlights Garfield's rise from poverty to the Oval…
Office. Details the attack by deranged office-seeker Charles Guiteau and the medical care that killed Garfield despite the efforts of Alexander Graham Bell. Bestseller. 2011A radical reimagining of the role of art and culture in contemporary democracy, The Compassionate Imagination proposes a new Canadian…
Cultural Contract that re-humanizes our way of living together by tapping into the instincts for generosity and compassion that find their expression in art. Over the last forty years, the arts have been increasingly deemed unimportant to the creation of an educated workforce. Reflecting a broadly held political view that in a market-based economy the arts were "a frill," they were deemed "unnecessary" courses compared to sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But what kind of Canada might we make if we were to place art and culture at the heart of our mutual decision-making, and return the arts to a central position in our education, shifting to steam rather than stem? What might be possible if we integrate the creative imagination into our responses to the great social challenges we face? What impact would it have on the future shape of our democracy? It's time to find where the Compassionate Imagination can take usPar Arnold Schwarzenegger. 2023
The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of…
ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone The world’s greatest bodybuilder. The world’s highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world’s sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident. Arnold’s stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold’s father hammered into him above all: be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father’s adage close to his heart. Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice, Be Useful takes readers on an inspirational tour through Arnold’s tool kit for a meaningful life. He shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike—some of them famous; some told here for the first time ever. Too many of us struggle to disconnect from our self-pity and connect to our purpose. At an early age, Arnold forged the mental tools to build the ladder out of the poverty and narrow-mindedness of his rural Austrian hometown, tools he used to add rung after rung from there. Now he shares that wisdom with all of us. As he puts it, no one is going to come rescue you—you only have yourself. The good news, it turns out, is that you are all you needPar Marie Borrel. 2012
" Notre vie est jalonnée de crises. À quoi servent-elles ? Comment les gérer ? Comment rebondir après l'une d'elles…
et l'optimiser ? Un ouvrage tonique pour prendre son bonheur en main ! " -- 4e de couvPar Gil Courtemanche. 2011
" [...] Cest à Camus que Gil Courtemanche emprunte cette idée du juste pour décrire la position quil veut être…
la sienne quand il aborde lactualité politique. Le juste , cest celui qui fait passer lhumanité avant les idées, les personnes avant les dogmes, politiques ou autres. Cest la position la plus pénible, la plus complexe, la plus vulnérable. Car le juste se retrouve avec de curieux compagnons quil naime pas nécessairement. Puis il est confronté à la douloureuse question de la responsabilité, de lintention criminelle des États ou des acteurs. Les chroniques sont suivies dun texte inédit sur lequel Gil Courtemanche travaillait au moment de son décès, le 19 août 2011 : LOdyssée de Youssef. Un texte dérangeant, émouvant sur le destin dun garçon fier et fort, le seul de son village à savoir lire et surtout à savoir sexprimer en français, que les Anciens ont choisi pour sauver son village, situé à une centaine de kilomètres de Niamey, la capitale du Niger, ravagé par la sécheresse. Youssef part donc vers lOccident, au risque de sa vie, non pas pour devenir riche, pour nous dérober nos emplois, mais pour gagner de largent qui sauvera son village. Youssef est un réfugié économique, ce texte raconte son odyssée." -- 4e de couvPar David Richo. 2018
"Most people think of love as a feeling," says David Richo, "but love is not so much a feeling as…
a way of being present." In this book, Richo offers a fresh perspective on love and relationships—one that focuses not on finding an ideal mate, but on becoming a more loving and realistic person. Drawing on the Buddhist concept of mindfulness, How to Be an Adult in Relationships explores five hallmarks of mindful loving and how they play a key role in our relationships throughout life: 1. Attention to the present moment; observing, listening, and noticing all the feelings at play in our relationships. 2. Acceptance of ourselves and others just as we are. 3. Appreciation of all our gifts, our limits, our longings, and our poignant human predicament. 4. Affection shown through holding and touching in respectful ways. 5. Allowing life and love to be just as they are, with all their ecstasy and ache, without trying to take control. When deeply understood and applied, these five simple concepts—what Richo calls the five A's—form the basis of mature love. They help us to move away from judgment, fear, and blame to a position of openness, compassion, and realism about life and relationships. By giving and receiving these five A's, relationships become deeper and more meaningful, and they become a ground for personal transformationPar Liza Frulla. 2007
"Deux ex-femmes politiques que tout semble opposer, de la biographie aux choix politiques, conversent, s'affrontent en toute amitié et se…
racontent. Attentives au tumulte de notre temps, préoccupées par l'avenir, Louise Beaudoin, souverainiste indéfectible et passionnée, et Liza Frulla, fédéraliste pragmatique et convaincue, naviguent ici entre le sérieux et l'humour, le profond et le léger, sans jamais succomber à la langue de bois. [...] Regards croisés sur une amitié paradoxale, sur la place des femmes en politique, les grandes options nationales, l'environnement, les défis du vivre ensemble, les grandes joies et les blessures, sans oublier la séduction, les hommes de leur vie et les petits plaisirs de l'existence. La journaliste Danièle Bombardier se fait l'écho ici de leurs longues conversations dans toute la spontanéité et la fougue qui caractérisent ces deux femmes d'exception." -- 4e de couvPar Mathieu Bock-Côté. 2012
" Souverainistes, fédéralistes, lassés de ce débat? De gauche, de droite, ou ailleurs? Les idéologies auxquelles nous étions habitués semblent…
frappées de désuétude. Les Québécois ne savent plus exactement comment penser leur avenir collectif. Partout, un sentiment dimpuissance se propage, alimenté par un cynisme généralisé. Et un pessimisme mortifère gagne la conscience collective. Dans cet essai, Mathieu Bock-Côté décrypte la crise politique québécoise à la lumière des tendances historiques et sociologiques lourdes qui ont fait le Québec depuis cinquante ans... " -- 4e de couvPar Niccolò Machiavelli. 2008
A sixteenth-century treatise on political philosophy in which Florentine civil servant and thinker Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) describes acquiring, wielding, and…
maintaining political power. A 2007 translation by PEN Translation Prize winner Peter Constantine. 2007Par John Grogan. 2008
John Grogan, author of Marley and Me (DB 61561), describes growing up near Detroit as the youngest of four siblings.…
Recounts many experiences, from disappointing his devout Catholic parents by living with his girlfriend to witnessing his father's 2004 death and his mother's mental decline. Strong language. 2008Writings of Gandhi (1869-1948) that state the principles of his philosophy of nonviolence (ahimsa) and nonviolent action (satyagraha), selected by…
Trappist monk Thomas Merton in 1965. Merton's introduction examines the foundations of Gandhi's universal truths and analyzes Gandhi's commitment to change through political action. Preface (2007) by Mark Kurlansky. 1964British historian traces the life of the thirty-second U.S. president--the only chief executive to serve more than two terms. Highlights…
Roosevelt's family history, his controversial concept of the New Deal for combating the Great Depression, and the 1941 entry of the country into World War II. 2003