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Halberstam's magisterial & thrilling The Best & the Brightest was a defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, he used his research & journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history: the Korean War. He considered The Coldest Winter his most accomplished work, the culmination of 45 years of writing about America's postwar foreign policy. He gives a masterful narrative of the political decisions & miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu River & that caught Douglas MacArthur & his soldiers by surprise. He provides vivid & nuanced portraits of all the major figures-Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, & Mao, & Generals MacArthur, Almond & Ridgway. At the same time, he provides us with his trademark highly evocative narrative journalism, chronicling the crucial battles with reportage of the highest order. As ever, he was concerned with the extraordinary courage & resolve of people asked to bear an extraordinary burden. The Coldest Winter is contemporary history in its most literary & luminescent form, providing crucial perspective on every war America has been involved in since. It's a book that Halberstam first decided to write over 30 years ago that took him nearly a decade to complete. It stands as a lasting testament to one of the greatest journalists & historians of our time, & to the fighting men whose heroism it chronicles.]]> 734 David Halberstam 1401300529 Anon 0 currently-reading, histoire 4.19 2007
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]]> 1272867 200 John Melady 1550026119 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.75 2006
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]]> 1864393 116 Roald Dahl 2070612910 Anon 3 ±ôľ±łŮłŮĂ©°ů˛ąłŮłÜ°ů±đ-±đłŮ-´Úľ±ł¦łŮľ±´Ç˛Ô 3.94 1953
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]]> 161180776 0 George Katkov Anon 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 32467391 Book by Katkov, George George Katkov Anon 0 to-read 4.00 1980
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]]> 4485199 1st edition 1967 400 George Katkov 0313209324 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.00
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]]> 216864525 It was the election America dreaded, a rematch between the two oldest men to serve as president. But somewhere along the way, the 2024 battle for the White House became the most jaw-dropping, heart-pounding, head-turning contest in American history. The ride was so wild that it forced a sitting president to drop his re-election bid, a once and future president to survive felony convictions and a would-be assassin’s bullet, and a vice president, unexpectedly thrust into the arena, to mount an unprecedented 107-day campaign to lead the free world.Ěý

Fight is the backstage story of bloodsport politics in its rawest form—the clawing, backstabbing, and rabble-rousing that drove Donald Trump into the White House and Democrats into the wilderness. At every turn, the combatants went for the jugular, whether they were facing down rivals in the other party or their own.Ěý

Bestselling authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes give readers their first graphic view of the characters, their motivations, and their innermost thoughts as they battled to claim the ultimate prize and define a political era. Based on real-time interviews with more than 150 insiders—from the Trump, Harris, and Biden inner circles, as well as party leaders and operatives�Fight delivers the vivid and stunning tale of an election unlike any other.

In the end, Trump overcame voters� concerns about his personal flaws by tapping into a deep vein of dissatisfaction with the direction of the country. At the same time, Democrats struggled to connect with an electorate that felt gaslit by Biden’s insistence that he had delivered economic prosperity—and his pledge to be a “bridge� president. He tore his party asunder, leaving destroyed personal relationships in his wake, as he clung to power. And when he gave it up, he kneecapped Harris by demanding unprecedented loyalty from her.

As Allen and Parnes have done in the #1 New York Times bestseller Shattered and Lucky, they provide readers with a skeleton key to the rooms where it all happened, revealing a story more shocking than previously reported.]]> 352 Jonathan Allen 006343864X Anon 0 3.92
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]]> 40770069
L’économie ne parle plus du réel.

Malgré ses prétentions scientifiques, elle s’est perdue dans l’élaboration de modèles abstraits bien souvent incapables de présenter une vision adéquate du monde économique et de ses problèmes.
Est-on certain que les prix s’ajustent à l’offre et à la demande ? La concurrence se traduit-elle toujours par une efficacité accrue ? Les dysfonctionnements du marché du travail permettent-ils d’expliquer le chômage ?

Les réponses proposées par l’économie dominante se vérifient rarement dans les faits. Une vision économique étroite, centrée sur une représentation idéalisée des marchés, n’appréhende pas la complexité du monde telle qu’elle est vécue et induit des politiques aux résultats parfois désastreux. Il en va ainsi des politiques agricoles qui ont généré une catastrophe économique, sociale et environnementale, ou de la création du marché européen du carbone qui, malgré la complexité de sa mise en œuvre, n’est pas parvenu à limiter les émissions de gaz à effet de serre des industriels.

Il est plus que temps de revoir en profondeur la manière dont se construit la pensée économique. Nous avons besoin d’une véritable science économique qui comprenne le réel, c’est-à-dire la société humaine dans toutes ses dimensions.]]> 226 David Cayla Anon 0 5.00
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]]> 56766974 295 David Cayla Anon 0 4.67
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]]> 50886844
There is substantial misinformation about vaccines on the Internet, particularly from those who reject all vaccines, but also from official sources, which are expected to be neutral and objective. The book is based on the best available evidence, and Professor Gøtzsche explains when and why we should not have confidence in the science and official recommendations.

Some vaccines are so beneficial - and have saved millions of lives � that we should all get them; some are so poor that many healthcare professionals do not use them for themselves or their families; and some are in-between.

We must evaluate carefully each vaccine, one by one, assessing the balance between its benefits and harms, just as we do for other drugs, and then form an opinion about whether we think the vaccine is worth getting or recommending to other people.

The book focuses on measles, influenza and HPV but discusses also childhood vaccination programmes and whether mandatory vaccination can be justified. Raising critical questions to vaccines is essential because there are still many unresolved issues. For example, we know virtually nothing about what happens when we use many vaccines and what the long-term effects are on the immune system.]]> 201 Peter C. Gøtzsche 8770368937 Anon 0 3.76 2020
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]]> 18428805
In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C. Gøtzsche exposes the pharmaceutical industries and their charade of fraudulent behavior, both in research and marketing where the morally repugnant disregard for human lives is the norm 1. He convincingly draws close comparisons with the tobacco conglomerates, revealing the extraordinary truth behind efforts to confuse and distract the public and their politicians.

The book addresses, in evidence-based detail, an extraordinary system failure caused by widespread crime, corruption, bribery and impotent drug regulation in need of radical reforms.]]> 320 Peter C. Gøtzsche 1846198844 Anon 0 4.21 2013
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]]> 4085241 434 Yves Roby 2921114399 Anon 0 to-read 0.0 1990
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]]> 4085240
Yves Roby a consacré 30 ans de recherche et de réflexion à ce sujet et nous trace un portrait éclairant sur le processus d’évolution de l’identité de ces émigrés et de leurs familles en sol américain. En effet, si les premières vagues ont maintenu tant bien que mal leur héritage, s’identifiant comme Canadiens français vivant aux États-Unis, il faut se demander ce qu’il en est devenu des millions de leurs descendants aujourd’hui appelés Franco-Américains ? Décrire les représentations que ces Québécois émigrés en Nouvelle-Angleterre et leur descendance se font d’eux-mêmes, tel est l’objet de cet ouvrage.

Le lecteur trouvera dans ce livre une étude sur le processus de construction identitaire. Cependant, puisque pour comprendre ce dernier il faut le replacer dans son contexte, il y trouvera aussi une histoire des Franco-Américains des origines à nos jours. Deux livres dans un, mais parfaitement intégrés.

Ouvrage magistral, ce livre qui met le sceau à sa réputation d'historien, pourrait s'avérer l'histoire définitive des Franco-américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre.]]> 534 Yves Roby 2894481640 Anon 0 to-read 4.00 1990
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]]> 228568
This commemorative edition, honoring the memory of the author who died in 2011, contains essays by his daughter Olivia Judson, Matthew Meselson, and Mark Ptashne and an obituary by Jason Pontin. It contains all the content added to previous editions, including essays on some of the principal historical figures involved, such as Rosalind Franklin, and a sketch of the further development of molecular biology in the era of recombinant DNA.]]> 720 Horace Freeland Judson 0879694785 Anon 0 4.57 1979
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]]> 56916964 414 Eric Helleiner 1501760122 Anon 0 4.31
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]]> 6659368
Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources including family letters, party and military correspondence, confidential speeches, and medical records, Service offers new insights into Trotsky. He discusses Trotsky s fractious relations with the leaders he was trying to bring into a unified party before 1914; his attempt to disguise his political closeness to Stalin; and his role in the early 1920s as the progenitor of political and cultural Stalinism. Trotsky evinced a surprisingly glacial and schematic approach to making revolution. Service recounts Trotsky s role in the botched German revolution of 1923; his willingness to subject Europe to a Red Army invasion in the 1920s; and his assumption that peasants could easily be pushed onto collective farms. Service also sheds light on Trotsky s character and personality: his difficulties with his Jewish background, the development of his oratorical skills and his preference for writing over politicking, his inept handling of political factions and coldness toward associates, and his aversion to assuming personal power.

Although Trotsky s followers clung to the stubborn view of him as a pure revolutionary and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin, the reality is very different. This illuminating portrait of the man and his legacy sets the record straight."]]> 648 Robert Service 0674036158 Anon 0 to-read 3.75 2009
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]]> 133487 592 Robert Service 0330491393 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.83 2000
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]]> 129373438 0 John Ernest Hodgson Anon 0 to-read, histoire 0.0
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]]> 245474
The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it underscores Yuri Slezkine's provocative thesis. Not only have Jews adapted better than many other groups to living in the modern world, they have become the premiere symbol and standard of modern life everywhere.

Slezkine argues that the Jews were, in effect, among the world's first free agents. They traditionally belonged to a social and anthropological category known as "service nomads," an outsider group specializing in the delivery of goods and services. Their role, Slezkine argues, was part of a broader division of human labor between what he calls Mercurians-entrepreneurial minorities--and Apollonians--food-producing majorities.

Since the dawning of the Modern Age, Mercurians have taken center stage. In fact, Slezkine argues, modernity is all about Apollonians becoming Mercurians--urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually intricate, physically fastidious, and occupationally flexible. Since no group has been more adept at Mercurianism than the Jews, he contends, these exemplary ancients are now model moderns.

The book concentrates on the drama of the Russian Jews, including émigrés and their offspring in America, Palestine, and the Soviet Union. But Slezkine has as much to say about the many faces of modernity--nationalism, socialism, capitalism, and liberalism--as he does about Jewry. Marxism and Freudianism, for example, sprang largely from the Jewish predicament, Slezkine notes, and both Soviet Bolshevism and American liberalism were affected in fundamental ways by the Jewish exodus from the Pale of Settlement.

Rich in its insight, sweeping in its chronology, and fearless in its analysis, this sure-to-be-controversial work is an important contribution not only to Jewish and Russian history but to the history of Europe and America as well.]]> 456 Yuri Slezkine 0691127603 Anon 0 4.01 2004
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]]> 872780 Answerable solely to the Central Committee of the Communist Party as its "special organ of merciless summary justice," aspiring to security surveillance over the entire society, the Cheka set the scene for the 20th-century totalitarian police state and the succession of formidable Soviet political
police agencies, from Stalin's OGPU and NKVD to today's KGB.]]> George Leggett 0198228627 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 4.62 1981
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]]> 2810338 364 Erich Haberer 0521528496 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.50 1995
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]]> 950258 424 Philip W. Blood 1597970212 Anon 0 to-read 3.92 2006
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]]> 1345779 The Dirlewanger Battalion, also known as "Sonderkommando (special commando) Dirlewanger" was perhaps the most little understood, but at the same time the most notorious, German SS anti-partisan unit in World War II. German propaganda correspondents and wartime photographers did not follow them in action. And for good reason. Wherever the Dirlewanger unit � named for and led by Oskar Dirlewanger � operated, corruption and rape formed an every-day part of life and indiscriminate slaughter, beatings and looting were rife.
Formed as a battalion of convicted poachers in 1940, the unit operated in Poland until 1942, guarding Jews in forced labor camps and making life miserable for Poles in Lublin and Cracow. From there Dirlewanger spent two years combating partisans in central Russia, giving no quarter and expecting none in return, during vicious fighting against an elusive foe in the midst of inhospitable swamps and dismal forests. In 1944 Dirlewanger savaged Warsaw during the Polish Uprising, before moving to Slovakia to crush another rebellion there. The end of the war saw the unit, which was now a division in size, fighting for its life south of Berlin against the Soviet Army.
Medieval in their outlook on war and certainly not indicative of many German military formations, this unit none-the-less remains a reflection of a segment of mankind gone mad in the inferno of World War II on the eastern front.]]> 303 French L. MacLean 0764304836 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.95 1998
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]]> 743932 400 John Mosier 0060084332 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.76 2001
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]]> 6859007 421 Andrew Ezergailis 088033035X Anon 0 to-read, histoire 4.67 1984
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]]> 820506 570 C.A. Bayly 0631236163 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.79 2003
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]]> 18607841 The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more.
This is the highly anticipated English edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed German book, which is also being translated into Chinese, Polish, Russian, and French. Indispensable for any historian, "The Transformation of the World" sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developments.
"]]> 1167 JĂĽrgen Osterhammel 0691147450 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 4.20 2009
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]]> 21944976 346 Edward J. Watts 0520283708 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.94 2015
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]]> 1224206
Many of the period’s foremost intellectuals and artists appear in the book: Isaiah Berlin, Clement Greenberg, Sidney Hook, Arthur Koestler, Irving Kristol, Robert Lowell, Henry Luce, André Malraux, Mary McCarthy, Reinhold Neibuhr, George Orwell, Jackson Pollock, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Stephen Spender, among others. While many were unwitting participants in the CIA’s cultural operation, others were willing collaborators.

Short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award, The Cultural Cold War is “a rivetingly told story� (The Times Literary Supplement, London) of covert patronage unprecedented in modern history that is “quite unputdownable� (The Literary Review).]]> 509 Frances Stonor Saunders 156584596X Anon 0 to-read, histoire 4.04 1999
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]]> 136156775 0 John R. Zaller Anon 0 to-read, sciences-humaines 0.0
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]]> 33602412
In this 25th anniversary edition, Goldstone reflects on the history of revolutions in the last twenty-five years, from the Philippines and other color revolutions to the Arab Uprisings and the rise of the Islamic State. In a new introduction, he re-examines his pioneering look at the role of population changes--such as rising youth cohorts, urbanization, shifting elite mobility--as continuing causal factors of revolutions and rebellions. The new concluding chapter updates his major theory and looks to the future of revolutions in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.]]> 606 Jack A. Goldstone 1315408597 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 4.00 1991
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]]> 318232 the historiography of the Revolution. Beginning with the accession of Louis XVI in 1774, leading historian William Doyle traces the history of France through revolution, terror, and counter-terror, to the triumph of Napoleon in 1802, along the way analyzing the impact of these events in France upon
the rest of Europe. He explores how a movement which began with optimism and general enthusiasm soon became a tragedy, not only for the ruling orders, but for millions of ordinary people all over Europe who paid the price for the destruction of the old political order and the struggle to establish a
new one.
Highly readable and meticulously researched, The Oxford History of the French Revolution will provide new insight into one of the most important events in European history.]]> 496 William Doyle 019925298X Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.79 1989
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]]> 156690 388 Anna Geifman 0691025495 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.63 1993
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]]> 19262039 522 Friedrich List Anon 0 to-read 3.89 1841
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]]> 13594020 272 William J. Baumol 0300179286 Anon 0 3.67 2012
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]]> 60485270 157 Denis Monière 2896498672 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.00
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]]> 6617037 Before there was money, there was debt.

Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it.

Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religionĚý(words like “guilt,â€� “sin,â€� and “redemptionâ€�) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history—as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy.]]> 534 David Graeber 1933633867 Anon 0 to-read 4.21 2011
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]]> 15779179 The Bubble and Beyond describes how the fabulous expansive forces of industrial capitalism have been subverted by a predatory finance capitalism. What the FED hailed as The Great Moderation has left the middle class to take on a lifetime of bank debt to obtain access to housing, education to get a job, an auto to drive to it, and simply to maintain living standards that wages and salaries no longer support. What has derailed the economy is the take-over of academic economics and politics by the financial sector in order to censor criticism and misrepresent statistics so as to give the impression that the economy can borrow its way out of debt. The reality is that income used to pay down today s debt overhead is not available to be spent on goods and services. The result is debt deflation, followed by austerity and the the "fire sale" or decay of infrastructure at the national and local levels. The most controversial claim by Prof. Hudson is that Debts that can't be paid, won't be. The question he poses is whether their non-payment will lead to worldwide foreclosures including sell-offs of the public domain by debt-strapped local and national governments or whether they will be written down in line with the ability to pay. This is the economic issue that will dominate politics over the next generation. Illustrated with charts and exhibits that make it plain where money goes versus where it should go.]]> 504 Michael Hudson 3981484207 Anon 0 to-read, sciences-humaines 4.10 2012
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]]> 1032019 The World Is Flat head-on—a crisp, contrarian history of global capitalism.

One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang "the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years." With Bad Samaritans, this provocative scholar bursts into the debate on globalization and economic justice. Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the "World Is Flat" orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, today's economic superpowers—from the U.S. to Britain to his native Korea—all attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry. We have conveniently forgotten this fact, telling ourselves a fairy tale about the magic of free trade and—via our proxies such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization—ramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the developing world.

Unlike typical economists who construct models of how the marketplace should work, Chang examines the past: what has actually happened. His pungently contrarian history demolishes one pillar after another of free-market mythology. We treat patents and copyrights as sacrosanct—but developed our own industries by studiously copying others' technologies. We insist that centrally planned economies stifle growth—but many developing countries had higher GDP growth before they were pressured into deregulating their economies. Both justice and common sense, Chang argues, demand that we reevaluate the policies we force on nations that are struggling to follow in our footsteps.]]> 288 Ha-Joon Chang 1596913991 Anon 0 to-read, sciences-humaines 4.19 2007
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Grâce à des documents inédits, notamment les carnets personnels de Morin, Antoine Robitaille revisite cette affaire digne d'un roman d'espionnage. Approfondissant le travail d'enquête effectué pour la série documentaire Claude Morin : un jeu dangereux, l'auteur interroge le « Sphinx » lui-même, ainsi que de nombreuses sources, pour établir les faits et, surtout, pour répondre à une question que tous se posent encore : Morin a-t-il trahi Lévesque ? le PQ ? le Québec ?]]> 265 Antoine Robitaille 2897612282 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 4.00
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]]> 35271887 Donnant les reperes essentiels - des origines du cinema a nos jours - dans le monde, il aborde les dernieres decouvertes et les cinematographies meconnues. Il livre aussi des outils d'analyse et de comprehension a quoi reconnait-on un film expressionniste ? Comment envisageait-on le montage dans les annees 1900 ? Quelle revolution des images animees entraine vraiment le numerique ?
Une breve histoire du cinema permet de saisir l'evolution des techniques et les enjeux qui regissent le monde du cinema une synthese indispensable pour savoir ce qui se trame derriere le grand ecran !]]> 429 Laurent Jullier 2818504635 Anon 3 histoire 3.67
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]]> 164775435 Excellent Book 0 Thomas E Mahl Anon 0 to-read, histoire 0.0
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]]> 12332264 140 Stephen Fischer-Galati 0374927472 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.33 1959
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]]> 219210440
“When I get a little money, I buy [Mike Huemer’s] books; if any is left, I buy food and clothes.� –Erasmus
“If only I had listened to Mike Huemer, millions might not have had to die in the 20th century.� –Karl Marx
“This book is terrible. Never listen to Mike Huemer.� –Satan

CONTENTSIntroductionPart Myths About Individuals
1 Trayvon Martin
2 Michael Brown
3 Amy Cooper
4 Jacob Blake
5 Kyle Rittenhouse
6 Three Non-Myths

Part Racial Myths
7 Racist Police Shootings
8 Implicit Bias
9 Stereotype Threat
10 Racist Drug Laws

Part Feminist Myths
11 The Gender Pay Gap
12 Campus Rape Culture
13 Women Don’t Lie

Part Gender Myths
14 What Is Gender?
15 Transgenderism

Part Economic Myths
16 Generational Wealth
17 The Tax Burden
18 Regulation

Part Science Myths
19 The Global Warming Consensus
20 Existential Climate Risk
21 Mask Science

Part Analysis
22 The Roots of Wokism
23 How Myths Thrive
24 The Dangers of Progressive Myths
25 Avoiding Myths
References

Michael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, where he has taught since the last millennium. He is the author of more than eighty articles in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy, in addition to approximately ten other amazing books that you should immediately buy.]]> 277 Michael Huemer Anon 0 to-read, philosophie 3.84
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]]> 43843663
Romila Thapar tackles the definition of the �Aryan� in her inimitable style by tracing the origins and progression of the �Aryans� from old Iranian texts such as the Zend-Avesta, archaeological excavations and colonial interpretations made by Max Müeller. She also touches upon the following fields of enquiry: historiography, archaeology, linguistics, comparative mythology, social anthropology and, more recently, genetics.

Michael Witzel investigates the origins of the early �Aryans� within and outside India.

Jaya Menon examines data from excavations of Harappan culture.

Kai Friese lucidly explains the Rakhigarhi research which has been talked about a lot in the recent past.

Razib Khan provides insights arising from research into genetics.]]> 224 Romila Thapar 9388292383 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.84
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Des premiers peuplements jusqu'au Moyen Âge, avec la dynastie Tang, se succèdent les premières grandes familles qui mettent progressivement en place les liens culturels, politiques et religieux qui vont créer la Chine.]]> 384 Jacques Gernet 2266153684 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.67 1985
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]]> 10838171 957 George H. Nash 0817912347 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 4.02 2011
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]]> 52220887 'Overy has written many fine books, but Blood and Ruins is his masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The Times

A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of Britain's foremost military historians

Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires.

How war on a huge scale was fought, supplied, paid for, supported by mass mobilization and morally justified forms the heart of this new account. Above all, Overy explains the bitter cost for those involved in fighting, and the exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked these imperial projects, the war and its aftermath. This war was as deadly for civilians as it was for the military, a war to the death over the future of the global order.

Blood and Ruins is a masterpiece from of one of the most renowned historians of the Second World War, which will compel us to view the war in novel and unfamiliar ways. Thought-provoking, original and challenging, Blood and Ruins sets out to understand the war anew.]]> 982 Richard Overy Anon 0 to-read, histoire 4.30 2021
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]]> 54479 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Anon 4 ±ôľ±łŮłŮĂ©°ů˛ąłŮłÜ°ů±đ-±đłŮ-´Úľ±ł¦łŮľ±´Ç˛Ô 3.95 1872
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]]> 9507278 236 Edgar Allan Poe 1453744517 Anon 5 ±ôľ±łŮłŮĂ©°ů˛ąłŮłÜ°ů±đ-±đłŮ-´Úľ±ł¦łŮľ±´Ç˛Ô 4.54 1849
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]]> 33961917 Epicure, philosophe grec (342-270 av JC)

Le secret du bonheur? C'est ce que promet Epicure dans la Lettre à Ménécée. N'ayons peur ni des dieux, ni de la mort, ni de la douleur ou de la mauvaise fortune. Recherchons le le plaisir, parce qu'il est conforme à la nature. Mais pour ce faire, nous devons nous libérer des idées fausses que produisent en nous les préjugés, les opinions courantes ou les croyances superstitieuses. Il faut donc recourir à la raison et à l'exercice pour suivre la nature. Telle est précisément la tâche de la philosophie: elle définit la discipline rationnelle nécessaire au bonheur.
La Lettre à Ménécée, texte fondateur de l'épicurisme, exercera une influence décisive dans l'Antiquité comme dans la pensée moderne et contemporaine : sur le poète romain Lucrèce - qui fait l'objet de notre dossier -, mais aussi sur tous ceux qui revendiquent une éthique conciliant le plaisir et la raison.]]> 109 Epicurus Anon 5 philosophie 3.67 -300
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]]> 76350412 Jack Zupko, University of Alberta



“Gyula Klima is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on thirteenth and fourteenth-century Latin philosophy, with his own, distinctive analytic approach, which brings out both the similarities and differences between medieval and contemporary logic and semantics.”ĚýĚ�John Marenbon, Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Ěý“Gyula Klima has been a towering figure in the field of medieval philosophy for decades. His influence comprises not only the scholarly results of his work, but also intense and generous mentorship of students and junior colleagues. This volume is a perfect reflection of the esteem that he enjoys around the world, collecting excellent pieces by established as well as up-and-coming scholars of medieval philosophy.”ĚýĚ�Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

“For four decades now, Gyula Klima has been setting the standard among medievalists for philosophical sophistication and historical rigor. This collection of wide-ranging studies from leading scholars in the field offers a worthy tribute to that legacy.”ĚýĚ�Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado Boulder

Gyula Klima is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, and Senior Research Fellow, Consultant, and the Director of Institute for the History of Ideas of the Hungarian Research Institute in Budapest.Ěý In 2022, the President of Hungary awarded him the Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit, “in recognition of his outstanding academic career, significant research work and exemplary leadership.”Ě� In this volume,Ěýcolleagues, collaborators, and students celebrate Klima’s project withĚýnew essays onĚýPlotinus, Anselm, Aquinas, Buridan, Ockham and others, exploring specific questions in philosophy ofĚýmind, philosophy ofĚýlanguage, metaphysics, and logic.




No contemporary surpasses Kripke and Klima in semantics and metaphysics, but only Gyula Klima’s thought ranges flawlessly over classical philosophy as well. The volume is a fitting tribute to the master. David Twetten, Marquette University


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]]> 355988 324 Marc Bloch 0415039169 Anon 0 to-read 3.62 1964
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]]> 933346 432 Robert Bartlett 0691037809 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.98 1993
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]]> 11205390 128 2130556701 Anon 4 philosophie 3.67 2004
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]]> 17399828 156 Bruce G. Charlton 1908684186 Anon 0 3.50 2012
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]]> 27164450 296 Alexey S. Kondrashov 111895212X Anon 0 4.27 2016
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]]> 2340869 690 Charles Callan Tansill Anon 0 to-read, histoire 4.26 1952
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]]> 62101885
By the late 1920s Britain had ceded place to Japan as Stalin’s main enemy in Asia. By seducing Japan deeply into China, Stalin successfully turned Japan’s aggres>sion into a weapon of its own destruction. The book examines Stalin’s covert operations from the murder of the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin in 1928 and the publication of the forged “Tanaka Memorial� in 1929, to Stalin’s hidden role in Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the outbreak of all-out war between China and Japan in 1937, and Japan’s defeat in 1945. In the shadow of these and other events we find Stalin and his secret operatives, including many Chinese and Japanese collaborators, most notably Zhang Xueliang and Kōmoto Daisaku, the self-professed assassin of Zhang Zuolin. The book challenges accounts of the turbulent history of inter-war East Asia that have ignored or minimized Stalin’s presence and instead exposes and analyzes Stalin’s secret modus operandi, mod>ernized as “hybrid war� in today’s Russia.

The book is essential for students and specialists of Stalin, China, the Soviet Union, Japan, and East Asia.]]> 532 Hiroaki Kuromiya 1032066733 Anon 0 to-read 4.00 2022
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]]> 39332469 Il montre avec érudition comment l’imaginaire des romantiques est passé par là, laissant en héritage une vision du passé hispanique qui relève davantage du fantasme que de la réalité. La vérité historique a été emportée par la croyance, et celle-ci est d’autant plus séduisante que les sirènes du conformisme ont su la détourner à leur profit pour faire de l’Espagne d’alors un véritable paradis perdu du multiculturalisme européen.
Face aux partis pris stĂ©riles et lieux communs en tout genre, SerafĂ­n Fanjul entend dissiper la brume pour «Ěý retrouver l’EspagneĚý ». Et la rĂ©alitĂ© historique que son travail restitue est celle d’une pĂ©ninsule oĂą règnent entre les communautĂ©s l’intolĂ©rance et le conflit, la souffrance et la violence, bien loin de l’ouverture et de l’apaisement trop souvent soutenus. La minutie de l’argumentation de Fanjul permet ainsi d’entrevoir, Ă  rebours de la reprĂ©sentation habituelle, une Espagne qui a trouvĂ© dans la Reconquista la voie de l’émancipation et de la libĂ©ration.Ěý±Ő±Ő> 732 SerafĂ­n Fanjul 2810007063 Anon 0 to-read 2.83 2000
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]]> 59495971 794 Samuel T. Francis 1593680740 Anon 0 to-read 3.83 2016
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"The study of Israeli history, society, politics, and economics over the past two decades has been marked by a fierce and sometimes highly personal debate between 'traditionalists'---scholars who generally interpreted Israeli history and society within the Zionist ethos---and 'revisionists'---scholars who challenged conventional Zionist narratives of Israeli history and society. Making Israel brings together traditionalists and revisionists who openly and directly lay out their key insights about Israel's origins. It also introduces multidisciplinary perspectives on Israel by historians and sociologists, each bringing into the debate its own jargon, its own epistemology and methodology, and its own array of substantive issues. This is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand the different interpretations of Israeli society and perhaps the central debate among students of modern Israel."
---Zeev Maoz, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis, and Distinguished Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya



"Israel's 'new historians' have done a great service to their country, and to all who care about the Arab-Israeli conflict. By challenging myths, reexamining evidence, and asking truly important questions about the past they help to confront the present with honesty and realism. This book provides a sampling of the best of what these courageous voices have to offer."
---William B. Quandt, University of Virginia



Benny Morris is Professor of Middle East history at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel, and is the author of Righteous A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999 .]]> 384 Benny Morris 047203216X Anon 0 to-read 3.80 2004
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]]> 1376089
Benny Morris probes the types of Arab infiltration and the attitude of Arab governments towards the phenomenon, and traces the evolution of Israel's defensive and offensive responses. He analyzes Israeli decision-making processes, including the emergence and ultimate failure of Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett's dissident policy of moderation, and describes in detail the history of the Arab infiltration, including the terrorist-guerrilla raids by state-organized Fedayeen in 1955-6, and of the IDF raids of Qibya, Nahhalin, Kinneret, and the Sabha.

This was a precedent-setting period in the making of Israeli defense policy, and this pattern of raiding and counter-raiding served to define Israeli-Arab relations during the subsequent four decades. In this pioneering study Morris deepens our understanding of the current situation in the Middle East and of the prospects for a lasting peace there.]]> 486 Benny Morris 0198292627 Anon 0 to-read 4.08 1993
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]]> 580553 634 Ian Black 0802132863 Anon 0 to-read 3.98 1991
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]]> 6071743 256 Benny Morris 0300122810 Anon 0 to-read 3.50
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]]> 42244671 A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities.

Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population.

The years in question, the most violent in the recent history of the region, began during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid II, continued under the Young Turks, and ended during the first years of the Turkish Republic founded by Ataturk. Yet despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the post-World War I period, the nation's annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, mass rape, and brutal abduction. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation.

Revelatory and impeccably researched, Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi's account is certain to transform how we see one of modern history's most horrific events.]]> 636 Benny Morris 067491645X Anon 0 to-read 4.10 2019
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Morris stresses the jihadi character of the two-stage Arab assault on the Jewish community in Palestine. Throughout, he examines the dialectic between the war's military and political developments and highlights the military impetus in the creation of the refugee problem, which was a by-product of the disintegration of Palestinian Arab society. The book thoroughly investigates the role of the Great Powers—Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union—in shaping the conflict and its tentative termination in 1949. Morris looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making processes and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the successive battlesĚýthatĚýresulted in the emergence of the State of Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world, a humiliation that underlies the continued Arab antagonism toward Israel.

Ěý±Ő±Ő> 524 Benny Morris 0300126964 Anon 0 to-read 4.14 2008
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At a time when the Middle East has come closer to achieving peace than ever before, eminent Israeli historian Benny Morris explodes the myths cherished by both sides to present an epic history of Zionist-Arab relations over the past 120 years.

Tracing the roots of political Zionism back to the pogroms of Russia and the Dreyfus Affair, Morris describes the gradual influx of Jewish settlers into Palestine and the impact they had on the Arab population. Following the Holocaust, the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948 resulted in the establishment of the State of Israel, but it also shattered Palestinian Arab society and gave rise to a massive refugee problem. Morris offers distinctive accounts of each of the subsequent Israeli-Arab wars and details the sporadic peace efforts in between, culminating in the peace process initiated by the Rabin Government. In a new afterword to the Vintage edition, he examines Ehud Barak’s leadership, the death of President Assad of Syria, and Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, and the recent renewed conflict with the Palestinians. Studded with illuminating portraits of the major protagonists, Righteous Victims provides an authoritative record of the middle east and its continuing struggle toward peace.]]> 800 Benny Morris 0679744754 Anon 0 histoire, to-read 4.18 1999
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]]> 514980 666 Benny Morris 0521009677 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.98 1988
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]]> 58726861 264 Christian Bauer 9492510960 Anon 0 to-read, chess 0.0
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]]> 42355818 Starting Benoni Systems is a study of all the crucial Benoni systems apart from the Modern Benoni. It presents diverse and practical options against the queen's pawn opening for dynamic, tactical players and solid, positional players alike. Included are such daring defences as the controversial Blumenfeld Counter-Gambit and the Benko Gambit, a favourite with uncompromising Grandmasters such as Veselin Topalov and Vassily Ivanchuk. On the other hand, Black also has the opportunity to adopt solid, respectable defences such as the Czech Benoni and the Schmid Benoni.
The Modern Benoni is one of Black's most ambitious and audacious defences to the queen's pawn opening, and it has been used with devastating effect by such legends as Mikhail Tal, Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov. From the very start Black creates an exceptional imbalance in the position, one which leads to dynamic play and gives Black real chances to seize the initiative. Both players must be fearless in their approach, as hesitation in the Modern Benoni often leads to disaster!In this user-friendly book, International Master Endre Vegh goes back to basics, studying the fundamental principles of the Modern Benoni and its many variations. Throughout the book there are an abundance of notes, tips, warnings and exercises to help the improving player, while key strategies, ideas and tactics for both sides are clearly illustrated.]]> 402 Alexander Raetsky 178194489X Anon 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 4438475 352 Pierre-André Taguieff 284205640X Anon 0 0.0 1998
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]]> 63110820 Une histoire. 1860-1940 . Ce livre retrace l'histoire de la notion de race et des dĂ©bats qu'elle a suscitĂ©s entre 1820 et 1930. Issue des sciences naturelles, la race a fait l'objet d'usages scientifiques et politiques aux lourdes consĂ©quences Ă©thiques. Elle a Ă©tĂ© au coeur d'une nouvelle science, l'anthropologie, qui s'est inscrite dans l'idĂ©ologie et dans les rĂ©seaux de la Troisième RĂ©publique, et qui a nourri les imaginaires et justifiĂ© la rhĂ©torique comme les pratiques rĂ©publicaines, notamment coloniales. En mettant en oeuvre une historicisation rigoureuse et en mobilisant un large corpus, ce livre apporte une importante contribution Ă  l'Ă©tude de l'inscription d'une culture raciale inĂ©galitaire et hiĂ©rarchisante dans la France du XIXième et du premier XXièmeĚýsiècle.]]> 612 Carole Reynaud-Paligot 2130833179 Anon 0 4.00
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]]> 3286319 307 Elsa Dorlin 2707148814 Anon 0 4.43 2006
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]]> 86745 1044 Warren Treadgold 0804724210 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 4.23 1997
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]]> 51260197 404 Michael R. Jackson Bonner 146320616X Anon 0 to-read, histoire 3.82 2020
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]]> 59420762 Or, de l’Antiquité grecque à la Renaissance européenne, on n’a pratiquement jamais défendu et encore moins enseigné, en Occident, l’idée que la Terre était plate.
Violaine Giacomotto-Charra et Sylvie Nony s’attachent ici à retracer l’histoire de cette idée fausse et à essayer d’en comprendre la genèse. Elles nous proposent dans une première partie de lire avec elles les sources antiques, les Pères de l’Église mais aussi et surtout les manuels et encyclopédies rédigés tout au long du Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance et utilisés pour l’enseignement dans les écoles cathédrales puis dans les universités, à partir du XIIIe siècle.
Une seconde partie est consacrée à l’étude du mythe lui-même et s’interroge sur sa généalogie � sa genèse et son histoire � pour éclairer sur les causes de sa survie. Pourquoi, contre l’évidence même, continue-t-on d’affirmer que pour le Moyen Âge, la Terre était plate ?]]> 278 Violaine Giacomotto-Charra 2251452230 Anon 0 3.93
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]]> 195465312
Emmanuel Lapierre réussit l’exploit de nous la faire voir sous un jour neuf.

Il commence par déboulonner un mythe tenace au sujet du nationalisme qui voudrait qu’il y en ait un «bon» et un «mauvais». Le premier, civique, hérité des Lumières, serait source de progrès et de prospérité, tandis que le second, ethnique, n’engendrerait que xénophobie, discordes et guerres. Le premier est habituellement associé aux pays anglo-saxons, tandis que le second l’est au reste du monde, dont le Québec.

Pour ce faire, Emmanuel Lapierre fait appel à trois philosophes dont la pensée a formé notre conception du nationalisme : Hans Kohn, Hannah Arendt et Johann Gottfried Herder.

Il propose ensuite un nouveau concept, celui du duel culturel des nations. Selon lui, depuis trois cents ans, les puissances impérialistes ne se contentent pas de dominer économiquement et politiquement les plus faibles, elles dénigrent les langues et les cultures qu’elles rencontrent au point que la majorité des six mille cultures existantes sur terre auront probablement disparu d’ici la fin du siècle. Pour décrire ce phénomène, ce ne sont pas des philosophes mais bien des littéraires qui entrent en scène, Alfred Kazin, An Antane Kapesh et Jean Bouthillette, en plus d’une équipe de hockey, Le Canadien de Montréal.

Pour Emmanuel Lapierre, la volonté toute simple de connaître son identité nationale recèle un formidable potentiel d’émancipation. Son but, c’est de nous permettre de rêver à des nations vivant dans la paix et la solidarité. À un monde délivré de la menace de disparaître.]]> 218 Emmanuel Lapierre 2764627807 Anon 0 3.75
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]]> 197877720
For decades China watchers argued that economic liberalization and increasing prosperity would bring democracy to the world’s most populous country. Instead, the Communist Party’s grip on power has only strengthened. Why? The answer, Minxin Pei argues, lies in the effectiveness of the Chinese surveillance state. And the source of that effectiveness is not just advanced technology like facial recognition AI and mobile phone tracking. These are important, but what matters more is China’s vast, labor-intensive infrastructure of domestic spying.

Central government data on Chinese surveillance is confidential, so Pei turned to local reports, police gazettes, leaked documents, and interviews with exiled dissidents to provide a detailed look at the evolution, organization, and tactics of the surveillance state. Following the 1989 Tiananmen uprising, the Chinese Communist Party invested immense resources in a coercive apparatus operated by a relatively small number of secret police officers capable of mobilizing millions of citizen informants to spy on those suspected of disloyalty. The CCP’s Leninist bureaucratic structure―whereby officials and party activists penetrate every sector of society and the economy, from universities and village committees to delivery companies, telecommunication firms, and Tibetan monasteries―ensures that Beijing’s eyes and ears are truly everywhere.

While today’s system is far more robust than that of years past, it is modeled after mass surveillance implemented under Mao Zedong and Chinese emperors centuries ago. Rigorously empirical and rich in historical insight, The Sentinel State is a singular contribution to our knowledge about coercion in the Chinese state and, more generally, the survival strategies of authoritarian regimes.]]> 336 Minxin Pei 0674257839 Anon 0 to-read, sciences-humaines 3.95
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]]> 30066446 David D. Friedman Anon 0 to-read 3.97 2019
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]]> 20766287 ]]> 224 David Skarbek 0199328501 Anon 0 to-read 4.08 2014
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]]> 52048103 The Puzzle of Prison Order, David Skarbek develops a theory of why prisons and prison life vary so much. He finds that how they're governed-sometimes by the state, and sometimes by the prisoners-matters the most. He investigates life in a wide array of prisons-in Brazil, Bolivia, Norway, a prisoner of war camp, England and Wales, women's prisons in California, and a gay and transgender housing unit in the Los Angeles County Jail-to understand the hierarchy of life on the inside. Drawing on economics and a vast empirical literature on legal systems, Skarbek offers a framework to not only understand why life on the inside varies in such fascinating and novel ways, but also how social order evolves and takes root behind bars.
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]]> 6552196 240 Andrew Smith 0773534059 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 5.00 2008
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]]> 199342204 326 Bruce Gilley 1943003904 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 4.27 2023
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]]> 55838596 456 Tom Leinster 1108832709 Anon 0 0.0
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]]> 3205010 142 Dietrich Neufeld 0836118634 Anon 0 to-read, histoire 4.80 1977
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]]> 914768 336 Andrea Mandel-Campbell 1553652258 Anon 0 3.68 2007
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]]> 13056870 382 Carl Grimberg Anon 4 histoire 4.67 1927
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]]> 712196 176 R.I. Moore 0631171452 Anon 0 3.88 1988
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]]> 150186742 404 Bernard FaĂż Anon 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 8858905 <p></p> 414 Bernard FaĂż 0491000405 Anon 0 to-read 4.50 1981
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]]> 15911662 410 Ken-Ichi Kojima 3642462464 Anon 0 0.0 1970
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]]> 86682 438 Warren J. Ewens 0387201912 Anon 0 4.62 2004
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]]> 29658 Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award
One of theĚýNew York Times'ĚýTen Best Books of the Year.

Table of contents

About the author
Copyright page
Dedication
Preface & acknowledgement
Introduction

PART ONE - Post-War: 1945-1953
1. The legacy of war
2. Retribution
3. The rehabilitation of Europe
4. The impossible settlement
5. The coming of the Cold War
6. Into the whirlwind
7. Culture wars
CODA The end of old Europe

PART TWO - Prosperity and its discontents: 1953-1971
8. The politics of stability
9. Lost illusions
10. The age of affluence
POSTSCRIPT: A Tale of two economies
11. The Social Democrat moment
12. The spectre of revolution
13. The end of the affair

PART THREE - Recessional: 1971-1989
14. Diminished expectations
15. Politics in a new key
16. A time of transition
17. The new realism
18. The power of the powerless
19. The end of the old order

PART FOUR - After the Fall: 1989-2005
20. A fissile continent
21. The reckoning
22. The old Europe -and the new
23. The varieties of Europe
24. Europe as a way of life

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]]> 7514274 668 Norman Stone 0465020437 Anon 0 to-read 3.24 2010
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]]> 6957152 240 Stephen Kotkin 0679642765 Anon 0 to-read 3.86 2009
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]]> 4774427 168 Herbert G. Grubel 0889751897 Anon 0 0.0 2001
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