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Red China today: The Other Side Of The River
Par Edgar Snow. 1971
Red China blues: my long march from Mao to now
Par Jan Wong. 1996
Born in Canada, Jan Wong began a rocky six-year romance with Maoism when she went to China in 1972. In…
this memoir, she describes leaving China as she became aware of the harsh realities of the communist system, and returning to China in the late 1980s as a reporter. She covered the crackdown in Tiananmen Square and the capitalist reforms of Deng Xiaoping. 1996.Red cloud at dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly
Par Michael D Gordin. 2009
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed "First Lightning", exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. This surprising…
international event marked the beginning of an arms race that would ultimately lead to nuclear proliferation beyond the Soviet Union and the United States. Using newly opened archives, Gordin follows a trail of espionage, secrecy, deception, political brinksmanship, and technical innovation to provide a fresh understanding of the nuclear arms race. 2009.For five centuries, Martin Luther has been lionized as an outspoken and fearless icon of change who ended the Middle…
Ages and heralded the beginning of the modern world. In 'Rebel in the Ranks', Brad Gregory, professor of European history at Notre Dame, recasts this long-accepted portrait. Luther did not intend to start a revolution, yet his actions would profoundly shape our world in ways he could never have imagined. 2017.Ready, set, grow!: a kid's guide to gardening
Par Rebecca Spohn. 2007
Practical advice equips children to grow fruits, vegetables, and flowers outdoors or indoors in a milk carton or even a…
paper cup. Readers learn how a seed grows, what tools to use, and how to prepare seedbeds; they learn about transplanting, weeding, watering, and dealing with pests; and they can even follow recipes for turning what they grow into what they eat. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2007.Ready set grow!: [quick and easy gardening projects]
Par Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff. 2010
Teaches young gardeners how to grow plants from seed, how to propagate plants, when to harvest seeds, how long different…
plants take to grow, what to do about pests, and much more. Features more than 30 simple gardening projects specially designed to be completed during summer vacation. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2010.Reagan and Gorbachev: how the Cold War ended
Par Jack F Matlock. 2004
Matlock details how, from the start of his term, Reagan privately pursued improved U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations, while still rebuilding America's military.…
When Gorbachev assumed leadership, however, Reagan and his advisers found a potential partner in the enterprise of peace. Describes the meetings, initial views the two leaders had of each other, the gradual trust which emerged, and the politically risky steps Gorbachev took that bore long-term benefits. 2004.Reader's Digest complete DIY manual
Par Noel Buchanan. 1995
This book is packed with DIY techniques and technology. It gives hundreds of ideas for the home, to fire your…
imagination and show you how with step by step descriptions. 1995. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Qui a tué Napoléon?
Par David Hapgood, Ben Weider. 1982
À Sainte-Hélène, l'empereur n'est pas mort d'un cancer: il a été empoisonné à l'arsenic... cette révélation est fondée sur les…
recherches d'un médecin suédois, expert en toxicologie, 20 ans d'enquête l'ont conduit à cette certitude. 1982. Titre uniforme: The Murder of Napoleon.Pour en finir avec le Moyen Âge
Par Régine Pernoud. 1977
À la lumière de son immense érudition d'historienne, l'auteure pulvérise nombre d'idées reçues à propos du Moyen Âge. Méprisés pendant…
des siècles, encensés par les Romantiques, ces mille ans d'histoire ont été perçus injustement comme n'étant qu'une période d'obscurantisme. À la lecture de ce petit traité, les lecteurs apprendront beaucoup surtout grâce à l'admirable sens des perspectives de l'auteure. 1979, c1977.Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945
Par Tony Judt. 2005
Europe, so devastated during World War II and still haunted by its memory, has been transformed. Covering 60 years of…
history in both eastern and western Europe, Judt explains how the European Union was built, how communism "imploded of its own accord", and why Europe still struggles to cope with ethnic diversity. Integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture. Descriptions of violence. 2005. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Prague farewell
Par Helen Epstein, Franci Epstein, Heda Kovály. 1988
In 1952, the author's young husband, Rudolf Margolius, was one of 11 Jews executed during the notorious Slansky trial. They…
were all rehabilitated years after they were hanged. With cumulative force, this quietly fierce recreation of these events confronts the darker realities of the totalitarian state in Czechoslovakia - the persecution by the Nazis from 1941 through the war and by the Stalinist Communists after the war, a testament to man's blindness and weakness. 1988. Uniform title: Na vlastni kuzi.Les furies de Hitler: comment les femmes allemandes ont participé à la Shoah
Par Wendy Lower. 2014
" Envoyées dans les pays occupés par l'Allemagne nazie, des femmes jeunes, endoctrinées et ambitieuses, se sont transformées en meurtrières.…
Cette enquête fait voler en éclats bien des idées reçues. Non, les femmes allemandes n'ont pas été les témoins passifs de meurtres de masse accomplis par les Einsatzgruppen, leurs maris, leurs fiancés, leurs amants ou leurs supérieurs. Elles leur ont prêté main forte. De 1941 à 1945, près d'un demi-million d'entre elles secrétaires, infirmières, maîtresses d'école, dactylos, assistantes, auxiliaires se sont portées volontaires pour rejoindre les rangs des persécuteurs, des assassins, des bourreaux. Établissant des listes de Juifs à éliminer, apportant à boire et à manger aux soldats pendant les exécutions de masse, les encourageant, ou les réconfortant, voire en tirant elles aussi sur les Juifs affectés aux travaux forcés. Plongée dans les archives, journaux intimes, correspondances pendant la guerre et compte-rendus d'audience de procès tenus après-guerre, Wendy Lower nous brosse un tableau saisissant de ces femmes qu'elle qualifie de véritables furies tant elles ont donné libre cours à leur haine, avec violence, en brutalisant des êtres humains qu'elles pouvaient dominer, malmener, voire tuer. Un livre choc. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Hitler's furies.Peter Aufschnaiter's eight years in Tibet: The Saga Of Peter Aufschnaiter (Asian portraits = Visages d'Asie)
Par Peter Aufschnaiter, Martin Brauen. 2002
A companion to Heinrich Harrer's "Seven Years in Tibet" (DC33298), written by the fellow Austrian who accompanied him there from…
war-time internment in British India. A highly personal account of Aufschnaiter's eight-year sojourn in Tibet, characterized by his empathy for and understanding of Tibetan culture. A sensitive record of the Tibetans and their way of life which ends on the eve of the Chinese invasion. Some descriptions of violence. 2002. Uniform title: Peter Aufschnaiter.Poets and pahlevans: a journey into the heart of Iran
Par Marcello Di Cintio. 2006
Di Cintio prepares for his journey to Iran by taking lessons in Farsi, researching Persian poetry and sharpening his wrestling…
skills. Once there, he talks politics with men in tea houses, wrestles, and visits sites and shrines associated with great Persian poets, learning that poetry is loved and quoted by everyone from taxi-drivers to students. The mosaic of incidents, encounters, conversations, sights, smells and moments creates a detailed impression of a country and society that will challenge preconceptions. 2006.Napoléon: liberté, égalité, fraternité (Inédits)
Par Ben Weider, Emile-René Guéguen. 1997
Dans Napoléon: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, Ben Weider retrace la vie et l'oeuvre d'un homme qui a modelé la France moderne,…
promulgué un important Code de lois, fondé un ordre prestigieux, imaginé une politique de libéralisme religieux et jeté les bases de l'Europe unie. 1997.Histoire du Portugal ((Série lusitane).)
Par Yves Léonard, Albert-Alain Bourdon. 2010
"Cette histoire concise du Portugal, enfin rééditée, est aujourd'hui le seul ouvrage de synthèse disponible sur l'histoire de la plus…
vieille nation européenne, qui fut de surcroît aux XVe et XVIe siècles le principal acteur de l'expansion maritime du vieux continent. " -- 4e de couv.Plants are still like people
Par Jerry Baker. 1992
Baker is an advocate of the five P's of gardening - Pride, Patience, Persistence, Practice, and a little bit of…
Prayer. Filled with dozens of home-grown remedies for ailing plants and Jerry's special secrets for sustained gardening success, this readable guide puts everything you need to know about the loving care of your garden at your fingertips. c1992.Planting Noah's garden: further adventures in backyard ecology
Par Sara Bonnett Stein. 1997
In this sequel to "Noah's Garden", Stein writes of the many people she has met who, like herself, are attempting…
to restore nature to their own backyards. She also tells more about her own ongoing learning experience and gives instructions on gardening. 1997.Pirates of Barbary: corsairs, conquests and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean
Par Adrian Tinniswood. 2010
This is an extraordinary record of the European renegades and Islamic sea-rovers who terrorised the Mediterranean and beyond throughout the…
seventeenth century. Studying the origins of these men, their culture and practices - from pirate etiquette to intimidation tactics - the author recreates the twilight world of the corsairs in details, and uncovers a remarkable clash of civilisations. 2010.