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Mozart, génial et-- volage! (Collection Le petit Edgar)
Par Edgar Fruitier. 2010
« Sans prétention, mais avec la tendresse et « l’admiration inquiète » d’un véritable mélomane épris de son sujet, Edgar…
Fruitier nous raconte à sa façon la vie trépidante de ce génie précoce, indiscipliné et indisciplinable. » -- 4e de couvNovelist explores the relationships among five writers of the transcendentalist movement who clustered around the home of wealthy Ralph Waldo…
Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts, during 1840-1868. Highlights their intertwined families and the love affairs that contributed to the creation of their literary masterpieces. 2006Untold glory: African Americans in pursuit of freedom, opportunity, and achievement
Par Alan B Govenar. 2007
Interviews with twenty-seven African Americans who have excelled in the arts, politics, and business. First-person accounts describe overcoming discrimination and…
other obstacles to achieve personal goals. Includes businesswoman Josephine Cooke, who suffers from sickle-cell anemia, and mathematician Mary DeConge-Watson, a former nun. 2007The great warming: climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations
Par Brian M Fagan. 2008
Anthropologist follows up The Little Ice Age (BR 13935) with an examination of the Medieval Warm Period (A.D. 800-1300). Describes…
changes in temperature and rainfall that brought bountiful harvests, population growth, and cultural advancement to western Europe while Central America and Southeast Asia experienced drought, famine, and decline. 2008Dans l'enfer du Darfour: témoignage ((Essais).)
Par Daoud Hari. 2008
"Daoud Hari grandit dans une tribu de bergers, au coeur du Darfour. Lorsque son village est attaqué et détruit par…
des mercenaires à la solde du pouvoir soudanais, il s'enfuit. Des membres de sa famille sont assassinés au cours de tueries de masse qui font des centaines de milliers de victimes et jettent 2,5 millions de personnes sur les routes. Après avoir rejoint un camp de réfugiés au Tchad, il met ses talents d'interprète au service de journalistes étrangers et d'associations humanitaires. Dès lors, en les guidant sur place, parmi des tragédies indescriptibles, il consacre toute son énergie à favoriser une prise de conscience internationale de la dévastation en cours dans sa région natale. Mais Daoud Hari refuse de réciter une simple litanie de malheurs ; il prend le temps de raconter, avec des détails saisissants, l'histoire du Darfour, du Soudan, et la manière dont leurs habitants vivaient naguère ensemble, par-delà les différences raciales et religieuses. Le récit se déploie avec un rythme et une finesse qui reflètent la personnalité chaleureuse de l'auteur. [...]" -- 4e de couvMirage: Napoleon's scientists and the unveiling of Egypt
Par Nina Burleigh. 2007
Chronicles Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and the scientific research conducted there on his behalf. Highlights one of the earliest large-scale…
interactions between Western civilians and Islam in the modern era. 2007Award-winning journalist examines the Golden Age of Piracy (1715-1725), when outlaws, defected sailors, privateers, and runaway slaves forged a republic…
in the Bahamas. Chronicles the lives of pirates Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, Edward "Blackbeard" Thatch, and Charles Vane. Discusses British war hero Woodes Rogers's defeat of the pirate alliance. 2007Reconciliation: Islam, democracy, and the West
Par Benazir Bhutto. 2008
Former prime minister of Pakistan recounts her 2007 return home after eight years in exile. She calls for reconciliation among…
religions and nations, boldly asserts the true nature of Islam, and offers a practical road map for bringing societies together. Bestseller. 2008Author posits that the character of the United States has been shaped by the structure and limits established by its…
borders. Discusses how boundary and property lines created by eighteenth-century surveyor Andrew Ellicott presaged the establishment of law, order, and solidarity in the evolving democracy. 2007Ten green bottles: the true story of one family's journey from war-torn Austria to the ghettos of Shanghai
Par Vivian Jeanette Kaplan, St. Martin`s Press. 2004
Memoir of a family's 1939 escape from the Nazis and ten-year struggle to survive in China. Daughter Nini describes marrying…
her Polish friend Poldi, enduring the Japanese occupation and communist takeover, and emigrating to Canada with her own daughter, the author. Compares life to fragile green bottles. Some violence. 2002Liquid jade: the story of tea from east to west
Par Beatrice Hohenegger. 2006
Relates the social history of tea from its medicinal origins in China to its status as a trade commodity in…
England. Discusses the role of tea in Eastern religious experiences and cultural arts and in economic and political exchanges with the British Empire. Includes modern-day tea-trade facts. 2006Ladies of liberty: the women who shaped our nation
Par Cokie Roberts. 2008
News analyst Roberts portrays influential American women who lived between the 1797 inauguration of John Adams and that of his…
son John Quincy in 1825. Highlights accomplishments of first ladies, reformers, educators, writers, and explorers, including Abigail Adams and Sacagawea. Companion to Founding Mothers (RC 58361, BR 15555). Bestseller. 2008Journalist explores the fifteen-hundred-year history of chess from antiquity and the Middle Ages to modern Western culture. Discusses influence on…
military strategy, mathematics, and the arts. Provides move-by-move analyses of six famous matches including the 1851 contest between Anderssen and Kieseritzky that is dubbed the "immortal game." Explains rules. 2006The Jewish Americans: three centuries of Jewish voices in America
Par Beth S Wenger. 2007
Companion piece to a 2008 PBS television series uses first-person accounts to examine the history, social integration, ethnic relations, and…
cultural assimilation of Jews in America from 1654 to 2008. Profiles individuals such as Abraham Kohn, a 1840s peddler who voiced the initial disappointment felt by many Jewish immigrants. 2007Le miracle québécois: récit d'un voyageur d'ici et d'ailleurs
Par Mario Polèse. 2021
Le portrait du peuple québécois que je propose ici, à la différence de ce qu'on lit trop souvent, est celui…
d'un peuple éminemment résilient, habile, qui à travers les hauts et les bas de son histoire a toujours (ou presque) su faire les bons choix comme société. Peu de peuples peuvent en dire autantLove and Louis XIV: the women in the life of the Sun King
Par Antonia Fraser. 2006
Royal biographer, author of The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England (BR 15910), researches the life of French…
king Louis XIV (1638-1715). Highlights the influence of his pious mother; his wife, first cousin Maria Teresa of Spain; and his mistresses, including the governess of his illegitimate children. 2006The Hellenistic age: a short history (A Modern Library chronicles book)
Par Peter Green. 2007
Classics professor surveys three centuries of ancient Greek history from the era of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great…
in 336 B.C.E. to the death of Cleopatra of Egypt in 31 B.C.E. Highlights ruthless leaders, political machinations, and battles that eventually gave way to Roman control. 2007Summer at Tiffany
Par Marjorie Hart. 2007
Eighty-three-year-old author recalls the summer of 1945 when she and Marty, her best friend from the University of Iowa, worked…
as the first female pages at Manhattan's Tiffany & Co. Reminisces about her romance with a navy midshipman and the VJ Day celebration in Times Square. 2007Sisters: the lives of America's suffragists
Par Jean H Baker. 2005
Profiles the private and public lives of five women who championed women's right to vote: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony,…
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, and Alice Paul. Examines the histories and backgrounds that motivated their activism, including their families, friends, lovers, companions, education, and accomplishments. 2005Boom!: voices of the sixties : personal reflections on the '60s and today
Par Tom Brokaw. 2007
Author of The Greatest Generation (BR 13580), television anchorman Tom Brokaw conducted dozens of personal interviews with baby boomers to…
document the decade of the 1960s. Includes reminiscences about the political, cultural, and socioeconomic meaning of the era and the changes that occurred. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2007