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The 49th paradox: Canada in North America
Par Richard Gwyn. 1985
The airman and the carpenter: the Lindberg kidnapping
Par Ludovic Kennedy. 1985
The airman is Charles Lindbergh, famous for his historic flight from New York to Paris in 1927; the carpenter a…
German immigrant, Richard Hauptmann. The tragic link between the two names is the kidnap and death of Lindbergh's baby son. The author investigates the justice or otherwise of the case. 1985.Ten days that shook the world (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Par John Reed. 1977
The author conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary…
journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. 1977.Sexomonarchie: ces obsédés qui gouvernaient la France
Par Henri De Romèges. 2013
''Henri IV, bon vivant, priapique et violeur : a levé une armée de 300 000 hommes pour les beaux yeux…
d'une blonde de 42 ans sa cadette. Louis XIV : ses folies amoureuses ont achevé de ruiner le royaume. Le Régent : ce partouzard a couché avec tout le monde, même avec sa fille. Louis XV : après des années de sagesse, est devenu pédophile. Napoléon Ier : 60 maîtresses officielles et des filles de toutes conditions livrées à chaque bivouac. Napoléon III : le meilleur client des maisons closes de Paris, et pourvu en actrices par le surintendant des spectacles. Traits communs ? Ils n'étaient pas nécessairement obsédés sexuels au départ, à croire que la fonction crée le besoin... Ils prennent, parfois de force, mais ils paient. Très cher. Les maîtresses de Louis XIV ont coûté à l'État presque autant que le château de Versailles ! Tôt ou tard, ils sont rongés par les maladies vénériennes... et les remords dévots. Et bien sûr, ils ont fait des enfants partout. On pourrait avancer sans grands risques que nous sommes tous, ou presque, de souche impériale ou royale. Tout dans ce livre est vrai ! Henri de Romèges, écrivain rigoureux, n'a gardé de ses sources que les faits incontestables. Il n'empêche que l'ouvrage fourmille de scènes irrésistibles, où l'amour côtoie le cynisme, le raffinement le sordide, et le ridicule le tragique. Et qu'à la lecture de cette chronique sexuelle débridée, nos dirigeants actuels font figure d'enfants de choeur ! '' -- 4e de couv.Sissi, ou, La fatalité (Présence de l'histoire)
Par Jean Des Cars. 1997
Seule fille de mon village
Par Sugan Kanwar, Célia Mercier. 2014
" Petite, Sugan Kanwar adore passer ses vacances dans son village natal, au coeur du désert qui entoure sa ville…
fortifiée de Jaisalmer au Rajasthan. Au fil des ans, elle s'étonne de n'avoir aucune autre petite fille pour jouer avec elle. "Les femmes n'accouchent que de garçons au village, c'est à cause de l'eau de notre puits", lui explique sa grand-mère. C'est lors d'un mariage que Sugan apprend par hasard la vérité : dans sa caste hindoue, on ne "garde pas les filles". Elles sont tuées par leurs propres mères, peu après l'accouchement, et enterrées dans l'enceinte des maisons, une tradition qui se poursuit dans l'indifférence générale. Sugan comprend alors qu'elle est une exception : son père a pris la décision de la "garder ". Elle prouvera à tout le village qu'il a eu raison. Un témoignage bouleversant qui lève le voile sur le drame de l'infanticide en Inde. " -- 4e de couv.Tarnished brass: crime and corruption in the Canadian military
Par Scott Taylor, Brian Nolan. 1996
An examination of the controversy surrounding the Canadian military after the death of Shidane Arone in Somalia. The authors argue…
that Arone's death was not an isolated incident, but rather a symptom of a growing problem within the army. They believe that this and many other problems are rooted in a failure of leadership and professionalism at the highest level of command. 1996.Submarines under ice: the U.S. Navy's Polar Operations
Par Marion D Williams. 1998
An account of early polar submarine voyages, from Sir Hubert Wilkins's 1931 expedition up to the transpolar passage of USS…
Nautilus in 1958 and the surfacing of USS Skate at the North Pole in 1962. Draws upon official documents and personal interviews in describing the cruises. 1998.Drawing on long-classified documents, this is the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito…
Mussolini's Fascist Italy. It provides an account of SOE's clandestine efforts to strike at Italy and sever its alliance with Nazi Germany, uncovering missions as remarkable as a plot to assassinate Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia. It also recounts SOE's attempts at causing trouble inside an enemy country as opposed to an enemy-occupied one. This is a tale of desperate daring and sacrifice, climaxing in one of the most extraordinary episodes of the war: the delicate and dramatic dealings between the Allies and the Italians that led to Italy's surrender in 1943. 2014.Survival of the fattest: an irreverent look at the Senate
Par Larry Zolf. 1984
Swingback: getting along in the world with Harper and Trudeau
Par Mike Blanchfield. 2017
Canada, under Harper, became a different sort of global citizen than before, one that occupied a new, unfamiliar position for…
this country--the odd man out. Deviating from the cross-party consensus of how Canada should govern itself outside its borders, Harper's leadership marked a turn from multilateralism, typified in his refusal to "go along to get along" on the world stage. This stance characterized Canadian relations with the United Nations and Canadian responses to political and military strife throughout the world. In the wake of Justin Trudeau's promise to return Canada to its pre-Harper state, this book examines Canada's global relations under Harper and their impact on the situation the Liberals have inherited. 2017.Suleiman the elephant
Par Margret Rettich, Elizabeth D Crawford. 1986
In 1551, Prince Max of Austria married Princess Maria of Spain. One of their wedding presents was an Indian elephant.…
As the procession went from Spain to Vienna, the people came to watch the gigantic beast pass by. Grades K-3. c1986. Uniform title: Soliman der Elefant.Shopping for votes: how politicians choose us and we choose them
Par Susan Delacourt. 2013
The author takes readers into the world of Canada's top political marketers, from the 1950s to the present, explaining how…
political parties slice and dice their platforms for different audiences and how they manage the media. She argues that the current system divides the country into "niche" markets, and abandons the hard political work of knitting together broad consensus or national vision. c2013.Serial killers
Par Brian Innes. 2008
This book explores, chronologically, the stories of over 50 of the most vicious murderers in world history. For each, we…
hear of their formative experiences, double lives, gruesome crimes and, for those that did not - chillingly - evade capture, the psychological profiles and forensic techniques used to ensnare them. From Jack the Ripper, Ed Gein and The Boston Strangler to Ted Bundy, the Moors Murderers and Jeffrey Dahmer, the story of the serial killer is revealed, offering a shocking insight into the extremes of cruelty and depravity to which man, or sometimes even woman, can sink. Includes descriptions of violence. 2008.Max Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships and sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under the threat of…
death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok. 2010.Scottish enlightenment: the Scots inventions of the modern world
Par Arthur Herman. 2001
Harsh economic reality compelled Scotland into the Act of Union with England in 1707; within decades, a remarkable circle of…
Scottish thinkers gave birth to the key assumptions that underlie modern politics, economics, morals and cultural life. The Scots went on to become the mainstays of the British Empire. 2001.Sisterhood of spies: the women of the OSS
Par Elizabeth P McIntosh. 1998
During World War II, the author, a war reporter, was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)--later the CIA--to…
work in the propaganda division. She describes other female operatives, some of whom were spies with hair-raising duties behind enemy lines. Concludes with the role women play in intelligence, including uncovering the Soviet mole Aldrich Ames. 1998.Speaking out: ideas that work for Canadians
Par Jack Layton. 2004
NDP leader Jack Layton believes that the Harper government has abandoned what Canadians hold dear: our environmental commitments to the…
world and future generations, our role as purveyors of peace, our engagement on the global battle against poverty and AIDS, and the emphasis on investments in child care, housing, and education essential for our future. He provides a "blueprint for Canada" to get the country back on track. 2004.Some great idea: good neighbourhoods, crazy politics and the invention of Toronto
Par Edward Keenan. 2013
Since 2010, Toronto’s headlines have been consumed by the controversies surrounding its mayor at City Hall. The author suggests that…
these have obscured a bigger story: Toronto’s decade-long ascendance as a mature global city having an amorphous identity built on diversity and constant redefinition. 2013.Slumming it at the rodeo: the cultural roots of Canada's right-wing revolution
Par Gordon Laird. 1998
Alberta premier Ralph Klein, the Reform Party's Preston Manning, and Ontario premier Mike Harris have all attempted to depict themselves…
as modern day cowboys, tough-talking rebels. But the author questions whether their actions live up to their images. Are they right-wing rebels or guardians of the status quo?