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Histoire, Humour
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A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive History…
is the most dangerous place on earth. From dinosaurs the size of locomotives to meteors big enough to sterilize the planet, from famines to pandemics, from tornadoes to the Chicxulub asteroid, the odds of human survival are slim but not zero—at least, not if you know where to go and what to do. In each chapter of How to Survive History , Cody Cassidy explores how to survive one of history’s greatest threats: getting eaten by dinosaurs, being destroyed by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, succumbing to the lava flows of Pompeii, being devoured by the Donner Party, drowning during the sinking of the Titanic , falling prey to the Black Death, and more. Using hindsight and modern science to estimate everything from how fast you’d need to run to outpace a T. rex to the advantages of different body types in surviving the Donner Party tragedy, Cassidy gives you a detailed battle plan for survival, helping you learn about the era at the same time. History may be the most dangerous place on earth, but that doesn’t mean you can’t visit. You can, and you should. And with a copy of How to Survive History in your back pocket, you just might make it out alive
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Histoire, Nourriture et boissons , Politique et gouvernement (biographies)
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Some of the most significant moments in American history have occurred over meals, as U.S. presidents broke bread with friends…
or foe: Thomas Jefferson's nationbuilding receptions in the new capital, Washington, D.C.; Ulysses S. Grant's state dinner for the king of Hawaii; Teddy Roosevelt's groundbreaking supper with Booker T. Washington; Jimmy Carter's cakes and pies that fueled a détente between Israel and Egypt at Camp David. Here Alex Prud'homme invites listeners into the White House kitchen to reveal the sometimes curious tastes of 26 of America's most influential presidents, how their meals were prepared and by whom, and the ways their choices affected food policy around the world. What our leaders say about food touches on everything from our nation's shifting diet and local politics to global trade, science, religion, war, class, gender, race, and so much more. Prud'homme also details overlooked figures, like George Washington's enslaved chef, Hercules Posey, whose meals burnished the president's reputation before the cook narrowly escaped to freedom, and pioneering First Ladies, such as Dolley Madison and Jackie Kennedy, who used food and entertaining to build political and social relationships. As he weaves these stories together, Prud'homme shows that food is not just fuel when it is served to the most powerful people in the world. It is a tool of communication, a lever of power and persuasion, a form of entertainment, and a symbol of the nation
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Ten true adventure stories, from the sixteenth to the present century, of mutineers, pirates, slave traders, and others who tried to create their own paradise in the South Pacific
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A sweeping view of the vast and troubled history of Germany from the Renaissance to the 1960s. An authoritative history written by a scholar for the general reader
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Sociologie, Histoire
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Collection of informative, sometimes emotionally charged, articles and speeches about race relations in South Africa. Among the leading politicians and…
writers included are Bishop Tutu, novelist Nadine Gordimer (who attacks prevailing white attitudes with quiet fury), President Botha, a black trade unionist, a right-wing Afrikaner, and some U.S. experts. Some violence
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Déficiences, Sociologie, Économie, Histoire
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La légende noire d'une Commune grise semble avoir vécu. Or, en décembre 1871, l'Académie de médecine qualifiait l'insurrection de "monstrueux…
accès d'alcoolisme aigu". À la fin du XIXe siècle, on observe le discours réactionnaire se draper d'oripeaux scientistes amalgamant prolétariat, socialisme, maladie mentale et ivresse en une repoussante allégorie de la révolution. Cette étude part d'une minutieuse archéologie du mythe de l'ivrognerie des communards dans la littérature versaillaise et médicale. Elle décrit aussi comment l'hygiénisme s'investit d'une mission sanitaire contre le «fléau de l'alcool» dont il faut détourner les classes dangereuses afin de régénérer la nation
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Biographies, Histoire
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Les Forges du Saint-Maurice sont le premier établissement industriel du Canada. À l'époque de la Nouvelle-France, ont y fabriquait de…
la fonte et du fer pour tous les usages de la colonie. Établies dès 1730, elles ont fonctionné durant plus de 150 ans
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Canada (histoire), Histoire, Sociologie
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Au Québec, l'année 1972 aurait pu être "révolutionnaire". Si les idées "réactionnaires" ont fini par triompher, se replonger dans cette…
période tumultueuse cinquante ans plus tard permet de renouer avec une gauche politique combative. Une façon aussi de prendre la mesure de jusqu'où le pouvoir est prêt à aller pour mater toute contestation, à coups de lois spéciales, d'injonctions judiciaires et de répression policière
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Sociologie, Guerre, Histoire
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Cambodian history is Cold War history, asserts Y-Dang Troeung in Refugee Lifeworlds. Constructing a genealogy of the afterlife of the…
Cold War in Cambodia, Troeung mines historical archives and family anecdotes to illuminate the refugee experience, and the enduring impact of war, genocide, and displacement in the lives of Cambodian people. Troeung, a child of refugees herself, employs a method of autotheory that melds critical theory, autobiography, and textual analysis to examine the work of contemporary artists, filmmakers, and authors. She references a proverb about the Cambodian kapok tree that speaks to the silences, persecutions, and modes of resistance enacted during the Cambodian Genocide, and highlights various literary texts, artworks, and films that seek to document and preserve Cambodian histories nearly extinguished by the Khmer Rouge regime. Addressing the various artistic responses to prisons and camps, issues of trauma, disability, and aphasia, as well as racism and decolonialism, Refugee Lifeworlds repositions Cambodia within the broader transpacific formation of the Cold War. In doing so, Troeung reframes questions of international complicity and responsibility in ways that implicate us all.
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Histoire, Canada (histoire), Humour
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Nous tenons à informer les lecteurs que l'auteur de cet ouvrage se fait toujours un devoir de nommer les choses…
par leur nom et qu'il ne cherche jamais à obtenir à tout prix l'approbation du public et des critiques. Certains passages comportent des propos sans équivoque qui dénoncent les travers de notre société de plus en plus déconcertée par les déclarations et les actions des adeptes de la victimisation et de leurs porte-parole souvent autoproclamés
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History of modern Italy from 1861 through 1968. Describes achievements and political problems of this Mediterranean country
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Religion, Histoire, Sociologie
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The presence of Jews in Quebec dates back four centuries. Quebec Jewry, in Montreal in particular, has evolved over time,…
thanks to successive waves of migration from different regions of the world. The Jews of Quebec belong to a unique society in North America, which they have worked to fashion. The dedication with which they have defended their rights and their extensive achievements in multiple sectors of activity have helped foster diversity in Quebec.
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Biographies, Histoire
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The Magill Family Egyptian Adventure tells the story of Canadian, Arthur Napier Magill, who lost his sight as a young…
man, as he and his young family embark on a years’ long adventure to Egypt, where he was seconded by the UN from his role at CNIB in 1953 to head a team of experts to establish a CNIB like demonstration school for the blind to serve that country and to provide training for others to replicate the school in neighbouring Arab states. Using newspaper articles, family photographs, letters home, and written project reports, readers gain insight into expatriate life and the enormous difference this UN mission made to the many blind people in the Middle East who would otherwise have been unable to live productive and independent lives. Arthur Napier Magill later became the second Managing Director of CNIB, succeeding Colonel E. A. Baker.
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Histoire, Seconde Guerre mondiale, Femmes (biographies)
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During World War II, more than twelve million American men served their country in combat and behind the lines. Although…
their numbers are fewer, and none were drafted, 300,000 American women also felt an overwhelming call of duty to help rid the world of the Nazi threat. As veterans age, many are recording their experiences for posterity. In this evocative memoir, we have the rare record of a woman soldier. Montana-born Grace Porter was teaching school in Iowa when, in 1942, she turned twenty-one and became eligible for service in the U.S. armed forces. Patriotic and adventurous, she volunteered to join the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, later the Women’s Army Corps (WAC). A tough basic-training course in which she underwent most of the same hardships as the men, including long marches and latrine duty, strengthened her for future experiences.
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Baseball, Sports (biographies), Histoire
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"The definitive story" (Tyler Kepner, The New York Times baseball columnist) of Yankees slugger Aaron Judge's incredible, unparalleled run to…
break Roger Maris's home run record and the franchise both men called home. Aaron Judge, the hulking superman who carried an easy aw-shucks demeanor from small-town California to stardom in the Big Apple, had long established his place as one of baseball's most intimidating power hitters. Baseballs frequently rocketed off his bat like cannon fire, dispatching heat-seeking missiles toward the "Judge's Chambers" seating area in right field, sending delirious fans scattering for souvenirs. But even in a high-tech universe where computers measure each swing to the nth degree, Roger Maris's American League mark of sixty-one home runs seemed largely out of reach. It had been more than a decade since baseball wiped clean the stains of its performance-enhanced era, in which cartoonish sluggers Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds made a mockery of the record book. Given a more level playing field against pitchers sporting hellacious arsenals unlike anything Babe Ruth or Maris could have imagined, only an exceptional talent could even consider making a run at sixty-one homers. Judge, who placed the bet of his life by turning down a $213.5 million extension on the eve of the regular season, promised to rise to the challenge. "In the most thorough telling yet of an all-time-great Yankees performance" (Jeff Passan, New York Times bestselling author), veteran Yankees beat reporter Bryan Hoch unravels the remarkable journey of Judge's run to shatter Maris's beloved sixty-one-year-old record. In-depth, inspiring, and with an expert's insight, 62 also investigates the more significant questions raised in a season unlike any other, including how—and where—Judge will deliver his encore
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Coutumes et cultures, Canada (histoire), Histoire, Sociologie
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Fourteen young women, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of a tragic day that forced a reckoning with violence against women in our culture.
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Une plongée dans l'histoire personnelle des dictateurs à travers des anecdotes et des informations méconnues : l'inceste de Caligula, Hitler…
en artiste peintre exposant à Vienne, la jeunesse de Staline au séminaire, l'amour de Mussolini pour une militante socialiste féministe, le surnom du tsar Ivan IV, entre autres.
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Un ouvrage abordant la Seconde Guerre mondiale à partir de textes documentaires, de portraits d'enfants et de jeunes. Différentes dimensions…
du conflit sont évoquées (batailles, Occupation, Résistance, vie quotidienne, etc.) pour en comprendre le contexte, les enjeux et les conséquences.
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A l'occasion du 200e anniversaire de la mort de Louis XVI, témoignage précieux d'un proche du roi sur les événements révolutionnaires.
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Musique, Histoire
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L'auteur explore les mystères qui entourent la vie et la mort de cinq grands musiciens : Mozart, Haydn, Berlioz, Paganini et Tchaïkovsky.