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The Price of Freedom
This is a significant book that investigates how the French internal resistance and external Free French movement were financed during the Second World War. It brings together the secretive financial aspects of resistance inside France with those under the control of the Free French movement in London. To date, there have been a number of studies that have followed the Gaullist movement, but none have studied how they were funded. This exploration also demonstrates the global scale of the war. It shows how the Free French were not simply a European, Atlantic-based movement, but were, in fact, colonial and operated on a global scale, shedding light on French relations with their colonies in A...
Jean Gabin
When one thinks of the quintessential Frenchman, one likely pictures Jean Gabin (1904-1976). The son of music hall performers, the Paris-born actor grew up in the entertainment business. His onscreen debut in the 1930's marked the beginning of many memorable roles in films such as La Grande Illusion (1937) and Émile Zola's La Bête Humaine (1938). His performances would earn him international recognition and establish his reputation as one of the greatest stars of film noir. Pausing his performances on screen, Gabin joined the Allied struggle of WWII. Serving under General Charles De Gaulle in the Free French Forces as a tank commander, Gabin was awarded several medals for his service. Upon...
The Metaphysics of World Order
In this book, Nicolas Laos studies the meaning of the terms "world" and "order," the moral dimensions of each world order model, and wider issues of meaning and interpretation generated by humanity's attempt to live in a meaningful world and to find the logos of the beings and things in the world. The aim of this book is to propose a unified theory of world order (i.e., a theory that combines philosophy, theology, and political theory). In this context, the author provides a thought-provoking (re)interpretation of classical philosophy (placing particular emphasis on Platonism), an in-depth inquiry into medieval philosophy and spirituality (placing particular emphasis on the cultural differen...
Martyrdom and Terrorism
This pioneering collection of essays explores the intertwined histories of martyrdom and terrorism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Christian and Islamic traditions of moral witness and debate over the justified use of militant sacrifice are situated in relation to the development of Western nationalism, with a particular focus on the French Revolution and imperialism.
The Coming Authoritarian Ecology
The book examines ecological issues such as climate change and biodiversity, articulating local and global scales, and short and long term perspectives, questioning what "development" and "progress" are. The goal is to show how diverging points of view are conflictingly articulated to one another, in a political ideology perspective. This perspective, which is close to the main actor's point of view, allows displacement of the usual analysis, and offers a new synthesis.
Discursive Geographies / Géographies discursives
The present collection of essays follows in the wake of recent work in cultural geography challenging the idea that maps are scientifically neutral entities, or that space, unlike time, is immobile. In defining space, place and geography as forms of textuality, the essays collected in this volume examine the ways in which postcolonial and metropolitan literary and filmic texts in French can at once inscribe and produce place and space, and thereby participate in forms of “discursive geographies.” Contributors: François Bon; Alexandre Dauge-Roth; Habiba Deming; Zakaria Fatih; Jeanne Garane; Patricia Geesey; Greg Hainge; Sirène Harb; Jean-Luc Joly; Chantal Kalisa; Michel Laronde; Valérie Loichot; Mary McCullough; Michael O’Riley; Pascale Perraudin; Walter Putnam; Antoine Stéphani; Abdourahman A. Waberi.
CAMION NOIR
« Jean-Paul Bourre vient de raconter sa vie. Dans un superbe Guerrier du rêve. Sauf que lui, ce n’est pas la même came. Non, il ne falsifie pas, n’enjolive rien. Comme Dee Dee Ramone, encore une fois. Et il ne s’épargne pas. Il n’a pas cherché à dresser un beau portrait. Flatteur et épargnant les zones d’ombres. Les zones d’ombres, il n’y a que ça dans ce livre. Nulle question de mondanités, aucun name-droping. Non. Juste ce à quoi se résume l’histoire des cinquante dernières années : une quête perpétuelle. Un fil tendu par de romantiques funambules. Qui commence avec le cuir noir des fifties… C’est le cœur qui parle et hurle, et des mythes plus grands que la vie elle-même circulent. Même s’il se trompe. Dans l’absolu. S’il est un absolu. » Patrick Eudeline, Rock & Folk
LES CLEFS CACHEES DE LA VIE
Le foetus humain est le resultat d'un accouplement qui n'est autre que l'introduction d'une clef dans une serrure. Cette action permet d'ouvrir la Grande Porte de l'Humanite. Le symbole de la Clef et de la Serrure, de l'enfantement, se retrouve partout dans le monde sous differents aspects, plus ou moins dissimules. C'est notamment l'un des grands secrets du Vatican, que l'auteur vous propose de decouvrir dans ce livre. Miracles inconnus, Vierges enceintes, corps incorruptibles sont egalement evoques. Cet ouvrage vous emmene aussi dans les endroits inattendus ou tout est mis en oeuvre, grace aux capsules temporelles, pour preserver le souvenir du passage sur Terre de l'Humanite appelee a disparaitre.
