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Napoleon's Library
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Napoleon's Library
This book will surprise readers with the literary depths of Napoleon Bonaparte, exploring the enigmatic emperor's intimate relationship with books and history, going far beyond his more militaristic and imperial fame. Napoleon Bonaparte held absolute political power in France and his influence stretched across Europe and beyond. Yet he remained – between leading his armies and ruling over a vast empire – an indefatigable reader who even carried libraries into battle. Bonaparte’s love of the written word, birthed in childhood and nurtured as an adolescent and young adult, never left him. He was a lover of literature for its own sake – often swooning over melodramatic love stories – ...
Catholicism and the Welfare State in Secular France
Even though the policy impact of Catholicism has increasingly been acknowledged, existing scholarship lacks a coherent view on its changing influence over time and in different political contexts. In this book, Fabio Bolzonar investigates the influence of Catholicism on developments in French social protection from World War II to the mid-2010s. He discusses the factors that have favoured or inhibited it and explores the hybridization between Catholic values and secular principles in the social engagement of Catholic actors in secular France. By doing so, this multidisciplinary study integrates current scholarship, which has given limited attention to the changing patterns of Catholic involv...
The Meaning of Sarkozy
In this incisive, acerbic work, Alain Badiou looks beyond the petty vulgarity of the French president to decipher the true significance of what he represents—a reactionary tradition that goes back more than a hundred years. To escape the malaise that has enveloped the Left since Sarkozy’s election, Badiou casts aside the slavish worship of electoral democracy and maps out a communist hypothesis that lays the basis for an emancipatory politics of the twenty-first century.
The Sarkozy Presidency
Sarkozy came to power promising radical political and social change while simultaneously developing a presidential persona that melded the public and the personal under the glare of media attention, unparalleled in the French Fifth Republic. This volume provides a detailed analysis of the fit between his ambitions and the outcomes of his presidency
The Sarkozy Phenomenon
After his victory at the Presidential elections in May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy quickly became both deeply controversial and intriguing. It was clear from the start that his rule was to be the most autocratic since Charles de Gaulle's; Prime Minister, government and parliament found themselves eclipsed by the ever-present, hyperactive President who sought to take many decisions on his own and to implement changes in numerous different domains, but with no obvious overall plan. His sweeping reform programme was inspired by a perceived need for rupture with the past, and bringing former Socialists into government seemed to confirm his insistence on the validity of some left-leaning points of refe...
Mary Lou McDonald
Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies' favourite to be Ireland's next Taoiseach. She would be the first woman to reach the office, and the first Sinn Féin leader ever to enter government in the Republic of Ireland. But how did a quintessentially bourgeois woman become the leader of a political party with such recent links to terrorism? This exhaustively researched biography unearths new details of her family background and her privileged education, as well as her initial foray into politics through the more traditional Fianna Fáil party. It explores her unusually late commitment to political life and traces her mysterious but meteoric rise through the ranks of Sinn Féin and her relentless drive to reach the top of the party. Scrupulously fair and balanced, Mary Lou McDonald illuminates its subject's political awakening and her interactions with the hard men of the IRA, while posing important questions about the evolution and future of Sinn Féin.
Les Chroniques politiques d'Il se mêle de tout
Trois années de vie politique, cela peut être consternant et déprimant. Surtout quand il est question d'un fils de chef d'Etat pistonné, de manipulation des images par un grand média, de contrôles de police ubuesques, de récompenses nationales au mode de distribution étonnant. Et quand un scandale sexuel bouleverse toute la sphère politico-économique mondiale et que la course à l'Elysée est lancée, on peut vite arriver à saturation et n'avoir qu'une envie : débrancher télé et radio, fuir les journaux pour ne pas totalement sombrer dans la désillusion. A moins d'écouter - et de savourer - les billets d'humeur d'Hervé Desnoix qui décrypte, par l'humour et l'absurde, les comportements et agissements de ceux qui président souvent à nos destinées. Le meilleur des chroniques d'Hervé Desnoix sur RMB, d'octobre 2009 à juin 2012, est ici compilé dans un ouvrage qui permet de revisiter - une fois n'est pas coutume - l'histoire récente avec un plaisir non dissimulé. Cette distance que provoque le rire n'étant, finalement, qu'un moyen parmi d'autres de mieux prendre conscience des aberrations qui rythment, inlassablement, la vie politique.
Digital Resources, Creativity and Innovative Methodologies in Language Teaching and Learning
The concept of university language centres has changed in recent decades. Initially conceived as laboratories for practical and autonomous language-learning, they are now considered as places with more specific and complex functions in language teaching and learning. University language centres now constitute networks for exchanging knowledge and know-how in order to respond to ever-changing, multilingual and multicultural contexts. At the same time, the availability and acquisition of new technologies is contributing to the creation of new tools for the provision of appropriate services and training. This collection covers a wide range of topics related to the activities, experiences and ap...
Dawn, Dusk Or Night
Award-winning French playwright Reza joined Nicolas Sarkozy and his team as he campaigned for the French presidency. This is a spellbinding look at the interplay between two formidable figures, bound by intellect and nation.
