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Down with the System
  • Language: fr

Down with the System

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-06-05
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Presidents, Prime Ministers and Majorities in the French Fifth Republic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223
Homo Anthropologicus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 185

Homo Anthropologicus

Skilfully analysing the challenges posed by management practices to the human condition, Jean-François Chanlat examines the sociological evolution of modern management. This book acts as a crucial pedagogical guide to the history and essence of managerial operations.

History of Humanity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 991

History of Humanity

This is the seventh and final volume in this comprehensive guide to the history of world cultures throughout historical times.

GeopOlympics - English version
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 139

GeopOlympics - English version

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-07-01
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  • Publisher: Max Milo

Why have the Olympic Games always been a geopolitical event in their own right? How did the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968, Moscow in 1980 and Barcelona in 1992 reflect international tensions, despite the Olympics' political neutrality? In2024, what are the stakes for France in the Paris Olympics, against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian and Russian-Ukrainian conflicts? Why have new powers such as China, Qatar and Saudi Arabia made the organization of the Games an objective of their influence strategy? In his fourth book, Kévin Veyssière invites sports fans, geography buffs and the curious to explore the history of our world through the Olympic Games. From Athens in 1896 to Paris in 2024, he unveils the most striking geopolitical backdrops to a theater of 206 nations, where sporting performances and power games come together.

Bonaparte
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1037

Bonaparte

Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age. This book, hailed as a masterwork on its publication in France, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, the man who—in Madame de Staël’s words—made the rest of “the human race anonymous.” Gueniffey follows Bonaparte from his obscure boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns of the Revolutionary wars, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802. Bonaparte is the story of how Napoleon became Napoleon. A future volume will trace his career as emperor. Most books approach Napoleon from an angle...

Revolution in Paradise
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Revolution in Paradise

The era of the German Occupation of France constituted, surprisingly, a golden age for the arts: literature, theater, popular music and cinema. These works of art seem to be devoid of political impact. The widespread trend of unrealistic and fantastic art during this period is explained by some scholars as the artists escape from the omnipotent eye of German censorship. The purpose of the book is to show that, contrary to the accepted view, some of these films were intimately linked to the political situation. They convey the demonization of characters that, while not specifically presented as Jews nevertheless manifested anti-Semitic stereotypes of the Jew as ugly, rootless, low, hypocritic...

An Uncertain Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

An Uncertain Future

This contemporary oral history, based on interviews conducted over an 18-year period, is the first of its kind in English. The interviews, some repeated with the same subjects over years, demonstrate how the Jewish community of Dijon has evolved over time in response to challenges both internal and external. The authors provide an introduction to the series of interviews as well as a detailed history of the community. A chronology, a map of Dijon, and photos of many interviewees are included. The book also provides an update on recent events in the community, a suggested reading list, and a bibliography.

Algeria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Algeria

The most incisive and up-to-date analysis of Algeria's recent history in the second 25 years after independence.