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100 Dogs Who Changed Civilization
100 Dogs Who Made a Difference If you don’t believe that one dog has the power to alter civilization, then you’ve obviously never heard of Peritas (p. 166), the dog who saved Alexander the Great from being trampled by an elephant. Or Biche (p. 57), the Italian Greyhound who started a war between France and Russia. Or Urian (p. 74), the dog who bit Pope Clement VII and finalized England’s break with the Catholic church. Or Peps and Fips (p. 96), the dogs who helped Richard Wagner compose his operas. These are just five of the 100 Dogs Who Changed Civilization, and this book honors their extraordinary contributions to science, history, art, government, religion, and more. You’ll meet a dog who ran for president of France (p. 79) and a dog who saved a movie studio (p. 115). You’ll meet dogs who have inspired great works of literature (p. 92) and who were awarded medals for their wartime service (p. 158). You’ll even meet a dog who became a real-estate mogul (p. 141). These beautifully illustrated true stories are a tribute to the intelligence, bravery, and loving nature of dogs all over the world.
Marseille Mix
A journey through the history, cultures, and societies of Marseille. There are many Marseilles, or at least many versions of Marseille: seaside village, haven of gangsters, gateway to the East, city of immigrants and outcasts. It is by turns the dull bourgeois provincial town where nothing ever happens and the mysterious unknowable city of the Mediterranean. In Marseille Mix, William Firebrace explores the many Marseilles, the invented and the actual. Leading readers down narrow streets, through undulating terrain that seems at once, or serially, Italian, Greek, Levantine, and North African, Firebrace traces the history and culture of Marseille through landscapes, buildings, food, films, lit...
Cinq bières, deux rhums!
Gérard n'en peut plus de voir son pote Gabriel errer comme une âme en peine à la Sainte-Scolasse. Aussi l'envoie-t-il se dégourdir les tentacules entre Nord et Belgique, avec pour mission d'en apporter quelques bières locales... A peine arrivé, le Poulpe est confronté à deux faits divers un peu spéciaux : le cadavre d'un homme est retrouvé dans les immenses tas de ferraille de l'usine sidérurgique, tandis qu'à quelques mètres de distance, un autre corps bloque une écluse de l'Escaut. Le sang de notre héros ne fait qu'un tour, et le voilà reparti sur le sentier de la guerre contre les profiteurs de tout poil. Quinze ans après La Petite Écuyère a cafté, Jean-Bernard Pouy, créateur de la série, reprend brillamment la plume et du service. Parce que, de Juppé à Sarkozy, ça n'est pas seulement du pain que le Poulpe a sur la planche, c'est une boulangerie entière. Et 5 bières, 2 rhums, c'est bien le minimum pour le mettre en appétit et lui donner du coeur à l'ouvrage !
Wicked City
Marseille is a thoroughly ambiguous place. France's second city and its major sea-port, its impact on the national imagination is unparalleled. Yet it is also a frontier city, arguably capital of the Mediterranean, and with a traditionally suspect allegiance to the French nation. This apartness, and the city's long and rich history as home to migrants, workers and organized criminals, has cemented its association in the popular imagination with exoticism and illicit activity. In this history, Nicholas Hewitt explores Marseille's extraordinary cultural wealth from the Revolution to the present century, charting the development of its bad reputation, its 'rogue status' within France, and its i...
Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen
This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses, and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consumption, it investigates the "condition" that has led writers, filmmakers, and artists to embrace (purposefully or not) the incessant violence in Colombian society as the object of their own creative endeavors. In this examination of mass-marketed cultural products such as narco-stories, captivity memoirs, gritty travel narratives, and films, Herrero-Olaizola seeks to offer a hemispheric approach to t...
Politics Weird-o-Pedia
Government and politics might seem twisted today, but they’ve always been strange. There’s something about public office that, throughout time, has transcended normalcy. Politics Weird-o-Pedia presents some of the oddest and most interesting political absurdities and tidbits from around the world, from Peter the Great’s tax on beards to a lawmaker’s mistress whom he kept on the congressional payroll despite her admission that “I can't type, I can't file, I can't even answer the phone.” Eminences include: Some of America’s Founding Fathers wanted to jail newspaper reporters. A Mongolian conqueror liked to build cement walls out of the bodies of his vanquished opponents (while th...
Uncle John's Actual and Factual Bathroom Reader
It’s an actual fact—Uncle John is the most entertaining thing in the bathroom! Uncle John and his team of devoted researchers are back again with an all-new collection of weird news stories, odd historical events, dubious “scientific” theories, jaw-dropping lists, and more. This entertaining 31st anniversary edition contains 512 pages of all-new articles that will appeal to readers everywhere. Pop culture, history, dumb crooks, and other actual and factual tidbits are packed onto every page of this book. Inside, you’ll find . . . Dogs and cats who ran for political office The bizarre method people in Victorian England used to resuscitate drowning victims The man who met his future pet—a stray dog—while running across the Gobi Desert Searching for Planet X—the last unknown planet in our solar system Twantrums—strange Twitter rants that had disastrous effects The true story of Boaty McBoatface And much more!
Marseille Noir
“Navigates the seedy side of Marseille with 14 stories that range from the creepily introspective to the downright brutal.” —Publishers Weekly The Akashic Noir series first ventured into France with Paris Noir—and now moves one step deeper . . . A crossroads for the people of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille is a city that does not discriminate. It embodies the down-and-dirty, tough-guy side of France, but what it lacks in sophistication, it makes up for in spirit. Still, in its shadows lurks a not-so-distant darkness . . . one that can be found in stories translated from French by David Ball and Nicole Ball and written by: François Beaune, Philippe Carrese, Patrick Coulomb, ...
LES CHIENS CELEBRES, Réels et Fictifs, dans l'Art, la Culture et l'Histoire
Je vous invite a decouvrir l'histoire, reelle ou fictive, de ces chiens que vous connaissez si bien, tel que Lassie et Pluto; de ceux dont vous ne soupconnez pas l'existence comme Shunka Warik'in ou Ahuizotl ou encore d'apprendre avec emerveillement les prouesses et les exploits, la bravoure et l'heroisme des chiens de guerre et des chiens de sauvetage, de ces chiens prives et de tant d'autres, qui tous meritent une place au Walhalla des chiens. Chaque chien merite une chanson, un poeme, une bande-dessinee, un film, une epitaphe immortelle, une statue. Inscrivons le nom du notre, des notres, sur la premiere page de ce livre ! Accompagnez-moi, non seulement a la decouverte du chien mythique ou celebre, accompagnez-moi dans un voyage de par le monde et revivez l'Histoire du monde laissee par l'empreinte d'une patte de chien.
