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Green Matters
Green Matters offers a fascinating insight into the regenerative function of literature with regard to environmental concerns. Based on recent developments in ecocriticism, the book demonstrates how the aesthetic dimension of literary texts makes them a vital force in the struggle for sustainable futures. Applying this understanding to individual works from a number of different thematic fields, cultural contexts and literary genres, Green Matters presents novel approaches to the manifold ways in which literature can make a difference. While the first sections of the book highlight the transnational, the focus on Canada in the last section allows a more specific exploration of how themes, genres and literary forms develop their own manifestations within a national context. Through its unifying ecocultural focus and its variegated approaches, the volume is an essential contribution to contemporary environmental humanities.
L'histoire
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Machiavelli
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time. Whenever a tempestuous period in history begins, Machiavelli is summoned, because he is known as one for philosophizing in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we have never ceased to read him to pull ourselves out of torpors. But what do we really know about this man apart from the term invented by his detractors to refer to that political evil, Machiavellianism? It was Machiavelli's luck to be disappointed by every statesman he enc...
How I Survived A Chinese 'Re-education' Camp
'An indispensable account' – Sunday Times 'Moving and devastating' – The Literary Review 'An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait' – Sunday Telegraph (Five Stars) FIRST MEMOIR ABOUT CHINA'A ‘RE-EDUCATION’ CAMPS BY A UYGHUR WOMAN Since 2017, one million Uyghurs have been seized by the Chinese authorities and sent to ‘re-education’ camps, in what the US Government and human rights groups describe as a genocide. Few have made it out to the West. One is Gulbahar Haitiwaji. For three years, she endured hundreds of hours of interrogations, freezing cold, forced sterilisation, and a programme of de-personalisation meant to destroy her free will and her memories. This intimate accoun...
The Burgundians
A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year 'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times 'A thrilling narrative of the brutal dazzlingly rich wildly ambitious duchy' Simon Sebag Montefiore 5 stars! Daily Telegraph 'A masterpiece' De Morgen 'A history book that reads like a thriller' Le Soir At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanishe...
Livres de France
Includes, 1982-1995: Les Livres du mois, also published separately.
Une année sur la route
Deux jeunes gens d’aujourd’hui, deux amis qui rêvent de détachement et de béatitude. Ils ont une vingtaine d’années et ont déjà parcouru l’Europe à pied jusqu’à Israël (voir Le Syndrome de Tom Sawyer de Samuel Adrian). Mais il leur faut le monde. Ils décident alors de partir à sa découverte au volant d’une antique Peugeot 204, plus âgée qu’eux, chargée de bouteilles de vin et de livres à satiété. Une voiture pour le moins inadaptée aux pistes de la taïga qu’ils vont devoir affronter... Ils quittent la France par l’est, traversent l’Allemagne, la Serbie, la Roumanie, la Turquie, la Russie, le Japon, puis rallient les Etats-Unis où ils tombent sur un pa...
Livres hebdo
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Le corbeau et la chouette
C’est le plus vieux métier du monde mais il ne fait l’objet d’études sérieuses que depuis très peu de temps. L’agent de renseignement a mauvaise réputation. C’est une activité de l’ombre, rejetée, parfois honnie. Qu’entend-on par renseignement ? En quoi est -il différent de l’intelligence économique ou de l’espionnage ? Convenons-en, le renseignement est une information évaluée. D’un pays à l’autre, les techniques pratiques et l’organisation du renseignement varient. Ce manuel est à la fois théorique, historique, mais aussi pratique. Un livre d’une grande exigence intellectuelle, passée au tamis de l’expérience du terrain. L’auteur, qui a fait toute sa carrière au cœur du système des renseignements français, est extrêmement bien placé pour nous livrer sa pratique quotidienne du métier et les portraits de légendaires agents du renseignement.
