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L’Âge des extrêmes

Autor: Eric J. Hobsbawn

Número de Páginas: 855

Voici la nouvelle édition de cet essai magistral qui a été traduit en plus de vingt langues. Le présent ouvrage fait suite à l’opus magnum de l’historien Eric J. Hobsbawm : la trilogie consacrée au “long dix-neuvième siècle” avec L’Ère des révolutions, L’Ère du capital et L’Ère des empires. L’Ère des extrêmes couvre ainsi la période de 1914 à nos jours, que l’auteur baptise “le court vingtième siècle”, où le monde a été déchiré par deux guerres mondiales qui ont fait des millions de morts et balayé des systèmes entiers de gouvernement. Le communisme s’est d’abord imposé comme une foi messianique avant de connaître un effondrement ignominieux. Les paysans sont devenus des citadins, les ménagères des travailleuses et, de plus en plus, des responsables. L’alphabétisation s’est généralisée alors même que les nouvelles technologies menaçaient de rendre l’imprimé obsolète. Et les forces motrices de l’histoire se sont déplacées de l’Europe vers ses anciennes colonies. Seul un historien doué d’un souffle et de talents narratifs comparables à ceux de Hobsbawm pouvait brosser ce tableau de “l’Ère des...

Just a Notion

Autor: Amos Walker

Número de Páginas: 98

Left alone to die in the wilderness of the dessert, the young boys hate was almost as strong as his will to live. The outlaw Jessup Stone had just killed his father and taken his family and scattered them in the wind as if they were nothing. Stone didnt realize, the stock the young boy sprang from which would not let him forget or forgive. Through tragedy and an unlikely friendship with the Cheyenne, the boy becomes a man to reckon with. The hate raging inside of him drives him to do unspeakable acts. There is nothing he wont do to get his family back and to fulfill his fathers promise to his family.

Getting Ahead Teacher's Guide

Autor: Sarah Jones-macziola , Greg White

Número de Páginas: 132

A communication skills course for Business English. Leads into Further Ahead.

Bruno, jefe de policía

Autor: Martin Walker

Número de Páginas: 218

Es día de mercado en St. Denis, un pueblecito de la región francesa de Périgord. Y lo que promete ser una jornada tranquila se convierte en tragedia cuando encuentran el cadáver de un hombre árabe con una esvástica dibujada en el pecho. Bruno Courrèges será el responsable de resolver el crimen. Y así da comienzo la investigación, con la ayuda de agentes de policía parisinos enviados por el Ministerio. Entre ellos se encuentra el inolvidable J.J., un viejo amigo de Bruno, e Isabelle, una atractiva joven. Las primeras sospechas apuntan a jóvenes simpatizantes del Front Nationale, pero la información es contradictoria y parece que el pasado de los habitantes del pueblo es mucho más oscuro de lo que cualquiera pudiera imaginar. Bruno, nuestro jefe de policía, es un hombre afable y sencillo, amante de la buena comida y el buen vino, un sibarita que encarna la inteligencia y habilidad de los mejores detectives del género. «Martin Walker es autor best seller en toda Europa. Sus libros son amenos, entretenidos y excitantes. Walker aporta lo mejor del género y además consigue que el lector viaje a través de estas páginas: gastronomía, recreación rural y misterio, una ...

Bible John - Closure

Autor: Andrew D. Malloy

Número de Páginas: 304

The illegitimate birth of twin boys in 1945: the infamous Bible John slayings: two present day murders. What is the terrifying link that connects all three? During the late 1960s, the actions of a vicious serial killer prophetically dubbed ‘Bible John’ caused mass hysteria among the young women of Glasgow, holding them in a chilling, vice-like grip of terror. Then, inexplicably, in late 1969, almost as quickly as they had begun, the killings stopped. It is 2010 and two teenage girls are dead, strangled. On the surface the authorities appear to treat the murders as unrelated but ambitious young policeman, DCI Mason Blackwell, has other ideas...and a vested interest. A personal link to the original murders compels him to delve deeply to try and establish a connection between generations. Blackwell, his good friend and colleague, DI Theresa Bremner, and ex-Special Forces agent, Tom Logan, now a top criminal psychologist, join forces to form a special unit designed to track down the killer. In an age of recession and budget cuts, an already depleted police force is then stretched almost to breaking point by the emergence of another killer – one who randomly executes wife beaters ...

Allen Wilson Walker: 1926-2011

Autor: Jim Walker

Número de Páginas: 516

The Genealogical research of Allen Wilson Walker and his Ancestors, going back 35 generations.

Murder at the Manor

Autor: Colin Wade

Número de Páginas: 236

The Cotswold Manor Hotel welcomes an eclectic mix of guests, and on one fateful Friday evening, two witnesses overhear an argument in a neighbouring room, followed by a loud thud. The next morning, the maid discovers the room has been vacated; all that remains is a dried bloodstain on the carpet. Detective Chief Inspector Chloe Taylor attends the scene, and soon after, a body is discovered in the lake on the hotel grounds, launching a murder inquiry. It soon becomes clear that the case is much bigger than she initially thought when one of her key suspects is linked to a terrorism investigation. A DCI from the Counter Terrorism Unit is quickly assigned to work alongside her. As the investigation progresses, they are confronted by lies and deceit, suspicious characters, fake identities, and a case that threatens to spiral out of control. As DCI Taylor wrestles with the murder case and the politics of working with CTU, the mounting pressure leads her to make impulsive choices, putting her own life at risk. Will she survive and solve the Murder at the Manor?

War Gothic in Literature and Culture

Autor: Steffen Hantke , Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

Número de Páginas: 306

In the context of the current explosion of interest in Gothic literature and popular culture, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores for the first time the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. Critics have described the global Seven Year’s War as the "crucible" from which the Gothic genre emerged in the eighteenth century. Since then, the Gothic has been a privileged mode for representing violence and extreme emotions and situations. Covering the period from the American Civil War to the War on Terror, this collection examines how the Gothic has provided writers an indispensable toolbox for narrating, critiquing, and representing real and fictional wars. The book also sheds light on the overlap and complicity between Gothic aesthetics and certain aspects of military experience, including the bodily violation and mental dissolution of combat, the dehumanization of "others," psychic numbing, masculinity in crisis, and the subjective experience of trauma and memory. Engaging with popular forms such as young adult literature, gaming, and comic books, as well as literature, film, and visual art, War Gothic provides an important and timely...

The World the Cold War Made

Autor: James E. Cronin

Número de Páginas: 352

An examination of the Cold War from the creation and structure of the postwar settlement to the eventual coming apart of the post war order in the 1980s and early 1990s. James Cronin explores the creation and structure of the postwar settlement and the eventual coming apart of the postwar order in the 1980s and early 1990s. Cronin argues that the current state of the world must be understood against the backdrop of the postwar order that until recently governed, prevented or distorted political and economic change.