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Extrait : "L'égoïsme domine d'abord en nous. Peu à peu, le choc des autres égoïsmes le ramène à de plus juste proportions, il s'épure par l'amitié, s'ennoblit par l'amour, s'étend à la famille et à ……続きを見る

Extrait : "L'histoire a été, dans tous les siècles, une étude si recommandée, qu'on croirait perdre son temps d'en recueillir les suffrages, aussi importants par le poids de leurs auteurs que par le……続きを見る

"Mémoires de Louise Michel écrits par elle-même est un ouvrage fascinant qui nous plonge dans la vie et les pensées de l'une des figures les plus marquantes de la Commune de Paris. Louise Michel, fe……続きを見る

More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution.……続きを見る

Mémoires de la politique belge au XXe siècle Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb est l’une des figures majeures de notre paysage politique et l’un des artisans des transformations successives de l’Europe et d……続きを見る

Weems helped to fabricate the image of Washington that has since dominated the American historical imagination and which in its time, secured Washington's fame. This edition includes documents that ……続きを見る

From McClure's Magazine, 1895-1896. According to Wikipedia: "Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 January 6, 1944) was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leadin……続きを見る

Classic biography of Lincoln, first published in 1899. According to Wikipedia: "According to Wikipedia: "Abraham Lincoln is a 2-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln written by John Torrey Morse (1840……続きを見る

**The acclaimed biography of Joseph Stalin from Robert Service, world-leading expert in modern and Soviet era Russia. 'Outstanding . . . will be read for decades' – Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of……続きを見る

This book is the first biography of Scottish-born physician John Moore. Here, Henry L. Fulton recounts Moore’s childhood, education, and medical training in Glasgow and abroad; discusses his marriag……続きを見る

Frederick Douglass was born a slave, he escaped a brutal system and through sheer force of will educated himself and became an abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer. This thr……続きを見る

It is not possible, nor have I attempted in this account of Harvey, to add much that is new. My endeavour has been to give a picture of the man and to explain in his own words, for they are always s……続きを見る

Si les hommes étaient capables de gouverner toute la conduite de leur vie par un dessein réglé, si la fortune leur était toujours favorable, leur âme serait libre de toute superstition. Mais comme i……続きを見る

Les trésors de sa petite enfance redécouverts dans une enveloppe, font resurgir chez une fillette de 11 ans, des images parfois drôles, parfois tragiques, de la guerre 39-45. Avec ses yeux et ses mo……続きを見る

Si l’on veut faire une histoire complète de l’antisémitisme ー en n’oubliant aucune des manifestations de ce sentiment, en en suivant les phases diverses et les modifications ー il fau……続きを見る

Citoyennes, Citoyens, Camarades, Laissez-moi, tout d’abord, remercier Jaurès d’avoir aussi bien posé la question, la seule question pour la solution de laquelle vous êtes r&eacut……続きを見る

William Marcy Tweed was a big man at 300 pounds, a charming, garrulous man whose personality matched his girth. He could disarm the most disagreeable person; few could resist his charms. And like mo……続きを見る

Décidément, nous marchons à grands pas vers la révolution, vers une commotion qui, éclatant dans un pays, va se propager, comme en 1848, dans tous les pays voisins, et secouant la société actuelle j……続きを見る

From the 1960s, Maritz Spaarwater was an intelligence agent for the South African government, first for Military Intelligence and later for National Intelligence. In the late 1980s, he was among the……続きを見る

Bernard-Lazare (1865-1903) was a French Jewish writer and a prime mover in the Dreyfus Affair. After being involved in the Symbolist and anarchist movements, he took up the cause of Dreyfus in his b……続きを見る

The most comprehensive collection of the Founding Father’s famous writings, including drafts of the Declaration of Independence At the moment of our nation's birth, Thomas Jefferson defined the issu……続きを見る

At the apex of progressive reform in Texas from 1907 to 1911, Thomas M. Campbell served as the state’s chief executive. Closely associated with former Texas Governor James Stephen Hogg, Campbell pla……続きを見る

Extrait :  Qu’est-ce que l’homme ? L’homme est un être moral, intelligent et perfectible. Qu’est-ce qu’un être moral ? C’est celui qui aime et qui pratique la justice. Comment l’hom……続きを見る

When Things Went Right is a colorful and insightful portrait of Washington at the beginning of the Reagan-Bush era (November 1980–March 1983) as lived and recorded by an insider in his personal jour……続きを見る

“ . . . notable for its depiction of young Churchill, warts and all, as a very human character . . . .”ーNew York Times “A bestseller in the UK, this portrait of Winston Churchill, written by his gr……続きを見る

In this poignant and timely biography, Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism and the Common Good shows how the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) saved the United States economy during ……続きを見る

A delightful and illuminating journey through the early years of Winston Churchill, From Winston with Love and Kisses: The Young Churchill weaves together strands of Churchill’s early writing, matur……続きを見る

When George Bristol first saw the mountains surrounding East Glacier, Montana, in the early summer of 1961, he was, in his own words, awed to his depths. Thus began a love affair with nature and pub……続きを見る

President Goodluck Jonathan became Nigeria's president rather fortuitously in 2010 following the death of former President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. True to his name, Goodluck Jonathan is prodigiously bl……続きを見る

Edmund Burke claimed to be a practical politician, rather than a theorist. Nevertheless, says the author, Burke held consistent political principles which form a coherent political theory. By examin……続きを見る