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Extrait : "En acceptant pour femmes celles-là seulement qui satisfont au programme arrêté dans la Physiologie du mariage, programme admis par les esprits les plus judicieux de ce temps, il existe à ……続きを見る

Extrait : "La chute du ministère Ollivier fut la préface de la chute de l'Empire ; on eût dit que le ministre partait en avant comme fourrier du souverain. Les vingt-cinq journées qui s'écoulèrent e……続きを見る

Extrait : "Le jour vint ; je ne saurais cacher que je l'appelais de tous mes vœux, car depuis longtemps déjà j'avais mordu à la vie d'explorateur et elle m'avait passionné. À deux reprises, au Sénég……続きを見る

Extrait : "Il faut bien toujours que les écrivains d'une époque rendent au public ce que le public leur a prêté, et l'écrivain n'est jamais si heureux et si populaire que lorsque le public lui a bea……続きを見る

Extrait : "Un ouvrage où l'on se proposait de peindre les mœurs des Français au dix-neuvième siècle ne devait point se borner à les considérer dans leurs divers états. Les modèles, toujours pris à P……続きを見る

Extrait : "J'étais donc repris par cette passion que six années de joies et de peines de cœur, dirait Shakespeare, n'avaient pas encore éteinte, quoique je l'eusse trahie par beaucoup de fantaisies.……続きを見る

_______________ 'Splendid and fascinating ... Teltscher has made remarkable use of her source material, aided by the constantly perceptive and witty tone of Bogle's own writings' - Patrick French, S……続きを見る

Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussi……続きを見る

The small village of Rennes-le-Chateau has been the center of an enigma ever since a century ago a local village priest, Berenger Sauniere, spent millions of dollars on decorating the church and sur……続きを見る

Unparalleled access to all levels of the Afghan government and coalition forces is the result of John Cook’s tenure in Afghanistan. Over the past four and a half years, he has developed an intimate ……続きを見る

It took a quarter-century of bad strategy, including more than a dozen years of Western air attacks and invasions in the Middle East, to bring the so-called "Islamic State" into existence. Can we so……続きを見る

Das Standardwerk zum Ersten Weltkrieg Lange Zeit galt es als ausgemacht, dass das deutsche Kaiserreich wegen seiner Großmachtträume die Hauptverantwortung am Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs trug. In ……続きを見る

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together. - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, December 15th 2010, before the E.U. summit on……続きを見る

*Includes a list of Chavez's most colorful and controversial quotes.*Includes pictures of Chavez and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of Contents.Yesterday, ladies ……続きを見る

For fans of The Lost Kingdom, Black Sails and Crossbones comes a new rip-roaring history of the Golden Age of Piracy. . . In the early eighteenth century a number of the great pirate captains, inclu……続きを見る

How much does the Thomas Cromwell of popular novels and television series resemble the real Cromwell? This meticulous study of Cromwell’s early political career expands and revises what has been und……続きを見る

The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not ……続きを見る

The jihadist group ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has been wreaking havoc in northern Iraq and Syria. But its reign of terror is not confined to the Middle East. Its 2014 beheadings of A……続きを見る

William Wordsworth's poetry responded to the enormous literary, political, cultural, technological and social changes that the poet lived through during his lifetime (1770‒1850), and to his own tran……続きを見る

Despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly an empire is. The Burdens of Empire strives to offer n……続きを見る

In May 2010, Labour suffered one of its worst ever election defeats. A few months later it chose Ed Miliband as its new leader. His task? To win back power after just one term in opposition - a tall……続きを見る

'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and arou……続きを見る

A gripping account of U.S.-Russian relations since the end of the Soviet Union The Limits of Partnership is a riveting narrative about U.S.-Russian relations from the Soviet collapse through the Ukr……続きを見る

This new edition of Lucy Wooding’s Henry VIII is fully revised and updated to provide an insightful and original portrait of one of England’s most unforgettable monarchs and the many paradoxes of hi……続きを見る

Robert Service's The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age. Russia's recent past has encompassed revolutio……続きを見る

Thinking Radical Democracy is an introduction to nine key political thinkers who contributed to the emergence of radical democratic thought in post-war French political theory: Hannah Arendt, Mauric……続きを見る

Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went to Amazonia 150 years ago. This book is the first to combine all three young mens experiences of the Am……続きを見る

In Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the d……続きを見る

'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96……続きを見る

These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Pérez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age el……続きを見る