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Maurizio Viroli is professor emeritus of politics at Princeton University and professor of political communication at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. His many books include Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli (Hill & Wang), Machiavelli's God (Princeton), and The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy (Princeton).
A fresh introduction to-and bold new interpretation of-Machiavelli's Prince
In Redeeming "The Prince," one...
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This is the previously untold story of the remarkable relationship between a young British diplomat and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia from the latter's Coronation in 1930 until his murder in 1975. Based on Chapman-Andrew's diary, the core of the book describes the extraordinary SOE operation in 1940 to re-instate the Emperor on his throne after being driven out by the invading Italians. Together with the legendary Orde Wingate, Chapman-Andrews...
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Robert Wokler (1942-2006) was at the time of his death Senior Lecturer in Political Science and in the Directed Studies program at Yale University. He was formerly Reader in the History of Political Thought at the University of Manchester. He was the author of Rousseau on Society, Politics, Music and Language and Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction. He was also the editor or coeditor of many books, including The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la guerre de Gaza de 2006 à 2014 en moins d'une heure !
Gaza, qui forme une bande de seulement 360 km², est convoitée depuis des milliers d'années. Et pour cause : ce petit territoire est considéré comme le berceau des trois religions monothéistes et regroupe la majorité des lieux saints.
Lorsqu'au XIXe siècle le mouvement sioniste prne un retour de la communauté juive dans la Palestine de...
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This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. J. T. Headley was born at the very end of the convulsive period of the French revolution and Napoleonic Wars that followed, and wrote a number of volumes on the French army and its leadership of the period. An admirer of the equality and liberty that Napoleon and the Napoleonic Myth expounded,...
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Extrait : "Mardi 20 juin 1815. — J'apprends le retour de l'Empereur à l'Élysée, et je vais m'y placer spontanément de service. Je m'y trouve avec MM. de Montalembert et de Montholon, amenés par le même sentiment. L'Empereur venait de perdre une grande bataille, le salut de la France était désormais dans la Chambre des représentants, dans leur confiance et leur zèle. L'Empereur accourait avec l'idée de se rendre, encore tout couvert de...
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General Liam Lynch was a key figure in the Irish Revolution and remains one of the most celebrated IRA leaders of his era. His republicanism was shaped both by his upbringing in Limerick and by the aftermath of the Easter Rising. By the time of the War of Independence, Lynch was in command of the IRA's Cork No. 2 Brigade and masterminded some of the most important actions against British forces, such as the Fermoy arms raid and the daring kidnapping...
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Globalization is all around us. From the richest country to the poorest, every aspect of life is affected by global economics and communications. We all benefit...or do we? This No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization distills the arguments into a clear, concise commentary. It examines the debt trap, the acceleration of neo-liberalism and the free trade" model, competition for energy resources, and the links between the war on terror, the arms trade, and...
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Following the life of a charismatic woman committed to reform, The Pragmatic Ideal provides an introduction to the politics that dominated the early decades of the twentieth century, ideas that are the basis for much of today's progressive thought. As one of the "New Women" who came of age, during the Progressive Era, Mary Field Parton, a close friend of Clarence Darrow, pursued social justice as a settlement house worker and as a leading writer on...
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Anecdotes et fais méconnus de la Première Guerre mondiale
Des véritables raisons qui poussèrent l'Allemagne à entrer en guerre jusqu'à la manière dont mourut Augustin Trébuchon, le dernier tué français de la Première Guerre, en passant par les ridicules péripéties
de l'attentat de Sarajevo, des dizaines d'histoires oubliées concernant la Grande Guerre vous sont présentées dans ce livre, notamment...
• La première bataille...
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Partez à la découverte de Julio Cortázar avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Le conteur et romancier argentin Julio Cortázar est un franc-tireur de la littérature. Cas complexe et personnel d'insurrection permanente contre les lieux communs, la passivité d'esprit, il rend vie au verbe en créant son propre langage. Son humour subtil, destructeur, sa vision dramatique de...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir...
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German troops formed the majority of Wellingtons forces present at the Battle of Waterloo including those of Nassau, Brunswick, Hanover and the Kings German Legion, and they have left a large number of first-hand accounts of their role in the battle.
The actions of the King's German Legion an integral part of the British Army and partly officered by British soldiers has been published in English, but to a limited degree: Herbert Siborne published...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Diana de Gales, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Profundizar en la vida de Diana, que nace en el seno de una familia aristocrática vinculada a la familia real inglesa y que acaba casándose con el príncipe de Gales
• Comprender los momentos clave de su vida, desde su matrimonio con el príncipe...
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A true story of a Scottish isle, an eminent professor, a lie, and an amateur botanist who saw the truth, by the author of Antisemitism Wars.
In the 1940s, the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison proposed a controversial theory: that vegetation on the islands off the west coast of Scotland had survived the last Ice Age. His premise flew in the face of what most botanists believed-that no plants had survived the 10,000-year period of extreme...
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“In his beautifully crafted and rigorously reported volume, Andrew Rice takes readers back to Florida in 2000, laying out a cultural and political history of a moment at which America’s political system was turned inside out, its power structures upended. The Year That Broke America is vivid and wide-ranging; it also happens to be a page turner.”—Rebecca Traister, bestselling author of Good and Mad
“Engrossing, insightful, tragic and above...
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Titanic. Its story is one of all those bound together on that ill-fated voyage in April 1912. On board were writers, artists, millionaires, sportsmen, priests, reverends, fashion designers, aristocrats, honeymooners, children, crew, and emigrants, all looking for a better life in North America. When the "unsinkable" ship hit an iceberg and sank off the coast of Atlantic Canada, 1,500 people died, while just 750 survived.
This book tells the stories...
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"One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Pankaj Mishra" "Selected for the SFG Gift Guide 2013" Michael Wood is professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton University. His most recent books are Yeats and Violence and A Very Short Introduction to Film. Martin McLaughlin is the Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford. He is the translator of Calvino's Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings,...
4000) Escape to Pagan: The True Story of One Family's Fight to Survive in World War II Occupied Asia
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The true story of a soldier who survived Japanese capture, a sinking hell ship, and the bombing of Nagasaki, all while his family fought their own battle in the Burmese jungle. While leading an attack on Hong Kong's Golden Hill, Jack Devereux of the Royal Scots is shot through the head. Then a Japanese officer attempts to behead him in order to blood his samurai sword. Waking briefly, Devereux kills his would-be executioner, impressing his captors....