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J’AI LU POUR VOUS – JF 2023

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 40

Les Éditions J’ai lu vous présentent leur programme des parutions de janvier et février 2023. De la littérature au bien-être, du policier à l’imaginaire, tous les goûts sont dans la lecture ! Programme des parutions de janvier & février 2023 des Éditions J’ai lu. Présentation de toutes les nouveautés et nouvelles éditions en littérature française, étrangère, historique et féminine ; bien-être, santé & développement personnel ; religion et spiritualité, Aventure secrète ; document, essai et témoignage ; policier & thriller ; imaginaire ; young adult...

Un espion d'hier et de demain

Autor: Robert Littell

Número de Páginas: 290

Silas Sibley, jeune espion de la Compagnie surnommé le Trieur, ne se doutait pas qu’en mettant au point un nouveau système d’écoute téléphonique il découvrirait un complot capable de bouleverser le fragile ordre mondial : dans vingt-sept jours, une bombe nucléaire explosera à Téhéran, et tout porte à croire qu’elle sera lancée sur ordre du ministère de la Justice des États-Unis. Le compte à rebours est enclenché pour la cité iranienne... et pour la vie du jeune Silas.

The Rotarian

Número de Páginas: 64

Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

The Dragon's Tail

Autor: Robert A. Jacobs

Número de Páginas: 172

When President Harry Truman introduced the atomic bomb to the world in 1945, he described it as a God-given harnessing of "the basic power of the universe." Six days later a New York Times editorial framed the dilemma of the new Atomic Age for its readers: "Here the long pilgrimage of man on Earth turns towards darkness or towards light." American nuclear scientists, aware of the dangers their work involved, referred to one of their most critical experiments as "tickling the dragon's tail." Even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most Americans may not have been sure what an atomic bomb was or how it worked. But they did sense that it had fundamentally changed the future of the human race. In this book, Robert Jacobs analyzes the early impact of nuclear weapons on American culture and society. He does so by examining a broad range of stories, or "nuclear narratives," that sought to come to grips with the implications of the bomb's unprecedented and almost unimaginable power. Beginning with what he calls the "primary nuclear narrative," which depicted atomic power as a critical agent of social change that would either destroy the world or transform it for the better, Jacobs explores a...

Marrane et marronne

Autor: Kathleen Gyssels

Número de Páginas: 497

Cinquante ans jour pour jour après son foudroyant premier roman, Le Dernier des Justes, paraît posthumément L’Etoile du matin (2009). C’est le moment de revisiter l’ensemble de l’œuvre d’André (1928-2006) et de Simone Schwarz-Bart (°1938), pour y déceler d’abord les traces d’un triple trauma : la Shoah, « l’Affaire Schwarz-Bart » et la relative marginalisation dans le double canon (études juives, études caribéennes). En effet, que ce soit dans la littérature de la Shoah ou dans la littérature de l’esclavage, l’auteur antillais d’adoption semble comme « ex-communié ». Or, de l’Univers de concentration à l’Univers de Plantation, il dépiste les mêmes mécanismes de déshumanisation et la même nécessité à faire un double devoir de mémoire. A travers une étude de l’intertextualité tant en amont qu’en aval, d’une autotextualité entre le cycle ashkénaze et le cycle antillais, il devient clair qu’entre polonisation et créolisation, il y a réversibilité.

The Rotarian

Número de Páginas: 64

Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

Ces psychopathes qui nous gouvernent

Autor: Jean-luc Hees

Número de Páginas: 272

Ce sont les Princes qui nous gouvernent, des Princes de l'immoralité, du dérèglement, du narcissisme, de l'aberration, parfois de la démence, de la violence et de son corollaire, la cruauté. Ils sont psychopathes, sociopathes, névropathes... Ils règnent sur les pays du Caucase ou d'Amérique Latine, sur la Corée du Nord ou sur les Philippines. Ils régissent de façon extravagante la vie de la Maison Blanche ou du Kremlin. Ils violentent et massacrent leur propre peuple comme en Syrie. Ils abaissent leur fonction comme en Thaïlande, tourmentent leurs opposants comme aux Maldives. Ce sont les Princes qui nous gouvernent, des Princes de l'immoralité, du dérèglement, du narcissisme, de l'aberration, parfois de la démence, de la violence et de son corollaire, la cruauté. Certains sont catalogués par l'ONU comme " criminels de guerre ", ou encore ils sont accusés de " génocide ". Le monde les regarde œuvrer, souvent sans réagir. Tous n'ont pas commis les mêmes atrocités. Le Président Philippin se vante d'avoir, à plusieurs reprises, tué de ses mains. Donald Trump n'a jamais pointé son revolver sur un passant New Yorkais. Mais tous ces personnages affichent...

Palisades

Autor: Robert O. Binnewies

Número de Páginas: 425

How the famous and not-so-famous like-minded citizens all gave their time, expertise, and money to build a park legacy of incomparable benefit The Palisades park and historic site system in New York and New Jersey is a significant anchor-point for the spread of national and state parks across the nation. The challenge to protect these treasures began with a brutal blast of dynamite in the late nineteenth century and continues to this day. Palisades: The People’s Park presents the story of getting from zero protected acres to the rich tapestry that is today’s Palisades park system, located in the nation’s most densely populated metropolitan region. This is an account of huge determination, moments of crisis, caustic resistance to the very idea of conservation, glorious philanthropy, a steep learning curve, and responsibilities for guardianship passed with care from one generation to the next. Despite the involvement of men of great wealth and fame from its earliest beginnings, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission faced an early and ongoing struggle to arrange financial support from both the New York and New Jersey state governments for a park that would cross state lines. ...

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Autor: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Número de Páginas: 1480

Mère Russie

Autor: Robert Littell

Número de Páginas: 190

Moscou, années 1970. Professionnel de l’arnaque et de la débrouille, Robespierre Pravdine navigue à vue dans un pays hanté par la paranoïa et le spectre du goulag. Son projet du moment ? Implanter le coton-tige dans la Russie soviétique. Mais le KGB l’a à l’œil depuis qu’il a entrepris d’aider sa voisine, surnommée Mère Russie, à confondre un plagiaire détenteur du prix Nobel de littérature. Lorsqu’il se retrouve pris au piège d’un dangereux jeu politique, Pravdine comprend qu’il pourrait bien y laisser sa peau...

Le Dernier des Justes - Prix Goncourt 1959

Autor: André Schwarz-bart

Número de Páginas: 301

En 1943, Ernie Levy est au seuil du camp de concentration de Drancy. Il est le dernier maillon d'une très longue lignée de Justes, commencée au douzième siècle. Et si, finalement, la mort ne pouvait rien contre celui qui parvint toujours à transmettre l'étincelle de vie ? Le dernier des Justes est un roman d'une rare intensité sur l'histoire et le destin du peuple juif.

Global Politics

Autor: Abraham Ben-zvi , Aharon Klieman

Número de Páginas: 420

The essays in this volume discuss and assess the philosophies and writings of Professor David Vital. They aim to develop his work within modern diplomacy, issues relating to modern Jewish history, and within the State of Israel and its conduct of foreign relations.

The Good Son

Autor: Christopher Andersen

Número de Páginas: 368

Like many parents and children, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and JFK Jr. shared an intense, tender, and often tempestuous bond. It was, quite simply, the most important relationship in John's life. With riveting insight, Andersen reveals how mother and son influenced, challenged, and supported each other through good times and bad, unveiling startling new details about a family we thought we already knew: John's reaction to his mother's bout with suicidal depression and growing dependence on prescription drugs; the surreal and ultimately catastrophic impact of the Onassis years; the premonitions that terrified Jackie about John's fate; Jackie's success at keeping John away from his hellraising cousins, and his complicated relationship with the rest of the clan; the power she wielded over his affairs with Madonna, Sarah Jessica Parker, Daryl Hannah, and others; how John privately handled the scandalous revelations about his parents' marriage; the secrets about John's own turbulent marriage and his senseless death. Bittersweet, provocative, thoughtful and inspiring, this is the often heartbreaking tale of two lives tested by history and tragedy.--From publisher description.

The Espionage Filmography

Autor: Paul Mavis

Número de Páginas: 471

From Sean Connery to Roy Rogers, from comedy to political satire, films that include espionage as a plot device run the gamut of actors and styles. More than just "spy movies," espionage films have evolved over the history of cinema and American culture, from stereotypical foreign spy themes, to patriotic star features, to the Cold War plotlines of the sixties, and most recently to the sexy, slick films of the nineties. This filmography comprehensively catalogs movies involving elements of espionage. Each entry includes release date, running time, alternate titles, cast and crew, a brief synopsis, and commentary. An introduction analyzes the development of these films and their reflection of the changing culture that spawned them.

The Films of the Eighties

Autor: Robert A. Nowlan

Número de Páginas: 869

The 1980s had more than its share of both emerging stars and final tributes paid to luminaries, as well as smash hits and bombs, memorable and boring performances, and new trends and tried-and-true formula offerings. The Film of the Eighties includes numerous examples of all of these. Each entry has the year of release, production company, country of origin (U.S., U.K., Australian, Canadian), leading performers and the characters they portrayed, and comprehensive credits. A brief description, review, and evaluation of the film's cinematic values (if any) are also provided.

Studies in Intelligence, Journal of the American Intelligence Professional, V. 53, No. 4 (December 2009)

Autor: Center For The Study Of Intelligence (u.s.) , Andres Vaart

Número de Páginas: 100

Provides sections on: historical perspectives; intelligence today and tomorrow; and intelligence in public media. Includes several book reviews. The cover article is by Terrence J. Finnegan and is about "Military Intelligence at the Front, 1914-1918."

Studies in Intelligence

Número de Páginas: 552

The Wounded World

Autor: Chad L. Williams

Número de Páginas: 330

Named A Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography A MAAH Stone Book Award Finalist The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I—and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers. When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to “close ranks” and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Seeking both intellectual clarity and personal atonement, for more than two decades Du Bois attempted to write the definitive history of Black participation in World War I. His book, however, remained unfinished. In The Wounded World, Chad Williams offers the dramatic account of Du Bois’s failed efforts to complete what would have been one of his most significant works. The surprising story of this unpublished book offers new insight into Du Bois’s struggles to reckon with both the history and the troubling memory of the war, along with the broader...

Cincinnati Magazine

Número de Páginas: 120

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

University of Michigan Official Publication

Número de Páginas: 36

Military Review

Número de Páginas: 710

The Cigarette Century

Autor: Allan M. Brandt

Número de Páginas: 733

The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. And no product has received such sustained scientific scrutiny. The development of new medical knowledge demonstrating the dire harms of smoking ultimately shaped the evolution of evidence-based medicine. In response, the tobacco industry engineered a campaign of scientific disinformation seeking to delay, disrupt, and suppress these studies. Using a massive archive of previously secret documents, historian Allan Brandt shows how the industry pioneered these campaigns, particularly using special interest lobbying and largesse to elude regulation. But even as the cultural dominance of the cigarette has waned and consumption has fallen dramatically in the U.S., Big Tobacco remains securely positioned to expand into new global markets. The implications for the future are vast: 100 million people died of smoking-related diseases in the 20th century; in the ...

Margaret Anglin

Autor: John Levay

Número de Páginas: 333

From Margaret Anglin's birth in 1876 in the Speaker's suite of the Canadian House of Commons, to her death in Toronto in 1958, Margaret Anglin: A Stage Life is a lively biography researched from personal sources and theatre periodicals of the times. Author John Le Vay gives us glimpses of the rich and colourful personal life behind the stage persona. Called ""Canada's greatest actress"" by Herbert Whittaker, Margaret Anglin succeeded in winning critical acclaim for her sensitive portrayals in Shakespearean comedy and Greek tragedy. In more contemporary productions she was praised for her work with actor-managers James O'Neill, E.H. Sothern, Richard Mansfield, and Henry Miller, and playwrights Somerset Maugham, H.A. Jones, and Paul Kester.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures

Autor: Greg Barnhisel

Número de Páginas: 830

Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the way in which the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. To do so, in addition to more 'traditional' sources it uses institutions like MFA programs, university literature departments, book-review sections of newspapers, publishing houses, non-governmental cultural agencies, libraries, and literary magazines as a way to understand works of the period differently. Broad in both their geographical range and the range of writers they cover, the book's essays examine works of mainstream American literary fiction from writers such as Roth, Updike and Faulkner, as well as moving beyond the U.S. and the U.K. to detail how writers and readers from countries including, but not limited to, Taiwan, Japan, Uganda, South Africa, India, Cuba, the USSR, and the Czech Republic engaged with and contributed to Anglo-American literary texts and institutions.

Joseph Conrad

Autor: Martin Ray

Número de Páginas: 241

These 60 recollections present some of the many facets of Conrad the writer, the adventurer and the recluse, the Polish gallant and the neurotic modernist, the Edwardian country gentleman and the penniless beggar.

Anton Chekhov

Autor: Victor Emeljanow

Número de Páginas: 542

This set comprises forty volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first sixty-eight volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction

Autor: Rough Guides

Número de Páginas: 324

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. Complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptions, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams ...all the evidence that counts

The Author's Toolkit

Autor: Mary Embree

Número de Páginas: 175

All writers yearn for success and recognition. And now we are entering a golden era in which self-publishers are in the driver’s seat. In The Author’s Toolkit, aspiring authors, students, and even established writers will find the resources they need to achieve their goals and avoid common writer pitfalls. Updated and expanded to cover the changes in copyright fees and registration, the newest developments in electronic publishing, the growth of ebooks and print on demand, and tips for using social media for promotion and community, this detailed guide offers advice on every step of the writing and publishing process. Readers will learn how to: •Develop and research fiction and nonfiction ideas •Find a “hook” to attract reader interest •Organize a plot and delineate characters •Format for print and ebook readers •Find an agent •Understand literary contracts •Market and promote a finished book •Obtain backing such as crowdfunding Written in an informative and easy-to-understand style, this guide is a treasure chest of resources and tools for writers seeking professional advice. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of...

Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Autor: Stuart N. Clarke , Stephen Barkway

Número de Páginas: 876

Many previously undiscovered letters from Virginia Woolf have come to light since the original six-volume Collected Letters was published between 1975 and 1980. Over 1,400 are included in this vital new book, illuminating facets of Woolf’s life that have previously been hidden or only glimpsed. Important letters to contemporary writers, such as Stella Benson, Rebecca West, Lyn Lloyd Irvine and Berta Ruck, have been unearthed from archives, as well as fifty letters to T. S. Eliot. This book also features substantial collections of letters to Lady Colefax, Winifred Holtby, Mary Hutchinson, Christabel McLaren (Lady Aberconway) and Raymond Mortimer, as well as previously unrecorded correspondents. Through these letters we see Woolf encouraging would-be authors and negotiating with editors, literary agents and foreign translators in her role as a professional writer. The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf provides extraordinary insight into the variety of acquaintance of one of the most fascinating literary figures of the twentieth century.

Quarterly Review of Military Literature

Número de Páginas: 116

Professional Journal of the United States Army

Número de Páginas: 710

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Autor: Tom Dalzell , Terry Victor

Número de Páginas: 15065

Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the ...

The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction

Autor: Catherine Ross Nickerson

Número de Páginas: 207

This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.

Quiller Solitaire

Autor: Adam Hall

Número de Páginas: 297

Quiller's survival skills have never been so crucial as in this eerily prophetic mission torn from today's headlines. Standing over the smoldering corpse of the agent he had sworn to protect, Quiller vows to make things right. The killer's trail leads to a terrorist network targeting the next American flight out of Berlin. But what are their plans for this flight, and why are they trying so desperately to get their hands on a nuclear weapon…?

The Great War in American and British Cinema, 1918–1938

Autor: Ryan Copping

Número de Páginas: 205

This book recounts the reception of selected films about the Great War released between 1918 and 1938 in the USA and Great Britain. It discusses the role that popular cinema played in forming and reflecting public opinion about the War and its political and cultural aftermath in both countries. Although the centenary has produced a wide number of studies on the memorialisation of the Great War in Britain and to a lesser degree the USA, none of them focused on audience reception in relation to the Anglo-American ‘circulatory system’ of Trans-Atlantic culture.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Autor: John Donald Wade , M. Thomas Inge

Número de Páginas: 432

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870) was a lawyer, judge, state senator, newspaper editor, minister, political propagandist, and college president. He was also a writer who published one of Georgia's first important literary works in 1835, Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, Etc. in the First Half Century of the Republic. John Donald Wade's biography of Longstreet was first published in 1924 but was out of print during most of Wade's lifetime. In this 1969 reissue, M. Thomas Inge provides a bibliography of Wade's published work in addition to an introduction. As Inge notes, this biography was one of the first attempts to assess the cultural background of southern literature and it was the first real effort to investigate the nature of southwestern humor. In the opening chapter Wade announces his theme by saying that the history of Longstreet becomes “an epitome, in some sense, of American civilization.” The biography gradually narrows to a southern focus and as Inge remarks, Wade attempts “to take a panoramic view of the psyche of an entire society through one representative figure.”

The Rotarian

Número de Páginas: 64

Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White

Autor: George Hutchinson

Número de Páginas: 566

By restoring interracial dimensions left out of accounts of the Harlem Renaissance--or blamed for corrupting it--George Hutchinson transforms our understanding of black (and white) literary modernism, interracial literary relations, and twentieth-century cultural nationalism in the United States.

Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States

Autor: United States. Congress. House. Special Committee On Un-american Activities (1938-1944)

Número de Páginas: 812

Co-opting the PLO

Autor: Peter Ezra Weinberger

Número de Páginas: 192

Co-opting the PLO analyzes the Oslo Accords, the interim self-government agreements signed between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, using a theoretical framework based on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Michael Hardt. Guided by these theoretical insights, Weinberger puts forth an innovative and provocative argument about Israel's simultaneous empowerment and disempowerment of its Palestinian partners-in-peace.