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Sous la forme d'une visite guidée, originale et fantasque, Tatiana de Rosnay invite les auditeurs à pénétrer les « territoires intimes » d'Émile Zola, l'un des écrivains qui a le plus compté pour elle. Au cours de ce voyage sensible, elle nous entraîne sur ses traces, dans les lieux où il a vécu, mais aussi à travers son processus d'écriture et son imaginaire, et nous révèle ainsi les sources de son inspiration.

Faire découvrir Louis XIV à un public qui pense déjà connaître le Roi Soleil des manuels scolaires, voilà tout l'enjeu et la richesse de cette biographie. Loin de l'image du monarque décidant de tout, tout seul, l'historien dépeint un homme entouré tout au long de sa vie par d'importants hommes d'État, à l'image de Mazarin éduquant l'enfant-roi, et rappelle que l'exercice du pouvoir, fut-il absolu, est aussi une œuvre collective. En dressant le portrait du monarque, c'est aussi celui de la société française du XVIIe siècle qu'esquisse Stéphane Guerre.

Described as the 'most beautiful princess in Europe', and a woman 'capable of arousing profane passion', this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity.

Carthage was one of the great ancient civilizations, and at its peak, the wealthy Carthaginian empire dominated the Mediterranean against the likes of Greece and Rome, with commercial enterprises and influence stretching from Spain to Turkey.

A ventinove anni Antonio Megalizzi, "il Mega" per gli amici, si batteva per unire le due grandi passioni della sua vita, l'Europa e il giornalismo, mettendo nel lavoro tutto il suo contagioso entusiasmo. Quel sogno si è spento il 14 dicembre 2018, pochi giorni dopo la strage di Strasburgo in cui Antonio era stato colpito dai proiettili di un estremista.

Holocaust survivor Harry Gordon recalls in brutal detail the anguished years of his youth, a youth spent struggling to survive in a Lithuanian concentration camp. A memoir about hope and resilience, The Shadow of Death describes the invasion of Kovno by the Red Army and the impact of Soviet occupation from the perspective of the ghetto's weakest and poorest class. It also serves as a reminder that the Germans were not alone responsible for the persecution and extermination of Jews.

Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. What none of these people knew was that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large Orthodox Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. By using her charm, intelligence, blonde hair, and blue eyes to assume different identities, she was the only member of her family to survive World War II.

She was a wife, mother, teacher, and the first civilian to fly into space, but Christa’s dream tragically ended on a cold January day with the needless explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

A Legacy to Remember: Recollections of a Common Man is the story of a man who rose above all odds stacked against him. The Great Depression, divorced parents, living in poverty, World War II, the death of a child, divorce, etc.—commonly known occurrences many individuals in American history have faced. Many people would have been bitter having lived through such tragedies. But not Duard Vinson Gillum!

Die Kindheit von Aharon Appelfeld endet abrupt: Kurz nach Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs wird seine Mutter erschossen. Eben noch ein behütetes Kind assimilierter Juden in Czernowitz muss er fortan um sein Leben kämpfen. Nach Monaten im Ghetto und im Lager wird er auch von seinem Vater getrennt und überlebt den Krieg als Küchenjunge der Roten Armee. Elternlos fährt er mit einem Schiff nach Palästina: ein Vierzehnjähriger, der alles verloren hat und ein zweites Leben beginnen muss.

Die spannendsten Rebellinnen der Weltgeschichte in einem Hörbuch: 49 Porträts außergewöhnlicher Frauen. Sie waren Künstlerinnen, Herrscherinnen, Wissenschaftlerinnen – oder auch Piratinnen, Räuberinnen und Betrügerinnen. Diese 49 außergewöhnlichen Frauen aus aller Welt bewirkten Erstaunliches und brachen dabei die Regeln ihrer jeweiligen Zeit: Bà Triệu, die vietnamesische Widerstandskämpferin, die zur Verteidigung der Freiheit ein eigenes Heer anführte. Soraya Tarzi, die erste Königin Afghanistans, welche die Modernisierung des Landes maßgeblich mit vorantrieb.

Médico, abogado, docente, reformador social, agrónomo y emprendedor: Juan Bialet Massé, catalán radicado en Argentina a fines del siglo XIX, fue un hombre que pareció vivir varias vidas en una. Graciela Bialet, su descendiente, reconstruye hechos de su vida a la par de brindarnos algunas pinceladas sobre las generaciones que le siguieron, en una obra que cautiva nuestra atención desde el principio.

Un profilo di un uomo straordinario. Una interpretazione originale di una delle figure più controverse della storia. Il libro è già stato tradotto e ha suscitato interesse di pubblico e di critica in Germania, Francia, Spagna, America, Brasile. Luciano Canfora insegna Filologia classica all'Università di Bari.

Martha Hughes Cannon (1857–1932) may best be known as the first female state senator in the United States, elected in Utah in 1896, nearly a quarter century before most women in the country could vote. She was also a suffragist, physician, gifted speaker, plural wife, faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and mother of three.

A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries wrought terror and destruction from the Baltic to Galicia in the early eleventh century. Thousands were put to the sword, enslaved, or ransomed. In England, Canterbury was sacked, its archbishop murdered, and London Bridge pulled down. The loot amassed from years of plunder helped Olav win the throne of Norway, and a century after his death he was proclaimed "Eternal King" and has been a national hero there ever since.

"The others form the human being, I depict him; and here I present an individual who is quite poorly formed and whom I would certainly make largely differently if I had to reshape him. But now that's the way he is." This phrase from the famous essays of Michel de Montaigne outlines the character of the author and his work. Montaigne wrote his essays not from a position of certainty but from an awareness of his inadequacy. He thus reveals a level of critical self-reflection that, before his time, was rarely put on paper.

India’s Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world’s most ambitious experiments. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning the economy was meant to be independent India’s route from poverty to prosperity. Planning Democracy explores how India married liberal democracy to a socialist economy. Planning not only built India’s data systems, it even shaped the nature of its democracy. The Five-Year Plans loomed so large that they linked surprisingly far-flung contexts—from computers to Bollywood to Hindutva.

Download The Hundred Years’ War Biography Bundle to experience the life of these four influential characters of Europe’s greatest war.

The true story of a devastating flood that destroys six-year-old Suzie Jones’s house, and calls into question everything she thought she knew about home, family, and God.

By no means prepared by birth, education, or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the sequence of English victories and re-energizing and inspiring his countrymen in the process. While others, ostensibly his betters, yielded and collaborated, Wallace set an example of constancy and perseverance and became the Guardian of Scotland. Even his terrible death in London in 1305 can be seen as a victory as it provided inspiration for the continuance of the struggle against English domination.