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Searching for Sofia: a tale of murder, obsession and war
By John Nadler. 2003
When Gjorg returns to his home in Kosovo, he finds that many people are missing and rumoured to be murdered.…
His girlfriend is also torn away from him because he is Albanian and she is Serbian. When Gjorg meets John Nadler, he asks for help in finding his lost love. Some descriptions for violence. 2003.Santé l'heure des choix
By Claude Castonguay. 2012
Celui qu'on désigne comme le père de l'assurance maladie examine notre système public de santé aujourd'hui et ne reconnaît plus…
son enfant. Toujours aussi attaché aux valeurs de solidarité, d'universalité et d'équité qui le guidaient dans les années 70, il invite ici à un constat très sévère sur la façon dont les soins sont prodigués au Québec. Force est de constater que notre système de santé connaît de sérieux problèmes. Il ne fonctionne pas comme il devrait eu égard aux besoins des Québécois et aux énormes ressources que nous y consacrons. Le Québec ne peut plus se permettre d'investir chaque année des dizaines de milliards, en fait pratiquement la moitié du budget du gouvernement, sans objectifs et sans obligation de résultats, sans progrès réels. 2012.Saving Italy: the race to rescue a nation's treasures from the Nazis
By Robert M Edsel. 2013
Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and…
art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy's culture. Companion to "The Monuments Men". 2013.Same-sex unions in premodern Europe
By John Boswell. 1994
Boswell claims that in ancient and medieval times there were official ceremonies for couples of the same sex that were…
similar to the marriage ceremony. He analyzes the concepts and vocabulary of love and marriage in the context of different societies, from the Greco-Roman world to sixteenth-century Europe, and compares the rituals for conventional marriage with the ceremonies in the texts he has discovered. 1994.Robespierre
By Pierre Klossowski, Friedrich Sieburg, Michel Vovelle. 2003
Une évocation puissante d'une des grandes figures de la Révolution française, dans un style direct, haletant, quasi romanesque. Michel Vovelle,…
dans une remarquable préface, le situant parmi les nombreuses études consacrées à Robespierre, souligne l'originalité de ce livre de 1935, rédigé par un Allemand hanté par la figure de la dictature, qu'il n'hésite pas à comparer à "La mort de Danton" de Buchner. 2003. Titre uniforme: Robespierre, eine Biographie.Rêves à vendre ou Troisième calepin du même flâneur
By Félix Leclerc. 1984
René Lévesque: 4. L'homme brisé, 1980-1987
By Pierre Godin. 2005
Ce quatrième et dernier volet de la grande biographie de René Lévesque s'ouvre le surlendemain du référendum perdu de mai…
1980. Cet échec, René Lévesque allait le payer très cher. Après leur face-à-face de novembre 1981, Pierre Trudeau lui impose une constitution si inacceptable qu'il refuse de la parapher. René Lévesque affronte ensuite un parti déboussolé qui enterre référendum et association avec le Canada. En 1984, il saisit la main tendue par le nouveau premier ministre canadien, Brian Mulroney. Il est prêt à donner une dernière chance au fédéralisme. C'est l'épisode du " beau risque " qui cristallise la scission à l'intérieur du parti. En janvier 1985, c'est le burnout et la détresse psychologique. À soixante ans, il paraît fini. Dans une ambiance de conspiration et de révolution de palais, il s'accroche jusqu'au jour où il jette l'éponge avant que le parti qu'il a mis au monde ne lui indique plus brutalement encore la sortie. 2005.Saint-Simon, ou, L'encre de la subversion (L'infini)
By Cécile Guilbert. 1994
Bien plus qu'un historien, Saint-Simon a été un écrivain qui a fait l'histoire. C'est ce qu'affirme l'auteure dans cet essai…
inspiré d'un de ses écrits intitulé "Mémoires." Elle montre que Saint-Simon convoquait la littérature comme stratégie de subversion. 1994.Russian: The complete course II; Part B (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 1998
Russian: The complete course I; Part B (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 2001
Russian: The complete course II; Part A (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 1998
Russian: The complete course I; Part A (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 2001
Biography of A.M. Nicolson who, along with T.C. Douglas and Stanley Knowles, established the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation and its successor,…
the New Democratic Party. As a young minister, Nicolson realized that the only way to alleviate the social injustices he witnessed was through political action. c1988.Hertig asserts that both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon's unprecedented plans to…
weaponize space, about the new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile build-ups, and about the destruction of important, long-standing arms control agreements. Other topics covered are why the so-called U.S. missile "defence" system is really about establishing a U.S. first-strike-from-space capability, why both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper want to join in George W. Bush's program, and how all these factors may be leading to a rapidly increasing danger of a nuclear apocalypse. 2004.Russia against Napoleon: the battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
By D. C. B Lieven. 2009
In the summer of 1812 after years of uneasy peace, Napoleon, the master of almost the whole continent, marched into…
Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Less than two years later the Russian army was itself marching into Paris and Napoleon's empire lay in ruins. Using an array of new, rare and surprising sources, Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of Europe. 2009.Russia: people and empire, 1552-1917
By Geoffrey A Hosking. 1997
Traces the history of Russia as a nation and an empire up to the year 1917. Asserts that the economic…
and political processes of state building impeded the development of a sense of national identity and cohesiveness among the Russian people. 1997.Rome, Inc: the rise and fall of the first multinational corporation
By Stanley Bing. 2006
Bing chronicles the great city of Rome from its humble beginnings to its monumental collapse due to greed, in-fighting and…
general mismanagement. "Rome, Inc." then becomes a powerful lesson for business leaders, documenting the many dos and don'ts of a successful corporation. 2006.Rogue tory: the life and legend of John G. Diefenbaker
By Denis Smith. 1995
Biography of John Diefenbaker, one of the most enigmatic public figues in Canadian history. The author charts Diefenbaker's career as…
a lawyer on the Prairies, his entry into politics, and his controversial years as Prime Minister. Some strong language. 1995.Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution
By Simon Schama. 2005
Chronicles the mass emancipation of slaves in the American colonies - by Britain - beginning in 1775, when Virginia governor…
Lord Dunmore promised freedom for slaves who bore arms against the rebels. Describes the flight of tens of thousands to British-controlled territory and their resettlement in Nova Scotia and later in Sierra Leone. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration
By Antonia Fraser. 1979