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L'affaire Gerald Bull: les canons de l'Apocalypse
By Normand Lester, Yvon Simard. 1991
L'auteur a été le premier à révéler, après la mort de Gerard Bull, que ce dernier travaillait à un projet…
de canon géant d'une technologie révolutionnaire et que sa participation au programme irakien de missiles avait sans doute provoqué son assassinat. 1991.Le défi mondial
By Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. 1980
Un petit groupe d'hommes détient les richesses du monde, des millions d'êtres humains sont affamés et la société industrielle des…
pays développés a perdu la maîtrise du pétrole. Du choc de ces trois univers surgira un désastre ou jaillira une flamme; Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber nous en parle. 1980.Le régiment de Maisonneuve vers la victoire, 1944-1945
By Gérard Marchand. 1980
Voici le récit des péripéties vécues par les soldats du Régiment de Maisonneuve durant la phase la plus meurtrière de…
la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Vous revivrez de l'intérieur les drames et les joies de ces combattants dont la vie ne tenait qu'à un fil. 1980.One soldier: a Canadian soldier's fight against the Islamic State
By Dillon Hillier, Russell Hillier. 2016
Dillon Hillier, a corporal with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, returned home from a tour in Afghanistan and started…
up a normal life. But when ISIS insurgents began attacking local populations in Iraq and elsewhere, Hillier, a long-time soldier, felt he had to join in the action, so he sold his truck, lied to his parents about where he was going and became the first Canadian to volunteer to fight ISIS in Iraq. For three months, Dillon accompanied the Kurdish army as they fought a series of battles against the Islamic State throughout northern Iraq. During his mission, Dillon saw combat, experienced life in the trenches, partnered with a former US Marine, had a bounty placed on his head and learned an important truth: that in the chaos of war, the difference between life and death is measured in inches, and some things can never be forgotten. 2016.Open road to faraway: escapes from Nazi POW camps, 1941-1945
By Andrew Winton. 2001
The story of an Edinburgh art teacher who was shot down at night over Frankfurt in September 1941. There began…
four years of captivity in Nazi POW camps, escapes and constant danger in Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Longing for freedom, with courage and determination, he survived hunger, cold and beatings - even a spell in Buchenwald - to give evidence at Nuremberg. 2001.One soldier's story: a memoir
By Robert J Dole. 2005
Former senator from Kansas describes his enlistment into the elite U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division as a lieutenant during World…
War II. Chronicles the April 14, 1945, battle in Italy that paralyzed him, his long recovery, first marriage, and entry into civilian life and the political sphere. Bestseller. 2005.On ne prête pas qu'aux riches: la révolution du microcrédit
By Maria Nowak. 2005
L'affirmation " on ne prête qu'aux riches " a fait son temps. Le succès du microcrédit le prouve. Dans le…
monde, 60 millions de personnes sont sorties de l'exclusion et de la misère grâce au microcrédit. En France, des milliers d'entreprises ont été créées grâce à des prêts qui ne dépassent pas 5 000 euros. Quand on prête de l'argent aux exclus du système bancaire, non seulement ceux-ci retrouvent le goût de l'initiative et la confiance en eux-mêmes, mais ils remboursent mieux que les autres. Prêter aux démunis ne relève plus de la charité publique mais de l'activité financière. Pour y arriver, les militants de la microfinance ont dû briser d'extraordinaires préjugés. Aujourd'hui, cette nouvelle perspective - et sa réussite - permet de sortir du débat sans issue opposant un État providence, qui n'est pas en mesure de protéger tout le monde, à la logique brutale du capitalisme.One bullet for me: A Woman's Journey Through The Horror Of Ww Ii
By Magdalene Krüger Klinksiek, Janet M Hixon. 1996
Occupy World Street: a global roadmap for radical economic and political reform
By J. T. Ross Jackson. 2012
As demonstrators worldwide demand change, Jackson offers a vision of how to reform our global economic and political structures, break…
away from empire, and build a world of self-determining sovereign states that respect the need for ecological sustainability and uphold human rights. He describes how a handful of small nations could take on a leadership role; create new alliances, new governance, and new global institutions; and, in cooperation with grassroots activists, pave the way for other nations to follow suit. c2012.Most of the writing on global warming is by scientists, academics, environmentalists, and journalists. Kevin Taft, a former leader of…
the opposition in Alberta, brings a fresh perspective through the insight he gained as an elected politician who had an insider's eyewitness view of the role of the oil industry. His answer, in brief: The oil industry has captured key democratic institutions in both Alberta and Ottawa. Taft begins his book with a perceptive observer's account of a recent court case in Ottawa which laid bare the tactics and techniques of the industry, its insiders and lobbyists. He casts dramatic new light on exactly how corporate lobbyists, politicians, bureaucrats, universities, and other organizations are working together to pursue the oil industry's agenda. He offers a brisk tour of the recent work of scholars who have developed the concepts of the deep state and institutional capture to understand how one rich industry can override the public interest. Taft views global warming and weakened democracy as two symptoms of the same problem--the loss of democratic institutions to corporate influence and control. He sees citizen engagement and direct action by the public as the only response that can unravel big oil's deep state. 2017.La guerre dans ma cour: récit autobiographique ((Boréal junior ; 34). #Vol. 34)
By Kees Vanderheyden. 1994
Pour un enfant insouciant, la guerre ressemble parfois à un jeu.Mais ce livre est aussi une prise de conscience des…
drames effrayants que les conflits entraînent. Un témoignage important en cette époque où, aux quatre coins du monde, des enfants innocents côtoient quotidiennement la guerre et la mort. Années 3-6. 1994.No time to wave goodbye
By Ben Wicks. 1988
On 1st September 1939, in Britain, hundreds of thousands of children made their way to the railway station. In the…
homes of "borrowed parents", they listened as the Prime Minister declared war with Germany. This book serves as a record of the evacuated children whose lives were changed forever. 1988.No logo: taking aim at the brand bullies
By Naomi Klein. 2000
As big companies such as McDonald's, Nike and Wal-mart keep getting bigger, consumers are becoming more wary of their attempts…
to force ready-to-wear lifestyles upon us. Klein discusses the growth of the corporate logo, and the resistance to the attempts of the big companies to move into every aspect of our lives. 2000.Night (Recorded Books contemporary classics)
By Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel. 2006
Night offers a personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of…
14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet. Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the townspeople refuse to believe rumours of anti-Semitic atrocities. Not until they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's "reception centre" does the terrible truth sink in. 2006. Uniform title: Un di ṿelṭ hoṭ geshṿign.Next: petit livre sur la globalisation et le monde à venir
By Alessandro Baricco, Françoise Brun. 2002
Ce livre est né en 2001 lors du G8 qui a eu lieu à Gênes. Il s'agit de quatre articles…
remaniés et enrichis qui furent précédemment publiés dans 'Repubblica'. L'auteur tente de "comprendre ce qu'est la globalisation, en se servant des contributions des experts et d'une bonne dose d'ingénuité". Un petit voyage qui n'a pas pour objectif de faire le tour de la question, mais qui arrive à démolir les idées préconçues et propose des avenues à explorer. Beaucoup d'humour, d'exemples et de compassions. 2002.New World, Inc: the making of America by England's merchant adventurers
By John Butman, Simon Targett. 2018
Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed the world's first joint stock company.…
Struggling to sell woolen cloth, the merchants sought out new markets. Eventually they turned West, and so began a whole new chapter in world history. 2018.Never quit: from Alaskan wilderness rescues to Afghanistan : firefights as an elite special ops PJ
By Don Rearden, Jimmy Settle. 2017
The true story of how Jimmy Settle, an Alaskan shoe store clerk, became a Special Forces Operator and war hero.…
After being shot in the head during a dangerous high mountain operation in the rugged Watapur Valley in Afghanistan, Jimmy returns to battle with his teammates for a dangerous rescue operation, bullet fragments stitched over and still in his skull. 2017.My childhood under fire: a Sarajevo diary
By Nadja Halilbegovićh. 2006
Halilbegovich was just 12 years old on April 6, 1992, when she was told there would be no school that…
day - not because of a holiday, but because of a war. Her diary reveals the hurt, pain, and despair brought on by the fighting within her country and describes the bombings, deaths, and destruction. Grades 4-7. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.My father, his daughter
By Yaël Dayan. 1985
Memoir by the daughter of the Israeli military hero, Moshe Dayan. She portrays him as a calculating military tactician, a…
Spartan nomad and an amateur archeologist digging in search of his own history. Some strong language. 1985.My experiences in the First World War
By John J Pershing. 1995
Then General of the Armies chronicles United States involvement in the "Great War", from Woodrow Wilson's 1917 appointment of Pershing…
to command the American Expeditionary Forces in France, through the armistice in 1918. Won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for history under the title "My Experiences in the World War". 1995. Uniform title: My experiences in the World War