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By Bernard Brizay. 2008
Pour les Chinois, comme pour les Occidentaux, jamais capitale n'a autant mérité le statut de ville mythique. Résidence du Fils…
du Ciel, capitale administrative, culturelle et religieuse du plus vieux, du plus peuplé et du plus grand empire au monde, Pékin et la Cité pourpre interdite où vivait l'empereur, entouré de ses concubines et de ses eunuques, fait toujours fantasmer. Le palais impérial est resté pendant cinq cents ans le centre sacré de l'Empire, le siège du gouvernement, où s'est écrite la grande histoire, celle de la Chine. Et la petite histoire, car la Cité interdite fut aussi le lieu privilégié d'intrigues, de drames et de crimes. 2008.By Sid Marty. 1995
The legendary chinook is a warm Pacific wind that runs along the eastern slopes of Rockies. It can turn winter…
temporarily into spring, but it can also knock railway cars off their tracks. From his home in the foothills of the Rockies, Sid Marty begins a journey through Chinook Country, talking about its history and the extraordinary people he meets along the way. 1995.By Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre. 1975
By Maurice Genevoix. 2010
La passion de Maurice Genevoix pour les terres lointaines est peu connue. Pourtant, dès 1939, au Canada, il effectue un…
périple qui le conduit des rives du Saint-Laurent aux montagnes Rocheuses. Il réitère l'expérience en 1946 en visitant les pays du Maghreb et une partie de l'Afrique noire. Ses voyages lui inspirent d'abord des « carnets de route » dans lesquels il trace un portrait politique, économique, social de chaque pays. Ses analyses prémonitoires révèlent un Maurice Genevoix qu'on savait observateur et qui s'affirme fin stratège mais aussi écologiste avant même que ce mot ne figure dans le dictionnaire. 2010.By Fox Butterfield, Raymond Albeck. 1983
Par un ex-correspondant du «New York Times» à Pékin, peinture sociale de la Chine d'après Mao. Description, à travers une…
série d'anecdotes, de faits vécus, de chiffres, des dures réalités de la vie quotidienne des Chinois. Chômage, restrictions, prostitution, marché noir, et corruption politique, ont brisé l'élan révolutionnaire et amené la désillusion et l'apathie collectives. Ouvrage passionnant à lire qui détruira les derniers mythes de l'Occident face à la Chine. 1983.By Allan Casey. 2009
Blending writing on nature, travel, and science, Casey explores how the country's history and culture originates at the lakeshore. Describes…
a series of interconnected journeys by the author, punctuated by the seasons and the personalities he meets along the way including aboriginal fishery managers, fruit growers, boat captains, cottagers, and scientists. Some strong language. Winner of the 2010 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2009.By Élias Sanbar. 2013
Berceau des trois monothéismes, la Palestine est sous les feux de son actualité violente, depuis que la création de l'État…
d'Israël en 1948 l'a vue comme une terre sans peuple pour un peuple sans terre. L'histoire de la Palestine contemporaine se souvient de celle des gens de Terre sainte mais commence avec son problème. Et chacun peut sentir plus ou moins confusément que l'équilibre du monde se joue là, sur ces quelques milliers de kilomètres carrés à l'orient de la Méditerranée. À ceux qui disent ne rien comprendre au conflit israélo-palestinien, Elias Sanbar répond en restituant la continuité d'une histoire - depuis le mandat britannique à partir de 1917 jusqu'à aujourd'hui - que tant de commentaires ont souvent faussée ou étouffée. La Palestine, c'est l'histoire d'un pays absent que les Palestiniens ont emporté dans leur exil. C'est aussi le long combat qu'il leur a fallu mener pour retrouver un nom, une visibilité, une existence enfin. La Palestine d'Elias Sanbar est polychrome, terre de pluralité, des origines et des croyances. 2013.By Yasushi Inoue. 1971
By F. E Peters. 2003
New York University professor F.E. Peters delivers a course that will take you on a journey through the fascinating history…
of Jerusalem. As you explore the myriad contributions made to the city by the Jews, Christians, and Muslims, you'll come to understand why each religion reveres this holy place. 2003.By Michael A Barnhart. 1995
This text presents a survey of Japan's foreign relations since the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The author describes three searches…
for security: the search for sovereignty; the search for empire and the search for comprehensive security. 1995.By Kathy Gannon. 2005
In 1986 Kathy Gannon headed to Afghanistan as a foreign correspondent, and for the next eighteen years she witnessed its…
tragic opera: the final collapse of communism followed by bitterly feuding warlords being driven from power by the Taliban; the subsequent arrival of Arabs and exiles, among them Osama bin Laden; and the transformation of the country into the staging post for a global jihad. She also observed the terrible, unforeseen consequences of Western intervention, the ongoing suffering of ordinary Afghans, and the ability of the most corrupt of the warlords to reinvent and reinsert themselves into successive governments. Some descriptions of violence. c2005.By Erick Stakelbeck. 2015
Terrorism expert Erick Stakelbeck pulls back the curtain on ISIS, the violent terrorist organization spreading death and hate in the…
Middle East. The rise of ISIS took the White House by complete surprise: President Obama called the group "JV," then was forced to reassess when ISIS began executing innocent American journalists. Now radicalized Americans and Europeans are joining ISIS's ranks. So who is ISIS? How powerful are they? And are they a threat to the homeland? 2015.By Bettany Hughes. 2017
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three…
names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. 2017.By Martin Gilbert. 1998
Israel is a small and relatively young country, but its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the centre of…
the world stage this century. Martin Gilbert traces its history, from its beginnings with the dramatic declaration of Statehood in May 1948, through the many subsequent conflicts and political watersheds. Using contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts, drawing on his own intimate knowledge of the country and its people, the author weaves together all these dramatic events into a seamless narrative. 1998.By J. P Docherty. 1999
Explores the people, history, culture, land, and economy of this Middle Eastern country, once called Mesopotamia, which is considered the…
"cradle of civilization." Also briefly discusses its modern wars with neighbours Iran and Kuwait. Grades 5-8. c1999.By Will Ferguson. 1998
Will Ferguson's hilarious memoir of working his way across Canada with the volunteer corps Katimavik in the early 1980s. For…
a dollar a day and all the granola he can eat, Ferguson works on work sites ranging from soup kitchens to outdoor conservation trails and meets many interesting characters along the way. 1998.By Ian Buruma. 2003
Buruma traces Japan's transformation from an isolated island shogunate into an expansive military empire and then a pacified and prosperous…
democracy. Beginning with Commodore Perry's 1853 naval mission to open Japan to American traders, he follows a century of history, culminating in Douglas MacArthur's remarkable - but flawed - achievement in guiding Japan toward democracy. 2003. (Modern Library chronicles ; 11)By William Chapman. 1987
When Corazon Aquino took power in the Philippines, she quickly discovered that she had inherited Marcos' problem of domestic unrest.…
The New People's Army, the communist force in the Philippines, was established 20 years ago, and it controls at least 20 percent of the local political units. 1987.By John Keay. 2000
A five-thousand-year overview of the subcontinent from the Harappan people in the Indus Valley around 3000 B.C. to the nineteenth-century…
takeover by the British Raj. Presents a chronology of cultural and political developments that shaped the twentieth-century nations of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. c2000.By Ed Rothfarb. 1998
Traces the history of the three-hundred-year Mughal dynasty in northern India. Describes the Mughals' arrival in the fifteenth century led…
by Babur, who conquered and remained to rule. Examines the development of Islam during the interchange of cultures, as the Mughals interacted with the local Hindu traditions. For junior and senior high readers. 1998.