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In the follow up to The Cultural Detective, Faking It in Bangkok, and Fear and Loathing in Bangkok, Moore pays caring and critical homage to his residence of choice by diagnosing some of Thailand’s discontents and offering subtle remedies for readers to tease out. The essays in The Age of Dis-Consent...

Le déclin du pamphlet s'explique tant par une fréquente faiblesse de plume, un propos souvent sectaire et les lois bridant de telles formes d'expression. Aujourd'hui méprisé, on ne peut oublier la qualité et la portée de certains textes qu'il a généré....

Dans son livre-témoignage, Sandra Derevers nous raconte la maltraitance psychologique et la négligence d’une mère envers sa fille, dans un milieu parisien aisé. L’auteure nous fait part de sa stupeur face à l’indifférence quasi générale...

Face aux défis du siècle, le progrès scientifique peut-il encore être une réponse ? On voit aujourd'hui l'émergence d'une nouvelle approche de la recherche et de l'innovation, soucieuse de répondre aux enjeux sociaux et environnementaux. Partout dans le monde, laboratoires, entreprises...

The Blaine House in Augusta is one of Maine's most notable homes. In 1862, three decades after the house was built by Capt. James Hall in the early 1830s, James and Harriet Blaine moved in. The home became the setting for one of the most meteoric careers in American politics, during which James Blaine...

As South Dakotans endured the Great Depression and developing Dust Bowl in 1932, they elected a cowboy as their governor. Tom Berry rode in the great, iconic 1902 cattle roundup ordered by President Theodore Roosevelt. He established the successful Double X ranch next to the Badlands. Big voiced and...

Helen Titchen Beeth interviewed by Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Beecroft. Helen Titchen Beeth is an evolutionary leader operating at the heart of Europe as a linguist and change consultant in the European Union Commission Headquarters in Brussels. She is a committed European and describes herself as a...

In 2010, the governor of Arizona signed a controversial immigration bill (SB 1070) that led to a news media frenzy, copycat bills in twenty-two states, and a U.S. Supreme Court battle that put Arizona at the cross-hairs of the immigration debate. Arizona Firestorm brings together well-respected experts...

Introduction Stealing paintings from museums is not a new phenomenon. The practice has gone on for centuries but various factors saw a rise in art theft during the last century. The theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 raised many issues of museum security and sentencing issues. The outbreak of...

உலகில் ஒரு மூலையில் உள்ள தகவல்களை ஓரிடத்திலிருந்து மற்றொரிடத்திற்கு மைக்ரோ செகண்டுகளில் கொண்டு வந்து சேர்த்த...

Pennsylvania Elections provides a systematic and thorough analysis of every statewide election in Pennsylvania since 1950. The five chapters are divided between U.S. Senate elections, gubernatorial contests, statewide row offices, and presidential campaigns. Each of the 106 elections that have taken...

Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle between conservative and liberal politics.

Rien ne destinait l'auxiliaire de justice qu'était Claude Renaud à se métamorphoser en voyou, en délinquant à col blanc. Pourtant, c'est ce qu'il fit !   Puisque rien ne semblait pouvoir arrêter la spirale dans laquelle il se complaisait, son séjour au sein de ce fleuron...

Defending Equality is a book about the fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States and around the world. It is no secret that LGBTQ people are not treated with dignity and respect by many and must... More > fight for their rights as human beings, they always have had to. This book shows the history of the movement and what is next in the fight