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Book cover of L’avenir. Des raisons d’espérer
by Louis Côté
Language: French
Release Date: March 17, 2018

Qu’en est-il de l’avenir ? Que peut-on anticiper ? Que peut-on espérer et que doit-on craindre ? Ces questions se posent aujourd’hui dans un contexte de perte de confiance dans l’avenir, si ce n’est dans les possibilités techniques qui apparaissent à certains sans limites. Cette impuissance...
Book cover of Beaumarchais, sa vie, ses écrits et son temps
by Louis de Loménie
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2017

Beaumarchais, sa vie, ses écrits et son temps est un ouvrage biographique écrit par l'homme de lettres français Louis de Loménie (1815 – 1878). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en page pour une...
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Biographical Writings

by Louis Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1995

Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), this book offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist’s multifaceted life and work—an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing. In Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Kaplan applies the Derridean deconstructivist...
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And They All Sang

Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey

by Studs Terkel, Marlan Anderson, Louis Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian talks with some of twentieth century’s most iconic musicians—“Riveting . . . Just about every interview has a revelation” (San Francisco Chronicle). Through the second half of the twentieth century, Studs Terkel hosted the legendary radio show...
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Marauder

Memoir of a B-26 Pilot in Europe in World War II

by Louis S. Rehr, Carleton R. Rehr
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012

The B-26 Marauder was a formidable weapon in the campaign to defeat Hitler’s armies, and, in the words of his first copilot, “Louis Rehr “was the best there was” flying it. This memoir, which benefits from forty years of research on the combat history of the B-26, contributions from comrades,...
Book cover of Buffalo Bill's America
by Louis S. Warren
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity? In this prize-winning biography,...
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A Voice from Old New York

A Memoir of My Youth

by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010

An “entertaining and occasionally even moving” personal recollection by the lawyer, historian, and renowned chronicler of old-money WASP society (The Boston Globe). At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss—enemy of bores, self-pity, and stale gossip—had just finished taking on a...
Book cover of La vie raisonnable de Descartes

La vie raisonnable de Descartes

Le roman des grandes existences

by Louis Dimier
Language: French
Release Date: February 19, 2015

Louis Dimier nous prévient dans sa courte préface qu'il s'ait d'une VIE de René Descartes et non un traité philosophique. Mais Descartes était au coeur des idées de son siècle. Nous le suivrons dès son enfance, en passant par le collège...
Book cover of Ce que je ne pouvais pas dire
by Jean-Louis DEBRÉ
Language: French
Release Date: April 21, 2016

Après neuf années passées à la tête du Conseil constitutionnel, Jean-Louis Debré renoue avec la liberté de ton qu'on lui connaît. Jamais on n'a autant parlé de cette institution ni mieux compris son utilité que sous sa présidence. Dans ce livre, il évoque les dossiers qu'il a eu à traiter,...
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Theodore Roosevelt

The American Presidents Series: The 26th President, 1901-1909

by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th century The American century opened with the election of that quintessentially American adventurer, Theodore Roosevelt. Louis Auchincloss's warm and knowing biography introduces us to the man behind the many myths of Theodore Roosevelt....
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by Louis Phocion Todière
Language: French
Release Date: February 17, 2015

Extrait : "Louis VII, dit le Jeune, était parvenu à l'âge de cinquante-quatre ans sans obtenir d'enfants mâle. Quoique la succession héréditaire et le droit de primogéniture ne fussent pas encore établis sur des principes certains, ce roi désirait ardemment un fils, afin de l'associer de son vivant à la couronne, avec le concours des puissants des barons de France."
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La vie paresseuse de Rivarol

« Le roman des grandes existences »

by Louis Latzarus
Language: French
Release Date: February 3, 2015

Biographie d'Antoine Rivarol par Louis Latzarus. Anroine Rivarol, était fils d'aubergiste, né en 1753, à Bagnols près d'Avignon. Cependant, il est connu dans le monde sous le nom qu'il s'est approprié : le comte de Rivarol. Sans le sou, mais très bel...
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Borrow

The American Way of Debt

by Louis Hyman
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012

In this lively history of consumer debt in America, economic historian Louis Hyman demonstrates that today’s problems are not as new as we think.   Borrow examines how the rise of consumer borrowing—virtually unknown before the twentieth century—has altered our culture and economy. Starting...
Book cover of American Capitalism
by Louis Hyman, Edward E. Baptist
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

From Cornell University Professors Louis Hyman and Edward E. Baptist, a collection of the most relevant readings on the history of capitalism in America, created to accompany their EdX course American Capitalism: A Reader. To understand the past and especially our own times, arguably no story...
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