Postel: 14 books

French Women Don’t Get Fat meets The Little Book of Hygge in this lively, sophisticated, and practical illustrated lifestyle guide that shows how to enjoy la belle vie—to live like the French every day—transforming your house into a home defined by beauty, family, and accessible elegance. How...

We have disrupted the natural water cycle for centuries in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Yet every year, recovery from droughts and floods costs billions of dollars, and we spend billions more on dams, diversions, levees, and other feats of engineering.These massive projects not...

The conventional approach to river protection has focused on water quality and maintaining some "minimum" flow that was thought necessary to ensure the viability of a river. In recyears, however, scientific research has underscored the idea that the ecological health of a river system depends not...

« Je pensais qu’en vieillissant, l’ombre de ce que j’ai vécu pendant la guerre s’estomperait, que j’oublierais un peu. J’ai l’impression que c’est le contraire : soixante-dix ans après mon retour, ce passé est de plus en plus présent en moi. J’ai perdu mon sommeil d’enfant...

An in-depth study of American social movements after the Civil War and their lessons for today by a prizewinning historian The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality—in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women’s rights activists, farmhands, and factory workers...

The United States is on the brink of intervention in Syria, but the effect of any eventual American action is impossible to predict. The Syrian conflict has killed more than 100,000 people and displaced millions, yet most observers warn that the worst is still to come. And the international community...

For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper sanitation and each year four million children die of water-borne diseases. As most of the world?s major...

Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without...

In the late nineteenth century, monumental technological innovations like the telegraph and steam power made America and the world a much smaller place. New technologies also made possible large-scale organization and centralization. Corporations grew exponentially and the rich amassed great fortunes....

As the Middle East descends ever deeper into violence and chaos, 'sectarianism' has become a catch-all explanation for the region's troubles. The turmoil is attributed to 'ancient sectarian differences', putatively primordial forces that make violent conflict intractable. In media and policy discussions,...

This book argues that the G20 is neither a global executive board for a new world order, nor is it just a crisis unit for failing economies. It is a laboratory for the observation, experimentation and invention of new forms of international cooperation that are redefining global politics.

At the age of twenty-four, Penny was bored. She was bored with her job, her home life, and even the men she knew. She was looking for adventure and a more exciting kind of male companion. She thought she saw such a male in Paul Lagarde, who had a reputation as one of the world's greatest lovers....

À l'occasion de l'entrée au Panthéon de Geneviève de Gaulle Anthonioz (1920-2002), sa mère, et de Germaine Tillion (1907-2008), Isabelle Anthonioz-Gaggini nous livre les échanges inédits de ces deux femmes d'exception, résistantes, déportées, qui toute leur vie luttèrent pour le devoir...

La reproduction inédite du témoignage de Germaine Tillion au procès de Ravensbrück. À Hambourg, le 5 décembre 1946, s'ouvre le procès de Ravensbrück auquel Germaine Tillion (1907-2008) assiste en tant que représentante de l'ensemble des déportées résistantes françaises. Quinze ans avant...