A look at the deaths of several famous people throughout history and the circumstances surrounding those deaths.
History
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Auteur:Byrne, DavidSommaire:A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history.
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Auteur:Gyasi, YaaSommaire:Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of...
- Auteur:Ping, WilliamSommaire:
The hilarious and heartbreaking story of two William Pings in Newfoundland--the lost millennial and the grandfather he knows nothing about William Ping's millennial life revolves around eating at restaurants, posting online about eating...
- Auteur:Bond, MartynSommaire:
In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, with no borders, a common currency, and a...
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Auteur:Meltzer, BradSommaire:Everyone loves a good mystery. And the only thing people love more than a good mystery? A real mystery. This book, based on the popular History Channel show Decoded, explores history's ten greatest conspiracies. Each chapter explores a...
- Auteur:Marsan, Jean-SébastienSommaire:
Après le tome I de l'Histoire populaire de l'amour au Québec, portrait des mœurs des Premières Nations et de la Nouvelle-France, ce second tome couvre un siècle, de la Conquête en 1760 à l'orée de la décennie 1860. Aux...
- Auteur:Moal, Frédéric LeSommaire:
Qu'est-ce que le fascisme ? Cette question ne cesse de se poser aux historiens avec la même force qu'elle le faisait aux contemporains de Mussolini. Fut-il un mouvement réactionnaire, conservateur ou révolutionnaire ? Se situait-il...
- Auteur:Düppe, TillSommaire:
Notre héritage culturel regorge d'idées à propos de l'économie et, aujourd'hui encore, les débats font rage sur le rôle et les mérites respectifs de l'argent et de la richesse, sur la justice et l'égalité des...
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Auteur:Goldstone, LawrenceSommaire:This book takes listeners inside the world of the brave men and women who popularized flying through their deadly stunts and paved the way for modern aviation.
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Auteur:Shetterly, Margot LeeSommaire:The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle...
- Auteur:Shutt, Timothy BakerSommaire:
Kenyon College professor, Timothy B. Shutt delivers a course that will examine the foundations of Western Civilization. Through literature that has survived the ages, this course will look at the culture of the ancient Hebrews, Greeks,...
- Auteur:Madden, Thomas F.Sommaire:
Saint Louis University professor Thomas Madden delivers a series of lectures exploring all facets of the Inquisition, including the religious and political climate of its time and the Inquisition's relationship to heresy and reformation...
- Auteur:Scott, EmmetSommaire:
Over the centuries the figure of the Queen of Sheba has loomed large in poetry and romance. The mysterious Queen, who is said to have visited Solomon in Jerusalem, has cast her spell over poets, painters and storytellers of many lands....
- Auteur:Rhodes-Pitts, SharifaSommaire:
As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy. Drawing on Harlem's history and her own observations, Rhodes-Pitts introduces a variety of observers who shared...
- Auteur:Battery RadioSommaire:
Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now? How different were the sounds that they heard? And can we tune into their auditory world? Tracking down ancient sounds that still exist, evoking some which have...
- Auteur:Cole, JoshSommaire:
The quarter century that followed the end of the Second World War was marked by intense social and economic transformation: the changing face of postwar capitalism, a revolution in communications technology, the rise of youth culture,...
- Auteur:Delory, BarbaraSommaire:
This pocket-sized handbook contains 103 essays and 126 photos of historical structures: personal residences, iconic businesses and selected landmarks in downtown Halifax. The architecture, historical past, contemporary usage and...
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Auteur:Barbier, FredericSommaire:Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication ' what we call the media. In this book, historian Frederic Barbier provides an important new economic, political and...
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Auteur:Diamond, Jared M.Sommaire:Most of this work deals with non-Europeans, but Diamond's thesis sheds light on why Western civilization became hegemonic: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not...
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