Falling between the 'War of Movement' in 1914 and the major attrition battles of 1916, 1915 was a critical year in the First World War. As France failed in ever-larger offensives to break through the German trenches, Britain...
Europe
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Author:Prete, Roy A.Summary: - Author:García Márquez, GabrielSummary:
In these twelve stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.
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Author:Wolf, Joan M.Summary:From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she...
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Author:Durant, Will, Durant, ArielSummary:This volume centers on the passionate rebel--philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau condemned civilization as a disease, glorified the noble savage, and became the patron saint of the worldwide social upheavals of two centuries....
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Author:Peart, NeilSummary:Neil Peart is an internationally critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-nominated author, and for more than thirty years has been the legendary drummer and lyricist for Rush, the most successful band in the history of Canadian...
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Author:Peart, NeilSummary: - Author:Valiavicharska, ZhivkaSummary:
Post-Stalinism - the last three decades of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - gave birth to new political ideas and social struggles, which reshaped socialist societies and forged new global imaginaries. With a focus on...
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Author:Kacer, KathySummary:The story of the Reesers, a Jewish family who emigrated to Canada from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII. They fled the Nazis and left behind four valuable oil paintings. It would take years for the Reeser family, led by matriarch Mari...
- Author:Ulysse, CollectifSummary:
Randonnées en Europe – 50 itinéraires de rêve vous invite à partir à l'aventure dès la première page. Rédigé par des randonneurs et des passionnées de voyage, ce magnifique album se présente comme une splendide source d'inspiration et...
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Douze itinéraires de rêve pour randonner en Italie, en Espagne et dans le sud de l'Europe. Découvrez ou redécouvrez sous un nouvel angle ces paysages incroyables et partez à l'assaut de volcans ou randonnez entre montagne et mer dans...
- Author:Ulysse, CollectifSummary:
Dix itinéraires de randonnées pour découvrir la Suisse et l'Europe centrale et partir à l'aventure. Profitez ainsi des paysages magnifiques des glaciers d'Aletsch, partez à la recherche des bisons en Pologne ou encore traversez les...
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Dix idées de randonnées en France pour prendre l'air et profiter des merveilleux paysages de la France. Du Mont-blanc aux côtes bretonnes, vous trouverez tous les incontournables dans ce chapitre sur la France. Chaque itinéraire est...
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Dix-huit itinéraires de randonnées de rêve pour découvrir le nord de l'Europe, de l'Angleterre aux îles Lofoten de Norvège. On y randonne pour la beauté des paysages, la nature sauvage et la faune qu'on peut y rencontrer. Chaque...
- Author:Hirsi Ali, AyaanSummary:
Ali analyzes the regressive gender politics inherent in Islamic extremism and explains the systemic causes of sexual violence in the Muslim world. Taking on the issue of immigration, she exposes the ways Europe is failing to...
- Author:Gallant, MavisSummary:
Internationally celebrated, award-winning author Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend: an undisputed master of the short story whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequalled...
- Author:Timm, Annette F., Taylor, Michael Thomas, Herrn, Rainer, Bakker, AlexSummary:
An illuminating look at the transatlantic, transgender community that shaped the history and study of sexuality. From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created...
- Author:Carroll, LeslieSummary:
Chronicles the bad behavior of the infamous marriages of crowned heads of Europe, including Russia's Peter II and Catherine the Great, France's Henri II and Catherine de Medici, and England's Henry II and Eleanor of...
- Author:Furst, AlanSummary:
Bulgaria, 1934. The local fascists have just murdered the brother of Khristo Stoianev. Now Khristo is recruited into the NKVD--the Soviet secret police--for special service in the Spanish civil war.
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Author:Bullough, OliverSummary:"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it...
- Author:Hook, PhilipSummary:
Modern begins on a specific day—March 22, 1905—at a specific place: the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, where works of art we recognize as modern were first exhibited. Drawing on his forty five-year fine art career, author Philip Hook...
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