3448 results for '"Doignon, Jean-Paul'

Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today - and has been been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its...

The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father—from Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia...

Evolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists,...

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Dans la France traumatisée par la débâcle de 1940, le secours d'urgence n'est plus seulement une nécessité, c'est une institution d'État. À sa tête, le Secours national, fort de ses 47 000 salariés...

The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive history of modern Spain but also a compelling narrative that becomes a lens for understanding...

"What are the chances of a game-show contestant finding a chicken in a box? Is the Hanukkah dreidel a fair game? Will you be alive ten years from now? These are just some of the one-of-a-kind...

The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these...

Noting that standard accounts of U.S. history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the...

Since the first three documented Chinese arrived in this country in 1848, more than six million Asians have followed. The huge immigrations of recent years have prompted a surge of interest in the...

Examining the problem of hunger in the modern world and the role public opinion might play in combatting it, Drèze and Sen here provide a coherent perspective on the complex nutritional, economic,...

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Le premier tome brosse le tableau des mentalités de guerre sur fond des années trente, du Front populaire et de Munich : les divisions de l'opinion devant l'Allemagne nazie, les incertitudes d'une...

Le traite est une paraphrase de l'Introduction arithmetique ecrite en grec, au 2e siecle a J.-C. par Nicomaque de Gerasa. Boece en conserve les presupposes philosophiques et la substance. Au sein du...