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  • Marilyn

    The Passion and the Paradox

    par Lois Banner ...
    Like her art, Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: She was a powerful star and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent party girl with a deeply spiritual side; a superb friend and a narcissist; a dumb blonde and an intellectual. No previous biographer has recognized-much less attempted to analyze-most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has. With new details about Marilyn's childhood ... En savoir plus

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  • The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

    Patterns of Japanese Culture

    par Ruth Benedict ...
    "One of the best books ever about Japanese society…[A] thoughtful, nuanced study of the Japanese character." —U.S. News & World Report"A classic of Japanese cultural studies…debunks the stereotype of the Japanese as hopelessly rigid and incapable of change." —The New York TimesFirst published in 1946, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is renowned for its insights into Japanese culture—examining ... En savoir plus

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  • Love and Saint Augustine

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    The brilliant thinker who taught us about the banality of evil explores another brilliant thinker and his concept of love.Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition, began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. ... En savoir plus

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  • All These Worlds Are Yours

    The Scientific Search for Alien Life

    par Jon Willis ...
    An astronomer explores the science of astrobiology in this " serious but accessible examination of the prospects for finding life elsewhere in the universe" (Sean Carroll, author of The Big Picture ).Describing the most recent discoveries made with space exploration technology, including the Kepler space telescope, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the New Horizons probe, astronomer Jon Willi... ... En savoir plus

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  • An Archaeological History of Britain

    Continuity and Change from Prehistory to the Present

    par Jonathan Eaton ...
    This authoritative and accessible volume presents an archeological of Britain across millennia, from early prehistory to the present.The Archaeological History of Britain takes us from the earliest prehistoric archaeology right up to the contemporary archaeology of the present day through the use of key sites. Historian Jonathan Eaton uses key sites to illustrate each significant time period along ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cult of the Saints

    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

    par Peter Brown ...
    A new edition of the "brilliantly original and highly sophisticated" study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire ( Library Journal).In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly ... En savoir plus

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  • Philosophy Between the Lines

    The Lost History of Esoteric Writing

    "Shines a floodlight on a topic that has been cloaked in obscurity . . . a landmark work in both intellectual history and political theory" ( The Wall Street Journal).Philosophical esotericism—the practice of communicating one's unorthodox thoughts "between the lines"—was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. Despite its long and well-documented history, however, esotericism ... En savoir plus

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  • The Fists of Righteous Harmony

    A History of the Boxer Uprising in China in the Year 1900

    A British historian recounts the armed, violent Chinese insurrection near the end of the Qing dynasty at the dawn of the 20th century.The Boxers were a fanatical secret organization who were incited by anti-foreign elements in the Chinese Government to commit wide-scale deportations against foreign missionaries and their Chinese converts. The Boxers had the tacit support of the Dowager Empress Tzu ... En savoir plus

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  • The Unquiet Ghost

    Russians Remember Stalin

    par Adam Hochschild ...
    An in-depth exploration of the legacy of Joseph Stalin on the former Soviet Union, by the author of King Leopold's Ghost.Although some twenty million people died during Stalin's reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration ... En savoir plus

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  • The True History of Merlin the Magician

    A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was "Merlin the Magician" and his impact on Britain.Merlin has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, his "historical" figure and his relation to ... En savoir plus

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  • Thomas Cromwell

    The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

    par Tracy Borman ...
    "An exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor Age's most complex and controversial figures." —Alison WeirThomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII's right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation; secured Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall ... En savoir plus

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  • The Zong

    A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery

    par James Walvin ...
    "A lucid, fluent and fascinating account of the Zong. The book details the horror of the mass killing of enslaved Africans on board the ship in 1781."—Gad Heuman, co-editor of The Routledge History of SlaveryOn November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The ... En savoir plus

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