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  • Guerra all'ISIS

    Diario dal fronte curdo

    "No press card, I’m sorry. University Professor, no journalist"… Ho dovuto ripeterlo a tutti, in inglese di base e a gesti: poliziotti turchi, peshmerga, guerriglieri del PKK, un albergatore, l’onnipotente responsabile del posto di frontiera tra il Kurdistan iracheno e il Rojava, un simpatico tassista che voleva sapere chi stava portando in prima linea, la comandante Meriem a Kobane. Quasi tutti ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Plus jamais esclaves !

    by Aline Helg ...
    Longtemps, l'émancipation des esclaves fut considérée comme l'œuvre des abolitionnistes, libéraux et blancs. Dans ce livre, qui fait pour la première fois le grand récit sur plus de trois siècles des insoumissions et des rébellions d'esclaves en couvrant l'ensemble des Amériques, Aline Helg déboulonne cette version de l'histoire. La réalité des révoltes dépasse en effet en force et en richesse ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • La réforme grégorienne

    De la lutte pour le sacré à la sécularisation du monde

    Édition revue et corrigée !Au XIe siècle, sur fond de lutte acharnée entre le Pape et l'Empereur, l'Occident connaît une révolution qui bouleversera à jamais son visage : c'est la réforme grégorienne, inspirée du nom du pape Grégoire VII, avec des effets qui durent encore aujourd'hui.Les réformateurs du XIe siècle veulent corriger les mœurs, restaurer la discipline monastique et, de manière ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swords of Lightning

    Green Beret Horse Soldiers and America's Response to 9/11

    The first-person account of how a small band of Green Berets used horses and laser-guided missiles to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11.They landed in a dust storm so thick the chopper pilot used dead reckoning and a guess to find the ground. They were met by a band of heavily armed militiamen who didn’t understand a word they said. They climbed a mountain on horseback ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Let Our Fame Be Great

    Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus

    The jagged peaks of the Caucasus Mountains have hosted a rich history of diverse nations, valuable trade, and incessant warfare. But today the region is best known for atrocities in Chechnya and the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia.In Let Our Fame Be Great, journalist and Russian expert Oliver Bullough explores the fascinating cultural crossroads of the Caucasus, where Europe, Asia, and the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Ordine di Malta – Ordre de Malte

    Fotografie inedite – Photographies inédites 1880-1960

    by AA. VV. ...
    Duecento fotografie storiche custodite negli archivi di uno dei più antichi ed affascinanti Ordini religiosi cavallereschi: il Sovrano Ordine di Malta. Cavalieri e Dame, Gran Maestri e personalità dell’epoca, ma anche medici, infermieri e volontari: queste immagini esprimono il profondo spirito di servizio ai sofferenti che ha ispirato l’Ordine di Malta fin dalle sue origini nove secoli fa e che ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Ebrei a Shanghai

    Storia dei rifugiati in fuga dal Terzo Reich

    Series series Occidente-Oriente
    Un capitolo della storia della Shoah pressocché sconosciuto in Italia. Alla fine degli anni Trenta, Shanghai aprì le porte a oltre 18.000 ebrei, perlopiù tedeschi e austriaci, che fuggivano dalle persecuzioni naziste in Europa. Rispetto alle restrizioni sull’immigrazione imposte dalla maggior parte degli Stati, Shanghai costituì un’eccezione. La “Parigi d’Oriente” divenne la cornice di un ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Vuoti di memoria

    Usi e abusi della storia nella vita pubblica italiana

    Falsi storici, luoghi comuni, pregiudizi, impressionanti lacune: ecco cosa accade quando si delega la conoscenza della storia al disinvolto uso pubblico che ne fanno politici, giornalisti, operatori dei media, complici e in parte responsabili dei generalizzati ‘vuoti di memoria’ da cui sono affette le giovani generazioni. Con passione civile, Stefano Pivato si pone una domanda urgente: non tanto a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dol-Combourg et la légende du Graal

    La légende du roi Arthur se construit au douzième siècle, sur la base de traditions celtiques galloises et armoricaines dites Matière de Bretagne. Avec l’Histoire des Rois de Bretagne, Geoffroy de Monmouth rédige vers 1135 le texte fondateur, véritable prototype des romans arthuriens : ainsi naissent Arthur, Guenièvre, Merlin, la fée Morgane. La légende du Graal se développe également, en ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Was Born There, I Was Born Here

    In 1996 Barghouti went back to his Palestinian home for the first time since his exile following the Six-Day War in 1967, first in Egypt and then in Hungary, and wrote a poignant and incisive account of the exile's lot in the acclaimed memoir I Saw Ramallah. In 2003 he returned to Ramallah to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim Barghouti, to his Palestinian family. Ironically, within a year Tamim ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

    by Daniela Krien ...
    Translated by Jamie Bulloch ...
    It is summer 1990, only months after the border dividing Germany has dissolved. Maria, nearly seventeen, moves in with her boyfriend on his family farm.A chance encounter with enigmatic loner Henner, a neighbouring farmer, quickly develops into a passionate relationship. But Maria soon finds that Henner can be as brutal as he is tender - his love reveals itself through both animal violence and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • La République populaire de Chine

    Histoire générale de la Chine (1949 à nos jours)

    En 1949, bien qu’elle se proclame en rupture radicale vis-à-vis des régimes qui l’ont précédée, la République populaire de Chine reprend à son compte les objectifs formulés par les réformateurs et les révolutionnaires de la première moitié du XXe siècle. La différence tient aux moyens mobilisés pour y parvenir. Dans les faits, la pratique du totalitarisme par Mao Zedong n’entraînera pas les ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • La Civilisation des odeurs

    (XVIe-début XIXe siècle)

    Pourquoi l’odorat, ce sens primordial d’adaptation au danger comme de repérage du meilleur partenaire sexuel, demeure-t-il si méconnu ? Son histoire paradoxale, pour peu qu’on s’y attache, est des plus captivantes. Dans cette synthèse sans équivalent, Robert Muchembled mène l’enquête et présente les extraordinaires mutations de l’odorat en Occident, de la Renaissance au début du XIXe siècle. Les ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Alphonse et Marguerite - Un amour épistolaire dans la tourmente de la Grande Guerre

    Un amour épistolaire dans la tourmente de la Grande GuerreLe 11 octobre 1914 au matin, le sergent Robert Tailliez, 26 ans, est atteint d'une balle à la tête dans le combat de Champlon, aux confins des départements de la Meuse et de la Meurthe et Moselle. Sans nouvelles, Alphonse Chémery, son camarade du front ho ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Le matin calme

    Corée d'hier et d'aujourd'hui

    La Corée, péninsule du bout de l'Asie fut pendant des millénaires un véritable « royaume ermite », isolé du reste du monde entre la Chine et le Japon. Il s'y développa au cours des siècles une civilisation forte et originale, différente de celles de ses voisins, à base de bouddhisme et de confucianisme, sur une Sibérie où son peuple plonge ses racines au fond des âges. La civilisation occidentale ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Londres

    Qu'il pleuve des bombes ou qu'une tornade ravage leur parcs, les Londoniens savent braver le temps et même rendre les intempéries exotiques. Ainsi, un homme qui se fait saucer en gardant tout à la fois son parapluie fermé et son sang-froid, n'est pas un fou mais un officier des Horses Guards ; une assemblée emmitouflée dans des couvertures thermos à portée de main, n'est pas un groupe de ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Carson, the Advocate

    This is the story of the life of Sir Edward Carson (1854-1935), with a strong emphasis on his career as an advocate. Carson became a well-known Irish QC before moving from Dublin to London as MP for Trinity College, and continued his legal career in London, where he soon became an English QC, the rising star in the legal firmament, and the acknowledged leader of the London Bar.In 1895 Carson was ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Make a Joyful Sound

    The Romance of Mabel Hubbard and Alexander Graham Bell: An Authorized Biography

    The personal factors behind the great inventions and discoveries that change the world are often overlooked, to history’s loss, and nowhere has this been more true than in the case of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor, experimenter in genetics and aerodynamics, great-hearted friend and teacher of the handicapped. Without his wife’s part in it, his story is only half told.At first the couple seemed a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Become a Navy SEAL

    Everything You Need to Know to Become a Member of the US Navy's Elite Force

    by Don Mann ...
    Do you want to be a member of one of the world’s most elite special operations forces? Not everyone has what it takes to become a Navy SEAL (Sea, Air, and Land). The training required—and the job itself—is exhausting and demanding, but also exhilarating and highly respected. If you or someone you know is up for the challenge, this book has everything you need to know, from schooling and training ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Rinascimento perduto

    La letteratura italiana sotto gli occhi dei censori (secoli XV-XVII)

    "Una brillante sintesi dei meccanismi attraverso cui la chiesa cattolica esercitava il suo potere sui fedeli"NUCCIO ORDINEPer quanto gli indici romani dei libri proibiti del Cinquecento registrino un numero esiguo di autori e di opere letterarie, gli interventi sulla letteratura di svago furono molto ampi. Pareva ai censori che gran parte delle opere dei più diversi generi – dalla novellistica, al ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Jesus

    A Beginner's Guide

    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Jesus: A Beginner’s Guide introduces Jesus, the man and his enduring legacy. Separating fact from fiction, Professor Le Donne places Jesus within the context of first-century Judaism, and explores the debate about his status as 'Son of God' among the early Christians.He then follows his legacy through medieval Europe, and compares the various cultural Jesuses in enlightenment and post ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]

    Friedrich “Fritz” Kreisler was an Austrian-American violinist and composer of great renown, often regarded as one of the finest violinists of all time. He was, however, for a brief time an officer of the Austrian army during the First World War; but unlike the voluminous literature of Gallipoli and the Western Front in English, his memoirs of the fighting on the Eastern Front provide a rare ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I ribelli al governo della città

    La generazione della resistenza. Sesto San Giovanni 1944-1946

    Come ci si trasforma da ribelli in governanti e amministratori? Chi erano, che idee avevano, che cosa volevano gli uomini e le donne che dopo essersi battuti strenuamente per un ventennio contro il fascismo, si trovarono a dirigere la cosa pubblica nelle città liberate? Che cosa li accomunava, prima che nel nuovo regime democratico si aprissero le naturali divisioni ideologiche e politiche? Nel ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Storia dell'Iran

    1890-2020

    by Farian Sabahi ...
    L'Iran è uno dei paesi più affascinanti e complessi al mondo. Quale immagine riassume meglio la sua storia contemporanea? Le proteste di fine Ottocento per la vendita della concessione del tabacco a un cittadino inglese, che videro per la prima volta uniti il clero, i mercanti e le donne dell'harem reale? O forse il volto severo dell'ayatollah Khomeini di ritorno a Teheran dopo la rivoluzione del ... Read more

    $16.99 USD