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Blazing Saddles: The Cruel & Unusual History of the Tour de France»rank: 60507par: Matt Rendell
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Gods War»rank: 5916par: Christopher Tyerman
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Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside Hisoty of Special Operations in the Second World War»rank: 66305par: Roderick Bailey
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood»rank: 2906par: Marjane Satrapi
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus. Set in lran during the lslamic Revolution, young Satrapi is the six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists. As she grows up, she witness first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with lraq have on her home, family and school. Like Maus, the main strength of Persepolis is its ability to make the political personal. Told ... |
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State of Exception»rank: 32622par: Giorgio Agamben
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus. Set in lran during the lslamic Revolution, young Satrapi is the six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists. As she grows up, she witness first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with lraq have on her home, family and school. Like Maus, the main strength of Persepolis is its ability to make the political personal. Told ... |
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The Great Warming»rank: 2119par: Brian Fagan
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus. Set in lran during the lslamic Revolution, young Satrapi is the six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists. As she grows up, she witness first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with lraq have on her home, family and school. Like Maus, the main strength of Persepolis is its ability to make the political personal. Told ... |
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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French»rank: 28624par: Jean-Benoit Nadeau
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:For decades, people have wondered if alien life walks among us here on Earth, blending in but secretly guided by different principals and impulses. Thanks to Canadian-born authors and partners Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow, we have the answer. Strange life forms are prowling the planet and, like the Coneheads of the Saturday Night Live skits of old, they're from France. As the pair reveal in their mightily researched book 60 Million Frenchman Can't Be Wrong, these ... |
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia»rank: 9878par: Ahmed Rashid
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This is the single best book available on the Taliban, the fundamentalist lslamic regime in Afghanistan responsible for harboring the terrorist 0sama bin Laden. Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist who has spent most of his career reporting on the region--he has personally met and interviewed many of the Taliban's shadowy leaders. Taliban was written and published before the massacres of September 11, 2001, yet it is essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand the ... |
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848»rank: 58983par: Daniel Walker Howe
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This is the single best book available on the Taliban, the fundamentalist lslamic regime in Afghanistan responsible for harboring the terrorist 0sama bin Laden. Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist who has spent most of his career reporting on the region--he has personally met and interviewed many of the Taliban's shadowy leaders. Taliban was written and published before the massacres of September 11, 2001, yet it is essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand the ... |
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The Shadow of the Sun»rank: 11063par: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Chroniques et points de vue:From :When Africa makes international news, it is usually because war has broken out or some bizarre natural disaster has taken a large number of lives. Westerners are appallingly ignorant of Africa otherwise, a condition that the great Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapuœciñski helps remedy with this book based on observations gathered over more than four decades. Kapuœciñski first went to Africa in 1957, a time pregnant with possibilities as one country after another declared independence ... |
