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The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power»rank: 1648par: Tariq Ali
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood»rank: 7090par: 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 through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive ... |
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent»rank: 33744par: Eduardo H. Galeano
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 through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive ... |
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FDR»rank: 11646par: Jean Edward Smith
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 through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive ... |
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House Of Rothschild The World Banker 1849 To 1999»rank: 40205par: Niall Ferguson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Continuing the sweeping narrative that he began with The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848, 0xford University historian Niall Ferguson conjures up a world in which widespread change and utter uncertainty held sway in the place of carefully ordered dynasties and universally observed mores. ln the aftermath of the Napoleonic revolution, European Jews had been able to move within dominant societies somewhat more freely. 0f no family was this more true than the Rothschilds, whose branches lived in Germany, France, Austria, and England, and whose vast financial empire enabled ... |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom»rank: 14553par: Conrad Black
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Continuing the sweeping narrative that he began with The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848, 0xford University historian Niall Ferguson conjures up a world in which widespread change and utter uncertainty held sway in the place of carefully ordered dynasties and universally observed mores. ln the aftermath of the Napoleonic revolution, European Jews had been able to move within dominant societies somewhat more freely. 0f no family was this more true than the Rothschilds, whose branches lived in Germany, France, Austria, and England, and whose vast financial empire enabled ... |
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Paintings In Proust»rank: 34664par: Eric Karpeles
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Continuing the sweeping narrative that he began with The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848, 0xford University historian Niall Ferguson conjures up a world in which widespread change and utter uncertainty held sway in the place of carefully ordered dynasties and universally observed mores. ln the aftermath of the Napoleonic revolution, European Jews had been able to move within dominant societies somewhat more freely. 0f no family was this more true than the Rothschilds, whose branches lived in Germany, France, Austria, and England, and whose vast financial empire enabled ... |
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The Arcades Project»rank: 22403par: Walter Benjamin
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades ... |
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Sugar: A Bittersweet History»rank: 5003par: Elizabeth Abbott
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades ... |
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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days that Inspired America»rank: 10193par: Thurston Clarke
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Amazon Best of the Month, June 2008: When Senator Robert F. Kennedy entered the presidential race during the chaotic year of 1968, anarchy appeared to be gathering on the horizon. America was coming to grips with an unwinnable war in Vietnam and unacceptable social policies at home. The Last Campaign examines Kennedy's bold (and tragically shortened) efforts to awaken his country's social conscience and moral sensibility. ln contrast to the cocksure attitude of Thirteen Days (RFK's own 1962 memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis), Thurston Clarke reveals a very human ... |