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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction»rank: 15019par: Michel Foucault
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Blank Slate»rank: 18061par: Steven Pinker
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith»rank: 8674par: Jon Krakauer
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence. ln the process we ... |
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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Golden Plunger Awards»rank: 17757par: Bathroom Readers' Institute
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence. ln the process we ... |
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World»rank: 4531par: Richard Holbrooke
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:University of Toronto historian Margaret MacMillan failed at first to find a Canadian publisher for her account of the pivotal peace conference that followed the First World War and, some have said, laid the groundwork for the second, but when Paris 1919 won the Samuel Johnson Prize in the U.K., it returned home a bestseller and remained so for years. MacMillan, great-granddaughter of one of the conference's principals, David Lloyd George, has written a definitive history--authoritative, colourful, and engrossing--of the peace that failed. Amazon.ca:Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is ... |
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Masters And Commanders»rank: 10088par: Andrew Roberts
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:University of Toronto historian Margaret MacMillan failed at first to find a Canadian publisher for her account of the pivotal peace conference that followed the First World War and, some have said, laid the groundwork for the second, but when Paris 1919 won the Samuel Johnson Prize in the U.K., it returned home a bestseller and remained so for years. MacMillan, great-granddaughter of one of the conference's principals, David Lloyd George, has written a definitive history--authoritative, colourful, and engrossing--of the peace that failed. Amazon.ca:Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is ... |
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln»rank: 2169par: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:University of Toronto historian Margaret MacMillan failed at first to find a Canadian publisher for her account of the pivotal peace conference that followed the First World War and, some have said, laid the groundwork for the second, but when Paris 1919 won the Samuel Johnson Prize in the U.K., it returned home a bestseller and remained so for years. MacMillan, great-granddaughter of one of the conference's principals, David Lloyd George, has written a definitive history--authoritative, colourful, and engrossing--of the peace that failed. Amazon.ca:Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is ... |
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Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel's Grandmother»rank: 1508par: Maggie Siggins
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:University of Toronto historian Margaret MacMillan failed at first to find a Canadian publisher for her account of the pivotal peace conference that followed the First World War and, some have said, laid the groundwork for the second, but when Paris 1919 won the Samuel Johnson Prize in the U.K., it returned home a bestseller and remained so for years. MacMillan, great-granddaughter of one of the conference's principals, David Lloyd George, has written a definitive history--authoritative, colourful, and engrossing--of the peace that failed. Amazon.ca:Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is ... |
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The Journal of Hélène Berr»rank: 11073par: Helene Berr
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:University of Toronto historian Margaret MacMillan failed at first to find a Canadian publisher for her account of the pivotal peace conference that followed the First World War and, some have said, laid the groundwork for the second, but when Paris 1919 won the Samuel Johnson Prize in the U.K., it returned home a bestseller and remained so for years. MacMillan, great-granddaughter of one of the conference's principals, David Lloyd George, has written a definitive history--authoritative, colourful, and engrossing--of the peace that failed. Amazon.ca:Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is ... |
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The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997»rank: 34249par: Piers Brendon
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:University of Toronto historian Margaret MacMillan failed at first to find a Canadian publisher for her account of the pivotal peace conference that followed the First World War and, some have said, laid the groundwork for the second, but when Paris 1919 won the Samuel Johnson Prize in the U.K., it returned home a bestseller and remained so for years. MacMillan, great-granddaughter of one of the conference's principals, David Lloyd George, has written a definitive history--authoritative, colourful, and engrossing--of the peace that failed. Amazon.ca:Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is ... |