par
Raymond, Gino.
Numéro de rayon préféré
944.003
Date de publication
2008
Résumé
Presents a thorough history of France, including entries that cover kings, politicians, authors, architects, composers, artists, and philosophers.
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Pertinence:
77634.9844
par
Evans, Martin, 1964-
Numéro de rayon préféré
965.046 22
Date de publication
2012
Résumé
Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the Algerian War of 1954 to 1962 was one of the longest and most violent of the decolonization struggles. An undeclared war in the sense that there was no formal beginning of hostilities, the war produced huge tensions that brought down four government.
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Pertinence:
71873.7266
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par
Wellman, Kathleen Anne, 1951- author.
Numéro de rayon préféré
944.0209252 23
Date de publication
2013
Résumé
This title tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognised royal mistress in 1444, including Anne of Brittany, Catherine de Medici, Anne Pisseleu, Diane de Poitiers, Marguerite de Valois among others, and concluding with Gabrielle d'Estrées, Henry IV's powerful mistress during the 1590s.
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Pertinence:
67229.4531
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par
Reid, Roddey, 1952-
Numéro de rayon préféré
362.2967 22
Date de publication
2005
Résumé
Traces the culture and politics of anti-smoking efforts in three sites with distinct social histories.
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Pertinence:
52744.5664
par
Dowbiggin, Ian Robert, 1952-
Numéro de rayon préféré
616.890094409034 20
Date de publication
1991
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Pertinence:
52744.1914
par
Szabo, Jason.
Numéro de rayon préféré
616.044
Date de publication
2009
Résumé
Terminal illness and the pain and anguish it brings are experiences that have touched millions of people in the past and continue to shape our experience of the present. Hospital machines that artificially support life and monitor vital signs beg the question: Is there not anything that medical science can offer as solace? Incurable and Intolerable looks at the history of incurable illness from a variety of perspectives, including those of doctors, patients, families, religious counsel, and policy makers. This compellingly documented and well-written history illuminates the physical, emotional.
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Pertinence:
50828.7344
par
Martin, Paula J., author.
Numéro de rayon préféré
617.9520944 23
Date de publication
2014
Résumé
Working at the forefront of cosmetic surgery at the turn of the twentieth century, Dr Suzanne Noël was both a pioneer in her medical field and a firm believer in the advancement of women. Today her views on the benefits of aesthetic surgery to women may seem at odds with her feminist principles, but by placing Noël in the context of turn-of-the-century French culture, this book is able to demonstrate how these two worldviews were reconciled. This book sheds much valuable light on advances in aesthetic surgery, twentieth-century beauty culture, women and the public sphere, and the 'new woman'.
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Pertinence:
49102.5469
par
Sherwood, Joan, 1929-
Numéro de rayon préféré
614.54720944 22
Date de publication
2010
Format :
Ressources électroniques
Pertinence:
46125.2617
par
Stock, Mathis.
Numéro de rayon préféré
304.2
Date de publication
2021
Format :
Ressources électroniques
Pertinence:
2.5366
par
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Numéro de rayon préféré
944.04 22
Date de publication
2010
Résumé
In 1837 Thomas Carlyle published his work The French Revolution: A History and overnight became a celebrity. The work was filled with a passionate intensity, hitherto unknown in historical writing. In a politically-charged Europe, filled with fears and hopes of revolution, Carlyle's account of the motivations and urges that inspired the events in France became powerfully relevant. Carlyle's style emphasized this, continually pointing to the urgency of action - often using the present tense. For him, chaotic events demanded 'heroes' to take control over the competing forces erupting within society. In Carlyle's view only dynamic individuals could master events and direct these energies effectively. As soon as ideological formulas replaced heroes and human action, society became dehumanized. As Ruth Scurr shows in her masterly introduction and through the texts she has selected from Carlyle's masterpiece of historical writing, The French Revolution needs still to be read for its relevance and as one of the finest examples of English prose writing ever.
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Pertinence:
2.5266
par
Hanson, Paul R.
Numéro de rayon préféré
944.0403 23
Date de publication
2007
Résumé
The French Revolution remains the most examined event and period in world history. Most historians would argue that it was the first ""modern"" revolution, an event so momentous that it changed the very meaning of the word revolution to its current connotation of a political and/or social upheaval that marks a decisive break with the past, moving the society in a forward or progressive direction. No revolution has occurred since 1789 without making reference to this first revolution, and most have been measured against it. When revolution shook the foundations of the Old Regime in France, shoc.
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Pertinence:
1.8182
par
Gray, Jeremy, 1947-
Numéro de rayon préféré
509.2 23
Date de publication
2013
Résumé
"Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time--he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and a prominent philosopher of science whose fresh and surprising essays are still in print a century later. The first in-depth and comprehensive look at his many accomplishments, Henri Poincaré explores all the fields that Poincaré touched, the debates sparked by his original investigations, and how his discoveries still contribute to society today. Math historian Jeremy Gray shows that Poincaré's influence was wide-ranging and permanent. His novel interpretation of non-Euclidean geometry challenged contemporary ideas about space, stirred heated discussion, and led to flourishing research. His work in topology began the modern study of the subject, recently highlighted by the successful resolution of the famous Poincaré conjecture. And Poincaré's reformulation of celestial mechanics and discovery of chaotic motion started the modern theory of dynamical systems. In physics, his insights on the Lorentz group preceded Einstein's, and he was the first to indicate that space and time might be fundamentally atomic. Poincaré the public intellectual did not shy away from scientific controversy, and he defended mathematics against the attacks of logicians such as Bertrand Russell, opposed the views of Catholic apologists, and served as an expert witness in probability for the notorious Dreyfus case that polarized France. Richly informed by letters and documents, Henri Poincaré demonstrates how one man's work revolutionized math, science, and the greater world"--
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Pertinence:
1.7920
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