This is the first book to bring together groundbreaking scholarship focusing on the various ways in which famines result from political decision-making, and how the threat, occurrence, relief, or memory of famine is instrumentalized as a political and military tool. Contributions to this volume reveal the complexiti...

Sans rien ignorer des spécificités de différentes aristocraties, anciennes et nouvelles, et des groupes qui les constituent, les auteurs de cet ouvrage tentent plutôt de les confronter, de rechercher les caractères communs qui les soudent, les différences qui les séparent et, plus encore, les fondements de clivages ...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021 * Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize * A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book of 2020 * Now with colour photography by Michael Turek 'Richly absorbing... An impressive exploration of Siberia's terrifying past.' Gua...

This is the first history of Lebanon from the Ottoman Empire to the modern period. Based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating account of one of the world's most fabled countries. Starting with the formation of Ottoman Lebanon in the 16th century, Traboulsi covers the growth of Beirut as a capital...

Beyond the Lines explores the social underpinnings of rebel adaptation and resilience. How do rebel groups cope with crises such as repression, displacement, and fragmentation? What explains changes in militant organizations' structures and behaviors over time? Drawing on nearly two years of ethnographic research, S...

Un peuple en voie de disparition. Un héros légendaire. Un combat pour l'honneur au milieu du chaos de la guerre. Dans Le Dernier des Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper plonge le lecteur dans l'Amérique du XVIIIe siècle, pendant la guerre franco-indienne. Suivez le parcours de Hawkeye, éclaireur blanc élevé par les Mohi...

A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come from? Why do our minds sometimes seem to work against us? Psychologists have long attempted to answer these questions, seeking to understand human behaviour, ...

Depuis son apparition à la fin du XIXe siècle sous la forme industrielle, la nouvelle énergie électrique s’est immiscée dans les paysages métropolitains, industriels ou ruraux. Mais cette immixtion, sous le signe de l’étrangeté de l’appareillage, du bâtiment, des configurations spatiales et des postures professionne...

A history of ancient Egypt's golden age. "As an introduction to Egyptian history for students . . . it can hardly be too highly recommended." ーElizabeth Riefstahl, American Journal of Archeology Here, adequately presented for the first time in English, is the fascinating story of a splendid culture that flourished ...

Andy Warhol and his pop art helped define the 1960s and 1970s in America. Born the son of poor Austro-Hungarian immigrants in Pittsburgh, he was fortunate enough to attend the Carnegie Institute and study art. After graduation, he moved to New York, where he became a successful commercial artist sketching women's ac...

1.《中国国家地理百科全书》是一套色彩艳丽、内容丰富、特色鲜明的大众地理读物。 2.全书内容是经过社科院专家和中国地理协会的老师专门审核后完成的，地理知识具有较高的权威性。3.全书共分10卷，分别从多方面介绍了世界七大洲的200多个国家与地区，资料翔实、数据全面、图片丰富。4.这套书也是目前国内图书市场上为数不多的以彩图版的形式...

Dean Martin was a natural entertainer, known not only for his singing ability but also for his great showmanship on the stage. With Martin, it wasn't just about the songーit was about the whole package. With songs such as "That's Amore" and movies like Rio Bravo, he took the world by storm. Later, Dean Martin, along...

Une synthèse globale par un spécialiste incontesté. On connaît la sentence de Churchill : " La Russie est un rébus enveloppé de mystère au sein d'une énigme. " Son histoire résulte d'une longue construction de plus d'un millénaire, élaborée sous deux dynasties, celles des Riourikides et des Romanov, avant un XXe siè...

台灣成為美食王國，不是沒有道理！ 《蚵仔煎的身世》作者曹銘宗╳台灣史專家翁佳音， 這回話說重頭，帶你瞭解台灣人吃東西的歷史 美食王國是怎樣吃出來的？ 台灣美食享譽國際，背後有值得細細探索的美味歷史。位居歐亞大陸與太平洋交會之處，造就台灣兼具生物與文化多樣的雙重特性。數百年來，從南島語族的海上交流，到外來移民的農產引進與改...

The Cristero War took place in Mexico between 1926 and 1929. It was a war of rebellion by Mexican Catholics against the government, which had enforced restrictions on their faith. It was mainly a guerilla war, in which the Cristeros launched sudden, quick attacks against strategic locations. It began in central Mexi...

In 1932, the Central Committee of the Communist Party issued the resolution "On the Restructuring of Literary and Arts Organizations." This resolution put an end to the coexistence of aesthetically different groups and associations of writers and artists that had been common during the 1920s, and instead, led to the...