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Les gouvernants les plus fous de l’histoire
by Michael Rank A. Loiseau et Alexandra CueilleLe pouvoir absolu et l’aliénation mentale forment un cocktail détonant. Quand rien ne s’oppose à la satisfaction des caprices délirants d’un chef d’État, il faut s’attendre aux résultats les plus bizarres. Du sultan ottoman Ibrahim Ier qui pratiquait le tir à l’arc sur les serviteurs de son palais et envoyait ses conseillers à la recherche de la femme la plus grosse de l’Empire au président Turkmenbachi, du Turkménistan, qui a renommé les jours de la semaine en son honneur et a fait construire une immense statue dorée qui tournait sur elle-même de manière à suivre le soleil, les dirigeants fous ont été un fléau pour la société depuis des millénaires. Ce livre se penche sur la vie des dix personnalités les plus déséquilibrées de l’histoire. Certaines étaient atteintes de troubles génétiques qui les ont rendues schizophrènes, comme Charles VI, roi de France, qui se croyait en verre. D’autres étaient convaincus de représenter Dieu sur terre. L’un de ces gouvernants, qui savait à peine lire et écrire, a composé des écrits religieux dont la lecture était censée garantir l’accès au paradis. Malgré la diversité de leurs histoires, ces dirigeants sont la preuve que les dynasties avaient toujours pour stratégie de placer sur le trône un héritier légitime, quel que soit son état mental, et que le pouvoir peut troubler l’esprit aussi sûrement que la pire des maladies mentales.
Les Litanies de l'émigré
by Helene Coursault Mois BenarrochLe poete et romancier Benarroch a été traduit dans des dizaines de langues, dont l'urdu et le chinois. Julia Uceda considère que la poésie de Benarroch renferme la mémoire du monde alors que Jose Luis Garcia Martin pense qu'il s'agit de plus que de poèmes, il s'agit d'une référence. Témoin de son temps, Benarroch a commencé à écrire des poèmes en anglais à l'âge de 15 ans et a toujours écrit dans sa langue maternelle, l'espagnol. Il s'agit d'une nouvelle édition de « Les Litanies de l'émigré », elle inclut le poème le plus célèbre de Benarroch, qui donne son nom à cette collection. Dans ce livre, Mois Benarroch (né en 1959 au Maroc) évoque son émigration et l'art de vivre entre deux mondes, sans jamais s'intégrer.
Les Parisiennes: Resistance, Collaboration, and the Women of Paris Under Nazi Occupation
by Anne Sebba“Anne Sebba has the nearly miraculous gift of combining the vivid intimacy of the lives of women during The Occupation with the history of the time. This is a remarkable book.” —Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare with the Amber EyesNew York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba explores a devastating period in Paris's history and tells the stories of how women survived—or didn’t—during the Nazi occupation.Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors on a daily basis, as waitresses, shop assistants, or wives and mothers, increasingly desperate to find food to feed their families as hunger became part of everyday life.When the Nazis and the puppet Vichy regime began rounding up Jews to ship east to concentration camps, the full horror of the war was brought home and the choice between collaboration and resistance became unavoidable. Sebba focuses on the role of women, many of whom faced life and death decisions every day. After the war ended, there would be a fierce settling of accounts between those who made peace with or, worse, helped the occupiers and those who fought the Nazis in any way they could.
Les Paul and the Perfect Sound (Fountas & Pinnell LLI Purple #Level T)
by Sarah BrockettText Elements <p><p> Genre: Biography <p> Text Structures <p> Main: Chronological Sequence <p> Embedded: Description, Categorical, Cause/Effect <p> Text Features: table of contents, headings, photos, captions, sidebars, diagram, time line, glossary
Les personnalités les plus productives de l'Histoire
by Julie Loison Michael RankOn n'a jamais découvert comme il avait fait. Peu de compositeurs écrivirent plus d'une ou deux symphonies au cours de leur vie. Beethoven passa une année sur ses symphonies les plus courtes, mais plus de six ans sur sa célèbre 9ème Symphonie. Mais Georg Philipp Telemann composa au moins deux cents ouvertures en deux ans. Au fil du temps, son œuvre finit par atteindre trois mille travaux, bien que huit cents « seulement » nous soient parvenus. Mais il ne fut pas le seul dont la productivité défia la raison. Le scientifique grec Archimède observa des phénomènes mathématiques qui restèrent une énigme durant les dix-sept siècles suivants. Isaac Newton est le père de la physique classique et l'un des inventeurs du calcul. Benjamin Franklin écrivit, publia, politisa, inventa, expérimenta et ironisa, parfois le tout en même temps. Théodore Roosevelt fut le premier Américain à obtenir la ceinture marron au judo, s'adonna à la chasse, écrivit de nombreux livres, et trouva malgré tout le temps de lire quatre heures par jour, même dans les périodes les plus chargées de sa vie politique. Dans ce livre, nous allons explorer la vie de dix-huit des personnalités les plus productives de l'Histoire. Nous examinerons leurs biographies, essaierons de comprendre le contexte culturel de leur époque et analyserons les méthodes qu'ils ont utilisées pour atteindre des résultats aussi considérables. Peut-être pourrons-nous également apprendre à nous focaliser sur les tâches de la vie qui ont vraiment un sens.
LES RACINES LOINTAINES
by Cristiano ParafioritiÀ travers ces vingt récits, l'auteur nous dévoile des personnages passionnés, des parfums subtils et des goûts d'autre temps en sillonant ses mémoires d'enfance tracés en Sicile. C'est la voix fragile du Sud qui s'élève de ces pages, suffoquée par la torpeur de la résignation et de la mélancolie, ainsi que par l'amour d'un temps qui n'existe plus, pour une terre pauvre et au sang chaud, épuisée et blessée par les plaies de la pauvreté, de l'injustice et de l'émigration mais qui demeure toujours vive dans les souvenirs de celui qui l'a quittée. Et ce souvenir reste figé dans la mémoire et se pose dans le cœur pour former un résidu émotif qui déborde et se déverse sous forme de mots, de pensées et d'images d'un passé, d'un jour ou d'un instant vécu e qui continue à faire vivre mille émotions.
Les reines du crime organisé Le Monde secret des femmes gangsters
by Sonia Broyart Jerry BaderLes reines du crime organisé Le Monde secret des femmes gangsters Du curieux univers des clans de motardes japonaises à l'ascension puis à la chute des Quarante Éléphants de Londres, l'histoire du crime organisé féminin est à la fois fascinante et étrange. Voici les histoires, vraies ou légendaires de femmes chef de gang qui ont brisé le mythe de la douceur féminine. Voici Le Monde secret des femmes gangsters.
Les uvis de la ira
by Enfermera SaturadaDesprés de La vida és sèrum i El tiempo entre suturas, i després d'haver recorregut mitja Espanya infructuosament fent turisme d'oposició cercant la plaça fixa, l'Infermera Saturada, «Satu» pels amics, torna a la càrrega més saturada i més llançada que mai amb Les uvis de la ira. COMPOSICIÓPrincipi actiu (75 %): Humor sanitari.Excipients (25 %): Ironia, humor negre, algun tuit i moltes segones intencions. POSOLOGIAAls adults no sanitaris, administrar un capítol cada 8 hores. Si pertany al gremi, administrar lliurement. INDICACIONSCapítols d'humor sanitari per a infermeres saturades, estudiants, supervisores, dones que criden de la borsa de treball, sanitaris en general i pacients en particular. CONTRAINDICACIONSNo se'n recomana l'administració a ministres de Sanitat. PRECAUCIONSAplicar amb compte a consellers de Sanitat i caps d'Infermeria. EFECTES SECUNDARISExplosions descontrolades de riure, pèrdues lleus d'orina, desig irrefrenable d'estudiar infermeria i addicció al món de la Enfermera Saturada. INTOXICACIÓEn cas de sobredosificació, no trucar al Centre Nacional de Toxicologia. PRESENTACIÓ100% digital. Tinta electrònica no comestible. ADVERTÈNCIESMantenir fora de l'abast de les infermeres tristes. Laboratoris Infermera Saturada®. Mirant el dolor amb un somriure des del 2012. Troba a la Infermera Saturada a:Facebook: EnfermeraSaturadaTwitter: @EnfrmraSaturadaInstagram: Enfermera_SaturadaWeb: enfermerasaturada.es
Lesbian for a Year
by Brooke HemphillWhat happens when a young heterosexual woman wakes up one morning with a splitting hangover and a naked woman wrapped around her? She kisses goodbye to her unfulfilling and messy straight life in search of something more. And so begins Brooke Hemphill's year of dating women. From a lesbian reality show and wild Mardi Gras parties to an illicit affair and a broken heart, Brooke learns more than she bargained for about herself, her sexuality, and the nature of relationships and intimacy.
Lesbian Friendships (Cutting Edge)
by Jacqueline S. Weinstock Esther RothblumFriends as lovers; lovers as friends; ex-lovers as friends; ex-lovers as family; friends as family; communities of friends; lesbian community. These are just a few of the phrases heard often in the daily discourse of lesbian life. What significance do they have for lesbians? Do lesbians view friends as family and what does this analogy mean? What sorts of friendships exist between lesbians? What sorts of friendships do lesbians form with non-lesbian women, or with men? These and other questions regarding the kinds of friendships lesbians imagine and experience have rarely been addressed. Lesbian Friendships focuses on actual accounts of friendships involving lesbians and examines a number of issues, including the transition from friends to lovers and/or lovers to friends, erotic attraction in friendship, diverse identities among lesbians, and friendships across sexuality and/or gender lines.
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir In Archives
by Amelia PossanzaFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardsFor readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to loveWhen Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world&’s largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. These stories inspired her to seek out lesbians throughout history who could become her role models, in romance and in life.Centered around seven love stories for the ages, this is Possanza&’s journey into the archives to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the twentieth century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed, and where their memories echo and live on. Possanza&’s hunt takes readers from a drag king show in Bushwick to the home of activists in Harlem and then across the ocean to Hadrian&’s Library, where she searches for traces of Sappho in the ruins. Along the way, she discovers her own love—for swimming, for community, for New York City—and adds her record to the archive.At the heart of this riveting, inventive history, Possanza asks: How could lesbian love help us reimagine care and community? What would our world look like if we replaced its foundation of misogyny with something new, with something distinctly lesbian?
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence
by Rosemary Curb Nancy ManahanIn these unique and compelling revelations, both ex-nuns and present nuns unlock the most secret doors in their closed and mysterious communities. Under rigidly enforced rules of behavior, where women's lives are consecrated and subjugated to the most sacred of vows, where "particular friendships" are ruthlessly eradicated under pain of sin and expulsion, still the power of love manages to emerge and survive. Each nun in these stories describes the infividual and searing path she has journeyed to discover and face and experience the truth of herself: that she is a Lesbian nun.
Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation
by Shirley Idelson Sue Levi Elwell Rebecca T. AlpertStories of eighteen lesbian rabbis.
Lesley Blanch: Inner Landscapes, Wilder Shores
by Anne BostonBlanch, writer, artist and adventuress, followed her own compass in everything she did. She called herself a romantic traveller; her appetite for the exotic colours all her books. The first, The Wilder Shores of Love, became a worldwide bestseller and is still in print. Emotions, she insisted, can be transposed to places or countries and in this she was her own best example. Her guiding passion for Russia began in childhood; later she found the 'eternal Slav' in Romain Gary, Franco-Slav diplomat and writer, and with him embarked on a series of postings from Bulgaria to Los Angeles. After their divorce she transferred her obsession to Turkey, Persia and the Islamic East where she travelled widely, with tremendous baggage. She eventually settled on the Cote d'Azur, in a small pink villa dressed as exotically as herself. Lesley Blanch loved mystery; vivid yet elusive, she hid as much as she revealed and created a legend about her early past. In this first biography, Anne Boston draws on publishers' archives, unpublished journals and conversations with those who knew her, to piece together the portrait of an escapist for whom 'character plus opportunity equals fortune'.
Lesley Blanch: Inner Landscapes, Wilder Shores
by Anne BostonBlanch, writer, artist and adventuress, followed her own compass in everything she did. She called herself a romantic traveller; her appetite for the exotic colours all her books. The first, The Wilder Shores of Love, became a worldwide bestseller and is still in print.Emotions, she insisted, can be transposed to places or countries and in this she was her own best example. Her guiding passion for Russia began in childhood; later she found the 'eternal Slav' in Romain Gary, Franco-Slav diplomat and writer, and with him embarked on a series of postings from Bulgaria to Los Angeles. After their divorce she transferred her obsession to Turkey, Persia and the Islamic East where she travelled widely, with tremendous baggage. She eventually settled on the Cote d'Azur, in a small pink villa dressed as exotically as herself.Lesley Blanch loved mystery; vivid yet elusive, she hid as much as she revealed and created a legend about her early past. In this first biography, Anne Boston draws on publishers' archives, unpublished journals and conversations with those who knew her, to piece together the portrait of an escapist for whom 'character plus opportunity equals fortune'.
Leslie F*cking Jones
by Leslie JonesWINNER OF THE 2024 AUDIE AWARD FOR HUMORA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BARNES AND NOBLE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A TOWN & COUNTRY BEST CELEBRITY MEMOIR OF 2023 A VULTURE BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2023 Hey you guys, it&’s Leslie. I&’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I&’m gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a b*tch is fifty-five and she&’s smoked a ton of weed. But while bits might be a touch hazy, I can promise you the underlying truth is REAL. Whether I&’m talking about my childhood growing up in the South, my early stand-up days driving from gig to gig through the darkest parts of our country and praying I wouldn&’t get murdered, what Chris Rock told Lorne Michaels, that time I wanted to shoot Whoopi Goldberg on SNL, and yeah, I&’ll tell you all about Ghostbusters and the nudes and Supermarket Sweep and The Daily Show . . . I&’m sharing it all in these pages. It&’s not easy being a woman in comedy, especially when you&’re a tall-*ss Black woman with a trumpet voice. I have to fight so that no one takes me for granted, and no one takes advantage. These are the stories that explain why. (Cue the Law & Order theme.)
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
by Axton Betz-HamiltonIn this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family. <P><P>Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents both had their identities stolen. Their credit ratings were ruined, and they were constantly fighting over money. This was before the age of the Internet, when identity theft became more commonplace, so authorities and banks were clueless and reluctant to help Axton's parents. <P><P>Axton's family changed all of their personal information and moved to different addresses, but the identity thief followed them wherever they went. Convinced that the thief had to be someone they knew, Axton and her parents completely cut off the outside world, isolating themselves from friends and family. Axton learned not to let anyone into the house without explicit permission, and once went as far as chasing a plumber off their property with a knife. <P><P>As a result, Axton spent her formative years crippled by anxiety, quarantined behind the closed curtains in her childhood home. She began starving herself at a young age in an effort to blend in--her appearance could be nothing short of perfect or she would be scolded by her mother, who had become paranoid and consumed by how others perceived the family. <P><P>Years later, her parents' marriage still shaken from the theft, Axton discovered that she, too, had fallen prey to the identity thief, but by the time she realized, she was already thousands of dollars in debt and her credit was ruined. <P><P>The Less People Know About Us is Axton's attempt to untangle an intricate web of lies, and to understand why and how a loved one could have inflicted such pain. Axton will present a candid, shocking, and redemptive story and reveal her courageous effort to grapple with someone close that broke the unwritten rules of love, protection, and family.
The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959
by Victor KlempererThe superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles.'Compulsive reading' LITERARY REVIEW 'Deeply engrossing' SPECTATOR'Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank' SUNDAY TIMES'A vivid and powerful account of a remarkable life' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAYJune 1945. The immediate postwar period produces many shocks and revelations - some people have behaved better than Klemperer had believed, others much worse. His sharp observations are now turned on the East German Communist Party, which he himself joins, and he notes many similarities between Nazi and Communist behaviour. Politics, he comes to believe, is above all the choice of the "lesser evil". He serves in the GDR's People's Chamber and represents East German scholarship abroad. But it is the details of everyday life, and the honesty and directness, that make these bestselling diaries so fascinating.
A Lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Denise Lewis Patrick Rodney S. PateLevel 2: Reading Independently * More complex stories * Varied sentence structure * Paragraphs and short chapters Young Martin Luther King Jr. is having some problems with his best friend, Bobby. First, they are going to different schools this year. Next, Bobby's dad is not letting his son play with Martin. When Martin learns why, he is confused and hurt -- but he learns a lesson that he will never forget.
Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life
by Gisele BündchenSupermodel and philanthropist Gisele Bündchen shares personal stories, insights, and photos to explore lessons that have helped shape her life.Gisele Bündchen's journey began in southern Brazil, growing up with five sisters, playing volleyball, and rescuing the dogs and cats around her hometown. In fact, she wanted to become either a professional volley player or a veterinarian. But at the age of 14, fate suddenly intervened in in the form of a modeling scout, who spotted her in São Paulo. <P><P>Four years later, Gisele's appearance in Alexander McQueen's memorably rain-soaked London runway show in the spring 1998 launched her spectacular career as a fashion model, and put an end to the "heroin chic" era of fashion. Since then, Gisele has appeared in almost 400 ad campaigns and on over 1200 magazine covers. She has walked in more than 470 fashion shows for the most influential brands in the world. Gisele has become an icon, leaving a lasting mark on the fashion industry. <P><P>But until now, few people have gotten to know the real Gisele, a woman whose private life stands in dramatic contrast to her public image. In Lessons, she reveals for the first time who she really is and what she's learned over the past 37 years to help her live a meaningful life--a journey that takes readers from a childhood spent barefoot in small-town Brazil, to an internationally successful career, motherhood and marriage to quarterback Tom Brady. <P><P>A work of great openness and vulnerability, Lessons reveals the inner life of a very public woman. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
The Lessons: How I learnt to Manage My Mental Health and How You Can Too
by Nile Wilson'If you want to develop real strength and resilience, read this book.' Tom DaleyNile Wilson has always been one of life's winners; a charismatic young man with an Olympic bronze medal in the Horizontal Bar at just 21 years old. But after a serious neck injury, forcing him to retire early and miss taking part in the Tokyo Olympics, Nile's world fell apart.Swamped with depression, anxiety and addictive behaviours, his mental health went over a cliff. Over the past few years, Nile has had to face down his demons and accept his new reality, and this is the book he wish he'd been given before it all began.Based on 15 hard-won lessons, Nile will guide you through the tools that have helped him come to back from the brink and find, for the first time, a sense of inner calm and renewed purpose. From recognizing destructive patterns, redefining success and managing self-talk, The Lessons will inspire and guide you through the ups and downs of life, and help you to build resilience and self-belief, no matter what.
Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery
by John WestMaybe redemption is not a place you find, but a system of mapmaking. Sketch a land. Pencil in dragons. Imagine it real, resplendent, and broken under a waxing moon.Lessons and Carols is a genre-bending memoir that explores the aftershocks of alcoholism and mental illness through a fresh look at the powers of poetry, ritual, and community. As a new parent, West grapples with his own fragmented recovery and grief for the friends he lost to addiction, asking if anyone can really change, or if we are always bound to repeat the past.Echoing the form of a traditional Anglican Christmas service of stories and songs, West&’s lyrical prose invites readers into an unorthodox rendition of the liturgy called Lessons and Carols. Each December, a faithful circle of irreligious friends assembles to eat and sing and re-imagine an old story about love made flesh. In that gathering&’s glow, resentments turn to quiet wonder at the ways a better world can appear.Both tender and bracing, West&’s poetic meditation of the possibilities of change will resonate deeply with anyone who has tired of their own destructive loops. In this stirring account of recovery, redemption remains elusive—and also a promise as tangible as a newborn.Hardscrabble winter, gray and lonely, requires Christmas. Or, rather, in its depths, I require Christmas: words no longer cold, chrome, and barren, but alive, golden, cradled in my arms.
Lessons For Dylan: On Life, Love, the Movies, and Me
by Joel SiegelAt the age of fifty-seven, movie critic Joel Siegel both became a father for the first time and learned that he had cancer. In Lessons for Dylan, Siegel shares all the things he wants his son to know-in case he's not around to tell him. It's a story about a life well-lived and about living life well. It's chock-full of earnest advice, hilarious anecdotes, a Yiddish lexicon, and recollections of everyone from Brad Pitt to the Beatles. Siegel lays out the History of the Jewish People in Four Jokes; offers Dylan manly advice on sex ("ask your mother"), culinary arts, the movies; and of course, offers a few lectures ("Be anything you want to be, but, please God, please don't want to be an actor"). Along the way, Joel teaches Dylan, and readers, a little something about growing up at any age. At times heart-wrenching, at times laugh-out-loud funny, Joel Siegel has crafted an indelible and enduring love letter to his son, and a literary gift to us all.
Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse”
by Emily RaboteauAward-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice—and what it takes to find shelter. Lessons for Survival is a probing series of pilgrimages from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children to thrive without coming undone in an era of turbulent intersecting crises.With camera in hand, Raboteau goes in search of birds, fluttering in the air or painted on buildings, and city parks where her children may safely play while avoiding pollution, pandemics, and the police. She ventures abroad to learn from Indigenous peoples, and in her own family and community, she discovers the most intimate examples of resilience. Raboteau bears witness to the inner life of Black womanhood, motherhood, the brutalities and possibilities of cities, while celebrating the beauty and fragility of nature. This innovative work of reportage and autobiography stitches together multiple stories of protection, offering a profound sense of hope.