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Elon Musk, Da Vinci de notre siècle ! Dans le monde contemporain, on parle partout d'un vrai star des technologies avancées, Elon Musk. Il invente de nouveaux moyens de paiements, construit la voiture électrique Tesla, rêve des voyages dans l'espace...

Theodore Robert Bundy, dit "le tueur de femmes", est né le 24 novembre 1946 à Burlington. Il est mort le 24 janvier 1989 à Starke...

Marcel Petiot, dit le Docteur Petiot, était un médecin français qui fut accusé de meurtres après la découverte à son domicile parisien des restes de vingt-sept personnes...

Juin 1974, Marseille. Marie-Dolores Rambla, huit ans, est enlevée sous les yeux de son petit frère et retrouvée morte deux jours plus tard...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry est né à Lyon dans un milieu aristocratique, construit sur une architecture de valeurs classiques évoquant la marquise de Sévigné...

L'affaire du Dahlia noir fait référence au meurtre non élucidé d'Elizabeth Ann Short, 22 ans, surnommée le Dahlia noir...

David Richard Berkowitz, aussi connu sous le surnom de "Fils de Sam", est un tueur en série américain qui a avoué le meurtre de six personnes...

A life of Matilda - empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages....

In this highly accessible discussion, Bart Ehrman examines the most recent textual and archaeological sources for the life of Jesus, along with the history of first-century Palestine, drawing a fascinating portrait of the man and his teachings....

In Madoff Talks, author Jim Campbell presents the most comprehensive insider account of the Madoff saga to date....

On Mother's Day night, 2004, award-winning fourth grade teacher Nancy Seaman left the Tudor home she shared with her husband of 32 years in the gated community of Farmington Hills, near Detroit, Michigan, and drove in a driving rain storm to Home Depot, to purchase a hatchet....

Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, George M. Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs....

Each time she knelt to "catch" another wriggling baby - nearly 3,000 times during her remarkable career - California midwife Peggy Vincent paid homage to the moment when pain bows to joy and the world makes way for one more....

...And What Do You Do? is a hard-hitting analysis of the royal family, exposing its extravagant use of public money and the highly dubious behaviour of some among its ranks, whilst being critical of the knee-jerk sycophancy shown by the press and politicians....

Early in his career, A.J. Jacobs put his Ivy League education to work at Entertainment Weekly....

Steve Almond doesn't just love candy, he unabashedly worships every aspect of confectionary culture....

Think you know Elizabeth Pipko? Guess again. She's been described by many as a rising star in the conservative movement, but how did she get here? And more importantly, did she ever plan to? In Finding My Place, Elizabeth takes us back to the beginning....

Mylène Paquette est la première personne des Amériques à avoir traversé l’Atlantique Nord à la rame, en solitaire. Une aventure humaine qui va bien au-delà de l’exploit sportif. Sur un ton très personnel, elle nous raconte l’histoire de son odyssée comme on ne l’a jamais entendue....

En 1845, l'écrivain et philosophe Henry David Thoreau, se retire seul pour deux ans et deux mois, en pleine nature dans une cabane de sa...

During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, his courageous wife....