Résultats pour "James" dans Histoire

Avec Plus rien ne pourra me blesser, David Goggins a démontré l'étendue des capacités inexploitées dont nous disposons tous et il a changé la vie de 5 millions de lecteurs. Petit garçon maltraité et mal-aimé, il est devenu un homme fort, courageux, déterminé. Dans Ne cède jamais, il vous fait pénétrer dans son laboratoire mental, où il a développé la philosophie, la psychologie et les stratégies qui lui ont permis de comprendre que ce qu'il prenait pour ses limites n'était que le début.

Ce livre raconte l'histoire vraie d'un père de famille de 36 ans qui menait une vie rangée et qui décide de s'enrôler dans la Légion étrangère pour donner un nouveau sens à son existence. Un choix extrême et douloureux, non sans conséquences. Une histoire longue et mouvementée à partir du moment où Danilo quitte tout, famille mais aussi amis, travail et patrie, pour se présenter au centre de recrutement de la Légion à Aubagne. Débute alors sa carrière militaire qui le conduira à servir la France et à voyager à travers le monde notamment en Afrique.

Officier traitant à la DGSE durant vingt ans, François Waroux lève le voile sur la réalité de ceux que l’on appelle les " espions". Il révèle les méthodes de surveillance, les manipulations par les agents, les techniques de filature, le travail sous couverture, les méthodes de chantage. Il confie aussi les conflits moraux d’un homme des services secrets amené à faire taire sa conscience pour servir son pays. En tant que spécialiste de l’espionnage industriel et du renseignement politique, il a été envoyé en mission en Éthiopie, au Sénégal, en Tunisie ou au Pakistan.

"L'Odyssée de James Joyce" - un voyage dans l’imaginaire de l’écrivain, et dans les secrets de son chef-d’œuvre Ulysse.---Hier controversé, aujourd’hui canonisé, James Joyce est de ceux qu’on ose à peine approcher, encore moins lire. Et pourtant son œuvre déboussole, son écriture emporte, ses livres fascinent.Avec cette série documentaire produite pour l’ambassade d’Irlande à Paris, les auteurs Laura El Makki et David Federmann (issus de l’école Radio France) se proposent de plonger dans le tumulte d’une langue, de déjouer les idées reçues, pour révéler la ...

The campaign around Firebase Ripcord in 1970 was the last major American offensive effort in the Vietnam War. It went badly and is little known. Elements of the 101st Airborne Division tried to go back to the area where the Hamburger Hill battles had been fought the year before, but they never made it.

He was crowned in gold and buried under a toilet. And in between, the world called him God. Haile Selassie ruled Ethiopia for over four decades — a modernizing monarch who stood toe-to-toe with Mussolini, walked out of exile like a prophet, and became the spiritual messiah of an entire global movement. To some, he was Africa’s last true emperor. To others, he was Jah Himself. From the smoke-filled hills of Jamaica to the lyrics of Bob Marley, The Lion of Judah lived on — not just as a man, but as a myth. This is the story of power, prophecy, betrayal, and rebirth. Crowned by men.

Stories from the Four Corners region that don't make it into the travel brochures. Uncommon histories from an iconic part of the American Southwest through the lens of race and class.

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative.

Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers of all time. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the 18th century, Cook unravelled the oldest mystery surrounding the existence of Terra Australis Incognita - the Great South Land. He became the first explorer to circumnavigate New Zealand and establish that it was two main islands; discover the Hawaiian Islands for the British Empire; and left an enduring legacy.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. One of...

Found inside the Greek Septuagint, some are believed to predate Christ they are considered to be canon scriptures by some churches but have been rejected by the Protestant denominations. Now, in this book, The Apocrypha, you will find all of these ancient texts, along with three other books which offer insights into the Christian faith that were once thought to be lost, including The Book of Enoch, The Book of Jubilees and The Book of Jasher.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson's vividly told A Little History of the United States.

Qu'il y-a-t-il de plus fascinant que les services secrets ? Avec notre collection espionnage, levez le voile sur les grandes affaires d'espionnage et découvrez la vraie histoire et les plus sombres secrets des plus célèbres espions.

In his audiobook, A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of powe, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.

Deep in the mist-shrouded mountains of Eastern Europe, where ancient castles crumble into forgotten valleys and village elders still whisper warnings after dark, lies the truth behind humanity's most enduring nightmare. Eastern European Shadows takes you on a chilling journey through newly discovered historical documents, archaeological evidence, and testimonies that will make you question everything you thought you knew about vampire folklore.

It wasn’t just a robbery—it was an engineering marvel disguised as a crime. In August 2005, a crew of thieves in Fortaleza, Brazil, pulled off one of the largest bank heists in history. By digging a tunnel stretching nearly 80 meters beneath the city, they reached the Banco Central’s vault and made off with almost $70 million in unmarked bills. No alarms. No violence. Just silence, dirt, and methodical brilliance.

In Plato and the Tyrant, acclaimed historian and classicist James Romm draws on personal letters of Plato to show how a philosopher helped topple the leading Greek power of the era: the opulent city of Syracuse. There, Plato encountered two authoritarian rulers, a father and son both named Dionysius, and tried to steer them toward philosophy. At the same time, he worked on his masterpiece, Republic, in which he conceived a ruler who unites perfect wisdom with absolute power.

From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath...

With an entirely fresh take on presidential history, James Swanson, author of the New York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, shares the story of his lifelong obsession with the murder of America’s most revered president and the frantic hunt for his assassin. The renowned Lincoln scholar treats listeners to an audible “walking tour” of the people, places, events, and artifacts that tell the story of those horrible days in April 1865.

Markets of Pain traces the global arc of licit opium from poppy fields and processing plants to the clinics and laboratories of modern medicine. It shows how both the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic treated the opium poppy as a national resource. In postcolonial India, nationalist leaders initially rejected opium's imperial legacy before embracing its strategic value. At the heart of this story are the cultivators, scientists, bureaucrats, and policymakers who shaped the licit opium trade and grappled with its far-reaching consequences.