Résultats pour "roman roman" dans Politique et gouvernement

Giuliano da Empoli nous livre le compte-rendu aussi haletant que glaçant de ses pérégrinations au pays de la puissance, de New York à Ryad, de l’ONU au Ritz Carlton de MBS. Il nous guide de l’autre côté du miroir, là où le pouvoir s’acquiert par des actions irréfléchies et...

Il faut prêter attention aux analyses d'Amin Maalouf : ses intuitions se révèlent des prédictions, tant il semble avoir la prescience des grands bouleversements de l'Histoire. Il s'inquiétait il y a vingt ans de la montée des "identités meurtrières" ; il y a dix ans du "dérèglement du monde".

Difficile de préciser exactement quand le démon est apparu sur Terre, peut-être était-il déjà dans le cœur des premiers hommes, mais il a vraiment commencé à se manifester à partir de 687 avant Jésus-Christ et depuis il n'a fait qu'accroître son emprise. Aujourd'hui il est indispensable, omnipotent et omniprésent. Il guide nos vies, il est à l'origine de nos joies, de nos malheurs, de la plupart des guerres. Il a vaincu la religion, le communisme et même l'amour. Il est la règle du jeu.

Depuis le 7 octobre, je ne dors plus vraiment. Je ferme les yeux, mais la nuit ne me repose pas. Elle me replonge dedans. Le tunnel. Les explosions. Les cris qui déchirent l'air. Je me réveille en sursaut, le cœur affolé, avec une question qui cogne plus fort que tout : comment continuer ? Même la nuit ne veut pas de moi est le récit d'un homme qui a vacillé dans une époque qui tremble, mais qui a découvert une vérité essentielle : on ne tient pas seul.

Pubblicato nel 1949, il libro offre la visione da incubo del satirista politico George Orwell di un mondo totalitario e burocratico e il tentativo di un povero uomo di trovare l'individualità. Il genio del romanzo è la presenza di Orwell nella vita moderna - l'ubiquità della televisione, la distorsione del linguaggio - e la sua capacità di costruire una versione così completa dell'inferno. Lettura obbligatoria per gli studenti da quando è stata pubblicata, si colloca tra i romanzi più terrificanti mai scritti.

MEURTRES, VOLS, TRAHISONS : LES EFFETS DÉLÈTERES DE L'APPÂT DU GAIN. Dans cette famille bourgeoise et rangée du second empire, la soirée s'annonce des plus tranquilles : Vincent Favoral, caissier de la banque Thaller, reçoit quelques habitués à dîner en famille. Elle vire au drame lorsque Thaller fait irruption en accusant Favoral de détournement de fonds. Favoral paniqué, et encouragé par son patron à se soustraire à la police, s'enfuit. C'est la stupéfaction parmi les convives. Favoral passait en effet pour un homme probe et ordonné, scrupuleux jusqu'à l'excès.

In The Good Ancestor, leading popular philosopher and best-selling author Roman Krznaric shows just how crucial long-term thinking is, not just for ordinary people but across political, economic, environmental and business worlds. From the personal to the political, Krznaric identifies the flaws of today’s short-term mindset. Drawing on ideas from a wide range of perspectives including neuroscience, cultural history, politics, economics, art and religion, he offers eight key approaches as a road map for the future of long-term thinking and planning.

Royal intrigue takes center stage in The Abyssinians, a gripping new audio drama starring Danielle Deadwyler (Till, The Piano Lesson) delivering a masterful performance as a cunning queen navigating treacherous political waters and scheming sons. In the wake of King Ezana’s death, his brash widow Queen Yodit (Deadwyler) must decide which of her twin sons will ascend to the throne. Clashing beliefs about religion, duty, and the rights of a ruler collide in this unforgettable story about a royal house at a crossroads in history.

A gripping new biography of one of the most influential and fascinating figures in classical history: Cicero When the Roman statesman Cicero was murdered in 43 BCE, his head was cut off and his tongue pierced with pins – a final, brutal act of revenge against a man whose words had shaped a...

In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story...

Named a “Best Book of the 21st Century” by Kirkus Reviews, this biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author brings to life the most intriguing woman in history: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and...

The best-selling author of Bringing Down the House (63 weeks on the New York Times best seller list and the basis for the hit movie 21) and The Accidental Billionaires (the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network) delivers an epic drama of wealth, rivalry, and betrayal among megawealthy Russian oligarchs - and its international repercussions.

The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west. Their...

News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the 19th century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane socialist future. Set over a century after a revolutionary upheaval in 1952, these 'Chapters from a Utopian Romance' recount his journey across London and up the Thames to Kelmscott Manor, Morris's own country house in Oxfordshire.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave is what many believe to be the foundation of Western Philosophy. It addresses what is visible and invisible, seen and observed versus intuited and imagined, and what is public versus private and just versus unjust. It also concerns the meaning and importance of education, the state of the soul, the conflict between truth and beauty, animal urges versus higher aspirations, knowledge versus ignorance, and on and on.

This 1902 essay collection by the Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin explore the role of mutually beneficial cooperation and reciprocity in the animal kingdom and human societies. It is an argument against theories of social Darwinism that emphasize competition and survival of the fittest, and against the romantic views of writers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau who thought that cooperation was motivated by universal love.

A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome “Exciting and provocative . . . Nero is a pleasure to read.”—Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian...

Step into the ruthless political intrigue of the ancient world to witness the epic rise and brutal fall of absolute rulers. This immersive historical biography transforms the dry dates of antiquity into a dramatic saga of paranoid tyrants, brilliant military strategists, and visionary reformers...

Meet the rulers who built, ruled, and nearly destroyed the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire didn’t rise by accident. It was shaped by emperors who ruled through brilliance, brutality, vision, fear—and sometimes madness.

In The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire, seasoned defense analyst Edward N. Luttwak reveals how the Romans were able to combine military strength, diplomacy, and fortifications to effectively respond to changing threats. Rome's secret was not ceaseless fighting, but comprehensive strategies that unified force, diplomacy, and an immense infrastructure of roads, forts, walls, and barriers. Finally, as barbarians began to penetrate the empire, Rome filed large armies in a strategy of "defense-in-depth," allowing invaders to pierce Rome's borders.