Titres dans États-Unis

Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence. The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why? In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”—how the...

Les Rockefeller… rarement une dynastie a marqué à ce point l’histoire des États-Unis et, plus largement, celle du XXe siècle. Pour le plus grand nombre, ils symbolisent l’argent, la puissance et la philanthropie. Au départ, John D.Rockefeller senior, le " roi du pétrole ". Dans les années 1870, ce visionnaire austère se lance dans le raffinage de l’or noir et bâtit un empire. À la fin de sa vie, il est l’homme le plus riche du monde. Son fils, Junior, préfère s’éloigner de l’univers impitoyable des affaires pour celui de la philanthropie.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Fascinating…the fullest portrait of Kennedy ever written.” —The Washington Post The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate and detailed look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories, his...

The Power Broker tells the story of Robert Moses, the single most powerful man in New York for almost half a century and the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever once being elected to office, he created for himself a position of supreme and untouchable authority, allowing him to utterly reshape the city of New York, turning it into the city we know today, while at the same time blighting the lives of millions and remaining accountable to no one.

Ovnis : engins extraterrestres, supercheries ou erreurs d’interprétation ? Pour la première fois au Québec, un ex-adepte d’ufologie brise l’omerta qui règne dans la communauté des ufologues–ces soi-disant chercheurs de vérité.

From two leading economists comes a groundbreaking new portrait of the hidden fortunes of Main Street business owners—ordinary Americans who built extraordinary wealth and are quietly rewriting the rules of money and power. Most people think the path to great wealth runs through Wall Street or...

THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER ""A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future."" –Howard Fast Historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United...

Niri und ihre Freunde haben sich vor den Anschuldigungen der Malkariten in den Turm der Könige geflüchtet. Doch kaum hat das neue Akademiejahr begonnen, müssen sie erkennen, dass die Machtübernahme des Malkaritenordens bereits im vollen Gange ist. Rigorose Regeln werden erlassen, welche trotz aller Privilegien bis in den Turm der Könige hinein zu spüren sind und immer mehr Aeleven in die Arme der Malkaritenarmee treiben. Während die Bedrohung einer Schreckensherrschaft des Ordens immer greifbarer wird, finden sich Niri und ihre Freunde in einem Wettrennen gegen die Zeit wieder.

Roots is a groundbreaking story of history and family that spanned continents and touched generations. One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots galvanized the nation and created an extraordinary political, racial, social, and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold more than one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

"A smart, endlessly interesting exercise in connecting cultural dots to learn how we got here."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review From the New York Times best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne, a revelatory history of white Christian womanhood in the United States. In her...

Empire of Pain meets Killing Pablo in this thrilling braided narrative of two families on opposite sides of the fentanyl crisis: the sons of El Chapo fighting for succession after their father’s capture, and a Mexican-American mother devastated by the lethal flow of drugs across the southern...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Three months before plutonium fell on Nagasaki, it was already inside American bodies. Not soldiers. Not volunteers. Hospital patients, in beds, who had come in to be healed. Eighteen of them were chosen because doctors believed they were dying anyway...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Четвъртък, 4 август 1892. Във Фол Ривър, Масачузетс, още рано сутринта е мъчително топло, когато една прислужница в таванската си стаичка чува...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland around 1818, and this is the account he wrote himself — not a novel, not a retelling, but the testimony of a man who taught himself to read, fought back against a brutal overseer, escaped north, and...

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America’s founding period. The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic...

L'Australie est souvent perçue comme une jeune nation, définie par la colonisation britannique et le peuplement moderne — mais son histoire s'étend bien au-delà de l'arrivée des Européens. Berceau de l'une des plus anciennes cultures humaines continues au monde, les peuples indigènes d'Australie ont développé des sociétés, des lois et des pratiques de gestion des terres sophistiquées sur des milliers d'années, bien avant l'arrivée de la Première Flotte en 1788. Ce livre explore l'Australie dans toute sa complexité.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. For seventeen years, someone mailed and planted homemade bombs across America. The targets were universities, a computer shop, an airliner and a family home in New Jersey. Sixteen bombs, three dead, twenty-three injured, and not one useful clue to the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Siebzehn Jahre lang sucht das FBI einen Mann, von dem es kaum mehr hat als eine Zeichnung: ein Unbekannter mit Kapuze und Fliegerbrille. Zwischen 1978 und 1995 explodieren sechzehn selbstgebaute Bomben, an Universitäten, in einem Flugzeug, vor einem...

When his name was whispered, outlaws listened. When he rode, the frontier trembled. In the vast wilderness of Indian Territory, where federal law was just a distant rumor and justice came from the barrel of a gun, one man's presence changed everything. Bass Reeves didn't just enforce the...

On December 2, 1859—the day John Brown was executed—abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison delivered a scorching funeral oration that fused moral clarity with political thunder. A lifelong pacifist, Garrison nonetheless defends Brown’s purpose, indicting a Union “cursed” by slavery and...