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The Rise of the West is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that, from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present, major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim.

The witnesses are legion, scattered across the world and dotted through history, people who looked up and saw something impossible lighting up the night sky. What those objects were, where they came from, and who - or what - might be inside them is the subject of fierce debate and equally fierce mockery, so that most who glimpsed them came to wish they hadn't. Most, but not everyone.

That the average adult spends 50 to 70 percent of their day sitting is no surprise to anyone who works in an office environment. But few realize the health consequences they are suffering as a result of modernity's increasingly sedentary lifestyle, or the effects it has had on society at large. In Get Up!, health expert James A. Levine's original scientific research shows that today's chair-based world, where we no longer use our bodies as they evolved to be used, is having negativeconsequences on our health.

Read by Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Kathleen Turner, and Matthew Broderick Here are the immortals of Olympus—the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece—as freshly described as if they were alive today. Mighty Zeus with his fistful of thunderbolts; mischievous little Hermes; grey-eyed Athena...

Today's coaches are challenged with the recurring task of weaving threads from several disciplines into a tapestry that is fit for purpose in helping their clients learn and succeed. In this sense, the coach has to become a discriminating eclectic, developing a keen sense of judgment to select which threads are best woven into the fabric and those that it would be better to simply throw away.

Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future.

Simon adore la petite maison où il est né. La quitter pour une plus belle ? Impossible. Pas question. Pourtant, quand son petit frère Gaspard manifeste son inquiétude à son tour, Simon trouve les mots pour lui parler du déménagement.

Gefahr in der Rioja Mitten in die Auseinandersetzungen einer spanischen Großkellerei und einer jungen, engagierten Kooperative platzt der deutsche Reporter Henry Meyenbeeker. Als sein Informant Jaime Toledo, der Önologe der Kooperative, bei einem Autounfall ums Leben kommt, ist Henry alarmiert. Doch ein Motiv für ein mögliches Verbrechen ist nicht zu finden. Je tiefer Meyenbeeker gräbt, desto mehr Akteure bringt er gegen sich auf. Freunde werden zu Feinden, und Fremde helfen plötzlich weiter.

Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. Admired by Charles Dickens, who described her as his 'dear Scheherazade', she mingled storytelling and social realism to superb effect in her highly acclaimed fiction. This comprehensive collection comprises dramas and readings of her finest works and some lesser-known pieces.

Simon veut construire un garage tout seul. Gaspard, son petit frère, veut ajouter des pompes à essence au garage. Et sans le faire exprès, Gaspard casse le garage de Simon ! Horreur ! Une méga GIGA grande bagarre éclate.

Beyond the sainted Rembrandt—who harbored a startling darkness—and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy Hendrik Avercamp. Year after year, as he tried to make a life for himself in the Netherlands, Moser found friends among these centuries-dead artists. And he found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions that he was.

ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West. More than a century...

Testament artistique d'Oscar Wilde, "La ballade de la geôle de Reading" est un poème réquisitoire contre la peine de mort et les horreurs de la vie carcérale. Mais c'est surtout une ode à la compassion et à l'humanité. En décrivant les derniers jours d'un condamné à mort, Wilde nous fait toucher l'essence de notre humanité, Il fixe la "petite tente de ciel bleu", la paix possible qui suit même les plus grandes tourmentes ; il aborde les grands mystères de la vie : l'amour, la mort et la rédemption.

La relance du Parti Québécois et du mouvement indépendantiste dans son ensemble est au coeur du livre de Paul St-Pierre Plamondon. Le candidat à la course à la chefferie du PQ y relate son expérience de l’engagement sur le terrain, fait état de ses observations sur le parti, et donne une lecture convaincante des facteurs qui, selon lui, ramèneront inexorablement la cause de l’indépendance du Québec à l’avant-scène dans les prochaines années.

Do you want more optimism, confidence, resilience and motivation? Then this book is for you! We currently live in a time of unprecedented challenges, uncertainty, overwhelming stress, loss of hope at times and a need for mental strength and adaptability to a new way of life. Traditional...

Transported from the mid-twentieth century to New York City in the year 1882, Si Morley walks the fashionable "Ladies' Mile" of Broadway, is enchanted by the jingling sleigh bells in Central Park, and solves a 20th-century mystery by discovering its 19th-century roots. Falling in love with a beautiful young woman, he ultimately finds himself forced to choose between his lives in the present and the past. A story that will remain in the listener's memory, Time and Again is a remarkable blending of the troubled present and a nostalgic past....

James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the...

Notre résumé est court, simple et pragmatique. Il vous permet d'avoir les idées essentielles d'un grand livre en moins de 30 minutes. Comment arrêter le sucre? Il est difficile de contrôler ses envies de sucre au point de ne plus pouvoir s'arrêter d'en manger. Pour réussir à vous libérer de la dépendance au sucre, vous devez d'abord mettre fin à votre relation toxique avec la nourriture et voici comment.

Sevilla, 1911. Han pasado nueve años desde que Trinidad viajó a la ciudad para descubrir la historia de su familia, ligada a las míticas vajillas de La Cartuja. Instalada de nuevo en Inglaterra y volcada en su labor como ceramista, recibe una carta de la marquesa de Pickman, la propietaria de la fábrica de loza, que la hará regresar al lugar que marcó su vida.

I’m a worrier on my best days, but with a psycho tracking my every move because he’s obsessed with killing me, I’ve graduated to the level of paranoid lunatic. Even if I could forget about the tracker—not happening since he’s figured out the fastest way to get to me is to attack my adopted family—my regular life is also anxiety-inducing as the city of Magiford is brewing with trouble.