Charles R : 546 books

Le 12 messidor an VII, Bonaparte écrivait du Kaire au sultan du Dârfour, Abd-el-Rhamân-el-Rachid, qui le félicitait sur ses triomphes et lui demandait de protéger les marchands du pays : « Au nom de Dieu clément et miséricordieux, il n’y a de...

Cromwell est un des personnages de l’histoire qui prêtent le plus à l’interprétation. C’est une nature complexe qui semble à la première vue un assemblage de disparates, et dont l’examen difficile peut conduire l’esprit à des jugemens aussi contradictoires...

Nous vivons dans un temps où l’étude de la société a le pas sur la science de l’homme. L’histoire du monde, le spectacle des évènemens, l’examen des rapports, soit des gouvernemens avec les peuples, soit des individus entre eux, l’observation des...

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Approaches to Political Thought raises three important questions concerning traditional political thought: (1) Why study the political writings and ideas of Plato, Machiavelli, and other long-dead writers? (2) Who among the writers, and which of their works, are worth studying? (3) How should they...

The 2016 presidential election was unconventional in many ways. The election of President Donald Trump caught many by surprise, with a true outsider — a candidate with no previous governmental experience and mixed support from his own party — won the election by winning in traditionally Democratic...

"You can't unring a bell." "It takes a village to raise a child." "Life is just a bowl of cherries." We sometimes think of proverbs as expressions of ancient wisdom, but in fact new proverbs are constantly arising. This unique volume is devoted exclusively to English language proverbs that originated...

An accessible and self-contained introduction to statistical models-now in a modernized new edition Generalized, Linear, and Mixed Models, Second Edition provides an up-to-date treatment of the essential techniques for developing and applying a wide variety of statistical models. The book presents...

Master technical analysis, step-by-step! Already the field's most comprehensive, reliable, and objective introduction, this guidebook has been thoroughly updated to reflect the field's latest advances.   Selected by the Market Technicians Association as the official companion to its...

Few things are as important as the food we eat. "Conversations in Food Studies" demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to...

Faced with changing economic circumstances and a reorientation of trade toward Europe and Asia, will Eurasia’s cities be able to adjust? Will some cities be granted the flexible regulations and supportive policies necessary for growth? And will some others be allowed to dwindle with policies put in...

En los capítulos iniciales de esta célebre novela, Pip, un niño huérfano y medroso, tiene un terrorífico encuentro con un preso evadido al que se ve obligado a procurar víveres y una lima. Poco después, es llamado a la tenebrosa mansión de una rica y recluida dama como compañero de juegos...

Everyone’s had THAT day—the one where a spell went south, a glitch ate some code in the doomsday device, and aliens are on the move eat your brains. Okay, maybe we haven't all had that day. In What Went Wrong?, fifteen authors give us stories of the best laid plans gone awry.*A unlucky...