Gu: 338 books

This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration – and exploitation – of other lands and peoples.

Poutine est-il notre ennemi ? Histoire d’une relation passionnelle entre la France et la Russie Avec Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, Jean-Paul Clément, Hubert Védrine, Michel Eltchaninoff, Andreï Gratchev, Arnaud Kalika et Franz-Olivier Giesbert. → Grand entretien avec Hélène...

Peter Cooper believed that he owed a debt to the city that had made him a rich man. During the nineteenth century, he made his fortune in industry and his name in politics, and he always felt a strong compulsion to give back to New York. His greatest achievement was the establishment of The Cooper Union,...

Researchers developed two scenarios to envision the future of mobility in China in 2030. Economic growth, the presence of constraints on vehicle ownership and driving, and environmental conditions differentiate the scenarios. By making potential long-term mobility futures more vivid, the team sought...

This book presents an innovative demographic toolkit known as the ProFamy extended cohort-component method for the projection of household structures and living arrangements with empirical applications to the United States, the largest developed country, and China, the largest developing country....

«Il racconto di una mamma francese, attratta dal jihadismo, che è riuscita a scappare dal Califfato.» Corriere della Sera «Un libro già dibattutissimo in Francia e Gran Bretagna nelle ore in cui il Califfato torna a far parlare della propria ferocia.» La Stampa «Sophie ha vissuto...

Dans la banlieue sud de Paris, deux et bientôt trois crimes atroces sont commis selon un scénario énigmatique. Chaque fois, on retrouve la victime énucléée et vidée de son sang au cœur d’une étrange mise en scène. Très vite, le commandant Lanester, profileur d’exception chargé de l’affaire,...

Anarchism and Marxism (from a paper given in New York on 6 Nov. 1973 with an introduction by the author for the first English language edition, 1981). The main part of my contribution to this Cienfuegos Press pamphlet is a paper which I had occasion to give in New York in 1973, on “Anarchism...

Korean Culture Series 14 Korean Court Dance  This book provides descriptions, according to period and type, of the court dance performed at festive events of the Royal Court, from the Three Kingdoms period up through the Joseon Dynasty era. There is a particular emphasis on the...

Un nouveau départ en Bretagne

The concept of the universal was born in the lands we now call Europe, yet it is precisely the universal that is Europe's undoing. All European politics is caught in a tension: to assert a European identity is to be open to multiplicity, but this very openness could dissolve Europe as such. This book...

Lors de son troisième voyage en 1679, avec la Compagnie des Indes, Antoine Galland, l'orientaliste des Mille et une nuits, rencontre Jean Bonnet. Ce dernier lui raconte comment tombé aux mains des pirates, il porta des chaînes et devint esclave à Tunis. Puis, protégé, il put jouir d'une semi liberté et fut enrôlé dans les aventures des corsaires barbaresques.

Événement – La terre, l’amour, le Christ : Michel Houellebecq monte au front → Michel Houellebecq au temps du désespoir par Sébastien Lapaque Si Michel Houellebecq est considéré comme un écrivain de la décadence, il ne cède jamais au déclinisme, affirme Sébastien Lapaque : son œuvre...

Dossier : L’Occident face à la Syrie → Henry Laurens : « Les jeux d’ingérence et d’interaction existent en Syrie depuis deux cents ans » Henry Laurens retrace l’histoire des accords Sykes-Picot qui, selon lui, ne sont pas responsables de l’instabilité chronique en Syrie...