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The distribution of prime numbers
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ISBN: 1470454203 9781470454203 9781470447540 Year: 2019 Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society,

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Churchill : Le dictionnaire
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ISBN: 2262083304 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris ( ) : Perrin,

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"Un ouvrage monumental pour cet homme d'État qui ne le fut pas moins." Le Figaro Magazine S'il existe, dans la langue française, de nombreux livres – essais et biographies – qui s'intéressent à la figure emblématique de Winston Churchill, aucun volume rassemblant une telle masse de données sur la « saga churchillienne » n'avait jusqu'alors été publié. Soucieux d'éviter tout parti pris et de sortir des approches traditionnelles consistant à juger ou à célébrer l'homme d'État et/ou le chef de guerre, Antoine Capet a adopté une démarche rigoureuse, fondée sur les découvertes les plus récentes. Au travers de courts chapitres et notices, il offre ainsi au lecteur une synthèse complète de tous les événements qui ont marqué la vie publique et privée de Churchill. Il nous fait entrer dans son intimité, nous fait mieux connaître son incroyable carrière militaire, politique et littéraire, ses liens d'amitié ou son inimitié envers ses compatriotes et les autres décideurs qu'il a côtoyés, sa difficile vie familiale en dehors de son bonheur conjugal ou encore ses goûts et loisirs d'homme privé. Plus d'un demi-siècle après la mort du « Vieux Lion », il fallait une entreprise de cette ampleur pour restituer pleinement cet être exceptionnel dans sa seule vérité historique.


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Talking up a legacy : Australian prime ministers and the speeches we remember them by
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ISBN: 1760800902 9781760800901 9781760800413 1760800414 Year: 2019 Publisher: Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing,

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Une jeune femme sur un bateau ivre : Agathe Uwilingiyimana du Rwanda
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ISBN: 995655071X 9789956550715 Year: 2019 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, Project MUSE,

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Tres peu de personnes auront eu à traverser des temps aussi troubles que ceux que vecut Agathe Uwilingiyimana comme Premier ministre du Rwanda avant le genocide. Au sujet de cette femme de tête, ses idees et son action, bien des questions demeurent sans reponse. Qui l'a assassinee et pourquoi ? Aurait-elle tente un putsch contre le President Habyarimana ? Aurait-elle trempe dans le complot visant à assassiner ce dernier ? Comment entendait-elle sauver le pays du chaos et de la descente aux enfers apres la disparition inopinee du President de la Republique qu'elle avait si âprement combattu ? Était-elle maîtresse de ses decisions ou etait-elle desinformee ou manipulee ? Pourquoi et comment cette enseignante recemment embarquee en politique a-t-elle ete la cible privilegiee de la presse de caniveau, entre 1992 et 1994 ? Quel comportement exceptionnel a-t-elle eu pour que la patrie reconnaissante l'eleve au rang des heros dans l'ordre d'Imena ? Son royaume d'enfance, son adolescence et sa jeunesse prefiguraient-ils un destin si singulier ? À travers lectures, souvenirs, temoignages et anecdotes, son ami d'enfance nous offre un recit edifiant, court mais dense, qui nous fait decouvrir la vie et la personnalite complexe et polymorphe de cette flamme ephemere dans la nuit rwandaise.


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Alexis Tsipras : une histoire grecque
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ISBN: 9791025204573 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris: François Bourin,

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Janvier 2015 : Alexis Tsipras, candidat de Syriza, la Coalition de la gauche radicale, est élu Premier ministre par le peuple grec, qui souhaite en finir avec les politiques d’austérité imposées par l’Union européenne et le FMI. Six mois plus tard, il demande à son Parlement de ratifier un texte qui contredit ses promesses. Ses opposants le raillent ; certains de ses partisans crient à la trahison. Lors des élections législatives de juillet 2019, Syriza est battu et arrive derrière la Nouvelle Démocratie, le parti conservateur historique du pays. Que s’est-il passé ? À travers une enquête sans concessions, Fabien Perrier nous fait revivre les quarante-cinq dernières années de l’histoire de la Grèce, les difficultés et les crises auxquelles le pays a dû faire face, les espoirs et les déceptions qui l’ont animé. Avec ce récit vivant, nourri de nombreux témoignages de première main, l’auteur retrace cette tragédie, certes grecque, mais aussi européenne. Car à l’heure où de nombreux événements bouleversent l’équilibre de l’Europe, depuis le Brexit jusqu’à la « crise migratoire », en passant par la montée des populismes, cet ouvrage nous amène plus largement à interroger son avenir, notre avenir, plus que jamais marqué du sceau de l’incertitude…


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Remembering Bob
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ISBN: 1760872784 Year: 2019 Publisher: Sydney : Allen & Unwin,

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Bob Hawke's death in May 2019 sparked national mourning across the country as we remembered just how important Bob had been in the shaping of modern Australia. In an age when political personas have become increasingly formulaic and predictable, Bob was a man of glorious contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar who also had a deep affinity and understanding for mainstream Australia. He was a passionate ACTU officer and president who also knew how to work with big business. He loved his sport, a drink and a bet, yet was also deeply intellectual in his approach to policy. In an age when our respect for politicians has never been lower, we respected Bob. The huge public outpouring of grief after his death showed that we loved him too. Remembering Bob, instigated and edited by Bob's eldest daughter, Sue Pieters-Hawke, is a collection of stories and memories about Bob by his friends, colleagues, old political foes, and ordinary Australians whose paths crossed that of their everyman Prime Minister. They are by turns funny, serious, warm, illuminating and inspiring, and, taken together, they offer a true reflection of the extraordinary person he was, and what he meant to us all. As the Hon Jason Clare MP puts it in his pitch-perfect piece about growing up with Bob Hawke on TV: 'He is the green card in your pocket. He is the superannuation you will retire with. He is the architect of so much of what is Australia today. His invisible fingerprints are all around us. And we are a better country for it.'


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Emergency chronicles : Indira Gandhi and democracy's turning point
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ISBN: 9780691190006 9780691186726 0691190003 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern IndiaOn the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one harrowing months that followed, her regime unleashed a brutal campaign of coercion and intimidation, arresting and torturing people by the tens of thousands, razing slums, and imposing compulsory sterilization on the poor. Emergency Chronicles provides the first comprehensive account of this understudied episode in India's modern history. Gyan Prakash strips away the comfortable myth that the Emergency was an isolated event brought on solely by Gandhi's desire to cling to power, arguing that it was as much the product of Indian democracy's troubled relationship with popular politics.Drawing on archival records, private papers and letters, published sources, film and literary materials, and interviews with victims and perpetrators, Prakash traces the Emergency's origins to the moment of India's independence in 1947, revealing how the unfulfilled promise of democratic transformation upset the fine balance between state power and civil rights. He vividly depicts the unfolding of a political crisis that culminated in widespread popular unrest, which Gandhi sought to crush by paradoxically using the law to suspend lawful rights. Her failure to preserve the existing political order had lasting and unforeseen repercussions, opening the door for caste politics and Hindu nationalism.Placing the Emergency within the broader global history of democracy, this gripping book offers invaluable lessons for us today as the world once again confronts the dangers of rising authoritarianism and populist nationalism.


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Malevolent republic : a short history of the New India
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ISBN: 178738005X 9781787380059 Year: 2019 Publisher: London : Hurst,

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Remembering Wolsey : A History of Commemorations and Representations
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ISBN: 0823286231 0823282198 0823282201 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press,

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Remembering Wolsey seeks to contribute to our understanding of historical memory and memorialization by examining in detail the commemoration and representation of the life of Thomas Wolsey, the sixteenth-century cardinal, papal legate, and lord chancellor of England. Hornbeck surveys a wide range of representations of Cardinal Wolsey, from those contemporary with his death to recent mass-market appearances on television and historical fiction, to go beyond previous scholarship that has examined Wolsey only in an early modern context.Remembering Wolsey contributes significantly to the ongoing reimagining of English church history in the years prior to the Reformation. Surveying chronicle accounts, pamphlets, plays, poems, historical fictions, works of historical scholarship, civic pageants and monuments, films, and television programs, the book shows how an extended sequence of authors have told widely varying stories about Wolsey’s life, often through the lens of their own religious and ideological commitments and/or in response to the pressing concerns of their times.

Netanyahu's April 2019 election victory : implications for Israel's leadership and U.S. policy
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Year: 2019 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service,

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