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Avec sa personnalité hors norme, son franc-parler et son allure quelque peu extravagante pour l'époque, Einstein façonna tout au long de sa vie l'image qui est devenue peu à peu celle du génie iconoclaste, excentrique, pacifiste, athée et engagé. En le présentant comme un simple vérificateur de brevets découvrant, seul, les deux plus grandes théories du XXe siècle et comme un pacifiste fermement opposé à la guerre, les innombrables biographies qui lui ont été consacrées ont ainsi fait naître le « mythe d'Albert Einstein ». Pour l'entretenir, certains n'ont pas hésité à gommer tous les aspects méconnus et peu reluisants du personnage, en renvoyant à un public toujours plus avide d'extraordinaire et de sensationnel l'image policée du savant idéalisé tirant la langue aux photographes. Cet ouvrage souhaite en finir avec le mythe en analysant, à partir d'archives et de documents désormais accessibles, un certain nombre d'idées reçues le concernant. Au fil des chapitres, le lecteur découvrira toute l'ambiguïté du personnage à la fois moderne et conservateur, libéral et autoritaire, radical et opportuniste, Don Juan humaniste, pacifiste en temps de paix mais pas en temps de guerre, n'hésitant pas à renoncer à ses propres convictions au profit de ses intérêts personnels. Ce portrait sans concession présente Einstein tel qu'il fut réellement et non tel qu'on aurait voulu qu'il soit.
Physicists --- Biography.
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Comment saisir les vies oubliées, celles dont on ne sait rien ? Comment reconstituer au plus près l'atmosphère d'une époque, non pas à grands coups de pinceau, mais à partir des mille petits événements attrapés au plus près de la vie quotidienne, comme dans un tableau impressionniste ?Arlette Farge offre ici ce qu'on appelle les « déchets » ou les « reliquats » du chercheur : ces bribes d'archives déclarées inclassables dans les inventaires, délaissées parce que hors des préoccupations présentes de l'historien. Ce sont des instantanés qui révèlent la vie sociale, affective et politique du siècle des Lumières. Prêtres, policiers, femmes, ouvriers, domestiques, artisans s'y bousculent.De ces archives surgissent des images du corps au travail, de la peine, du soin, mais aussi des mouvements de révolte, des lettres d'amour, les mots du désir, de la violence ou de la compassion. Le bruit de la vague, expliquait Leibnitz, résulte des milliards de gouttelettes qui la constituent ; Arlette Farge immerge son lecteur dans l'intimité de ces vies oubliées. Une nouvelle manière de faire de l'histoire.
Artists --- Biography.
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Get the Summary of Max Frumes & Sujeet Indap's The Caesars Palace Coup in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the tradition of Barbarians at the Gate and The Big Short comes the riveting, multi-dimensional poker game between private equity firms and distressed debt hedge funds that played out from the Vegas Strip to Manhattan boardrooms to Chicago courthouses and even, for a moment, the halls of the United States Congress. On one side: relentless financial engineers Marc Rowan, David Sambur, and David Bonderman with their teams at Apollo Global Management and TPG Capital. On the other: superstar distressed debt investors Dave Miller and Ryan Mollett with their cohorts at the likes of Elliott Management, Oaktree Capital, and Appaloosa Management.The Caesars bankruptcy put a twist on the old-fashioned casino heist. Through a 27 billion leveraged buyout and a dizzying string of financial engineering transactions, Apollo and TPG?in the midst of the post-Great Recession slump?had seemingly snatched every prime asset of the company from creditors, with the notable exception of Caesars Palace. But Caesars' hedge fund lenders and bondholders had scooped up the company's paper for nickels and dimes. And with their own armies of lawyers and bankers, they were ready to do everything necessary to take back what they believed was theirs?if they could just stop their own infighting.
Business --- Biography --- Business & Economics --- Biography & Autobiography
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A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic poem, Vergil (70-19 BCE) became the world's first media celebrity, a living legend. But the real Vergil is a shadowy figure; we know that he was born into a modest rural family, that he led a private and solitary life, and that, in spite of poor health and unusual emotional vulnerabilities, he worked tirelessly to achieve exquisite new effects in verse. Vergil's most famous work, the Aeneid, was commissioned by the emperor Augustus, who published the epic despite Vergil's dying wish that it be destroyed. Sarah Ruden, widely praised for her translation of the Aeneid, uses evidence from Roman life and history alongside Vergil's own writings to make careful deductions to reconstruct his life. Through her intimate knowledge of Vergil's work, she brings to life a poet who was committed to creating something astonishingly new and memorable, even at great personal cost.
Poets, Latin --- Biography. --- Biography --- Vergilius Maro, Publius
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Introduces Cabral's writings on colonialism and imperialism, nationalism and national liberation, class and class struggle, and the state.
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Seeking the factors that account for Ceausescu's remarkable successes, as well as his disastrous failures, Fischer examines in detail his personal background before World War II, his development as a party official, and particularly, his methods of rule since 1965.
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Hilary Tham's memoirs reveal the many images, cultures, myths, and memories out of which her poetry has emerged.
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Volume 8 is the penultimate volume of a 9-volume set providing the most comprehensive and complete study ever compiled about the turbulent period of the English and British Civil Wars and their aftermath.
Great Britain. --- History --- Biography.
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Volume 6 of a 9-volume set providing the most comprehensive and complete study ever compiled about the turbulent period of the English and British Civil Wars and their aftermath.
Great Britain. --- History --- Biography.
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This is volume 3 of a 9-volume set providing the most comprehensive and complete study ever compiled about the turbulent period of the English and British Civil Wars and their aftermath.
Great Britain. --- History --- Biography.
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