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Sciences humaines & sociales
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Heroic Failure: Brexit and The Politics of Pain
Fintan O'Toole
- Head Of Zeus
- 11 Juillet 2019
- 9781789540994
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A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.
Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. -
A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people. The Libyan army officer who authored a new work of political philosophy, The Green Book, and lived in a tent with a harem of female soldiers, running his country like a mafia family business. And behind these almost incredible stories of fantastic violence and excess lie the dark secrets of Western greed and complicity, the insatiable taste for chocolate, oil, diamonds and gold that has encouraged dictators to rule with an iron hand, siphoning off their share of the action into mansions in Paris and banks in Zurich and keeping their people in dire poverty.
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THE WORLD AFLAME ; THE LONG WAR, 1914-1945
Dan Jones, Marina Amaral
- Head Of Zeus
- 7 Mai 2020
- 9781788547789
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CRUSADERS - AN EPIC HISTORY OF THE WARS FOR THE HOLY LANDS
Dan Jones
- Head Of Zeus
- 2 Avril 2020
- 9781781858899
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They eat horses, don't they? - the truth about the french
Piu Marie Eatwell
- Head Of Zeus
- 1 Août 2013
- 9781781854440
An informative, richly entertaining, myth-busting tour of France that will change the way you think about our nearest neighbours.
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BATTLE ROYAL : THE WARS OF LANCASTER AND YORK, 1450-1462
Hugh Bicheno
- Head Of Zeus
- 23 Septembre 2016
- 9781781859667
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WISE WORDS - THE PHILOSOPHY OF EVERYDAY LIFE
Stephen Trombley
- Head Of Zeus
- 15 Janvier 2017
- 9781784976521
A philosophical miscellany, as diverting as it is instructive, centred on an eclectic sequence of themes, ranging from advice to ageing, from backbiting to bigotry, from freedom to friendship, and from work to walking.
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Robbed of dignity, and subjected to excessive and hopeless medical interventions, most of us will die in hospital surrounded by strangers.This is a moving and unforgettable book on the western way of death where we have done our best to banish all thought of dying and made a good death increasingly difficult to achieve.
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THE WINTER FORTRESS ; THE EPIC MISSION TO SABOTAGE HITLER'S ATOMIC BOMB
Neal Bascomb
- Head Of Zeus
- 2 Mai 2017
- 9781784977054
The thrilling story of how SOE-trained commandos destroyed the Nazi's nuclear weapons programme in Norway one of the most daring and successful raids of World War II. The book is based on exhaustive research and never-before-seen diaries and letters and reads like a page-turning adventure story.
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THE COLOUR OF TIME - A NEW HISTORY OF THE WORLD, 1850-1960
Dan Jones, Marina Amaral
- Head Of Zeus
- 9 Septembre 2018
- 9781786692689
