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| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: In the Name of Identity Amin Maalouf, 2012-03 An award-winning author explores why so many people commit crimes in the name of identity. Makes for compelling reading in America today.--The New York Times. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Origins Amin Maalouf, 2008-05-13 Origins, by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning, intergenerational saga. Set during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth—in the mountains of Lebanon and in Havana, Cuba—Origins recounts the family history of the generation of Maalouf's paternal grandfather, Boutros Maalouf. Maalouf sets out to discover the truth about why Boutros, a poet and educator in Lebanon, traveled across the globe to rescue his younger brother, Gabrayel, who had settled in Havana. What follows is the gripping excavation of a family's hidden past. Maalouf is an energetic and amiable narrator, illuminating the more obscure corners of late Ottoman nationalism, the psychology of Lebanese sectarianism, and the dynamics of family quarrels. He moves with great agility across time and space, and across genres of writing. But he never loses track of his story's central thread: his quest to lift the shadow of legend from his family's past. Origins is at once a gripping family chronicle and a timely consideration of Lebanese culture and politics. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Le naufrage des civilisations Amin Maalouf, 2019-03-13 Il faut prêter attention aux analyses d’Amin Maalouf : ses intuitions se révèlent des prédictions, tant il semble avoir la prescience des grands sujets avant qu’ils n’affleurent à la conscience universelle. Il s’inquiétait il y a vingt ans de la montée des Identités meurtrières ; il y a dix ans du Dérèglement du monde. Il est aujourd’hui convaincu que nous arrivons au seuil d’un naufrage global, qui affecte toutes les aires de civilisation. L’Amérique, bien qu’elle demeure l’unique superpuissance, est en train de perdre toute crédibilité morale. L’Europe, qui offrait à ses peuples comme au reste de l’humanité le projet le plus ambitieux et le plus réconfortant de notre époque, est en train de se disloquer. Le monde arabo-musulman est enfoncé dans une crise profonde qui plonge ses populations dans le désespoir, et qui a des répercussions calamiteuses sur l’ensemble de la planète. De grandes nations « émergentes » ou « renaissantes », telles la Chine, l’Inde ou la Russie, font irruption sur la scène mondiale dans une atmosphère délétère où règne le chacun-pour-soi et la loi du plus fort. Une nouvelle course aux armements paraît inéluctable. Sans compter les graves menaces (climat, environnement, santé) qui pèsent sur la planète et auxquelles on ne pourrait faire face que par une solidarité globale qui nous fait précisément défaut. Depuis plus d’un demi-siècle, l’auteur observe le monde, et le parcourt. Il était à Saigon à la fin de la guerre du Vietnam, à Téhéran lors de l’avènement de la République islamique. Dans ce livre puissant et ample, il fait œuvre à la fois de spectateur engagé et de penseur, mêlant récits et réflexions, racontant parfois des événements majeurs dont il s’est trouvé être l’un des rares témoins oculaires, puis s’élevant en historien au-dessus de sa propre expérience afin de nous expliquer par quelles dérives successives l’humanité est passée pour se retrouver ainsi au seuil du naufrage. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Adrift Amin Maalouf, 2020-09-04 The United States is losing its moral credibility. The European Union is breaking apart. Africa, the Arab world, and the Mediterranean are becoming battlefields for various regional and global powers. Extreme forms of nationalism are on the rise. Thus divided, humanity is unable to address global threats to the environment and our health. How did we get here and what is yet to come? World-renowned scholar and bestselling author Amin Maalouf seeks to raise awareness and pursue a new human solidarity. In Adrift, Maalouf traces how civilisations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century, mixing personal narrative and historical analysis to provide a warning signal for the future. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: The Rock of Tanios Amin Maalouf, 1994 In the 19th Century, a sheik's son is forced to flee Lebanon because of a power struggle. He finds refuge in Cyprus and plots against his enemies with the aid of the French and the British. A tale of palace intrigues by the author of Leo Africanus. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: 2084 Boualem Sansal, 2017-01-31 A “sharply satirical” novel about an oppressive religious dictatorship and one man’s discovery of an underground resistance (Library Journal). 2015 Winner of the Le Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie française A tribute to George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984 and a cry of protest against totalitarianism of all kinds, Boualem Sansal’s 2084 tells the story of a near future in which religious extremists have established a caliphate that forbids autonomous thought. In the year 2084, in the kingdom of Abistan—named after the prophet Abi, earthly messenger of the god Yölah—citizens submit to a single god, demonstrating their devotion by kneeling in prayer nine times a day. Remembering the past is forbidden, and an omnipresent surveillance system instantly informs the authorities of every deviant act, thought, or idea. The kingdom is blessed and its citizens are happy, filled with purpose and piety. Those who are not—the heretics—are put to death by stoning or beheading in city squares. But Ati has met people who think differently: In ghettos and caves, hidden from the authorities, exist the last living heretics and free-thinkers of Abistan. Under their influence, Ati begins to doubt. He begins to think. Now, he will have to defend his thoughts with his life. 2084 is “a rare, powerful book, at the intersection of fable and lampoon, of satire and science fiction,” a cry of freedom, a gripping novel of ideas, and an indictment of the kind of closed-minded fundamentalism that threatens our democracies and the ideals on which they are founded (Lire). “Alison Anderson’s deft and intelligent translation [conveys] Sansal’s abhorrence of a system that controls people’s minds, while explaining that the religion was not originally evil but has been corrupted. A moving and cautionary story.” —The Times Literary Supplement “A powerful novel that celebrates resistance.” —The Guardian |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Leo Africanus Amin Maalouf, 1998-03-25 I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages. Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in Granada in 1488. His family fled the Inquisition and took him to the city of Fez, in North Africa. Hasan became an itinerant merchant, and made many journeys to the East, journeys rich in adventure and observation. He was captured by a Sicilian pirate and taken back to Rome as a gift to Pope Leo X, who baptized him Johannes Leo. While in Rome, he wrote the first trilingual dictionary (Latin, Arabic and Hebrew), as well as his celebrated Description of Africa, for which he is still remembered as Leo Africanus. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: The First Century After Beatrice Amin Maalouf, 1995 In the 21st Century, a drug that guarantees the birth of boys--originally developed to reduce Third World populations--leads to a worldwide shortage of women. The result is an explosion of male violence, wars, and the sale of women on the black market. The narrator is a French entomologist trying to eradicate the drug. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Amin Maalouf, 1989-04-29 The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants. He retells their story and offers insights into the historical forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Le Naufrage des civilisations Amin Maalouf, 2020-11 |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Les Indes Édouard Glissant, 1992 Poème écrit entre avril et juin 1955. La traduction se base sur le texte de 1985, publié au Seuil et reproduit dans la seconde partie de ce livre à l'élégante typographie et à la mise en pages soignée. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Arab Historians of the Crusades (Routledge Revivals) Francesco Gabrieli, 2009-10-15 The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happenings were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two centuries of the Crusades. First published in English in 1969, this book presents 'the other side' of the Holy War, offering the first English translation of contemporary Arab accounts of the fighting between Muslim and Christian. Extracts are drawn from seventeen different authors encompassing a multitude of sources: The general histories of the Muslim world, The chronicles of cities, regions and their dynasties Contemporary biographies and records of famous deeds. Overall, this book gives a sweeping and stimulating view of the Crusades seen through Arab eyes. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Se réveiller démon Vahé Katcha, 1964-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 Pierre Talian est acquitté à l’issue d’un procès. Il était accusé d’avoir poussé dans un précipice son ami Furkof. Libéré, Talian va retrouver Nicole, la femme de Furkof, qui est sa maîtresse. Mais la vie au grand jour qu’ils vont pouvoir mener désormais est empoisonnée par la présence obsédante d’un troisième homme : à l’issue de l’audience au cours de laquelle a été prononcé l’acquittement, l’un des jurés, Vanier, un photographe, a jeté à la face de Talian ce simple mot : « Assassin ! » Dès lors Talian va s’imaginer voir partout ce Vanier. Puis, n’y tenant plus, il s’arrangera pour faire sa connaissance et l’attirera chez lui. Vanier prendra peu à peu une place grandissante auprès du couple. Un lien étrange se noue entre les deux hommes, qui est à la fois de l’amitié et de la haine. Le photographe se transforme, sort de lui-même : il occupe exactement auprès du couple Talian-Nicole la place qui était celle de Talian auprès du couple Furkof-Nicole. Jusqu’au jour où Talian glisse mystérieusement dans le précipice où est mort Furkof. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: The Secret Spring Pierre Benoit, 1920 |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Contemporary Thought in the Muslim World Carool Kersten, 2019-06-17 This book presents an intellectual history of today’s Muslim world, surveying contemporary Muslim thinking in its various manifestations, addressing a variety of themes that impact on the lives of present-day Muslims. Focusing on the period from roughly the late 1960s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, the book is global in its approach and offers an overview of different strands of thought and trends in the development of new ideas, distinguishing between traditional, reactionary, and progressive approaches. It presents a variety of themes and issues including: The continuing relevance of the legacy of traditional Islamic learning as well as the use of reason; the centrality of the Qur’an; the spiritual concerns of contemporary Muslims; political thought regarding secularity, statehood, and governance; legal and ethical debates; related current issues like human rights, gender equality, and religious plurality; as well as globalization, ecology and the environment, bioethics, and life sciences. An alternative account of Islam and the Muslim world today, counterbalancing narratives that emphasise politics and confrontations with the West, this book is an essential resource for students and scholars of Islam. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Suspicious River Laura Kasischke, 2014-07-15 “Those who like Joyce Carol Oates will love this” dark novel of psychological suspense by the author of Mind of Winter and The Life Before Her Eyes (Kirkus Reviews). A married motel receptionist in a bleak Michigan town, Leila Murray has slipped into the habit of trading sex with strangers for money. When she meets a drifter who alternately sweet-talks and physically abuses her, it might be the wakeup call that dissuades her from a life of prostitution. Instead, she allows him to become her pimp. In this chilling, “beautifully written page-turner” (Booklist), we follow Leila’s life as she spirals out of control—and learn the darkness in her past that drives her—in “an exploration of the legacy of abuse and violence [and] an amazing first novel” (The Boston Globe). “[An] extremely powerful debut . . . Profoundly disturbing but also resonant with hope and rebirth.” —Los Angeles Times |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: The Cracks in Our Armor Anna Gavalda, 2019-05-07 By the international bestselling author of Billie: These seven short stories exploring modern French life are “a raw and tender ode to the human spirit” (Booklist). Critically acclaimed and beloved across Europe, Anna Gavalda’s bestselling novels have been translated into numerous languages. In this collection of short stories, all written in the first person, Gavalda has crafted intimate and inspiring portraits of people who confront their vulnerabilities and admit their weaknesses. These tales illustrate the importance of moving beyond the wounds of the past to embrace love, friendship, forgiveness, and family. From the trucker who puts his dog to sleep following the death of his son to the alcoholic widow who befriends a mysterious stranger, readers will meet expertly drawn characters in these seven stories of suffering and salvation. “The voices heard in these seven stories, each entirely distinct from the others, are of the sort that permanently embed themselves in the memory.” ―Le Soir |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Dreams Of My Russian Summers Andrei Makine, 1998-08-27 This international bestseller has been translated into 26 languages and is the first work to win both of France's top literary honors. A masterpiece. . . . Makine belongs on the shelf of world literature--between Lermontov and Nabokov, a few volumes down from Proust.--The Atlanta Journal. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Balthasar's Odyssey Amin Maalouf, 2011-12-31 There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name? In this tale of magic and mystery, of love and danger, Balthasar's ultimate quest is to find the secret that could save the world. Before the dawn of the apocalyptic 'Year of the Beast' in 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Genoese Levantine merchant, sets out on an adventure that will take him across the breadth of the civilised world, from Constantinople, through the Mediterranean, to London shortly before the Great Fire. Balthasar's urgent quest is to track down a copy of one of the rarest and most coveted books ever printed, a volume called 'The Hundredth Name', its contents are thought to be of vital importance to the future of the world. There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, and merely to know this most secret hundredth name will, Balthasar believes, ensure his salvation. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Poetics of the Native Yosra Amraoui, Bootheina Majoul, 2021-02-01 Natives, Aborigines, Indigenous populations, and First Nations are all appellations that assert the legitimacy of various antecessors despite the subordinate position granted to them by colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial theories. In a perpetual quest for agency, the native has been framed within a set of representational practices that claim for a redress of grievances. Cultural, mediatized and historical representations of the native tend to fall within the boundaries of either a bottom-up or a top-down view that fits within a structuralist paradigm that rarely questions the individual, let alone the marginalized. However, there is a need to examine the systems within which indigenous narratives operate from a post-structuralist stance in order to re-read indigenous discourses and to celebrate the multiplicity of meanings inherent in them. The need for an intercultural pragmatic reading of native discourse therefore reveals itself to be of utmost relevance. This volume discusses indigenous literary performances, native history and cultural representations of natives and aboriginal discourse from around the world. Topics pivot around historicizing the native, the role of testimony and primary sources, displacement and the denial of native legitimacy, and literary (mis)representations of natives, among other themes. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: The Angel of History Rabih Alameddine, 2016-10-04 A gay poet is haunted by war and the AIDs crisis in this “sprawling fever dream of a novel” by the Dos Passos Prize-winning author of An Unnecessary Woman (NPR.org). Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life. His memories take him from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Haunted by an alluring, sassy Satan, who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past, and by dour, frigid Death, who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is also attended to by fourteen saints. With Jacob recalling his life in Cairo, Beirut, Sana’a, Stockholm, and San Francisco, Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrayal of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound story that “marks the triumph of memory over oblivion” (Bookforum). |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: June Rain Jabbour Douaihy, 2015-07-28 On June 16, 1957, a shoot-out in a village church in northern Lebanon leaves two dozen people dead. In the aftermath of the massacre, the town is rent in two: the Al-Ramis in the north and their rivals, the Al-Samaeenis, in the south. But lives once so closely intertwined cannot easily be divided. Neighbors turn into enemies, and husbands and wives are forced to choose between loyalty to each other and loyalty to their clan. Drawing on an actual killing that took place in his home town, Douaihy reconstructs that June day from the viewpoints of people who witnessed the killings or whose lives were forever altered by them. A young girl overhears her father lending his gun to his cousins but refusing to accompany them to the church. A school boy walks past the dead bodies, laid out in the town square on beds brought out from the houses. A baker, whose shop is trapped on the wrong side of the line, hopes the women who buy his bread will protect him. At the center of the portrait is Eliyya, who, twenty years after emigrating to the U.S., returns to the village to learn about the father who was shot through the heart in the massacre--the father he never knew. With a masterful eye for detail, Douaihy describes that fateful Sunday when rain poured from the sky and the traditions and affections of village life were consumed by violence and revenge. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Exile According to Julia Gisèle Pineau, 2003 Table of contents |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Metronome Lorànt Deutsch, Emmanuel Haymann, 2013-12-03 A phenomenal bestseller in France, Metronome presents a fascinating history of Paris through the lens of the city's iconic Metro system Did you know that the last Gallic warriors massacred by the Romans lie beneath the Eiffel Tower? That the remains of Paris's first cathedral are under a parking lot in the Fifth District? Metronome follows Loránt Deutsch, historian and lifelong Francophile, as he goes on a compelling journey through the ages, treating readers to Paris as they've never seen it before. Using twenty-one stops of the subway system as focal points—one per century—Deutsch shows, from the underground up, the unique, often violent, and always striking events that shaped one of the world's most romanticized city. Readers will find out which streets are hiding incredible historical treasures in plain sight; peer into forgotten nooks and crannies of the City of Lights and learn what used to be there; and discover that, however deeply buried, something always remains. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Betting on Famine Jean Ziegler, 2013-08-06 Few know that world hunger was very nearly eradicated in our lifetimes. In the past five years, however, widespread starvation has suddenly reappeared, and chronic hunger is a major issue on every continent. In an extensive investigation of this disturbing shift, Jean Ziegler—one of the world’s leading food experts—lays out in clear and accessible terms the complex global causes of the new hunger crisis. Ziegler’s wide-ranging and fascinating examination focuses on how the new sustainable revolution in energy production has diverted millions of acres of corn, soy, wheat, and other grain crops from food to fuel. The results, he shows, have been sudden and startling, with declining food reserves sending prices to record highs and a new global commodities market in ethanol and other biofuels gobbling up arable lands in nearly every continent on earth. Like Raj Patel’s pathbreaking Stuffed and Starved, Betting on Famine will enlighten the millions of Americans concerned about the politics of food at home—and about the forces that prevent us from feeding the world’s children. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Writer's Luck David Lodge, 2019-02-26 ‘A wonderfully candid and insightful account of a writer’s life’ William Boyd Luck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writer’s career. In 1976 Lodge was pursuing a ‘twin-track career’ as novelist and academic but the balancing act was increasingly difficult, and he became a full-time writer just before he published his bestselling novel Nice Work. Readers of Lodge’s novels will be fascinated by the insights this book gives – not only into his professional career but also more personal experience, such as his growing scepticism of his Catholic religion and the challenges of parenting. Anyone who is interested in learning about the creative process and about the life of a writer will find Writer’s Luck a candid and entertaining guide. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne, 2017-02-09 'A bold, funny epic' Observer 'Compelling and satisfying . . . At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life ___ Cyril Avery is not a real Avery. At least, that's what his parents make sure to remind him. Adopted as a baby, he feels more and more disconnected with the family that treats him more as a curious pet, rather than a beloved son. So, as a young adult, Cyril decides to embark on a quest to find his place in the world. Sometimes misguided and often in the wrong place at the wrong time, life has dealt him a difficult hand but Cyril is resolute that he can change things, and find the courage to be himself. And in doing so, his story will come across that of Catherine Goggin, a young, pregnant woman finding herself alone and isolated at only sixteen. There is a place in the world for both of them, and Cyril is determined to find it. The new novel by John Boyne, FIRE, is available now. ___ What readers are saying: 'The story of the life of one man, told against the backdrop of twentieth century Ireland' 'Simultaneously heart-breaking, funny and life-affirming.' 'Fantastic eccentric characters and dark humour is underpinned by a touching love story, perfect.' 'The saddest and happiest book I have read . . . told with great compassion and ultimately a great love of life.' |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Horde Ann Aguirre, 2013-10-29 Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: If You Cross the River Geneviéve Damas, 2019 On the border between silence and language, the message and the truth. This novel is a tribute to the liberating power of literature. --JURY CITATION, PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS DE LA FRANCOPHONE |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: The Librarian of Auschwitz Antonio Iturbe, 2017-10-10 Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Globalization and “Minority” Cultures Sophie Croisy, 2014-11-14 Globalization and “Minority” Cultures: The Role of “Minor” Cultural Groups in Shaping Our Global Future is a collective work which brings to the forefront of global studies new perspectives on the relationship between globalization and the experiences of cultural minorities worldwide. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: A Tale of Mystery Thomas Holcroft, 1899 |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: If You Tell Me to Come, I'll Drop Everything, Just Tell Me to Come Albert Espinosa, 2017-07-06 A funny and uplifting fable about the journey to learn who we are, from the bestselling author of The Yellow World Dani has devoted his life to finding missing children. One day, as his girlfriend starts packing her bags to leave him, he gets a phone call from a distraught father asking for help. It's a strange case, one that Dani wouldn't usually take on. But, when he hears his girlfriend slam the front door, and his apartment falls into silence, he realizes it's one he can't turn down. His journey to find the lost boy takes Dani over the seas to the sleepy Italian island of Capri - a place infused with a kind of hazy magic, which begins to conjure up in Dani's mind long-forgotten memories of his own childhood. And, as he starts to unravel the story of his own life, he realises that he is not just on a quest to save the missing child - he is also on a quest to save himself. Quirky, warm-hearted, and honest, this is an uplifting parable of memory and forgiveness, as a man makes a life-changing journey across an island and into his own heart. Told in simple, emotionally-honest prose, it reveals how, by revisiting the past , we can change the shape of the future. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Erhaeren of the Germans Stefan Zweig, 1915 |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: A Convergence of Civilizations Youssef Courbage, Emmanuel Todd, 2011-06-07 We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are heading towards inevitable conflict. The demographics of the West remain sluggish, while the population of the Muslim world explodes, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this issue, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement between these two civilizations, benefiting from a universal movement with roots in the Enlightenment. The historical and geographical sweep of this book discredits the notion of a specific Islamic demography. The range of fertility among Muslim women, for example, is as varied as religious behavior among Muslims in general. Whether agnostics, fundamentalist Salafis, or al-Qaeda activists, Muslims are a diverse group that prove the variety and individuality of Islam. Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd consider different degrees of literacy, patriarchy, and defensive reactions among minority Muslim populations, underscoring the spread of massive secularization throughout the Arab and Muslim world. In this regard, they argue, there is very little to distinguish the evolution of Islam from the history of Christianity, especially with Muslims now entering a global modernity. Sensitive to demographic variables and their reflection of personal and social truths, Courbage and Todd upend a dangerous meme: that we live in a fractured world close to crisis, struggling with an epidemic of closed cultures and minds made different by religion. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Warm Winter Feridun Oral, 2016-10-01 This classic holiday book about a mouse and his friends makes a perfect gift for boys and girls 3 - 5 years old. One cold winter morning Little Mouse ventures out in search of enough firewood to heat his nest. But when he tries to drag his pile home, he realizes everything he’s gathered is much too heavy for him. Maybe his friends can help out, but they’d better hurry, because there’s a blizzard on the way. If they can find a way to work together and keep each other safe, maybe they can all have the warm winter they've been hoping for. This beautifully illustrated picture book shows the power of friendship, persistence–and a little luck–to make our dreams come true. This is a winter story that will warm your heart. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Oil, Power, and War Matthieu Auzanneau, 2020-02-20 The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over. For the past 150 years, oil has become the most essential ingredient for economic, military, and political power. And it has brought us to our present moment in which political leaders and the fossil-fuel industry consider extraordinary, and extraordinarily dangerous, policy on a world stage marked by shifting power bases. Upending the conventional wisdom by crafting a “people’s history,” award-winning journalist Matthieu Auzanneau deftly traces how oil became a national and then global addiction, outlines the enormous consequences of that addiction, sheds new light on major historical and contemporary figures, and raises new questions about stories we thought we knew well: What really sparked the oil crises in the 1970s, the shift away from the gold standard at Bretton Woods, or even the financial crash of 2008? How has oil shaped the events that have defined our times: two world wars, the Cold War, the Great Depression, ongoing wars in the Middle East, the advent of neoliberalism, and the Great Recession, among them? With brutal clarity, Oil, Power, and War exposes the heavy hand oil has had in all of our lives—and illustrates how much heavier that hand could get during the increasingly desperate race to control the last of the world’s easily and cheaply extractable reserves. |
| le naufrage des civilisations amin maalouf: Willow Trees Don't Weep Fadia Faqir, 2017-05-09 A father sets out to save the Islamic world. A daughter sets out to save herself. Najwa's father left when she was four years old. Now, upon her mother's death, she cannot live alone in the Islamic society of Jordan. She must find her father. Her search takes her through new dangers as she becomes swept up with a mysterious organization which sends her into the mountains of Afghanistan. For her father, this same journey was made as a wrenching sacrifice for the sake of his beliefs. Yet his experience in the desert transformed his life forever. Now it transforms Najwa's, as she is compelled to follow in his footsteps: from a heartbreaking secret in Afghanistan all the way to a revelation in Britain. |
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The last W&LE Kodachrome - Trainorders.com
W&LE 2662 is always an interesting engine to see, adding an odd variety of color to Wheeling & Lake Erie's trains, sometimes with blue ex-EMDX engines, or grey ex-KCS and recently bought …
B&LE Saxonburg, PA and US Steel Sintering Plant - Trainorders.com
A B&LE crew is using three SD9's to assemble a train of sinter for North Bessemer. The yard is full of empty B&LE hoppers waiting for sinter loads. Also visible in the yard is a string of …
Nostalgia & History > W&LE West End Branch - Trainorders.com
The W&LE had leased a few Wisconsin Central SD45's in the early days and we see WC #1724 headed down the branch and crossing Steuben Street in Pittsburgh's West End neighborhood. …
Rolling good through the neighborhood (W&LE) - Trainorders.com
Hot on the heels of the NKP 765 deadhead move was this Carrollton (Ohio) empty stone train, shown passing through the backyards (and front yards) of Navarre, Ohio on 05-05. Wheeling …
Orrville, Ohio - NS/W&LE - Trainorders.com
Here are images from two trips that included Orrville, Ohio. The Norfolk Southern images are from May 1, 2025 while the Wheeling and Lake Erie train image is from April 24, 2025. 1) NS 6347 …
NKP 765 Ferry Move - May 5, 2025 (Part Two) - Trainorders.com
May 5, 2025 · Sometimes a railfan has to settle for a less-than-perfect location to get out of other railfans' views. It is Monday May 6, 2025, and NKP 765 is southbound on its ferry move from …
W&LE 35th Anniversary Employees' Excursions (Part Three)
W&LE 35th Anniversary Employees' Excursions (Part Three) Author: refarkas This is the second of three trips of the Wheeling and Lake Erie employees' excursions to celebrate thirty-five …
W&LE 35th Anniversary Employees' Excursions (Part Four)
It is May 10, 2025 in Brewster, Ohio where this is the end of the second trip of NKP 765 on the W&LE. She is being towed backwards to the station, so those on the third trip can board …
Nostalgia & History > History of P & LE passenger service
1) The P & LE commuter train during its final days in July 1985. This is the morning train arriving into Pittsburgh. 2) The P & LE's Pittsburgh station in 1978. Although the Grand Concourse …
Nostalgia & History > P&LE Gateway Yard - Trainorders.com
Gateway Yard was a busy place into the late 1970's, until the collapse of the steel industry around Pittsburgh and Youngstown devastated P&LE's main source of business. P&LE survived until …
The last W&LE Kodachrome - Trainorders.com
W&LE 2662 is always an interesting engine to see, adding an odd variety of color to Wheeling & Lake Erie's trains, sometimes with blue ex-EMDX engines, or grey ex-KCS and recently …
B&LE Saxonburg, PA and US Steel Sintering Plant - Trainorders.com
A B&LE crew is using three SD9's to assemble a train of sinter for North Bessemer. The yard is full of empty B&LE hoppers waiting for sinter loads. Also visible in the yard is a string of …
Nostalgia & History > W&LE West End Branch - Trainorders.com
The W&LE had leased a few Wisconsin Central SD45's in the early days and we see WC #1724 headed down the branch and crossing Steuben Street in Pittsburgh's West End neighborhood. …
Rolling good through the neighborhood (W&LE) - Trainorders.com
Hot on the heels of the NKP 765 deadhead move was this Carrollton (Ohio) empty stone train, shown passing through the backyards (and front yards) of Navarre, Ohio on 05-05. Wheeling …
Orrville, Ohio - NS/W&LE - Trainorders.com
Here are images from two trips that included Orrville, Ohio. The Norfolk Southern images are from May 1, 2025 while the Wheeling and Lake Erie train image is from April 24, 2025. 1) NS 6347 …
NKP 765 Ferry Move - May 5, 2025 (Part Two) - Trainorders.com
May 5, 2025 · Sometimes a railfan has to settle for a less-than-perfect location to get out of other railfans' views. It is Monday May 6, 2025, and NKP 765 is southbound on its ferry move from …
W&LE 35th Anniversary Employees' Excursions (Part Three)
W&LE 35th Anniversary Employees' Excursions (Part Three) Author: refarkas This is the second of three trips of the Wheeling and Lake Erie employees' excursions to celebrate thirty-five …
W&LE 35th Anniversary Employees' Excursions (Part Four)
It is May 10, 2025 in Brewster, Ohio where this is the end of the second trip of NKP 765 on the W&LE. She is being towed backwards to the station, so those on the third trip can board …
