Ledwidge, Bernard:De Gaulle
- Taschenbuch 2011, ISBN: 9780297779520
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Walker Books, 2011. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains … Mehr…
Walker Books, 2011. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. What is What? Could it be that noted author Mark Kurlansky has written a very short, terrifically witty, deeply thought-provoking book entirely in the form of questions? A book that draws on philosophy, religion, literature, policy-indeed, all of civilization-to ask what may well be the twenty most important questions in human history? Or has he given us a really smart, impossibly amusing game of twenty questions? Kurlansky considers the work of Confucius, Plato, Gertrude Stein, Shakespeare, Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, Hemingway, Emily Dickinson, the Talmud, Charles de Gaulle, Virginia Woolf, and others, distilling the deep questions of life to their sparkling essence. What? supplies endless fodder for thoughtful conversation but also endless opportunity to ponder and be challenged by-and entertained by-these questions in refreshingly original ways. As Kurlansky says, In a world that seems devoid of absolute certainties, how can we make declarative statements? Without asking the questions, how will we ever get to the answers? "Why are we here? Why is all of this here? Why do we die? What is death? What does it mean that outer space is infinite and what is after infinity? What is the significance of birdflight, why does matter decay, and how is our life different from that of a mosquito? Is there an end to these questions or is questioning as infinite as space?" With his striking black-and-white woodcut illustrations throughout, this handsome volume is a tour de force that packs., Walker Books, 2011, 3, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1968. First edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good-. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text is in YES. 285 pages. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Some pages with annotations or underlining in pencil. Pages yellowed as normal for age. Slight wear & some soiling to spine, covers & corners. Après de Gaulle, qui? Pierre Viansson-Ponté L'Histoire immédiate Dix ans ont passé depuis le retour au pouvoir du général de Gaulle. Il a aujourd’hui soixante-dix-sept ans. Il est donc normal qu’une question obsède ses partisans et hante ses adversaires, conditionne notre vie politique et oriente à l’extérieur tous les calculs concernant la France: après de Gaulle, qui? Ce livre ne prétend pas fournir, en guise de réponse, un nom, ni même une liste exhaustive et définitive. Il propose simplement au lecteur une manière de catalogue dans lequel le destin et les hommes feront leur choix. Il offre surtout des éléments d’information, de débat, voire de ré:1 exion: les portraits des trois principaux prétendants à la magistrature suprême, le « dauphin » Georges Pompidou, le « challenger » François Mitterrand, 1’ « outsider » Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, un bilan de leurs atouts et une description de leur entourage; puis les silhouettes de quelques suppléants éventuels et des « caciques » des formations politiques; enfin des croquis de personnages qui, à des titres et des degrés divers, peuvent peser sur la succession, orienter les électeurs, et compter dans l’après- gaullisme. Certes, notre histoire n’est pas faite seulement par les hommes: des forcqp moins visibles agissent en profondeur. Mais le style politique de la Ve République et le nouveau système de scrutin présidentiel tendent à la personnaliser comme une compétition sportive. Pierre Viansson-Ponté, qui de son poste d’observation du Monde, jette un regard attentif et sans complaisance sur les princes du régime et leurs adversaires, était bien placé pour écrire cette histoire de demain. Né en 1920. Docteur en droit. Aspirant de chars en 1940. Il participe activement à la Résistance et entre au lendemain de la Libération à l’agence France-Presse. En 1953, il prend part à la fondation de l’Express dont il est le rédacteur en chef jusqu’en 1958. Il entre alors au Monde où, chef du service politique, il rend compte jour après jour des péripéties de la Ve République. Quantity Available: 1. Category: French History & Topography; Political Science & Political Theory; YES Language; NO. Add. Inventory No: 0019591. ., Éditions du Seuil, 1968, 3, Paris: Âditions Du Seuil. Very Good-. 1968. First Edition; First Edition. Original Wrappers. 285 pages. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Some pages with annotations or underlining in pencil. Pages yellowed as normal for age. Slight wear & some soiling to spine, covers & corners. ; Paperback; Octavo (standard book size); AprÅs de Gaulle, qui? Pierre Viansson-PontÄL'Histoire immÄdiateDix ans ont passÄ depuis le retour au pouvoir du gÄnÄral de Gaulle. Il a aujourd+hui soixante-dix-sept ans. Il est donc normal qu+une question obsÅde ses partisans et hante ses adversaires, conditionne notre vie politique et oriente ê l+extÄrieur tous les calculs concernant la France: aprÅs de Gaulle, qui? Ce livre ne prÄtend pas fournir, en guise de rÄponse, un nom, ni mÉme une liste exhaustive et dÄfinitive. Il propose simplement au lecteur une maniÅre de catalogue dans lequel le destin et les hommes feront leur choix. Il offre surtout des ÄlÄments d+information, de dÄbat, voire de rÄ: 1 exion: les portraits des trois principaux prÄtendants ê la magistrature suprÉme, le ¦ dauphin + Georges Pompidou, le ¦ challenger + Franìois Mitterrand, 1+ ¦ outsider + ValÄry Giscard d+Estaing, un bilan de leurs atouts et une description de leur entourage; puis les silhouettes de quelques supplÄants Äventuels et des ¦ caciques + des formations politiques; enfin des croquis de personnages qui, ê des titres et des degrÄs divers, peuvent peser sur la succession, orienter les Älecteurs, et compter dans l+aprÅs- gaullisme. Certes, notre histoire n+est pas faite seulement par les hommes: des forcqp moins visibles agissent en profondeur. Mais le style politique de la Ve RÄpublique et le nouveau systÅme de scrutin prÄsidentiel tendent ê la personnaliser comme une compÄtition sportive. Pierre Viansson-PontÄ, qui de son poste d+observation du Monde, jette un regard attentif et sans complaisance sur les princes du rÄgime et leurs adversaires, Ätait bien placÄ pour Äcrire cette histoire de demain. NÄ en 1920. Docteur en droit. Aspirant de chars en 1940. Il participe activement ê la RÄsistance et entre au lendemain de la LibÄration ê l+agence France-Presse. En 1953, il prend part ê la fondation de l+Express dont il est le rÄdacteur en chef jusqu+en 1958. Il entre alors au Monde o¥, chef du service politique, il rend compte jour aprÅs jour des pÄripÄties de la Ve RÄpublique. ., Âditions Du Seuil, 1968, 3, Simon & Schuster, Australia, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. In a horoscope he cast in 1647 for Charles I, William Lilly, a noted English astrologer, made the following judgment: "Luna is with Antares, a violent fixed star, which is said to denote violent death, and Mars is approaching Caput Algol, which is said to denote beheading." Two years later the king's head fell on the block. "Astrology must be right," wrote the American astrologer Evangeline Adams, a claimed descendant of President John Quincy Adams, in a challenge to skeptics in 1929. "There can be no appeal from the Infinite." The Fated Sky explores both the history of astrology and the controversial subject of its influence in history. It is the first serious book to fully engage astrology in this way.Astrology is the oldest of the occult sciences. It is also the origin of science itself. Astronomy, mathematics, and other disciplines arose in part to make possible the calculations necessary in casting horoscopes. For five thousand years, from the ancient Near East to the modern world, the influence of the stars has been viewed as shaping the course and destiny of human affairs. According to recent polls, at least 30 percent of the American public believes in astrology, though, as Bobrick reveals, modern astrology is also utterly different from the doctrine of the stars that won the respect and allegiance of the greatest thinkers, scientists, and writers -- Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Arab, and Persian -- of an earlier day. Statesmen, popes, and kings once embraced it, and no less a figure than St. Thomas Aquinas, the medieval theologian, thought it not incompatible with Christian faith. There are some two hundred astrological allusions in Shakespeare's plays, and not one of their astrological predictions goes unfulfilled. The great astronomers of the scientific revolution -- Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler -- were adherents. Isaac Newton's appetite for mathematics was first whetted by an astrological text. In more recent times, prominent figures such as Churchill, de Gaulle, and Reagan have consulted astrologers and sometimes heeded their advice. Today universities as diverse as Oxford in England and the University of Zaragoza in Spain offer courses in the subject, fulfilling Carl Jung's prediction decades ago that astrology would again become the subject of serious discourse. Whether astrology actually has the powers that have been ascribed to it is, of course, open to debate. But there is no doubt that it maintains an unshakeable hold on the human mind. In The Fated Sky, Benson Bobrick has written an absolutely captivating and comprehensive account of this engrossing subject and its enduring influence on history and the history of ideas. 369 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History; Astrology. ISBN: 0743224825. ISBN/EAN: 9780743224826. Inventory No: 253976.. 9780743224826, Simon & Schuster, 2005, 3, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1982. First edition. Book condition: fine. Dust jacket condition: very good. Unclipped, very light shelf wear around the edges and a little discolouration to spine. A couple of light suface scratches to rear of jacket. This challenging reassessment of the great modern Frenchman draws on documentary evidence from Paris and Washington, many of these documents unpublished prior to this work. the book also draws on Sir Bernard Ledwidge's personal acquaintance with De Gaulle and his contemporaries. the book includes 16 pages of b&w illustrations. The book includes two loosely inserted photocopies of reviews of the book from the time of publication. This is a relatively hefty book at over 400 pages but no additional postage costs to UK destinations., Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982, 3.75<
