History of Chicago , Andrew Diamond &Pap Ndiaye, Fayard, 2013 The somewhat misleading title of this book seems to offer a synthetic and mainstream city history, as Fayard has already published many times, whether from Rome, from Beirut or Vienna. However, this text, written with four hands by two Am
The arms race to develop, or improve, ways of killing has been a constant throughout history and across cultures. At least, in this post, we are going to present a non-lethal one… the gay bomb. The Sunshine Project (an international non-governmental organization that investigates and denounces the
Tonight, a long excerpt from Antoine Coppolanis excellent biography, Richard Nixon , published by Éditions Fayard in October. I had already reviewed a good book on Nixon, by Romain Huret (https://brumes.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/de-quoi-nixon-est-il-le-nom/). Coppolanis massive work (a biography that
Aztec art was produced by one of the pre-Columbian peoples, the Aztecs, who lived in what is now Mexico. It was the last pre-Columbian civilization that developed before the arrival of the Spaniards Their culture was very rich, and brought together many elements of the Mesoamerican peoples of anti