Resultados para "Bernard" en Mundial

Now, you can learn the remarkable stories surrounding monumental inventions - and how consequential these inventions were to history. Taught by Professor W. Bernard Carlson of the University of Virginia, who is an expert on the role of innovation in history, these 36 enlightening lectures give you a broad survey of material history, from the ancient pottery wheel to the Internet and social media. Along with recounting the famous inventions you might expect, this course explores a number of surprising innovations, including beer, pagodas, and the operating room.

Join Professor Bernard Lewis at this visit to New York's 92nd Street Y as he shares his thoughts on Iraq and the Middle Eastern power balance.

Renowned French philosopher, journalist, and filmmaker Bernard-Henri Levy speaks with The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik about the often-fraught relationship between France and its Jewish population, and between America and France because of the situation between France and its Jews.

Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Illuminating History is the most personal of Bailyn's works. It is in part an intellectual memoir of the significant turns in an immensely productive and influential scholarly career. It is also alive with people whose actions touched the long arc of history: a struggling Boston merchant tormented by the tensions between capitalist avarice and a constrictive Puritan piety; a charismatic German Pietist who founded a cloister in the Pennsylvania wilderness; and more.

Over two millennia after its compilation, the Politics still offers much to consider with regards to political science. Aristotle's succinct and thoughtful analysis is based on his study of over 150 city constitutions and covers the gamut of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best, ideally as well as for particular circumstances, and how they may be maintained.

As 1975 dawned, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) prepared for a final series of campaigns to conquer the territory of South Vietnam, leading to a chain of events that culminated with the fall of Saigon and some of the most infamous footage in 20th century America’s history. The Fall of Saigon: The History of the Battle for South Vietnam’s Capital and the End of the Vietnam War examines how the war ended.

Israël étant né à la suite d'un martyre, celui de la Shoah, toute discussion politique, historique ou sociologique risque toujours de raviver la souffrance originelle. Israël, c'est aussi la culture juive, celle qui a enfanté la pensée judéo-chrétienne, celle qui a largement participé à l'histoire de la philosophie, et majoritairement inventé l'introspection.

Histoire du célèbre mont, de son village et de son sanctuaire, plus une légende locale de Guy de Maupassant.

Histoire du célèbre château en deux parties :
1- Le choix du site et la construction du château
2- La vie au château et le parc

Cette collection "L'Histoire de France vivante" nous faire revivre les grandes heures de l'histoire de France. Pour chaque époque, l'illustration sonore est faite avec des musiques de la période concernée. Les grands moments de chaque période sont reconstitués à la façon d'une pièce de théâtre, avec plusieurs comédiens et comédiennes qui interprètent les personnages historiques.

Drawing on a lifetime of military experience, Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall, "one of our most distinguished military writers" ( New York Times), delivers this unflinching history of the war that was supposed to end all wars. From the perspective of more than half a century, Marshall examines the blunders and complacency that turned what everyone thought would be a brief campaign and an easy victory into a relentless four-year slaughter that left 10 million dead and 20 million wounded.

First published as a pamphlet in 1850 in response to the socialist-communist plans and ideas being adopted in France at that time, The Law remains equally relevant today, as the same ideas are now sweeping America.

Yet another brilliant entry in Kenemore’s zombie canon - Cap’n Hook meets the undead. Set in the Caribbean of the eighteenth century, the epicenter of piracy, voodoo, and the dark arts, The Code of the Zombie Pirate reveals all the secrets to selecting, customizing, and managing a motley crew of pirates-cum-zombies.

Famous for its unflagging narrative power, fine organization, and irresistibly persuasive arguments, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has earned a permanent place of honor in historical literature. Gibbon's elegantly detached erudition is seasoned with an ironic wit, and remarkably little of his work is outdated.

In 1787, William Bligh, commander of the Bounty, sailed under Captain Cook on a voyage to Tahiti to collect plants of the breadfruit tree, with a view to acclimatizing the species to the West Indies. During their six-month stay on the island, his men became completely demoralized, and on the return voyage mutinied. Yet a resentful crew, coupled with ravaging storms and ruthless savages, proved to be merely stages leading up to the anxiety-charged ordeal to come.

Connaissez-vous Tamerlan, le chef turco-mongol qui vécut au XIXe siècle et qui massacra à lui seul 5% de la population de l'humanité de l'époque ? Savez-vous que Pythagore a inventé la gamme de musique, qu'il était végétarien, qu'il croyait à la réincarnation, qu'il a inventé les mots « philosophie » et « mathématique », et qu'il était un excellent boxeur et chanteur ? Connaissez-vous les orgues à chats ? Saviez-vous qu'une épidémie de rire se déclencha en Tanzanie en 1962 ?

Le manuel de référence incontournable : l'essentiel, tout l'essentiel, rien que l'essentiel ! Un exposé à la fois riche et clair de tout ce que vous souhaitez connaître pour enrichir votre culture générale, et, si vous préparez examens et concours, de tout ce que vous devez connaître. Le stoïcisme, l'art étrusque, le jansénisme, le choc des civilisations, le pop art, la crise pétrolière, l'œuvre de Sartre ou encore la vie de Confucius n'auront plus de secrets pour vous.

De rijke geschiedenis van het Huis Oranje-Nassau wordt door Woelderink op zeer deskundige wijze verteld in dit twee uur durende college. Woelderink laat de geschiedkundige feiten tot de verbeelding spreken en neemt de betrokken personages, paleizen en de politiek van toen onder de loep. Mede puttend uit brieven, gedichten en archiefstukken, houdt hij een helder en gedegen betoog over de Oranjes in de afgelopen 600 jaar.

L'humanité entre dans une phase inédite de son évolution, tant par le nouveau regard qu'elle porte sur son passé que par ses interrogations sur son avenir. Ce double changement de perspective amorcé depuis le début du XXIe siècle est à la fois le fait des révélations apportées par de nouveaux fossiles et la paléogénétique, et de la révolution numérique en marche à l'échelle mondiale, sur fond de dégradation de la planète et d'urbanisation massive.

A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell. In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as...