La famille est une unité sociale basée sur le mariage et les relations de consanguinité; au sens moderne – un groupe de parents proches (parents, enfants et autres) vivant ensemble. Née à un certain stade du développement de la société...
Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing...
Le 16 mars 1244, Montségur, dernier sanctuaire du catharisme, tombait après un siège de dix mois. Dans une Occitanie annexée à la couronne, il n'y eut plus de tentative de révolte religieuse ni...
After Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) is the man most associated with communism and its influence and reach around the world. Lenin was the leader of the communist Bolshevik party during the October 1917 revolution in Russia, and he...
On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a...
“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke; a chapbook to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
Published at the height of the 1980s self-help boom,...