A lively and highly readable account of the origins, invention and discovery of just about everything on the planet, the truly global coverage of The First of Everything ranges from the Big Bang to driverless cars.The First of Everything follows a context-setting introduction with seven stimulating sections: In the Beginning (The Big Bang to Homo Sapiens), At Home (the first glass windows to dentures and bikinis); Health and Medicine (herbs to heart transplants); Getting About (donkeys to double deckers); Science and Engineering (potter's wheel to webcam); Peace and War (the first king to fighter-bombers); and Culture (cave painting to rap).

La découverte de la civilisation pharaonique : la plus grande aventure de notre temps !
C'est à la Renaissance que les Européens redécouvrent l'Égypte ancienne. Dans un décor de sable et d'eau, des vestiges somptueux révèlent aux rares voyageurs un musée à ciel ouvert, un monde fascinant où semblent se confondre les morts et les vivants, les hommes et les animaux, les pharaons et les dieux. De 1798 à 1801, les savants et artistes emmenés par Bonaparte passent la vallée du Nil au peigne fin. …

Que n'a pas inventé la Rome antique ? Voici le tableau inédit et vivant des populismes qui ont déstabilisé la République. Une rétrospection enjouée et éclairante par un agrégé de lettres classiques, âgé de 26 ans.
Il y a du Cicéron chez Emmanuel Macron, et du Clodius chez Donald Trump. C'est en historien de l'Antiquité que Raphaël Doan démontre que nous n'avons pas inventé le populisme. Les Romains, à la fin de la République, connaissent une lutte à mort entre ce qu'ils appellent les populares et les optimates. …

This book examines the theoretical affiliations between the most notable proponent of literary realism, Honoré de Balzac, and two understated but key representatives of the French New Wave, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette. It argues that their film criticism, which gradually led to the establishment of a common aesthetic vision of cinema (the “politique des auteurs”), owes more to Balzac and the nineteenth-century novel than to any intellectual trend of the immediate post-war period.

This book examines the idea of fake news through an analysis of the work of early to mid-twentieth century press critic George Seldes. By examining fake news - also known as propaganda and misinformation - from this period it becomes evident that it is a phenomenon that emerges in response to particular social, political and economic conditions.

Karen McCartney's Iconic Australian Houses books are re-imagined so cleverly in this freshly redesigned, encyclopaedic book, which brings together in one volume the best of 50 years of Australian residential architecture.' Lucy Feagins - The Design Files

Many New Zealand writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century traveled extensively or lived overseas for a time. In The Expatriate Myth, Helen Bones presents a challenge to this conventional understanding that writers had to leave in order to find literary inspiration and publishing opportunities. Was it actually necessary for them to leave to find success? How prevalent was expatriatism among New Zealand writers? Did their experiences fit the usual tropes about expatriatism and exile? Were they fleeing an oppressive society lacking in literary opportunity?

Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio's Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. In Desk 88, he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him. Despite their flaws and frequent setbacks, each made a decisive contribution to the creation of a more just America. They range from Hugo Black, who helped to lift millions of American workers out of poverty, to Robert F. Kennedy, whose eyes were opened by an undernourished Mississippi child and who then spent the rest of his life afflicting the comfortable.

An updated edition of this best-selling introduction to the conflict.