“…"Raymond Aron, Eugène Baudin, Maud Champetier de Ribes, Gaston Defferre, Charles de Gaulle, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Maurice Grimaud, Jean Lorris, Pierre Rosanvallon, Jean‐Baptiste Séverac, Alexandre Varenne, Jacques Vivez...Les parcours et les actes de ces personnalités, militants, responsables politiques, syndicaux, fonctionnaires sont abordés dans les pages de cet ouvrage à travers leurs traces archivistiques dans des fonds publics et privés. …”

“…Son livre analyse et explique les décisions, les procédures et les institutions inventées par Salazar dans le processus de prise de pouvoir et montre comment il a su et pu conserver ce pouvoir, vaincre les oppositions, faire taire son propre camp, établir des équilibres pérennes, bâillonner son peuple en usant à l'intérieur d'une violence qu'on qualifierait aujourd'hui de « basse intensité ». …”

“…Let Her Fly is Ziauddin’s journey from a stammering boy growing up in a tiny village high in the mountains of Pakistan, through to being an activist for equality and the father of the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and now one of the most influential and inspiring young women on the planet. …”

“…; 'How many boats did Victory carry?'; 'What was prize money?'; 'What was grog?'; 'When did her career as a fighting ship end?'…”

“…Les chiffres régissent une bonne partie de nos vies : ils servent à coordonner nos actions, à établir des règles de vie commune et à trouver des conventions au sein des collectifs. Ils contribuent aux prises de décision et à l’exercice du pouvoir. Ils participent à nos quêtes de justice et d’harmonie, et à la construction de la confiance. …”

“…This book is novel in that it combines interviews and case-law analysis to show how a mix of differences on the bench are legally amalgamated to resolve probing legal questions and human rights issues. It shows, through a combined analysis of case-law and recent political developments for European human rights, the tensions between judicial and political approaches and the paradox of human rights protection in Europe. …”

“…Rules have been devised for almost every imaginable activity and range from meticulous regulations to the laws of nature. Daston probes beneath this variety to investigate when rules work and when they don’t, and why some philosophical problems about rules are as ancient as philosophy itself while others are as modern as calculating machines.Rules offers a wide-angle view on the history of the constraints that guide us—whether we know it or not".…”

“…He highlights the stories of journalists who question "objectivity" with sensitivity and passion: Desmond Cole of the Toronto Star; New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse; Pulitzer Prize-winner Rachel Kadzi Ghansah; Peabody-winning podcaster John Biewen; Guardian correspondent Gary Younge; former Buzzfeed reporter Meredith Talusan; and many others. …”

“…From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes--the consequences of which still resonate today. …”

“…En France, après quelques mois d'images trompeuses, la vérité s'installe grâce à la publication des photos prises, sous les obus, par les soldats eux-mêmes : la vision héroïco-épique de la guerre disparaît, sa réalité meurtrière s'étale, chaque semaine, devant les lecteurs. …”

“…In this book, the author, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian tells the story of a war that redefined North America. …”

“…These cases reveal a well-developed illicit market for power inside the Chinese party-state, in which bribes and official appointments are surreptitiously but routinely traded. …”

“…La guerre civile espagnole qui s'est déroulée de 1936 à 1939, au-delà de la dimension qu'elle a prise en Espagne même, a eu de très fortes répercussions sur l'Europe et particulièrement sur la France. …”

“…Developing out of the graffiti writing tradition of the 1980s, through the work of artists such as Banksy and Futura 2000, it has now reached the mainstream, the subject of bestselling books and commanding high prices at auction.Up until now there has not been a measured, critical account of the development of Street Art as a global phenomenon within the context of the history of art. …”

“…-C. et, au-delà, de s'intéresser à l'influence de Vitruve dans les périodes suivantes. L'aire géographique prise en compte est celle de l'extension territoriale maximale de l'Empire romain. …”

“…Over the last 2,000 years we have increasingly felt old sources of identity, such as family, tribe, or social status, as intensely personal, even unique to us. …”

“…Many people asked this question after an Orthodox Jew assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Itshak Rabin in 1995. But historian Michael Stanislawksi couldn't forget it, and he decided to find out everything he could about an obscure and much earlier event that was uncannily similar to Rabin's murder: the 1848 killing--by an Orthodox Jew--of the Reform rabbi of Lemberg (now L'viv, Ukraine). …”

“…Just as Kertzer's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Pope and Mussolini became the definitive book on Pope Pius XI and the Fascist regime, The Pope at War is destined to become the most influential account of his successor, Pius XII, and his relations with Mussolini and Hitler. …”

“…La plupart sont de véritables commentaires, et non des homélies, qui permettent d’analyser la manière rigoureuse dont l’ancien rhéteur abordait les textes ; l’étude détaillée en est faite dans l’introduction générale (parue en 2009 dans le volume 57/A).Les huit Enarrationes que contient ce volume sont toutes des prédications, prises en note à la volée par des tachygraphes, et dont on ne sait trop si Augustin les a jamais relues et corrigées. …”

“…He notes a perversely inverse relationship between the best scientific indicators of good judgement and the qualities that the media most prizes in pundits--the single-minded determination required to prevail in ideological combat. …”