Book type: non-fiction (1195)
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Atoll Politics : The Republic of Kiribati by Howard Van Trease EN
KiribatiDescription:
Edited by Howard Van Trease, but including Kiribati authors.
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Attila the Hun : A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome by John Man EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The name Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarism, savagery and violence. His is a truly household name, but what do we really know about the man himself, his position in history and the world in which he lived? This riveting biography reveals the man behind the myth. In the years 434-454AD the fate of Europe hung upon the actions of one man, Attila, king of the Huns. The decaying Roman empire still stood astride the Western World, from its twin capitals of Rome and Constantinople, but it was threatened by a new force, the much-feared Barbarian hordes. It was Attila who united the Barb... continue
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August in Kabul : America's Last Days in Afghanistan by Andrew Quilty EN
AustraliaDescription:
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut book offers a remarkable record of this historic moment. As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United States, its Western allies and a proxy Afghan government, the Islamic militant group once aligned with al Qaeda was about to bury yet another foreign foe in the graveyard of empires. And for the US, world superpower, this was yet another foreign disaster. As cities and towns fell to the Taliban in rapid s... continue
Hungary115.
Argentina116.
Australia Day by Stan Grant EN
Description:
As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away. There are the hard questions we ask of ourselves on Australia Day. Since publishing his critically acclaimed, Walkley Award-winning, bestselling memoir Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows this is not where the story ends. In this book, Australia Day, his long-awaited follow up to Talking to My Country, Stan talks about... continue
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Autobiografía de Un Esclavo by Juan Francisco Manzano EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
The proceedings of ISCV'95, the successor to previous Workshops on Computer Vision, comprise 104 refereed papers on topics in optical flow, matching/stereo, motion, object recognition, low-level vision, CAD-based vision, stereo, deformable models, systems and applications, tracking, segmentation and grouping, active vision, aerial image analysis, and integration/texture. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Avant la nuit : autobiographie by Reinaldo Arenas FR
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
De l'enfant nu qui mange de la terre dans une vieille ferme de Holguin à l'exilé cubain qui, à quarante-sept ans, malade, se donne la mort à New York, l'existence de Reinaldo Arenas est guidée par l'anticonformisme viscéral de qui a osé prendre tous les risques. Vibrant témoignage sur les exactions de la dictature castriste, Avant la nuit est une œuvre littéraire à part entière composée avec fureur et poésie. Elle est traversée de ses principaux thèmes de prédilection : une recherche éperdue de beauté, encore la lune, toujours la mer, et une sexualité débridée comme manifestation absolue de li... continue
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Ayer by Agota Kristof ES
Description:
Sándor Lester is exiled in a cold European city where he leads a lonely and monotonous life. He is immersed in an alienating routine at the factory where he works, he spends his free time writing, hanging out with people in the same situation as him or in the company of Yolande, a woman he doesn't love. Until the day he meets Line, a new factory employee who comes from his country. Although she is married and has a young daughter, Sándor falls in love with the newcomer and a bond between the two emerges, as intimate and essential as it is painful and destructive.
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Bahamas