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"Few political lives have been as dramatic, or as marked by sudden changes of fortune, as that of Janos Kadar, Hungary's communist leader from 1956 to 1988. A reformist who at first supported Imre Nagy's 1956 attempt to distance his country from Soviet domination, Kadar eventually threw in his lot with the Soviet Union and the repression which followed Hungary's attempt at revolution in 1956. Was he an ambitious, ruthless party functionary or a tragic visionary who sought to preserve a modicum of independence for his country by abandoning its aspirations and his friends? In this, the first biography in English since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Roger Gough paints a vivid picture of Kadar's personality and career, whilst analysing his significance for Hungary and his place in the history of European communism. "A Good Comrade" is a powerful portrait of a man who dominated Hungarian political life for three decades."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Communisme. --- Communists --- Statesmen --- Hommes d'Etat --- Communistes --- Biography --- Biographie --- Kádár, János, --- Hungary --- Hongrie --- European history. --- Kadar, I︠A︡nosh, --- Кадар, Янош, --- Csermanek, János,

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Cardinaux --- Hommes d'Etat --- #gsdb8 --- 929 MAZARIN, JULES, CARDINAL --- Mazarin, Jules --- Mazarin, Jules, --- Cardinals --- Statesmen --- Fronde --- Biography --- Biographies --- Cardinaux - France - Biographies --- Hommes d'Etat - France - Biographies --- MAZARIN (GIULIO MAZARINI, DIT JULES), CARDINAL ET HOMME POLITIQUE FRANCAIS, 1602-1661 --- FRANCE --- BIOGRAPHIE --- HISTOIRE --- 1643-1715 (LOUIS XIV) --- POLITIQUE ET GOUVERNEMENT --- 1648-1653 (FRONDE)

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Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as portrayed by contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry. This study, by examining the way in which she was represented, sheds light on the role played by major female figures in Roman literature.

Patricians (Rome) --- Statesmen's spouses --- Women --- Social conditions. --- Clodia, --- Clodius, Publius, --- Family. --- Rome --- History --- Politics and government --- Femmes --- Hommes d'Etat --- Patriciens (Rome) --- Biography --- Biographies --- Conditions sociales --- Conjoints --- Politique et gouvernement --- Influence.

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"We fail to mandate economic sanity," writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human population control, Hardin now offers the finest summation of his work to date, with an eloquent argument for accepting the limits of the earth's resources--and the hard choices we must make to live within them. In Living Within Limits, Hardin focuses on the neglected problem of overpopulation, making a forceful case for dramatically changing the way we live in and manage our world. Our world itself, he writes, is in the dilemma of the lifeboat: it can only hold a certain number of people before it sinks--not everyone can be saved. The old idea of progress and limitless growth misses the point that the earth (and each part of it) has a limited carrying capacity; sentimentality should not cloud our ability to take necessary steps to limit population. But Hardin refutes the notion that goodwill and voluntary restraints will be enough. Instead, nations where population is growing must suffer the consequences alone. Too often, he writes, we operate on the faulty principle of shared costs matched with private profits. In Hardin's famous essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons," he showed how a village common pasture suffers from overgrazing because each villager puts as many cattle on it as possible--since the costs of grazing are shared by everyone, but the profits go to the individual. The metaphor applies to global ecology, he argues, making a powerful case for closed borders and an end to immigration from poor nations to rich ones. "The production of human beings is the result of very localized human actions; corrective action must be local....Globalizing the 'population problem' would only ensure that it would never be solved." Hardin does not shrink from the startling implications of his argument, as he criticizes the shipment of food to overpopulated regions and asserts that coercion in population control is inevitable. But he also proposes a free flow of information across boundaries, to allow each state to help itself. "The time-honored practice of pollute and move on is no longer acceptable," Hardin tells us. We now fill the globe, and we have no where else to go. In this powerful book, one of our leading ecological philosophers points out the hard choices we must make--and the solutions we have been afraid to consider.

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Être fils de roi (Louis-Philippe), avoir à vingt et un ans commandé en chef en Algérie et connaître la gloire en prenant la fameuse smalah d'Abd-el-Kader, être l'auteur d'ouvrages historiques qui font aujourd'hui encore référence, avoir fondé ou possédé six journaux, avoir constitué l'une des plus belles bibliothèques de manuscrits du monde et une collection de peintures comparable à celle des plus grands musées, avoir été un "académicien au triple bicorne" (Académie française, des Beaux-Arts, des Sciences morales), avoir été l'amant de quelques-unes des plus belles femmes de son temps, avoir été l'amant de quelques-unes des plus belles femmes de son temps, avoir, après la défaite de 1870, jugé Bazaine, responsable de Sedan, avoir failli, de très peu, devenir président de la nouvelle république et donner, comme président de la Croix-Rouge, un essor considérable à cet organisme... Naître riche et mourir plus riche encore grâce à la gestion intelligente d'un immense patrimoine ; avoir connu l'exil et la proscription à plusieurs reprises sans jamais en concevoir de rancœur ni comploter... N'est-ce pas là un destin inouï que celui du duc d'Aumale (1822-1894) ? Ne fallait-il pas, en cette année du centenaire de la donation du domaine de Chantilly à l'Institut de France, tirer de l'ombre ce prince à l'intelligence étincelante, cet érudit de grande classe, ce collectionneur extraordinaire, ce soldat de génie, cet homme d'affaires hors de pair, doué pour tout, excellent en tout ? Conservateur des collections de Chantilly jusqu'à l'an dernier, Raymond Cazelles a dépouillé les milliers de pages de la correspondance et des écrits intimes de son personnage pour nous donner ce fascinant portrait.

Statesmen --- Generals --- Historians --- Hommes d'Etat --- Généraux --- Historiens --- Biography. --- Biographies --- Aumale, Henri d'Orléans, --- France --- History --- Histoire --- Aumale, Henri d'Orleans duc d' --- Généraux --- Aumale, Henri d'Orléans, --- Aumale, Henri d'Orléans --- Politique et gouvernement --- Biography --- Aumale, Henri-Eugène-Philippe-Louis d'Orléans, --- D'Orléans, Henri, --- Orléans, Henri d',