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Le 17 novembre 2018, un mouvement non structuré ébranle la France et son gouvernement, l'émanation d'un ras-le-bol collectif qui pousse des centaines de milliers de personnes à protester ensemble contre la vie chère, les inégalités grandissantes, le manque de démocratie… Des groupes de Gilets jaunes campent durablement sur des ronds-points stratégiques, bloquant le pays pour faire entendre leur colère.
Sandrine Kerion était l'une d'entre...
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"Books tell all kinds of stories -- romances, tragedies, comedies -- but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book-Makers offers a new way into the story of Western culture's most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals who helped to define it. Books have transformed humankind by enabling authors to create, document, and entertain. Yet we know little...
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"Before, during, and after the US Civil War, Boston's Black workers were barred from the skilled trades, factory work, and public-works projects. In Boston, as in cities across the North, white abolitionists focused virtually all their energies on the plight of enslaved Black Southerners, while refusing to address the challenges faced by their Black neighbors. The author presents inspiring and heart-wrenching stories of people-from day laborers and...
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"On Sex and Gender focuses on three sequential and consequential questions: What is sex-as opposed to gender? How does sex matter in our everyday lives? And how should it be reflected in law and policy? All three are front-and center in American politics: They are included in both of the major parties' political platforms. They are the subject of ongoing litigation in the federal courts and of highly contentious legislation on Capitol Hill. And they...