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Three Nights in Havana Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World


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English | 2008 | ISBN: 0002158000, 000200626X | EPUB | pages: 320 | 1.0 mb
On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself. "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" Trudeau would famously shout at the love-in.In this fascinating portrait of an unusual relationship between two enigmatic world leaders, author and historian Robert Wright brings to life three days of Canadian politics played out on the international stage. In a revealing look at both leaders’ personalities and political ideologies, Wright shows how these two towering figures―despite their official positions as allies of rival empires―determinedlyrefused to exist merely as handmaidens to the United States and forged a long-lasting relationship.

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Foundations of Scenario Planning The Story of Pierre Wack


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English | ISBN: 0367026562 | 2018 | 290 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 5 MB
Pierre Wack was head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch / Shell Oil in London for just over ten years. He died in 1997. He was a pioneer of what we know today as scenario planning – an alternative and complement to strategic planning.

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Pierre Bourdieu and Physical Culture


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English | ISBN: 1138208337 | 2016 | 200 pages | PDF | 1435 KB
The work of French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu has been influential across a set of cognate disciplines that can be classified as physical culture studies. Concepts such as field, capital, habitus and symbolic violence have been used as theoretical tools by scholars and students looking to understand the nature and purpose of sport, leisure, physical education and human movement within wider society.

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Just Watch Me The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1968-2000


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English | 2009 | ISBN: 0676975232 | 832 Pages | EPUB | 3.0 MB
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called "the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written" – sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.

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Radioactive Marie & Pierre Curie A Tale of Love and Fallout


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English | December 21, 2010 | ISBN: 0061351326, 0062416162 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 102 MB
In 1891, 24-year-old Marie Sklodowska moved from Warsaw to Paris, where she found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged in research on heat and magnetism. They fell in love. They took their honeymoon on bicycles. They expanded the periodic table, discovering two new elements with startling properties, radium and polonium. They recognized radioactivity as an atomic property, heralding the dawn of a new scientific era. They won the Nobel Prize. Newspapers mythologized the couple’s romance, beginning articles on the Curies with "Once upon a time . . . " Then, in 1906, Pierre was killed in a freak accident. Marie continued their work alone. She won a second Nobel Prize in 1911, and fell in love again, this time with the married physicist Paul Langevin. Scandal ensued. Duels were fought.

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Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), le philosophe de Rotterdam, Philosophy, Religion and Reception


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English | 2008 | pages: 287 | ISBN: 9004165363 | PDF | 1,3 mb
This book contains 15 essays by philosophers, theologians and historians from the Netherlands, France, Italy, England and the United States on Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), the French Protestant who found refuge in Rotterdam just before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). From the early 1680s onward, Bayle published a series of seminal works, culminating in his Dictionaire historique et critique (1697), that is generally regarded to have served as the "arsenal" of the Enlightenment. Over the last few decades, Bayle has been rediscovered as one of the key authors of the early Enlightenment, but experts have found it extremely difficult to come to any agreement concerning his ultimate position, most notably concerning the relationship between faith and philosophy. In this volume both Bayle’s philosophy and his theological views are assessed as well as his impact on the Enlightenment and beyond.

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