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UNE HISTOIRE Au fil des ans, les Québécois se sont dotés d'un immense domaine plein air : camps, bases, pourvoiries, réserves, parcs, routes verte ou bleue, sentiers pour la marche, le ski, la raquette… UN PLAIDOYER Les bienfaits d'un Québec en plein air ; une clé pour la santé, le tourisme et le développement durable. DES SOUVENIRS Rappel d'un temps où on ne se faisait pas prier pour aller jouer dehors. DES COUPS DE CŒUR Une vingtaine de propositions palpitantes pour s'initier au plein air en famille. DES PHOTOS Un cahier photo en couleur révélant la grande variété des destinations « nature » du Québec.

The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty years. In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and the players'growing addiction to steroids will threaten the game's very foundation. It is a tipping point for baseball, a crucial moment in the game's history that catalyzes a struggle for power by three strong-willed men: Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr. It's their uneasy alliance at the end of decades of struggle that pulls the game back from the brink and turns it into a money-making powerhouse that enriches them all. This is the real story of baseball, played out against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes public battles, and backroom political deals -- with a supporting cast that includes Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, Joe Torre and Derek Jeter, George Bush and George Mitchell, and many more. Drawing from hundreds of extensive, exclusive interviews throughout baseball, The Game is a stunning achievement: a rigorously reported book and the must-read, fly-on-the-wall, definitive account of how an enormous struggle for power turns disaster into baseball's Golden Age.

Un'opera fondamentale Un grande documento storico L'ascesa del dittatore, raccontata attraverso lo sguardo di chi l'ha vissuta Come si viveva in Germania mentre il Paese scivolava nel suo periodo più buio? Come giudicarono e interpretarono l'ascesa di Hitler gli stranieri che furono testimoni delle atrocità del nazismo? Andrew Nagorski – noto giornalista e politologo statunitense, già autore di autorevoli saggi sulla seconda guerra mondiale – tratteggia il passaggio dalla Repubblica di Weimar al Terzo Reich attraverso le testimonianze di diplomatici, militari, intellettuali, atleti americani che si trovavano all'epoca in Germania. Tra oppositori del nazismo e qualche sporadico sostenitore, tra spie dell'occidente e osservatori casuali, nella straordinaria galleria di personaggi descritta da Nagorski possiamo ritrovare, ad esempio, lo scrittore Thomas Wolfe, il famoso aviatore Charles Lindbergh e il grande atleta Jesse Owens. Ognuno con una storia unica da raccontare, che merita di essere conosciuta perché i tragici errori del passato non possano più ripetersi. Tradotto in 8 Paesi Un libro unico, un'opera fondamentale «Un affascinante resoconto di una fase storica cruciale.» Henry Kissinger «Andrew Nagorski ha scritto una cronaca avvincente. Il lettore resterà sconvolto a conoscere la facilità con cui la situazione precipitò allora.» The Economist «Uno studio appassionante di un periodo reso ancor più interessante dall'analisi retrospettiva.» Kirkus Reviews «Affascinante.» Washington PostAndrew NagorskiGiornalista pluripremiato, attualmente è vicepresidente e direttore della sezione politiche pubbliche dell'EastWest Institute, un think-tank con sede a New York. Nella sua lunga carriera giornalistica, ha lavorato per anni al «Newsweek», guidando le redazioni estere di Hong Kong, Mosca, Roma, Bonn, Varsavia e Berlino. È autore di diversi libri, tra cui ricordiamo The Greatest Battle.

World War II historian Andrew Nagorski recounts Adolf Hitler's rise to and consolidation of power, drawing on countless firsthand reports, letters, and diaries that narrate the creation of the Third Reich.“Hitlerland is a bit of a guilty pleasure. Reading about the Nazis is not supposed to be fun, but Nagorski manages to make it so. Readers new to this story will find it fascinating” (The Washington Post). Hitler's rise to power, Germany's march to the abyss, as seen through the eyes of Americans—diplomats, military officers, journalists, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes—who watched horrified and up close. “Engaging if chilling…a broader look at Americans who had a ringside seat to Hitler's rise” (USA TODAY), Hitlerland offers a gripping narrative full of surprising twists—and a startlingly fresh perspective on this heavily dissected era.

From the celebrated author best known for the Idiot Girls'Action-Adventure Club and described as “the funniest writer in the solar system” (The Miami Herald) comes a new laugh-out-loud collection of essays on rudeness. Pinterest. Foodies. Anne Frank's underwear. New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro—rightfully hailed as “the funniest writer in the solar system” (The Miami Herald)—spares nothing and no one, least of all herself, in this uproarious new collection of essays on rudeness. With the sardonic, self-deprecating wit that makes us all feel a little better about ourselves for identifying with her, Laurie explores her recent misadventures and explains why it's not her who is nuts, it's them (and okay, sometimes it's her too). Whether confessing that her obsession with buying fabric has reached junior hoarder status or mistaking a friend's heinous tattoo as temporary, Laurie puts her unique spin—sometimes bizarre, always entertaining—on the many perils of modern living in a mannerless society. From shuddering at the graphic Harry Potter erotica conjured up at a writer's group to lamenting the sudden ubiquity of quinoa (“It looks like larvae no matter how you cook it”), The Potty Mouth at the Table is whip-smart, unpredictable, and hilarious. In other words, irresistibly Laurie.