A Charles: 534 books

Si vous aimez les légendes, ce livre est fait pour vous. De Pont de l'Arche au mont Saint Michel, d'Harfleur à Gisors, en passant par la Brèche au Diable, la Côte des Deux Amants, Jumièges, sans oublier Rouen et Caen, ces belles histoires promèneront votre imagination aux quatre coins...

Known to seafarers as 'The Devil's Jaw,' Point Honda has lured ships to its jagged rocks off the coast of California for centuries, but its worst calamity occurred on 8 September 1923, the night nine U.S. Navy destroyers ran into Honda's fog-wrapped reefs. *Includes annotations. *Includes original photographs from the Honda Disaster.

BnF collection ebooks - "Le son, c'est le mouvement qui devient sensible à distance. Le repos est muet. Tout son, tout bruit annonce un mouvement. C'est le télégraphe invisible dont se sert la nature."

Published in 1913, this immensely influential and controversial history reinterpreted the motivations and actions of the members of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, suggesting that the importance of economic self-interest of the Founding Fathers outweighed abstract notions of philosophy in the shaping of the Constitution. 

Viele Männer stehen unter hohem Erwartungsdruck oder sind verunsichert. Sie suchen ein neues Männer - bild, das all ihren Qualitäten – als Partner, Liebhaber, im Job – gerecht wird. Der Schlüssel liegt in einer veränderten Einstellung zur eigenen Sexualität. In erfrischend ungezwungenem...

Von tausendjährigen, als Fruchtbarkeitssymbole verehrten Statuen bis hin zu den Odalisken der modernen Maler erotische Kunst hat immer eine bedeutende Rolle in der Gesellschaft gespielt, unabhängig davon, welche Vorstellung von Kultur oder Moral gerade herrschte. In diesem Werk sind eintausend Bilder...

Von jahrtausendealten, als Fruchtbarkeitssymbole verehrten Statuen bis hin zu den Odalisken der modernen Maler – erotische Kunst hat in der Gesellschaft immer eine bedeutende Rolle gespielt, unabhängig davon, welche Kultur- oder Moralvorstellungen gerade vorherrschten. In diesem Werk sind 1000...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.

The Constitution was two years old and the United States was in serious danger. Bitter political rivalry between former allies and two surging issues that inflamed the nation led to grim talk of breaking up the union. Then a single great evening achieved compromises that led to America's great expansion....

184 of the best, most spine-tingling accounts of ghosts from the Garden State.

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...

Congress at War reviews the historical record of the U.S. Congress in authorizing, funding, overseeing, and terminating major military operations. Refuting arguments that Congress cannot and should not set limits or conditions on the use of U.S. armed forces, this book catalogs the many times when previous...

Why is America's health care system so expensive? Why do hospitalized patients receive bills laden with inflated charges that com out of the blue from out-of-network providers or demands for services that weren't delivered? Why do we pay $600 for EpiPens that contain a dollar's worth of medicine?...