Bernard: 3655 books

Nach den Kontroversen um den Roman >Unterwerfung< und den persönlichen Anfeindungen gegen seinen Autor ist dieses Duell in Worten aktueller denn je. Bernard-Henri Lévy und Michel Houellebecq sind zwei der wichtigsten Intellektuellen des französischen Literaturbetriebs und erwiesenermaßen...

1909, Louis Tréhen, nommé externe des hôpitaux à Paris, découvre avec enthousiasme les éclats de la Ville lumière et l’ombre de Belleville. Au fil des rencontres de personnages hauts en couleur, Louis va nouer amitiés et liaisons et être conforté dans sa vocation de médecin. 1919,...

Flip through the channels at any hour of the day or night, and a television talk show is almost certainly on. Whether it offers late-night entertainment with David Letterman, share-your-pain empathy with Oprah Winfrey, trash talk with Jerry Springer, or intellectual give-and-take with Bill Moyers,...

With his inimitable wit and sparkle, George Bernard Shaw brings us the character of Owen Jack, a salty non-conformist composer said to have been suggested by Beethoven. The relations between Jack and the other wayward bohemians of the story with the more conventional socialites around them offers...

Nearly twenty years after its initial publication, Dr. Bernard Jensen’s sobering picture of just how interconnected man is with the earth, and how this connection is being destroyed – link by link – still resonates powerfully. In this eye-opening account of the inherent dangers in our agricultural...

In this eerie, compelling, and playful novel, a young man tormented by his feeble memory meets an elderly man, Robert, endowed with the recall of an elephant. Soon, in exchange for becoming his live-in servant, Robert agrees to allow his young protégé to inherit his prodigious memory upon his death....

With invasion a very real threat, in 1940 Great Britain began a huge military construction programme designed to stop an invading army in its tracks. Around vulnerable coastlines, and inland, thousands of pillboxes, anti-tank barriers and other obstacles were erected to defend against attacks from...

Most Americans are aware that the Wright brothers had been the first to fly a powered Flying Machine in 1903. But John J. Montgomery was the first to fly a glider of his own design in 1883, a full twenty years before the Wright brothers. Achieving Flight, by John G. Burdick and Bernard J. Burdick,...

The first and greatest commandment is this: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind.” Medieval monk and church leader St. Bernard of Clairvaux explores four stages of love by which the follower of Christ moves from...

The Celestial Country are classic hymns, translated from Latin into English, written by the fmaous Monk of Cluny, Bernard.

Nommé au poste de Premier ministre à la veille d’une campagne présidentielle inédite, Bernard Cazeneuve verra se produire de multiples événements que l’on n’attendait pas. Lorsque le temps d’un gouvernement est contraint, lorsque le contexte historique est singulier, l’engagement ne...

Quinze années durant, Bernard Ravet s’est tu. Parce que son statut de principal de collège le lui imposait – le devoir de réserve du fonctionnaire. Parce que, dans les collèges de ZEP classés «  Violence  » qu’il dirigeait, les journées étaient rythmées par une alternance du grave...

Palæography is the branch of science which deals with ancient writing (παλαιὰ γραφή). As the Greek word for writing comprises a great deal more than the work of pen and ink, palæographical study would be imperfect if it did not take into consideration the ancient inscriptions upon stone...

Retour sur le parcours étonnant d’un grand écrivainGeorges Simenon est connu dans le monde entier comme le père de Maigret. Mais la silhouette légendaire du commissaire fait souvent oublier les autres romans. Ici, on a voulu voir en l’auteur un romancier, tout simplement, et s’interroger sur...