Claude: 2393 books

L'impact de Tristes Tropiques sur la pensée du vingtième siècle est immense. Traduit en 27 langues. L'impact de Tristes Tropiques sur la pensée du vingtième siècle est immense. Pourquoi et comment devient-on ethnologue ? Comment les aventures de l'explorateur et les recherches du savant...

Despite the abundant variety of Chekhov translations available in bookstores and libraries, American directors and actors have sought out these versions by Jean-Claude van Itallie to make them the most often performed renditions on the American stage today. This edition includes “The Seagull ” “Uncle Vanya ” “Three Sisters ” and “The Cherry Orchard.”

In My Valley, Claude Ponti leads us on a journey through an enchanted world inhabited by "Touims" (tiny, adorable, monkey-like creatures), secret tree dwellings, flying buildings, and sad giants. Clever language and beautifully detailed maps of imaginary landscapes will delight children...

Partis de Montréal en 1885, alors que l'épidémie de variole battait son plein, Victor et Amélia Desmarais se sont installés dans la vallée de la rivière Rouge, au Manitoba, dans l'espoir d'y faire la paix avec leur passé. Peu habitué à la vie champêtre, le couple tente tant bien que mal...

Novelist and poet Claude Le Bouthillier draws on his Acadian and New Brunswick heritage to create Phantom Ships. First published in 1989 as Le Feu du Mauvais Temps, it gives an account of the end of the French Empire in Canada as experienced by the authors own ancestor, Joseph Le Bouthillier.

A successful career woman endeavors to transform her husband into a stay-at-home dad with the help of their family physician and some other sympathetic associates.

Is this a book for you? It is about the dream of a boy. The mom is a nurse and always concerned with insect bites and viruses, including HIV. The dad is a prof and always tries to teach math at any moment of the day. His best friend is a Jewish businessman who works in construction. The great-aunt...

En 1985, Claude Jasmin, jeune grand-père partiellement à la retraite, propose ses services de « gardien » pour dépanner les parents de ses cinq petits-fils. Ce sera le début d'une décennie de joyeuse complicité entre le papi et sa bande des cinq. Mais Laurent, Simon, Gabriel, David et Thomas...

Jean Claude Guiet was born in Belfort, France. His parents headed the French Department at a college in the U.S. for 30 years, so he spent his school years here and summers in France. In 1940, at 16, he was recruited by the OSS (the precursor of the CIA). After Fort Bragg training he parachuted into...

Every city has its own rhythm, its own beat and character; none more so than Barcelona. To commemorate the 2016 European Science Fiction Convention being held in this historic city, NewCon Press invited many of Spain’s top SF and fantasy authors to join those from Britain, France, and Canada to write...

"So remarkable in truth is this novel that I cannot understand why it is not universally known and admired." - Hugh Walpole "I Am Jonathan Scrivener remains a tantalizing, highly diverting philosophical novel of rare elegance and wit." - Michael Dirda James Wrexham...

What poltergeist accounts through the ages reveal about our own worldviews • Provides a wide array of case studies from ancient Greece and Rome to medieval Europe to the modern world • Explores the relationship between poltergeists and troubled adolescence • Looks beneath...

An exploration of the many forms of the ancient myth of the Wild Hunt and its influence in pagan and early Christian Europe • Recounts the myriad variations of this legend, from the Cursed Huntsman and King Herla to phantom armies and vast processions of sinners and demons • Explains...

Gathering all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japan, this sustained meditation follows his dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must see it from another’s point of view. For Lévi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. This English translation presents one of France’s most public figures at his most personal.