Erik: 1534 books

Book cover of The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa
by Erik Kennes, Miles Larmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016

Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Katanga, located in today's Democratic Republic of Congo, seceded in 1960 as Congo achieved independence and...
Book cover of La révolte des accents
by Erik Orsenna
Language: French
Release Date: May 30, 2007

Une jonque qui transporte une troupe de comédiens accoste un jour dans l’île où vivent nos amis Jeanne, son frère Thomas, M. Henri… Le soir-même, ils jouent Roméo et Juliette, faisant rêver d’amour tous les habitants de l’île. Le lendemain, stupeur ! la jonque est partie. Elle a emporté...
Book cover of L'entreprise des Indes
by Erik Orsenna
Language: French
Release Date: May 12, 2010

« Le 13 août 1476, au large du Portugal, le bateau que commande Christophe Colomb fait naufrage. Le futur amiral vient d’avoir vingt-cinq ans. Par miracle, il réussit à regagner la côte et trouve refuge à Lisbonne auprès de son frère cadet, Bartolomé. Lequel exerce la profession de cartographe. Depuis...
Book cover of La Fabrique des mots
by Erik Orsenna
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2013

« Il y a des histoires qui sont des déclarations de guerre. Voilà pourquoi, moi, Jeanne, je me suis tue. J’ai préféré attendre que le temps passe. J’étais petite, à l’époque, dix ans et quelques mois. Mais l’heure est venue de parler. » L’ignoble Nécrole a encore frappé....
Book cover of La chanson de Charles Quint
by Erik Orsenna
Language: French
Release Date: February 27, 2008

« Ils étaient deux frères.  Le cadet n’avait eu qu’un amour. Un seul amour depuis la jeunesse. Un amour un moment parti. Et puis revenu. Et puis épousé, trente ans plus tard, pour entrer ensemble dans la vieillesse. Peut-être aussi pour regarder avec moins de vertige le temps qui...
Book cover of Et si on dansait ?
by Erik Orsenna
Language: French
Release Date: August 26, 2009

Après La grammaire est une chanson douce, après Les Chevaliers du Subjonctif, après La révolte des accents, Erik Orsenna poursuit les aventures grammaticales de son héroïne Jeanne et de son frère Tom. Ou comment vont-ils découvrir cette fois l’art de ponctuer leur vie… Jeanne a seize ans...
Book cover of Noir tryptique
by Alain Dubrieu, Erik Orsenna
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1993

Il suffit d’un geste, le geste des dames de la nuit : bras demi-tendu. main levée et l’index qui dit « viens ». Ou, plus luxueux, démodé, les parades d’autrefois dans les villes assoupies : ce soir grand spectacle international. Enfants, militaires et femmes seules, demi-tarif. Alors...
Book cover of Deathpower

Deathpower

Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia

by Erik Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically reorients approaches toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactions with local religious practice and, by extension, reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself. Through a vivid study of contemporary...
Book cover of Politics, Metaphysics, and Death

Politics, Metaphysics, and Death

Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sace

by Thomas Carl Wall, Peter Fitzpatrick, Erik Vogt
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2005

The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of sovereignty and the politics of life and death laid out in his multivolume Homo Sacer project. Agamben argues...
Book cover of The Big Page
by Erik Lundy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010

A budding reporter and goofball photographer embark on a cross country trip to save a controversial writer with a church bounty on her head.
Book cover of The Neurobiology of the Gods

The Neurobiology of the Gods

How Brain Physiology Shapes the Recurrent Imagery of Myth and Dreams

by Erik D. Goodwyn
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

Where does science end and religion begin? Can "spiritual" images and feelings be understood on a neurobiological level without dismissing their power and mystery? In this book, psychiatrist Erik Goodwyn addresses these questions by reviewing decades of research, putting together...
Book cover of Healing Symbols in Psychotherapy
by Erik D. Goodwyn
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016

Ritual scholars note that rituals have powerful psychological, social and even biological effects, but these findings have not yet been integrated into the practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry. In Healing Symbols in Psychotherapy Erik D. Goodwyn attempts to rectify this by reviewing the most pertinent...
Book cover of The War on Mites
by Erik Raichle
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

New children’s book declares war on Mites In this book, Mr. Erik Raichle tells us that We got rid of mosquitoes and malaria; We can and must get rid of Mites and Asthma. So, Mr. Raichle wrote this book to tell us what we can do.
Book cover of Intelligence and Surprise Attack

Intelligence and Surprise Attack

Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond

by Erik J. Dahl
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

How can the United States avoid a future surprise attack on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, in an era when such devastating attacks can come not only from nation states, but also from terrorist groups or cyber enemies? Intelligence and Surprise Attack examines why surprise attacks often succeed even...
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