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Yasser Arafat
L'esprit de la résistance palestinienne
Language: French
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Yasser Arafat en moins d’une heure !
Président de la nouvelle Autorité palestinienne et prix Nobel de la paix, Yasser Arafat est l’un des personnages les plus mystérieux de l’histoire contemporaine. C’est que l’homme porte en lui...
Nelson Mandela
Le combat contre l'apartheid
Language: French
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Nelson Mandela en moins d’une heure !
Connu pour l’incroyable combat qu’il a mené toute sa vie durant contre l’apartheid, Nelson Mandela est devenu une véritable icône de la lutte contre l’oppresseur blanc. Grâce à son courage,...
Des poules comme des coqs en pate
Elever des poules d'ornement, un hobby qui se transforme en passion
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Elever des poules d'ornement dans un jardin de la banlieue parisienne, est-ce bien raisonnable? Peut-être pas complètement, mais Françoise Combrisson-Guerton, surnommée Graciane, citadine sans expérience des volailles, s'est lancée dans l'aventure avec l'enthousiasme...
by François ARAGO
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2014
Extrait : Messieurs, la mort qui, sans relâche, éclaircit nos rangs semble diriger ses coups, avec une prédilection cruelle, contre la classe si peu nombreuse des associés étrangers. Dans un court espace de temps, l’Académie a vu disparaître de la liste...
by François Arago
Language: French
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Messieurs, la mort qui, sans relâche, éclaircit nos rangs semble diriger ses coups, avec une prédilection cruelle, contre la classe si peu nombreuse des associés étrangers. Dans un court espace de temps, l’Académie a vu disparaître de la liste de ses...
by François Reynaert
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Des grands empires de l’Antiquité à la chute de l’URSS, de l’Europe de Charlemagne au Japon du xixe siècle, de l’Asie des Mongols à l’Afrique de la décolonisation, cet ouvrage nous convie à un voyage extraordinaire au fil des siècles. Procédant par étapes chronologiques, il suit...
The Philosopher’s Touch
Sartre, Nietzsche, and Barthes at the Piano
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Renowned philosopher and prominent French critic François Noudelmann engages the musicality of Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Roland Barthes, all of whom were amateur piano players and acute lovers of the medium. Though piano playing was a crucial art for these thinkers, their musings...
Seeing Double
Baudelaire's Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining...
Changing the Way We Die
Compassionate End of Life Care and The Hospice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care—nearly 44 percent of all deaths—and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one...
Almost a Wise Guy
Based on a True Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Almost a Wise Guy is a true story about Frankie Crooks, a down-to earth Italian kid from Greenwich Village, who is torn between two worlds…the mob and law enforcement. Both hold intrigue, because he has a brother in each trying to convince him to follow in their footsteps. Frankie sees the humor in...
The Ego and Spirit
Insights on Living, Loving and Letting Go
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
In the pages of this profoundly inspiring book, Fran Hewitt reveals 35 authentic snapshots of life that will entertain, enlighten, and challenge readers to think about their own life experiences. Some of these vignettes are poignant, others are funny, and many are personal, yet in each one readers...
If We Can Win Here
The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs from backbreaking, low-wage work into careers that allowed workers to buy homes and send their kids to college. Some union activists insist that there is no...
by Françoise Frenkel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2017
En 1921, Françoise Frenkel, una joven apasionada por la lengua y la cultura francesas, funda la primera librería francesa de Berlín, La Maison du Livre.
Una librería en Berlín es un libro de testimonio en primera persona en el que la autora cuenta su itinerario: en 1939 huye de Alemania, donde...
Lies, Passions, and Illusions
The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
François Furet needs little introduction. Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, he was a maverick for his time, shining a critical light on the entrenched Marxist interpretations that prevailed during the mid-twentieth century. Shortly after his death in 1997,...