Gilbert: 2100 books

The seventh volume of the acclaimed, official biography: “An engrossing history of Churchill’s crucial role in the grand alliance of World War II” (Los Angeles Times). This seventh volume in the epic, multivolume biography of Winston S. Churchill takes up the story of “Churchill’s...

The “important and engrossing” fifth volume of the official Churchill biography chronicles his visionary leadership in the tense years approaching WWII (Foreign Affairs). This acclaimed biographical masterpiece opens with Winston S. Churchill’s return to Conservatism and to the cabinet...

À l’époque où commence cette histoire, la presse de Stanhope2 et les rouleaux à distribuer l’encre ne fonctionnaient pas encore dans les petites imprimeries de province. Malgré la spécialité qui la met en rapport avec la typographie parisienne, Angoulême se servait toujours des presses...

Le travail est la source de toute misère, ou presque, dans ce monde. Tous les maux qui peuvent se nommer proviennent du travail – ou de ce que l’on vit dans un monde voué au travail. Si nous voulons cesser de souffrir, il nous faut arrêter de travailler. Cela ne signifie nullement que...

Ici, comme dans tous les cas, les dons sont innés[4], cependant la pratique et la réflexion quant aux tactiques par lesquelles quelqu’un peut vaincre un adversaire, ou quant à celles que l’adversaire utilise, comptent pour beaucoup dans la maîtrise de cet art. Ainsi, même si la logique n’a...

A continuation of the serendipitous saga commenced in RAVING VIOLET, Valerie Gilbert’s first non-fiction collection of short stories, MEMORIES, DREAMS & DEFLECTIONS: My Odyssey Through Emotional Indigestion, picks up the sojourn of this sassy, single mystic, mired in her mind and cloistered...

The aim of this book is to demonstrate that becoming a successful do-it-yourself (DIY) investor is within the reach of almost every person in society. Saving or investing in the stock markets is for everyone – from parents with the children’s allowance, to someone who has a lump sum to invest,...

The threats posed by global climate change are widely recognized and carbon emmissions are the major source of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels causes long-lasting, pervasive damages, costly to those of us alive today and even more to our children and our children's...

As the number and size of nonprofit organizations continues to grow, NFPs are coming under ever-increasing government scrutiny. Soon Congress will require that nonprofits comply with rigorous accounting and governance standards very similar to those set forth for for-profits in the Sarbanes-Oxley...

Brew up your own business. This is a step-by-step guide to realizing what for many people is a cherished dream: opening a successful coffee bar. The Complete idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Coffee Bar includes the dirt on what it's really like to work behind the counter and information...

Kitten, Maribel, and Gaby are three very different childhood friends about to celebrate their sixteenth birthdays, which all happen to fall on the same day. But someone's missing--their fourth friend, Una, who's imprisoned in Tijuana. So the trio set out to give Una the ultimate birthday gift--freedom--even...

Une figure emblématique du Dauphiné 28 septembre 1626. Dans la blancheur immaculée des Alpes, un homme voyage seul. Sentant sa dernière heure arriver, François de Bonne trouve un abri où l’attend un inquiétant personnage qui semble bien le connaître. Ensemble, ils reviennent sur la...

Marble Season is the semiautobiographical novel by the acclaimed cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez, author of the epic masterpiece Palomar and cocreator, with his brothers, Jaime and Mario, of the groundbreaking Love and Rockets comic book series. Marble Season is his first book with Drawn & Quarterly, and...

Tudo começa no ano 1900, com o choro de um recém-nascido, e termina cem páginas depois, no ano 2000, com os últimos suspiros de um homem de 100 anos. A criança e o velho são, ambos, Julio, e O dia de Julio, de Gilbert Hernandez (originalmente serializado em Love and Rockets Vol. 2, mas nunca...