Judith: 2966 books

En parfait éducateur, Théophile Gautier n'encouragea jamais ses filles à paresser : sous cette férule, Judith se livra donc simultanément à l'écriture, la peinture, la sculpture, la musique et l'apprentissage du chinois. Elle publia alors une quinzaine de titres, traitant tous du thème oriental....

Japon, 1614. Fidé-Yori, le jeune siogoun d'Osaka, doit bientôt s'affranchir de la régence du seigneur Hiéyas ; mais ce dernier n'accepte pas de quitter le pouvoir qu'il a occupé pendant si longtemps. L'affrontement devient inévitable. Fidé-Yori peut cependant compter sur l'amitié du rusé...

Rien ne semble pouvoir ébranler le pouvoir de Kang-Shi, le puissant empereur de Chine. Pourtant, Ta-Kiang, un simple laboureur, décide de forcer son destin et de partir à la conquête du pouvoir. Accompagné par la belle Yo-Men-Li et par le fantasque poète Ko-Li-Tsin, Ta-Kiang semble triompher...

EXTRAIT: I J’ai commencé la vie par une passion. Aussi extraordinaire que cela puisse paraître, c’est cependant tout à fait certain, et cette passion, qui eut, comme toujours, ses joies et ses peines, aboutit à un chagrin dont la violence n’a jamais été, pour moi,...

C’était dans un salon, à l’entresol, rue de Chateaudun, le soir, vers la fin de juillet.     La lueur, adoucie par un globe recouvert d’une dentelle en papier bleu, d’une lampe en porcelaine chinoise, éclairait les cheveux et le front d’une...

With the development and accessibility of animation tools and techniques, filmmakers are blurring the boundaries between documentary filmmaking and animation. The intimacy, imperfection and charm of the animated form is providing live-action and animation directors with unique ways to tell stories,...

Through the colorful family histories and rich detail of the Zimmern Chronicle, historian Judith Hurwich examines marriage, family, and sexuality among the early modern German nobility. She uses the house chronicles of the Zimmern family and the families of the counts and barons with whom they intermarried...

For more than two hundred years, lawyers and judges, many of them colorful and powerful personalities, have practiced law and maintained order in Greenville County. In the nineteenth century, Judges Richard Gantt and Waddy Thompson began the tradition of Upstate justice. At the time of the Civil War,...

Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book Award When a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony's moral tone, the governor responded, "If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here...

In 1959, Richard Bellamy was a witty, poetry-loving beatnik on the fringe of the New York art world who was drawn to artists impatient for change. By 1965, he was representing Mark di Suvero, was the first to show Andy Warhol’s pop art, and pioneered the practice of “off-site” exhibitions and...

Quotations to motivate, inspire and help you get the most out of your life. A collection of personal development, inspirational and motivational quotations from business leaders, spiritual leaders and influencers. Some quotes will empower you, others will make you smile. “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.” (Buddha)

In Strong Enough to Bend, author Judith K. Witherow compiles a sampling from four decades of her essays and poems that describe the real life experiences of a disabled, mixed blood Native American Indian lesbian raised in Appalachian poverty. Much of the work has been previously published in anthologies,...

This book affords English-speaking readers their first opportunity to read and enjoy the poetry of Zina Weinshall. Zina was born in Russia in 1900 and moved to Israel in 1920. Early on, she wrote her poetry in Russian, her mother tongue; later, after she had mastered the Hebrew language, she...

So how did women get their curves? Why do they have breasts, while other mammals only develop breast tissue while lactating, and why do women menstruate, when virtually no other beings do so? What are the reasons for female orgasm? Why are human females kept in the dark about their own time of ovulation...