Michel: 4109 books

Book cover of The Sauder Diaries: A Bloodier Rose
by Michel Vaillancourt
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012

Set in the summer of 1888, A Bloodier Rose is the second book in The Sauder Diaries series. Picking up where By Any Other Name left off, Hans, Annika and the rest of the crew of the pirate airship “Bloody Rose” are once again called upon by the Allied Empires. An ancient weather weapon is at risk...
Book cover of The Pathos of Distance

The Pathos of Distance

Affects of the Moderns

by Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

Jean-Michel Rabaté uses Nietzsche's image of a "pathos of distance,†? the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. Revealing overlooked connections between Nietzsche's and Benjamin's...
Book cover of Landscapes
by Émile Michel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of landscape has risen above its forebears - religious and historic painting - to become a genre of its own. Giorgione in Italy, the Brueghels of the Flemish School, Claude Lorrain and Poussain of the French School, the Dutch landscape painters...
Book cover of Rembrandt
by Émile Michel
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) has long been considered one of the greatest artists in European history. His paintings have launched imitations and homages, including best-selling novels, a recent TV series, and even a handful of popular films. Now, for the first time, this lovely text by Émile Michel...
Book cover of Rembrandt
by Émile Michel
Language: French
Release Date: March 10, 2014

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) a longtemps été considéré comme l’un des plus grands artistes européens. Ses peintures suscitèrent de nombreuses imitations et hommages, dont des romans à succès, des séries télévisées récentes ainsi que quelques films populaires. Pour la première fois,...
Book cover of Het geheim van bol.com

Het geheim van bol.com

over dromen en doen, pionieren en groeien

by Michel Schaeffer
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 11, 2017

In de bestseller ‘Het geheim van bol.com’ geeft Michel Schaeffer, die vanaf de beginjaren deel uitmaakte van het team, een zeldzaam kijkje achter de schermen van het bedrijf in het tijdperk waarin de wereld de stap naar online maakte. Bol.com is een Nederlands succesverhaal en weet al vele jaren...
Book cover of Kieft
by Michel van Egmond
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 25, 2014

Bijna twintig jaar lang droeg voetballer Wim Kieft een groot geheim met zich mee. Dat is nu voorbij. Aan Michel van Egmond, auteur van de mega-bestseller GIJP, vertelde hij zijn onwaarschijnlijke verhaal. KIEFT is het verslag van een bittere strijd tegen zijn verslaving. Tegen de demonen in zijn hoofd....
Book cover of Nymphéas noirs
by Michel BUSSI
Language: French
Release Date: June 15, 2017

"Trois femmes vivaient dans un village. La première était méchante, la deuxième était menteuse, la troisième était égoïste. Elles possédaient pourtant un point commun, un secret en quelque sorte : toutes les trois rêvaient de fuir... " Tout n'est qu'illusion, surtout quand...
Book cover of Leadership Dispatches

Leadership Dispatches

Chile's Extraordinary Comeback from Disaster

by Michael Useem, Howard Kunreuther, Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015

On February 27, 2010, Chile was rocked by a violent earthquake five hundred times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti just six weeks prior. The Chilean earthquake devastated schools, hospitals, roads, and homes, paralyzing the country for weeks and causing economic damage that was equal to 18...
Book cover of Mensonges sur le Plateau Mont-Royal T1
by Michel David
Language: French
Release Date: September 10, 2013

«— Ce mariage-là m’a l’air de cacher quelque chose et je voudrais bien savoir quoi, dit Bérengère. — Voyons, grand-mère, protesta Jean, mal à l’aise. — T’as pas fait une niaiserie, j’espère? — Ben non! se défendit-il en mettant toute la conviction dont il était capable dans...
Book cover of Detroit: The Dream Is Now

Detroit: The Dream Is Now

The Design, Art, and Resurgence of an American City

by Michel Arnaud
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017

Detroit: The Dream Is Now is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Design Brooklyn. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories and images of shuttered, empty buildings—the emblems of...
Book cover of Flaubert
by Michel Winock
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016

Michel Winock situates Flaubert in France’s century of great democratic transition. Wary of the masses, Flaubert rejected universal suffrage, but above all he hated the vulgar, ignorant bourgeoisie, a class that embodied every vice of the democratic age. His loathing became a fixation—and a source of literary inspiration.
Book cover of Des bords de Loire à la Bavière : la secte de l’abbé Pernéty de Roanne
by Jean-Michel Bérerd
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017

L’histoire d’une seule région aurait-elle conditionné celle de la terre entière ? Dans ce carnet de facéties et badinages les faits relatés se montrent extravagants, mais ils résistent à l’actualité, dans une même vérité : de très anciennes sociétés secrètes, honorant...
Book cover of A Key to the Louvre

A Key to the Louvre

Memoirs of a Curator

by Michel Laclotte
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011

An art world insider provides a witty and penetrating account of fifty years at the center of international culture. Art historian, curator, and museum director Michel Laclotte has been at the forefront of French cultural life over the past half century. This informal autobiography sheds light...
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