Pascal: 891 books

Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. It has become...

This collection of inspiring, astonishing, and humorous anecdotes offers a glimpse into the life and miracles of Padre Pio. These personal accounts reveal how he inspired countless conversions through his gifts of bilocation, visions, healing powers, and multilingualism. Written by Pascal Cataneo,...

The Wakefield twins have taken sides—against each other! Robin Wilson wants to join Pi Beta Alpha, Sweet Valley High's highly selective sorority. She may not be beautiful or popular, but she's friendly and smart. So when Elizabeth nominates her for the sorority, Jessica is less than thrilled. She...

Who will Todd choose—the glamorous Jessica or the gentle Elizabeth? Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are identical twins—beautiful, blonde, perfect—but they couldn't be more different from each other. Elizabeth is friendly, good-natured, and kind, and the complete opposite of her clever,...

A prodigiously researched biography of Vannevar Bush, one of America’s most awe-inspiring polymaths and the secret force behind the biggest technological breakthroughs of the twentieth century. As the inventor and public entrepreneur who launched the Manhattan Project, helped to create the...

« Il y a vingt ans j'ai composé les huit tomes des Petits Traités. Ils sont parus aux éditions Maeght. Dernier royaume est un ensemble de volumes beaucoup plus étendu et étrange. Ni argumentation philosophique, ni petits essais érudits et épars, ni narration romanesque, en moi, peu à peu,...

Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion--one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating...

Un naufragé est pris pour le roi d’une île sur laquelle il a échoué par hasard. Comment exercer le pouvoir souverain et incarner la fonction royale quand, au fond de soi-même, on sait que l’on n’est pas ce prince que les sujets reconnaissent en vous ? La parabole de Pascal dit l’origine...

Monsieur Pascal ayant quitté fort jeune l’étude des Mathématiques, de la Physique, & des autres sciences profanes, dans lesquelles il avait fait un si grand progrès, qu’il y a eu assurément peu de personnes qui aient pénétré plus avant...

Do you believe in the persistence of the human soul? Convinced that we live through multiple iterations of life on Earth before finally achieving enlightenment and moving to the next plane of being? Interested in learning more about the early Western response to the Buddhist and Hindu doctrines of reincarnation?...

Today we like to think that marriage is a free choice based on love: that we freely choose whom to marry and that we do so, not so much for survival or social advantage, but for love. The invention of marriage for love inverted the old relationship between love and marriage. In the past, marriage...

If we are to distinguish mere non-being from that which is not, yet may be, from that which was not, yet could have been, or from that which will not be, yet could become, we are committed in some way to grant being to possibilities. The possible is not actual; yet it is not nothing. What then could...

The Tower of London holds almost a thousand years' worth of secrets! The Tower of London draws more than 2 million visitors a year! Almost 1,000 years old and first built by William the Conqueror in 1066, the tower has been a fortress, a palace, a zoo, and an exhibit site for the amazing Crown...

Les Islandais n'ont pas fait la révolution, mais ont surmonté une des plus grandes crises financières de l'Histoire en cherchant des solutions originales pour sortir de l'impasse. Selon la légende, l'Islande aurait vaincu la terrible crise financière de 2008 en tournant le dos au capitalisme,...