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Kitty Literature
An Illustrated Collection for Cat Lovers
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
People have been fascinated by cats for centuries. From the ancient Egyptians, all the way down to today's cat lovers throughout the world, cats have held a special place in people's lives. Cats are unique creatures. It shouldn't be surprising that they have captured the imaginations of many of the...
by Jean-Pierre Charland
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Vallée du Richelieu, hiver 1905. Aldée, une adolescente maigrichonne, a le coeur brisé quand elle doit quitter la ferme paternelle et abandonner son ambition de devenir institutrice. Hélas, pour éviter la famine, son père a besoin du salaire qu’elle obtiendra en se mettant au service de bourgeois...
by Pierre Lemaitre
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2019
El impacto que produjo en Francia la publicación de Nos vemos allá arriba —Premio Goncourt 2013 y más de dos millones de ejemplares vendidos— superó con creces la enorme resonancia que suele acompañar a uno de los galardones más prestigiosos de la literatura europea. El público y la crítica...
Alexander the Great and His Empire
A Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
This is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Eschewing a conventional biographical focus, this is the only book in any language that sets the rise of Alexander's short-lived...
by Pierre Iberville
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Europe's expansion into the New World during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries was a story of power alignment and cultural transmission as well as dramatic individual effort. Spain had her conquistadores, France her coureurs de bois, and England her sea dogs. Isolated from the authority of home governments,...
My Stripes Were Earned in Hell
A French Resistance Fighter's Memoir of Survival in a Nazi Prison Camp
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This remarkable memoir tells the story of Jean-Pierre Renouard, a gentile, in Germany's Nazi prison camps. In this spare, compelling narrative of a year during which he and the world he knew descended into hell, he recounts his battle to survive—physically, emotionally, and morally. In May 1944,...
Walking in the Sacred Manner
Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers--Medicine Wom
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Walking in the Sacred Manner is an exploration of the myths and culture of the Plains Indians, for whom the everyday and the spiritual are intertwined and women play a strong and important role in the spiritual and religious life of the community.
Based on extensive first-person interviews...
Blood and the Covenant
The Historical Consequences of the Contract with God
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Blood and the Covenant tells the story of a mindsetthe conception of a personal covenant between God and manand the insidious consequences of this mindset. Author Pierre Parisien examines the history of covenantal belief and looks critically at two of its most troubling aspects: appropriation (the...
by Pierre Sorlin
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
From such films as La Dolce Vita and Bicycle Thieves to Cinema Paradiso and Dear Diary, Italian cinema has provided striking images of Italy as a nation and a people. In the first comprehensive study of Italian cinema from 1886-1996, Pierre Sorlin explores the changing relationship of Italian cinema...
CALL "M" FOR MURDER: Ultimate Collection - 885 Murder Mysteries, Thriller Novels & Detective Stories in One Edition
880+ True Crime Stories, Action Thrillers, Whodunit Mysteries & Supernatural Mysteries: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Thorndyke Cases, Bulldog Drummond, Detective Standish, Martin Hewitt, Max Carrados…
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited thriller collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt from Content: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Series True Crime Stories Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men P.-C. Lee The Angel of Terror…...
Bullsh*t or Fertilizer
A Portable Pep Talk
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Ever get tired of having the same conversation over and over again, just talking or thinking about what needs to be done instead of getting motivated to act? This book is for anyone who needs a heaping dose of momentum and focus, and who better to dish out such advice than Pierre Bennu, an award-winning...
Christianity and Evolution
Reflections on Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2002
The author of The Phenomenon of Man reconciles passionate faith with the rigor of scientific thinking.
With his unique background as a geologist, paleontologist, and Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a powerful exponent of the view that scientific theories could comfortably coexist...
by Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This book comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each Section. This edition has a linked Table of Contents and has been wonderfully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your eBook reader. Jean Pierre de Caussade was a French Jesuit priest and writer known for...
by Pierre Rosanvallon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Society's wealthiest members claim an ever-expanding share of income and property--a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon, the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. Just as significant, driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of equality itself.