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by René Descartes
Language: French
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 5, 2016
René Descartes, né le 31 mars 1596 à La Haye en France, et mort le 11 février 1650 à Stockholm, est un mathématicien,physicien et philosophe français. Extrait : Nous devons lire les ouvrages des anciens, parce que c’est un grand avantage...
La Dioptrique – suivi d'annexes
Nouvelle édition 2019
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de La dioptrique de René Descartes augmentée d'annexes (Descartes et son influence dans la littérature française par Nisard, Eloge de Descartes par Thomas, Biographie de Descartes par Fouillée).
ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE :
L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis...
by René Descartes
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Les Passions de l'âme (parfois appelé Traité des passions de l'âme) est un traité philosophique écrit par René Descartes et publié à Paris en 1649. Il s'agit du dernier livre de Descartes publié de son vivant. Celui-ci est écrit en français et dédié à la Princesse Élisabeth...
Les Météores – suivi d'annexes
Nouvelle édition 2019
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Les météores de René Descartes augmentée d'annexes (Descartes et son influence dans la littérature française par Nisard, Eloge de Descartes par Thomas, Biographie de Descartes par Fouillée).
ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE :
L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement...
by René Descartes
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Le Discours de la méthode (sous-titré Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences) est un texte philosophique publié anonymement par René Descartes à Leyde le 8 juin 1637. Dans les premières éditions, ce discours servait d'introduction à trois traités scientifiques...
The Atlas of Climate Change: Based on SEAP-CMIP5
Super-Ensemble Projection and Attribution (SEAP) of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
"The Atlas of Climate Change—Based on SEAP-CMIP5" is intended to satisfy readers’ curiosity: how will our climate system change over the next 100 years? It is the first showcase for the state-of -the-art earth system models that released their CMIP5 simulations for the IPCC AR5.The atlas...
Evolution and Conversion
Dialogues on the Origins of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of René Girard's thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature. His long argument is a historical one in which the...
Evolution and Conversion
Dialogues on the Origins of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
Presented as a series of conversations, Evolution and Conversion is a thorough discussion of the major tenets of Girard's thought.
René Girard is one of the most brilliant and striking intellectuals of the 20th century. His theory on the imitative nature of desire and on the violent origin...
Good-Enough Mother
The Perfectly Imperfect Book of Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
In an ideal world, mothers would have time to hand-sew their kids' costumes for the school play, prepare all-organic meals, and volunteer in the classroom at the drop of a hat. In reality, most moms have to settle for plopping their little ones in front of SpongeBob so that they can prepare yet another...
Pregnant with the Stars
Watching and Wanting the Celebrity Baby Bump
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
"Check out that baby bump!" Online and print magazines, television shows, and personal blogs are awash with gossip and speculation about pregnant celebrities. What drives our cultural obsession with celebrity baby bumps? Pregnant with the Stars examines the American fascination with, and...
Vimeiro 1808
Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
On 2 August 1808 a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington. They were coming to assist the Portuguese, Britain's oldest ally, to liberate their country from its French occupiers. Within a month Wellesley was...
Reading Galileo
Scribal Technologies and the Two New Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside of Florence. With the help of friends and family, he managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a manuscript that became his final published work, Two New Sciences. Treating diverse subjects that became...
by René Riesen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Jungle Mission is a poignant account of René Riesen’s life and mission during the First Indochina War amongst the Montagnards, and his ever growing love for these people by going native, learning their language, their traditions, their rituals, and their way of life.
During World War II,...
by René Basset
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The Moorish ballads which appear in this volume are selected from a unique department of European literature. They are found in the Spanish language, but their character is oriental; their inspiration comes from the Mahometan conquerors of northern Africa, and while they exhibit a blending of Spanish...