Encyclopedias category: 1105 books
Amérindiens d’Amérique du Nord
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Au XVIe siècle, explorateurs, trafiquants, conquistadores européens n'ont nullement rencontré un monde primitif et désert ; la population indigène, 12 millions de personnes au minimum, vivait des ressources locales, ne connaissait pas de mortalité endémique et précoce mais bénéficiait d'une bonne santé générale...
Poème de Parménide
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2017
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Les difficultés liées à l’interprétation des 155 hexamètres qui nous sont parvenus du Poème de Parménide d’Élée (— 500 env.-— 440), intitulé aussi De la nature, conjuguent à la fois les problèmes liés à...
Le Prince de Machiavel
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2017
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Comprendre les enjeux de l’écriture du Prince implique d’avoir à l’esprit les incessantes guerres d’Italie et leur effet sur Florence, la cité de Machiavel (1469-1527). Tout a été bouleversé par l’arrivée des...
Léviathan de Thomas Hobbes
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2017
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S’il fut publié en 1651 en anglais, le Léviathan ou La Matière, la forme et la puissance d’un État ecclésiastique et civil connut une version latine donnée par Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) lui-même en 1668.
Une...
Le Dit du Genji de Murasaki Shikibu
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2017
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Écrit au début du XIe siècle, le Genji monogatari (Le Dit du Genji) a pour auteur une femme, Murasaki Shikibu (env. 978-env. 1014) dont nous savons bien peu de choses. Elle nous a laissé une des œuvres les plus importantes...
Cent Ans de solitude de Gabriel García Márquez
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2017
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Gabriel García Márquez naît en Colombie en 1928, dans un village de la côte atlantique entouré de plantations bananières qui lui servira de modèle pour le cadre de Cent Ans de solitude.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement...
e-Pedia: Outlander (TV Series)
Outlander is a British-American television drama series based on the historical time travel Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Outlander is a British-American television drama series based on the historical time travel Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Developed by Ronald D. Moore and produced by Sony Pictures...
e-Pedia: Out of Africa (Film)
Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical...
by BookCaps
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Studying Shakespeare can be tough. This book includes over a dozen study guides from some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays.
Study Guides Include: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Richard III, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Twelfth...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004).
Previously published in three volumes,...
The Encyclopedia of Animal Predators
Learn about Each Predator’s Traits and Behaviors; Identify the Tracks and Signs of More Than 50 Predators; Protect Your Livestock, Poultry, and Pets
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Learn to identify threatening species through tracks, scat, and the damage they leave behind. Fascinating profiles of more than 50 predatory mammals, birds, and reptiles teach farmers, ranchers, homesteaders, and backyard-animal raisers how to prevent their livestock, poultry, and pets from becoming...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
The Encyclopedia of Postmodernism provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of academic disciplines, critical terms and central figures relating to the vast field of postmodern studies. With three cross-referenced sections, the volume is easily accessible to readers with specialized research...
by My Ebook Publishing House
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
This encyclopedia is full of fascinating information and amazing colour photographs that can answers to thousands of intriguing questions about the animal kingdom. It offers informative descriptions and interesting facts of animals that live in South America. From jaguars to boa snakes, cougars, vultures and many more. Each entry describes the animal's characteristics and behavior.