1550 results for '"Launay, Jean-Pierre'

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Recounts major highlights in the two centuries of French-Jewish history separating the French Revolution and the desecration of the cemetery at Carpentras in 1990. Utilizing an interpretive rather...

C'est le premier ouvrage collectif sur le sport pendant cette période de notre histoire nationale. Les sports et les sportifs ont-ils échappé à l'oppression allemande que ce soit en zone libre ou...

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The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers - the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the wedding portraits - may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity...

Le texte intégral du tragédien du XVIIe commenté et annoté. Dans l'Arménie soumise à la Rome impériale, un jeune seigneur se fait baptiser en secret. C'est lors d'un sacrifice rituel qu'il proclame...

From prehistory to the present day, an unrivaled look deep into the contentious origins of the CeltsBlood of the Celts brings together genetic, archaeological, and linguistic evidence to address the...

The Jameses are perhaps the most extraordinary and  distinguished family in American intellectual life. Henry’s novels, celebrated as among the finest in the language, and William’s groundbreaking...

What has the land of Israel meant for the Jewish imagination? This book provides a lively and readable answer, covering Biblical times to the present. Its aim is to pierce the mystery of the images...

Winner of the Bancroft Prize for American HistoryThe only comprehensive biography of the astute observer and diarist Alice James, whose life and legacy were long overshadowed by her two famous...

From French literary talent and Prix Goncourt winner Jean-Baptiste Andrea, a “sprawling fresco and star-crossed love story” (The New York Times) following a dwarf and skilled sculptor as he recounts...

Knowledge spaces offer a rigorous mathematical foundation for various practical systems of knowledge assessment. An example is offered by the ALEKS system (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge...