2217 results for '"Jean Jacques Du Plessis'

Jean Ducat is the leading French authority on classical Sparta. Here is what is likely to be seen as his magnum opus. Ducat systematically collects, translates and evaluates the sources - famous and...

Cette bibliographie, résultat de plusieurs années de recherche sur l'oeuvre d'André Malraux, comporte environ 1.500 notices commentées et organisées de manière chronologique.

The classic story of literature’s most beloved elephant. After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is befriended by the kindly Old Lady. Later,...

"It is awesome, perhaps the finest novel I have ever read in my life. It literally sent shivers through me, the sheer beauty of the language, the exquisite perversity of the imagination, the...

"Where was this book when we were teenagers?" - Real SimpleGive the gift of financial literacy this graduation season with the ultimate in-depth, full-color illustrated guide to understanding how to...

“Sweetly funny.” —Entertainment Weekly New York Times bestselling author Lara Jean’s letter-writing days aren’t over in this surprise follow-up to the bestselling To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before...

In 1958, John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a script for a movie about Sigmund Freud. The Freud Scenario, found among Sartre's papers after his death, is the result. A fluent portrait of a...

Jean-Francois Lyotard's contribution to the debate, Heidegger and 'the Jews, ' is a marked departure from the standard fare. In the first of the two interrelated essays, 'the Jews, ' Leotard quickly...

The eighteenth-century French philosophe Denis Diderot—the principal intelligence behind the Encyclopédie and the author of idiosyncratic fictional works such as Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau's...

Le spectacle cinématographique est né un soir de décembre 1895. Puis très vite se développa l'industrie du cinéma, bien avant que celui-ci ne soit consacré en tant qu'art. L'histoire du cinéma...

Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family.Jean Strouse’s Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the...

"Lee's way of subverting expectations leaves us questioning our own latent assumptions and desires about theatre, race, death and entertainment. She understands and exploits the unique strengths of...

"when I admire a film | they say to me | yes, it's very pretty | but it's not | cinema | so | I asked myself | what it was" Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard:...

A material analysis of the sign which deepens Marx's critique of political economy for spectacular times.What if the problems of modern society don't come from production, but rather consumption and...

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...

"In this masterful work, Jean-Luc Marion shows how some of Descartes' most decisive points remain masked by the various "Cartesianisms" that historiography and convenient simplifications alike have...