2749 results for '"Rochet, Jean-Charles'

Spare portraits of the Breton women of northwestern France in beautiful traditional dressFrom high starched towers to elaborately pinned, tucked, and embroidered confections of handmade lace, the...

From the National Book Award–⁠winning author of Interior Chinatown, comes a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.A big-box store employee is confronted by a...

Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had...

La Bible n'est pas seulement le réceptacle de la parole de Dieu adressée à des multitudes de croyants : elle est aussi, elle est d'abord un opulent recueil de documents écrits et compilés par des...

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “A shattering and darkly comic send-up of racial stereotyping in Hollywood” (Vanity Fair) and a deeply personal...

"Quiet Dawn is a translation of Jean-Claude Fignole's novel Aube Tranquille. Originally published in 1990 by French publisher Les Editions du Seuil and translated by Laurent Dubois and Kaiama Glover,...

“A vital book for understanding the still-unfolding nightmare of nationalism and racism in the 21st century.” –Francisco Cantu, author of The Line Becomes a RiverStephen Miller is one of the most...

Illuminated with illustrations, an exploration of medieval manuscript production that offers insight into both the early history of the book and life in the Middle Ages. This book takes the reader...

As an epoch of "censorship terror" drew to a close with the death of Nicholas I and the end of the Crimean War, Russian intellectuals had begun expressing their desires for political, philosophical,...

Charles Taylor (b. 1931) is one of the most influential and prolific philosophers in the English-speaking world. His unusually broad interests range from artificial intelligence to theories of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits.“Few [books] become essential manuals for business and...

'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the...

Qui n'a remarqué le vide idéologique actuel et les vaines polémiques autour de concepts morts ? Dans ce témoignage personnel, Jean Duvignaud, écrivain et sociologue, s'interroge, en acteur et en...

The world of insects is at once beneath our feet and unfathomably alien. Small and innumerable, insects surround and disrupt us even as we scarcely pay them any mind. Insects confront us with the...

In this fascinating work, Jean Dietz Moss shows how the scientific revolution begun by Copernicus brought about another revolution as well—one in which rhetoric, previously used simply to explain...

*A New York Times Notable Book of 2022**A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction**An NPR Best Book of the Year**A New Yorker Best Book of 2022*From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot,...

Searching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House.Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the...

Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today as when it was first published. Written for a general readership, On...

"We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human." --John Cottingham, The Tablet In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles...

The first annotated edition of the book that shocked the Victorian world and continues to generate controversy todayWhen Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was published in 1871, the book was an...