2350 results for '"Jean Jacques Du Plessis'

Jean-Paul Sartre's famous autobiography of his first ten years has been widely compared to Rousseau's Confessions. Written when he was fifty-nine years old, The Words is a masterpiece of...

Julia Martin is in Paris and at the end of her rope. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now, after being dropped by her latest lover, Mr. Mackenzie, Julia is running out of luck and...

Yams, an important tropical crop, provide some 18 million tons of food a year in West Africa alone. These papers treat plant improvement, agronomic studies and taxonomy, plant protection,...

Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to...

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...

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...

A delightful cookbook with 175 fabulous recipes featuring the fish, shellfish, fruits, and vegetables from the tropical paradise of this multicultural, culinary bonanza, the Florida Keys. Also covers...

From the #1 bestselling search-and-find riddle picture book series, it's the world's most engaging alphabet book! This I Spy classic is back and better than ever, with a fresh design and perfect for...

Le premier tome brosse le tableau des mentalités de guerre sur fond des années trente, du Front populaire et de Munich : les divisions de l'opinion devant l'Allemagne nazie, les incertitudes d'une...

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...

An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first time A King Alone is set in a...

This book presents an overview of recent developments in the area of localization for quasi-periodic lattice Schrödinger operators and the theory of quasi-periodicity in Hamiltonian evolution...

A two-part essay on the "myth" of revolution and the figure of the artist. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important...

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...

The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic...

Samuel Beckett n'a cessé de lire Dante depuis ses années d'étude à Dublin jusqu'à sa mort, en 1989. Sa lecture n'est pas critique : elle est une source, une énergie qui apparaît, disséminée dans ses...