1385 results for '"Toussaint, Jean-Philippe'

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...

From the author of the "extraordinary" Animalia (Sunday Times), winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, a blazing new novel exploring nature, family, and violence, set on a hostile and...

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This collection of sixteen large-scale paintings, commissioned 1975 by the East German government, holds a mirror up to the social and political aims of former East Germany before the onset of...

Jean-Paul Bertaud is the leading French authority on the army of the French Revolution, and La Revolution armee is the authortative treatment of the firest great national, patriotic, revolutionary,...

The first biography in more than a quarter century--based on more than 100 interviews--adds significant new information to the story both of Jean-Michel Basquiat's life and to the extraordinary...

"One of the greatest achievements of modern literature."--Richard Howard "A major achievement ... Genet transforms experiences of degradation into spiritual exercises and hoodlums into bearers of the...

Les trois auteurs analysent la portée de la conférence qu'a prononcée Benoît XVI à l'université de Ratisbonne le 12 septembre 2006. Ils font apparaître les enjeux philosophiques et culturels de la...

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Le Moyen Age a vu la presence simultanee autour du bassin mediterraneen elargi vers l'Orient et le Nord de deux religions universalistes: le christianisme et l'islam, et de trois traditions...

Recommended by The New York Times * Elle * Good Morning America * TIME * People * New York Post * Real Simple * Goodreads * LibraryReads * and many more! An evocative family drama and a riveting...

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