5312 results for '"Jean J. Schensul'

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • The definitive portrait of the Gilded Age icon J. Pierpont Morgan, presenting his tumultuous life both in and out of the public...

Translated to English from the original French by Derek Coltman. A clear understandable translation of this important book by the preeminant author of books on children; Jean Piaget. An important...

Jean Zay (1904-1944), jeune ministre de l'Éducation nationale et des Beaux-arts du Front populaire, a fait constamment l'objet d'attaques virulentes de la droite antisémite et anti-républicaine, pour...

The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her...

Often considered Jean Rhys's most autobiographical novel, this masterful and moving work follows a chorus girl, Anna, who struggles to adjust to cold and inhospitable England after a childhood in the...

“Discomfort is the hallmark of the poet. His world is almost uninhabitable. People sense this. They enter it as little as possible, as quickly as possible, and only out of curiosity.”Widely...

Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential―and issues In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began...

“[Quartet’s] abiding power arises from [Jean Rhys’s] ability to convey the complex vectors of desire and repulsion that move between the characters, distorted by the intractable demands of...

DOSSIER PG - RAPATRIES 1940-1945Recueil de témoignages, d'informations et de commentaires sur les activités, en France, des Prisonniers de guerre (PG), évadés ou rapatriésavant 1945, dans...

An analysis of how Mitterand came to power in France and how political power seduced the French Left and became a simulacrum.First published in French in 1985, The Divine Left is Jean Baudrillard's...

" . . . a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world . . . " —Kirkus ReviewsJean Améry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of...

Jean de Saintré is the intriguing story of a young knight's training, his first love, and his disillusionment. It teems with details of armor, jousting and tournaments, heraldry and crusading—and...

With a historian's thoroughness and a novelist's skill, Jean-Denis Bredin presents here the most comprehensive, sensitive, and balanced account to date of the Dreyfus Affair, the celebrated scandal...

Seminal essays written by Baudrillard for a journal devoted to a radical leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life.The Utopie group was born in 1966 at Henri Lefebvre's house in...

Jean Starobinski interroge trois figures exemplaires de la folie. Remontant à des documents capitaux, il met en évidence ce qui nous fascine et nous terrorise dans l'aliénation. L'enjeu n'est pas...

Professor Piaget discusses a set of investigations he and a team of co-workers carried out on the genesis of the notion of number in the child's mind. By asking questions freely, they were able to...

Book by McNeill, William H., Sedlar, Jean W.

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by...

Examines the processes through which a child develops the ability to reason

Gérant de la puissante entreprise sidérurgique lorraine fondée par ses ancêtres, président du Comité des forges, régent de la Banque de France, maître du Journal des débats, député puis sénateur de...