565 results for '"Brisson, Luc'

The creator of Maisy introduces a lovable lemur who loves to hide — in a big, lush picture book with die-cut surprises and three different series of shaped card-stock pages.Where are you, Baby...

SENECA, Ludius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) c. 5 or 4 B.C., of a noble and wealthy family, after an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care, was a victim of life-long neurosis but...

Tracing uranium's past—and how it intersects with our understanding of other radioactive elements—Chain Reactions aims to enlighten readers and refresh our attitudes about the atomic world.Chain...

The global economic crisis has exposed the limits of neoliberalism and intensified social polarization. Amid increasing social resistance and opposition, however, neoliberalism prevails globally...

Why does human language vary from one person, or one group, to another? In what ways does it vary? How do linguists go about studying variation in, say, the sound system or the sentence structure of...

Nel De rerum natura, pubblicato postumo da Cicerone intorno al 53 a.C., Lucrezio consegna alla posterità una fedele esposizione del materialismo epicureo, fonte essenziale per la riscoperta di questa...

In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth...

In a significant reevaluation of Paul’s place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle’s correspondence. He casts Paul’s rhetorical...

The second edition of Clinical Atlas of Procedures in Ophthalmic and Oculofacial Surgery provides an overview of a broad range of contemporary, well-established, and accepted ophthalmic surgical...

In this landmark work of economic sociology, Lucien Karpik introduces the theory and practical tools needed to analyze markets for singularities. Singularities are goods and services that cannot be...

A child’s introduction to art history through the centuries and across the globeA Journey Through Art is a global history of art with a time- travel twist, taking young readers on a expedition from...

Lucie Manén's career--as lieder and opera singer and physiotherapist--uniquely qualified her to write this manual. Here are the findings of her extensive investigations into the "lost" art of Bel...

What is Italy without pasta? Come to think of it, where would the rest of us be without this staple of global cuisine? An acclaimed Italian food writer tells the colorful and often-surprising history...

An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe. In his follow-up to the bestselling Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori takes...

Called "the first post-Weinstein novel" by Vanity Fair Italy, The Girl at the Door is a riveting story of lust, power, and betrayal While on vacation on an idyllic island called Miden, a seemingly...

A cult classic now back in print, this novel about sex, obsession, and art is one of the defining works of 1980s gay fiction.A classic of postmodern fiction, Robert Glück’s Jack the Modernist...

The centre of gravity of contemporary Christianity has shifted to the southern hemisphere where, with the exception of Latin America, almost all Christians are minorities in their home countries...

An engaging and authoritative overview of the history of footwear from the Middle Ages to today, illustrated with rare and luxurious examples from the V&A’s collectionShoes have always captured the...