5377 results for '"Jean J. Schensul'

A thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work by a French master.“Fans of Jean-Patrick Manchette's deadpan irony will appreciate Command Performance,...

Jean-Paul Sartre, at the height of his powers, debates with Italy’s leading intellectualsIn 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute...

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...

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...

The classic story of literature’s most beloved elephant. After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is befriended by the kindly Old Lady. Later,...

"It is awesome, perhaps the finest novel I have ever read in my life. It literally sent shivers through me, the sheer beauty of the language, the exquisite perversity of the imagination, the...

Jean Ducat is the leading French authority on classical Sparta. Here is what is likely to be seen as his magnum opus. Ducat systematically collects, translates and evaluates the sources - famous and...

Harper Torchbooks/Harper & Row reprint, 1971. Softbound book condition: good. Covers good with price blacked out and slight warping of edges; binding sound; pages fine, unmarked. 153 pages; 10.5 oz...

"Lee's way of subverting expectations leaves us questioning our own latent assumptions and desires about theatre, race, death and entertainment. She understands and exploits the unique strengths of...

" Ce livre, écho amplifié et approfondi des six films réalisés par Jean Labib pour la télévision, rassemble les témoignages de cinquante-six des personnes les plus intimement liées – pour ou contre-...

La tératologie, au sens moderne du terme, est la science des monstres; à la Renaissance, il s’agissait plutôt de la discipline qui traite des prodiges. Jean Céard, historien de la culture de la...

Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family.Jean Strouse’s Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the...

La Seconde Guerre mondiale semble aujourd'hui bien connue. Et pourtant. Les idées reçues sur ce conflit d'airain abondent. Desservant la cause de la connaissance, elles montrent surtout que la...

L'antiquite grecque a connu aussi bien des ouvrages destines a la publication que des poemes de circonstance - une ode destinee a celebrer une victoire aux Jeux olympiques, une tragedie ou une...

"In this masterful work, Jean-Luc Marion shows how some of Descartes' most decisive points remain masked by the various "Cartesianisms" that historiography and convenient simplifications alike have...

“Sweetly funny.” —Entertainment Weekly New York Times bestselling author Lara Jean’s letter-writing days aren’t over in this surprise follow-up to the bestselling To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before...

A critical biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer and his lifelong struggle to transcend race, by an award-winning author The poet and novelist Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was among the...

La 4e de couv. indique : Le siège d'Alésia, Charles Martel à Poitiers, la mort de Jeanne d'Arc, la bataille de Marignan, la révocation de l'édit de Nantes, la prise de la Bastille, la bataille...

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...