1568 results for '"Launay, Jean-Pierre'

Two supernatural crime fighters and their Rorschach-blotted best friend stumble into a plot involving UFOs, giant mollusks, and the Maluku Islands in this vivid, madcap adventure by a contemporary...

Prier pour le roi, l'empereur, l'État, c'est à chaque fois le bénir en espérant sa protection inspirée par l'Éternel. C'est estimer que seule cette alliance peut protéger de la vindicte populaire qui...

One of the most influential historians of ancient philosophy of the past half-century, Pierre Hadot was adept at using ancient philosophers to illuminate the relevance of their ideas to contemporary...

Do social classes really exist? Is disinterested action really possible? What do the family, the church, and the intellectual world have in common? Can morality be founded on hypocrisy? What is the...

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...

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...

Pierre the Maze Detective has a new case. Mr. X has stolen the Maze Stone, which has the power to turn the whole of Opera City into a maze. Can you help Pierre and his friend Carmen find their way...

“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...

In this seminal, founding work of political anthropology, Pierre Clastres takes on some of the most abiding and essential questions of human civilization: What is power? What is society? How, among...

Mr X the Phantom Thief is back, with a new evil plan! He wants to steal the shining light from the top of the Empire Maze Tower, New Maze City's greatest treasure. Pierre and Carmen are called to...

"'Are women's orgasms more intense than men's?' 'Would you let a woman see you with suspicious stains on your trousers?' 'When and how did you lose your virginity?' 'How many times can you come,...

Un aphorisme hante la philosophie occidentale : celui d'Héraclite, qui veut que "la Nature aime à se voiler". Près de vingt-cinq siècles durant, ces quelques petits mots ont successivement signifié :...

A framework for the analysis of public investment in the developing worldIn the past three decades, developing countries have made significant economic and social progress, from improved infant...

“[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...

Du site de l'éditeur: "Face à un Eichmann réel, il fallait lutter par la force des armes et, au besoin, par les armes de la ruse. Face à un Eichmann de papier, il faut répondre par du papier. Nous...

For decades they have roamed the seas, this shipload of undead pirates. They are desperate to die, but every time they try to dash their ship to splinters and end their miserable existence, a...

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...

A must-read thriller at turns madcap and melancholy, about a down-on-their-luck duo of swindlers looting their way through the decaying remains of the USSR “A rich and humane story of ordinary people...

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...