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Introduction -- Newman's First Letter (third Reply) -- Jager's Case Against Newman -- Newman's Second Letter (fourth Reply, Part One) -- Jager's Case Against Newman -- Newman's Third Letter (fourth...

Product DescriptionEntre pamphlet et souvenirs, voilà un texte original, un témoignage emblématique d’une génération qui a connu l’effondrement de son pays, puis l’écœurement d’une Occupation et...

The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession.Heterosexuality is celebrated—in film and television, in pop songs and opera,...

A suspenseful, often harrowing yet hopeful odyssey through rural America follows a young drifter’s coming of age in an indifferent world, in this debut novel by comedian Louis C.K.When Ingram is...

The Amazon has the richest freshwater fish fauna in the world, and its evolution is closely linked to the rainforest and the vast floating meadows of the floodplains. Fisheries illustrate the urgent...

More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout...

Louis IX has long been known both as a saintly crusader and as the founder of effective royal administration in France. But, in spite of a vast amount of research, the details of what happened under...

Kenneth Turan brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and their role in creating the film industry as we know it "Sharply observant."--Farran Smith Nehme,...

The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series.“Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again“Engaging. . . . In...

"These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a...

Text: French

Althusser dissects the leading Enlightenment philosopherAlthusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 1972. They...

One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2019 • One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of the year • Finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Nonfiction Literature“Stony the Road presents a bracing...

Text: English, French (translation)