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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,...

As waves of epidemic disease swept the Philippines in the late nineteenth century, physicians in the islands began to fear that the indigenous population would be wiped out. Many Filipinos...

Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of...

A 75th Anniversary edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's world-famous classic featuring a new cover and the history and making of this beloved story. Few stories are as widely read and as...

In 2004, Darfur, Sudan was described as the "world's greatest humanitarian crisis." Twenty years previously, Darfur was also the site of a disastrous famine. Famine that Kills is a seminal account of...

"When I got to know Charlotte De Cock, she was a wild child and she still is." Luc Tuymans "Sitting still feels a little like dying" Charlotte De Cock Charlotte de Cock has painted lifesize portraits...

“Every new book by Frans de Waal is a cause for excitement, and this one is no different. A breath of fresh air in the cramped debate about the differences between men and women. Fascinating,...

"Eloquent, thorough, and profound, David de Jong's brilliant debut illuminates a dark chapter of the past while also shining a stark and uncanny light onto our present, and, perhaps, our near...

Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians," goes a familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of state to include women in this mandate. How the fascist dictatorship defined...

A New York Times BestsellerAn Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)Edmund de Waal is a world-famous...

Product DescriptionL'histoire politique des Juifs de France s'inscrit tout entière dans un balancement entre le civique et le civil, entre l'espace public et l'espace privé, entre la citoyenneté...

In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the...

In The Way of Simplicity Esther de Waal reveals the riches of the Cistercian (Trappist) tradition and its relevance for today's world. The book draws not only on such twelfth-century writers as...

* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice *The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a...

Sculpteur français né en 1946, A. Kirili oriente son travail vers l'abstraction, proche des avant-gardes de son époque. Par la suite, il utilise aussi bien la terre cuite, le marbre ou le fer forgé...

M. de Gracia Concepcion explores the affective landscape of the Philippine diaspora in this classic collection, which was the first book of poetry to be published by a Filipino writer in the United...

For many in Miami’s Cuban exile community, hating Fidel Castro is as natural as loving one’s children. This hatred, Miguel De La Torre suggests, has in fact taken on religious significance. In La...

Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain’s conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de Las Casas dedicated his Brevísima Relación de la...

Pratiquement inconnu jusqu'alors sur les registres de l'Histoire, le peuple perse, depuis sa base de l'Iran méridional (Fars), se lance vers 550 av. J.-C. dans une aventure prodigieuse qui, sous la...

En América Latina, las políticas fiscales e instrumentos convencionales ignoran, en gran medida, cómo las inversiones públicas en infraestructura y servicios urbanos benefician a los propietarios...