4065 results for '"Jakob De Haan'

“Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds.” —Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature...

A beautifully packaged German language edition of the internationally beloved classic. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a new edition with vibrantly restored artwork...

"De Bary explains the puzzling role and ambiguous character of Confucianism as a liberal humanist teaching that is often appropriated to serve conservative regimes. He discusses the tension between...

How kindness—and other prosocial behaviors toward others—can help us live longer and healthier lives.The science is in: being good is actually good for you. In this bracingly original book, The...

Carl De Keyzer invited ten top international photographers - colleagues of his at the celebrated Magnum agency - to shoot a series on how the First World War continues to reverberate in their...

La 4e de couv. indique : "Le terme de " Justes de France " fait référence au titre de " Justes parmi les nations " créé par l'Etat hébreu en 1953 afin d'honorer celles et ceux qui ont sauvé des Juifs...

Une descente aux enfers en forme de chemin de croix. À travers une Europe de la misère, de la haine et de la douleur, c'est l'hallucinante cavale, ironique et désespérée, d'un homme politique véreux,...

Many English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous dream allegory of the thirteenth century, have come to rely on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old French...

La Bible n'est pas seulement le réceptacle de la parole de Dieu adressée à des multitudes de croyants : elle est aussi, elle est d'abord un opulent recueil de documents écrits et compilés par des...

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another's personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in...

Sitôt la Libération advenue, la Résistance est entrée dans un processus de mythification, valorisant les figures emblématiques au détriment des acteurs anonymes et popularisant la vision d'un France...

In this influential novella, regarded as one of Balzac’s greatest works, a dissolute aristocrat competes with a shadowy rival for the love of an enigmatic golden-eyed woman—a crazed and annihilating...

Ce petit livre réunit deux textes de Léon Chestov (1866-1938) très peu connus – mais qui nous paraissent aujourd’hui encore d’une remarquable actualité. Ils comptent parmi les très rares pages que la...

A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thoughtCities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by...

Fleur De Force is a YouTube fashion and beauty sensation with more than one million followers. A two-time winner of the Cosmopolitan "Best Vlogger' Award," Fleur started a video blog in 2009 to share...

English summary: Maurice Garcon (1889-1967) was one of the greatest lawyers of his time. From 1912 until his death, he chronicled almost nightly every trivial or significant event he either...

Le 2 avril 1998, Maurice Papon, ancien haut fonctionnaire vychiste devenu ministre gaulliste, a été reconnu coupable de " complicité de crimes contre l'humanité " et condamné à dix ans de réclusion...

"Interpréter un film est la manière la plus naturelle et la plus personnelle d'y réagir. Mais l'interprétation est souvent critiquée pour sa subjectivité, qui la rend invérifiable. Le propos de ce...

The leading textbook on international human rights law is now better than ever. The content has been fully updated and now provides more detailed coverage of substantive human rights, along with new...

A scholarly edition of The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: Correspondence: Letters 849-1241 by E. S. de Beer. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction,...