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Jennifer Hayden has never liked to cook. She’s not particularly good at it, either. But, like so many of us, she does it anyway. Why is th ...
A controversial new look at a turning point in modern European historyIn 1898, the Dreyfus Affair plunged French society into a year-long frenzy. In small villages and big cities, angry crowds...
Une poignée de "gros", détentrice du pouvoir économique et politique, écrasant le bon peuple (tous groupes sociaux confondus, ouvriers, paysans, employés, commerçants, petits patrons) : tel est,...
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...
Au tournant du siècle, en 1898, année de tous les dangers, la société française plonge dans un tourbillon antisémite. Dans les grandes villes comme dans les petites bourgades endormies, des foules en...
A sorrowful French sailor boy submerged in a confectionary sea, a doll-like dominatrix bound to a cheap vinyl-coated chair, the young Yves Saint Laurent, a coy Asian nude holding the Ace of Spades on...
Théologien, logicien, dialecticien, musicologue, Abélard reste un grand savant dont l’œuvre mérite d’être étudiée et enseignée. Neuf cents ans après sa mort, sa pensée, ses travaux, les polémiques...
An influential social critic and a major social thinker, Norman Birnbaum has collected here, for the first time, a number of important essays. Written over the last twenty years, they range from the...
Jean Pierre-Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work,...
This concise, abridged edition of Pierre Grimal's celebrated "Dictionary of Classical Mythology" brilliantly distils and captures the essence of Greek and Roman mythology. It is the ideal reference...
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, often progressive, and potentially disabling disease of the central nervous system. Onset of the disease is usually between the ages of 15 and 50, with the...
C'est contre l'usage incohérent du terme "fasciste" que s'élève l'ouvrage de Pierre Milza qui décrit, analyse, dissèque tous les mouvements, ligues, groupes, groupuscules qui, du début du siècle à...
Now in paperback, the "disturbing, brutally honest, and scrupulously fair " (Booklist) study of Germany during the Nazi years, by the celebrated author of The Nazi Question. In a highly praised study...
Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it is so much in line with our expectations that we find it difficult to call into question...
For over fifty years, children have cared about Pierre, the little boy who doesn’t care about anything—until he meets a lion!Now in a larger, 5 x 7 trim size, Pierre will continue to make children...
Algebraic number theory introduces students not only to new algebraic notions but also to related concepts: groups, rings, fields, ideals, quotient rings and quotient fields, homomorphisms and...