48 results for 'lucien rothstein'

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through...

"A gifted yet financially disadvantaged artist falls victim to the manipulative control of his wealthy, enigmatic Harvard roommate in this incendiary novel from the author of Beautiful Country-a...

Igor Stravinsky declared that mathematics is "as useful to [the musician] as the learning of another language is to a poet." In this elegant exploration, Edward Rothstein, the cultural critic for The...

Especially notable for Lucien Turner's descriptions of nineteenth-century Native material culture, Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory was originally published in 1894 as part of...

Immanuel Kant was a philosopher at the end of the 18th century Enlightenment. Kant’s magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason, aimed to unite reason with experience to move beyond what he took to be...

In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Mitchell Cohen provides the first full-length study of this major figure of postwar French intellectual life and champion of socialist humanism. While many Parisian...

On avait exterminé sa famille entière. On l'avait relégué dans un lointain palais truffé de mouchards. On méditait même d'en faire un prêtre. Bref, le très chrétien Constance glorieusement régnant...

Publié pour la première fois en 1913, Philémon, Vieux de la Vieille est un livre aussi insolite que précieux. Et résolument hybride, conformément à la volonté de son auteur, Lucien Descaves. Se...

A major intellectual biography of Toqueville that restores democracy in America to its essential contextMany American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocqueville as an honorary American and...

Kazu Kibuishi's #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series continues!Navin and his classmates journey to Lucien, a city ravaged by war and plagued by mysterious creatures, where they search for a beacon...

"Say goodbye to the heartache of keeping your thoughts to yourself. True self-expression is now just a postcard away." — Roz ChastCards to give and receive. Life is tough, love is awkward, and...

The original French edition of this book, published in 1967, was widely acclaimed as the best introduction to Chinese Communism ever published. A fresh, bold interpretative survey, it focuses on the...

Product Description Lucien Rebatet (1902-1972) est notamment l'auteur du bestseller de l'Occupation, Les Décombres. Il donne une vision crépusculaire de l'homme qui s'inscrit parfaitement dans...