THE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for revitalizing them.
Que peut notre culture face aux assauts du monde actuel? Telle est la question que se pose l'auteur de Soie et de Novecento devant l'effacement progressif d'une culture de type...
Botticelli, poète et orfèvre de Vénus: c'est ainsi que nous regardons encore, et à juste titre, le tableau si célèbre que Laurent de Médicis commanda au peintre vers 1484, La Naissance de...
We all dream, and 98 per cent of us can recall our dreams the next morning. Even in today's modern age, it is human nature to wonder what they mean. With incredible new discoveries and stunning...
'Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels' Sunday Telegraph Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful,...
A long overdue book aby a psychologist who has extensive clinical experience treating male victims of child sexual abuse, it explodes the myth that sexual abuse of male children is rare, or that...
A handbook for fruit preserving, with 75 basic and special recipes for jams, jellies, chutneys, and compotes, by chef emeritus and master preserver Joyce Goldstein. Jam Session is the lushly...
One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, "Middlemarch" is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young...
Dans Folioplus classiques, le texte intégral, enrichi d'une lecture d'image, écho pictural de l'oeuvre, et suivi de sa mise en perspective organisée en six points: - Mouvement...
"The Profit Zone, " a "Business Week" Top Ten Book of the Year, examines 12 of today's great success stories--from GE to Swatch--and reveals how vital adaptations kept these...
Ils sont là, parmi nous, jamais où tu regardes, à circuler dans les angles morts de la vision humaine. On les appelle les furtifs. Des fantômes? Plutôt l'exact inverse: des êtres de chair et de...
Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War I. It's...
Animal Farm is George Orwell's brilliant political satire and allegorical fable about the corrupting effects of power. Published in 1945 it is, to this day, one of the most famous and...
From the bestselling author and actress comes a rigorously researched and engagingly written practical case for taking natural hormones and how this will give women great health, sex, and vitality...
In this feverishly beautiful novel--originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem--William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating the...
By the author of "Seeing Voices", this is a narrative about the awakening of 20 patients from a zombie-like state they had suffered for over 40 years. A new drug meant the sleeping sickness...
Comment à force de bluff, de supposés miracles et de faux certificats délivrés par des médecins complaisants on parvient à fabriquer une ville d'eaux et à lotir au plus haut prix un paysage...
Eine Reise um die Welt aus 26 Erzählungen, vom Canal de l'Ourcq bis nach Ostende, von Aubervilliers nach Nouméa (Neukaledonien), von La Rochelle nach Quebec und von Bordeaux zu den Antillen....