Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive. But energy is a limited resource, as we...
Volomari Volotinen a deux passions: son épouse, Laura, et les antiquités. De voyages en Laponie en expéditions archéologiques, il constitue une collection très particulière. D'une touffe de...
Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from--or antidote to--ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch...
L'inspecteur principal Jalmari Jyllänketo est envoyé par la Sécurité nationale finlandaise dans l'ouest de la Laponie. Alors que des rumeurs font état de mystérieuses disparitions, il doit...
A postwar tragicomedy of manners, an Edwardian romance, and a historical drama are collected in this volume of works by the award-winning novelist. Ribbon marker.
The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written by the youngest of the famous Bront sisters. Anne Bront wrote these two fantastically successful novels just...
From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways,...
When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, millions of Americans became bound together in a single, historic moment. Many still vividly remember exactly where they were and...
Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's...
Une terrible guerre divise les royaumes de Pyrrhia. Selon une mystérieuse prophétie, seuls cinq jeunes dragons nés lors de la Nuit-la-plus-Claire pourront mettre fin aux combats et apporter la...
Comment Aurel Timescu peut-il être Consul de France? Avec sa dégaine des années trente et son accent roumain, il n'a pourtant rien à faire au Quai d'Orsay. D'ailleurs, lui qui déteste...
The vast remote Tibetan steppe, the Chang Tang, is home to a unique assemblage of large mammals, including the Tibetan antelope, gazelle, argali sheep, wild ass, wild yak, wolves and snow leopards....
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz has long been considered to be among the best of musical autobiographies. Like his massive compositions, Berlioz (1803-69) was colorful, eloquent, larger than life....
Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that...
From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jerrell to James Merrill, the author draws on 3,000 years of poetic forays into the supernatural to assemble this ghoulish literary parade.
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" foreshadows both the detective stories...
Anton Chekhov's short novels are here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation aby the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky....
"Elle a toujours pensé que, si l'humanité est à ce point agressive et belliqueuse, ce n'est pas tant par haine des autres que par peur de sa propre fragilité. Si chaque personne au...
Maxwell Sim est un loser de quarante-huit ans. Voué à l'échec dès sa naissance (qui ne fut pas désirée), poursuivi par l'échec à l'âge adulte (sa femme le quitte, sa fille rit doucement...
The unfettered exuberance of 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, ' the storms of phenomenal life it offers for our inspection, the honor it gives to the deformed, the cloacal, and the profane...
"S'il y a quelque personne, quelque bonne compagnie, aux champs, en la ville, en France, ou ailleurs, resséante ou voyagère, à qui mes humeurs soient bonnes, de qui les humeurs me soient...
"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that "The New Science of Politics" would be a best-seller żeby political theory standards. Compressed within the Draconian economy of the...
Margo Roth Speigelman, le nom qui fait fantasmer Quentin depuis toujours. Alors, forcément, quand elle s'introduit dans sa chambre, un soir, pour l'entaîner dans une expédition vengeresse,...