Report from a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 1925-1939

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph RothTranslator: Michael HofmannIntroduction by: Michael HofmannAt one time an underground hero in the world of journ...

'The White Cities collects fifteen years of incomparable reportage... What Roth sees is always arresting, often atrocious, usually absurd... A "jou...

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The terrifying future of our world after climate change -- as predicted by a leading geochemist

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Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd LtdAuthor(s): Henri J. M. NouwenNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 14Cover type: P...

Reducere. Come See the Garden That Is Your Life When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, ...

Publisher: Mount Orleans PressAuthor(s): Peter UptonIllustration(s): 130 b/w line drawingsNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 237...

Reducere. Burroughs, the eccentric, brilliant artist who burned the bridge with logic and wrote the classic Naked Lunch, has a court recorder in Victor Bockr...

In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long ca...

The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'Testament to the fierce intelligence of a writer who wants us to th...

* Witty, catty and entertaining, Paris Was Yesterday is an insider's guide to the arts scene in Paris between the wars

A witty history of 2000 years of French history and the last book from legendary popular historian John Julius Norwich

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Reducere. Devoted to a life of intense contemplative prayer, the Carthusian monks guard their solitude jealously and rarely allow visitors to live with them....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Napoleon HillThe Law of Success From The 1925 Manuscript LessonsHere is the Holy Grail of success philosophy: Napoleon Hill...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Napoleon HillHere is the Holy Grail of success philosophy: Napoleon Hill's complete and original formula to achievement pre...

Reducere. Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universa...

Reducere. In a tradition of political satire that ranges from A MODEST PROPOSAL to DR. STRANGELOVE falls the perplexing, ingenious, and ceaselessly curious R...

This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce...

Reducere. With playful wit, worldly advice and savvy observation, the bestselling authors of How to Be Parisian tackle the Parisian art of growing up. Caroli...

The first thirteen centuries in France saw a new religion, a new language, new learning institutions and the beginnings of a great nation. The regi...

Reducere. ─Knowing what to do is good. Knowing why you do it is priceless. This is a book aimed at the adult learner who is unsatisfied with approaches to le...

Reducere. ". . . frank, marvelously descriptive, and heart-warming . . . " --Major General (USA, Ret) Gordon B. "Skip" Davis, Deputy Assistant Secretary Gene...

Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, the author now remembers the experience of his development from ...

Reducere. With an exciting influx of French exchange boys imminent, all the girls are desperate to play host to them. All except Vix, who can't see how Frenc...

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

Reducere. During the era of the American gangster, Saratoga Springs was a virtual "Gangster's Paradise". From Prohibition to Kefauver hoodlums, gunmen and ga...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Bill PlaschkeNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 29Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

French food is regional, full of variety and above all designed for enjoyment, but it is also traditionally rich in products of animal origin: meat...

DescriptionMotorcycles and Motorcycling in the USSR from 1939 provides the first accessible English language account of motorcycles in the Soviet U...

John Davies takes you on his journeys of 60 years travelling through most of Europe and North America, and invites you to share his wonderful train...

Reducere. Charles Middleberg is a Holocaust survivor. But when you hear his story in person, he prefers to be called a witness. Charles and his family are Po...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Afsharid and Qajar Dynasty, then keep reading...Most people have heard about the famous and ...

DescriptionFrom the bestselling authors of How to be Parisian, what smart, savvy, fabulous French women think, feel and advise as they hit forty on...

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Reducere. This fourth volume of the first complete edition of Virginia Woolf's essays and reviews celebrates her maturing vitality and wonderfully reveals he...

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Bruce BairnsfatherIllustration(s): 150 B&W CartoonsNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2009Dimensions:...

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Publisher: Orion MagazineNumber of pages: 108Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 218 x 274 x 12Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): H. Emerson ...

Reducere. "Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas." -New Yorker "Graves writes eloquently about a countryman's concerns. There's not a false...

Reducere. It's easy to take it all for granted and go through life feeling invincible-especially if you've spent your life successfully facing challenges, ov...

Menu from the Midi explores French gastronomy from the farmer's field to the dining room table.Publisher: Troubador PublishingAuthor(s): Colin Dunc...

Our money system is the 'Missing Link'. We assume that we must have a single, monopolistic currency, funded through bank debt, enforced by a centra...

Brings together some of the author's works contributing to our understanding of the minds of children. This title includes essays that range in top...

A powerful, visceral memoir of a life undone. Through intimate access to her personal diary, Birdie shares a decade of her innermost thoughts as sh...

Reducere. From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he...

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