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One Day in Oradour
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 8.99On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village. 644 men, women and children died that day. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour, and imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre, and the seven-year-old boy who escaped it. Powerful, moving and almost unbearably... more...
One Day in Oradour
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 8.99On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village. 644 men, women and children died that day. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour, and imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre, and the seven-year-old boy who escaped it. Powerful, moving and almost unbearably... more...
Letters on England
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.95Letters on England gathers together Voltaire's essays about his time in England between 1726 and 1728. Comparable to Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America , Voltaire looks at English culture as an outsider, giving its culture, society and governing institutions a favorable comparison to their French counterparts. more...
The School for Husbands
The Floating Press 1900; US$ 4.95The School for Husbands (L'École des maris) is a work by Molière (the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a French playwright who is often considered to be one of Western literature's great masters of comedy. In a theatre in the Louvre and in the Palais-Royal, Molière found success among the Parisians with The School... more...
Jealousy
Profile 2009; US$ 17.58After the pleasure comes the pain. The Sexual Life of Catherine M, Catherine Millet's analysis of the many forms and flavours of sexual pleasure, was internationally admired, and not just for its literary qualities. The audacity of a sex life well lived and thoroughly examined left readers wondering how she managed to pull it off while sustaining... more...
When I Am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing with Me?
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95?When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. And when I am walking alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts are sometimes preoccupied elsewhere, the rest of the time I bring them back to the walk, to the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, and to me.? ? Montaigne In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel... more...
And the Sea Is Never Full
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.95As this concluding volume of his moving and revealing memoirs begins, Elie Wiesel is forty years old, a writer of international repute. Determined to speak out more actively for both Holocaust survivors and the disenfranchised everywhere, he sets himself a challenge: "I will become militant. I will teach, share, bear witness. I will reveal and try... more...
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa 2010; US$ 24.99La mort d?Alain Robbe-Grillet, en 2008, est à l?origine du colloque international Alain Robbe-Grillet : balises pour le XXIe siècle, tenu à l?Université d?Ottawa en juin 2009 et dont cet ouvrage constitue les Actes. Cette réunion avait pour objectifs de faire le point sur Robbe-Grillet et son ?uvre, tant littéraire que cinématographique, désormais... more...
Die beste Bewerbungsmappe
Campus Verlag 2008; US$ 16.52Hauptbeschreibung Personalverantwortliche haben hohe Ansprüche - bereits die schriftliche Bewerbung muss diese Erwartungen erfüllen und den neuen Arbeitgeber in kürzester Zeit von den Qualitäten des Bewerbers überzeugen. Das gelingt nur mit individuellen und passgenauen Unterlagen. Püttjer & Schnierda zeigen in ihrem Ratgeber, wie man Fehler vermeidet... more...
Friedensschriften
Felix Meiner Verlag 2009; US$ 36.26Hauptbeschreibung Jean Jacques Rousseaus Schriften zur Stiftung eines fortdauernden Friedens unter den europäischen Völkern, der "Extrait du Projet de Paix Perpétuelle de Monsieur L'Abbé de Saint-Pierre" und der "Jugement sur la Paix Perpétuelle", haben eigenständige Bedeutung in der systematischen Entfaltung eines rechtsphilosophischen Themas, das... more...









