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Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 69.99Noteworthy short pieces from Rousseau, most of which have never been translated into English before now. 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...
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...
The Misanthrope
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 12.99Affection I can endure, affectation I abhor. Empty phrases, meaningless gestures of faked good-will. These affable dispensers of embraces make me ill. Disgusted with French society where powdered fops gossip in code and bejewelled coquettes whisper behind fans, poet Alceste embarks on a one-man crusade against fakery, frippery and forked tongues. But... more...
Kristeva
Wiley 2013; US$ 69.95Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, and novelist, Kristeva's broad interdisciplinary appeal has impacted areas across the humanities and social sciences. S. K. Keltner's book provides the first comprehensive... 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...
Elie Wiesel
Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 24.99Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and experience. In this volume, leading scholars in the fields of Biblical, Rabbinic, Hasidic, Holocaust, and literary studies offer fascinating... more...
Die beste Bewerbungsmappe
Campus Verlag 2008; US$ 16.17Hauptbeschreibung 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$ 35.48Hauptbeschreibung 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...









