Albert: 2833 books

**A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Booklist Editor's Choice On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor comes a harrowing and enlightening look at the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II— from National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin**   Just seventy-five...

Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, “unheard of through the ages,” revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo had ingeniously improved the rudimentary “spyglasses”...

The Liberation of the Jew by Albert Memmi (translated from the French by Judy Hyun; 86,000 words) In this book, written after The Colonizer and the Colonized and Portrait of a Jew, Albert Memmi writes, “It is true that all oppression has a strong tendency to become a total oppression, but...

Portrait of a Jew by Albert Memmi (translated from the French by Elisabeth Abbott; 99,000 words) In this memoir and extended meditation on Jewish identity and anti-Semitic stereotypes written in France in the early 1960s, Albert Memmi paints a portrait of himself as a secular Jew. The book...

In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnées," with "disordered souls" suffering...

Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus'nün ölümünden sonra şunları yazmıştı: "Uzun süre düşünmeden seçimini yapmayan, bir kez seçince de buna bağlı kalan ender insanlardandı... Camus'nün insancılığında, ansızın bastıran ölüme karşı insanca bir davranış varsa; mutluluk...

The kindly, white-heaired old fellow with the bushy mustache once called "the world's grandfather," Albert Einstein was easily the twentieth century's most remarkable and revered man of science. His leaps of imagination changed forever the way we look at the universe. He gained international...

Have you reached a point in your life where the old patterns and habits just don't work anymore? Perhaps it is just a discomfort that you feel, an itch you cannot scratch. Life just doesn't have that same zest it once did. You cannot find satisfaction no matter what you try. Or perhaps...

Au bagne - Albert Londres   Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.   Albert Londres (1884 - 1932) est un journaliste et écrivain français.   En 1923, il se rend en Guyane...

Dans « Au bagne », Albert Londres raconte son voyage à Cayenne, à une époque, encore très récente, où les condamnés français Au bagne partaient purger leur peine. L'auteur est journaliste et le style de son écriture n'est pas celui d'un romancier. Il nous livre des faits, nous raconte...

Albert Londres nous relate l'incroyable évasion d'Eugène Dieudonné du bagne de Cayenne. Ce dernier avait eu le tort de fréquenter les membres de la "bande à Bonnot", les fameux "bandits tragiques". Condamné à mort, il fut gracié et envoyé au bagne. Dieudonné crie...

Renowned scholar and author Albert Schweitzer’s world-changing study of the true life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth The Christian religious tradition has shaped much of our world for two millennia. But separate from the practice of Christianity is the factual life of Jesus himself. In...

Albert Londres (1884-1932) "Quand ce matin, le Biskra maintenant promu au rang de paquebot annexe dans la mer des Antilles et qui, naguère, transportait des moutons d’Alger à Marseille, eut jeté l’ancre devant Port-d’Espagne, les passagers de tous crins et de toutes couleurs,...

« Gabriele d’Annunzio et l’incident de Fiume » est une série d’articles d’Albert Londres publiés entre Mars 1919 et Janvier 1921. Ces articles, parus dans Le petit Parisien, puis dans L’Excelsior après que Londres se soit fait licencier du Petit Parisien sur ordre de Clémenceau, gravitent...