Antoine: 890 books

Fresh out of college, Sliv, a young Icelander, joins an environmental consulting firm. Soon his superior reveals that the firm houses the activities of a secret organization, the Consortium for the Falsification of Reality, which rewrites history and falsifies the world as we know it.  Who runs the...

In this second installment of the Falsifiers trilogy, the stakes have gotten higher. Sliv is tasked with daunting missions: help a small Asian country gain its independence, chase a rogue CFR agent, and convince the Bush Administration that Saddam Hussein no longer possesses weapons of mass destruction....

A young card player from Missouri is hired to help the world champion retain his title against the Russian rising star of the game.

Walker lives the dream life. He’s at the helm of a thriving company in New Mexico and his wife, the wealthy and beautiful Sarah, is raising their three wonderful children. And yet, he can’t stand his life. A slave to family and business obligations, he can feel his time slipping away. There’s...

Vlad Eisinger, a journalist at The Wall Street Tribune, is publishing a series of articles about life settlement, a little-known practice that allows senior or terminally-ill people to sell their life insurance policies to private investors. The buyer keeps paying the annual premiums and collects...

Between March and September of the year 1995, five murders shook the professional Speed Puzzle Tour. The modus operandi was always the same: the murderer would amputate the victim of a limb, then leave on the body a piece of a Polaroid photograph depicting the corresponding limb of another man. Evidently,...

Once condemned by Modernism and compared to a ‘crime’ by Adolf Loos, ornament has made a spectacular return in contemporary architecture. This is typified by the works of well-known architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Sauerbruch Hutton, Farshid Moussavi Architecture and OMA. There is no...

The 1790 translation of the classic first published in 1789. According to Wikipedia, "Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 1743 8 May 1794); the father of modern chemistry, was a French noble prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology. He stated the first version of the law of conservation...

Are biodynamic wines any better than other wines? Are biodynamic methods, much talked about but little understood, scientific or not? What's the difference between organic and biodynamic? The popularity and availability of biodynamic wine has grown signficantly in the last few years, with more and...

Horses were first domesticated about 6,000 years ago on the vast Eurasian steppe, yet only in the last two decades have scientists begun to explore the mental capacities of these animals. In The Mind of the Horse, Michel-Antoine Leblanc presents an encyclopedic synthesis of scientific knowledge about...

How far would you go to enjoy a cigarette? When headhunter Fabrice Valentine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to undertake a course of hypnotherapy to rid himself of the habit. At first the treatment works, but his stress levels begin to rise when he is passed over for an important promotion...

Jérémy-Antoine Guerni souhaite, par le biais de ce livre inspirer son lecteur au travers de son parcours atypique et de toutes les expériences qu'il à pu vivre au cours de sa vie professionnelle. Sachez qu'au fond de chacun réside le potentiel pour réaliser ses envies et atteindre ses objectifs.    

Un jeune joueur de cartes du Missouri est engagé pour aider le champion du monde de sa discipline à conserver son titre à Las Vegas. Une nouvelle inédite de l'auteur d'Eloge de la pièce manquante et des Eclaireurs (Prix France Culture - Telerama 2009).

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