Herman: 1212 books

Moby Dick, c’est la monstrueuse baleine blanche, l’incarnation du Mal, cette figure de l’obsession et du double qui, des profondeurs glacées, accompagne le capitaine Achab habitué en surface aux combats titanesques des océans. Moby Dick est ce chef-d’œuvre total que tout le monde peut...

Au début du XIXe siècle, les Américains étaient devenus les maîtres de la Pêche de la Baleine et surtout du cachalot. Deux petits ports, Nantucket et New Bedford, avaient pris une extension formidable grâce à cette dangereuse industrie. Herman Melville, qui servit plusieurs années sur un...

BENITO CERENO (Edition Intégrale - Version Entièrement Illustrée) * Inclus une courte biographie d'Herman Melville Descriptif : En 1799, pour faire le plein d'eau, le navire du capitaine Amaso Delano, le Délices du célibataire, mouille dans une petite île au sud du Chili . Arrive sur...

“The ‘shark killers’ of the U. S. fleet” “The United States of America entered the First World War in April 1917, though its support for the allied war effort had, of course, been immensely influential in terms of the provision of material up to that point. The direct intervention...

Herman Melville was one of the greatest writers during the American Renaissance.  Melville’s unique style helped produce classics in many different genres.  This edition of John Marr and Other Poems includes a table of contents. 

The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short stories by Herman Melville including: The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower.

Typee, aka A Peep at Polynesian Life, is Herman Melville's first book, partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific. It was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime, and made him known as the man who lived among the cannibals. The novels is considered one of the greatest classics in the literature of travel and adventure.

Herman Melville was one of the greatest writers during the American Renaissance.  Melville’s unique style helped produce classics in many different genres.  This edition of The ‘Gees includes a table of contents. 

Pigeon Spring by Herman Groman   When former FBI Agent Matt Steel retired from the FBI after twenty-five years of undercover operations, locking up mobsters and drug dealers and following terrorists, he took a job as the Director of Security at a major Las Vegas casino.  Alex, his...

'Till Debt Do Us Part' explores the psychological and societal origins of Capitalism tracing its passage from an Agrarian society with a patriarchal structure caring for extended family from which arose the 'rule of law' through the replacement of Commonwealth by Corporate Wealth...

Waarom won Federico Bahamontes nooit de Ronde van Spanje? Waarom was Jan Janssen de Tourwinnaar van 1968 en niet André Poppe? Waarom won Johan Demuynck de Giro van 1978 en niet die van 1976? Kan men een wielerklassieker verkopen en dus ook kopen? Wielrennen is een complexe sport, waarin intelligentie,...

Marc Schlosser è un medico di famiglia. Riceve la mattina, dalle otto e mezza all'una. Venti minuti circa a paziente cosí spartiti: un minuto per capire quello che c'è da capire e gli altri diciannove per inscenare una parvenza di interesse. E i pazienti se ne vanno via soddisfatti, prendendo per...

Neuroplasticity refers to recent discoveries in brain science about an unusual capacity of our brain; it makes durable changes in its own internal biology as part of any learning experience. The spin-off from these discoveries is immense, disrupting decades of accepted wisdom that has dominated understanding...

A collection of seven of the greatest american novels ever written with an active table of contents.Works include:"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville"Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain"Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser"Washington Square" by Henry James"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London"Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis