Jacob: 2030 books

Chaque jour, Monika arrive la première à l'institut de beauté. Elle observe, écoute, juge parfois les clientes qu'elle voit défiler dans sa cabine. Toutes lui racontent des histoires, des plus anodines aux plus intimes. Loin des chairs lisses et insipides jetées en pâture à notre imaginaire,...

Die Geschichte Polens in ihrer Gesamtheit unterliegt im deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftsraum einem entscheidenden Manko: Sie scheint unterrepräsentiert zu sein; gerade alles, was sich mit historischen Details beschäftigt, scheint vor allem in polnischer und englischer Sprache erschienen zu sein. Mit...

Im Sommer 2015 ist es soweit. Alles, was hinter uns liegt, ist abgeschlossen – alles, was vor uns liegt, noch unberührt. So nehmen wir, Caspar und Jacob, die vorerst letzte Chance einer Motorradreise unter Brüdern wahr. Nach Monaten der Vorbereitung sind die Maschinen startklar und die Route steht....

Israël est à la fois une religion, une spiritualité, une culture et un État. JUDAÏSME-ISRAËL se propose de publier des rééditions de grands textes classiques épuisés ainsi que des ouvrages originaux porteurs de ce message multiple : études sur la Bible, le Talmud, la Kabbale, la philosophie...

Ce témoignage, présenté par trois personnalités de la France libre (le président Jacques Chaban-Delmas, le professeur François Jacob, prix Nobel, et le président Maurice Schumann, de l’Académie française), évoque l’aventure héroïque née à l’appel du 18 juin 1940. Au-delà de la...

According to Wikipedia: "Richard III (2 October 1452 22 August 1485) was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 during the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field...

Winston Churchill possessed an iron will and a subtle conscience. His staunch patriotism, tenacity, appetite for a fight, and, above all, his towering rhetoric inspired the British people to mount a gallant defense of their island nation. Having set a new bar for national heroism, he earned a place...

According to Wikipedia: "Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 24 March 1603) was Queen regnant of England and Queen regnant of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty....

It is no exaggeration to say that Margaret Thatcher remade Britain in her own image. She deregulated industry, brought the unions to their knees, privatized state-owned enterprises, waged war to defend the Falkland Islands, and teamed up with Ronald Reagan to win the Cold War. Her courage was remarkable...

Travelers who go into Scotland take a great interest in visiting, among other places, a certain room in the ruins of an old palace, where Queen Mary was born. Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was very unfortunate and unhappy. Every body takes a strong interest in her story, and this interest attaches, in some degree, to the room where her sad and sorrowful life was begun.

Hundreds of years have passed since William Shakespeare's time. He has left behind nearly a million words of text, but his life is still a mystery. This book is an engaging introduction to a subject that students will certainly encounter many times throughout their education—and their lives. Lucid...

Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not...

Often regarded as one of the greatest military strategists in history, Hannibal would later be considered one of the greatest generals of antiquity, together with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Scipio, and Pyrrhus of Epirus. Plutarch states that, when questioned by Scipio as to who was the greatest...

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame.