Michel: 4109 books

Book cover of Charlotte Corday
by Michel Corday
Language: French
Release Date: January 19, 2019

Charlotte Corday est une biographie de femme, écrite par le romancier français Michel Corday (1869 – 1937), de son vrai nom Louis-Édouard Pollet. Marie Anne Charlotte de Corday d’Armont, retenue par l'Histoire sous le nom de Charlotte Corday, née le 27 juillet 1768 à Saint-Saturnin-des-Ligneries...
Book cover of Recherches sur la teinture
by Michel-Eugène Chevreul
Language: French
Release Date: May 1, 2015

EXTRAIT: I.INTRODUCTION. Avant d’exposer à l’Académie plusieurs des recherches auxquelles je me suis livré depuis que j’ai été chargé de diriger les teintures des manufactures royales, il me paraît indispensable de parler brièvement...
Book cover of Violence

Violence

A New Approach

by President Michel Wieviorka
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009

"Violence is sadly central to social life and yet oddly marginal to social theory. It’s there in the background, not least as Weber defines the state by its monopoly of legitimate violence. But as the example suggests, it’s the control of violence that looms large. Michel Wieviorka does a...
Book cover of La Sagesse tragique. Du bon usage de Nietzsche
by Michel Onfray
Language: French
Release Date: January 18, 2006

Un siècle après la mort de Nietzsche, notre époque n’a toujours pas examiné en quoi sa philosophie était porteuse d’immenses révolutions. Entre lui et nous, en effet, s’intercalent plusieurs types de parasites : une sœur qui dénatura son héritage, deux guerres et des idéologies qui...
Book cover of The History of Sexuality

The History of Sexuality

An Introduction

by Michel Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012

Michel Foucult offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.
Book cover of Au service secret de la République
by Roger Auque, Jean-Michel Verne
Language: French
Release Date: February 4, 2015

Journaliste baroudeur, ex-otage au Liban, homme de réseaux, ambassadeur en Érythrée, Roger Auque a eu plusieurs vies, mêlant services secrets, amitiés politiques et négociations occultes. Emporté par une tumeur au cerveau en septembre 2014, il avait choisi, avant son décès, de se confier...
Book cover of Primal Health

Primal Health

Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday

by Michel Odent
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012

Michel Odent, the leading pioneer for natural childbirth, indicates that the period between conception and a child’s first birthday is critical to life-long health. In this prophetic book - first published in 1986 and reproduced here in its original form - he argues that different parts of the ‘primal...
Book cover of American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing
by Lou Michel, Dan Herbeck
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015

At 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995, in what was at that time largest terrorist attack ever perpetrated on American soil, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was destroyed by the explosion of a 7,000-pound truck bomb. One- hundred and sixty eight people, including nineteen children, were killed...
Book cover of Watchlist

Watchlist

32 Stories by Persons of Interest

by Etgar Keret, Aimee Bender, Robert Coover
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016

**“Writers like T.C. Boyle and Cory Doctorow contributed to this surreal anthology of short stories that riff on our modern surveillance culture.” —**Entertainment Weekly With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles...
Book cover of Un sourire de paradis

Un sourire de paradis

Biographie émouvante

by Michel Zanzucchi
Language: French
Release Date: February 15, 2018

L'histoire poignante d'une adolescente touchée par la grâce, une sainte des temps modernes. Voici l’expérience exceptionnelle de Chiara Luce Badano, morte à 18 ans, et dont, à peine dix ans après sa disparition, est engagé le procès de béatification. C’est l’histoire d’une...
Book cover of Crepuscolo di un idolo
by Michel Onfray
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 14, 2011

Michel Onfray, coerente con sé stesso, prende di mira in questo libro una religione che, ancor più dei monoteismi del suo Trattato di ateologia, sembra dover ancora avere vita lunga e felice. Questa religione è la psicoanalisi, e più in particolare il freudismo. L’idea di Onfray è semplice e radicale:...
Book cover of Francis, a New World Pope
by Michel Cool
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013

After Pope Benedict XVI's historic resignation of the papal office in February 2013, the College of Cardinals elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires -- now Pope Francis -- as the new leader of the world's estimated 1.2 billion Roman Catholics. But who is this new Pope --...
Book cover of 366 Squared Volume 2: February
by Michel Clasquin-Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

Welcome to Volume 2 of 366 Squared, the e-book series that poses the question, "Just how much sense and/or nonsense can one say in 366 words?" This volume contains twenty-nine entries covering the month of February. It turned out to be a difficult month, and there are more mini-essays than...
Book cover of Common or Garden Dharma. Essays on Contemporary Buddhism, Volume 2
by Michel Clasquin-Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011

Volume I in this series ended up more unified than I had planned. There are a few shorter pieces in it that are apropos of nothing at all, but for most of it, now that I read it again, I see how it reflects my own astonishment at finding myself teaching Buddhism in a faculty of Christian theology,...
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