Vincent: 2487 books

While still a young man, King Henry III of England was given a queen by his Council. A few years later, when a more suitable consort is discovered, the Council decides the marriage to Eglan would be annulled and Eleanor, sister of Margaret the future consort of the King of France, would replace her....

The ultimate man's tool-kit to making a relationship great! In this breakthrough relationship book directed at men in the construction industry, you are presented with a simple, easy to read blueprint to better understand yourself and your partner, while also giving you more tools to access...

Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillusionment, horror and futility. This book examines how and why literature has had this impact, exploring the role played by authors, publishers...

This is a short story dealing with the Sisyphean struggles associated with the passionate commitment to one's life project which in a sense is linked to the attainment of personal authenticity, it is about living a life centred around 'doing' rather than 'having'. It deals with the personal emotional costs of following one's dreams.

In this short story that acts as a go-between from The Nostradamus Revelation to The Copernicus Connection, ten bounty hunters are hired to bring down one man and his team of Special Operatives. here we learn the back-stories of those hired to kill Major Donovan Stone and his team in the second book in the Omega Sector series, The Copernicus Connection.

Julius Waslo, capitaine de police, est chargé d'une étrange enquête. Des corps, reconstitués à partir d'autres cadavres, sont retrouvés au quatre coins de la ville. La police reçoit des lettres de l'auteur de ces crimes, dans lesquelles il fait allusion à l'homme de Vitruve. Julius...

Été 2003. Dans une maison cossue, la police découvre quatre cadavres, abattus méthodiquement. Il s'agit de Philippe Devernois, chirurgien réputé, de sa femme et de leurs deux filles Florence et Isabelle. Mais les enquêteurs ne retrouvent pas la trace de la benjamine, Amélie. Douze ans...

A Ranger comes to Earth looking for a missing resaercher and experiences severe culture shock. Earthlings are strange and deadly folk...

C’était un révolutionnaire, un vrai. Mort les armes à la main à 34 ans, dissous dans la jungle argentine. Le témoignage de Jorge Ricardo Masetti, le « commandant Segundo », compagnon de route et ami d’Ernesto Che Guevara et de Fidel Castro était resté inédit en France. Mémoires d’une...

They came slinking and sliding through cold, flattened grasses… When the king and queen of Vare decide on a little tinkering with apocalyptic prophecy, they find that the gods will bow before nobody’s throne. For one thousand years, repelling the rhythmic raids of the Wyrlokhen monsters...

Those naughty bad Earthlings have gone a bit too far this time. And the big guys upstairs have decided to pull the plug. But it's not all bad news. A saviour comes to their rescue. It's not Superman...but it could be a close relative. The people of Planet Earth are about to find out that not all aliens have a bulbous head and big green eyes.

In 1966 Vincent S. R. Brant lived in Sokp�o, a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea, carrying out social anthropological research. At that time, the only way to reach Sokp�o, other than by boat, was a two hour walk along foot paths. This memoir of his experiences...

The Political Theory of a Compound Republic examines the foundation of American constitutional design expressed in theFederalist. Through meticulous textual analysis, the logical principles of federalism_the extended and compound republic envisioned by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton_are revealed...

The simple question "How did the Maya come up with a calendar that had only 260 days?" led Vincent Malmström to discover an unexpected "hearth" of Mesoamerican culture. In this boldly revisionist book, he sets forth his challenging, new view of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican calendrical systems—the...