Woolf: 493 books

De son enfance sur les falaises de Cornouailles à ses études à l'Université de Cambridge, la vie de Jacob Flanders est révélée au gré de sensations et d'impressions : lettres de sa mère, conversations amicales, pensées de la femme qui l'aime... Jusqu'à ce qu'il apparaisse dans la lumière...

OUVRAGE BILINGUE ! « J’aime souvent les femmes. J’aime leur anticonformisme. J’aime leur complétude. J’aime leur anonymat... » ​ Nouvelle traduction de l’essai qui bouleversa toute la condition féminine à l’échelle de son siècle, présentée et annotée par le traducteur Jean-Yves Cotté.

Science is an ever-growing, ever-changing field of study. Every principle, every discovery is built on top of a previous discovery. Great scientists have studied life, the environment, and the physical world trying to learn more about why things are the way they are. Readers gain insight to some of the greatest scientific minds history has to offer, from Archimedes to Stephen Hawking.

Why has the Arab-Israeli War lasted so long, and been fought in so many different ways? Why is it of such global importance? And how has it affected people on both sides of the conflict? This book seeks to relate the overall events and chronology of the war and shows its impact on everyday lives.

John Knox falls passionately and irrevocably in love with Rachel McAllistair the first time they meet. He interviews her for his radio show, and afterwards, when he tells her how impressive she was, she hits him, square on the jaw. Undeterred, he pursues her, promising to love her and never to leave...

Tales to send chills down your spine, raise goosebumps and stand your hair on end. Tales to terrify and disturb, to intrigue and unsettle. Fans of horror and the supernatural will relish this collection of original stories, featuring among much else…- a haunted swimming pool- something horrible in...

Fifty stories of adventure and exploration over more than two hundred years of human history. The Great Horizon features those who set out to conquer new territories and claim world records alongside those who contributed to our understanding of the world all but accidentally. Published in association...

What if life could be simpler and slower, purer and more primal? What if we had more time to gaze out of the window or walk barefoot in the grass, to cook with fresh ingredients, to spend time with friends and family, to create and invent and explore… what if we made real, human company a...

Public health refers to the management and prevention of disease within a population by promoting healthy behaviors and environments in an effort to create a higher standard of living. In this comprehensive volume, editor James W. Holsinger Jr. and an esteemed group of scholars and practitioners offer...

Vom Wagnis, sich zu binden, erzählen zehn kluge, pointierte Texte großer Autorinnen aus zweihundert Jahren, von Heiratsanträgen und Hochzeiten, von Verlobungszeit und Flitterwochen. Gemeinsame Nenner sind Hoffnung und Zweifel. Wird es gut gehen? Will ich wirklich? Bin ich bereit, vom alten Leben...

Paris at the turn of the century - Art Nouveau, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Folies Bergere. This was the atmosphere which nurtured the artistic development of the remarkable dancer and choreographer Ida Rubinstein.This long-awaited biography gives us a unique insight into the life of a remarkable...

Tucked deep within the heart of everyone is a greatness that is locked away. This greatness commands praise to God as its final result. You have known it your entire life; you just didnt know all the details. There is an indescribable unction that wont go away. It is a calling of God. Pick...

Each of these nine stories explores a symptom of that pathology we call love. We meet a volatile woman whose husband betrays her once too often; a man who takes advantage of an amnesiac girl; a woman prepared to break a man’s spirit in order to win his heart; and a young man who obsesses about strangers...