Title : Zadig Memnon - Voltaire - book Summary : Young and rich, handsome and intelligent, courted and respected, learned and brave, Zadig embodied the fullness of human happiness in Babylon when the whims of fortune tested the strength of his character and the resources of his mind. Betrayed by the beautiful Semira, and the target of the fierce jealousy of King Moabdar, he was soon reduced to the miserable state of a vagabond. But is misfortune truly without remedy for someone who possesses, like Zadig, "the talent to unravel the truth that all men seek to obscure"? In Zadig, one can discern the meditation of a wise man on the unpredictable interplay of freedom and necessity. One can reread Newton, Leibniz, and Spinoza between his lines. One can also discover impertinent allusions to court life, a pleasant romanticized transposition of Voltaire's misadventures at Versailles and his sentimental disappointments in the years 1745-1747. Above all, one must allow oneself to be ravished by the charm of this pure narrative fantasy where the spirit of Ariosto rubs shoulders with that of the Arabian Nights . EAN : 9782040160937 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : And let the wide world go on its mad race - Colum McCann - book Summary : August 7, 1974, a tightrope walker soars between the Twin Towers, playing with the void. From this fleeting apparition, Colum McCann unfolds a panorama of a New York in full turmoil: the great ladies of Park Avenue, exhausted prostitutes, lost priests, junkies on the run, mothers mourning the "dirty war." A circle of characters whose voices intertwine like so many threads stretched across the course of the world. "[...] as always with McCann, the essential is there. This ease in showing humanity in its daily struggle with reality. This empathy for the most fragile, the least glorious!" Bruno Corty, Le Figaro littéraire EAN : 9782264052179 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Orient exiles - Annemarie Schwarzenbach - book Summary : In 1934-1935, Annemarie Schwarzenbach participated in archaeological digs in Syria and Persia. For her, it was a plunge into uncertainty and timelessness. The European colonies lost in the vast sandy expanses, the unreal landscapes, and the brutal climate inspired her "Death in Persia," as well as these short stories that depict characters adrift, Westerners who, like her, came to seek an impossible solution to their unhappiness in extreme places. EAN : 9782228897174 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike - book Summary : 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Rabbit is Rich, the third part of the "Rabbit" triptych, or the ups and downs of Harry Angstrom and the American Dream. As in Hareheart (1960) and Rabbit Caught (1971), Harry, despite his forty-six years, persists in running, no longer after glory or the precarious certainties of love and pleasure, but after the ghosts of his vanished youth and his disappointed hopes. Sated and well-off, mired in his domestic problems, comfort and respectability, he has lost all spirit of rebellion and limits himself to fighting, with relative success, against boredom, the fear of old age and death. Along with his dreams, the dream of a strong America, faithful to the myths of its past and its traditional values, crumbles. EAN : 9782070387113 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Eye in the Night - Bernard Minier - book Summary : In the mountains, secluded from the world, a horror film director, Morbus Delacroix. Cult, misanthrope, madman. Among his fans is a film student. Fascinated, fearless, unaware. In Toulouse, a special effects ace is found dead, tied up in a hospital bed. What if this murder had its source in a cursed film? For Commander Martin Servaz, perhaps the greatest enigma of his career... EAN : 9782374484976 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Skin of Sharon - Ken Wood - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782702851401 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Life After Life - Dr. Raymond Moody - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782221000502 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Political Power in France. The Fifth Republic, Virtues and Limits - Olivier Duhamel - book Summary : Political Power in France is aimed at students, to help them assimilate the essential elements of the Fifth Republic. It is aimed at citizens, to contribute to their civic reflection. This book is a textbook. Twenty-two chapters present the main aspects of political power in France today. After establishing the historical and conceptual framework, the work explores the ways in which power is allocated, the instruments for its exercise, and the means of its limitation. Often neglected areas are covered here: the work of government, the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Council, the new powers of local authorities, and the construction of Europe. It includes tables, graphs, and quotations, as well as current constitutional texts. This manual is a book. It not only provides essential knowledge, but also offers an original analysis of the interaction between the constitutional regime and political life. The author explains how the Fifth Republic advanced democratic development in France. But he also reveals certain flaws in our political system and the need to address them. This new edition, completely revised and expanded, incorporates the most recent developments and in particular the questions raised by the European Union decided at Maastricht, the change of power in March 1993 and the establishment of the second cohabitation, the debate on the reform of the institutions. EAN : 9782020207782 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Democracies. Regimes, History, Demands - Olivier Duhamel - book Summary : Both an essay and a manual, this work pursues several ambitions. The Democracies aims to offer citizen-readers accurate information and critical reflection on the history, principles and forms of democracy. The Democracies offers students of constitutional law and political science a textbook that covers in a lively manner the major foreign regimes, the constitutional and political history of France, and the requirements of the democratic state. The Democracies presents a theory, accessible to all readers, of political systems applied to different countries. The United States, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and France are no longer studied solely in their specificities but are part of an overall vision. The Democracies invites a rereading of institutions in light of current questions about politics. Scientific analysis thus joins civic demands by seeking an articulation between governing democracy and deliberative democracy. EAN : 9782020207799 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Exorcism. A Priest Speaks: A Short Anthology of Possession Today - Abbot Schindelholz - book Summary : See photos EAN : 282890126 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga - book Summary : Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 Confession of an untouchable who achieved the unthinkable. In the "Darkness", a vast region in the heart of a miserable and violent India, everyone knows that the Shining India doesn't shine for everyone! Balram Halwai, nicknamed the "white tiger" for his extraordinary intelligence, is nevertheless determined to conquer his place in the sun. Immoral and cynical, he will stop at nothing, even if it means losing his soul... A first novel crowned by the Booker Prize in 2008. "Praised, truly, be this little masterpiece..." Philippe Trétiack - She EAN : 9782264048677 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Far from Chandigarh - Tarun Tejpal - book Summary : Northern India in the late 1990s. A journalist and his wife, Fizz, have shared an intense, very sensual, very carnal passion for fifteen years. Until the day when, in their house clinging to the foothills of the Himalayas, the narrator discovers sixty-four thick notebooks, the intimate and immodest diary of an American woman, Catherine – the former owner of the house –, the reading of which will gradually destroy his relationship… EAN : 9782253118015 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sinouhé The Egyptian, volume 2 - Mika Waltari - book Summary : In the fourteenth century BC, here is the extraordinary Sinuhe. We accompany him through the alleys of Thebes, the dissolute city, to the terrible courtesan Nefernefer who ruins him, to the temple of Amun among the priests, to the pharaoh whose doctor he is, to the embalmers among the corpses, to the war against the Hittites, to Crete in the labyrinth of the Minotaur where he seeks a young virgin... Religious struggles of the time of Akhenaten, crimes, loves, ambitions, intrigues... Sinuhe, tired of the gods and disgusted with men, mixes with the plebs and preaches equality, which brings him new misfortunes... EAN : 9782070372980 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Battle of the Petit Trianon - Jorge Amado - book Summary : 1940, Rio de Janeiro, under the Estado Novo, a military dictatorship close to Nazi ideology. The poet and academic Antônio Bruno has just died, leaving a vacancy at the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Colonel Agnaldo Sarnpaio Pereira, a great admirer of the Third Reich, has already been unanimously elected. But two roguish immortals will impose another candidate, a fervent defender of democracy: General Waldomiro Moreira. Thus begins a merciless struggle. Spy on the enemy, bribe the allies to win this war—all means are fair. EAN : 9782290059227 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Queens of France in the Time of the Bourbons - Simone Bertière - book Summary : What was the fate of queens in ancient France? Simone Bertière continues here a fascinating and original historical investigation with two women who would leave their mark on the 17th century: Marie de Medici and Anne of Austria. Both played a considerable political role, since, as mothers of Louis XIII and Louis XIV respectively, they were regents of the kingdom for many years. A whole century of our history comes to life through these two interwoven biographies, which combine the rigor of historical exposition and the finesse of psychological analysis, in a lively and animated narrative. A success crowned by the prestigious Grand Prix d’histoire Chateaubriand-La Vallée-aux-Loups 1996. EAN : 9782253145295 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lessons of Power - François Hollande - book Summary : How does a president live day to day? How does he decide in the heat of the moment? How does he act on the international stage? How did he decide, in order to straighten out the country, to risk unpopularity and incomprehension among his own people? Faced with the trials that have bloodied our country, François Hollande shares his innermost feelings and shares with us, through striking portraits of the world's principal leaders, the major challenges facing the planet. He offers sharp views on the crisis facing European democracy and on the future of the reformist left. In his public life, as in the folds of his private life, he also confesses his regrets. He finally reveals the reasons that led him not to run again, details his relationship with Emmanuel Macron and his assessment of the policies pursued since May 2017. François Hollande explains himself and draws the human and political lessons from a unique experience. A rare document on the exercise of power. Edition enriched with three new chapters where he discusses the future of the left, the place of ecology and the European question. EAN : 9782253257639 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Voice - Arnaldur Indridason - book Summary : Grand Prix for Detective Literature Foreign Novel 2007 Bad publicity for the luxury hotel overrun with tourists! With his pants around his ankles, Santa Claus is found murdered in a squalid closet just before the children's traditional tea party. Management insists on discretion, but Commissioner Erlendur doesn't see it that way. Depressed and plagued by painful childhood memories, he moves into the hotel and doggedly searches every nook and cranny... Born in Iceland in 1961, Arnaldur Indridason, a history graduate, is a journalist and film critic. His novels, published in over thirty countries and awarded numerous prestigious prizes, are all available from Points. “Indridason awakens fears buried in ice, frozen in time.” Télérama EAN : 9782757807255 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Les Valseuses - Bertrand Blier - book Summary : Les Valseuses tells the story of two friends, two petty criminals, Jean-Claude and Pierrot, on the road across France. Their main objective: to escape prison. Their secondary objectives: to drive cars and meet girls. They drag Marie-Ange, a carpet cleaner, along for the ride. Written with fiery inventiveness, in a language that owes as much to Céline as to the Série noire, Les Valseuses could have shocked in 1972; this novel expressed above all an absolute taste for freedom: Its success was eclipsed by the even greater success of the film that was made from it. Fifty years after its first publication, this reissue serves as a reminder of what kind of writer Bertrand Blier is. "It's the story of two guys who are running. They're running away from something, but they don't know what. They're also wondering what awaits them. Don't count on us to reveal it to you. There's suspense in Les Valseuses. [...] The whole thing is a riot. It's a mixture of brutal and refined. The pen snaps its fingers. The ink bubbles. A communicative verve lights up these pages. Blier alternates machine-gun dialogue with long flows of melancholy, sudden bursts of poetry. [...] French is his playground. He innovates, renews, never stops inventing." EAN : 9782277125433 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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