Title : Children of the Sun - Gedge Pauline - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277221821 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : God facing science - Claude Allègre - book Summary : One of France's greatest scientists answers a key question of our time: how to reconcile science and faith? Their relationship has always been the subject of violent conflict. From Galileo to Darwin, from the aggressive positivism of the last century to current debates over birth control, science and the churches struggle to establish the boundaries that separate them. As a matter of principle and method, science refuses to include a supernatural force in its explanation of the world. Does it, however, have the power to deny the existence of God? Does the need to find meaning in life and the sometimes harmful consequences of scientific advances not open up a broad future for religions, and in some cases for fundamentalisms? These are the questions that this book attempts to address, by reviewing the history of some of the great adventures of science: the rotation of the Earth, the evolution of species, the appearance of life. EAN: 9782253144922 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Half Moon Street - Anne Perry - book Summary : In the autumn of 1891, London seems very sad to Inspector Thomas Pitt, ever since his beloved Charlotte left to rest in Paris. But he hardly has time to sink into the blues, because the discovery of the body of a man dressed as a woman in a boat on the Thames draws him into a new adventure full of mystery. Who was the victim and why this macabre staging? Aided by the irascible Sergeant Tellman, Pitt searches the consciences and hearts of high society, pacing the wings of theaters where the plays of a certain Oscar Wilde are being performed. Impeccable gentlemen and ladies can sometimes hide very disturbing truths... EAN: 9782264042538 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Governor's Ball - Marie-France Pisier - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253037354 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Summer with Voltaire - Jacques-Pierre Amette - book Summary : Despite the years, the carriages, the kisses, the bows, the eager servants, this July day was so stormy at the Château de Ferney that it enveloped everything in a misty air and drowsiness. Summer 1761: While in residence at Ferney, Voltaire receives two ravishing Italian actresses who have come to rehearse Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet, a play written twenty years earlier and highly criticized at the time. After the rehearsals, the warm nights lead to games, debauchery, and burning confidences. Among the guests is Count Fleckenstein, a Prussian officer sent by Frederick II to negotiate a treaty that would put an end to the Seven Years' War. Meanwhile, not far away, Rousseau triumphs with La Nouvelle Héloïse, which condemns this infamous entertainment: the theater... EAN: 9782253128373 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Opening to the Heart - Jacqueline de Romilly - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253059899 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Humor of Movie Stars and Audiences - Mina Guillois, André Guillois - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782501011693 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mourning of Primroses - Francis Jammes - book Summary : The work that best represents Francis Jammes is undoubtedly Le Deuil des primevères, because it is situated at the point in his life where he was able to grant to prosaism and lyricism the fair share that belongs to each, without each harming or stifling the other. The language is well-off. It has the ease at ground level of the satisfied impression with the things observed, and the momentum of the image that carries the confidence to the level of an inner call. We feel there what breathes and what is inspired. A book by a young man capable of expressing all that he feels since his childhood and all that he will feel until his old age, it contains, one could say, the very essence of Jammism, this perfume like no other that one absorbs without realizing it, made of the past, the countryside, exoticism and religiosity. All the bells are combined: those of churches dressed in leaves, those of transhumant sheep, those of transoceanic boats, those of tropical flowers. The ringing resounds in the heart of the poet, also transported from one side of the world to the other. He has not ceased to be, in his own words, a faun, but this faun does not turn his back on a certain Christian who, caring little for dogmas, claims to be Francis of Assisi and addresses himself without false shame to a very good-natured God to confide his carnal or spiritual worries to him." Robert Mallet. EAN: 9782070301447 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Princess Exchange - Chantal Thomas - book Summary : The idea is bold and may seem providential: an exchange of princesses to settle the end of a conflict. In 1722, at the crossroads of kingdoms and paths, the Infanta of Spain and the daughter of the Regent of France are still children. The former is to marry the very young Louis XV, the latter the heir to the Spanish throne. Will this crossover in the court of the great signal the end of their carefree life? “A fascinating, terrifying novel, where the trappings of fiction best complement historical rigor.” The Express “Delicious as childhood, cruel as life.” Télérama Chantal Thomas is a novelist, essayist and playwright. Farewell My Queen, Prix Femina 2002, and The Testament of Olympus are available in Points. EAN: 9782757845363 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Little Mazarines - Pierre Combescot - book Summary : Master of France during the minority of Louis XIV, a political genius and diplomat, ambitious, seductive, cunning, and greedy, Cardinal Mazarin was keen to share his extraordinary rise with his large family. It is the story of four of his nieces, brought by him to the French court, that the author of Les Filles du Calvaire (Goncourt Prize 1991) tells us here, with as much erudition as gaiety. If history has remembered the name of Marie, Louis XIV's first love who had to part with her for a political marriage, who remembers Marianne, Hortense, and Olympe? Yet their lives are prodigious novels. Adventurers, lovers, scandalous, they led their lives with great ambitions. Two of them almost became queens. Two were compromised in the Affair of the Poisons. Their fame was spectacular, their fall as well. They take us on a sparkling journey to the heart of the century of Louis XIV. EAN: 9782253149828 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bougainvillea, volume 2 - Four spices - Fanny Deschamps - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253039051 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Marcel Proust - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782743400217 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Contract - John Grisham - book Summary : Despite its army of lawyers, its battalions of experts, and its resources, Krane Chemical has just lost a resounding lawsuit. Found guilty of deliberate pollution, the multinational was held responsible for the deaths of two people. $41 million in damages. With hundreds of similar cases already arising, it's guaranteed ruin... But Carl Trudeau, its CEO, is not a man to be beaten down: he's ensuring a sympathetic ear on the Mississippi Supreme Court by having a man elected who is prepared to compromise on any level... EAN: 9782266189439 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The K - Dino Buzzati - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253008361 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My Mother's Castle - Marcel Pagnol - book Summary : The most beautiful book about childhood friendship: one morning while hunting in the hills, Marcel meets the little peasant, Lili des Bellons. His vacation and his whole life will be illuminated by it. A year after The Glory of My Father , Marcel Pagnol thought he was concluding his Childhood Memories with this castle of my mother (1958), the second part of what he considered a diptych, ending with the famous scene of the ferocious guard frightening the timid Augustine. Little Marcel, after the tenderness of his family, has discovered friendship with the marvelous Lili, undoubtedly the most endearing of his characters. The book ends with a melancholic epilogue, a poignant elegy to the time that has passed. Pagnol strikes the chords of a gravity to which he rarely accustomed his readers. "Hey! Friend!" I saw a boy my age looking at me sternly. "You mustn't touch other people's traps," he said. "A trap is sacred!" "I wasn't going to take it," I said. "I wanted to see the bird." He approached: he was a little peasant. He was dark, with a fine Provençal face, black eyes and long girlish eyelashes.  EAN: 9782877065085 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Love Among the Ruins - Walker Percy - book Summary : Walker Percy described Love Among the Ruins as the adventures of a bad Catholic in times approaching the end of the world. It is the end of the automobile age. Grass eats away at cracked pavements, crumbling motels return to their original swampland, wolves haunt downtown Cleveland, ivy invades Manhattan's skyscrapers. Paranoia, rage, and digestive disorders ravage conservative circles, while liberals suffer from anxiety, virile impotence, and personality disorders. What interested me, Percy specified, was to see what would become of a free country where Orwell and Huxley had won. EAN: 9782869306387 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Theory of Clouds - Stéphane Audeguy - book Summary : It's about clouds and Virginie Latour begins to understand. She understands that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, a few anonymous and silent men, scattered throughout Europe, raised their eyes to the sky. They looked at the clouds attentively, even with respect; and, with a kind of quiet piety, they loved them." Akira Kumo is a Japanese couturier. He collects books about clouds. To classify his library, he hires Virginie Latour, a young woman, to whom he tells stories of cloud chasers. That of Luke Howard who invented their names, that of Richard Abercrombie who traveled the world to see if they were the same everywhere, and others still, as surprising as the play of clouds. EAN: 9782070344635 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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