Title : Murillo No. 64 - Masterpieces of Art - Great Painters - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Birth of a Pyramid - David Macaulay - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2211041841 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mythology of Trees - Jacques Brosse - Book Summary : Who has not dreamed in front of a tree in spring? Who has not felt its calm blossoming as an invitation? (J. Brosse) Once protectors, providing for almost all our needs, trees were considered manifestations of the gods' presence on earth, to the point that each of them was attributed a particular essence. Full of beautiful forgotten stories, this book brings together our beliefs about trees, but also the traditional knowledge of the civilizations from which we come: Egyptian, Semitic, Cretan, Greek, Latin, Germanic or Celtic. At the same time, it gives us back the keys to an ordering of the universe that brought man into harmony with nature. Naturalist and Zen monk, historian of religions and philosopher, fierce defender of the environment, Jacques Brosse (1922-2008) devoted more than thirty years of his life to the study of trees. EAN: 9782228887113 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Music Room - Dennis McFarland - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782856165843 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Swimming Naked - Carla Guelfenbein - book Summary : Overjoyed at introducing her friend Morgana to a father she worships, Sophie is far from imagining that the two will fall madly in love and conceive a child. Devastated by grief, the betrayed daughter joins her mother in France just as the world is falling apart in Chile in the summer of 1973. Morgana and Diego are killed in the midst of a siege, while their baby, taken to Spain, is saved at the last minute from hell. Images of the September 11, 2001 attacks reawaken Sophie's memories of the burning government palace in Santiago, 28 years earlier, and drive her to search for the hated child - her half-sister. In a stormy and sensual prose where the spasms of the body respond to the convulsions of History, Carla Guelfenbein confronts the Chile of her youth and of the great shattered dreams. EAN: 9782330072780 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nadja - André Breton - book Summary : From the first day to the last, I took Nadja for a free spirit, something like one of those spirits of the air that certain magical practices allow one to momentarily attach oneself to, but to whom there can be no question of submitting. I saw her fern eyes open in the morning onto a world where the wingbeats of immense hope are barely distinguishable from the other noises which are those of terror and, in this world, I had only seen eyes closing. EAN: 9782070401307 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mygale - Thierry Jonquet - book Summary : Alex had spent the night in the village. That evening, there was a dance; it was a Saturday. Annie was there, still redheaded, a little overweight; she worked at the bean cannery in the neighboring village... Alex had slow-danced with her before taking her to the nearby woods. They had made love in his car, lying uncomfortably on the reclining seats. The next day, Alex had left, after kissing the old man. Eight days later, he attacked the Crédit Agricole branch and killed the cop. In the village, everyone must have kept the page of the newspaper, with Alex's photo on the front page and the one of the cop with his family. EAN: 9782070392742 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Human Mystery 106 - ECCLES - book Summary : See photos Please note that some pages have been highlighted with highlighter or pencil, but this does not interfere with reading. EAN: 2870091567 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Don't Forget My Little Shoes - Joseph Connolly - book Summary : In this vitriolic satire of contemporary life and morals, we find the characters of Vacances anglaises, a few months after the events of the previous summer, around a traditional Christmas meal. And this holiday season will prove to be daunting for each of them: adventures, adultery, dramas and torrid love stories from which no one will emerge unscathed... After the memorable English Holidays, Joseph Connolly returns with this novel, which highlights with incredible linguistic verve the frustrations, guilty fantasies, and identity problems of British society. Emotion, acid humor, and a series of disasters are all on the menu! EAN: 9782020551328 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Multiple Splendor - Han Suyin - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2253010189 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Napoleon - André Castelot - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782914444521 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Myths and Gods - Isabelle Franco - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782286101886 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Birth of the Men of Good Will Band - Jules Romains - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Myth and Epic I. II. III. - Georges Dumézil - book Summary : Towards the end of the 3rd millennium BC, migrating horsemen, perhaps from southern Russia, swept through most of the European continent in successive waves and pushed as far as the borders of India. These conquerors, who spoke roughly the same language, have conventionally been called Indo-Europeans. They shared a tripartite worldview—the system of three functions—in which the following were articulated, in a hierarchical order: magical and legal sovereignty (the first function); physical, and primarily warlike, strength (the second function); and tranquil and fertile wealth (the third function). Thus, these very distant ancestors were based on a conception of society that distinguished priests, warriors, and pastoralist-farmers in a hierarchical manner. Myth and Epic is devoted to the literary, not theological or religious, uses that the principal Indo-European peoples made of their common heritage. For if the structure of the three functions presents itself first as a machine for making gods, it also reveals itself to be a formidable instrument for the creation of stories. Not only myths, but secular tales, legends, epics, tales where gods and men go off in threes. EAN : 9782070736560 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Music - Michel Serres - book Summary : Where does Music spring from? From the sounds of the world? From the clamour of assemblies? From our emotions? And how can we define it? Nothing is more difficult than answering these questions. I preferred to describe it in three tales. Legendary, the first follows the life of Orpheus, his initiation with the Bacchantes and the Muses, then his plunge into the Underworld in search of Eurydice, his lover. How can we love in Music? Autobiographical, the second invades the Great Narrative of knowledge, which here becomes a Great Symphony. Can we think in Music? Finally, biblical, the last psalmody, from Genesis to the Nativity. Should we pray in Music? EAN : 9782746505452 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Births - Danielle Steel - book Summary Three times that day, the "Wedding March" echoed across the hills of Santa Barbara. The brides are beautiful, desired, and variously promised happiness. Diane and Andrew are already one of California's most prominent couples: he, a lawyer to the stars, she, editor-in-chief of a major magazine. The world belongs to them, as it will belong to Charlie, who dreams of a home ruled by Barbara, a budding actress. As for Brad and Pilar, after fifteen years of professional rivalries, their intimate bickering has transformed into a deep tenderness. But what is a couple if a birth doesn't enrich them? Now, Diane can't have children, Barbara doesn't want one, and for Pilar, it's probably too late. In the whirlwind of modern life, infertility remains a major tragedy. Danielle Steel reveals all the nuances in a story bursting with life and emotion. EAN : 9782266066303 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Birth of a Bridge - Maylis de Kerangal - book Summary Medici Prize 2010 "At dawn on the second day, when suddenly the Coca-Cola buildings rise, perpendicular to the surface of the river, it is another man who emerges from the woods, a man beside himself, a potential murderer. The sun rises, it ricochets against the glass and steel facades, iridescent the rainbow-colored oil slicks that halo the waters, and the triangular metal plates that festoon the planking of the canoe, gleaming in the light, draw an open jaw." This book starts with an ambition that is both simple and crazy: to tell the story of the construction of a suspension bridge somewhere in an imaginary California based on the intertwined destinies of a dozen men and women, all employees of the gigantic construction site. A sweeping novel, "American style," that mixes sensations and dreams, landscapes and machines, career plans and social classes, trades and bodies in general. EAN : 9782070130504 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Napoleon - Marabout - book EAN: 9782501014182 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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