Title : Egyptian Art - Orgogozo Chantal - book Summary : To learn how an Egyptian temple is composed, recognize the different styles of capitals and columns, decipher the decorations of royal tombs, understand the differences between royal, divine or civil statuary... The "Tout l'art - Grammar of Styles" collection guarantees you will find the right information by striving to satisfy all levels of knowledge acquisition for the use of all audiences, from beginners to students, from connoisseurs to travelers curious to learn about an artistic movement. More than 70 illustrations. Sections, diagrams and labeled plans. A chronology. A glossary. EAN : 9782080103574 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : One Love - Anita Shreve - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782744139253 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Twelve Times Darling - Jacquelyn Mitchard - book Summary : It's Verity Dickinson's forty-third birthday, and to celebrate, her friends have gathered on this snowy evening at a restaurant on Cape Cod on the East Coast of the United States. It's been eight years since her husband died, and she's been left to raise her son alone. Between this precious child and her own thriving business, her life is full. But she feels her youth and beauty slipping away. Everything changes when Verity slips into a ditch on her way home that evening. Saved by Hank, whom she met earlier at the diner, Verity senses that love is still possible. Twelve Times Darling, twelve months of transformations in a woman's life. EAN : 9782848930183 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Forgotten Holocaust - The Massacre of the Gypsies - Christian Bernadac - book Summary : Renewing the tradition of his major historical investigations into the extermination camps of the Second World War—ten books, whose unpublished testimonies constitute the most complete and irrefutable indictment of Nazi barbarity—Christian Bernadac has focused in "The Forgotten Holocaust" on the unknown martyrdom of these traveling people, the Gypsies, who were condemned—along with the Jews—by the racial laws of the Reich. The horror and immensity of the "Final Solution" of the Jewish problem have, more often than not, masked the organized massacre of European Gypsies. No Gypsies testified at the Nuremberg trials. This "silence" on the disappearance of at least 250,000 Gypsies finds a logical explanation in the absence of a written Gypsy language, but also and above all in the "bad conscience" of all those who have been keen, for centuries, to despise, insult, pursue, reject, and condemn these Bohemians, Romanichels, or other "child and chicken thieves," marginalized not by atavism, but by the sheer force of the attitudes of their contemporaries. Do we know that the French authorities had begun the internment of "the Nomads" in real French concentration camps, built on French territory in the months preceding the Second World War? Christian Bernadac has found the archives of these camps, which are still neglected to be mentioned today. These documents, and an unparalleled collection of testimonies, have allowed the author to retrace in "The Forgotten Holocaust" the long persecution of these families marked, since "the Indian flight", by a curse, in many ways comparable to that which struck the Jewish race. "The Forgotten Holocaust", a revelation that one must - finally - have the courage to discover and read. EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I'll do it for you - Thierry Cohen - book Summary : When his son Jérôme dies in an attack, Daniel loses his bearings and rediscovers the warrior instincts of a past he thought forgotten. Between his conversations with Jérôme through the afterlife and the silences that separate him from his wife and Pierre, his other son, he develops a crazy plan: revenge. Does he have a chance of succeeding? Will Jérôme help him? Can he himself escape his destiny? When a small extremist group kidnaps Jean, a homeless man, public opinion is impassioned. And when the terrorists, as their only demand, ask "What is this man's worth," we wonder: why kidnap a tramp? And what does this message really mean? Two strange stories, two lives that are turned upside down, two existences that change, get lost, flirt with death and mystery. But only one quest: to know if, by forgetting the survivors to avenge the dead, we are not missing out on our life. EAN : 9782298031942 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Road Back - Jim Harrison - book Summary : This novel, undoubtedly Jim Harrison's most ambitious and impressive, takes up some of the themes and most of the characters encountered in Dalva. Composed of three parts, which are as many personal diaries, it is a great American fiction where, as in Dalva, the epic, lyrical and dramatic genres blend to form a vast fresco at once poetic and realistic, earthy and nostalgic, mixing the history of America, from the Indian wars and the massacres that we know, to the present day. Never has Jim Harrison probably so well evoked this mixture of absolute profane and sacred visions which, according to him, constitutes existence. Never has he created with such verve and sensitivity, power and finesse, larger-than-life characters. EAN : 9782267014631 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Moonflowers - Jetta Carleton - book Summary : During the first half of the 20th century, Matthew and Callie Soames created a world of their own on their Missouri farm and raised their four daughters, all different but with strong personalities. Jessica broke their hearts by running away at the age of eighteen. Leonie fell in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo broke away from the family cocoon to pursue a career in New York. And the fate of Mathy, the wild child, ended in the most terrible tragedy the family would ever experience. Throughout the years, the Soames family will love, disappoint, console, deceive, forgive, and sometimes try to escape. But ultimately, they will come to fiercely preserve the bonds of love that hold their family together. With this romantic chronicle of unexpected twists and turns, imbued with the smells, flavors, and colors of the American heartland, we suddenly discover a little-known masterpiece of contemporary literature. Born in 1913 in a Missouri village, Jetta Carleton was successively a teacher, an advertising copywriter, and a publishing house director. This exceptional family chronicle, however, constitutes the only literary legacy of this professional writer, who died in 1999 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. EAN : 9782877066853 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Guilty One - Guy Des Cars - book Summary : Princess Eliane of Wakenberg has bequeathed her entire fortune to the foundation that now bears her name. In high places, people are ecstatic about this generosity. But the Prince of Wakenberg knows that this donation will be diverted by a surprising crook turned guru, the diabolical Athanase. Creator of the Spiritual Liberation Movement, "Brother" Athanase has for ages welcomed the unfit for happiness he meets and persuades them that, to regain well-being, they must atone for their sins: corporal punishment, hard labor inside the philosophical-mystical center, payments of money to hasten redemption. When she meets the "brother," Eliane, extremely wealthy, nevertheless seems to have her head screwed on. What remorse could possibly be tormenting her to the point that she ends up giving in to the guilt-inducing speech of the "spiritual master"? EAN : 9782724208801 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A pearl of sand in an ocean tear - Maïté Puyalto-Lauray - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9791023620825 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Cato - Matilde Asensi - book Summary : There is said to have been an order that predates the Templars and that has survived them. Its members have been the guardians for centuries of the greatest sacred mysteries of our civilization. Dante himself is said to have risked his life with them, and The Divine Comedy is said to contain within its pages one of the keys to their sanctuary. Ottavia Salina, although employed in the unofficial Vatican archives and therefore informed of the Church's most deeply buried secrets, knows nothing about them. So, when she is suddenly asked to leave her miles of armored underground passages to study strange scarifications on the corpse of an Ethiopian, she takes off her blouse without asking any questions. Ottavia still doesn't know that with the discovery of the scars chiseled like silk threads on this man's body, she will soon never see the world as before... EAN : 9782298000146 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cult Products - 80 Sweet and Savory Recipes - Book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782298052183 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tchaikovsky - Vladimir Volkoff - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782260003380 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Unicorn and the Three Crowns. - Valérie Alma Marie - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782286076245 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : From the Dead Princess - Kenizé Mourad - book Summary : Elle Roman Readers' Prize 1988 "This is the story of my mother, Princess Selma, born in a palace in Istanbul..." This could be the beginning of a tale; it is a true story, which begins in 1918 at the court of the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Selma was seven years old when she witnessed the collapse of the Empire that had shaken Europe. Condemned to exile, the imperial family settled in Lebanon. Selma, who had lost both her country and her father, would become "the princess with mended stockings." It was in Beirut that she grew up and met her first love, a young Druze chief; a love that was soon shattered. Selma then agreed to marry an Indian rajah she had never seen. In India, she would experience the splendor of the maharajahs, the last days of the British Empire, and the struggle for independence led by Gandhi. But there, as in Lebanon, she remains "the outsider." Rejected by the people she had come to love, she fled to Paris. There she finally found true love. War separated her, and she died in poverty at the age of twenty-nine, after giving birth to a daughter: the author of this story. For the first time, the end of the Ottoman Empire is told from inside the palaces, while we discover Lebanon under the French Mandate through the great families of Beirut, and feudal India through the eyes of its peasants and princes. It is rare for a book to combine the heart and history in such an intimate way. "Later, much later, writes Kenizé Mourad, I wanted to understand who my mother was. Questioning those who had known her, consulting history books, newspapers of the time and the scattered family archives, I tried to reconstruct the various frameworks of her existence, today irremediably disrupted, and to relive what she had experienced. Finally, to get even closer to her, to find her again, I trusted my intuition and my imagination. Such is this book. Such is the story of Princess Selma, the most romantic of true stories. EAN : 9782221052181 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Sun of the Wolves - Dominique Rebourg - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782857044505 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mahabharata - Jean-Claude Carrière - book Summary : An immense epic poem in the crucible of which the imagination and culture of India were forged, the Mahabharata is the outsize of the subcontinent. For many Westerners, it is an unassimilable work because it is too complex, too abundant, too strange. This is why the play produced by Peter Brook for the 1985 Avignon Festival was immediately perceived as a major event in the contemporary history of theater. The phenomenal success of this creation owed much to Jean-Claude Carrière's text. With exemplary clarity, it brings to life the cosmic struggle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, involving the worlds of demons and gods, and takes us to the heart of Indian mythology. Long out of print, this contemporary classic of the stage is finally being returned to its audience. EAN : 9782714424129 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dubious Morality - Mcdouglas Bonnie - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782744141744 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Splendor of the Vaneycks - Annie Degroote - book Summary : In the 19th century, under the Second Empire, the "redemption" of a large family of spinners from Lille, shaken by passions and prohibitions. In the 19th century, during the Second Empire, a wave of madness swept through the Vaneyck family, a family of spinners from Lille. They had everything: fortune, renown, and an honor they were determined to preserve at all costs. Yet the beautiful balance is about to be upset. The Vaneycks have an ancestral enmity for their distant cousins, the Maes. And when a certain Julien Maes falls in love with the rebellious Alex Vaneyck, when the ravishing Isla oversteps the boundaries to dance in St. Petersburg, and Raphaël returns from exile, everything collapses for the Vaneycks... Annie Degroote has written a fascinating saga, set against the backdrop of the golden age of textiles in the North and its founders. EAN : 9782702897171 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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