Title : Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - book Summary : Nearly a century ago, in stunning visions, Aldous Huxley imagined a future civilization down to its most surprising workings: a perfectly hierarchical World State had confined the last wild humans to reserves. The in vitro culture of fetuses had engendered the reign of the "Alphas," genetically determined to be the ruling elite. The lower castes, for their part, were conditioned to be fully satisfied with their lot. In this society where happiness is the law, family, monogamy, and feelings are banished. The best of all possible worlds is possible. Today, it even seems familiar to us. EAN: 9782266128568 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Elemental Gerad, Volume 6 - Mayumi Azuma - Manga book Summary : Following a routine raid, young air pirate Coud Van Giruet finds a most unusual haul: Ren, an "Adil Raid." It is actually a very powerful weapon that fuses with its user, a human-looking weapon hidden beneath the features EAN: 9782351003169 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Derision - Henri Troyat - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277217435 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Chain - Drucker Michel - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277212188 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Einstein 1905 - Françoise Balibar - book Summary : The history of the concept of field in physics, from its development (linked to the notion of ether) until the moment when, in 1905, Einstein made it as it was in itself, while laying, with the hypothesis of light quanta, the bases of its modification, thus giving it its current meaning. EAN: 9782130442981 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mozart's Resurrection - Nina Berberova - book Summary : June 1940. Paris is a sacrificed city. Amid the atmosphere of debacle reigning over the village of Maria Leonidovna and Vasily Sushkov, one wonders: what would the glorious figures of European history think in the face of this quagmire? Some would like to resurrect Napoleon, Bismarck, Queen Victoria, or Julius Caesar. Maria, for her part, would like to revive Mozart... One day, a strange traveler comes to seek refuge with them. This mysterious young man, who looks like a soldier or a spy, claims to be a musician, as evidenced by his surprisingly thin, fragile, and dusty hands. EAN: 9782277230649 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A sacred blowgun - AA Fair - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782702423936 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Such Quiet Girls - Charles Exbrayat - book Summary : Evelyne, Maria-Angela, Gertrude. Quiet girls who live alone in a remote corner of the Swiss countryside. Three peaceful and secluded lives, clear as crystal water. What if the tranquility became so heavy that it made you cry? What if the quiet girls decided to throw themselves into adventure to finally live? ... What if they met fish from murky waters, shady men who only knew lies and death? Their adventures could end very badly. EAN: 9782702415306 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Everyone Loved Him - Charles Exbrayat - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782702402245 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Taste of Dreams - Collectives - book Summary : In ancient texts, dreams were considered divine omens. Disdained by the Enlightenment, dreams made a strong entrance into literature with Romanticism: from Musset to Nerval and up to Lautréamont, they occupied a prominent place in the form of novelistic stories, poems, and plays. From the beginning of the 20th century, thanks to the contribution of psychoanalysis on the one hand, and the multitude of Surrealist productions on the other, dreams became the royal road leading to our unconscious. Imbued with fantasy and wonder, dreams renewed the imagination of poets and writers, but also of painters and filmmakers. To be explored in the company of Sigmund Freud, Henri Michaux, Marcel Proust, André Breton, Georges Bataille, Georges Perec, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Antonin Artaud, Fernando Pessoa, Michel Leiris, Marguerite Yourcenar, Louis Aragon, Jean Racine, Gustave Flaubert, Julien Gracq, Thomas Mann and many others. EAN: 9782715229013 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253048091 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Women's Villa - Charif Majdalani - book Summary : I stood there as long as necessary, he said, sitting at the top of the steps, in the sunny square. Guardian of the Hayek's grandeur, I lived with them the happy times that I believed would last forever. I witnessed the collapse of the boss, the departure of the younger son, the incompetence of his eldest. And then I saw the women left to their own devices, their heartbreak and the ruin of their estate... Born in Lebanon in 1960, Charif Majdalani teaches French literature at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut. History of the big house , Caravanserai And The Last Lord of Marsad are available in Points. "The author takes us into a story full of fury but also of richness and teaching. And in doing so, he administers to us a powerful potion, which must be called enchantment." Etienne de Montéty, The Literary Figaro EAN: 9782757861899 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Song of Being and Appearing - Cees Nooteboom - book Summary : On his sheet of paper, the writer had written only one line: "The colonel falls in love with the doctor's wife." The perfect banality of this sentence made him feel nauseous. "So what," he grumbled. "The colonel is in love with the doctor's wife." Grappling with his doubts and questions, the writer gives life to a few characters who take shape, love and hate each other, hurt and suffer... until they free themselves from their creator. Who nourishes the novel, the characters or the author? Who is real? Fiction mixes with the reflection of the novelist fascinated by the power of creation. EAN: 9782070411276 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : If I forget you Jerusalem - Pierre Barret, Jean-Noël Gurgand - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253033318 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 : 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 : 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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