Title : Spiritist - Théophile Gauthier - book Summary : Far from the truculence of Captain Fracasse and the provocations of Mademoiselle de Maupin, Gautier tells, through Malivert's initiatory journey, his own story, that of a writer disappointed by the vulgarity of his time but who retains an intact faith in the power of art. Spirite constitutes, in this respect, a vibrant plea in favor of beauty. EAN : 9782744182556 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Viceroy of Ouidah - Bruce Chatwin - book Summary : This is yet another fabulous story that Bruce Chatwin pulls from his backpack. That of a white Brazilian slave trader, Francisco Manoel da Silva, a character inspired by the very true Francisco Félix de Souza who arrived on the shores of Dahomey, this "black Sparta", at the beginning of the 19th century. An unrepentant traveler, Bruce Chatwin investigated in Dahomey (present-day Benin), then in Brazil, to tell an odyssey that will see Francisco ally himself with the king of Dahomey, before being thrown in prison. Saved by Kankpé, the king's half-brother, Francisco thanks the latter by installing him on the throne. The new king then grants him a monopoly on the slave trade. Having become viceroy of Ouidah, the opulent Francisco, a surprising hybrid of satrap and idealistic gentleman, transforms Dahomey into a "military machine". Abandoning the slave trade, he attempts to develop trade with Europe. Paradoxically, he also encouraged the creation of a sort of "little Brazil" in Dahomey, made up of former slaves who had bought their freedom to return to the land of their ancestors... A formidable back and forth of history. A century after Francisco's death, his distant grandchildren were still flocking to Benin. Longing for the golden age of the slave trade, they sought their ancestor's fortune. Going beyond the picaresque, Chatwin delivers a beautiful novel about the rise and fall of an elusive adventurer, a novel that is also a treatise on exile. The Viceroy of Ouidah was adapted for the cinema by Werner Herzog, under the title Cobra Verde, starring Klaus Kinski. EAN : 9782246244639 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A ray of sunshine on the Causse - Ange Emmanuel Barberie - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : This Unpredictable Love - Raphaël Saint Potin - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Our Dream Lives - Eva Centaurée - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 1954 the war begins in Algeria - Mohammed Harbi - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782870277201 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Kennedy File - Gérard de Villiers - book Summary : Malko slammed on the accelerator in a rage. The bulldozer drove into the fence like butter, then stopped dead: the tracks were slipping. A long burst of machine-gun fire cracked and bullets whistled past, tearing off strips of bark. A projectile ricocheted off the steel inches from Malko's head. If he couldn't tear down this fence, the Czech border guards would be here in less than a minute. He would have the choice between death and the gulag. EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Human Comedy - William Saroyan - book Summary : Although the Macauleys are not just another family, their daily life in the small Californian town of Ithaca during World War II is that of the entire nation. In the absence of the recently deceased father and the eldest son Marcus, who has gone to the army, Homer must ensure the family's survival by delivering telegrams home. It is often through him, this "angel of death," that the war comes to Ithaca, for he is responsible for delivering the most dreaded news... By giving an almost mythical dimension to this portrait of an American family, Saroyan manages to make this novel an authentic hymn to life. Subtle, light, overflowing with humor and fantasy, A Human Comedy is a magnificent lesson in humanism. We will quickly understand that Saroyan is not only a wonderful storyteller but also a great philosopher. EAN : 9782253130987 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Physiology of Taste - Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin - book Summary : The Physiology of Taste is a collection of memoirs. Memoirs of humor, in a heroic-comic tone, or how to treat familiar subjects with a touch of nobility, a zest of pomp or solemnity. This could be tiresome, if everything were not bathed in modesty and gaiety. Brillat-Savarin is the most amiable author there is. But it is about cooking. Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) inaugurates with genius this intellectualization of gastronomy which has not ceased until our days. He is a witness to the era when the restaurant, a place to eat, is imposed to the detriment of the inn, a refuge for the traveler without fire or place, where one did little but drink and eat. Cooking becomes professionalized and every profession gives rise to discourse; sitting down to eat is a matter of language. Beyond the need to eat, the pleasure of the table is like a staging: the luxury of desire. The desired food is a kind of ethnographic ceremony by which man celebrates his power, his freedom to burn his energy "for nothing." "In this sense," says Roland Barthes, "Brillat-Savarin's book is from start to finish the book of the "properly human," because it is desire (in that which it speaks to itself) that distinguishes man." EAN : 9782080811097 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : New Year's Bride and Groom Intense Reunion From Friendship to Love - Laura Iding, Kate Hardy Lucy Clark - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782280343688 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Jeanne and the King - Amandine Frunard - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Lord for a Maid - Isabelle Goddard - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782280311618 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : For Cassandra's Happiness A Few Days to Love - Patricia Thayer, Rebecca Winters - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782280282161 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Husband or Nothing - Barbara Boswell - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782280143431 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Stella's Dreams - A Nurse in Prague - JC Harroway, Alison Roberts - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782280484183 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : SOS Mom - Dani Criss - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782280138277 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rocambole the dramas of Paris volume 4 - Ponson Du Terrail - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782286101886 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 : The Tsar - Francois Chabas Jean - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782211088404 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Come Death, We'll Dance - Patrick Segal - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782080641762 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Seeker of the Absolute - Théodore Monod - book Summary : For Théodore Monod, this book is an opportunity to take stock and revisit the stages of an exceptional human and scientific journey. But the past is, according to this wise man, only a source from which to establish a critique of the present in order to better project ourselves into the future. Théodore Monod wants to prepare a homo sapiens of the 3rd millennium freed from his useless dross as well as from the violence and abusive instinct of possession specific to our end of the 20th century. EAN : 9782862744575 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In Search of My Father's Soul - Jmaling Tenzing Norgay - book Summary : And suddenly I saw my father! He was right behind me. He had taken off his oxygen mask and pushed up his glasses. "We both realized our dream," I told him. "You didn't have to come all this way to talk to me, Jamling," I heard him say. Maybe. But I thought it was worth doing... " J. T. N. On May 29, 1953, Tenzing Norgay, alongside Sir Edmund Hillary, became the first man to reach the summit of Everest. This feat earned him immense fame among his people, the Sherpas, who lived at the foot of Chomolungma. After his death, his son Jamling, who had always dreamed of tackling the most legendary of peaks, was asked to become the guide of a team of mountaineers. A film was to be shot in Imax format. The mission entrusted to the young man: to lead the director and cameramen to the "roof of the world." And thus repeat his father's feat. But the omens were not favorable. And the roped party was soon confronted with dramatic circumstances: the most terrible of hurricanes was approaching... In Search of My Father's Soul tells the story of an extraordinary adventure, that of an ascent perilous, at the same time as it traces the spiritual journey of a man determined to reconnect with his roots, those of the Sherpa people. EAN : 9782845920460 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Committing to support - Values ​​of training professions - Mireille Cifali - book Summary : The role of commitment in training, whether it involves training or self-training, is essential. Commitment to knowledge, speech, voice, and techniques, bodily commitment even in clumsiness. Taking risks, maintaining a creative process day after day alongside habits, skills, abilities, and even competencies. To support and sometimes resist, is a commitment to knowledge indeed desirable? To be concerned, oneself, by the knowledge transmitted? Attentive to the other to whom one is addressing oneself? Mireille Cifali answers these questions in the affirmative. For a trainer, the fragile articulation between theories and practices is thus outlined, as well as the essential place reserved for ethical work. It is on her experience as a training clinician that she draws to transmit the values ​​at the origin of systems where thinking is a joy, where training is an increase of being as much as of knowing. EAN : 9782130810360 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 105 Days Alone - Christophe Auguin - book Summary : With this logbook, you will follow my life at sea through daily communications with land and with my fellow competitors. Like me, you will read Sylvie Rouch's "chronicles." They allowed me to understand how those who remained on land felt about the race. Christophe Auguin. EAN : 9782207246054 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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