Palmyre, l'irremplaçable trésor
By: Paul Veyne
3.78
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
« Ayant eu pour métier l'étude de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, je n'ai cessé de rencontrer Palmyre su…
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1. Culottées
By: Pénélope Bagieu
4.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Margaret, actrice "terrifiante", spécialisée à Hollywood dans les rôles de méchante ; Agnodice, gyn… read more
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2. L'Enfer, le Silence (Blacksad, #4)
By: Juanjo Guarnido , Juan Díaz Canales
4.20
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
Années 1950, La Nouvelle-Orléans, où la fête de Mardi Gras bat son plein. Grâce à Weekly, un produc… read more
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3. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.28
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggl… read more
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"Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
"For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
4. The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook
By: Victor Klemperer , Martin Brady , Juliusz Zychowicz
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Under the Third Reich, the official language of Nazism came to be used as a political tool. The exi… read more
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"Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop."-Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook
5. Âme rouge (Blacksad, #3)
By: Juanjo Guarnido , Juan Díaz Canales
4.19
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
« Je restai plus d'une heure à observer en silence avant d'ouvrir la bouche et de rompre cet instan… read more
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6. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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7. The Art of Happiness
By: Epicurus , George K. Strodach
4.19
Format: 294 pages, ebook
New to Penguin Classics and the perfect companion volume to bestselling author Daniel Klein's new b… read more
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8. Embroideries
By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
From the best-selling author of Persepoliscomes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look … read more
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9. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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10. The Witches: Salem, 1692
By: Stacy Schiff
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying… read more
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11. Sophie Calle - True Stories
By: Sophie Calle
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
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12. Women in the Days of the Cathedrals
By: Régine Pernoud
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Regine Pernoud has addressed herself to the study of many questions about the status of women in th… read more
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13. Arctic-Nation (Blacksad, #2)
By: Juanjo Guarnido , Juan Díaz Canales
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Blacksad is a private detective who's seen much evil in the past, but never in his long life h… read more
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14. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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15. Amarillo (Blacksad, #5)
By: Juanjo Guarnido , Juan Díaz Canales
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Weekly doit quitter La Nouvelle-Orleans ; il y laisse John qui prefere rester pour chercher du trav… read more
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16. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
17. The Creak on the Stairs (Forbidden Iceland, #1)
By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
3.92
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon beco… read more
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18. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
19. Anéantir
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.84
Format: 734 pages, Hardcover
Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more
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"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
20. In the Eye of the Wild
By: Nastassja Martin
3.96
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In the Eye of the Wild begins with a terrifying account of the anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s ne… read more
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"Da anni scrivo di confini, del margine, della liminarità, della zona di frontiera, del tra-due-mondi; a proposito di questo luogo molto speciale dove è possibile incontrare una potenza “altra"-Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild
"İnsanların, kayalara yapışan istiridyeler gibi, başkalarının acılarına yapışmak gibi tuhaf bir saplantıları var. Başıma gelen şey onları kendileriyle yüzleştiriyor sanki. Bu trajedi organlarının, der…"-Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild
"Cette nuit-là, j'écris qu'il faut croire aux fauves, à leurs silences, à leur retenue ; croire au qui-vive, aux murs blancs et nus, aux draps jaunes de cette chambre d'hôpital ; croire au retrait qui…"-Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild
21. Peau d'Homme
By: Hubert
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Sans contrefaçon, je suis un garçon ! Dans l'Italie de la Renaissance, Bianca, demoiselle de bonne… read more
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22. Alors, tout tombe - Première partie (Blacksad, #6)
By: Juan Díaz Canales
4.32
Format: 60 pages, Hardcover
Chargé de protéger le président d’un syndicat infiltré par la mafia à New York, John Blacksad va me… read more
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23. Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
By: Rolf Dobelli
3.71
Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition
STOP READING THE NEWS is a vital toolkit for managing the upsetting coronavirus news cycle and find… read more
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"News is aimed straight at our mental health. We need to get out of the way."-Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
"News is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easily digestible and extremely damaging."-Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
"In the past few decades we’ve learned to recognise the many hazards of poor nutrition: insulin resistance, obesity, susceptibility to inflammation and fatigue. All of these factors can contribute to …"-Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
24. La vie heureuse
By: David Foenkinos
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"Jamais aucune époque n’a autant été marquée par le désir de changer de vie. Nous voulons tous, à u… read more
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25. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (The Princeton History of the Ancient World)
By: Kyle Harper
4.21
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental rete… read more
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26. Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)
By: Mary Beard
3.68
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. L'Ennemi du genre humain (L'Ombre des Lumières, #1)
By: Alain Ayroles
3.27
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Après Les Indes fourbes, Alain Ayroles récidive avec panache ! Poursuivant la tradition épistolaire… read more
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28. La Reine morte
By: Henry de Montherlant
3.56
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
C'est pendant la guerre, avec la création de La Reine morte, que Montherlant, célèbre depuis une vi… read more
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29. Palmyre, l'irremplaçable trésor
By: Paul Veyne
3.78
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
« Ayant eu pour métier l'étude de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, je n'ai cessé de rencontrer Palmyre su… read more
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30. Louvre
By: Josselin Guillois
2.62
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Une jeune femme obsédée par son désir d’enfant, une adolescente en proie aux métamorphoses de son c… read more
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31. Ancient Rome: Infographics
By: Nicolas Guillerat
4.17
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A revealing history of ancient Rome, told through visually stunning, state-of-the-art infographics.… read more
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