Alain: 2045 books

Le lieutenant Gandin se retrouve avec une nouvelle équipière, Claire Gailleau. Ce ne sont pas les affaires à résoudre qui manquent, à commencer par ce violeur qui terrorise les femmes âgées de la région Mantaise. Loin de là, son ancienne chef, la commandante Natacha Lentier, se retrouve...

Sometimes it just takes an alien to figure things out. This collection of flash fiction is social commentary with a science fiction twist.Flash fiction collection, approx. 2,000 words

Los Angeles has always been as much a star in film noir as any actor, be it Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner or Jack Nicholson. In L.A. Noir: The City as Character renowned film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini explore the world of noir cinema in the context of Los...

The news is everywhere. We can’t stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds?   We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton (author of the best-selling The Architecture of Happiness),...

A portrait of China’s new economic passion toward Europe. For years China’s international investment interests focused on a search for natural resources in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Recently China’s focus has shifted to Europe as well as the United States, and to new fields as...

The first full biography of one of the greatest figures of eighteenth-century Europe, known in his time as the "Black Mozart" Virtually forgotten until now, his life is the stuff of legend. Born in 1739 in Guadeloupe to a slave mother and a French noble father, he became the finest...

Laurent Voulzy promène sa silhouette d'éternel adolescent sur le devant de la scène française depuis quarante ans. Toujours avec la même énergie, la même fraîcheur et le même désir. Au point que ses tubes, de Rockollection à Belle-Ile en Mer ou Le soleil donne ont traversé les générations....

Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou’s ode to his literary hero and an effort to place Baldwin’s life in context within the greater African diaspora. Beginning with a chance encounter with a beggar wandering along...

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness...

This comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world's leading authorities in the field, and he is helping to redefine it. Here he combines a thorough knowledge of ancient sources with...

Em Edimburgo, Rabih e Kirsten se conhecem e logo se apaixonam. Eles se casam, têm filhos. A sociedade nos faz acreditar que esse é o fim da história, mas, na verdade, é apenas o começo. Em O curso do amor, o escritor e filósofo Alain de Botton lança mão da ficção para discutir, através...

Atualmente as notícias ocupam o lugar preponderante antes dominado pela religião, porém não costumamos refletir sobre o impacto delas em nossa vida. Em Notícias, o aclamado escritor Alain de Botton se vale de histórias típicas do noticiário — como um desastre de avião, um homicídio, um...

Recently hailed by The New York Times as “An African Novelist Poised for Recognition in the U.S.,” Alain Mabanckou’s latest novel, Black Moses, was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize; this renewed spotlight provides the perfect opportunity to reissue one of his most celebrated works, Broken...

Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Loun?s dream about the countries...