Alexis: 1223 books

I believe in the power of words and ideas. I believe that ideas cannot die, and so influence reality. I believe that if we focus on ideas that increase empathy, compassion, and empowerment, the world will become a better place. This is my purpose in my writing and speaking. Find out more about my purpose, and how even the smallest acts of compassion make a difference.

Choose to be a superhero in your own life. See how much control you already have, starting with a single choice to no longer be a victim.Transform yourself in 32 days using this journal guide. Everyday, spend a few moments examining a different part of your life. Use the writing exercises to...

People come as well as go. Twelve years ago, Edwin Tully came to Oxford and fell in love with a boy named Marius. He was brilliant. An artist. It was going to be forever. Two years ago, it ended. Now Edwin lives alone in the house they used to share. He tends to damaged books...

The public spaces and buildings of the United States are home to many thousands of timepieces—bells, time balls, and clock faces—that tower over urban streets, peek out from lobbies, and gleam in store windows. And in the streets and squares beneath them, men, women, and children wear wristwatches...

So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten’s firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An Alaska Native and anthropologist, she spent two seasons working for a tribally owned tourism business that markets the Tlingit culture in Sitka. Bunten’s...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter. Alexis de Tocqueville was a French historian and political scientist best known for the work Democracy in America on the American political system. Tocqueville is in the row with the greatest political and economic...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter. Alexis de Tocqueville was a French historian and political scientist best known for the work Democracy in America on the American political system. Tocqueville is in the row with the greatest political and economic...

“Fourteen writers take on perhaps the most important cultural issue of our time: figure out what we’re talking about when we’re talking about cat videos.” —New York magazine   Are cat videos art? This essay collection, funded by a Kickstarter campaign, addresses not just our fascination...

Journey Thru Love Part II continues the whirlwind of a love story told in Journey Thru Love Part I. In this sequel, emotions are intensified as this love storys ending unfolds. The words make it almost impossible for you not to feel the depth of emotion laid out in perfect poetic form. The feelings...

L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution est un essai du Français Alexis de Tocqueville paru en 1856. L'auteur, né en 1805, alors que la Révolution avait créé la société nouvelle, et muni d'une vaste expérience politique acquise autour...

Ce livre écrit par Alexis de Tocqueville entre 1835 et 1840 est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. De la démocratie en Amérique est d'abord et avant tout une analyse sur la démocratie représentative républicaine, et de ses formes particulières aux États-Unis. L'œuvre...

Confucius est beaucoup plus qu'un homme, il est l'esprit d'une civilisation, celle de la Chine antique. Le découvrir, c'est entrer dans un monde unique marqué par le respect des étapes de la vie. Pour Confucius, célébrer une naissance, le passage à l'âge adulte, rendre hommage à ses ancêtres...

Depuis les hauteurs de son chalet, le lieutenant Nimrod Russell coule des jours paisibles avec sa compagne et son fils, quand un ami de lycée refait surface dans sa vie et lui demande de retrouver sa sœur qui a disparu sans laisser de traces. De son côté, la lieutenante Tracy Bradshaw vit...

The German blockade of Leningrad lasted 872 days and cost almost a million civilian lives—one of the longest, deadliest sieges in modern history. Drawing on 125 unpublished diaries written by individuals from all walks of life, Alexis Peri tells the tragic, intimate story of how citizens struggled to make sense of a world collapsing around them.