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by André Gide
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Nobel Prize–winning writer André Gide marks his voyage toward self-discovery in this imaginative allegorical work
When Urien and his sailing companions begin their voyage, it is to places unknown and, perhaps, only dreamed. This allegorical masterpiece from André Gide, a key figure...
by André Gide
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
This collection of reflective essays forms a “spiritual autobiography” of André Gide, a key figure of French letters
André Gide, a literary and intellectual giant of twentieth-century France, mines his memories and personal observations in this collection of essays. Gide’s...
by Bálint András Varga
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences or from, say, the natural world? What influences, past and present, have influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop a personal style, and when does this degenerate into self-repetition? These are questions...
by André Gide
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the twentieth century’s most important figures, André Gide
André Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Frédéric Chopin as a composer “betrayed...
The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste
Reflections on New Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Bálint András Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that is...
The Cinema of Cruelty
From Buñuel to Hitchcock
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
“There is no denying his importance in the development of film theory. As an introduction to Bazin’s views, The Cinema of Cruelty is excellent” (Columbia Spectator).
Perhaps the single most important voice of cinema in the twentieth century, André Bazin profoundly influenced the development...
Enigma Variations
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
From André Aciman, the author of Call Me by Your Name (now a major motion picture and the winner of the Oscar™ for Best Adapted Screenplay) comes “a sensory masterclass, absorbing, intelligent, unforgettable” (Times Literary Supplement).
André Aciman, hailed as a writer of “fiction...
The Surface Effect
The Screen of Fantasy in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Even before we think, we use fantasy. Is fantasy the ‘mother of all media’? Does fantasy save me from myself? Are there fictions that are real?
In The Surface Effect André Nusselder examines the space of fantasy between individual ‘inner life’ and social ‘outer life’. Where we...
by André Thirion, Jean-François Revel
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1973
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1973
Fils de la guerre de 14 et du surréalisme, adepte puis critique lucide du marxisme et du communisme, adversaire brillant de tous les poncifs intellectuels ou sociaux, tel apparaît André Thirion dans cet Éloge de l’indocilité. Les lecteurs du désormais classique Révolutionnaires sans révolution...
NOTES D'UN FOU, suivi de Le Travail, la Mort et la Maladie
édition intégrale et annexe enrichie d'une biographie de « Tolstoï » par André Suarès
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2019
En août 1869, Tolstoï part en voyage avec un serviteur pour acheter une propriété dans l’Est. Le soir, il fait halte dans une auberge d’un village nommé Arzamas et, à 2 heures du matin, il se sent terrassé par une crise d’angoisse, de terreur encore jamais ressentie : « Brusquement,...
by André Rousselet, Marie-Eve Chamard, Philippe Kieffer
Language: French
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Ce livre est un événement. André Rousselet, qui n’avait jamais raconté sa vie, se confie pour la première fois. Ami de longue date puis exécuteur testamentaire de François Mitterrand, fondateur de Canal Plus, président de la G7, directeur de cabinet du président de la République, président...
Sorted!
A Survival Guide for Parents of Students Making a Career Choice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Written by two experienced career guidance counsellors in an honest and clear style, Sorted! helps parents and secondary school students to negotiate the tricky process of choosing a career.
With the intention of removing the stress and complications of making career decisions, Sorted:...
Foundations of Software and System Performance Engineering
Process, Performance Modeling, Requirements, Testing, Scalability, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
“If this book had been available to Healthcare.gov’s contractors, and they read and followed its life cycle performance processes, there would not have been the enormous problems apparent in that application. In my 40+ years of experience in building leading-edge products, poor performance is the...
Una esperanza y un futuro
Sé más próspero que tus padres
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 6, 2014
12 LECCIONES FUNDAMENTALES PARA QUE TU GENERACIÓN SEA MÁS PRÓSPERA QUE LA ANTERIOR
En este indispensable libro, el Dr. Andrés Panasiuk abarca temas de alta relevancia para el éxito de los jóvenes tales como:
Los problemas más comunes a que se enfrentan.
Identidad.
Principios y valores.
Como...