Arthur: 6982 books

Jacob Brouwer, de hoofdpersoon in Het fregatschip Johanna Maria, verlangt naar het bezit van van het schip waar hij met hart en ziel aan werkt en op leeft. Een lange weg is zijn deel om dit verlangen te stillen. En als dat dan eindelijk gelukt is, loopt het verhaal af. Is het einde van de tocht daadwerkelijk...

Today's high-flying, high-rolling conglomarateurs and corporate raiders are a tame lot compared to the most notorious of these, Robert Vesco, the Kingfish himself, who in 1973 fled the United States accused of looting $250 million from Investors Overseas Services. Now, in this riveting account, noted...

**“**A must read for those who thought they knew—and those who know nothing—about the shocking Tropic of Cancer genius who pushed the censorial envelope” (Myra MacPherson, award-winning author of Long Time Passing). Henry Miller was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century...

This “brilliant” account of Benedict Arnold’s military campaign to bring Canada into the Revolutionary War is “hard to put down”—includes maps (Mag Web). In 1775, Benedict Arnold led more than one thousand men through the Maine wilderness in order to reach Quebec, the capital of...

The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs. Diane Arbus brings to life the full story of...

When Schopenhauer was asked where he wished to be buried, he answered, "Anywhere; they will find me;" and the stone that marks his grave at Frankfort bears merely the inscription "Arthur Schopenhauer," without even the date of his birth or death. Schopenhauer,...

De la quadruple racine du principe de raison suffisante (Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde) est le titre de la thèse de doctorat d’Arthur Schopenhauer publiée en 1813. Le philosophe allemand en donnera une seconde édition remaniée en 1847. Schopenhauer considérait...

L’Art d’avoir toujours raison (en allemand Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten) est une œuvre du philosophe Arthur Schopenhauer qui traite de l’art de la controverse ou « dialectique éristique ». Rédigée vers 1830-1831 et publiée en 1864, elle est parfois éditée en France sous le titre...

Quatrième de couverture : “Ce qu’il y a de plus important, voire d’essentiel dans l’existence, ce dont tout le reste dépend, sa signification véritable, sa phase critique, sa pointe, se trouve dans la moralité du comportement humain. Mais pour ce qui est de son sens, des modalités,...

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: “Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best.” —Time Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy’s tragic and unexpected...

A “brilliant” examination of the growth of presidential power from George Washington to George W. Bush, by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian (Newsweek). Over the course of two centuries, the power of the president of the United States has grown exponentially. From George Washington to...

From his entrance into Democratic leadership circles in the 1950s through his years in the Kennedy administration and up until his last days, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., was always at the vital center of American politics. For more than half a century, the master historian recorded his experiences and...

“Thought-provoking…[Allen] writes without sanctimony and never simplifies the people in his book or the moral issues his story inevitably raises." —Wall Street Journal Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed—refugees, soldiers,...

What motivated Sodo-san to spend the last twenty years of his life in a “temple under the sky”— a corner of a public park where he taught passersby what it means to be forever young through the funky tunes he played on his grass flute? In The Grass Flute Zen Master: Sodo Yokoyama, we...