Georges: 1999 books

You want to learn about a martial art adapted for self defense, this book is for you. There is small Biography of O-sensei and some major techniques. Aikido is the way of harmony.

The author of this book, SERGEANT-MAJOR GEORGES LAFOND, of the Territorial Hussars, was in South America at the time of mobilization. He returned to France as soon as possible and joined his corps, but asked to be assigned as intelligence officer to the machine-gun sections of the first regiment of...

Georges Sada was one of Saddam's top generals and foremost military advisors. A truth-teller in a government that made the truth dangerous. A devout Christian in a Muslim country. And a man who would stand up for what was right?even at the risk of his own life. In this eye-opening exposé,...

Values in Conflict: Reflections of an Animal Advocate offers an account of changing and conflicting social values regarding mans role in the natural world. Author Georges Dupras compels us to think about mans role in animal suffering and leads us to the inescapable conclusion that we must speak and...

Contains original illustrations by Jean Cocteau and Andrzej Klimowski. Two of the seven monologues by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) in this edition were written for Édith Piaf. The other five were written for Cocteau’s friend, the celebrated actor Jean Marais, to perform on radio. Although perhaps...

The beguiling, never-before-translated dream diary of Georges Perec In La Boutique Obscure Perec once again revolutionized literary form, creating the world’s first “nocturnal autobiography.” From 1968 until 1972—the period when he wrote his most well-known works—the beloved French...

What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu...

A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau. On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them...

'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily...

Version Intégrale, Coffret 5 Volumes Nous sommes  en France au début du XIX° siècle ; Chacun des 5 tomes de l’œuvre évoque une phase de la vie de Jean Valjean, de sa sortie du bagne à sa mort. A travers ses personnages, Victor Hugo dépeint...

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Georges Jacques Danton, né le 26 octobre 1759 à Arcis-sur-Aube et mort le 5 avril 1794 (16 germinal an II) à Paris, est un avocat et...

La Patrie en danger est un livre écrit par l'avocat au Conseil du Roi et homme politique français Georges Jacques Danton (1759 - 1794).   Danton est une des figures emblématiques de la Révolution française, tout comme Mirabeau, avec qui il partage...

EXTRAIT: INTRODUCTION I Voici le seul orateur populaire de la Révolution. De tous ceux qui, à la Constituante, à la Législative ou à la Convention, ont occupé la tribune et mérité le laurier de l'éloquence, Danton est le seul dont...

♦ Cet ebook bénéficie d’une mise en page esthétique optimisée pour la lecture numérique. ♦ Le jeune philosophe Jacques Laurent est venu s’installer à Paris pour y poursuivre ses études. Il est passionné par les questions philosophiques sur la Femme, quand malgré lui, son coeur...