Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books

Pourquoi a-t-il fallu que je sois l’Enfant des Mers? La masse des sorcières se divisa en deux, de chaque côté de l’espèce d’estrade sur laquelle Élisabeth, les deux matelots et moi étions retenus par des liens indestructibles. D’une pente qui menait directement à l’énorme château...

L'organisation secrète du Vaisseau Blanc cherche à soustraire la planète de sa fin imminente, alors que les désastres se succèdent et déferlent sur tous les continents à un rythme démentiel. Il faut sauver l'humanité, car la Mère, avec la naissance de ses enfants, prendra le contrôle de...

***Attention! "La Genèse Maudite" est un complément de lecture à la série "L'Archipel des Sorcières".*** Note du copiste : Ce manuscrit que l’on m’a demandé de traduire et copier s’intitulait à l’origine « Testament de l’Esprit ». C’est son caractère hautement hérétique...

Vint le treize, l’arcane sans numéro et sans nom. La Faucheuse, la Mort, la fin de toute chose! Elle fait référence à ce passage maudit, voulu par les femmes de l’île, de l’esprit à la matière. Tentative désespérée de sauver le Créateur! Tout ce qu’était le monde paradisiaque d’avant...

Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports share waterfronts with imposing fortifications. And the people who have lived, worked and played on this spectacular coast - from Stone Age fishermen to seafarers,...

Is Christianity exclusively a religious phenomenon, which must separate itself from all things political, or do its concepts actually underpin secular politics? To this question, which animated the twentieth-century debate on political theology, Liturgical Power advances a third alternative. Christian...

From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple...

In seminal works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and The Fire Next Time, acclaimed author and social critic James Baldwin (1924--1987) expresses his profound belief that writers have the power to transform society, to engage the public, and to inspire and channel conversation...

The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident in works of travel and literature. From its...

What causes us to suffer? Is the source external, or is it within us? In my work with alternative medicine, people come to me with a wide variety of problems and I do my best to help them. Their suffering is usually part physical, part emotional. However, there is something else that can be observed,...

Noam Chomsky continues to be one of the most influential intellectual figures of modern times. His wide-ranging contributions to the fields of linguistics, psychology, philosophy and politics have revolutionised our view of language, the mind and human nature. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics,...

Back in the 1970s and ‘80s most of the great lamas to leave Tibet were still alive and teaching. Those of us who had the good fortune to be in India and Nepal at that time were able to benefit by sitting at their feet, drinking in the nectar of their holy speech. Many of the teachings in this book...

At the opening of the twenty-first century, while obviously the world is still struggling with violence and conflict, many commentators argue that there are many reasons for supposing that restrictions on the use of force are growing. The establishment of the International Criminal Court, the growing...

This book is about the things which could unite, rather than divide, poets during the English Civil Wars: friendship, patronage relations, literary admiration, and anti-clericalism. The central figure is Andrew Marvell, renowned for his 'ambivalent' allegiance in the late 1640s. Little is known about...