Philippe: 2415 books

Acclaimed activist Philippe Cousteau and renowned author Deborah Hopkinson team up to offer a story of the powerful difference young people can make in the world. Meet Viv, who has a new home and a new school by the sea, and follow her as she finds her way in a new place and helps bring together a...

From 1945 to 1950, during the formative years of his career, Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine. Offering a comprehensive examination of the work he produced during this period, Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine sheds new light on the aesthetic and ideological factors that...

Psychological thriller, brilliantly constructed, fueled by the smartest of writing and suspense. Romance on a train has allure for Americans drawn to European travel and railway experiences. Vivid protagonists with insightful portrayal of both female and male perspectives. Taps...

The first edition of this book was released under digital format (eBook) in 2014. In 2015, a second edition of the eBook was released, containing, besides minor changes here and there, two important additions: Chapter VII about “the Japanese Consumer Mindset” and Chapter XI about “3 Keys for...

Le 22 janvier 1901, la reine Victoria mourait et entrait dans la légende. Son nom symbolise un siècle d'hypocrisie, d'austérité sourcilleuse, de chasteté puritaine. Cette biographie sans révérence adoucit le mythe d'une Victoria " victorienne ". La reine du plus grand empire depuis...

Complex, haunting, imaginative and profoundly literary, Didactic Poetries is Beck’s response to Schiller’s statement: “We are still waiting for a didactic poem where thought itself would be and would remain poetic,” and Hegel’s claim that, “strictly speaking, didactic poetry isn’t poetry.”For...

Premier livre numérique illustrés décrivant et illustrant toutes les étiquettes dès 1855. Ce premier tome est consacré aux étiquettes habillant les grands crus de Château Mouton Rothschild. L'étiquette du célèbre...

ART & VIN I - Œuvres originales illustrées pour Château Mouton Rothschild - Les artistes contemporains de 1924 à 1975 Ouvrage mariant intimement ART & VIN : Tome 1  de 1924 à 1975. Les premiers grands crus de Bordeaux n'ont plus un rapport qualité-prix-plaisir...

Au mois de novembre 1953 débute le procès retentissant de Pauline Dubuisson, accusée d'avoir tué de sang-froid son amant. Mais qui est donc cette beauté ravageuse dont la France entière réclame la tête ? Une arriviste froide et calculatrice ? Un monstre de duplicité qui a couché avec les...

Un matin d'octobre 1941, dans un château sinistre au fin fond du Périgord, Henri Girard appelle au secours : dans la nuit, son père, sa tante et la bonne ont été massacrés à coups de serpe. Il est le seul survivant. Toutes les portes étaient fermées, aucune effraction n'est constatée. Dépensier,...

An artist of the air re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and imagination One late-summer day, a feat of unimaginable audacity was perpetrated on the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The year was 1974. A hundred thousand people gathered on the ground...

‘Illuminated by finely turned phrases and vivid insights’ - Richard Williams, Guardian Sports Books of the Year. Thierry Henry – gifted, charismatic and a genuinely world-class footballer – has passed into Arsenal legend as the hero of a team that finally ended Manchester United’s...

Get inside the mind of football's most enigmatic icon ‘Zidane is the master’ Pele One of modern football’s most brilliant players - and one of its most iconic and mysterious figures - Zinedine Zidane’s football career is the stuff of legend. A World Cup-winner with France, he...

A portrait of China’s new economic passion toward Europe. For years China’s international investment interests focused on a search for natural resources in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Recently China’s focus has shifted to Europe as well as the United States, and to new fields as...