Rod: 922 books

Avez-vous jamais vu, vers la fin d’une lourde journée d’été, un orage se préparer sur les rives d’un lac ? Des nuages courent dans le ciel, que des éclairs sillonnent de flèches aiguës ou illuminent de nappes éclatantes ; le vent tord les arbres, dont les branches gémissent en s’entrechoquant,...

Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical day. Humor serves multiple purposes, and although there is a sizable and expanding research literature on the subject, the research is spread in a variety of disciplines. The Psychology of Humor, 2e reviews the literature, integrating...

La Provence, c’est la Camargue, le calcaire blanc des Calanques, le ciel bleu cobalt qui accompagne le mistral, le vert mat des oliviers, la truculence et le franc-parler des gens, que l’on ne retrouve pas forcément plus à l’est. Une halte en Provence vous fera apprécier le charme des terrasses...

Ever since Saul Kripke and others developed a semantic interpretation for modal logic, 'possible worlds' has been a much debated issue in contemporary metaphysics. To propose the idea of a possible world that differs in some way from our actual world - for example a world where the grass is red or...

Alicia was happy to move to her new house with her husband. One of her new neighbors asked her to work as a maid for a friendly meeting with other women. Alicia wanted to make new friends but she never expected the gathering to turn out like it did with delicious punishments. For Mature Audiences Only (18+)

Carl Condors is an engineer with nightmares. A fellow passenger on a flight tells him her Hopi grandmother taught her to help ease such dreams. But the dream is more than she can deal with and so she takes him to meet her grandmother. The aged woman tells them they have come back together for...

This book is a love story, detective mystery, and great American novel. Joe Freedom is a private investigator who finds lost things. Sometimes they dont want to be found, which makes it all the more interesting. And for the first time since the last time, hes found love, or thinks he has, shrinks...

After a spelunking accident, Dorian finds himself trapped beside an underground stream, cold, soaked, and alone in the dark. Trying to overcome a bout of amnesia - brought on by several blows to the head while being carried deep - he pieces together what has happened and sorts out the bits of reality...

Tout au long de ce roman dramatique, au fil de lettres enflammées entre les amants séparés, le lecteur participe à un débat sur la vérité et le mensonge, le rêve et la réalité, l’amour et le renoncement, et sur le pouvoir consolateur...

Ana is going back home. And it is an eighteen hour flight that has gone wrong from the word go. All she wants is to get home and sleep. But nothing seems to go right. They are forced to make an emergency landing when the engines of the plane fail and she realizes that the flight may not be so bad. For Mature Audiences Only (18+)

Messieurs, êtes-vous des aventuriers modernes ? Savez-vous trouver de l'eau dans le désert, affronter un taureau qui voit rouge, faire atterrir un avion de tourisme, prendre un lapin au collet, le vider et le cuire, ou plus modestement recoudre un ourlet ? Etes-vous seulement capables d'ouvrir une...

An historic and prophetic exposition of John's Apocalypse. The book of Revelation begins with a promise: “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near” (Rev. 1:3). God calls us to faithfully study...

La Riviera française est la région des pré- Alpes comprise entre Nice et Menton. Elle se prolonge au-delà de la frontière italienne jusqu’à Gênes. Les géographes ont adopté ce terme pour désigner une région où de hautes montagnes protègent une côte des rigueurs de l’hiver, lui procurant...

Für ihre Liebe riskieren Zakia und Muhammad Ali alles. Sie laufen davon und heiraten heimlich. Doch in Afghanistan droht ihnen dafür der Tod. Zakia und Muhammad Ali waren als Kinder unzertrennlich. Auf angrenzenden Feldern im afghanischen Bamian halfen sie ihren Eltern. Aber seit sie vierzehn ist,...