Simon: 5480 books

Aujourd'hui comme hier, les soubresauts, les questions, les tensions qui traversent nos sociétés démocratiques ne manquent pas. Penser la démocratie est donc une tâche à remettre constamment à l'ordre du jour.«Frère d armes» de Jacques Maritain, Yves Simon (1903-1961) a repris à la racine...

Scuba Confidential è una raccolta ricchissima di suggerimenti e consigli mirati, che ti consente l’accesso ad alcuni dei segreti dei subacquei tecnici e dei professionisti del mestiere. Con Scuba Confidential, imparerai a far tue quelle tecniche che ti permetteranno di essere un subacqueo migliore,...

Verschlusssache Tauchen ist ein einzigartiges Buch vollgepackt mit Tipps und Ratschlägen von Experten. Es wird dir ein uneingeschränkter Einblick in die Geheimnisse von professionellen Tauchern und technischen Tauchern ermöglicht. Durch dieses Buch wirst du lernen, wie man Übungen und Techniken...

Vincent van Gogh is best known for two things - his sunflowers and his ear-cutting. But there are many other ways of knowing this remarkable son of a Dutch pastor, who left his chill homeland for the sunshine of Arles in the South of France; and left us over a thousand frank letters of struggle and...

This account of the renowned composer’s neglected wife—including her years in a Soviet prison—is “a story both riveting and wrenching” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Serge Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant composers yet is an enigma to historians and...

They had just a few hundred pounds, one band missing a drummer, a sock drawer for an office, more dreams than sense and not a clue between them how to run a record company. But when Alan Horne and Edwyn Collins decided to start their own label from a shabby Glasgow flat in 1979, nobody was going to...

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have remained, from 1927 to the present day, the screen's most famous and popular comedy double act, celebrated by legions of fans. But despite many books about their films and individual lives, there has never been a fully researched, definitive narrative biography of...

Simon Hattenstone has inteviewed the great and the good from all walks of life, and posed just about every imaginable question, from asking Willem Dafoe if it's true he has the biggest penis in Hollywood, to asking Woody Allen to share the secrets of his success with women when he's just so 'plain-looking'....

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham,...

In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's greatest thinkers, noted philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the last words...

BÜYÜK SORULAR dizisi okurun gündemine tarih boyunca insanların aklını kurcalamış temel felsefi ve bilimsel sorunları taşıyor. Bu sorulara en büyük düşünürlerin verdiği cevapları sunuyor. Büyük Sorular: Felsefe başlığında Simon Blackburn kendimizi ve içinde yaşadığımız...

'When he was at Florence he contracted a friendship with the famous Galileo Galileo, whom he extremely venerated and magnified; and not only as he was a prodigious wit, but for his sweetness of nature and manners.They pretty well resembled one another as to their countenances, as by their pictures...

This widely acclaimed biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader, and Russian tsar. Based on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals the fear and betrayal,...

In many ways Meister Eckhart has had to wait seven centuries to be heard. Born in 13th century Germany much of his life was spent in a monastery; though not all. The Meister in his name means Master and is an academic title from the University of Paris. An admired member of the Dominican Order he...