Strauss: 356 books

Cado is a thief, and doesn't think twice to rob a person who is sleeping next to the road. However the clothes are too big for him, but Montemagno the wizard that he meets can help him with this problem. Cado thinks he can trick the wizard, but runs into a serious surprise when he steals and...

Stuart is the son of a clockmaker. He is given a special clock that can summon the Clarillion. His mean aunts Minegold and Manygold take the clock from him for their own selfish wants, but Stuart unselfishly uses his wish to undo theirs. The Clarillion also gets his reward for helping Stuart.

L'étude de la pensée à l'état sauvage, florissante dans tout esprit d'homme tant qu'elle n'est pas cultivée et domestiquée pour accroître son rendement. " La Pensée sauvage ", et non " la pensée des sauvages ". Car ce livre s'écarte de l'ethnologie traditionnelle en prenant...

L'Homme est pris dans une binarité qui le structure : la tension entre la Nature et la Culture modèle son destin. Les contraintes biologiques et les variables culturelles divisent tout être humain, des société dites "primitives" jusqu'au monde occidental. Pour mieux connaître...

La suite du premier volume des Mythologiques, Le cru et le cuit Lune de miel, lune de fiel... Les dictons populaires abondent en contrastes de ce genre, qu'on croirait issus d'assonances et d'homophonies propres à chaque langue, plutôt que d'une réflexion qui puise sa substance aux racines mêmes...

Quels points communs existent-ils entre un tableau de Poussin, un opéra de Rameau et les textes de Diderot sur l'art ? Le souci du détail, comme si chaque créateur assemblait des cubes pour donner une forme à l'oeuvre d'art. L'auteur s'attache à nous faire comprendre comment naît le plaisir...

Ce livre voudrait rendre très accessibles les principes et la méthode massivement développés dans les quatre volumes des Mythologiques. Que peut-il y avoir de commun entre un oiseau insectivore, l'art de la poterie, et la jalousie conjugale ? Entre les spéculations des sauvages...

Troisième volet du triptyque inauguré par La Voie des masques et La Potière jalouse, l'Histoire du lynx est un conte répandu en Amérique du Nord, et dont les thèmes principaux, fondés sur l'idée de gémellité, se retrouvent dans les plus anciens mythes du Brésil et du Pérou. La comparaison...

Based on the Midrash and major commentaries, the story of Noach portrays the natural consequence of an unnatural world-situation where society thought they could take advantage of a G-d slow to anger, with impunity.This is an adult book written in rhyme.

A companion short story to Playing with Matches. Excerpts from Katharina Ackermann's diary marking the turn of WW2 and of her heart to one special boy. Enjoy reading this well researched, dramatic story of what it was like to be a teenager in Hitler’s Germany. A slightly different perspective than many world war two novels.

What happened next sent both boys springing to their feet. What they saw through their squinting eyes staggered their imagination. A gigantic owl diving through the trees with incredible speed, its enormous head perfectly in line with its target the devil hound! Braxus the Owl: Guardian of...

Quick fixes to your common C# programming problems, with a focus on C# 6.0 About This Book Unique recipes for C#, that places it in its real-world context. You will be able to get yourself out of any coding-corner youve backed yourself into. All code samples available through GitHub to bring...

This book provides a comprehensive outline of the major parent training programs for parents of children with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD), including Autism Spectrum Disorder. Parents or primary caregivers spend the most time with a child, and training them in behaviour...

Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts*: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar* is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse, rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which...