Alma: 292 books
by Thomas Vinau
Language: French
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Un portrait biographique du peintre Edward Hopper. Une vision intime de l' œuvre de l'artiste publiée à l'occasion de la grande rétrospective Edward Hopper au Grand Palais (8 octobre 2012 – 20 janvier 2013)
Une vision de " l'intime " ressentie par " l'extime " des...
by Philippe Lafargue
Language: French
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 6, 2016
En 425 avant J.-C. Athènes, contre toute attente, emporte à Pylos (Péloponnèse) une victoire décisive sur Sparte. Celle-ci devient, chez les Athéniens, l'enjeu d'un débat sur la démocratie et l'impérialisme. Au bénéfice d'un nouveau venu en politique : le démagogue.
Le long affrontement...
by Arnaud Dudek
Language: French
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Dans la famille Hintel quatre hommes décident d'en découdre avec la filiation. Mais l'herbe est-elle vraiment plus verte ailleurs ? Une tragi-comédie tendre et rosse, désopilante à souhait, construite comme un Rubik's cube.
Dans la famille Hintel quatre hommes décident d'en découdre...
by Arnaud Dudek
Language: French
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Un petit garçon rentre de l'école. Il a la clé de la maison attachée à son cou par un cordon. Un homme portant une boucle d'oreille lui demande s'il peut l'aider à retrouver son chat. Il conduit une Ford Mondeo.
" Je monte à l'intérieur. Il roule pendant cinq minutes environ. On atteint...
by Arnaud Dudek
Language: French
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: February 16, 2017
" Que dire de Jules ? Il se distingue d'abord du commun des arbrisseaux par une qualité remarquable, souvent taxée de vertu mineure. La gentillesse... " Où l'on verra, grâce à l'indocilité magique d'Arnaud Dudek, comment un gentil garçon traverse la nuit debout.
Céline Carenti, étudiante...
by Pierre Gervais, Pauline Peretz, Pierre Stutin
Language: French
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Une enquête pleine de rebondissements dans un dossier qui semblait désormais ne plus réserver de surprises. S'inspirant des méthodes mises au point par les médiévistes pour l'analyse des procès de l'Inquisition, trois historiens rouvrent les archives de l'Affaire Dreyfus et les font "...
by Michel Schneider
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Véra et Vincent vivent dans deux mondes différents : l'une est chercheuse en physique et maîtrise parfaitement la théorie de " l'inséparabilité quantique ", l'autre, professeur de littérature, aime Proust et Les affinités électives de Goethe. Tous les deux cependant subissent les...
by Hawking, Jane
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Soon to be a major motion picture called The Theory of Everything, starring Eddie Redmayne as Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physics. In this compelling memoir his first wife, Jane Hawking, relates...
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see first-hand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited...
by Yasutaka Tsutsui
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
One of Tsutsui's best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious figure that she believes...
The Great Survivors
How Monarchy Made it into the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
In this riveting and extensively researched account, Peter Conradi the celebrated author of The Kings Speech, on which the Oscar award-winning film of the same name was based offers an uncompromising portrayal of Europes royals and reveals the scandals, excesses, conflicts and interests hidden behind...
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This selection from the diaries and letters of the Bulgakovs, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime. The career of Mikhail...
by Ivan Turgenev
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops over in Baden-Baden to meet his fiancée Tatyana. However, a chance encounter with his old flame, the manipulative Irina now married to a general and a...
by Ivan Turgenev
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual pleasures of Goethe’s masterpiece. Opening up in front of Vera’s eyes is not only the realm of imagination,...