Renaissance: 418 books

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Wilmots

L'homme derrière la légende

by Frederik De Backer
Language: French
Release Date: June 3, 2014

17 juin 2002. Sur un terrain lisse comme un billard, quelque part à l’autre bout de monde, Jacky Peeters envoie un centre parfait sur le front de Marc Wilmots. 1-0. Nous sommes au Mondial de football et l’adversaire est l’imbattable formation brésilienne. L’histoire s’écrit... furtivement...
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Across the Three Pagodas Pass

The Story of the Thai-Burma Railway

by Yoshihiko Futamatsu
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013

This is a translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mile long Thai-Burma Railway by one of the Japanese professional engineers who was involved in its construction. The author, Yoshihiko Futamatsu, provides an invaluable new source of historical and technical...
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My Korea

40 Years Without a Horsehair Hat

by Kevin O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013

My Korea: Forty Years Without a Horsehair Hat is a cultural introduction to Korea, part memoir and part miscellany, which introduces traditional and contemporary culture through a series of essays, stories, anecdotes and poems. The book seeks to tell the reader all that he or she needs to know for...
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by Frank Andriat
Language: French
Release Date: June 22, 2012

D'abord, il y a le vieux, colonial tyrannique, qui se prend pour le roi, qui a l'oeil qui divague quand il voit une femme. Et puis, il y a les autres, sympathiques gouailleurs, tous plus dingues et joyeux que des singes hurleurs. Scarabé en Afrique et Schaerbeek en Belgique. Et puis...
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Passport To Jupiter

The Demi-Gods, Book I

by Raymond Z. Gallun
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014

First Volume of Nebula Nominee's "Lost" Future History Series! In this sf masterwork which has never been reprinted since its original magazine publication, virtual reality, genetic engineering and technological breakthroughs have extended life, cleaned up the environment, and assured abundance...
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by R Y Swint
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013

What starts as a one-night stand with an old flame, sparks into a complicated affair when a young woman suddenly finds her head and her heart tumultuously conflicting, her better judgment constantly embattled with her biological clock. Suddenly in a race to find the love, happiness, and "normal"...
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by Keiko Itoh
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015

It is 1942. Shanghai after Pearl Harbor. Newly-arrived Eiko Kishimoto, a twenty-year-old, London-educated Japanese housewife, settles into a privileged existence in the French Concession as a member of the community of the Occupying Power. Initially, her days are filled with high society lunches and...
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Olonkho

Nurgun Botur the Swift

by P. A. Oyunsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013

Olonkho is the general name for the entire Yakut heroic epic that consists of many long legends – one of the longest being ‘Nurgun Botur the Swift’ consisting of some 36,000 lines of verse, published here. Like Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the Finnish Kalevala, the Buryat Geser, and the Kirghiz...
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Rhythms, Rites and Rituals

My Life in Japan in Two-step and Waltz-time

by Dorothy Britton
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015

Including her survival of Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake, this book is an enthralling account of Dorothy Britton’s life, loves and discoveries in an amazingly varied life and career. Bilingual from birth, she found the immense joy of blending in with peoples of different cultures simply by getting...
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by Paul Jorion
Language: French
Release Date: June 23, 2017

Le genre humain est riche ; pourtant la plupart d’entre nous sont pauvres. Un paradis en puissance s’ouvre à nous ; au lieu de cela, nous nous opprimons les uns les autres avec une grande cruauté rendant peu à peu notre planète invivable. Nous avons laissé se privatiser le bien commun et...
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by Guy Haarscher
Language: French
Release Date: February 23, 2018

Ce livre présente un dialogue avec une jeune femme que les droits de l’homme intéressent et stimulent, et qui tente de saisir les enjeux d’une notion utilisée dans des contextes multiples : politique, juridique, éthique, etc. Les problèmes les plus cruciaux sont abordés : quelle est...
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Magnolia

A Novel

by Agnita Tennant
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015

South Korea 1957. Sukey, an intelligent graduate with much promise, falls in love with a man, Kwon, who confesses to her that he has been a North Korean spy. It is four years since the Korean War ended in a cease-fire (having started on 25 June 1950). Even though fighting is suspended, hostility and...
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by Frank Andriat
Language: French
Release Date: September 30, 2012

Les Flamands ont obtenu la scission de la Belgique et ont créé leur république. Tout ne s’est pourtant pas déroulé comme prévu. Repliée sur elle-même, la Flandre vit à marée basse pendant que, dans ce qui reste du royaume de Belgique, suite à la découverte d’or dans le sous-sol wallon,...
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by Frank Andriat
Language: French
Release Date: March 8, 2017

Au fil d’une analyse, Clément tente de comprendre ce qui a dérapé dans sa vie. Il a besoin de reconstituer le puzzle de son existence pour retrouver l’équilibre. Nour, sa fille de quinze ans, est une porteuse de lumière. Elle l’accompagne de sa joie lorsqu’il rencontre Sophie et son petit...
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