De L'esprit
Author : C. A. Helvetius
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : C. A. Helvetius
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250824192
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland comes Catherynne M. Valente's dark fantasy tale "L’Esprit de L’Escalier", a Tor.com Original. In this provocative and rich retelling of the Greek myth, Orpheus, the musician son of Apollo and Calliope, successfully rescues his wife Eurydice from Hades after her untimely death. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453261605
A former member of Great Britain’s diplomatic corps, the celebrated author of the Alexandria Quartet offers eleven sketches of life in service of the crown. After decades spent representing Britain around the globe, Antrobus has earned a shirtful of medals and the right to pass afternoons in his London club, musing over old times. His memory is long, and every old embarrassment still rankles—no matter how ridiculous. The incident with the Yugoslav ghost train, for instance, still causes him to clench his fists in fear. When he speaks of Sir Claud Polk-Mowbray, he takes pains to lower his voice—lest an American hear. And his stomach has never recovered from the incident involving the fried flag. Based on Lawrence Durrell’s own experience in the diplomatic corps, Antrobus’s cutting observation is drawn from the strange and humorous truth. Few are those with a better sense of place than Durrell, and even fewer with wit to match.
Author : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 1845
Category : German literature
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Author : Christophe Hermosilla
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
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ISBN : 1291568522
Author : Blaise Pascal
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2018-08-04
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ISBN : 9781724693563
Of the Geometrical Spirit Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 - 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defence of the scientific method. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0199553637
Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary is a major work of the European Enlightenment. It consists of a series of short essays, arranged alphabetically, whose unifying thread is an attack on religious and political intolerance. Highly entertaining, its concern with intolerance and its consequences is still relevant today.
Author : Carol S. Eliel
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2001-04
Category : Architecture
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The only book on Purism (founded by Le Corbusier), & a key contribution to the study of classic 20th century modernism in painting & architecture. -- Tie-in with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition.
Author : Vlad Alexandrescu
Publisher : Vlad Alexandrescu
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9736640094
Author : de Miranda Luis de Miranda
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1474454216
Esprit de corps has played a significant role in the cultural and political history of the last 300 years. Through several historical case studies, Luis de Miranda shows how this phrase acts as a combat concept with a clear societal impact. He also reveals how interconnected, yet distinct, French, English and American modern intellectual and political thought is. In the end, this is a cautionary analysis of past and current ideologies of ultra-unified human ensembles, a recurrent historical and theoretical fabulation the author calls 'ensemblance'.