Il faut manger pour vivre...


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Parce que le « discours sur les besoins » prend chaque jour plus d'ampleur et qu'un nombre croissant de politiques ou d'intellectuels ont fait de cette notion leur cheval de bataille, il était tentant de faire le point et d'instruire l'enquête en laissant s'exprimer toutes les parties. Ce Cahier ne prétend nullement à l'impartialité ; à bien des égards, il constitue un sévère réquisitoire contre la manière dont les organisations internationales conçoivent - et cherchent à satisfaire - les «











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The Works of Moliere


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The History of Development


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With all its hopes of a more just and materially prosperous world, development has fascinated societies in both North and South. Looking at this collective fancy in retrospect, Gilbert Rist shows the underlying similarities of its various theories and strategies, and their shared inability to transform the world. He argues persuasively that development has always been a kind of collective delusion which in reality has simply promoted a widening of market relations despite the good intentions of its advocates.




The Classic French Reader


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.




L'avare


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Les Bons Mots


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Les Bons Mots will help you add the piece de resistance to any conversation. Les Bons Mots is an eminently browsable reference that is designed to help English speakers use those witty and wise sayings for which the French are so justly famous. Eugene Ehrlich has created a reference work that defines French phrases and aphorisms both literally and colloquially; employs a unique and foolproof guide to their pronunciation; adds a brief and often amusing explanation that fixes each phrase in the reader's mind; and indexes everything so extensively that each idea is easy to find. An entertaining read as well as an impeccable reference guide by one of America's most cherished wordsmiths.