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  • The Wonder Cabinet of Fabulous Insects

    Secrets of the World's Rarest and Strangest Insects

    by Denis Richard, Pierre-Olivier Maquart ...
    A fanciful collection featuring gorgeous detailed imagery of the world’s most fabulous insectsDiscover the Titan of the Amazon, the “antosaur,” fabulous butterflies with birdlike wings, and even more of the world’s most unbelievable insects in this collectible volume.Richly illustrated and written by eminent entomologists, this work unveils 50 insects (from among the million hopefuls) that ... Read more

    $22.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Distinction

    A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Richard Nice ...
    No judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France’s leading sociologist focuses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind.In the course of everyday life people ... Read more

    $38.29 USD

  • Outline of a Theory of Practice

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Richard Nice ...
    Series Book 16 - Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
    Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Le Cid And The Liar

    by Richard Wilbur, Pierre Corneille ...
    Richard Wilbur’s translations of the great French dramas have been a boon to acting troupes, students of French literature and history, and theater lovers. He continues this wonderful work with two plays from Pierre Corneille: Le Cid is Corneille’s most famous play, a tragedy set in Seville that illuminates the dangers of being bound by honor and the limits of romantic love; The Liar is a farce, ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Regionalization of the World

    Comparing Regional Integrations

    Edited by Pierre Beckouche, Yann Richard ...
    On the world map, macro-regions or global regions have gradually emerged, with varying degrees of success and following different trajectories. The authors of this book attempt to determine whether, within the context of globalization, these macro-regions have become an additional level in the spatial deployment of numerous actors, and whether they have come to stand between the national and ... Read more

    $136.00 USD

  • Portraits of Piety: The Lives, Legacies and Writings of Saints (A 40-Book Anthology)

    Forty Classics of Christian Spirituality, Mysticism, and Sacred Lives

    by Charles Gore, James Stalker, J. G. H. Barry, Saint Augustine, Athanasius of Alexandria, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Pope Gregory I, John of Damascus, Saint Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton, J. B. Bury, Margaret Oliphant, St. Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas à Kempis, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Teresa of Ávila, Georgiana Fullerton, Martin Luther, Saint Thomas More, William Roper, Henri Brémond, F. A. Forbes, Sabine Baring-Gould, Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister, Maurice Maeterlinck, Louis Bertrand, Vincent O'Sullivan, Of Clairvaux Saint Bernard, Jean-Pierre Camus, Richard Connolly, Anonymous, G. E. M. ...
    Portraits of Piety: The Lives, Legacies and Writings of Saints gathers forty books into a capacious archive of Christian sanctity, tracing devotion through biography, theology, meditation, apologetic, historical study, and literary portraiture. Patristic argument, medieval mysticism, Reformation controversy, hagiographic narrative, and modern reflection coexist here, revealing sainthood as both an ... Read more

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  • The Fire Within

    by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Adapted to film by both Louis Malle and Joachim Trier, this heart-rending and tenderly wrought novel narrates the decline of an artist and heroin addict in 1920s Paris.Pierre Drieu la Rochelle might be said to be both the Hemingway and the Fitzgerald of twentieth-century French literature, a battle-scarred veteran of the First World War whose work chronicles the trials and tribulations of a lost ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Nanosatellites, CubeSats of the NewSpace Era for Space Observation 1

    Evolution of the Space Era and Mechanics of Things for CubeSats

    by Pierre Richard Dahoo, Mustapha Meftah, Abdelkhalak El Hami ...
    Series series ISTE Invoiced
    Nanosatellites, CubeSats of the NewSpace Era for Space Observation 1 traces the evolution of space exploration, from 1957 and the first astronomical observations, to the NewSpace era. This book highlights major scientific and technological advances, while emphasizing the crucial role of collaboration between the public and private sectors.The book explores the history of astronomy, from early ... Read more

    $136.00 USD

  • The Essence of Provence

    The Story of L'Occitane

    by Pierre Magnan ...
    Translated by Richard Seaver ...
    The extraordinary rags-to-riches tale of Olivier Baussan and the roadside soap stand that became L’Occitane, one of the world’s most successful purveyors of natural fragrances. Founded in 1976 by Olivier Baussan, the now world-renowned fragrance company L’Occitane, a woman of Provence” in Old French, was inspired by the essences of lavender and honeysuckle, rosemary, sage, and thyme indigenous to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Nanosatellites, CubeSats of the NewSpace Era for Space Observation 2

    Designing and Operating CubeSats

    by Pierre Richard Dahoo, Mustapha Meftah, Abdelkhalak El Hami ...
    Series series ISTE Invoiced
    Nanosatellites, CubeSats of the NewSpace Era for Space Observation 2 presents the entire life cycle of a CubeSat, from the design phase to orbital operations.The CubeSat nanosatellite carries instruments designed for space observation and study, integrated into a mechanical architecture that supports the control and communication electronics. This mechatronic system is optimized to ensure maximum ... Read more

    $136.00 USD

  • Ices in the Solar-System

    A Volatile-Driven Journey from the Inner Solar System to its Far Reaches

    Edited by Richard Soare, Jean-Pierre Williams, Caitlin Ahrens, Frances Butcher, Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry ...
    Ices in the Solar-System: A Volatile-Driven Journey from the Inner Solar System to its Far Reaches details the evolution of ice on planetary bodies within the Solar System, including terrestrial planets and the Moon, Ceres and other dwarf planets or volatile asteroids, icy Galilean and Saturnian satellites, Triton and disparate Uranian moons, and Pluto, other Kuyper belt objects and comets. The ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Liar, The

    by Pierre Corneille, Richard Wilbur ...
    Narrated by Matthew Wolf, John Sloan, Christopher Neame, Danny Mann, Janine Barris, Mark Sullivan, Sue Cremin, Tara Lynne Barr ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 51 min

    In this classic farce, a young man pretends to be a war hero to impress a pretty girl. As his lies progress, so do his troubles – with hilarious results. Playwright Pierre Corneille’s comedy of manners is considered a groundbreaking work which influenced contemporaries such as the young Molière.Includes a conversation about Corneille and French drama with Larry F. Norman of the University of ... Read more

    $6.95 USD