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Showing 1 - 12 of 36 results for “steven rendall”
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  • The Gunzburgs

    A Family Biography

    by Lorraine de Meaux ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    In 1857 the Gunzburgs arrived in Paris from Russia with their large family, a retinue of business staff and extensive domestic help: personal assistants, secretaries, tutors, wet-nurses and nannies, coachmen, ladies' companions, valets and maids, and even a kosher cook. For the Gunzburgs were practising Jews who observed every religious law whilst also launching themselves into Parisian high ... Read more

    $20.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disturbance

    Surviving Charlie Hebdo

    by Philippe Lançon ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    In this Prix Femina–winning memoir, a writer at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo recounts surviving the deadly terror attack on their office.On January 7, 2015, two terrorists claiming allegiance to ISIS attack the Paris office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts a global solidarity movement, and ignites a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy

    Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States

    by Alain Bresson ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A revolutionary account of the ancient Greek economyThis comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world's leading authorities in the field, and he is helping to redefine it. Here he combines a thorough knowledge of ancient sources with innovative new approaches grounded in recent ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • The Pyramids

    The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments

    by Miroslav Verner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A "richly illustrated . . . engaging, lucid account" of Ancient Egyptian Pyramids, what we know about them now, what we don't, and what is still debated today ( Kirkus Reviews).Hailed by Science News as "the new seminal text," The Pyramids is a comprehensive record of Egypt's most awe-inspiring monuments and what Egyptologists now know about them today—from their construction and purpose to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cannibal Island

    Death in a Siberian Gulag

    by Nicolas Werth ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    Series series
    A searing historical account of a tragic episode of the Stalinist terrorDuring the spring of 1933, Stalin’s police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime’s “cleansing” of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps, but ten thousand of them were dumped in a remote wasteland and left to fend for themselves. ... Read more

    Was $23.09 USD Now $14.39 USD

  • Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored

    by Philippe Georget ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    Series Book 1 - The Inspector Sebag Mysteries
    The first Inspector Sebag mystery. "The plot is intricate and tense . . . [A] fantastic French ticking-clock thriller" ( Daily Mail).It's the middle of a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore and the town is teeming with tourists. Sebag and Molino, two tired cops who are being slowly devoured by dull routine and family worries, deal with the day's misdemeanors and petty complaints at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Homo Numericus

    The coming 'civilization'

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life that the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialized. Its objective was to reduce costs by forgoing face-to-face interactions, and it was a direct result of the free-market shock of the 1980s, which sought to expand the marketplace seamlessly in every possible dimension. Today, we can be algorithmically ... Read more

    Was $20.00 USD Now $12.00 USD

  • Reason and Rationality

    by Jon Elster ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging the gap between philosophers who use the idea of reason to assess human behavior from a normative point of view and social scientists who use the idea of rationality to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Crimes of Winter

    by Philippe Georget ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    Series Book 3 - The Inspector Sebag Mysteries
    The third Inspector Sebag mystery "dives deeper into character than most traditional detective yarns and is written with wit, poignancy, and panache" ( Kirkus Reviews).Crime, suspense, and marital woes combine in this atmospheric procedural set in the seemingly quiet Mediterranean town of Perpignan.This winter is going to be a rough one for Insp. Gilles Sebag, for he has discovered a terrible ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Perpetual Euphoria

    On the Duty to Be Happy

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    How happiness became mandatory—and why we should reject the demand to "be happy"Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion—one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating principle of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • A Brief History of Equality

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight for it, and constantly (re)invent the myriad of institutions that will bring it about. This book is ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • A History of Political Conflict

    Elections and Social Inequalities in France, 1789–2022

    by Julia Cagé, Thomas Piketty ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A pioneering history of voting and inequality, drawing on an unprecedented data set covering more than two centuries of sociological findings.Who votes for whom and why? Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty comb through more than two hundred years of data from some 36,000 French municipalities to show how inequality has shaped the formation of political coalitions, with stark consequences for economic ... Read more

    $61.49 USD