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Depuis la sortie de son premier disque en mars 1960, Johnny Hallyday s''est hissé au sommet des hit-parades. A ce jour, avec près de 1 000 chansons, 100 millions de disques vendus, des shows qui batt

Karima Anne-Marie Engler (Préfacier) Karima est musulmane pratiquante. Au travers de l'Islam, elle a appris à connaître un Dieu d'amour et de pardon. Pourtant, c'est au nom de ce même Dieu qu'elle a

L’histoire commence comme une farce, par l’attentat manqué d’un ivrogne contre le général Porfirio Diaz. Le ton est badin, la scène qui aurait dû être un sommet de l’héroïsme révolutionnaire tourne à

Le roi d''Escurial ne supporte pas d''entendre ses chiens hurler a la mort, tandis que sa femme agonise. Il demande a son fou de le faire rire, mais Folial ne peut que pleurer la reine, qu''il aime. Dans la grande tradition carnavalesque, roi et fou vont echanger leur role, le temps d''un jeu cruel ou le devoilement de la verite preludera a l''execution du plus faible. Barabbas ne renie rien de ses mefaits, qui sont l''expression de la revolte la plus haute. Mais sa confrontation avec Jesus donne a sa violence une autre dimension. Il prend la tete d''une emeute populaire, au nom de celui qu''on a crucifie a sa place et qui voulait tout chambarder.

A good job, a decent flat in Los Angeles, a quiet life - Nick Horrigan has finally put his traumatic past behind him. Or so it seems, until a SWAT team smashes into his place in the middle of the night. Still in pajamas, he's dragged outside to a waiting helicopter. He's told that a terrorist has seized control of a nuclear power plant and is threatening to blow it up...unless he can talk to Nick. Flown into a deadly intrigue, Nick is charged with a dangerous secret, one that will take him from the dark alleys of the city to behind the scenes of a Presidential race. As he rockets toward the truth, peeling back layer after layer of lies and deception, only one thing is certain: The long-buried secret, tied to the traumas of his own past, threatens his life at every turn.

Fyodor DostoevskyInto a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Myshkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but it is the world that is rotten, not he. Written under appalling personal circumstances when Dostoevsky was travelling in Europe, The Idiot not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most incisive indictment of Russia's struggling to emulate contemporary Europe and sinking under the weight of Western materialism. This new translation by Alan Myers is meticulously faithful to the original and has a critical introduction by W. J. Leatherbarrow.

Kalinka és un bellíssim poemari amorós que Israel Clarà dedica a un dels sectors de la societat encara més marginats i malvistos: les prostitutes. A l’empara dels seus cossos nus i càlids, el poeta e

Érase unha vez unha casa no medio do Mar. A casa tiña unha torre que miraba o Poñente, unha escalinata no medio das augas e unha árbore, polo levante, que floreaba entre marzo e abril. Alí vivían, namorados, unha muller que tocaba o violonchelo e un pintor engaiolado polo Mar e as súas criaturas, polos segredos que gardan as súas profundidades, os seres marabillosos que el imaxinaba que os poboaban e polas costas de terras afastadas no cabo do mundo, ás que as augas podían conducir se se sabía.

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain. Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades dont need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on. Dont be carefree and foolish with your most precious assetlife. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.

It is June 2009. On a ferry bound for Dover, Amal and her daughter huddle together on the last leg of a harrowing illegal journey from Iraq to Britain. In Finchley, Ahmed and Akila Shakir wait to take them in. Also Iraqi by birth, they are bringing up their sons as British Muslims. Just a few miles away in Hampstead, journalist Henry Freeman and his American wife Ava raise their children in a different world, a middle-class world of privilege and easy assumptions. And in America, Sean Oke trains with the Marines, ready to join the latest stage of the War on Terror in Syria. Then everything changes. Britain''s newly elected government declares that they will no longer follow America''s lead in the Middle East. After a series of terror attacks and political clashes an explosive tension grows and eventually, the unthinkable becomes reality. America, intent on bringing ''New Democracy'' to the world, declares they will invade, overturn the government and ''liberate'' the British people. The Last Days of England realises this epic alternative reality, as the lives of two families and one US marine become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined.

''These stories breathe. Taut yet teeming with life, they are shot through with gritty phrases that catch at one''s throat.'' - Sydney Morning Herald Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - this bestselling collection of short stories is an Australian classic. The Bodysurfers vividly evokes the beach, with the scent of the suntan oil, the sting of the sun and a lazy sensuality, all the while hinting at a deep undercurrent of suburban malaise. From first publication, these poignant and seductive stories marked a major change in Australian literature.

Here are nineteen stories from a rich array of writers, and here is every kind of romantic entanglement: from the raw, erotic passion of D H Lawrence and Colette to the wickedly cynical comedy of Dorothy Parker and Roald Dahl, from the yearnings of unrequited romantic illusions in F... Estas son diecinueve historias firmadas por varios autores, y aqui hay todo tipo de sentimientos romanticos: desde la cruda y erotica pasion de D H Lawrence y Colette a la endiablada comedia cinica de Dorothy Parker y Roald Dahl, desde las evocadoras ilusiones de romanticismo ilimitado en "Winter Dreams" de F Scott Fitzgerald a la agonizante locura de los celos en "That in Aleppo Once ...

Larry Logan is a small-time TV star with a mile-wide ego. Gutted when his latest show is axed, he`s less than impressed when the only work he can get is fronting a fake game show actually an undercover police sting to entrap criminals. His reluctance evaporates when the show rockets his career back to prime time stardom. And when lovely, shy Stephanie enters his life he thinks he finally has it made. But Larry doesn`t know how dangerous those criminals are. He shafted some dangerous men - and they want revenge.

The first in Arthur Conan Doyle''s series of books featuring the popular character of Professor Challenger, The Lost World is a classic tale of adventure and discovery. A scientific team embarks on an expedition to a South American plateau, where they find a seemingly impenetrable and dangerous world that has been frozen in time since the age of dinosaurs. The only edition with a critical introduction, this timeless story is sure to excite the modern reader. Forget the Michael Crichton book (and Spielberg movie) that copied the title. This is the original: the terror-adventure tale of The Lost World. Writing not long after dinosaurs first invaded the popular imagination, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spins a yarn about an expedition of two scientists, a big-game hunter, and a journalist (the narrator) to a volcanic plateau high over the vast Amazon rain forest. The bickering of the professors (a type Doyle knew well from his medical training) serves as witty contrast to the wonders of flora and fauna they encounter, building toward a dramatic moonlit chase scene with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And the character of Professor George E. Challenger is second only to Sherlock Holmes in the outrageous force of his personality: he''s a big man with an even bigger ego, and if you can grit your teeth through his racist behavior toward Native Americans, he''s a lot of fun.

In this luminous debut novel, Allen tells the story of an enchanted apple tree that bears prophetic fruit and edible flowers that are imbued with special powers--and the extraordinary people who tend

Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, ranging from the cruel, superstitious king, Louis XI, to the underworld of beggars and petty criminals. These disreputable truands' night-time assault on the cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature. Hugo vividly depicts medieval Paris, where all life is dominated by the massive cathedral. His passionate enthusiasm for Gothic architecture is set within the context of an epic view of mankind's history, to which he attaches even more importance than to the novel's compelling story. Alban Krailsheimer's new translation is a fresh approach to this monumental classic by France's most celebrated Romantic.

Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of women in society. In his Introduction John Gray describes these essays as applications of Mill's doctrine of the Art of Life, as set out in A System of Logic. Using the resources of recent revisionist scholarship, he shows Mill's work to be far richer and subtler than traditional interpretations allow.

Depuis la sortie de son premier disque en mars 1960, Johnny Hallyday s''est hissé au sommet des hit-parades. A ce jour, avec près de 1 000 chansons, 100 millions de disques vendus, des shows qui batt

Karima Anne-Marie Engler (Préfacier) Karima est musulmane pratiquante. Au travers de l'Islam, elle a appris à connaître un Dieu d'amour et de pardon. Pourtant, c'est au nom de ce même Dieu qu'elle a

L’histoire commence comme une farce, par l’attentat manqué d’un ivrogne contre le général Porfirio Diaz. Le ton est badin, la scène qui aurait dû être un sommet de l’héroïsme révolutionnaire tourne à

Le roi d''Escurial ne supporte pas d''entendre ses chiens hurler a la mort, tandis que sa femme agonise. Il demande a son fou de le faire rire, mais Folial ne peut que pleurer la reine, qu''il aime. Dans la grande tradition carnavalesque, roi et fou vont echanger leur role, le temps d''un jeu cruel ou le devoilement de la verite preludera a l''execution du plus faible. Barabbas ne renie rien de ses mefaits, qui sont l''expression de la revolte la plus haute. Mais sa confrontation avec Jesus donne a sa violence une autre dimension. Il prend la tete d''une emeute populaire, au nom de celui qu''on a crucifie a sa place et qui voulait tout chambarder.

A good job, a decent flat in Los Angeles, a quiet life - Nick Horrigan has finally put his traumatic past behind him. Or so it seems, until a SWAT team smashes into his place in the middle of the night. Still in pajamas, he's dragged outside to a waiting helicopter. He's told that a terrorist has seized control of a nuclear power plant and is threatening to blow it up...unless he can talk to Nick. Flown into a deadly intrigue, Nick is charged with a dangerous secret, one that will take him from the dark alleys of the city to behind the scenes of a Presidential race. As he rockets toward the truth, peeling back layer after layer of lies and deception, only one thing is certain: The long-buried secret, tied to the traumas of his own past, threatens his life at every turn.

Fyodor DostoevskyInto a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Myshkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but it is the world that is rotten, not he. Written under appalling personal circumstances when Dostoevsky was travelling in Europe, The Idiot not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most incisive indictment of Russia's struggling to emulate contemporary Europe and sinking under the weight of Western materialism. This new translation by Alan Myers is meticulously faithful to the original and has a critical introduction by W. J. Leatherbarrow.

Kalinka és un bellíssim poemari amorós que Israel Clarà dedica a un dels sectors de la societat encara més marginats i malvistos: les prostitutes. A l’empara dels seus cossos nus i càlids, el poeta e

Érase unha vez unha casa no medio do Mar. A casa tiña unha torre que miraba o Poñente, unha escalinata no medio das augas e unha árbore, polo levante, que floreaba entre marzo e abril. Alí vivían, namorados, unha muller que tocaba o violonchelo e un pintor engaiolado polo Mar e as súas criaturas, polos segredos que gardan as súas profundidades, os seres marabillosos que el imaxinaba que os poboaban e polas costas de terras afastadas no cabo do mundo, ás que as augas podían conducir se se sabía.

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain. Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades dont need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on. Dont be carefree and foolish with your most precious assetlife. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.

It is June 2009. On a ferry bound for Dover, Amal and her daughter huddle together on the last leg of a harrowing illegal journey from Iraq to Britain. In Finchley, Ahmed and Akila Shakir wait to take them in. Also Iraqi by birth, they are bringing up their sons as British Muslims. Just a few miles away in Hampstead, journalist Henry Freeman and his American wife Ava raise their children in a different world, a middle-class world of privilege and easy assumptions. And in America, Sean Oke trains with the Marines, ready to join the latest stage of the War on Terror in Syria. Then everything changes. Britain''s newly elected government declares that they will no longer follow America''s lead in the Middle East. After a series of terror attacks and political clashes an explosive tension grows and eventually, the unthinkable becomes reality. America, intent on bringing ''New Democracy'' to the world, declares they will invade, overturn the government and ''liberate'' the British people. The Last Days of England realises this epic alternative reality, as the lives of two families and one US marine become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined.

''These stories breathe. Taut yet teeming with life, they are shot through with gritty phrases that catch at one''s throat.'' - Sydney Morning Herald Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - this bestselling collection of short stories is an Australian classic. The Bodysurfers vividly evokes the beach, with the scent of the suntan oil, the sting of the sun and a lazy sensuality, all the while hinting at a deep undercurrent of suburban malaise. From first publication, these poignant and seductive stories marked a major change in Australian literature.

Here are nineteen stories from a rich array of writers, and here is every kind of romantic entanglement: from the raw, erotic passion of D H Lawrence and Colette to the wickedly cynical comedy of Dorothy Parker and Roald Dahl, from the yearnings of unrequited romantic illusions in F... Estas son diecinueve historias firmadas por varios autores, y aqui hay todo tipo de sentimientos romanticos: desde la cruda y erotica pasion de D H Lawrence y Colette a la endiablada comedia cinica de Dorothy Parker y Roald Dahl, desde las evocadoras ilusiones de romanticismo ilimitado en "Winter Dreams" de F Scott Fitzgerald a la agonizante locura de los celos en "That in Aleppo Once ...

Larry Logan is a small-time TV star with a mile-wide ego. Gutted when his latest show is axed, he`s less than impressed when the only work he can get is fronting a fake game show actually an undercover police sting to entrap criminals. His reluctance evaporates when the show rockets his career back to prime time stardom. And when lovely, shy Stephanie enters his life he thinks he finally has it made. But Larry doesn`t know how dangerous those criminals are. He shafted some dangerous men - and they want revenge.

The first in Arthur Conan Doyle''s series of books featuring the popular character of Professor Challenger, The Lost World is a classic tale of adventure and discovery. A scientific team embarks on an expedition to a South American plateau, where they find a seemingly impenetrable and dangerous world that has been frozen in time since the age of dinosaurs. The only edition with a critical introduction, this timeless story is sure to excite the modern reader. Forget the Michael Crichton book (and Spielberg movie) that copied the title. This is the original: the terror-adventure tale of The Lost World. Writing not long after dinosaurs first invaded the popular imagination, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spins a yarn about an expedition of two scientists, a big-game hunter, and a journalist (the narrator) to a volcanic plateau high over the vast Amazon rain forest. The bickering of the professors (a type Doyle knew well from his medical training) serves as witty contrast to the wonders of flora and fauna they encounter, building toward a dramatic moonlit chase scene with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And the character of Professor George E. Challenger is second only to Sherlock Holmes in the outrageous force of his personality: he''s a big man with an even bigger ego, and if you can grit your teeth through his racist behavior toward Native Americans, he''s a lot of fun.

In this luminous debut novel, Allen tells the story of an enchanted apple tree that bears prophetic fruit and edible flowers that are imbued with special powers--and the extraordinary people who tend

Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, ranging from the cruel, superstitious king, Louis XI, to the underworld of beggars and petty criminals. These disreputable truands' night-time assault on the cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature. Hugo vividly depicts medieval Paris, where all life is dominated by the massive cathedral. His passionate enthusiasm for Gothic architecture is set within the context of an epic view of mankind's history, to which he attaches even more importance than to the novel's compelling story. Alban Krailsheimer's new translation is a fresh approach to this monumental classic by France's most celebrated Romantic.

Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of women in society. In his Introduction John Gray describes these essays as applications of Mill's doctrine of the Art of Life, as set out in A System of Logic. Using the resources of recent revisionist scholarship, he shows Mill's work to be far richer and subtler than traditional interpretations allow.