Philip - Libros y biografía

Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear. As Philip Alcabes...

Office attire and e-mail misfire. Twitter snafus and dating miscues. Philip Galanes hears an awful lot of WHAT SHOULD I DOs?! “I’m pretty sure the woman who swims laps next to me at the Y is peeing in...

Updated to include Paul McCartney’s knighting and the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison.Philip Norman’s biography of the Beatles is the definitive work on the world's most influential band—a beautifully...

It was the war that lasted ten thousand days. The war that inspired scores of songs. The war that sparked dozens of riots. And in this stirring chronicle, Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Philip Caputo...

A deathbed confession ignites a globe-spanning race for answers in this page-turning thriller described as The Da Vinci Code meets The Bourne Identity.“They didn’t have to kill him…He never drank from...

'Another clever criminal plunge into history' GuardianElizabeth I approaches the end of her illustrious reign, the plague is raging in London, and the Privy Council has ordered the theaters closed. Still,...

If you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research... In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston's supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull. Houston is the world's most successful...

Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned...

From acclaimed writer and scholar Philip Freeman, a contemporary retelling of classic Greek and Roman mythology.The Greek and Roman myths have never died out; in fact they are as relevant today as ever...

Accessible, fast-paced retellings of the most important classical Greek and Roman myths, adapted for middle graders.Ancient myths continue to have modern relevance—for thousands of years they have been...

Par une nuit glaciale, dans une petite ville d’Allemagne, Karl l’apprenti horloger rumine son malheur. Il doit présenter le lendemain le nouvel automate de la grande horloge, mais il n’a rien fait. L’inquiétant...

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD France, 1956. Bernie Gunther is on the run. If there's one thing he's learned, it's never to refuse a job from a high-ranking secret policeman....

La pédagogie de l’inclusion abolit toute forme d’exclusion et ne propose d’autres modalités de scolarisation pour les élèves handicapés que celles en vigueur dans les classes ordinaires, quelle que soit...

Au milieu du XIXe siècle, la France a été traversée par une fièvre d’engagements civiques. Cette « résurrection de la société civile » s’est déroulée ailleurs en Europe. Mais dans ce pays, elle a abouti...

Au premier abord, la famille Paul incarne le rêve de la classe moyenne scandinave : célèbre dans les années 90 pour son étude sur la vie sexuelle des Finlandais, Max est un sociologue réputé. Avec sa...

Quand José Varano sortit du bordel, avec une bonne dizaine de verres d’aguardiente dans le nez, il était complètement ivre. Se prenant le pied dans une racine, il s’étala de tout son long, assommé par...

Des cris d’enfants s’échappaient de la fenêtre du premier étage. L’immeuble était à demi délabré, comme tous ceux de ce quartier misérable de Manille. – Madre de Dios, qu’est-ce que cette bande de pédés...

Le chef des braconniers leva les bras, puis tira deux rafales. Un feu roulant se déclencha simultanément derrière lui. Les quatorze éléphants s’abattirent dans les hautes herbes, comme des quilles géantes....

À la joie de la naissance, succède l'horreur : David, l'enfant, est défiguré. Pourtant, il doit vivre ! Cela exigera de multiples interventions, risquées, coûteuses. Or, Philip Boney et sa femme, Katia,...

'A vital, thorough and accessible history that everyone who cares about the past or the future should read.' Rosamund Young, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Cows_______________________________The...

30th July, 1763. Two striking figures part the heaving crowd at London Bridge. Peddlers cease their haggling, ferrymen grow quiet, beggars stop and stare. Even the stink of the Thames seems to fade in...

The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics - and in particular the politics...

A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources! In this perfect companion to Huston Smith's bestselling The World's Wisdom,...

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Castes mark their children deeply; and as a caste, the English gentry resident in Ireland were pronounced. Every conquest leaves a caste behind it, since conquerors are always apt to perpetuate their...

This biography illuminates the life and thought of Baroness Mary Warnock, whose active years spanned the second half of the twentieth century, a period during which opportunities for middle-class women...

After learning that her boyfriend has cheated on her, Wendy decides to get away from it all with her two best friends, Tiffany and Amy. They travel to Paris. She wants to forget Josh anyway, assume that...

A protagonist with whom hundreds of readers have felt identified and an eroticism as daring as it is elegant.Malena's married life takes a nosedive . With no job, no place to go, no direction for her...

Thanks to the large fortune that their parents left them, Wendy and Rick have been able to live without problems. She is rejected by the university she intended to go to, so she decides it's time to go...

Wendy and Josh's story has gone through a thousand ups and downs. At first they hated each other, then they fell in love. Then she thought that Josh had cheated on her, so she ran away to Paris and found...