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  • Balzac: Oeuvres complètes

    Édition mise à jour et corrigée avec sommaire interne actif

    Ce livre numérique comprend des oeuvres complètes de Balzac. L'édition est méticuleusement éditée et formatée. Honoré de Balzac est un des maîtres incontestés du roman français dont il a abordé plusieurs genres : le roman historique et politique, avec Les Chouans, le roman philosophique avec Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, le roman fantastique avec La Peau de chagrin ou encore le roman poétique avec Le ... En savoir plus

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  • Manufacturing Consent

    The classic analysis of how power shapes the news

    A foundational text on media, propaganda and democracy.First published in 1988 and still startlingly relevant, Manufacturing Consent lays bare the economic and political forces that influence mass media. In this seminal work, linguist Noam Chomsky and economist Edward Herman argue that the press serves powerful interests, not public truth - subtly filtering stories through ownership, advertising ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.00

  • Ways of Seeing

    par John Berger ...
    Collection series Penguin Modern Classics
    How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we ... En savoir plus

    CHF 9.00

  • Giving up the Ghost

    A memoir

    par Hilary Mantel ...
    ‘Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood … A masterpiece’ RACHEL CUSKAt no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the outer rim of her is covered by her pinny, woven with tiny flowers. It is soft from washing; her hands are hard and chapped; it is barely ten o'clock and she is getting the cabbage on. 'Hello, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.84

  • A Year With Aslan

    Words of Wisdom and Reflection from the Chronicles of Narnia

    par C. S. Lewis ...
    This long-awaited daily reader brings 365 selections from The Chronicles of Narnia to provide daily inspiration, solace and guidance, as well as a memorable reminder of the power of C.S. Lewis’s enchanting stories and insightful themes.The Chronicles of Narnia have long been mainstays of children’s literature, but when re-read as an adult can deliver an entirely new experience. In the midst of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.54

  • Understanding Power

    The Indispensable Chomsky

    par Noam Chomsky ...
    'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York TimesAn indispensable collection of Noam Chomsky’s talks on the past, present and future of the politics of powerNoam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the world’s leading intellectuals of the modern era. Now, for the first time, Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's talks on the politics of power ... En savoir plus

    CHF 14.00

  • Manon Lescaut de L'Abbé Prévost (Analyse de l'oeuvre)

    Comprendre la littérature avec lePetitLittéraire.fr

    Collection series Fiche de lecture
    Décryptez Manon Lescaut de l'Abbé Prévost avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir de Manon Lescaut, le roman au parfum de scandale de la littérature française ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :• Un résumé complet• Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que le ... En savoir plus

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  • 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know

    par John Sutherland ...
    Collection series 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
    In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works.From postmodernism to postcolonialism, William Shakespeare to Jane Austen , 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important literary concepts ... En savoir plus

    CHF 1.95

  • Écrivains et Style: La Langue et les Mots, La Lecture et les Livres, Les Belles-lettres et les Lettrés, Penseurs personnels

    Traduit par Auguste Dietrich ...
    Ce livre numérique présente "Écrivains et Style: La Langue et les Mots, La Lecture et les Livres, Les Belles-lettres et les Lettrés, Penseurs personnels" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.Extrait:« Avant tout, il y a deux sortes d’écrivains : ceux qui écrivent pour ... En savoir plus

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  • Come stare soli

    Lo scrittore, il lettore e la cultura di massa

    Traduit par Silvia Pareschi ...
    Il lettore che si addentra nel variegato insieme di generi e argomenti affrontati in questo volume non si sente mai solo: l'autore, con il suo stile inconfondibile e il suo appassionato spirito critico, è infatti una presenza viva e costante. Il linguaggio brillante e raffinato di Franzen ritorna nelle sue molteplici sfaccettature, adattandosi docilmente alle esigenze del saggio letterario, del ... En savoir plus

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  • Against Progress

    par Slavoj Žižek ...
    Collection series Žižek's Essays
    To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Žižek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world be? And how, when we are constantly besieged by doomers, degrowthers and disorienting relativisms can we make any headway at all in ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.15

  • Cruel Optimism

    par Lauren Berlant ...
    A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 15.38

  • Derrida: Philosophy in an Hour

    par Paul Strathern ...
    Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Derrida in just one hour.Jacques Derrida’s ‘deconstructionism’ is nothing less than an effort to destroy all ‘writing’ by demonstrating its inevitable falsehood. The writer writes but does not know what he is writing. Derrida argues that all texts have their own hidden agenda and contain their own metaphysical assumptions – ... En savoir plus

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  • The Bestseller Code

    What if an algorithm could predict which manuscripts would become mega-bestsellers?Girl on the Train. Fifty Shades. The Goldfinch. Why do some books capture the whole world's attention? What secret DNA do they share? In The Bestseller Code, Archer and Jockers boldly claim that blockbuster hits are highly predictable, and they have created the algorithm to prove it. Using cutting-edge text mining ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.00

  • The Art of Fiction

    par David Lodge ...
    In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.00

  • Le Souper de Beaucaire

    Je me trouvais à Beaucaire le dernier jour de la foire ; le hasard me fit avoir pour convives à souper, deux négociants marseillais, un Nîmois et un fabricant de Montpellier. Après plusieurs moments employés à nous reconnaître, l'on sut que je venais d'Avignon et que j'étais militaire. Les esprits de mes convives qui avaient été toute la semaine fixés sur le cours du négoce qui accroît les ... En savoir plus

    CHF 1.69

  • Animaladies

    Gender, Animals, and Madness

    par Carol J. Adams ...
    Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural violence against animals hoarded in factory farms?Highlighting the frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights activists, this book examines how the “madness” of our relationships with animals intersects with the “madness” of taking animals seriously. The essays collected in this volume argue that “animaladies” are ... En savoir plus

    CHF 28.92

  • Critical Semiotics

    Theory, from Information to Affect

    par Gary Genosko ...
    Collection series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural studies has received much attention: a focus on the pre-individual bodily forces, linked to automatic responses, which augment or diminish the body's capacity to act or engage with others. In a world dominated by information, how do things that seem to ... En savoir plus

    CHF 30.77

  • An Analysis of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

    Collection series The Macat Library
    Aristotle, a student of Plato, wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE, in a time of extraordinary intellectual development. Over two millennia later, his thorough exploration of virtue, reason, and the ultimate human good still forms the basis of the values at the heart of Western civilization. According to Aristotle, the ultimate human good is eudaimonia, or happiness, which comes from a life of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 7.07

  • Si loin, si proche...

    Une langue européenne à découvrir : le néerlandais

    Collection series Monde germanophone
    Néerlandais ? hollandais ? flamand ? dialecte allemand ? Mais de quelle langue parlons-nous ? Où se parle le néerlandais ? De quel type de langue s'agit-il ? Comment cette langue s'est-elle développée ? Quels rapports le néerlandais entretient-il avec son grand frère l'allemand ? Quel néerlandais parle-t-on en Belgique ? Quelles sont les caractéristiques majeures de cette langue ? Le néerlandais a ... En savoir plus

    CHF 7.50

  • Postcolonialism

    A Very Short Introduction

    Collection series Very Short Introductions
    Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its importance as a means of changing the way we think about the world. Robert J. C. Young examines the key strategies that postcolonial ... En savoir plus

    CHF 6.31

  • An Analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

    par Rachele Dini ...
    Collection series The Macat Library
    Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century, and its influence is still felt today.The book’s success owes much to Beauvoir’s brilliant writing style and passion, but both are rooted in the ... En savoir plus

    CHF 7.07

  • Craft in the Real World

    Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

    **A NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom they are intended" (The New York Times Book Review)**The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural values. In this bold ... En savoir plus

    CHF 9.74

  • Bruttezza

    par Moshtari Hilal ...
    In questo saggio dirompente e suggestivo, l'artista tedesca di origine afghana Moshtari Hilal prosegue in forma scritta – ma anche attraverso disegni, fotografie e stranianti autoritratti – la sua indagine sugli aspetti sociali e politici delle categorie estetiche. Secondo Hilal, infatti, la "bruttezza" è un fatto sociale, politico, persino economico, indissolubilmente legato alla razzializzazione ... En savoir plus

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