From the Publisher: Paris in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks, Knights Templar, merchants, prostitutes, and canons. Bursting outward from the encompassing wall, it was Europe's largest, most cosmopolitan city. Simone Roux chronicles the lives of Parisians over the course of a dozen generations as Paris grew from a military stronghold after the Battle of Bouvines in 1214 to a city recovering from the Black Death of the 1390s. Centering...

"Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world's understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word "genocide" and propelled the idea into international legal status. An uncommonly creative pioneer in ethical thought, he twice was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Although Lemkin died alone and in poverty,...

The author, former Boston Globe reporter and former US deputy assistant secretary of State, shares his experiences and photographs from his four years accompanying Secretary of State John Kerry around the world. -- Provided by publisher. Unless they've lost a passport abroad, most Americans have little appreciation for the reach and scope of the US Department of State or the perils faced by its employees. Reporter Glen Johnson had been covering...

Ms. Ann Romano, a newly divorced and very liberated woman is trying her best to raise two teenaged daughter, Julie and Barbara, as they start their new life together in Indianapolis. Building Superintendent Dwayne Schneider, a Casanova with a passkey, supplies comic relief, but Ann's priority is discovering her own potential, and helping her daughters discover theirs.

"In the early days of motion pictures-before superstars, before studio conglomerates, before even the advent of sound-there was a woman named Pearl White (1889-1938). A quintessential beauty of the time, with her perfectly tousled bob and come-hither stare, White's rise to stardom was swift; her assumption of the title of queen of American motion picture serials equally deserved. Born the youngest of five children in a small, rural Missouri farm town,...

À tout voyage, son véhicule. Vers les étoiles, un vaisseau spatial, vers les abysses, une station bathyale. Les grandes profondeurs sont les planètes lointaines d'une galaxie voisine. 100, 120, 140 mètres, ces distances sont dérisoires et infranchissables à la fois. Cet univers, n'est ni proche ni distant, il est ailleurs. Alors l'atteindre, c'est rejoindre un monde parallèle : Laurent Ballesta et ses camarades sont ailés très loin, mais...

"What is the self? The question has preoccupied people in many times and places, but nowhere more than in the modern West, where it has spawned debates that still resound today. Jerrold Seigel combines theoretical and contextual approaches to explore the ways key figures have understood whether and how far individuals can achieve coherence and consistency in the face of inner tensions and external pressures. Clarifying that recent "post-modernist"...

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Theater of Cruelty has three main themes that frequently overlap: war, film, and the visual arts. Many of the movies discussed are about war and violence, often related to World War II, and more specifically deal with the two nations that unleashed the war, Germany and Japan: why they did what they did, and how they came to terms with it afterward or didn't. Other essays in the collection, about the diaries of Harry Kessler and Anne Frank, the bombing...