Here is a tasty paradox: How did the Leftist legions regroup after history delivered its fatal blow to the Soviet system? Simple, argues Jean-Francois Revel: the Left retreated to the impregnable fortress of the Utopian ideal. After all, socialism incarnate was always vulnerable to criticism. Ut[...]

Despite our tendencies to separate the mind and body, good and evil, Flahault argues that both stem from the same source within us. This knot, inherent to the human condition, is the tension between our desire for absolute self-affirmation and the fact that each of us can only exist through mediatio[...]

Following the collapse of the communist states it was assumed that Marxist philosophy had collapsed with it. In "Introduction to Non-Marxism," Francois Laruelle aims to recover Marxism along with its failure by asking the question "What is to be done with Marxism itself?"
To answer, Laruelle [...]

What does a tree tomato look like? Whats the difference between a turnip and a rutabaga? Where does malanga come from? How do you trim an artichoke bottom? The Visual Food Encyclopedia answers all these food questions ? and thousands more.The Visual Food Encyclopedia is the cooks companion in the ma[...]

Helps you to make your own loaves in only five minutes a day. This book proves that baking bread can be easier and quicker than a trip to the baker's. It is a revelation for anyone who thinks that home-made bread is too much work.[...]

A comprehensive work on the digital modeling of material appearance. It explains how models from physics and engineering are combined with keen observation skills for use in computer graphics rendering. It is suitable for practitioners and researchers in applications such as architecture, product de[...]

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. "Gargantua" depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity [...]

This is the most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions. Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies - an extraordinary, highly entertaining accou[...]

A charming fable about modern life that has touched the hearts of more than two million readers worldwide.
Following on the success of "The Elegance of the Hedgehog," and already a worldwide sensation, "Hector and the Search for Happiness" finally comes to America, where readers will delight in[...]

The delightful third book in the multimillion-copy internationally bestselling series
"Being up against the clock was a real problem for so many people, thought Hector. What could he possibly do to help them?"
First he tackled happiness. Then he took on love. And now Hector, our endearing youn[...]

This book considers two interrelated core questions. The first is: how have legal philosophers systematized law, and what types of assumptions have they made in undertaking this task? Second, in what sense is law a system, and how is it maintained as such? In answering the first question the book su[...]