This comprehensive, authoritative presentation includes more than 500 techniques and 160 recipes, demonstrated by master chef Jacques Pepin in thousands of step-by-step photographs.; A comprehensive culinary course on every aspect of classic cooking, from the basics (how to sharpen a knife or peel a[...]

One of Rousseau's later and most puzzling works and never before available in English, this neglected autobiographical piece was the product of the philosopher's old age and sense of persecution. Long viewed simply as evidence of his growing paranoia, it consists of three dialogues between a charact[...]

Una recopilaci n de las obras de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), traducido, prologado y anotado por Jos Bullejos y Juan Bautista Bergua. Incluye El Contrato Social, Meditaciones de Un Pasante Solitario, La Vida De Rousseau Extra da De Sus Propias Obras y Cartas Escogidas.Rousseau, escritor y fil [...]

A latest Redwall adventure explores the mysteries of the Abbey's ancient origins when it is realized that wheelchair-bound Martha might be cured by a formula buried at the deserted Loamhedge, a quest that is complicated by an attack by the Searats. Reissue.[...]

'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exile from the society that condemned his political and religious views. Returning to Paris the philosoph[...]

Noting that the doctrine of Purgatory does not appear in the Latin theology of the West before the late twelfth century, the author identifies the profound social and intellectual changes which caused its widespread acceptance[...]

Resistance in German-occupied Europe is generally understood as insurrectional violence. However, as soon as the war broke out, thousands of people engaged in civil disobedience---manifested through strikes, demonstrations, and the activities of medical organizations, courts of law, and churches. Ja[...]

This new translation of Jacques Lacan's deliberation on psychoanalysis and contemporary social order offers welcome, readable access to the brilliant author's seminal thinking on Freud, Marx, and Hegel; patterns of social and sexual behavior; and the nature and function of science and knowledge in t[...]

Jacques Le Goff sets out in this book to explain the role of money, or rather of the various types of money, in the economy, life and mentalities of the Middle Ages. He seeks also to explain how, in a society dominated by religion, the Church viewed money, and how it taught Christians what attit[...]

Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included stud[...]

"The name: What does one call thus? What does one understand under the name of name? And what occurs when one gies a name? What does one give then? One does not offer a thing, one delivers nothing, and still something comes to be, which comes down to giving that which one does not have, as Plotinus [...]