On a fateful day in May 1941, in Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, seventeen-year- old Pierre Seel was summoned by the Gestapo. This was the beginning of his journey through the horrors of a concentration camp. For nearly forty years, Seel kept this secret in order to hide his homosexuality. Eventually h[...]

From Venison Pie, made from deer shot by Marco himself, through to Croustade of Quails Egg Maintenon; from Yew Tree Fish and Chips to Souffle of Raspberries, the food at Marco Pierre White's Berkshire pub, the Yew Tree, blends traditional pub fare with the very best of modern English cooking. The a[...]

TASCHEN's Small Cloth Calendar. Flowers - 2014 About the Series: TASCHEN's Small Cloth Calendars are hardcover, cloth-bound, small diaries, feature week-at-a-glance layouts and a color reproduction on each spread. This cute little item makes keeping track of time a pleasure.[...]

The essential companion to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenom of Man, The Divine Milieu expands on the spiritual message so basic to his thought. He shows how man's spiritual life can become a participation in the destiny of the universe.Teilhard de Chardin -- geologist, priest, and major v[...]

As a soldier in the French army, Pierre Bourdieu took thousands of photographs documenting the abject conditions and suffering (as well as the resourcefulness, determination, grace, and dignity) of the Algerian people as they fought in the Algerian War (1954--1962). Sympathizing with those he was to[...]

This striking publication examines two masterful armours for man and horse recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Among the earliest complete European examples in existence, these German works demonstrate the superior design and craftsmanship of princely armour in the early 16th centur[...]

Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) is remembered amoung probabilitists today particularly for his "Theorie analytique des probabilites", published in 1812. The "Essai philosophique dur les probabilites" is his introduction for the second edition of this work. Here Laplace provided a popular exposition[...]

"International health and aid policies of the past two decades have had a major impact on the delivery of care in low- and middle-income countries. This book argues that these policies have often failed to achieve their main aims and have, in fact, contributed to restricted access to family medicine[...]

The last of Cyrus the Great s dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. Yet, despite being the most powerful king of his time, Darius remains an obscure figure. As Pierre Brian[...]