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This volume explores a dimension of reality usually scoffed at by rational-thinking individuals living in modern industrialized societies, but still experienced by these s...
Veit Harlan (1899–1964) was one of Germany's most controversial and loathed directors. After studying with theatre and film pioneer Max Reinhardt and beginning a promising...
Récoltes et Semailles I, II. Réflexions et témoignage sur un passé de mathématicien
Alexandre Grothendieck
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(0)Considéré comme le génie des mathématiques de la seconde moitié du XXᵉ siècle, Alexandre Grothendieck est l’auteur de Récoltes et semailles, une sorte de « monstre » de pl...
"My life will not make any sense when Attila is finished," declared Aliocha Coll about his mesmerizing final novel. In this groundbreaking "untranslatable" work, he channe...
The Taming of the Demons examines mythic and ritual themes of violence, demon taming, and blood sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism. Taking as its starting point Tibet’s so-call...
A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Dæmons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transaction...
Seeing the morning is no blessing. The handful of scattered survivors are confronted by blood-red skies and an infestation of predatory horrors that never originated on ea...
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This is the first book to examine the development of the figure of Māra, who appears across Buddhist traditions as a personificat...
At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen.
Here, historian...
Los Escorpiones es una novela de una obra narrativa titánica y misteriosa. Los protagonistas, Sara y Thomas, se ven envueltos en el entramado de una teoría de la conspirac...
One of the great works of Twentieth Century Literary Fantasy The Experience of the Night was published in the last year of The Second World War. It became a cult novel amo...
París-Bis és una novel·la sense precedents en l’àmbit de la literatura catalana. Inèdita fins ara, és una proposta textual que beu de la novel·lística més experimental. En...
Auf der Flucht vor einer immer komplexer, immer unverständlicher werdenden Welt begibt sich ein Mann in den Wald, direkt auf das Terrain einfacher Wahrheiten und altbewähr...
An editor at a Parisian publishing house receives a manuscript by someone calling himself Desiderio—a manuscript that bears an eerie (though vague) resemblance to his own ...
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Sade amoureux: Précédé de Un grand seigneur méchant homme, le comte de charolais
Jean-Claude Hauc
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(0)Sous la Régence et durant le règne de Louis XV, le comte de Charolais fut un authentique sadique, séquestrant et torturant les femmes, tuant les hommes par jeu, comme d'au...
Qui était vraiment Joseph Vacher ? Assassin de jeunes innocents, égorgeur, violeur, éventreur, récidiviste : Vacher incarne à la fois l’ogre des contes ancestraux et la fi...
Having escaped being burnt at the stake, the reluctant sorcerer Fursey is back in this sequel, trying to make a quiet life for himself as a grocer in the realm of King Eth...
Why would a child murder another child? What makes a Mary Bell? Is it heredity, pathology or environment? Should we regard her as monster, victim, or both?
Gitta Sereny...
A dazzling collection of occasional writings by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist on subjects ranging from Thermopylae to the English Channel, and from Coral Island to Jule...