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Madagascar is a land where lizards scream and monkey-like lemurs sing songs of inexpressible beauty. This book is suitable for the literate readers who is about to travel to Madagascar or who just wants to learn more. It is a natural and cultural history of Madagascar and is an exploration of what m...

Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" citi...

Fifth volume in the Culture series. The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical tale, proving once again that he is "a talent to be reckoned with" ("Locus"). In Excession, the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section orders Diplomat Byr G...

Préface de René Char....

A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up, from Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning Small Island and the Man Booker shortlisted The long song. ...

Here’s the set up: A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election—but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock—an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers—to let h...

Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks, eager for a scapegoat. ...

An art expert instantly spots a fake. A cop decides whether to shoot. A psychologist accurately predicts a couple's future in minutes. This book is about those moments when we 'know' something without knowing why. It shows that honing your instincts could change the way you think about thinking fore...

Frei Luis de León (1527?-1591) é um dos valores mais altos e característicos do Renascimento espanhol e da Espanha do tempo de Filipe II, pela sua obra em prosa e em verso e pelas posições que assumiu com extraordinário vigor e que são referência obrigatória para se conhecer a época em que...

Traduit de l'anglais par Béatrice Vierne...

À force de regarder et d'écouter le monde, il devient mystérieux et étrange, d'une couleur inconnue avec laquelle un poète se met à composer. Est-ce que ses mots éclairent l'opacité de nos alentours? Oui, peut-être: « Il est bien difficile de dormir. D'abord les couvertures ont toujours un...

Le métier de Brodeck n’est pas de raconter des histoires. Son activité consiste à établir de brèves notices sur l’état de la flore, des arbres, des saisons et du gibier, de la neige et des pluies, un travail sans importance pour son administration. Brodeck ne sait même pas si ses rapports...