Marc: 4072 books

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom “9/11”: a bare name-date conveying both a trauma (the unspeakable happened then) and a claim on our knowledge. In the first of the two interlinked essays...

"We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view of the years whose...

In the tradition of Atul Gawande and Sherwin Nuland, Marc Agronin writes luminously and unforgettably of life as he sees it as a doctor. His beat is a nursing home in Miami that some would dismiss as “God's waiting room.” Nothing in the young doctor's medical training had quite prepared him for...

This is the untold true story of one citizen’s pointless torture and month-long captivity. The story, formerly mistold if not utterly overlooked, has been made into a feature film. Even as a dark comedy, there is little amusement to be found in human suffering. The sick and twisted minds of Mr....

“This book began in what seemed like a counterfactual intuition . . . that what had been happening in Nicaraguan poetry was essential to the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution,” write John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman. “In our own postmodern North American culture, we are long past thinking of...

Le Peuple de la mer (Prix Goncourt 1913) est un roman du poète et romancier français Marc Elder (1884 – 1933). Résumé : Le Peuple de la mer est un ensemble de 3 chroniques : La Barque, la Femme, la Mer, qui racontent la vie des habitants du village de l'Herbaudière, sur l'île...

This short, powerful work is potentially life changing, for it is filled with simple solutions to the difficult problems that confront us ? individually and globally. Marc Allen offers clear, doable solutions to both our personal financial problems and global problems. Key to many of these solutions...

In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected...

A challenging look at two great Jewish philosophers, and what their thinking means to our understanding of God, truth, revelation and reason. Moses Maimonides (11381204) is Jewish historys greatest exponent of a rational, philosophically sound Judaism. He strove to reconcile the teachings of...

La philosophie n’est pas une matière abstraite et rébarbative ! C’est un art de penser au service d’un art de vivre. Conçu par un esprit libre, qui pense librement. Au delà du conditionnement du passé et de l’ADN idéologique. Penser librement, c’est le cas de ces deux philosophes,...

Où nous mène l’Amérique. Les Américains devraient avoir honte : ils ont élu un président dont les anciens élèves de l’ENA ne sont pas fiers. Un président qui a planté des cacahuètes, un “Jimmy peanuts” tout ce qu’il y a d’ordinaire. Au risque de déplaire, Marc Ullmann affirme...

Do you really believe that it's best to let bygones be bygones? What happens when your bygones come back to bite you on the ass?Casey Rider was only looking to ride a good wave, to stand up as a goofy footer and become his own man. But then he was wiped out, gone.Some people figured...

A young boy struggles with the effects of cancer and dreams of a more normal life. These are the simple components of the emotional story written by teen authors Marc, Sasha, Angelo, and Sean. Experienced in working with young people, these teens uncovered the most important aspect of childhood: play....

Con la entrada en la era de la materialidad, hace ahora 5 mil años, el conocimiento sobre la anatomía del alma pasó a formar parte de las distintas tradiciones esotéricas. Ello hizo que fuera reservado a unos pocos iniciados. En los Himalayas fue un saber transmitido oralmente, de maestro...