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A Little Bit of Paris
$35.91
Renowned New Yorker cover illustrater Jean-Jacques Sempé illustrates the quirky charm of France's capital and it's residents with his signature style and gentle sense of humor and irony. His drawings are famed for their striking use of pen and ink, their inimitable style, and most of all for their s..
Emile (Everyman's Library)
$20.04
The MacMahons are the central characters and even more so when Helen the wife & mother disappears..everyone assumes that she has drowned in the lake.Thus beginsa tangles,touching,& sometimes tragis story of love,loss & misunderstanding. Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Publisher: Dutton Adult Binding:..
Everything is Complicated
$11.44
Jean-Jacques Sempé is equally adept at capturing the little indignities (and triumphs) of everyday life as he is at high farce. Everything is Complicated, the second collection of Sempé’s cartoons, features some of his favourite subjects, such as hapless tourists, pipe-smoking novelists and unruly s..
Incentives and Political Economy (Clarendon Lectur...
$61.49
Product DescriptionLaffont examines the incentive problems created by delegating economic policy to self-interested politicians and the blurry line between flexibility of decision-making and discretion to pursue personal agendas.Review`deals with the subject in a refreshing piecemeal approach that w..
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La Nouvelle Héloïse: Julie, or the New Eloise : ...
$31.37
This landmark of the romantic movement not only greatly influenced the taste and morality of the eighteenth-century reading public but was also one of the most seminal and widely read literary works of its day. Seventy-two editions of the novel in French appeared between 1761 and 1800, and though Vo..
Music and Discourse
$28.66
In this book Jean-Jacques Nattiez, well-known for his pioneering work in musical semiology, examines both music, and discourse about music, as products of human activity that are perceived in varying ways by various cultures. Asking such questions as "what is a musical work" and "what constitutes mu..
Nicholas Again
$20.90
Nicholas Again is the second in a series of five books about a young schoolboy who is amusing, endearing and always in trouble. Written by the author of Asterix, René Goscinny, and featuring witty illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist, Jean-Jacques Sempé, this book brings to life the adventures and..
Nicholas in Trouble
$42.28
Things are never easy for Nicholas: In this fifth collection of classic stories about the cheeky French schoolboy and his gang, their teacher Old Spuds won't let them play Geoffrey's fantastic new game, the lady in the candy story won't let them buy a chocolate bar, and Jeremy is none too pleased ab..
Nothing is Simple
$42.20
Nothing is Simple is classic Sempé - a timeless mix of everyday moments and surreal situations, captured with characteristic playfulness and attention to detail. Sempé’s world is populated by nosy neighbours, mischievous schoolboys and thwarted lovers, by snooty holidaymakers and crowds of frustrate..
Rousseau: 'The Discourses' and Other Early Politic...
$8.96
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, which together form the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume I contains the earlier writings such as the First and Second Discourses. The American and French Revolutions were profoundly affecte..
Teresa of Avila: God Alone Suffices
$18.25
Story of a saint. Author: Jean-Jacques Antier Publisher: Pauline Books & Media Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 081987423X ISBN-13: 9780819874238..
The 5 Keys to Value Investing
$96.67
The investing style that made Warren Buffett the world's wealthiest investor!Strategies for Identifying Today's Best-Run Corporations--Then Buying Them for Pennies on the DollarAs an investor, you don't buy stocks; you buy companies. The Five Key Steps to Value Investing shows you how to ensure that..
The Social Contract (Penguin Books for Philosophy)
$7.68
"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains"These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, ..
The Social Contract and The Discourses (Everyman's...
$17.39
Two works in one volumeJean-Jacques Rousseau was the first, and the most eloquent and versatile, of that extraordinary line of radical modern thinkers who aimed their disenchantment at the very roots of the human social order and thereby forever reshaped the way we deal with one another. Of Rousseau..