Clément Vauquer est une rareté. Il est stupide au point d'exécuter ce qu'on lui demande de faire sans se poser de questions, et assez aveugle pour ne pas voir la tombe qu'on creuse sous ses pieds. Pour un manipulateur, c'est une véritable aubaine. Lor
The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World
«Ton collègue blond est assez emmerdant mais je l'aime bien, et puis il est généreux. Il se pose des questions sans fond, il s'inquiète et ça fait le bruit des vagues. Toi en revanche, tu fais le bruit du vent. Ça se voit à ta manière de marcher,
Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer
In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric,wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the deep-rooted mysteries of one Alpine village's history and a very present problem: wolves.Disturbing things have been happening up in the
This is the first of three fascinating volumes in which Braudel, the renowned historian and celebrated author of The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World, offers what is in effect an economic and social history of the world from the Middle Ages to th
Volume III investigates what Braudel terms "world-economies"—the economic dominance of a particular city at different periods of history, from Venice to Amsterdam, London, New York.
