Oswald Wirth (1860 - 1943) was Stanislas de Guaita's secretary. Esotericist, occultist, tarologist, astrologer and writer, he played an important role in French Freemasonry. His best-known book on the...

René Guenon (1886-1951) was a leading French metaphysician in the fields of esotericism, symbolism, and the comparative study of religions. Le Symbolisme de la Croix takes the Vêdânta's doctrinal notions...

René Guenon (1886-1951) was a leading French metaphysician in the fields of esotericism, symbolism, and the comparative study of religions. In this book, he describes the conditions that would make it...

Freed from Athenian tutelage in 314 BC, at a time of geopolitical changes that marked the beginnings of the Hellenistic period in the Aegean world, Delos gradually consolidated its political and economic...

If we want to stop the destruction of the planet and to live in a better world, we need a clear and concrete vision of what that better world could be. So, here's a concrete program for a revolution that...

This volume comes as a sequel to a previous publication, Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature, which explored the paradoxical connections between impersonality and emotion,...

What makes the work of the American experimental writer Kathy Acker so utterly relevant today, almost thirty years after her passing? The articles collected in this volume aim to provide answers to this...

Ending Slavery broadens the scope of the anti-slavery struggle beyond the national and domestic narrative to draw a map of a new transnational and differentiated geography of abolitionism. It aims at...

Aucun numéro de revue n’a jamais été consacré intégralement à Emily Dickinson en France. Qu’on ne s’y méprenne pas, cette affirmation relève de bien autre chose que de la fierté qu’on peut ressentir à...

Où l’on verra que la trilogie américaine de Roth peut s’envisager comme l’expression d’une constante réflexion sur la relation ambivalente et complexe qu’il entretient avec l’Amérique, qu’un fil de seuils...

The Vendée is a maritime department of western France, formed in 1790. The War of the Vendée was a counter-revolutionary insurrection which took place during the French Revolution.The history of France...

Consacré à Elizabeth Bishop, l’ouvrage examine le traitement de l’espace visuel et métaphorique dans une poésie où l’instabilité prévaut. La frontière entre espace public et espace privé s’y brouille...

22 June – You want life to be smooth and pleasant, without problems or unhappiness. But why don’t you ask yourself about the underlying meaning of the obstacles that exist in nature and in life instead?If...

The performance of logistics networks has made a considerable leap in recent decades. With a development capacity and degree of competition that leave little influence to public corrective actions, it...

The interest, awareness and importance of human rights has continued to dominate public discourse. This is partly because human rights help us to recognise and respect our shared rights and responsibilities...

Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8, 1937 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York. He started his writing career in his high school days, published his early stories in a series of magazines, came to fame in...

Continuing the series on Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’, this second volume extends existing scholarship by exploring a range of multidisciplinary perspectives on the diasporic condition. Embodiment,...

Many books about Taekwondo already exist. We didn’t want to write “yet another book” about Taekwondo, with the same approach. Our aim – in addition to sharing knowledge – is to help trainers understand...

Debian GNU/Linux, a very popular non-commercial Linux distribution, is known for its reliability and richness. Built and maintained by an impressive network of thousands of developers throughout the world,...

After having buried her unfaithful husband and sold her château to repay her debts, Countess Dragonette of Holdmetight decides to go to Paris to find work. She’s a confirmed optimist with no inhibitions,...

The project "The European Dimension of a Group of Power: Ecclesiastics and the political State Building of the Iberian Monarchies (13th-15th centuries)” supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia...

From hard scrabble origins on the Plains of North Dakota, to longshoremen organizing on Manhattan’s West Side docks, to living the life of a Bohemian poet in Los Angeles and beyond, Thomas McGrath’s...

Many writers started their professional lives in very diverse fields before embracing writing, or on the contrary have turned away from writing. The present volume seeks to explore the complex relationship...

An inevitable Guide, An unique concept Between pleasure and emotion With this eighth edition, the VERON Champagne Guide reaches its maturity and imposes its originality.Faithful to its original concept,...

In April and May 1917, the village of Bullecourt, near Arras, in the north of France, was the scene of one of the biggest bloodbaths of the First World War. The ground of the former battlefield still...

If you wish to know really any people, it is necessary to have a thorough knowledge of their history, including their mythology, legends and folk-lore: customs, habits and traits of character, which to...

A History of the Japanese People (Vol.2) From the establishment of the Bakufu, Japanese art separated into two schools, that of Kamakura and that of Kyoto. The latter centered in the Imperial Court, the...

Dependence and loss of freedom – be it partial or total – go hand in hand. During the Middle Ages, people were bonded together through a wide variety of ties that limited their freedom in different ways...

In 1912, at Ezra Pound’s instigation, Hilda Doolittle became “H.D. Imagiste”, her name forever tied to one of the crucial, albeit short-lived aesthetic movements adumbrating High Modernism. Yet H.D. subsequently...

Today information circulates constantly, in our households and daily lives as well as in our professional activity.Information is exchanged ever more rapidly, pushing us to strive for greater reaction...