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This 4-CD set features Jacques Gamblin's reading (in French) of "La Tour d'amour" by Rachilde, a very important female writer of the 19th century's end (born in 1862). "La Tour d'amour," her most famous work, tells the story of two lighthouse keepers...

The RightMind? Weight Loss and Fitness Strengthening Program for Your Mind & Brain by Dr. David Illig "I play it a couple of times a day or night and it seems to work for me all the time. I even think about it and it seems to kick in gear..... My husband...

The place given to the animal in a society reveals how the people of that society want to live in the world. Animal experimentation, anti-specism or bullfighting are the subjects of complex debates for the definition of man as a species and as a gifted...

The latest opus of Cosmos explores the arts, poetry and music: these human creations that combine with nature to allow everyone to experience the sublime. From prehistoric origins to Christian dominance, from bourgeois art from the Renaissance to...

The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colorful collection containing the finest short stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. From the witty and Kafkaesque The Nose, where a civil servant wakes up one day to find his nose...

Set in the court of Urbino in 1507, Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier presents an invaluable look at court life and culture during the Renaissance. Over four nights of dialogue, the book explores the key question, 'What should a courtier be like?'...

Nana Coupeau is a beautiful woman, able to attract men of enormous wealth with the crook of her finger. Part-time prostitute, part-time actress, she makes her debut in a mediocre operetta The Blonde Venus at the bustling Paris World's Fair of 1867. She...

In a civilization determined by nearly 2,000 years of Judeo-Christianity, the prisms of analysis have become common to thinkers, philosophies and judgments, forming blinders to the exercise of reason. Michel Onfray, through this homage to popular wisdom...

Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author's death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory. Credited to Pessoa's alter ego, Bernardo Soares, who...

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides. Traveling between 1945 and 1950, the British explorer treks through Yemen, The Empty...

A magnificent portrayal of 1890s America and the harsh realities of a dog-eat-dog world, Sister Carrie lies at the forefront of American Naturalism. When poor young provincial woman Carrie Meeber arrives in Chicago, she little expects to be catapulted...

6-CD box set features philosophers of the 20th Century. The first disc contains readings of various works read by actors; the other discs feature readings by the individual philosophers of their own work. Includes readings by Jean Paul Sartre, Gabriel...