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Comedian Al Murray plays his great-great-great-grandfather William Makepeace Thackeray as the unreliable narrator in this radical makeover of his ancestor’s celebrated satire on class, sex, money, hypocrisy and snobbery in 19th-century England. As the curtain rises on our ‘story without a hero’, moneyless Becky Sharp leaves school with her upper-class best friend Amelia Sedley. Clever, cunning and ambitious, Becky is determined to make her way in Regency society - and she’ll trample on anyone who gets in her way. 

Lieutenant Abby Mullen is no stranger to crisis. As the hostage negotiation instructor for the NYPD, she deals with worst-case scenarios every day. Nothing fazes her anymore. That all changes when she gets a call from Eden Fletcher, a fellow survivor of the infamous Wilcox cult. The two haven’t spoken since the night of a tragic, fiery massacre, when their paths diverged. But now Eden needs Abby’s help: someone has kidnapped her son and is demanding a $5 million ransom. As Abby throws herself into the case, she can’t help but wonder why the kidnapper has targeted Eden.

Best known for creating Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney is one of the 20th century's most honored and important icons of animation. Nominated for 63 Academy Awards, he produced many cartoons and feature films considered classics today. Walt Disney: The Mouse That Roared delves into this man's colorful life, explaining the inspiration for his classic creations and revolutionary animation techniques.

mais quel bazar toutes ces idées ! à peine la nuit tombée elles entrent une à une se bousculent, dansent, se suivent s'installent sur l'accoudoir du canapé couinent, meuglent et hop, c'est parti ! bienvenue au grand cirque des idées ! À partir de créatures imaginaires dessinées par l'illustrateur égyptien Walid Taher, Ramona Badescu a inventé un grand cirque des idées, la rouge, la simple, celle perdue sur la dernière marche de l'escalier, l'idée neuve et même… oh la merveilleuse idée !

Iran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for America and the West, yet very little is known about what the country's goals really are. Vali Nasr examines Iran's political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today's Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world.

En égyptien, cet album a pour titre Le poussin n'est pas un chien. Le poussin de cette histoire est petit, doux et rond, il vit dans un monde intérieur fait de caresses et de siestes. Le chien en revanche est grand, droit et nocturne, il vit dehors et défie les chiens, les enfants, les méchants. Le héros et narrateur est un jeune garçon, entre poussin et chien, qui quitte l'univers tendre du giron maternel pour le monde extérieur et agressif.

Les Lettres du rêve est le second titre de la collection Racines, inspirée par la structure linguistique des langues sémitiques : en arabe comme en hébreu, la plupart des mots ont pour origine trois sons, une racine qui se retrouve dans tous les mots d'une même famille. À partir de cette racine se fabriquent des mots selon des schèmes, en rajoutant des lettres avant, après, au milieu, de nouveaux sons.

The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization" - and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinarily rich and successful culture. Indeed, it was a time and place of earth-shaking changes for humankind: the beginnings of writing and law, kingship and bureaucracy, diplomacy and state-sponsored warfare, mathematics and literature. This Very Short Introduction audiobook offers a fascinating account of this momentous time in human history. 

Ce recueil rassemble cinq poèmes écrits par deux poètes, Hamed Ashour et Haidar Alghazali, et une poétesse Nisrine Suleimane, vivant aujourd'hui à Gaza, ce recueil rassemble : une supplique pour emporter cette nuit qui pèse sur nos poitrines, une question « Comment tu vas ? Je vais en ruines » une voix de gardien dans un cimetière à Gaza, une envie de mourir dans un lit, pour rien, ni pour une cause, ni pour quelqu'un, une pensée de goutte d'eau. Ce qui relie ces poèmes, c'est la présence entremêlée de la vie et la mort.

It is said that the Neverseen King comes for a bride every hundred years. I thought it was only legend—until he came for me. I am one of twelve assassins forced to compete for the hand of our unseen king, who I'm beginning to doubt is even human at all. Why he needs a bride, much less one who...

As a girl, Joanna Chase thrived on Rustling Willows Ranch in Montana until tragedy upended her life. Now thirty-four and living in Santa Fe with only misty memories of the past, she begins to receive pleas—by phone, through her TV, in her dreams: I am in a dark place, Jojo. Please come and help me. Heeding the disturbing appeals, Joanna is compelled to return to Montana, and to a strange childhood companion she had long forgotten. 

Vous sentez combien cette racine est inspirante, invitante, et agréablement parfumée ? Nous l'avons confiée à « la-poétesse-aux-mots-puissants », Fabienne Swiatly. Qui a lu son magnifique roman Saïd, devine le lien intime qu'elle entretient avec le monde arabe, la langue arabe, le parfum du passé, le bord de mer et l'absence. Pour l'illustration, nous avons choisi « la-peintresse-aux-gestes-libres », Pascale Lefebvre. Ses peintures sont libres comme le vent, le souffle de vie, l'âme, et nous apportent dans le même temps repos et apaisement.

Nouveau livre dans la collection KALIMAT, l'imagier d'Agathe Monnier associe les fruits à leur arbre, l'arbre à ses branches, les branches aux mots. Un cédrat, deux figues, trois pommettes… Tous les fruits et leur arbre présentés ici poussent autour de la Méditerranée. En dernière page, on retrouve les fruits transformés en huile, confiture, jus, gâteaux, mélasse, bonbons, confectionnés tout autour de cette mer ronde.

Les Lettres arabes est un abécédaire qui associe UNE lettre à DEUX mots, et chaque duo de mots à un DESSIN. Ainsi, de lettre en lettre, l'enfant acquiert du vocabulaire dans les deux langues, tout en découvrant l'alphabet arabe. En face du grand dessin en couleurs, plusieurs autres à la ligne et au trait illustrent une série de mots utilisant la même lettre, qui change d'écriture selon son emplacement dans le mot.

Bloomsbury presents Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre, read by Kevin T. Collins, Nick Sullivan, Jay Snyder and Fajer Al-Kaisi. It's the rule—always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in...

Described by the New York Times as "arguably the most important intellectual alive," Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly influential writings on language and politics. Featuring two of Chomsky's most popular and enduring books in one omnibus volume, On Language contains some of the noted linguist and political critic's most informal and accessible work to date, making it an ideal introduction to his thought.

This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. 

Countless people worldwide have made Mindfulness in Plain English a beloved and best-selling classic in almost a dozen languages. Now, after nearly two decades, Bhante helps meditators of every stripe take their mindfulness practice to the next level - helping them go, in a word, beyond mindfulness. In the same warm, clear, and friendly style, Bhante introduces the listener to what have been known for centuries as the jhanas - deeply calm, joyous, and powerful states of meditation.

Surviving the Neverseen King's lethal bridal competition earned me the title of wife and queen. After the darkest, bloodiest night of my life, I am to don a wedding gown and marry the deadly fae king who lives in shadows. When sabotage and murder are discovered in the palace after the wedding, my new husband and I have no choice but to find out who is trying to usurp his throne. Yet the question that plagues me most isn't about power, magic, or the fate of the worlds.

Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super-dense, super-chaotic third-world capital of Bangladesh. His father, Dr. Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan. A drunken loutish widower, he refuses to allow Indelbed go to school, and the only thing Indelbed knows about his mother is the official cause of her early demise: "Death by Indelbed". But when Dr. Kaikobad falls into a supernatural coma, Indelbed and his older cousin, the wise-cracking slacker Rais, learn that Indelbed's dad was in fact a magician - and a trusted emissary to the djinn world.