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SAIT-ON JAMAIS OÙ COMMENCE LA FOLIE ? À San Francisco, la vie bien ordonnée du docteur Eldon Chance est en train de partir à vau-l'eau. À bientôt cinquante ans, le brillant neuropsychiatre récemment divorcé commence à trouver son quotidien ennuyeux. Ce vide est bientôt comblé par la soudaine fascination qu'il éprouve pour une de ses patientes, la très séduisante mais très instable Jaclyn Blackstone. Hélas pour lui, le mari de celle-ci, un flic corrompu et dangereux de la brigade criminelle, est d'une jalousie féroce et personne ne souhaite l'avoir pour ennemi. Peu à peu, l'obsession que Chance nourrit pour Jaclyn va l'entraîner dans une histoire autrement plus sombre et co...
An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."
Alexander Herzen—philosopher, novelist, essayist, political agitator, and one of the leading Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century—was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. While he is remembered for his masterpiece My Past and Thoughts and as the father of Russian socialism, his contributions to the history of ideas defy easy categorization because they are so numerous. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called “the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought.” In an era dominated by ideologies of human progress, Herzen resisted them because they conflicted with his sense of reality, a sense honed by h...
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Interviews with the acclaimed director of the films Dune, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire and the hit TV series Twin Peaks
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This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation (very briefly) is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backwards. Albert provides an unprecedentedly clear, lively, and systematic new account--in the context of a Newtonian-Mechanical picture of the world--of the ultimate origins of the statistical reg...
The most famous of the hilarious, heartbreakingcomedies with which Marivaux shocked and delighted eighteenth-century Paris. A wickedly funny translation, as performed at the Royal National Theatre.