??oeRay Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked…” To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family.
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Livres Essais
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present.
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![We Were Eight Years in Power](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/E/9780241982495-were-eight-years-power.jpg)
'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison
'Searing. One of the foremost essayists on race in the West...
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![The Presidency of Barack Obama](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780691182100-presidency-barack-obama.jpg)
An original and engaging account of the Obama years from a group of leading political historians
Barack Obama's election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations.
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![Hidden Nature : Wainwright Prize 2018 Shortlisted](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/I/9781473623026-hidden-nature-wainwright-prize-2018-shortlisted.jpg)
'An emotional and compelling memoir, that left me inspired, both by her bravery in transforming her life, and by the unexpected beauty she finds along the way' Countryfile Magazine
'Fowler beautifully exposes her emotional fragility while also celebrating the unloved nature of buddleia, herons and even the water rats who take refuge among the locks.' i paper
'Fowler captures the [...]
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![Leaves of Grass](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureL/E/9780241303122-leaves-grass.jpg)
ABOUT THIS EDITION: With exception of the titles of the different parts - which were added, for better navigation, from later editions - this edition presents an authentic reproduction of the original 1855 first edition of 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman.
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![Down and Out in Paris and London](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureD/O/9780141184388-down-paris-london.jpg)
George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'.
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![Moving to Higher Ground](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/O/9780812969085-moving-higher-ground.jpg)
??oeIn this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity ...
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![Korchnoi Year by Year: Volume II (1969-1980)](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureK/O/9785604784952-korchnoi-year-year-volume-1969-1980.jpg)
The second volume of Elk and Ruby’s treatise on Viktor Korchnoi, penned by FM Hans Renette and IM Tibor Karolyi, covers the period 1969-1980. This encompasses Korchnoi’s famous world championship fight with Karpov at Baguio City in 1978, his candidates final matches against Karpov in 1974 and Hubner in 1980, as well as the related candidates cycles and major tournament performances. Much [...]
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![The Elusive Obvious](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781623173340-elusive-obvious.jpg)
Alerte dispo
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![Floriography](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureF/L/9781524858148-floriography.jpg)
Floriography is a full-color guide to the historical uses and secret meanings behind an impressive array of flowers and herbs. The book explores the coded significances associated with various blooms, from flowers for a lover to flowers for an enemy.
The language of flowers was historically used as a means of secret communication.
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![SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/O/9781529034554-long--thanks-fish.jpg)
This edition includes exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Neil Gaiman.
There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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![My Money My Way](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/Y/9780593418840-money.jpg)
Does fear and insecurity keep you from looking at your bank account? Is your financial anxiety holding you captive?
You don’t have to stress about money anymore. YOU can take back control.
As a newly divorced single mom making $24,000 per year and facing down $77,000 in debt, Kumiko Love worried constantly about money.
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![Remedios Varo : Science Fictions](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureR/E/9780300273212-remedios-varo-science-fictions.jpg)
This publication offers a definitive look at the artistic practice of Remedios Varo (1908–1963) following her emigration from Spain to Mexico City in 1941. Her work from 1955 to 1963 made a lasting contribution to modern art and the legacy of Surrealism.
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![Bad Girls Throughout History](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureB/A/9781452153933-girls-throughout-history.jpg)
Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, delivers on both counts. Featuring 100 women who made history and made their mark on the world, it's a book you can be proud to display in your home. Aphra Behn, first female professional writer.
Sojourner Truth, women's rights activist and [...]
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![The Longest Game](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9789056918118-longest-game.jpg)
One of the greatest rivalries in sports history. On 10 September 1984, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov started their match for the World Chess Championship in Moscow. The clash between the reigning champion and his brazen young challenger was highly anticipated, but no one could have foreseen what was in store.
In the next six years they would play five matches for the highest title and [...]
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![The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780008628765-letters-tolkien.jpg)
J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of the languages and history of Middle-earth as recorded in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, was one of the most prolific letter-writers of this century.
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![The Measure Of A Man](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780743403863-measure.jpg)
In this beautifully written, candid memoir, legendary actor Sidney Poitier reveals the spiritual depth, passion and intellectual fervour that has driven his remarkable life.
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![Melancholy](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/E/9780300167481-melancholy.jpg)
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as ??oeone of the most brilliant essayists of our time.” Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise.
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![THE FREEDOM ARTIST](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781788549615-freedom-artist.jpg)
In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question.
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![Marx in the Anthropocene : Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/A/9781009366182-marx-anthropocene-towards-idea-degrowth-communism.jpg)
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the twentieth century. Marx's ecological critique of capitalism, however, revives in the Anthropocene against dominant productivism and monism.
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![Spare](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/P/9780857504791-spare.jpg)
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling-and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last.
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![Atomic Habits : The life-changing million copy bestseller](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/T/9781847941848-atomic-habits-life-changing-million-copy-bestseller.jpg)
Definition: A small habit with big results.
People say when you want to change your life, you need to think big: swap job, move house, change partner. But they’re wrong.
World-renowned life coach James Clear has discovered a completely different way to revolutionise your behaviour.
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Cet ouvrage n'est plus commercialisé par l'éditeur
![Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureF/R/9781472295941-friends--lovers-terrible-thing.jpg)
'There's never been a more honest or raw memoir ... and it may just save lives' Daily Mail
'Funny, fascinating, compelling ...
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![The Artist's Way](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781788164290-artist.jpg)
Since its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose.
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![Beyond the Wand](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureB/E/9781529149418-beyond-wand.jpg)
'Uproarious memoir packed with anecdotes about the Harry Potter films' Daily Mail
'Very funny and fascinating' Mail on Sunday
'Brave and brilliant' Cosmopolitan
'Highly readable' The Times
They called for a break, and Gambon magicked up a cigarette from out of his beard. He and I were often to be found outside the stage that housed the Astronomy Tower, having 'a breath of [...]
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![Before Your Memory Fades](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureB/E/9781529089431-before-your-memory-fades.jpg)
In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.
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![Good Pop, Bad Pop : The Sunday Times bestselling hit from Jarvis Cocker](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureG/O/9781787330566-good-pop--sunday-times-bestselling-from-jarvis-cocker.jpg)
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display?
We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawer. When Jarvis Cocker starts clearing out his loft, he finds a jumble of objects that catalogue his story and ask him some awkward [...]
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![Paint Brushes for Frida](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureP/A/9783791374918-paint-brushes-frida.jpg)
Frida is lying in her bed, imprisoned by painful injuries she sustained in an accident. She yearns to paint, but can only manage to sing what is in her imagination. Suddenly, a jar of paintbrushes falls off her nightstand and a pool of vibrant color spreads across the floor.
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![Real Estate](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureR/E/9780241977583-real-estate.jpg)
From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'.
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![John Derian Sticker Book](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureJ/O/9781648291012-john-derian-sticker-book.jpg)
An InStyle 2021 gift guide pickJohn Derian Sticker Book, from revered designer John Derian, offers a curated collection of over 500 stickers that allow adults and children to add a touch of beauty to any surface with these beautiful images of blooming flowers, charming critters, and darling forest animals. John Derian first caught the eye of tastemakers and design gurus with his now iconic [...]
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![Little Book of Louis Vuitton](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureL/I/9781787397415-little-book-louis-vuitton.jpg)
Little Book of Louis Vuitton is the pocket-sized and fully illustrated story of one of the world's most luxurious fashion houses. Louis Vuitton's monogrammed bags have been seen on the arms of celebrities and royals alike for over 150 years. From the young Louis seeking his fortune in Paris through to two world wars, the Great Depression, the Jazz Age and the Swinging Sixties, there is no era in [...]
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![Nomadland](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureN/O/9781800750302-nomadland.jpg)
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Picture, Best Director & Best ActressStarring Oscar winner Frances McDormand & directed by Chloe Zhao'Sublimely written' Sunday Times'Scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny)' Rebecca SolnitNomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy - one which foreshadows the precarious future that [...]
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![Becoming](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureB/E/9780241982976-becoming.jpg)
THE NO. 1 BESTSELLERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARTHE SUNDAY TIMES, MEMOIR OF THE YEARBOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, EVENING STANDARDNow in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club ...
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![Keeping an Eye Open](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureK/E/9781787332898-keeping-open.jpg)
The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting. But we are very far from reaching that [...]
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