Michael Ward

Retour sur l'expédition réussie de 1953 sur l'Everest Dans cet ouvrage historique, Michael Ward apporte non seulement un éclairage nouveau sur l'expédition de 1953 qui réussit l'ascension du toit du monde, mais fournit une monographie complète des événements qui ont menés à sa conquête. À travers le récit d'un siècle d'exploration et d'études scientifiques sur les problèmes physiologiques liés à l'altitude, l'auteur nous éclaire...

This engaging biography of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 'Unceasing War on Poverty', takes the reader into the world of the Webbs, the remarkable couple who changed Britain, inspiring a generation to fight for a better society. Born in the 1850s, they came from very different backgrounds. They married in 1892 - but only after Beatrice had previously experienced a long, unhappy relationship. Their fifty-year partnership produced books and reports rather...

* Los expertos dicen que la teoría, comparada con la dura realidad, es un juego de niños. Pero es necesaria para aprovechar la propia experiencia. * Por esta razón nace este libro, práctico y claro, dirigido a quien busca conceptos, instrumentos y técnicas para obtener ventajas. * Ideas nuevas y eficaces, aplicadas siempre a ejemplos y casos reales, que proporcionan los aspectos fundamentales para el buen funcionamiento y el éxito de una...

For over half a century, scholars have labored to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganized Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie Queene. None of these explanations has won general acceptance and the structure of Narnia's symbolism has remained a mystery. Michael Ward has finally...

Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English author and poet who wrote and collaborated on over 60 books of children's fiction, and is considered today to be one of the founders of modern children's literature. Many of Nesbit's works have been adapted for film and plays, and her popular fantasy stories set the standard for modern children's writers like J. K. Rowling and C. S. Lewis. "The Story of the Treasure Seekers" was Nesbit's first novel, published...

A mysterious hero's astonishing adventures in revolutionary France. The Age of Reason has come to France, bringing with it murder, cruelty, and terror. As the nation's aristocrats are paraded to the guillotine, their children are handed over to revolutionary citizens for reeducation. Once a courtier at Versailles, Madeleine Lannoy now dances in the street, clinging to life so that she may one day visit revenge on Jean Paul Marat, the tyrant who stole...

A brilliant study in the art of logical deduction by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel.l He sits in the corner of the A.B.C. café, a length of string in his fingers. As the afternoon winds down, he ties and unties intricate knots - in the string and in his mind. No one in the café knows his name, but the old man in the corner is the most brilliant sleuth in London. No matter how baffling the crime, he need only glance at the newspapers to know...

Perhaps Wilkie Collins' editor thought "John Jago's Ghost" sounded too much like an exciting tale of cursed, swashbuckling pirates for the alternate title of this novella to end up on the cover and instead settled for "The Dead Alive" – arguably the most balderdash title for a piece of fiction until the Sean Penn movie "Dead Man Walking" (1995). In the end though, the current title is somehow the more appropriate for this piece based on the infamous...

The Corsican Brothers (French: Les Frères corses) is a novella by Alexandre Dumas, père, first published in 1844. It is the story of two conjoined brothers who, though separated at birth, can still feel each other's pains. It has been adapted many times on the stage and in film. The story starts in March 1841, when the narrator travels to Corsica and stays at the home of the widow Savilia de Franchi who lives near Olmeto and Sullacaro. She is the...

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