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  • Albert Camus

    A Life

    by Olivier Todd ...
    Translated by Benjamin Ivry ...
    Drawing on personal correspondence, notebooks, and public records never before tapped, as well as interviews with Camus's family, friends, fellow workers, writers, mentors, and lovers, here is the enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of the Nobel Prize winning author.Todd shows us a Camus who struggled all his life with irreconcilable conflicts—between his loyalty to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Malraux

    A Life

    by Olivier Todd ...
    Writer, publisher, war hero, French government minister, André Malraux was renowned as a Renaissance man of the twentieth century. Now, Olivier Todd–author of the acclaimed biography Albert Camus–gives us this life, in which fact competes dramatically with his subject’s previously little-known mythomania.We see the adventurous young Malraux move from 1920s literary Paris to colonial Cambodia, ... Read more

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  • The French Resistance

    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    “Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and will not go out.” As Charles de Gaulle ended his radio address to the French nation in June 1940, listeners must have felt a surge of patriotism tinged with uncertainty. Who would keep the flame burning through dark years of occupation? At what cost?Olivier Wieviorka presents a comprehensive history of the French Resistance, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945

    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    In just three months in 1940, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France fell to the Nazis. The German occupation of Western Europe had begun—but a brave few rose up in defiance. National resistance has long been celebrated in remembrances of World War II, depicted as making significant contributions to the defeat of Nazi Germany. However, the so-called army of shadows drew ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Marx in Paris, 1871

    Jenny's ”Blue Notebook”

    Translated by Todd Chretien ...
    In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, leftist writers Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy offer a deeply informed, and eminently enjoyable, imagined history of what might have been if Karl Marx and his eldest daughter, Jenny, had travelled to Paris during the heady weeks of April 1871. In disguise, employing imperfect but serviceable French, Karl and Jenny encounter and ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Noise

    A Flaw in Human Judgment

    Unabridged

    13 hours 28 min

    From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, the co-author of Nudge, and the author of You Are About to Make a Terrible Mistake! comes Noise, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments, and how to control both noise and cognitive bias.Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients—or that two judges in the same courthouse give ... Read more

    $34.00 CAD

  • The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945

    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    In just three months in 1940, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France fell to the Nazis. The German occupation of Western Europe had begun—but a brave few rose up in defiance. National resistance has long been celebrated in remembrances of World War II, depicted as making significant contributions to the defeat of Nazi Germany. However, the so-called army of shadows drew ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

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  • Lyrical and Critical Essays

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy."Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book ... Read more

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  • Camus, a Romance

    A woman's passion for the Nobel Prize winner yields "a rich hybrid of biography, literary criticism, intellectual history and memoir" ( The Washington Post).Elizabeth Hawes was a college sophomore in the 1950s when she became transfixed and transformed by Albert Camus. The author of such revered works as The Fall, The Plague, and The Stranger, he was best known for his contribution to twentieth ... Read more

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  • Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

    Essays

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Twenty-three political essays that focus on the victims of history, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War.In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it."Resistance, Rebellion and Death ... Read more

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