Extrait: "Sur quelque objet que portent nos observations et nos études, ce qui nous frappe d'abord, ce que nous en saisissons le mieux et le plus vite, c'est la FORME; et comme la remarque est on ne peut plus générale, il semble qu'à ce titre seul la Forme aurait dû être inscrite par les philosophes en tête de toutes les listes qu'ils ont dressées des catégories ou des rubriques sous lesquelles on peut ranger les idées ou constitutives de...

Extrait: "Les jours de marché et surtout le samedi, c'est par centaines que, sur la place Saint-Georges à Nancy, on peut compter les voitures serrées à la file, dans l'espace non consacré à la voie publique. Malgré les différences, un ordre parfait règne dans les rangs."

A comprehensive study of the history of South Russia. Writer Michael Rostovtzeff draws reference from a variety of subjects, including art, archeology, mythology, politics, and economics. He begins with the prehistoric civilizations and ends at the origin of the Russian state. Michael Rostovtzeff was a Russian-born historian known for his expertise in Greek and Roman history. In a time when politics and war were the focus of ancient history, Rostovtzeff...

Extrait : "I. - Avant de pénétrer dans Paris pour en étudier les détails, du haut de la colline de Montmartre, couronnée par des moulins à vent et par la petite église de Saint-Pierre, nous jetterons un regard d'ensemble sur La ville aux longs cris, Qui profile son front gris : Des toits frêles, Cent tourelles, Clochers gris : C'est Paris. (V. HUGO)." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN : Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques...

Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years. After a century and a half of foreign invasion, civil war, and revolution, China has once again returned to center stage as a global superpower and the world's second largest economy. But how did it become so...

"Stel Caine rises from the depths to the sun-blasted surface of the Earth, the first human in millennia to do so. She's closer than ever to discovering the deep-space probe, which holds within it the potential to save all mankind. But eons of radiation have given birth to strange new life, and humans are no longer the dominant species here. Meanwhile, deep below the waves, Stel's daughters start their own journeys topside. Will this family reunion...

Social analysts Alvin and Heidi Toffler turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. This book is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But 21st-century wealth, they argue, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. They write about everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions to...

"At the core of Einstein's general theory of relativity are a set of equations that explain the relationship among gravity, space, and time--possibly the most perfect intellectual achievement of modern physics. For over a century, physicists have been exploring, debating, and at times neglecting Einstein's theory in their quest to uncover the history of the universe, the origin of time, and the evolution of solar systems, stars, and galaxies. In this...