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Cinq fenêtres grand ouvertes sur la plus austère des saisons, comme autant de façons d’en proposer une histoire sociale et culturelle. Cet essai, poétique et abondamment documenté, puise dans l’art, le sport, l’urbanisme et l’histoire pour décrire les mille facettes de...

Editeur : Lux Éditeur
Parution : 2019-10-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Real Work
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Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food,...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2023-03-02

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Télécharger le livre :  A Thousand Small Sanities
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'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMESThe New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our timeNot since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2019-05-16

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Télécharger le livre :  In Mid-Air
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'Engaging, witty, thoughtful, clever, casual, ebullient, erudite and thoroughly modern' Spectator'A dazzling talent - hilarious, winning and deft' Malcolm Gladwell In Mid-Air is a collection of short essays by the acclaimed writer and speaker, Adam Gopnik. Known for his...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2018-10-18

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Télécharger le livre :  At the Strangers' Gate
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'A dazzling talent' Malcolm GladwellWhen Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2017-09-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Winter
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Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how literature heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2012-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  The Table Comes First
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Our modern society is very particular about what constitutes good food: local, seasonal, organic produce that doesn't overly impact on the environment. But throughout history every generation has believed that it alone knows the true value of food, and looked with...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2011-09-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Paris to the Moon
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In 1995, Adam Gopnik and his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. Charmed by the beauties of the city, Gopnik set out to experience for himself the spirit and romance that has so captivated...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2011-09-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Through the Children's Gate
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On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York. The parents who are determined to get their children literally to fly at the school production of Peter Pan - the Cambodian cashier at the local deli...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2011-09-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Angels and Ages
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'Adam Gopnik has taken a coincidence and turned it into a theory of everything, or at least of everything important ... Outstanding' - Andrew MarrOn February 12th, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2010-04-01

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