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Midnight in the Century

Midnight in the Century

Victor Serge

In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin’s police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days.
Witness to the German Revolution

Witness to the German Revolution

Victor Serge

Victor Serge is best known as a novelist and for his Memoirs of a Revolutionary.
Revolution in Danger: Writings from Russia, 1919-1921

Revolution in Danger: Writings from Russia, 1919-1921

Victor Serge

Assailed by counter-revolution from within and without, Victor Serge brings to life the unwavering revolutionary commitment of red Petrograd.
Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems

Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems

Victor Serge

Exile relights its captive lampson the shore of time. A Blaze in a Desert comprises Victor Serge's sole published book of poetry, Resistance (1938), his unpublished manuscript Messages (1946), and his last poem, "Hands" (1947).
Resistance

Resistance

Victor Serge

Richard Greeman writes in his introduction that Serge "spoke the truth aloud and perpetuated the spiritual tradition of the Russian revolutionary intelligentsia at the very moment when the voices of his colleagues were forced into silence ...
Year One of the Russian Revolution

Year One of the Russian Revolution

Victor Serge

Year One of the Russian Revolution is Serge’s attempt to defend the early days of the revolution against those, like Stalin, who would claim its legacy as justification for the repression of dissent within Russia.
Unforgiving Years

Unforgiving Years

Victor Serge

The book is arranged into four sections, like the panels of an immense mural or the movements of a symphony.
Victor Serge: The Course is Set on Hope

Victor Serge: The Course is Set on Hope

Susan Weissman

The first biography to give due weight to the commitment and optimism of this great political thinker.
Victor the Vampire and Grandma’s Gray Hair

Victor the Vampire and Grandma’s Gray Hair

Jarrod Meistle

Victor the Vampire and Grandma’s Gray Hair Look for other books in this series Victor the Vampire Victor the Vampire and the Bully Coming Soon Victor the Vampire and Albert’s Allergies Visit Victor on his website www.VictortheVampire ...
Men in Prison

Men in Prison

Victor Serge

Editor: Sasha Lilley Spectre is a series of penetrating and indispensable works of , and about, radical political economy. Spectre lays bare the dark underbelly of politics and economics, publishing outstanding and contrarian perspectives on ...
Birth of Our Power

Birth of Our Power

Victor Serge

Editor: Sasha Lilley Spectre is a series of penetrating and indispensable works of , and about, radical political economy. Spectre lays bare the dark underbelly of politics and economics, publishing outstanding and contrarian perspectives on ...
The Case of Comrade Tulayev

The Case of Comrade Tulayev

Victor Serge

But The Case of Comrade Tulayev, unquestionably the finest work of fiction ever written about the Stalinist purges, is not just a story of a totalitarian state.
Fundamental Behavior

Fundamental Behavior

Hank Manley

he called. “It's Victor Torres. Who is with you at this position?” “Victor Torres?” the guard repeated. “That's impossible. Victor Torres is in prison in the United States. ” “Who is the other guard?” Victor asked again as he halted his advance five ...
Tuez-les tous...

Tuez-les tous...

Serge Raffy

Ombres de l'Inquisition, meurtres sacrificiels, mysticisme, bûchers... des ruines de Montségur à la Catalogne, Serge Raffy se révèle, avec ce grand thriller ésotérique où se mêlent aventures, énigme policière, vengeance ...
La femme interdite

La femme interdite

Serge Raffy

Et sans identité. Qui est la belle captive? Pourquoi a-t-elle perdu la parole? Quel terrible secret porte-t-elle? Serge Raffy est journaliste, scénariste, romancier.
La guerre des Trois

La guerre des Trois

Serge Raffy

Serge Raffy. grandordonnateur dutrafic. Aufilde son enquête, Éric Halphen comprendqu'ilest tombé luiaussi dans un guet apenspolitique. Un corbeau luienvoie deslettres anonymes toutesorientées vers leclan chiraquien. Le jugedéteste être ...
Victor the Vampire

Victor the Vampire

Jarrod Meistle

The Victor the Vampire books will chronicle the adventures of Victor, Vivienne, his best friend Albert and the lessons they learn.
Monsieur Gendre: Le roman vrai de l'affaire Botton

Monsieur Gendre: Le roman vrai de l'affaire Botton

Serge Raffy

Serge Raffy est rédacteur en chef adjoint au Nouvel Observateur. Il a publié chez Fayard La Veuve, un roman vrai: l'affaire Boutboul.
Léon Blum

Léon Blum

Serge Berstein

Soixante-dix ans après le Front populaire et à l'aide d'archives longtemps inaccessibles, Serge Berstein dresse de Léon Blum un portrait équitable et nuancé, à cent lieues de l'histoire partisane qui sévit encore souvent à droite ...
A desqualificação social: ensaio sobre a nova pobreza

A desqualificação social: ensaio sobre a nova pobreza

Serge Paugam

Serge Paugam traz-nos com este livro uma desassombrada e ao mesmo tempo meticulosa desmistificação do universo do trabalho social Consegue-o não só pela pertinência das descrições da complexidade objectiva dos fenómenos de exclusão ...
Victor Hugo and His Times

Victor Hugo and His Times

Alfred Barbou

This book was approved by Victor Hugo and his wife, was translated into several languages, and is generally considered to be the best life of Victor Hugo.
Le Président: François Hollande, itinéraire secret

Le Président: François Hollande, itinéraire secret

Serge Raffy

Qui est vraiment ce Corrézien d’adoption dont les origines familiales se perdent dans le Pas-de-Calais, pays des mines et des corons ? Serge Raffy dévoile ce que dissimule l’éternel sourire débonnaire de cet héritier de Mitterrand.
The Works of Victor Hugo

The Works of Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

This collection includes: The History of a Crime The Hunchback of Notre Dame Les Miserables The Man Who Laughs The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Napoleon the Little
Victor Mollo's Bridge Club

Victor Mollo's Bridge Club

Victor Mollo

Renowned bridge expert Victor Mollo has another card up his sleeve! Advance technique and simple bridge psychology, closely linked, are the salient features of the many brilliant plays described in Victor Mollo's Bridge Club.
Plein Sud: Scénario du film

Plein Sud: Scénario du film

Luc Béraud

... considérations sont déplacées. Il referme la porte sur lui. Cut La nuit. Carol est déjà couchée. Serge s'approche et tire toute la literie. Serge : Viens, on va refaire la cabane... Carol se dresse et rabat les draps et les couvertures. Carol : Garde ...
Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

Serge Raffy

Dopo anni di ricerche, Serge Raffy traccia il ritratto vivido di un personaggio complesso e inquietante, figura camaleontica, Líder Máximo, "Stalin dei tropici", ripercorrendo le tappe della sua vita e della sua parabola politica: dalle ...
The Best of the Victor Book for Boys

The Best of the Victor Book for Boys

Morris Heggie

Following 2010's successful publication of The Best of the Victor, Prion's sequel is this rip-roaring anthology of the best stories from The Victor Book for Boys, which was the bestselling DC Thomson annual published from 1964 to 1994.
Creative Pet Project: Animals and their artists drawn to one ...

Creative Pet Project: Animals and their artists drawn to one ...

Preview

Victor Torres was born in Colombia in 1978. He grew up in a little city caled Ibague. His artistic interest started around the age of seven, when Victor recals trying to draw a robot he was watching on a local television progr amme. When Victor ...
Enseignement de l'informatique:

Enseignement de l'informatique:

Serge Abiteboul

Le Conseil national du numérique, suite au rapport publié par l'Académie des Sciences en mai 2013, intitulé "L'enseignement de l'informatique en France - Il est urgent de ne plus attendre", a été saisi par Serge Abiteboul et Christine ...

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