How can the United Nations meet the huge expectations placed upon it as peace maker, peace keeper and peace enforcer? What is the role of the UN and the major powers in the "new world order"? Why was the high-risk peace-keeping operation in Cambodia ultim

Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history.  The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and

Les principaux thèmes abordés; - L’héritage de Byzance et de Constantinople; - L’influence et les richesses des différentes cultures de  l’Empire; - La calligraphie et les miniatures
- Les textiles et la broderie (soieries, velours, brochés, …)
- Les tapi

Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo's trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the Landless), this story of an ex

This work presents the medieval historical cartography of the south Caucasus. Volume contains 82 mediaeval maps with 24 details from Latin, Byzantine, Islamic, Syriac and Armenian traditions. 98 of these illustrations are in full colour. Co-published by G

The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now

Au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, les couvents de contemplatives connurent en France un nouvel essor à la suite de la flambée de mysticisme consécutive au Concile de Trente. A quelques rares exceptions, la stricte observance de la règle y fut restaurée et le ser