Product Description: Michel Winock’s biography situates Gustave Flaubert’s life and work in France’s century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected the universal male suffrage hard won by the Revolution of 1848, and he was exasperated by the nascent socialism that promoted the collective to the detriment of the individual...read more

Product Description: Pocket-size, featuring God's promises in clear, easy-to-understand verses, categorized by topic for easy reference. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Tierno Monenembo's The King of Kahel was originally published in France in 2008 and was the winner of the French literary prize, the prix Renaudot, which is awarded to the author of an outstanding original novel.  Loosely based on the life of Olivier de Sanderval, a man who journeyed to Guinea to build an empire by conquering the hostile region of Fouta Djallon, the book exposes how Sanderval braves all dangers to build a railway that will bring modern civilization to Africa...read more

A lavish array of full-color photographs explores the contradictory world of India, at once the world's most densely populated country, the tiger's last remaining natural habitat, and a world in which tradition and modernity intertwine to reveal a culture, philosophy, and approach to life vastly different from that of the West.

One of a series that examines a range of financial activities and the regulatory framework in which they operate, this title looks at the offence of money laundering and its different forms, including the laundering of drugs related money, seizure and forfeiture of property.