The MacMahons are the central characters and even more so when Helen the wife & mother disappears..everyone assumes that she has drowned in the lake.Thus beginsa tangles,touching,& sometimes tragis story of love,loss & misunderstanding.

Product Description: La tesis del "Discurso" es audaz, sobre todo en un contexto de exaltación de la ciencia y del conocimiento como es el siglo XVIII: el establecimiento de las ciencias y las artes no ha contribuido a depurar las costumbres, sino a corromperlas...read more

Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men is a philosophy classic by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau Rousseau first exposes in this work his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction (like by Hobbes, unlike by Locke), and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century, mainly active in France. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought. Rousseau's novel Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings—his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker—exemplified the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility, and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing. His Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophes among members of the Jacobin Club. He was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.

One of the towering figures of the Enlightenment was Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose works were essential to the ideological developments of the 18th century.  The prestige of French literature in the 18th century resides especially in its revolutionary character; while the writers of the previous century used to support the social order through their works and showed sympathy and even attempted to explain the political order of the time, in the 18th century, art, literature, philosophy and science all contribute actively and fiercely to the fight against the absolutist monarch and his regime. While this was a current manifesting all throughout Europe, there were differences in practice, especially between close countries (as was the case of England and France). Rousseau's life can best be described as a constant conflict, whether it was conflict with his wife, his employers, his colleagues and even his friends. However, such situations led to the birth of masterpieces which have been influencing the advancement of critical thinking up to the present day. The roots of his personality may be found in his childhood, as the death of his mother and the fleeing of his older brother left him with a father who impressed upon him the love for studying and reading but could not cover for the other needs of a child. Thus, the absence of a family would affect his later relations with people, and it would even compel Rousseau to abandon all his five children in an orphanage, an ironic fact given that he published a treaty on education.It’s quite likely that Rousseau realized the nature of the battles he fought. In fact, towards the end of his life, whether he was motivated by repentance or simply a need to advance his work, he provided his readers with explanations of all his actions and ideas. The “Confessions” were published after his death, and it is now considered by many to round his life’s work into a single opus. 

Product Description: Confessions is Rousseau's autobiography of sorts, which if you've never read it, might not sound so thrilling coming from a Romantic writer and philosopher from the Enlightenment era: oh, but it is. He's self-centered, yet uncensored, paranoid, yet lucid, dishonest, yet totally charming and brilliant...read more

Product Description: The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right (Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique) (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is the book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754)...read more

Product Description: Se dice que este libro fue uno de los muchos incitadores de la Revolución francesa por sus ideas políticas. Bajo la teoría del contrato social se fundamenta buena parte de la filosofía liberal, en especial el liberalismo clásico por su visión filosófica del individuo como fundamental, que luego decide vivir en sociedad por lo que necesita del Estado de Derecho que asegure las libertades para poder convivir...read more

Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An editor for The Washington Post highlights the legal wrangling involved in saving or ending the lives of death-row inmates and portrays the morbid lives of the inmates awaiting the ultimate punishment. Reprint. NYT.

LAPD Detective Peter Decker doesn’t know quite what to make of Lilah Brecht. The beautiful, eccentric spa owner and daughter of a faded Hollywood legend, Lilah was beaten, robbed, and raped in her own home—and claims to have psychic powers that enable her to see even more devastating events looming on the horizon. With his heart and mind on his pregnant young wife, Rina Lazarus, at home, Peter finds it hard to put much credence in the victim’s outrageous claims, or to become too deeply involved with her equally odd brothers and aging film star mom. But when Lilah’s dark visions turn frighteningly real, Decker’s world will be severely rocked—as the “false prophet’s” secrets and obsessions entrap the dedicated policeman . . . and point a killer toward Decker’s own vulnerable family.

The exclusive community surrounding London's Paragon Walk is startled by the brutal rape and murder of a young woman, and, when Inspector Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, investigate, the community's Victorian facade begins to crumble

After pulling Alexander Taylor, the wealthy, handsome grandson of a former president, from a burning car wreck, helicopter pilot Captain Joanna West finds herself swept into a dangerous and passionate romance, only to discover a new threat to her career, her chance at love, and her life. Original.

A complacent young teacher finds his life irrevocably changed when a beautiful woman demands to know if he believes in fairy tales and then draws him into one, setting him on the trail of magical creatures and an elusive princess. Reprint.

Product Description: Dans Du contrat social, Rousseau établit qu’une organisation sociale « juste » repose sur un pacte garantissant l’égalité et la liberté entre tous les citoyens. Ce pacte est contracté entre tous les participants, c’est-à-dire l’ensemble exhaustif des citoyens...read more

Product Description: Rousseau a formulé ses « principes du droit politique » dans le Contrat social et traité à leur lumière de Genève, la Corse, et la Pologne. Mais son oeuvre publiée, si elle pose les conditions d'une société légitime, n'évoque qu'occasionnellement les relations entre États...read more