Product Description: This is a vivid portrait of the French historical profession in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, concluding just before the emergence of the famous Annales school of historians. It places the profession in its social, academic, and political context and shows that historians of the period have been unfairly maligned as amateurish and primitive in comparison to their more celebrated successors...read more

An exploration of the nature of autobiographical memory tackles such phenomena as deja-vu, near death experiences, and memory feats of idiot savants, in a volume that blends scholarship, poetic sensibility, and observation.

Product Description: Is it true, as the novelist Cees Nooteboom once wrote, that memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases? Where do the long, lazy summers of our childhood go? Why, as we grow older, does time seem to condense, speed up and elude us, while in old age, significant events from our distant past can seem as vivid and real as what happened yesterday? Douwe Draaisma, author of the internationally acclaimed Metaphors of Memory (Cambridge, 2001), explores the nature of autobiographical memory...read more

Product Description: A witty and erudite collection of human folly, foible and acts of stupidity. Illustrated with many unusual and quirky images. Featured in a recent New York Times article."An illustrated hodgepodge of ruminations, anecdotes, aphorisms, and esoterica, the book attacks its subject obliquely, spinning a theory of stupidity while cataloging its sightings...read more

Product Description: Matthijs van Boxsel believes that no one is intelligent enough to understand their own stupidity. In The Encyclopædia of Stupidity he shows how stupidity manifests itself in all areas, in everyone, at all times, proposing that stupidity is the foundation of our civilization...read more

Product Description: In May 68 a student protest spread to other universities, to Paris factories and in a few weeks to most of France. A million Parisians marched; ten million workers went out on strike. At the center of the fray was Daniel Cohn-Bendit...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Expelled from school and estranged from his father, a cynical young man wanders the streets of Amsterdam, spending his remaining funds on prostitutes and surviving on the strength of his wit and humor. A first novel. (view table of contents)

Product Description: An in-depth analysis of the changes in the Hungarian Communist Party, the difficulties it experienced during the early stages, its development and internal structure, as well as its relationship with Moscow and the Komintern. It also treats of the well-known personalities of the party, including Bela Kun, Georg Lucacs, Matyas Rakosi, Laszlo Rajk, Imre Nagy and Janos Kadar...read more

Product Description: A well-known authority in the field provides a wide-ranging exploration of the repercussions of the First World War upon the French people.