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Isabelle Forrester is the wife of a Parisian banker who has long since shut her out of his heart. She has one secret pleasure: a long-distance friendship with a man who, like Isabelle, is trapped in a loveless marriage. To Bill Robinson, Isabelle is a kindred spirit. Agreeing to meet for a few precious, innocent days in London, they find their...

A variety of different social, natural, and technological systems can be described by the same mathematical framework. This holds from the Internet to food webs and to boards of company directors. In all these situations a graph of the elements of the system and their interconnections displays a universal feature. There are only few elements with...

Why do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our lives? And what should we do about it? Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work we hope to have a measure of control over our lives. Yet for many of us, work is a straitjacket from which we cannot free ourselves. Criss-crossing the world to visit workplaces and...

Les quatre récits qui composent ce recueil participent d'une inspiration commune et illustrent, a travers des différences d'arguments et de structure, la préoccupation essentielle de l'auteur du Bavard. Ils sont comme les étapes d'une longue et patiente démarche, parfois orientée, parfois errante, mais toujours en quete d'un but peut-etre...

lsquo;The hour is come, as master of my fate, To prove in man the stature of a godrsquo; The medieval myth of Faustrsquo;s pact with the devil preoccupied Goethe for most of his working life and in the thirty years during which he worked on Part One he reshaped the legend to dramatize his own very personal concerns as a poet. His version depicts...

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! The capital of cool London is swinging again. The latest design trends, the best musicals, the most innovative plays and films are born in the capital of "Cool Britannia". What catches on in Notting Hill, Soho and Hoxton now influences taste as far away as the North Cape and Tierra del Fuego. At the...