Books written by male authors (3637)
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Discourse on Method ; and : Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes EN
FranceDescription:
Contains English translations of Descartes' 1637 treatise Discourse on the Method for Conducting One's Reason Well and for Searching for Truth in the Sciences and a subsequent development of the ideas contained in it, Meditations on First Philosophy, first published in 1641. Includes a selected bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times **A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK** After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms o... continue
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Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of Pinochet's regime.
764.
Country: Asia / 
Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Description:
DIVAN of RUDAKITranslation & Introduction Paul SmithAbu 'Abd Allah Ja'far ibn Muhammad Rudaki (858-941) the 'father of Persian Poetry' and possibly the ruba'i, was born in the village of Rudak near Samarkand. First a wandering 'dervish' poet/minstrel he later served at the court of the Samanids of Bokhara. Nasr ibn Ahmad summoned him to his court and he prospered there amassing great wealth. He had 200 slaves in his retinue... and 400 camels carried his belongings when he travelled. In 937 he fell out of favour at court (and was blinded at this time as some commentators suggest) after the deat... continue
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Djamila by Tschingis Aitmatow DE
Country: Asia / 
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Description:
Louis Aragon schrieb über das Buch: Ich schwöre es, es ist die schönste Liebesgeschichte der Welt.
766.
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She's covered neo-Nazis and post-Katrina New Orleans, but now she's looking for an even bigger challenge. So Dara and her right-hand man Xavier head to Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, to tackle modern-day pirates. But they soon find a whole lot more than they bargained for and quickly learn that almost no one in Djibouti is what he seems. A mob of colourful characters patrols the seas, including a pirate chief with a taste for fine cars and an Oxford-educated sheik with scams of his own. And then there's the gun-toting Texan billion... continue
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Djibril ou Les ombres portées by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun FR
ChadDescription:
"Puisque le passé se dérobe, se dissout, je veux sauver le présent. L'emballer et le mettre en lieu sûr pour les générations futures. Je veux qu'ils sachent. Qu'ils ne tombent pas dans le trou noir du passé, comme moi. Contrairement aux gens d'ici, je parle peu. Je suis un taiseux. Je sais que nous avons eu la parole en héritage. Nous sommes condamnés à lui donner toute la place qui lui revient. "La parole, ça se décortique", disait un vieux sage burkinabè. Je suis chagriné de constater à quel point nous l'avons dévoyée, la parole". Dans une langue vive et fluide, riche et imagée, directe, Dji... continue
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Djinn City by Saad Z. Hossain EN
Country: Asia / 
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
"Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third world capital of Bangladesh. His father, Dr. Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan, the once illustrious Khan Rahman family ... When Dr. Kaikobad falls into a supernatural coma, Indelbed and his older cousin, the wise-cracking slacker Rais, learn that Indelbed's dad was in fact a magician--and a trusted emissary to the djinn world"--Amazon.com.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
By 2021, companies have built incredibly realistic androids. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government bans them from Earth, but when androids don't want to be identified, they just blend in. Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job is to find rogue androids and "retire" them. But cornered, they tend to fight back, with deadly results.
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Doña Barbara : A Novel by Rómulo Gallegos EN
Country: South America / 
Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
A novel of love and family conflicts set against the way of life on the huge ranches of the Plains and the Arauca river basin.