The testament of God

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Harper&Row

French celebrity BHL's book commanded huge publicity and review attention on first hardcover publication and is now re-launched in paperback It is one of the most ghastly images of our time: the on-camera murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. But to acclaimed writer Bernard-Henri Levy the videotape was immediately suspect. Why did it still include a ransom demand - for F-16 fighters to be delivered to Pakistan? Were the kidnappers really just maniacal fundamentalists who killed Pearl because he was American and Jewish? Operating via a series of ruses - such as using his expired diplomatic passport - Levy set off to trace Pearl's final steps...and those of his killer. The result is a spell-binding book that combines a novelist's eye with riveting investigative journalism, as Levy travels the globe for the terrifying true story: to Los Angeles to talk to Pearl's family about his final, encrypted words; to England and Bosnia on the trail of the plot's mastermind; to Dubai, on the terrorist's money trail; to New Delhi, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and, most perilously, to Karachi. In this city, terrorists cross paths with nuclear scientists and the dreaded "services" and long-

Who Killed Daniel Pearl?

History

Americas

Duckworth & Co.

War, Evil and End of History

World

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

American Vertigo: Traveling America In The Footsteps Of Tocqueville

Travel

Travel Writing

Random House]

What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today?To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about our country. The result isAmerican Vertigo, a fascinating, wholly fresh look at a country we sometimes only think we know. From Rikers Island to Chicago mega-churches, from Muslim communities in Detroit to an Amish enclave in Iowa, Lévy investigates issues at the heart of our democracy: the special nature of American patriotism, the coexistence of freedom and religion (including the religion of baseball), the prison system, the “return of ideology” and the health of our political institutions, and much more. He revisits and updates Tocqueville’s most important beliefs, such as the dangers posed by “the tyranny of the majority,” explores what Europe and America have to learn from each other, and interprets what he sees with a novelist’s eye and a philosopher’s depth. Through powerful interview-based portraits across the spectrum of the American people, from prison guards to clergymen, from Norman Mailer to Barack Obama, from Sharon Stone to Richard Holbrooke, Lévy fills his book with a tapestry of American voices–some wise, some shocking. Both the grandeur and the hellish dimensions of American life are unflinchingly explored. And big themes emerge throughout, from the crucial choices America faces today to the underlying reality that, unlike the “Old World,” America remains the fulfillment of the world’s desire to worship, earn, and live as one wishes–a place, despite all, where inclusion remains not just an ideal but an actual practice. At a time when Americans are anxious about how the world perceives them and, indeed, keen to make sense of themselves, a brilliant and sympathetic foreign observer has arrived to help us begin a new conversation about the meaning of America.

American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville

Business & Money

Economics

The shocking book that caused a furor in Europe now comes to Australia...It was a horrible tragedy, but what if, hidden behind the story of the gruesome on-camera murder of journalist Daniel Pearl, was another, still darker story? What if the people who murdered him weren't actually fanatic followers of Osama bin Laden? What if he wasn't murdered - as was universally assumed - because he was Jewish and American? What if he was murdered because he was onto something? In a ground-breaking book that combines a novelist's eye with riveting investigative journalism, Bernard-Henri Levy, one of the world's most esteemed writers, retraces Pearl's final steps through a murky Islamic underworld, suffused by "an odor of the apocalypse." The investigation plunges Levy into his own heart of darkness - and a series of stunning revelations about who the real terrorists are.

Who killed Daniel Pearl?

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hardie Grant Books

R150215723. ENNEMIS PUBLICS. 2008. In-8. Broch. Bon tat, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intrieur frais. 323 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 920-Biographie gnrale et gnalogie

Ennemis Publics

Michel Houellbecq

Flammarion Gtasset

410pages. in8. broché jaquette. Est-ce la fin ou le retour de l'Histoire ? Qu'y a-t-il dans la tete d'un kamikaze ? Pourquoi Hegel et Kojeve croyaient-ils que le Mal n'a plus d'avenir ? Qu'a confie le commandant Massoud a l'auteur de ce livre en 1981 puis en 1998 ? Que disent les ruines de Sarajevo et de Manhattan ? Comment un Normalien, disciple d'Althusser, se retrouve-t-il, a 20 ans, dans les maquis du Pakistan Oriental ? Michel Foucault etait-il meilleur journaliste qu'Hemingway ? Pourquoi la guerre est-elle si jolie pour Proust, Apollinaire et Cocteau ? Quand le monde a-t-il bascule de la logique de Clausewitz a celle d'Oussama Ben Laden ? A quoi peut bien servir la philosophie dans les faubourgs de Bogota et de Bujumbura ? Suffirait-il, pour arreter le massacre, de tendre la main aux damnes du tiers monde ? Que veulent les terroristes ?.

Réflexions Sur La Guerre, Le Mal Et La Fin De L'Histoire, Précédé De Les Damnés De La Guerre (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Grasset & Fasquelle, Paris

Pourquoi les Juifs sont à jamais glorieux.Où est Ninive aujourd hui et que s y passe-t-il vraiment ?Proust et le Zohar, Claudel et le Livre d Isaïe.Vivons-nous, ou non, le retour des années 1930 ?Pourquoi il n est pas demandé de croire, mais de savoir.Comment le Royaume des Hébreux a inspiré l idée française de République et quand ce fait a été occulté.Lacan et la Kabbale.Ce qu Auschwitz eut d unique.Quand un talmudiste invente la langue française.Pourquoi l antisionisme est le masque de l antisémitisme de masse.Alexandre Kojève et le prophète Jonas.A quand un Talmud musulman ?Une conversation avec Romain Gary, une confidence de Michel Foucault.Partir ou rester ?Le sable contre la terre.Solal le fort, et sa couronne de carton.Qu est-ce qu un ' Peuple Élu ' ?Quand Louis Althusser jetait les bases de la grande alliance judéo-catholique.Ce que veut dire ' etre Juif '.Itinéraire personnel, familial, intellectuel, d un philosophe qui, trente-sept ans après Le Testament de Dieu, donne L Esprit du Judaïsme.

L'esprit du judaisme (French Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

French and European Publications Inc

Pourquoi les Juifs sont à jamais glorieux.Où est Ninive aujourd'hui et que s'y passe-t-il vraiment ?Proust et le Zohar, Claudel et le livre d'Isaïe.Vivons-nous, ou non, le retour des années trente ?Pourquoi il n'est pas demandé de croire, mais de savoir.Pourquoi l'antisionisme est le masque de l'antisémitisme de masse.À quand un Talmud musulman ?Une conversation avec Romain Gary, une confidence de Michel Foucault.Partir ou rester ?Le sable contre la terre.Solal le fort et sa couronne de carton.Qu'est-ce qu'un «peuple élu» ?Ce que veut dire « être juif »....

L'esprit du Judaism

Livre de poche

Sociology

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