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Daniel Roche

    Daniel Roche is a French social and cultural historian whose primary research focuses on the cultural history of France during the later years of the Ancien Régime. He delves into the everyday lives, mentalities, and social transformations that shaped French society in the lead-up to the revolution. His work illuminates the subtle nuances and intricate processes driving the evolution of French culture and society. Roche's analyses provide profound insights into the mindset and customs of the era's inhabitants.

    Why Men Lie & Women Cry
    Deception Point
    Angels and Demons
    France in the Enlightenment
    • Rachel Sexton works for the National Reconnaissance Office as an intelligence officer. She is also the daughter of a Senator currently running for President. Her father s main offensive, and a very popular one, against the incumbent President is to attack

      Deception Point2006
      3.8
    • Angels and Demons

      • 636 pages
      • 23 hours of reading

      CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. In a breathtaking race against time, Harvard professor Robert Langdon must decipher a labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols if he is to defeat those responsible - the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years, reborn to continue their deadly vendetta against their most hated enemy, the Catholic Church.

      Angels and Demons2005
      4.0
    • Why Men Lie & Women Cry

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      The authors of the international bestsellers WHY MEN DON'T LISTEN AND WOMEN CAN'T READ MAPS and THE DEFINTIVE BOOK OF BODY LANGUAGE teach strategies for happier, more fulfilled relationships.

      Why Men Lie & Women Cry2002
      3.8
    • France in the Enlightenment

      • 736 pages
      • 26 hours of reading

      The foremost historian of 18th-century France explores how the Old Regime's institutions operated and how they were understood by the people who worked within them. Roche depicts the "culture of appearances"--the food and clothing, living quarters, and reading material of the peasant, the merchant, the noble, the King, from Paris to the provinces.

      France in the Enlightenment2000
      3.6