This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thesis that children are naturally good at birth violated the traditional Christian doctrine of origin sin. His argument that education should arise from children's natural instincts and impulses rather than trying to civilize and socialize them challenged traditional schooling. Rousseau's defenders see him as a pioneering thinker whose revolutionary...

On the train, his fellow passengers are impressed with how polite and grown-up Emil is, and the man in the bowler hat offers him some chocolate-but Emil keeps checking his coat pocket, where he's pinned the money that he is taking to his grandmother. Soon, though, Emil finds himself getting sleepy . . . and the next thing he knows, the man in the bowler hat is gone- and so is the money! With the help of some new friends Emil becomes a detective and...

"City of Ice, John Farrow's first book in his acclaimed Emile Cinq-Mars series, which has been hailed by Booklist as "the best series in crime fiction today," has been published in over 17 countries. Now with The Storm Murders, the series continues. On the day after a massive blizzard, two policemen are called to an isolated farm house sitting all by itself in the middle of a pristine snow-blanketed field. Inside the lonely abode are two dead people....

Getting inside is easy, the stress comes in getting out clean. A case of breaking and entering escalates after Émile Cinq-Mars transfers from the Night Patrol. Montreal, 1975. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol — the notoriously tough department of officers in charge of watching over the city as it sleeps — to the day shift. His old superior has seen to it that he's assigned to partner Yves Giroux, another ex-Night...

"Remarkable stuff. Fans of Bill James' Harpur and Iles saga of cops and robbers are in for quite a treat" - Kirkus Reviews Starred Review Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars fails with a task set to him by his former captain and the consequences look set to spark a gangland war in Montreal. Montreal, 1978. Newly promoted Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars attends the scene of seventeen break-ins at an apartment complex. Nothing more than stolen...

München, Stunde null - ein grausames Verbrechen und eine alte Schuld. München, August 1945. Der Krieg ist zu Ende, die Stadt versinkt im Chaos. Die Reporterin Billa Löwenfeld, eine aus dem Exil zurückgekehrte Jüdin, soll den Kriegsheimkehrer Viktor von Dietlitz interviewen - und findet ihn erschossen auf. Der junge und noch unerfahrene Ermittler Emil Graf soll den vermeintlichen Routinefall aufklären. Schon bald geschehen zwei weitere Morde...

Die Unschuld der Täter. München, 1946. In einer Siedlung am Nordrand der Stadt wird die Leiche einer Frau gefunden. Am Tatort begegnet Mordermittler Emil Graf ausgerechnet der jungen Reporterin Billa Löwenfeld, die mit ihrer neuen Reportage Licht ins Dunkel der Verbrechen der Nationalsozialisten bringen will. Im Zuge ihrer Recherchen macht sie den ehemaligen Blockwart der Siedlung ausfindig. Nur widerwillig räumt er ein, dass seine Frau spurlos...