France Divided

A lost child, a family divided, the bitter backdrop of war - set in 19th-century France.

Ayrshire 1597. The truce between the Cunninghame and Montgomerie clans is fragile. For the Munros living in hiding under assumed names, these are d...

At the end of September 1894 a charlady stole an undated and unsigned letter from the wastepaper bin of the German military attache in Paris. Torn ...

Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945-54), except in the south. He shows ...

Reducere. DescriptionBoris Vian is a rare phenomenon. Nothing short of a national treasure in France, he is hardly known overseas. In his lifetime, he divide...

The book is divided into five main chapters, each focusing on a different theme: Monet's earliest drawings and paintings of trees; his atmospheric ...

Reducere. Do you know why the Queen of England used to ride around Nice in a little cart pulled by a donkey? Or why the Apollo Fountain in Place Massena does...

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Reducere. Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John. Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, se...

Reducere. DescriptionSir Josse d'Aquin is summoned to assist the beleaguered King John in the 17th - and final - Hawkenlye mystery. September, 1216. A foreig...

This collection assembles the works of fiction that Charles Nodier (1780-1844), one of the great pioneers of the French Romantic Movement, publishe...

Reducere. The Purple Palace & other Poems is the debut Poetry collection by Artist Shayna Klee. The semi-autobiographical book is divided into two parts and ...

Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry--the work of a man whose life lasted for ne...

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DescriptionThe concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one...

Japan was closed to the world until 1854 and its technology then was literally medieval. Great Britain, France, and Russia divided the globe in the...

DescriptionStep into the fantastical world where Stan Manoukian's complex and intricate creatures inhabit. Zoologia: The Art of Stan Manoukian is a...

Because of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary curren...

Reducere. Finding Fire is a book about cooking with fire. Now with a new cover, it tells the story of how the UK-trained chef Lennox Hastie learnt the langua...

Reducere. Stitch your way to a better day! The 30 cross-stitch designs in Gail Bussi's signature chalk art, hand-lettering style, will encourage mindful, rel...

Reducere. "WWII scholar John Kelly triumphs again" (Vanity Fair) in this remarkably vivid account of a key moment in Western history: The critical six months...

DescriptionCompact and affordable, Fodor's 25 Best Paris 2020 is a great travel guide for those who want an easy-to-pack guidebook and map to one o...

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DescriptionThe fate of the free world hung in the balance. Stalin's Soviet Union sought to drive the Western democracies from Germany to continue t...

From migrations to pop culture, loss to la d rive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape--borders and citizenshi...

3, 822 perimeter miles. 11, 247 rivers and streams. 8, 749 feet at its height. 268, 596 square miles in total. Texas is big. Julius Caesar once qui...

Reducere. First published in France In 1947, Merleau-Ponty's essay was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's novel, Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense...

War-time France - intrigue, deception and divided loyalties. Under the Mediterranean sun, a shadowy world where ambivalence and compromise test loy...

Reducere. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain that recounts the life of Joan of Arc. It is Twai...