How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City

Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games - Michael Llewellyn

Reducere. A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis ...

Connecting the emergence and development of certain dog breeds to both scientific understandings of race and blood as well as Britain's posture in ...

Reducere. Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. So...

From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the f...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Susan CahillIllustration(s): Includes 25 color photographs throughoutNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2...

DescriptionFor centuries, different types of dogs were bred around the world for work, sport, or companionship. But it was not until Victorian time...

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Reducere. How did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with i...

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Dogopolis suggests a surprising source of urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships.Publisher: The Universi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Greg CarpenterMoore. Gaiman. Morrison. They came from Northampton, West Sussex, and Glasgow, and even though they spoke wit...

Reducere. Award NameIndependent Publisher Book AwardsAward categoryEurope NonfictionAlready we're expecting something special. And that's exactly what Gary Z...

Reducere. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men: the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napol on III ...

DescriptionAfter the austerity, horror, and bloodshed of World War I, France longed for joy, light-heartedness, and sexual freedom. Men and newly e...

Following the evolution of a uniquely elegant capital - describing both the moments of ingenuity and enduring looks and icons that embody the city ...

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- Breathtaking images, some in gatefold format, convey the beauty and essence of the French capital- Special features and interesting facts bring t...

Inspired by Orwell, a brilliant portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris through the eyes of a young waiter scraping a living in the city.P...

Reducere. Woody Allen made the glamour of Paris in the twenties magical in Midnight In Paris--but was that really the case? The Lost Generation made up one o...

Reducere. "This story has haunted me since I was a child, " begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grand...

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Reducere. "From the New York cupcake wars to the perfect Parisian macaron, Thomas's passion is palpable, her sweet tooth, unstoppable."--Elizabeth Bard, best...

After the unexpected end of her decades-long marriage, Sonia Choquette relocated to a Paris still reeling from the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Together...

City of Stars is the detailed history of Paris Saint-Germain, Europe's youngest super club and one of the most polarising sides in the world. PSG's...

Reducere. Paris is "the world capital of memory and desire, " concludes one of the writers in this intimate and insightful collection of memoirs of the city....

The extraordinary story of Singapore told by the expert correspondent for the Financial TimesPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Jeevan V...

Jeevan Vasagar is a superb and evocative writer, and Lion City is a compelling, illuminating and personal history that will be regarded as the defi...

Reducere. "I have all the copies of The Paris Review and like the interviews very much. They will make a good book when collected and that will be very good ...

A visual exploration of the Paris dining scene, with stories, guides, and recommendations from everyday patrons and famous aficionados alike Paris ...

The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms. In this book, Nicholas Hammond takes a...

Reducere. Summary: Even as it has evolved over the course of many centuries, Notre-Dame Cathedral has persisted as a touchstone for Parisians and Christians ...

Reducere. The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the b...

DescriptionA historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Je...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tyler StovallA history of black Americans who settled in Paris, France, from 1900 to the present.

Reducere. "A top-notch walking tour of Paris. . . . The author's encyclopedic knowledge of the city and its artists grants him a mystical gift of access: doo...

Reducere. The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the significance of Paris in the writing of five influential French writers--Sarah Kofman, Patri...

Reducere. Alternate Reality is the comical telling of the mostly true story of how Steve Ross grew up in a dysfunctional family with dysfunctional relationsh...

Reducere. The Paris Bureau tells the story of the storytellers. Drawing on the lively dispatches of a forgotten American correspondent and his family in Pari...

Reducere. When vet Alex Tinson was plucked from the Australian outback to be chief vet in charge of the United Arab Emirates President's racing camels, he wa...

DescriptionOn April 16, 2019, the world looked on in horror as the Notre Dame Cathedral was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire. Notre Dame de P...

Reducere. For more than fifty years, The Paris Review has brought us revelatory and revealing interviews with the literary lights of our age. This critically...

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Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan's reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two va...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Notre-Dame de Paris, then keep reading...It was with horror and sadness that the people of the w...

Reducere. A Picador Paperback OriginalHow do great writers do it? From James M. Cain's hard-nosed observation that "writing a novel is like working on foreig...

Reducere. Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits tha...