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The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture-the "Belle Epoque." Dominique Kalifa traces the maki...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Theresa (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto) EnrightIllustration(s): 9 figures; 9 Illustrations, unspeci...

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Reducere. Paris, the most romantic city on earth, is a place of second honeymoons and newly discovered passions. It lures us with a banquet of tastes, sound,...

Synthesizing the very latest research, this book focuses on the social context of personality disorders. It considers how personality traits and di...

Reducere. Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderWith an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the Dickson Carr short story "The Sha...

Paris to New York shows how competition and cooperation between transatlantic designers and entrepreneurs built the groundwork of today's internati...

Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds t...

Ernst Junger, one of twentieth-century Germany's most important and controversial writers, faithfully kept a journal during the Second World War in...

This expansive study brings to light a neglected history of suburban Paris as seen and reimagined by French filmmakers before the emergence of the ...

Reducere. Born in 1876, Natalie Barney-beautiful, charismatic, brilliant and wealthy-was expected to marry well and lead the conventional life of a privilege...

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

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the om...

Reducere. "The purpose, the illusion, the spirit of a waxworks. It is an atmosphere of death. It is soundless and motionless... Do you see?"Last night Mademo...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Esther da Costa MeyerIllustration(s): 60 color + 115 b/w illus.Number of pages: 416Publication date...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Nick UnderwoodIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 266Collection: The Mo...

During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state had power over the Opera in ways that were without precedent. The Opera effectively becam...

Reducere. Bruce Weber in the New York Times called Billy Collins the most popular poet in America. He is the author of many books of poetry, including, most ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mike PariseThe original and still most detailed guide book for surfers heading to Mexico's surf-packed Baja peninsula. This...

Reducere. Paris--the city of love, lights ... and murder? Join tour guide Lana Hansen as she escorts five couples on an unforgettable Valentine-themed vacati...

Reducere. A comprehensive autobiographical account of the transforming experiences possible with ayahuasca - Reveals the protocols of a traditional ayahuasca...

Publisher: Voyageur PressIllustration(s): 50 coloring pagesNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 217 x 253 x 12Cover type: Paperbac...

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Reducere. From 1891 to 1922, Texans burned an average of one person of color at the stake a year for three decades. These burnings typically featured carniva...

DescriptionErnst J nger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important--and most controversial--writers. Decorated for bravery in World War ...

Reducere. How W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of Black lives and the inequities of race in America...

This innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.Illustrations: 21 B/W ...

This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and soci...

A double murderAnd the killer -- whoever he was -- showed signs of getting rattled. Wade Paris knew he had to get him fast, before he could strike ...

Starting in the fourteenth century, northern France saw the rise of confraternities and other lay communities of men and women, organized around tr...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Khalil HabrihIllustration(s): 45 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 316Publication date: 2021Dim...

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

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Owen HollandNumber of pages: 240Collection: Reinventions of the Paris CommunePublication date: 2022Di...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty y...

Four "prophets" of art whose luminous work unfolds the mysteries of domestic lifePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Heather Lemonedes Brown...

Reducere. When The Paris Diary exploded on the scene in 1966 there had never been a book in English quite like it: Its intimate combination of personal, lite...

Reducere. In this volume, Randall B. Smith provides a revisionist account of the scholastic culture that flourished in Paris during the High Middle Ages. Exp...

Reducere. Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. Bringing together an intergener...

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world​ " Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a...

A WORLD OF ENLIGHTENMENT, REVOLUTION, AND INTRIGUE 1776: Benjamin Franklin sails to Paris, carrying a copy of the Declaration of Independence, fres...

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. "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...

Reducere. In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and c...

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Reducere. From the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians lived in a manner worthy of a place called Paris of the Plains. The t...

Reducere. A legendary capital of the arts, Paris hosted some of the most legendary developments in world culture -- particularly at the beginning of the twen...

Reducere. At Home in Our Sounds illustrates the effect jazz music had on the enormous social challenges Europe faced in the aftermath of World War I. Examini...

Reducere. From the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians lived in a manner worthy of a place called Paris of the Plains. The t...

Reducere. Few writers are as legendary as Ana s Nin. Her diaries, both expurgated and unexpurgated, and a host of biographies have documented her life in an ...

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected...

Reducere. This lavish over-size 10 x 12 book in beautiful landscape format brings to life the more than one dozen colorful places the great 20th century nove...

Publisher: Ulysses PressAuthor(s): Paris AjanaNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 185 x 21Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

Asia After Versailles addresses an important watershed for Asian nations - the response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It marked the end of...

DescriptionIn the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, caf s, dancehalls, and eve...

Reducere. Arthur Briggs's life was Homeric in scope. Born on the tiny island of Grenada, he set sail for Harlem during the Renaissance, then to Europe in the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Richard FeldsteinEditor: Bruce FinkEditor: Maire JaanusThis book provides the first truly sustained commentary to appear in...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: T. J. ClarkThe Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, caf s, parks, and su...

As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barrie...