Cultural Region/French
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At the Table in Paris: Recipes from the Best Cafés and Bistros
$29.99 Read moreAt the Table in Paris invites readers to take a culinary stroll through the City of Light, along the Seine, over the Pont Neuf, to the Eiffel Tower, while taking little pit stops at street caf?s to ex… [more below]
- Author: Jan Thorbecke Verlag
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1784886912
- Language: English
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A Concise History of France
$35.00 Add to cartThis is the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of French history available ranging from the early middle ages to the present. Amongst its central themes are the relationships between state and so… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Price, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107603439
- Language: English
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The Bomb
$13.95 Add to cartHoward Zinn’s personal, historical, and political views on the significance of the US bombings of Royan and Hiroshima.
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0872865096
- Language: English
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Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom
$15.99 Add to cartIn the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protégé and friend of one of the world’s great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Pri
- Author: Burger, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0358108527
- Language: English
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
$30.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year
When her carriage first crossed over from her native Austria into France, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette was taken out, stripped naked before an- Author: Weber, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427344
- Language: English
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Maldoror and Poems
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing
Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautr?amont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lautr?amont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0140443428
- Language: English
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Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
$20.00 Add to cartMax Hastings’s “exceptional” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the famous World War II D-Day landings “[will] stand with that of the best journalists and writers who witnessed it” (The New Y… [more below]
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1982110775
- Language: English
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A Short History of Cahiers Du Cinema
$24.95 Add to cartCahiers du Cin ma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the ‘seventh art, ‘ equal to literature, painting or musi… [more below]
- Author: Bickerton, Emilie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1844677605
- Language: English
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The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo
$31.99 Add to cartThe true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy.
In May 1940, the remnants of the French an- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 150404911X
- Language: English
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$22.99 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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Poems of Paris
$20.00 Add to cartA beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems from across the ages inspired by the City of Light
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as has Paris. Poems of Pa- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Fragos, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1101908122
- Language: English
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Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1929, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France, there to be initiated into the ways of love and life. LONG AGO IN FRA… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0671755145
- Language: English
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The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s
$27.99 Add to cartCaught between the memory of a brutal war won at frightful cost and fear of another cataclysm, France in the 1930s suffered a failure of nerve. Brilliantly chronicled here by a master historian, this … [more below]
- Author: Weber, Eugen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0393314790
- Language: English
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Unreconciled: Poems 1991-2013; A Bilingual Edition
$23.99 Add to cartSelected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Submission and The Elementary Particles
A shimmering selection of poems chosen from four collections of one of France’s most exciting authors, Un- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538077
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Morocco: A History
$29.00 Add to cartThe Conquest of Morocco tells the story of France’s last great colonial adventure. At the turn of the twentieth century, Morocco was a nation yet to emerge from the Middle Ages, ruled by local warlord
- Author: Porch, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: May 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0374128804
- Language: English
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Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon’s Grande Armée
$32.99 Add to cartThis authoritative, comprehensive, and enthralling book describes and analyzes Napoleon’s most powerful weapon–the Grande Armée which at its peak numbered over a million soldiers. Elting examines ev
- Author: Elting, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0306807572
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East
$22.99 Add to cartIn this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general’s reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his f… [more below]
- Author: Cole, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0230606032
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
$24.99 Add to cartA comprehensive biography of the late designer, Karl Lagerfeld, and his infamous rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent.
In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Ami- Author: Drake, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0316001856
- Language: English
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White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America
$19.99 Add to cart“A fast-moving tale of courage, cruelty, hardship, and savagery.”–Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In North America’s first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and England–both i- Author: Brumwell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0306814730
- Language: English
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Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels Bergamasques
$14.00 Add to cartPierrot Lunaire: Rondels Bergamasques is an 1884 cycle of poems by Belgian author Albert Giraud that revolves around the character of Pierrot and the universe of the Commedia dell’arte. Initially rece
- Author: Giraud, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: May 14 2020
- ISBN10: 9083062600
- Language: English
