Cultural Region/French
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French Women Don’t Get Facelifts: The Secret of Aging with Style & Attitude
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of the bestselling French Women Don’t Get Fat shares the secrets and strategies of aging with attitude, joy, and no surgery.
With her signature blend of wit, no-nonsense advice, and storyt- Author: Guiliano, Mireille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1455524107
- Language: English
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Bakewise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking with Over 200 Magnificent Recipes
$45.00 Add to cartThe James Beard Award-winning, bestselling author of CookWise and KitchenWise delivers a lively and fascinating guide to better baking through food science.
Follow kitchen sleuth Shirley Corriher as s- Author: Corriher, Shirley O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 1416560785
- Language: English
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Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic
$30.00 Read moreA French-Algerian journalist, born and brought up in a neglected Paris suburb, offers unique insight into crisis-ridden France from a very different perspective to the establishment elites
France, t- Author: Ramdani, Nabila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703251
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
$21.99 Add to cartIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Cla… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465057942
- Language: English
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The Story of French
$32.00 Add to cartWhy does everything sound better if it’s said in French? That fascination is at the heart of The Story of French, the first history of one of the most beautiful languages in the world that was, at on
- Author: Nadeau, Jean-Benoit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0312341849
- Language: English
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Dust to Dust: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartTim O’Brien meets Annie Dillard in this remarkable memoir by debut author Benjamin Busch. Much more than a war memoir, Dust to Dust brilliantly explores the passage through a lifetime–a moving medita
- Author: Busch, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0062014854
- Language: English
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French Grammar for Intermediate Level: The most complete textbook and workbook for French learners
$18.90 Add to cartLearn and master intermediate-level French grammar painlessly with straightforward step-by-step lessons and a built-in grammar workbook.
Inside “French Grammar for Intermediate Level” you’ll find:
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- Author: Bibard, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: December 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1684892767
- Language: English
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Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
$30.00 Read moreIn freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the lik
- Author: Braude, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324006013
- Language: English
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In Love with Paris: Recipes & Stories from the Most Romantic City in the World
$27.99 Add to cartFall in love with Paris, the food, the stories, and the city’s most romantic spots. A celebration of one of the world’s most beautiful cities, In Love with Paris is an irresistible combination of mout… [more below]
- Author: Weber, Anne-Katrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1784884723
- Language: English
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Power
$38.23 Add to cartPart of the definitive collection of Michel Foucault’s articles, interviews, and seminars, this volume lays out the philosopher’s influential thinking on the machinations of power in society
“A rare op
- Series: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 (Paperback) #03
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 08 2001
- ISBN10: 1565847091
- Language: English
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Saint-Exupery: A Biography
$36.99 Add to cartFrom a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authors
Antoine de Saint-Exup?y disappeared at age forty-four during a reco- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0805079130
- Language: English
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The Instant of My Death /Demeure: Fiction and Testimony
$22.00 Add to cartThis volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bo
- Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
- Author: Blanchot, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0804733260
- Language: English
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Eleven Madison Park: The Cookbook
$75.00 Add to cartEleven Madison Park is one of New York City’s preeminent fine-dining establishments, where Chef Daniel Humm marries the latest culinary techniques with classical technique.
Under Chef Humm’s leadershi- Author: Humm, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0316098515
- Language: English
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The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings
$17.95 Add to cart‘Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.’
Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Descartes, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199684138
- Language: English
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The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
$16.99 Add to cart“Splendid… Reading The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is the next best thing to a Paris vacation.” –Boston Globe
“Anyone who loves Paris and loves to walk will feel this book was written just for t
- Author: Baxter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0061998540
- Language: English
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The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
$35.00 Add to cartA definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy’s greatest champions
In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he- Author: Zunz, Olivier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0691173974
- Language: English
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Provence and the Côte d’Azur
$14.99 Read moreImmortalized on canvas by the likes of C?zanne and Van Gogh, Provence and the C?te D’Azur is a region resplendent with Roman ruins, stunning beaches, glamorous towns and beautiful countryside. Your DK… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0241472199
- Language: English
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All Gall Is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast
$17.99 Read more“An antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation”–Washington Post.
E. M. Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and “a sort of final philosopher of the Western world” wh- Author: Cioran, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1948924234
- Language: English
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Miguel Mañara
$23.75 Add to cartMiguel Mañara, written 1912, is undoubtedly Milosz’s best known work. It is the story of the original Don Juan, who ended his days in a monastery following a disordered life. It is a play in six
- Author: Milosz, Oscar Vladislas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1941457037
- Language: English
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Audrey Hepburn in Paris
$40.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Luca Dotti and Foreword by Giambattista Valli
A gorgeous, sophisticated celebration of Audrey Hepburn’s lifelong connection to the City of Light, featuring all the places in Paris she l
- Author: Friedlander, Meghan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063135523
- Language: English
