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Ducasse Flavors of France

By: Alain Ducasse,Linda Dannenberg

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One hundred inventive recipes demonstrate the principles of the changing face of French cookery, a cuisine that incorporates the best in traditional French dishes, along with Mediterranean and Provenc+a2al influences. 25,000 first printing. BOMC Good Cook Alt.

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1579653197

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GMO 101

A Practical Guide

By: MR Alain Braux

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GMO 101

A Practical Guide

By: MR Alain Braux

Dear Chef Alain. Thank you for caring and having the initiative of creating a book that will help bring much needed information about GMOs. This amazing book, will help us all live healthier lives, while also caring for the environment. Thank you for thinking ahead and caring not only for our health , but also for the future of the Earth. Wishing you the best in health. One Planet for all, all for one Planet. – Rachel Parent. Founder, Kids Right To Know. Twitter: @RachelsNews What a wonderful resource, Chef Alain Braux has created for us! In his 5th book on food and health, Alain Braux explores the dark sides of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our environment. He reviews how GMOs came to be and then became a major force in our current agricultural and industrial environment and, most importantly, how GMOs are beginning to adversely affect our health. Chef Alain explores the negative effects of GMOs on our immune systems, increasing the risk of developing food allergies, leading to the development of autoimmune diseases. The book also includes a comprehensive list of genetically engineered ingredients hidden in our food supply. What most of us do not realize is that GMOs are also used in the manufacturing of many vitamins and nutritional supplements! Chef Alain has given us the ultimate reference guide to keeping GMOs out of your life! As a practicing physician, a clinical researcher and a champion of using “Food As Medicine”, I highly recommend this book. If you care about your health, your family’s health, and the future of humanity this book is for you. – Dr. Terry Wahls. Clinical professor of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, U. S. A. Author, The Wahls Protocol. How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine at TerryWahls.com Chef Alain has provided a wonderful introduction for some, and resource for others wanting to expand their knowledge of GM foods. He’s written an accurate account of the beginning of the GMO takeover of our food system, while disproving the seed oligarchies propaganda and myths, and covering the many health concerns that are constantly present in our grocery stores. It covers the many important facts that are part of this issue, I wish for anyone trying to gain more knowledge of their food to read this book. – Birke Baehr. Internationally-known Youth Food Advocate, Author, Public Speaker, and Future Farmer in organic and sustainable farming practices at Birke on the Farm As a chef, Alain Braux has a deep appreciation for good-tasting, nutritious, and sustainably produced food. At the same time, he has a deep concern for foods that pose risks to our health and the environment, such as genetically engineered foods. He clearly expresses his concerns in GMO 101. A Practical Guide to Genetically Engineered Food. In this comprehensive book, Chef Alain describes the history of genetically engineered foods, how they are made, and, most importantly, how they threaten our health. He also lists, in incredible detail, the foods and ingredients that are derived from GMOs. In order to stop this uncontrolled experiment on our food, more and more people must become aware of this threat. GMO 101. A Practical Guide to Genetically Engineered Food is an excellent tool to learn about GMOs and to avoid them. – Ken Roseboro. Editor and Publisher, The Organic & Non-GMO Report This book is one of the most amazing GMO Truth guides in existence today, not only clearly detailing the harms, but providing a practical guideline to avoid the known dangers of these genetically engineered and agrochemical contaminated foods. I highly suggest anyone who is aware of the issue to read it and spread it far and wide! – Sayer Ji. Author, researcher, and lecturer on GMO issues; Steering Committee Member of the Global GMO Free Coalition (GGFC); Advisory board member of the National Health Federation.

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Alain Braux International Publishing, LLC.

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098428835X

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9780984288359

A Week at the Airport

By: Alain De Botton

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A Week at the Airport

By: Alain De Botton

The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel spends a week at an airport in a wittily intriguing meditation on the "non-place" that he believes is the centre of our civilization. In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever writer-in-residence. Given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around one of the world's busiest airports, he met travellers from all over the globe, and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots, and senior executives to the airport chaplain. Based on these conversations he has produced this extraordinary meditation on the nature of travel, work, relationships, and our daily lives. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, he explores the magical and the mundane, and the interactions of travellers and workers all over this familiar but mysterious "non-place," which by definition we are eager to leave. Taking the reader through departures, "air-side," and the arrivals hall, de Botton shows with his usual combination of wit and wisdom that spending time in an airport can be more revealing than we might think.

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Emblem Editions

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0771026285

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9780771026287

William Gilpin’s Letter-Writer

By: Alain Kerhervé

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William Gilpin’s Letter-Writer

By: Alain Kerhervé

Among the numerous letter-writing manuals which were printed in eighteenth-century Britain, a few were authored by such famous novelists as Samuel Richardson or Daniel Defoe. The present volume is a first-time edition of an autograph manual devised by William Gilpin, commonly known as one of the theoreticians of the picturesque, which he intended either for individual use in the schools he was teaching or for publication. The manual was exclusively devised for boys and men. Although its primary purpose was to provide models of letters on various occasions (at school, in apprenticeship, in debts, in mourning), its content is also partly fictional, since several groups of letters provide short stories about the lives of young soldiers writing home, reformed rakes making a fortune in India or fathers trying to correct their sons’ misdemeanours. The whole tone is highly moral, since the manual was also conceived as a work of edification. As such, it is an excellent counterpart to the correspondence which William Gilpin exchanged with his grandson, William Writes to William: The Correspondence of William Gilpin (1724–1804) and his Grandson William (1789–1811) (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). The manual is presented with an introduction, notes, index and appendix of a list of eighteenth-century letter-writing manuals, focusing on the issues of sources, society and epistolary writing.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443868019

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9781443868013

The Classic French Reader

By: Alain de Fivas

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The Classic French Reader

By: Alain de Fivas

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375168608

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9783375168605

Living Gluten and Dairy-Free with French Gourmet Food

By: Alain Braux

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Living Gluten and Dairy-Free with French Gourmet Food

By: Alain Braux

Chef Braux demonstrates a vast knowledge of the gluten-free, casein-free diet, bringing together in one book not only how and why this diet works for both individuals on the Autism spectrum and for those diagnosed with Celiac disease, but also recipes, resources, and a concise shopping list. I highly recommend this book to anyone that would like to improve their health with the GFCF diet. - Kecia Johndrow. Vice President. National Autism Association of Central Texas Chef Alain Braux has done it again! This book will take you on a sweet escape: an escape to gluten and dairy-free heaven! His recipes, witty writing and clever tips will help you make a stress-free transition to the gluten and dairy-free lifestyle. This book is full of easy-to-read educational materials and resources to help you feel better. Whether you are newly diagnosed or have been gluten-free for 30 years, you will find yourself referring this book time and time again. - Jessica Meyer, Owner and Chef of ATX Gluten-Free

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Alain Braux

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0984288317

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9780984288311

Visceral Vascular Manipulations E-Book

By: Jean-Pierre Barral,Alain Croibier

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Visceral Vascular Manipulations E-Book

By: Jean-Pierre Barral,Alain Croibier

This work demonstrates a novel approach to visceral osteopathy. Basing their ideas on anatomy and physiology, Jean-Pierre Barral and Alain Croibier propose manipulation of the arteries to treat the intestines and other internal organs by increasing their blood flow. The arteries, elastic and muscular in structure, and the innumerable nerve filaments which surround them, react ideally to manual treatment. To be effective, however, these manipulations must be specific and precise. Thanks to the authors' long experience as therapists, their mastery of osteopathic techniques and the aid of ultrasound technology, they have devised innovative techniques to improve the visceral vascular circulation. In this book the authors show the various sites of the principle pulses of the body and summarise the physiology of the circulation of the blood. The main organs and their physiology are addressed and include the heart, pancreas, small intestine, colon and other abdominal structures as well as the regions of the neck, skull and pelvic cavity. Rich in detailed, high quality illustrations, this book serves as both an anatomical reference and a guide to carrying out visceral vascular manipulations in the most effective way possible. The work is aimed at experienced osteopaths as well as those in training, and at other manual therapists who wish to widen their scope. - Offers practical and clinically relevant information to all practitioners and therapists working in the field - Abundant use of pull-out boxes, line artwork, photographs and tables facilitates ease of understanding - Prepared by experts of international renown - Covers treatment of the main organs including the heart, pancreas, small intestine, colon and other abdominal structures as well as the regions of the neck, skull and pelvic cavity - Serves as both an anatomical reference and a guide to carrying out visceral vascular manipulations in the most effective way possible - Suitable for osteopathic physicians and osteopaths, chiropractors, physical therapists, manual therapists, physiotherapists, and massage therapists

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702049832

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9780702049835

Good Taste

A Life of Food and Passion

By: Alain Ducasse

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Good Taste

A Life of Food and Passion

By: Alain Ducasse

A memoir and manifesto from the world’s most Michelin starred chef, Alain Ducasse, with introductions by internationally renowned writer Jay McInerney and chef Clare Smyth. At twelve years old, Alain Ducasse had never been to a restaurant. Less than fifteen years later, he received his first Michelin star. Today he is one of just two chefs to have been awarded twenty-one stars. Now, for the very first time, Ducasse shares a lifetime of culinary inspirations and passions in a book that is part memoir and part manifesto. Good Taste takes us on a journey from his childhood, where he picked mushrooms with his grandfather on a farm in Les Landes, to setting up groundbreaking schools and restaurants across the world. He is now taking off his chef’s whites and passing on what he knows to the next generation. Ducasse writes a poignant ode to the humble vegetables that have inspired his entire cuisine and to the masters that guided him along the way, from Paris to New York to Tokyo. As he looks to the future, he reflects on just what ‘good taste’ means.

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Gallic Books

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191354771X

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9781913547714

The Life of an Unknown

The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-century France

By: Alain Corbin

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The Life of an Unknown

The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-century France

By: Alain Corbin

Corbin recreates the life and world of a man about whom nothing is known except for his entries in the civil registries and historical knowledge about the times in which he lived: Louis-Francois Pinagot, a forester and clog maker who lived during the heart of the nineteenth century--the age of Romanticism, of Hugo and Berlioz--from the Napoleonic Wars to the Third Republic.

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Columbia University Press

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0231118406

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9780231118408

Immunoassays in Food and Agriculture

By: Alain Paraf,G. Peltre

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Immunoassays in Food and Agriculture

By: Alain Paraf,G. Peltre

Immunochemistrys and immunoassays (antigens, antibodies, antibody production, antibody-antigen reaction); Immunoassays in agriculture (immunoassays for animal husbandry, immunoassays in plant production); Immunoassays in the agrofood industry (milk and cheese industries, other fermentative processes, immunoassays for meat products, thermo-extrusion, food storage); Immunoassays for the environment (water pollution, soil pollutants).

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0746201230

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9780746201237

Analytical Separation Science, 5 Volume Set

By: Jared Anderson,Alain Berthod,Veronica Pino,Apryll M. Stalcup

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Analytical Separation Science, 5 Volume Set

By: Jared Anderson,Alain Berthod,Veronica Pino,Apryll M. Stalcup

Endlich ein Forschungsleitfaden für Wissenschaftler des Fachgebiets, die neue Methoden entwickeln oder einsetzen. Dieses Handbuch umfasst fünf thematische Bände und bietet damit einen umfassenden Überblick über das Fachgebiet. Erläutert werden Grundlagen, die Methodenentwicklung und hochkarätige Anwendungen für alle wichtigen Analyseverfahren, darunter chromatische Verfahren, Techniken in den Bereichen Elektromigration und Membranen. Dieses Referenzwerk umfasst ein breites Spektrum und legt den Schwerpunkt auf Entwicklungen für die Zukunft. Damit ist es ein Muss für Forscher und eine wertvolle Wissensquelle für Studenten im Hauptstudium und Studienabsolventen.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527333746

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9783527333745

English Food Vocabulary to French, German, Japanese, Italian and Spanish V3

By: Alain Bertocchi

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English Food Vocabulary to French, German, Japanese, Italian and Spanish V3

By: Alain Bertocchi

English Food Vocabulary to French, German, Japanese, Italian and Spanish FOR RESTAURANT PEOPLE This book will be helpful if you are working in a restaurant and you want to help your non English speaking customers with a very basic description of the dishes on the menu. Also if you are travelling abroad and you want to tell the restaurant staff or a shopkeeper what you want to eat or buy. My knowledge of the Japanese language is no more than what is contained in this book. It is enough knowledge for me to be able to help my Japanese customers decide what they want to eat. All I do is point to a dish on the menu and say the keyword, for example “Tori” for chicken, “kaki” for oysters and so on. Have fun, Alain Bertocchi

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BookRix

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3743832550

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9783743832558

The Architecture of Happiness

By: Alain De Botton

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The Architecture of Happiness

By: Alain De Botton

Bestselling author Alain de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, and how we could build dwellings in which we would stand a better chance of happiness. In this witty, erudite look at how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings, Alain de Botton applies Stendhal’s motto that “Beauty is the promise of happiness” to the spaces we inhabit daily. Why should we pay attention to what architecture has to say to us? de Botton asks provocatively. With his trademark lucidity and humour, de Botton traces how human needs and desires have been served by styles of architecture, from stately Classical to minimalist Modern, arguing that the stylistic choices of a society can represent both its cherished ideals and the qualities it desperately lacks. On an individual level, de Botton has deep sympathy for our need to see our selves reflected in our surroundings; he demonstrates with great wisdom how buildings — just like friends — can serve as guardians of our identity. Worrying about the shape of our sofa or the colour of our walls might seem self-indulgent, but de Botton considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes at a new level of depth and insight. When shopping for furniture or remodelling the kitchen, we don’t just consider functionality but also the major questions of aesthetics and the philosophy of art: What is beauty? Can beautiful surroundings make us good? Can beauty bring happiness? The buildings we find beautiful, de Botton concludes, are those that represent our ideas of a meaningful life. The Architecture of Happiness marks a return to what Alain does best — taking on a subject whose allure is at once tantalizing and a little forbidding and offering to readers a completely beguiling and original exploration of the subject. As he did with Proust, philosophy, and travel, now he does with architecture.

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551993872

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9781551993874

Echinoderms Through Time

By: Bruno David,Alain Guille,Jean-Pierre Feral

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Echinoderms Through Time

By: Bruno David,Alain Guille,Jean-Pierre Feral

Echinoderms are now considered as a biological and geological model that underlies researches of primary importance. The extent of the contributions made by the International Echinoderm Conferences to various fields of research is attested by the scope covered by presentation at the international conferences. These proceedings contain the complete papers or abstracts of all the presentations and posters presented at the eighth International Echinoderm Conference, held in Dijon, France in September, 1994. Coverage includes: general; extinct classes; crinoids; asteroids; ophiuroids; holothuroids; and echinoids.

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CRC Press

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1000123677

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9781000123678

Status Anxiety

By: Alain De Botton

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Status Anxiety

By: Alain De Botton

“There's no writer alive like de Botton” (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status—a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love. Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents explores the notion that our pursuit of status is actually a pursuit of love, ranging through Western history and thought from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie and Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins. Whether it’s assessing the class-consciousness of Christianity or the convulsions of consumer capitalism, dueling or home-furnishing, Status Anxiety is infallibly entertaining. And when it examines the virtues of informed misanthropy, art appreciation, or walking a lobster on a leash, it is not only wise but helpful.

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Vintage

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0307491331

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9780307491336

Disconsolate Empires

French, British, and Belgian Military Involvement in Post-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Alain Rouvez

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Disconsolate Empires

French, British, and Belgian Military Involvement in Post-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Alain Rouvez

This book provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of how three European powers have retained or mutated their levers of influence in their former African colonies since the latter gained independence in the 1960's. Thirty years of complex political and military relationships involving France, Britain, and Belgium and their former colonies are examined in this thought-provoking study, the lessons of which are increasingly relevant to the understanding of Euro-African affairs.

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University Press of America

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0819196436

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9780819196439

Les Romains et L'Eau

Fountaines, Salles de Bains, Thermes, Egouts, Aqueducs

By: Alain Malissard

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Les Romains et L'Eau

Fountaines, Salles de Bains, Thermes, Egouts, Aqueducs

By: Alain Malissard

[This book is written in French.] Vitale pour toute société humaine, l'eau est pour les Romains le symbole même de leur existence-depuis que Romulus, le fondateur, a été sauvé des eaux du Tibre-ainsi que de leur pouvoir sur les forces naturelles et sur les hommes. Ce livre montre comment ils ont répondu aux nécessités immédiates, mais aussi joint l'utile au plaisir, le futile à la grandeur. Avec une précision qui surprendra les ingénieurs et une suimplic-ité dont les profanes lui sauront gré, l'auteur retrace la quête obstinée de techniques souterraines et aériennes, qui permettent de capter les eaux dans les lointaines montagnes, de les conduire jusqu'aux villes, de les purifier, de les conserver et de les évacuer. On rencontre ici les Romains dans leur intimité, on entend leurs bavardages autour des fontaines, ou dans les latrines, on surprend leur admiration pour les empereurs évergètes qui leur offrent des thermes somptueux, mais on y trouve aussi les calculs des ingénieurs, leurs tâtonnements, leurs échecs et leurs réussites, et surtout la volonté de puissance d'un peuple qui, pour maîtriser la source de la vie, jetait à travers les plaines et par-dessus les val-lées profondes les arches puissantes et élégantes de ses aqueducs.

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iUniverse

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1583487115

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9781583487112

Ahmed the Philosopher

Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children and Everyone Else

By: Alain Badiou

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Ahmed the Philosopher

Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children and Everyone Else

By: Alain Badiou

English-speaking readers might be surprised to learn that Alain Badiou writes fiction and plays along with his philosophical works and that they are just as important to understanding his larger intellectual project. In Ahmed the Philosopher, BadiouÕs most entertaining and accessible play, translated into English here for the first time, readers are introduced to BadiouÕs philosophy through a theatrical tour de force that has met with much success in France. Ahmed the Philosopher presents its comic hero, the Òtreacherous servantÓ Ahmed, as a seductively trenchant philosopher even as it casts philosophy itself as a comic performance. The comedy unfolds as a series of lessons, with each Òshort playÓ or sketch illuminating a different Badiousian concept. Yet Ahmed does more than illustrate philosophical abstractions; he embodies and vivifies the theatrical and performative aspects of philosophy, mobilizing a comic energy that exposes the emptiness and pomp of the world. Through his example, the audience is moved to a living engagement with philosophy, discovering in it the power to break through the limits of everyday life.

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Columbia University Press

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0231166931

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9780231166935

The French Culinary Institute's Salute to Healthy Cooking

From America's Foremost French Chefs

By: Alain Sailhac,French Culinary Institute (New York, N.Y.)

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The French Culinary Institute's Salute to Healthy Cooking

From America's Foremost French Chefs

By: Alain Sailhac,French Culinary Institute (New York, N.Y.)

America's premier French chefs share the secret to the easy, fun, and healthy side of French cooking.

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Rodale Books

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0875964400

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9780875964409

SIX YEARS OF ABSENCE

An endless confinement

By: Alain Rolland

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SIX YEARS OF ABSENCE

An endless confinement

By: Alain Rolland

Summer 1939: Alexandre lives peacefully in Brittany, France, with his wife and newborn child. Suddenly, war is declared. He is enlisted on the Eastern Front line with his engineer regiment. His fascinating odyssey takes him to Flanders, Belgium, and Dunkirk where he misses the last boat for England. Taken prisoner, he walks to Holland where he is then transported to two prison camps in Pomerania. From the stalags to the village of Schivelbein, where he works in a kommando for five interminable years of confinement, Alexandre goes through many tragic, but sometimes also comical, adventures where he encounters a plethora of endearing characters – Jean, the erudite joker; Fanch, the bon vivant; Théo, the simpleton horse broker; Léon, the unfortunate teacher; Violette, the spinster organist; Émile, the tenor; André, the poet miller; Frida, the Teutonic bewitcher and her lover Janusz, the lame hunchback; Gus, the ingenious and facetious escapee; Amadeusz, the Francophile haulier; Gérard, the fox; Dmitri, the Russian soldier and Latin scholar; Marie, the madly in love; and many more …. Eventually, the Red Army liberates Alexandre, who then experiences new dramatic adventures before his return, after six years of absence, to his barely-known little boy and his wife who are impatiently waiting for him. Inspired by true events, Alexandre’s story is enthralling, written with a compelling honesty to the brutality he experienced. The narrative is well-paced, heart-breaking twists and turns combine a deep emotional effect with a compulsion that drags the reader to the edge of their seat beyond the final dramatic moments. The authorial voice is transfixing, evoking the War and its lasting impact to great effect. Supported by a detailed, nuanced, and complex cast, a layered narrative and an immersive evocation of the era, ‘SIX YEARS OF ABSENCE - An endless confinement’ is undoubtedly a crafted novel worthy of attention.

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Meds & Remedies

By: Alain Amzallag – Ph.D.

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Meds & Remedies

By: Alain Amzallag – Ph.D.

At the time of his bar mitzvah at age thirteen, Alain Amzallag acquired an intense, consuming desire to eradicate cancer once and for all. This obsession, in fact, dictated his choice of courses and programs through his school years. That included at high school, his undergraduate study and lab work at McGill University in Montreal, as well as graduate work at New Yorks Cornell Universitys Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Sloan-Kettering Division, and Rockefeller University as a specially invited student. The author chose science courses and university programs for one reason alone: to maximize his preparation for the task at hand, namely to find that elusive cure. As well, the author registered in several successive undergraduate Honors programs at McGill, most notably; From 1967 to 1968Honors Microbiology and Immunology and Virology From 1968 to 1869Honors Bacterial Genetics From 1969 to 1970Honors Molecular Genetics and Honors Biochemistry. By doing all of the above, the author was to approach finding a cure for cancer from a wide variety of perspectives, something to give a budding, noble researcher hope for success by choosing areas of study correctly in an organized and logical way. In September 1971, Amzallag began his research in immunogeneticsthat is, the study of cell surface components (antigens and/or receptors)using various immunological techniques and this, in various histocompatibility [(H-2) and T-Brachyury loci in mice]. The author used immunofluorescence to study lymphocytes and fresh frozen sections of 1 m in thickness. This enabled Amzallag to visualize as adjacent cells have a membrane in common.

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1546240020

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9781546240020

Basement Regions

By: Alain Godard,Jean-Jacques Lagasquie

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Basement Regions

By: Alain Godard,Jean-Jacques Lagasquie

A major area of interest in French geomorphology during the last quarter of a cen- tury has been to understand denudation chronologies and the legacies of environ- mental change in shield regions. The mechanisms and consequences on landform patterns of differential erosion in plutonic, metamorphic and related cover rocks have been approached from the double angle of structural landforms in the landscape and petrographical, mineralogical and geochemical analysis in the laboratory. The detailed study of layered igneous intrusions has been particularly helpful in making progress more generally in the understanding of crystalline landform configurations of base- ment terrains. The Laboratoire de Geographic Physique CNRS-URAiai. nowreformed as twin research units (Paris: CNRS-UMR8591, and Clermont-Ferrand: CNRS-UPRES- A6042), and itsprecursor research group at the Sorbonne under the guidance of Pierre Birot, constituted the spawning ground for French research on the geomorphology of basement terrains. Alain Godard masterminded much of the research synthesised in this volume, which isbased on apreviously publishededition in French. YannickLageat and Jean-Jacques Lagasquie have not only upheld the spirit of this school of geomor- phology but also introduced novel concepts and methods to the investigation of crys- talline terrains. They have also maintained geomorphological research abreast of con- temporarydevelopments in the geosciences. YanniGunnell translated the original text into English, adapted the figures and introduced a measure of editing, updating and explicating in order to make the volume more accessible - not only to a non franco- phone audience, but to an audience unfamiliarwith the intellectual undercurrents and 30 years.

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