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Deadlines

By: Doris Minard,Phyllis Eickelberg

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When a paralegal accidentally encounters a chilling murder, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a terrorist organization searching for stolen plans. As Teddy Sanderson hurries through the city park, a pedestrian bumps against herand then falls dead at her feet. When its discovered the victim was murdered, the local papers share the details of Teddys life, making her vulnerable to attacks from crackpots around town and from her paroled ex-husband, who wants her dead. Due to the notoriety of the case, Teddy becomes entangled in the activities of a secret organization known as the Delphi Alliance and in the work of the FBI as they attempt to curtail Alliance plans. Meanwhile, everyone is struggling to meet deadlines. A crime reporter is attempting to gain a Pulitzer Prize by writing award-winning page-one stories, the Delphi Alliance has a specific date on which they plan to blow up a power plant, and Teddys ex-husband is ready to notify his hit man of the date he wants Teddy exterminated. When Teddy and the crime reporter are kidnapped, however, the FBI whirls into action, trying to decide who has themthe Alliance or Teddys ex-husbandbefore their time runs out.

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214

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Abbott Press

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1458218023

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9781458218025

The Libertine Colony

Creolization in the Early French Caribbean

By: Doris L Garraway

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The Libertine Colony

Creolization in the Early French Caribbean

By: Doris L Garraway

Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s until the onset of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s, Doris Garraway sheds new light on a significant chapter in French colonial history. At the same time, she makes a pathbreaking contribution to the study of the cultural contact, creolization, and social transformation that resulted in one of the most profitable yet brutal slave societies in history. Garraway’s readings highlight how French colonial writers characterized the Caribbean as a space of spiritual, social, and moral depravity. While tracing this critique in colonial accounts of Island Carib cultures, piracy, spirit beliefs, slavery, miscegenation, and incest, Garraway develops a theory of “the libertine colony.” She argues that desire and sexuality were fundamental to practices of domination, laws of exclusion, and constructions of race in the slave societies of the colonial French Caribbean. Among the texts Garraway analyzes are missionary histories by Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, Raymond Breton, and Jean-Baptiste Labat; narratives of adventure and transgression written by pirates and others outside the official civil and religious power structures; travel accounts; treatises on slavery and colonial administration in Saint-Domingue; the first colonial novel written in French; and the earliest linguistic description of the native Carib language. Garraway also analyzes legislation—including the Code noir—that codified slavery and other racialized power relations. The Libertine Colony is both a rich cultural history of creolization as revealed in Francophone colonial literature and an important contribution to theoretical arguments about how literary critics and historians should approach colonial discourse and cultural representations of slave societies.

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Duke University Press

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0822386518

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9780822386513

Quebec City

Architects, artisans, and builders

By: A. J. H. Richardson,Geneviève Bastien,Doris Dubé,Marthe Lacombe

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Quebec City

Architects, artisans, and builders

By: A. J. H. Richardson,Geneviève Bastien,Doris Dubé,Marthe Lacombe

This volume contains biographies of over four hundred architects, artisans and builders who worked in Quebec during the first three centuries of the town’s existence. Detailed descriptions of their works, as well as numerous illustrations, help paint a broad picture of building in Quebec.

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604

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772824038

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9781772824032

A Divided Forest

The Life, Times, and Lineage of Roy Daniel Bailey

By: Doris Chapin Bailey

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A Divided Forest

The Life, Times, and Lineage of Roy Daniel Bailey

By: Doris Chapin Bailey

This is the story of Roy Bailey, Tlingit, cultural and family loss, discrimination, change, and growing up in Sitka, and Juneau, Alaska, in the first half of the 20th century.

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132

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Trafford Publishing

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142513761X

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9781425137618

From Tipi to Skyscraper

A History of Women in Architecture

By: Doris Cole

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From Tipi to Skyscraper

A History of Women in Architecture

By: Doris Cole

from the Introduction: This study will, first, document the historic contributions of women to American architecture; second, analyze the underlying social and economic reasons for the present situation by attracting more women to the profession of architecture. This book is part of the general discussion concerning women in this country; it is part of a trend and, hopefully, this trend will lead not only to further discussion but to constructive activity. One cannot deny the facts, but perhaps many people will disagree with the point of view expressed in this book. The ideas presented here are based upon research, interviews, and discussion with my male and female colleagues and, not surprisingly, there was a diversity of opinions, ideas, and goals, even among the women. The point is not that women are more likely than their male counterparts to have found the answers to the difficult issues confronting the profession of architecture, but that perhaps they are raising new and different questions which are pertinent to its future.

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156

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MIT Press (MA)

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0262530333

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9780262530330

Dans ma peau

Autobiographie (1919-1949)

By: Doris May Lessing

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Autobiographie (1919-1949)

By: Doris May Lessing

Voici un livre clé de la grande romancière, auteur avec Le Carnet d'or, Les Enfants de la violence, La Terroriste, etc., d'une des œuvres les plus fortes et les plus significatives de notre temps.Sans illusion sur les pièges de la mémoire, mais avec rigueur et sincérité, Doris Lessing nous livre ici l'expérience d'une vie commencée en Perse en 1919, entre un père mutilé par la guerre et une mère dissimulant sous un masque de rigorisme une profonde insatisfaction.La Rhodésie où grandit l'enfant, l'éveil de sa sensualité, le sentiment de révolte humaine et bientôt politique qui la pousse à la rupture avec les siens : tel est à grands traits le panorama de ce livre, qui s'achève en 1949 avec l'installation à Londres de Doris, deux fois divorcée, un manuscrit dans sa valise. Car, derrière la militante et la jeune femme "émancipée ", la romancière est en train de naître...Doris Lessing est quelqu'un qui continue à donner un sens à des mots qui l'ont perdu aux yeux de beaucoup : Le non-conformisme et la médiocrité, la chaleur des moments singuliers et la force des exigences morales, le refus et l'engagement. Quelqu'un qui prend au sérieux la vie, les humains.Jean Chesneaux, La Quinzaine littéraire.

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Livre de Poche

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2253141143

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9782253141143

La marche dans l'ombre

Autobiographie (1949-1962)

By: Doris Lessing

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La marche dans l'ombre

Autobiographie (1949-1962)

By: Doris Lessing

En 1949 débarque à Londres une jeune femme, avec son enfant de deux ans et demi et le manuscrit d'un premier roman. Ayant rompu deux mariages successifs, sans argent, en révolte contre les préjugés et l'hypocrisie, elle va forger son destin de femme et d'écrivain. Dans ma peau, premier volume de l'autobiographie de Doris Lessing, évoquait son enfance rhodésienne, ses tribulations de jeune fille en rupture avec son milieu. De son arrivée à Londres à la publication du Carnet d'or (1962), qui l'imposera comme une romancière majeure, elle va vivre la bohème, connaître des amours tumultueuses, écrire passionnément, fréquenter les milieux du théâtre, se vouer à un idéal politique qui pourra la décevoir mais dont elle n'oublie pas la grandeur et la générosité. C'est un après-guerre en clair-obscur, marqué par le redressement économique, l'affrontement des super-puissances, une vie intellectuelle foisonnante, qui revit dans ces pages où Doris Lessing nous livre, avec sa sincérité coutumière, ses convictions sur l'amour, la littérature, l'argent, la société, la mémoire.

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2253150681

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9782253150688

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A Divided Forest

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