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The Art of Checkmate

new translation with algebraic chess notation

By: Georges Renaud,Victor Kahn

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The Art of Checkmate

new translation with algebraic chess notation

By: Georges Renaud,Victor Kahn

The Art of Checkmate, first published in Monaco in 1947, has remained one of the most popular and enduring chess books of all time, loved by chess players and regularly appearing in top ten lists of their favourites. Remarkably, despite its widespread popularity, the first English edition, published in the 1950s, was marred by careless and faulty translation. But now, for the first time, all these mistakes have been rectified so as to reflect accurately the authors' original work and thereby make the English edition of The Art of Checkmate an even better book. The Art of Checkmate offers the reader a systematic classification of all the principal types of checkmate and the procedures required to achieve these in actual play. Each chapter starts with the basic pattern of the checkmate under consideration and this is followed by an explanation of the process whereby the mate can be carried out. Examples from practical play and test yourself puzzle positions then reinforce the readers' understanding of the mechanics of the checkmate and their ability to deliver crushing and, at times, picturesque checkmates in their own games An enjoyable and easy-to-read book chess instructor that will benefit players of any ability.

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184994296X

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Life, a User's Manual

By: Georges Perec

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Life, a User's Manual

By: Georges Perec

Over twenty years ago, Godine published the first English translation of Georges Perec's masterpiece, Life A User's Manual, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement, Boston Globe, and others as "one of the great novels of the century." We are now proud to announce a newly revised twentieth-anniversary edition of this classic. Structured around a single moment in time - 8:00 PM on June 23, 1975 - Perec's spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, the extraordinarily rich life of its inhabitants is marvelously revealed.

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1567923739

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Murder at Christmas and Other Stories

From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

By: John Mortimer,James Powell,Georges Simenon,Julian Symons

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Murder at Christmas and Other Stories

From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

By: John Mortimer,James Powell,Georges Simenon,Julian Symons

This unique anthology of 12 compelling mysteries of Christmas and murder spotlights well-known, bestselling mystery writers such as John Mortimer, James Powell, Alice Scanlan Reach, Julian Symons, Georges Simenon, and others. Perfect for mystery fans who love solving mistletoe mayhem.

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Signet Book

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0451172043

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9780451172044

Tropic Moon

By: Georges Simenon

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Tropic Moon

By: Georges Simenon

Newly translated for this edition. A young Frenchman, Joseph Timar, travels to Gabon carrying a letter of introduction from an influential uncle. He wants work experience; he wants to see the world. But in the oppressive heat and glare of the equator, Timar doesn’t know what to do with himself, and no one seems inclined to help except Adèle, the hotel owner’s wife, who takes him to bed one day and rebuffs him the next, leaving him sick with desire. But then, in the course of a single night, Adèle’s husband dies and a black servant is shot, and Timar is sure that Adèle is involved. He’ll cover for the crime if she’ll do what he wants. The fix is in. But Timar can’t even begin to imagine how deep. In Tropic Moon, Simenon, the master of the psychological novel, offers an incomparable picture of degeneracy and corruption in a colonial outpost.

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New York Review of Books

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159017562X

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Haitian laughter

By: Georges Anglade

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Haitian laughter

By: Georges Anglade

A Mosaic of Ninety Miniatures in French and English, translated from the French by Anne Pease McConnell. Haitian Laughter is constructed around the lodyans, a narrative genre that has blossomed in Haiti as an art of miniatures. The substantial reduction in scale that presides over their creation allows only the significant features to remain, like a medieval illumination, a Japanese bonsai, or simply a small sized map of an immense territory. This makes each miniature a "dwarf sized saga," which lets us glimpse the larger dimension of the original of which it is a reduced model. Bilingual, French and English.

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Educa Vision Inc.

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1584323590

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9781584323594

Le Règne Animal Distribué D'après Son Organisation

Pour Servir de Base ... L'histoire Naturelle Des Animaux Et D'introduction ... L'anatomie Comparée

By: Georges Cuvier

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Le Règne Animal Distribué D'après Son Organisation

Pour Servir de Base ... L'histoire Naturelle Des Animaux Et D'introduction ... L'anatomie Comparée

By: Georges Cuvier

Published in 1817, this influential four-volume work was the first to integrate geology, palaeontology, zoology and comparative anatomy.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108058914

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Images in Spite of All

Four Photographs from Auschwitz

By: Georges Didi-Huberman

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Images in Spite of All

Four Photographs from Auschwitz

By: Georges Didi-Huberman

Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in Spite of All reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Available today because they were smuggled out of the camp and into the hands of Polish resistance fighters, the photographs show a group of naked women being herded into the gas chambers and the cremation of corpses that have just been pulled out. Georges Didi-Huberman’s relentless consideration of these harrowing scenes demonstrates how Holocaust testimony can shift from texts and imaginations to irrefutable images that attempt to speak the unspeakable. Including a powerful response to those who have criticized his interest in these images as voyeuristic, Didi-Huberman’s eloquent reflections constitute an invaluable contribution to debates over the representability of the Holocaust and the status of archival photographs in an image-saturated world.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226148165

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9780226148168

William Marshal

By: Georges Duby

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William Marshal

By: Georges Duby

Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagenets, knight extraordinaire, the flower of chivalry. A marvel of historical reconstruction, William Marshal is based on a biographical poem written in the thirteenth century, and offers an evocation of chivalric life—the contests and tournaments, the rites of war, the daily details of medieval existence—unlike any we have ever seen.

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Pantheon

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0307778991

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9780307778994

Céline Dion and René Angelil Library Bundle

Céline / René Angelil: The Making of Céline Dion

By: Jean Beaunoyer,Georges-Hebert Germain

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Céline Dion and René Angelil Library Bundle

Céline / René Angelil: The Making of Céline Dion

By: Jean Beaunoyer,Georges-Hebert Germain

Céline Dion is quite possibly Canada’s most famous singer and an icon in her own home province of Quebec. Possessed of an incandescent voice and a vibrant personality, she has moved huge audiences all over the world. These two books tell her story. Céline is the story of her journey from being just one child in a huge family to becoming the world’s songbird. René Angélil fills in the gaps by presenting the life of her manager and husband, who helps guide both Céline’s career and life and has played a key role in her success. Includes Céline René Angelil: The Making of Céline Dion

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Dundurn

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145972402X

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The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

By: Louis-Georges Tin

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The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

By: Louis-Georges Tin

The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession. Heterosexuality is celebrated—in film and television, in pop songs and opera, in literature and on greeting cards—and at the same time taken for granted. It is the cultural and sexual norm by default. And yet, as Louis-Georges Tin shows in The Invention of Heterosexual Culture, in premodern Europe heterosexuality was perceived as an alternative culture. The practice of heterosexuality may have been standard, but the symbolic primacy of the heterosexual couple was not. Tin maps the emergence of heterosexual culture in Western Europe and the significant resistance to it from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession. Tin writes that before the phenomenon of "courtly love" in the early twelfth century, the man-woman pairing had not been deemed a subject worthy of more than passing interest. As heterosexuality became a recurrent theme in art and literature, the nobility came to view it as a disruption of the feudal chivalric ethos of virility and male bonding. If feudal lords objected to the "hetero" in heterosexuality and what they saw as the associated dangers of weakness and effeminacy, the church took issue with the “sexuality,” which threatened the Christian ethos of renunciation and divine love. Finally, the medical profession cast heterosexuality as pathology, warning of an epidemic of “lovesickness.” Noting that the discourse of heterosexuality does not belong to heterosexuals alone, Tin offers a groundbreaking history that reasserts the cultural identity of heterosexuality.

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MIT Press

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0262305011

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9780262305013

The Knight, the Lady and the Priest

The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France

By: Georges Duby

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The Knight, the Lady and the Priest

The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France

By: Georges Duby

This ambitious study sets out to discover what marriage meant in the daily lives of the nobles of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. Through entertaining anecdotes, family dramas, and striking quotations, Duby succeeds in bringing his subjects to life, making us feel as if we understand the motives and conflicts of those who inhabited the distant past. "It is typical of Duby's modest spirit and his book-long concern with the ancient status of beleaguered wives that he ends his study with a plea: 'We must not forget the women. Much has already been said about them. But how much do we really know?' Not everything, certainly, but far more than we did before the author began these charmingly erudite investigations."—Ken Turan, Time "It is refreshing to find a historian who is always conscious that we simply do not know what or how people thought 1000 years ago. . . . Duby explains the complicated machinations of the medieval churchman and the paterfamilias in a scholarly but lively style."—Sarah Lawson, New Statesman "Duby has written an extraordinarily rich book—a panoramic view of medieval marriage and the relations between men and women, full of arresting insights and human detail. . . . It is the work of a master historian at the peak of his powers on a subject of central relevance, compulsive and essential reading."—P. Stafford, British History Georges Duby (1919-1996) was a member of the Académie française and for many years held the distinguished chair in medieval history at the Collège de France. His books include The Three Orders; The Age of Cathedrals; The Knight, the Lady, and the Priest; Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages; and History Continues, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226167682

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9780226167688

History Continues

By: Georges Duby

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History Continues

By: Georges Duby

In this engaging intellectual autobiography, Georges Duby looks back on a career that has led him to be called one of the most distinguished historians in the Western world. Since its beginning in the 1940s, Duby's career has been rich and varied, encompassing economic history, social history, the history of mentalites, art history, microhistory, urban history, the history of women and sexuality, and, most recently, the Church's influence on feudal society. In retracing this singular career path, Duby candidly remembers his life's most formative influences, including the legendary historians Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, the Annales School so closely associated with them, and the College de France. Duby also offers insights about the proper methods of gathering and using archival data and on constructing penetrating interpretations of the documents. Indeed, his discussion of how he chose his subjects, collected his materials, developed the arguments, erected the scaffolding and constructed his theses offers the best introduction to the craft available to aspiring historians. Candid and charming, this book is both a memoir of one of this century's great scholars and a history of the French historical school since the mid-twentieth century. It will be required reading for anyone interested in the French academic milieu, medieval history, French history, or the recording of history in general. Georges Duby, a member of the Academie francaise, for many years held the distinguished chair in medieval history at the College de France. His numerous books include The Age of Cathedrals; The Knight, the Lady, and the Priest; Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages; and The Three Orders—all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226167755

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9780226167756

Georges Vanier: Soldier

The Wartime Letters and Diaries, 1915-1919

By: Georges Vanier

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Georges Vanier: Soldier

The Wartime Letters and Diaries, 1915-1919

By: Georges Vanier

East Sandling Camp. 1 June 1915 "Captain Boyer and I are leaving for London to buy a motor car for the regiment. We will be staying at the Savoy." Flanders. 27 October 1915. Diary entry: 4:00 p.m. "Returned to the trenches. After two days of rain, they are in a deplorable state. There is mud up to our knees. The parapets have collapsed in several spots. The nights are frigid, our feet are cold, and we have not yet received our supplies of wood and charcoal." In the field. 1 August 1918. "You will pardon the brevity and the looseness of this letter when you know under what conditions it has been written. What you wish to know above all I can tell you at once. I am well - in fact I do not think I have ever been quite so well in body and in spirit. I have been protected in a special manner during the last three days. I have seen so many narrow escapes myself that I am beginning to think that one should not worry much about possible eventualities." No. 8 British Red Cross Hospital, Boulogne. 6 September 1918. "By this time you will have received reassuring cablegrams and field postcards and possibly letters from friends of mine. "First, to be quite frank, I will admit that I have not been in fit condition to write a coherent letter ...

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155002910X

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9781550029109

Art and History of Paris and Versailles

By: Georges Poisson

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Art and History of Paris and Versailles

By: Georges Poisson

Discover the rich history and culture of some of the world¿s most influential historical places with these highly illustrated books, packed with informative and enlightening descriptions and information

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Casa Editrice Bonechi

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8880296515

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9788880296515

Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West

By: Georges Duby

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Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West

By: Georges Duby

One of the most important, imaginative, solidly documented, well written books of medieval history that I have ever read. . . . It offers a unique combination of synthetic power and analytic perception, of bold judgment and Cartesian doubt, of hard economic facts and subtle psychological considerations."--

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812216741

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9780812216745

Their Destiny in Natal - The Story of a Colonial Family of the Indian Ocean

By: Georges Védie

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Their Destiny in Natal - The Story of a Colonial Family of the Indian Ocean

By: Georges Védie

In 1877 Hippolyte and Pauline Lavoipierre arrived at the British Colony of Natal in South Africa. With limited capital and some experience gained in Mauritius Hippolyte set about establishing himself as a sugar planter in the Inanda District, then the developing agricultural heart of the colony. They also came burdened with a number of family secrets. This book examines the couple's complex Franco-Mauritian backgrounds from their origins in France, their grandfathers and fathers experiences in the various colonies of India, Mauritius and the Seychelles and their own struggle to make a success of their lives in Natal. It examines the roles of trade, slavery and indentured labour in their ventures and in the development of 19th century Mauritius and Natal. The surprising disregard of conventions in conservative colonial societies, the financial risks of plantation agriculture and the hidden issue of miscegenation come to light through the experiences of a particular family.

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Lulu.com

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1326400576

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9781326400576

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Murder at Christmas and Other Stories

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Tropic Moon

Tropic Moon

Haitian laughter

Haitian laughter

Le Règne Animal Distribué D'après Son Organisation

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Images in Spite of All

Images in Spite of All

William Marshal

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Céline Dion and René Angelil Library Bundle

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The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

The Knight, the Lady and the Priest

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History Continues

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Georges Vanier: Soldier

Georges Vanier: Soldier

Art and History of Paris and Versailles

Art and History of Paris and Versailles

Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West

Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West

Their Destiny in Natal - The Story of a Colonial Family of the Indian Ocean

Their Destiny in Natal - The Story of a Colonial Family of the Indian Ocean

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