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Greetings from Ekaterinburg

By: Jean Wilson Hale

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In 2007, Jean Wilson Hale and her husband, both civil engineers, journeyed to the other side of the world to manage a large construction project for ten months. Accompanied by The Magnificent Seven (their luggage), their two cats, and most importantly, their sense of humor, they traveled for twenty-five hours to reach their new home in Ekaterinburg, Russia (almost Siberia). Ten time zones from home, with neither of them speaking the language, they set up housekeeping in a new apartment, hired a driver, and embarked upon their adventure. Punctuated with laughter, they endeavored to learn a language which sort of looked like English, but was actually very different. The quest for food, without being able to read the labels or ask for help, is recounted with humor and some exasperation. Explaining American holidays and customs to their Russian friends became an exercise in absurdity why do children in the U.S. dress in costumes and go door to door threatening home owners with mischief if they aren't given candy, and what is a groundhog, anyway? Presented through a compilation of letters and emails sent home to family and friends, this is a delightful snapshot in time of two people living far, far from home.

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iUniverse

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1440147752

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9781440147753

French Cruisers

1922-1956

By: John Jordan,Jean Moulin

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French Cruisers

1922-1956

By: John Jordan,Jean Moulin

The French produced some of the most striking and innovatory interwar cruiser designs. A large amount of new information about these ships has become available over the past twenty years in France, but this book is the first to make this accessible to an English-speaking readership. Part I explains the design philosophy behind each of the classes built after 1922, and outlines the characteristics of each type, accompanied by detailed data tables and a comprehensive set of specially-drawn plans based on official documents, as well as carefully-selected photographs. Coverage includes the De Grasse, laid down in August 1939 and completed postwar as an AA cruiser, and also the heavy cruisers of the Saint Louis class intended to follow her, about which little has been published. Part II deals with the historical side, covering not only the eventful careers of these ships, but also explaining the peacetime organisation of the Marine Nationale, the complex politics of this turbulent period and their impact on the navy. Like its highly successful predecessor, French Battleships, this beautifully presented book subtly blends technical and historical analysis to produce what must become the standard reference work.

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233

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Seaforth Publishing

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1848321333

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9781848321335

The Physiology of Taste

By: Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The Physiology of Taste

By: Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Reproduction of the original: The Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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198

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3734088364

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9783734088360

Travels in North America in the Years 1780 - 1782

By: Jean Francois Marquis de Chastellux

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Travels in North America in the Years 1780 - 1782

By: Jean Francois Marquis de Chastellux

Jean François Marquis de Chastellux was a military officer in the rank of a major general who served during the War of American Independence in the French expeditionary forces led by general Comte de Rochambeau. After the war he traveled three years, including journeys through Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, of which he tells the reader in this book.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849663809

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9783849663803

The Baker's Blood: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #6

By: Jean-François Parot

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The Baker's Blood: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #6

By: Jean-François Parot

In the sixth of the Nicolas Le Floch mysteries, Le Floch investigates a baker’s death amid outcry at soaring bread prices, told 'in splendid period detail' [Sunday Times]. ‘An engaging murder mystery' FT 1775. Commissioner Nicolas Le Floch is on a diplomatic mission to Vienna, ostensibly to deliver a bust of Marie Antoinette to her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa. His real task, however, is to investigate the breakdown of French secret intelligence in Austria. The city is a hotbed of plotting – and Nicolas only just survives an attempt on his life. On his return to France, Paris is in turmoil. The soaring price of grain and bread is causing widespread social unrest, and Nicolas’ first police case is the unexplained death of a baker. Could it be that events in the French capital are somehow connected to his experiences in Vienna …?

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329

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Gallic Books

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1908313277

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9781908313270

The Memoirs of Count Rapp

First Aide-de-Camp To Napoleon

By: Général de Division, Comte Jean Rapp

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The Memoirs of Count Rapp

First Aide-de-Camp To Napoleon

By: Général de Division, Comte Jean Rapp

The much wounded Count Rapp recounts his services under the Emperor Napoleon across Europe and into the depths of Russia. His frequent battlefield exploits, including a decisive charge with the Imperial Guard cavalry at Austerlitz, are balanced by polished descriptions of the court of the First Empire. Rapp's rise is charted from obscurity in the armies of the Republic to catching the attention of General Desaix whilst fighting on the Rhine, and thereafter General Bonaparte in Egypt and Italy, to the pinnacle of rank as the Emperor's first aide-de-camp, Général de Division, and Count of the Empire. Author – Général de Division, Comte Jean Rapp (1771 – 1821) Annotations – PP-Publishing

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1908692073

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9781908692078

The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy

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By: Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy

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By: Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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358

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3368343025

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9783368343026

The Freud Scenario

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

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The Freud Scenario

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate on the conflict-ridden period of Freud’s life when he abandoned hypnosis and invented psychoanalysis. The Freud Scenario, discovered in Sartre’s papers after his death, is the result—a deft portrait of a man engaged in a personal and intellectual struggle that would prove a turning point in twentieth-century thought. Sartre did not regard this script as a diversion from his larger intellectual project. Freud’s preoccupations with female hysteria and the father relationship touched on major themes in his own work, and Loser Wins, The Family Idiot and Words, some of Sartre’s most celebrated publications, are all in some way derived from his work for Huston. Written for a Hollywood audience, The Freud Scenario demonstrates that, in addition to a towering intellect, Sartre enjoyed a genuine popular touch. Already widely acclaimed in France, The Freud Scenario stands as a valuable testament to two of the most influential minds in modern history.

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Verso Books

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1844677729

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9781844677726

Tartuffe and Other Plays

By: Jean-Baptiste Moliere

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Tartuffe and Other Plays

By: Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Seven plays by the genius of French theater. Including The Ridiculous Precieuses, The School for Husbands, The School for Wives, Don Juan, The Versailles Impromptu, and The Critique of the School for Wives, this collection showcases the talent of perhaps the greatest and best-loved French playwright. Translated and with an Introduction by Donald M. Frame With a Foreword by Virginia Scott And a New Afterword by Charles Newell

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Penguin

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0698196678

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9780698196674

Killing the Elites

Haiti, 1964

By: Jean-Philippe Belleau

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Killing the Elites

Haiti, 1964

By: Jean-Philippe Belleau

In the summer and fall of 1964, a massacre took place in the small town of Jérémie, Haiti. After an ill-fated uprising, the brutal regime of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier ordered reprisals against the town that some of the insurgents were allegedly from. Entire families—all from the town’s upper class—were slaughtered. Through a rich historical ethnography of the massacre, Jean-Philippe Belleau offers a new account of the workings of the Duvalier regime and an innovative analysis of anti-elite violence. Killing the Elites meticulously reconstructs the various phases of the massacre, identifying the victims and perpetrators, tracing the social ties that linked them, and examining the varying degrees of culpability from the state to bystanders. Although Duvalier and the military were responsible, the killings were attributed to popular social grievances. Examining how the Haitian state has brutalized the upper classes, Belleau develops a new theory of anti-elite violence. He challenges views that ideology or social difference can readily drive people to kill their neighbors and that the upper classes fall victim to popular rough justice, showing that social bonds within the town prevented organized violence from spreading. The state, Belleau underscores, is the primary perpetrator of violence against elites. Drawing on interviews with eyewitnesses and former regime members as well as a wide range of unexplored primary sources, this book provides a new lens on Haiti under Duvalier and reveals why the victimization of the elite is essential to mass violence.

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Columbia University Press

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0231560028

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9780231560023

Book's by Jean Piquet

Greetings from Ekaterinburg

Greetings from Ekaterinburg

French Cruisers

French Cruisers

The Physiology of Taste

The Physiology of Taste

Travels in North America in the Years 1780 - 1782

Travels in North America in the Years 1780 - 1782

The Baker's Blood: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #6

The Baker's Blood: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #6

The Memoirs of Count Rapp

The Memoirs of Count Rapp

The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy

The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy

The Freud Scenario

The Freud Scenario

Tartuffe and Other Plays

Tartuffe and Other Plays

Killing the Elites

Killing the Elites

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