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Postmark Paris

A Story in Stamps

By: Leslie Jonath

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The colorful world-within-a-world of postage stamps illustrates this lyrical account of a young girl's experiences in Paris. When she and her family move to the city for a year, one of the first places her father takes her is to the stamp market. Her adventures are magically captured in the dainty images of the postage stamps she collects. Readers of all ages will delight in this uniquely told story of a girl finding her own place in a world far from home.

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Abrams

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ISBN 13

9798887070360

The Little Pleasures of Paris

By: Leslie Jonath

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The Little Pleasures of Paris

By: Leslie Jonath

A book of illustrations celebrating French culture and must-see sites in the capital of France—a perfect gift for a travel lover or Paris enthusiast. Take an enchanting tour of Paris’s most charming places, objects, and pastimes in this lovingly compiled Francophile handbook. Organized by season, The Little Pleasures of Paris takes the reader through a year’s worth of quintessentially Parisian experiences, from secret gardens bursting with roses to exotic plumage at the city’s bird market, candied violets at Paris’s oldest sweet shop, dazzling colors in the stained glass at Sainte-Chapelle, and more. The friendly text and whimsical illustrations make this delightful ebook a poetic letter to the City of Light. Unusual details that might otherwise go unnoticed are celebrated and offer a uniquely intimate perspective in this triomphe of je ne sais quoi and joi de vivre!

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114

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Chronicle Books

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1452148945

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9781452148946

Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium

Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus

By: Leslie Brubaker

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Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium

Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus

By: Leslie Brubaker

The Byzantines used imagery to communicate a wide range of issues. In the context of Iconoclasm - the debate about the legitimacy of religious art conducted between c. AD 730 and 843 - Byzantine authors themselves claimed that visual images could express certain ideas better than words. Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such visual communication worked and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in the aftermath of Iconoclasm. Its focus is on a deluxe manuscript commissioned around 880, a copy of the fourth-century sermons of the Cappadocian church father Gregory of Nazianzus which presented to the Emperor Basil I, founder of the Macedonian dynasty, by one of the greatest scholars Byzantium ever produced, the patriarch Photios. The manuscript was lavishly decorated with gilded initials, elaborate headpieces and a full-page miniature before each of Gregory's sermons. Forty-six of these, including over 200 distinct scenes, survive. Fewer than half however were directly inspired by the homily that they accompany. Instead most function as commentaries on the ninth-century court and carefully deconstructed both provide us with information not available from preserved written sources and perhaps more important show us how visual images communicate differently from words.

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592

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Cambridge University Press

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0521621534

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9780521621533

Marguerite Duras

Apocalyptic Desires

By: Leslie Hill

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Marguerite Duras

Apocalyptic Desires

By: Leslie Hill

Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The Lover Leslie Hill's book throws new light on Duras' relationship to feminism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, literature, film, politics, and the media. Feted by Kristeva, and Laca who claimed her as almost his other self, Duras is revealed to be a profoundly transgressive thinker and artist. It will be a must for all concerned with contemporary writing, writing by women, recent European cinema, film and literature.

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212

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Routledge

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1134942729

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9781134942725

Frederic Franklin

A Biography of the Ballet Star

By: Leslie Norton,Frederic Franklin

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Frederic Franklin

A Biography of the Ballet Star

By: Leslie Norton,Frederic Franklin

With a ballet career spanning well over eight decades, legendary dancer Frederic Franklin was one of the twentieth century's great ballet stars. This biography, rich with original interviews, covers his entire career from young dance student in the early 1920s to his most recent position as choreographer with Britain's Royal Ballet in November 2004. Each chapter covers a different period of Franklin's life, including the peak of his performing career as a principal dancer with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, his legendary professional partnership with Alexandra Danilova, and his role in introducing ballet to millions of Americans during World War II.

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236

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McFarland

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0786430516

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9780786430512

Blanchot, Extreme Contemporary

By: Leslie Hill

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Blanchot, Extreme Contemporary

By: Leslie Hill

Placing Blanchot at the centre stage of writing in the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary sheds new light on Blanchot's political activities before and after the Second World War.

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324

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Psychology Press

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041509173X

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9780415091732

Blanchot

Extreme Contemporary

By: Leslie Hill

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Blanchot

Extreme Contemporary

By: Leslie Hill

Blanchot provides a compelling insight into one of the key figures in the development of postmodern thought. Although Blanchot's work is characterised by a fragmentary and complex style, Leslie Hill introduces clearly and accessibly the key themes in his work. He shows how Blanchot questions the very existence of philosophy and literature and how we may distinguish between them, stresses the importance of his political writings and the relationship between writing and history that characterised Blanchot's later work; and considers the relationship between Blanchot and key figures such as Emmanuel Levinas and Georges Bataille and how this impacted on his work. Placing Blanchot at the centre stage of writing in the twentieth century, Blanchot also sheds new light on Blanchot's political activities before and after the Second World War. This accessible introduction to Blanchot's thought also includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of his writings of the last twenty years.

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Routledge

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1134873778

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9781134873777

Disciplinary Literacy and Gamified Learning in Middle School Classrooms

Questing Through Time and Space

By: Leslie Haas,Jill T. Tussey,Michelle Metzger

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Disciplinary Literacy and Gamified Learning in Middle School Classrooms

Questing Through Time and Space

By: Leslie Haas,Jill T. Tussey,Michelle Metzger

This textbook prepares teachers to incorporate gamified learning experiences into middle school classrooms. Its focus provides concrete examples of how to seamlessly integrate literacy across disciplines in a fun, engaging, and unique way for all learners. Furthermore, this book offers practical information related to pedagogy, content, and differentiation for each lesson. Preservice teachers, practicing teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators can benefit from this user-friendly text and its companion digital components, allowing for replication of lessons based on national standards, backed by best-practices, and supported by differentiated pedagogy. This unique book begins with engineering marvels that span across centuries and locations. The ten chapters, in chronological order, are titled: Acropolis, Petra, Colosseum, Chichen Itza, Moai, Red Square, Taj Mahal, Neuschwanstein, Eiffel Tower, and Sydney Opera House. By focusing on specific examples of human ingenuity, opportunities are created to delve into the historical and social aspects of each chapter’s focus. There are also chances to explore the artistic merit and the art created about and around each marvel. Additional teaching moments lie in understanding the science, engineering, technology, and math embedded in all featured marvels. Each chapter offers material lists, resource materials, and visual/graphic images to support understanding. Teaching tips and differentiation strategies are also provided to support novice and career teachers alike.

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198

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Springer Nature

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3030994228

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9783030994228

A Workforce Divided

Community, Labor, and the State in Saint-Nazaire's Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910

By: Leslie A. Schuster

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A Workforce Divided

Community, Labor, and the State in Saint-Nazaire's Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910

By: Leslie A. Schuster

In this study of the life and work of Saint-Nazaire's shipbuilding workers in the 30 years before World War I, Schuster shows that the consequences of industrial production for workers differed sharply according to their resources and experiences. She details the competing identities and divergent values maintained by shipbuilding workers, demonstrating that they were fostered by the interaction between state programs, industrial production, and the traditions pursued in the local realm. Third Republic economic policies for shipbuilding promoted unemployment and worker dependence on state officials over union leaders, and the uneven application of capitalist methods of production meant multiple workplace experiences that further undercut association. A workforce composed of industrial workers and agricultural producers brought markedly different priorities to the workplace. Urban-dwelling industrial workers proved dependent on shipbuilding, while workers commuting from La Grande Bri^D`ere, a nearby marshland, were property-owning producers, mostly peat-cutters, with traditions of self-government and a commanding community identity. They turned to ship production precisely to maintain rural settlement and agricultural production. These divergent values and responses to industrial work, in conjunction with multiple barriers to association, generated separate and even contrary labor concerns and protests.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313077258

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9780313077258

Nancy, Blanchot

A Serious Controversy

By: Leslie Hill

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Nancy, Blanchot

A Serious Controversy

By: Leslie Hill

The concept of community is one of the most frequently used and abused of recent philosophical or socio-political concepts. In the 1980s, faced with the imminent collapse of communism and the unchecked supremacy of free-market capitalism, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy (in The Inoperative Community) and the writer Maurice Blanchot (in The Unavowable Community) both thought it essential to rethink the fundamental basis of “community” as such. More recently, Nancy has renewed the debate by unexpectedly attacking Blanchot’s account of community, claiming that it embodies a dangerously nostalgic desire for mythic and religious communion. This book examines the history and implications of this controversy. It analyses in forensic detail Nancy’s and Blanchot’s contrasting interpretations of German Romanticism, and the work of Heidegger, Bataille, and Marguerite Duras, and examines closely their divergent approaches to the contradictory legacy of Christianity. At a time when politics are increasingly inseparable from a deep-seated sense of crisis, it provides an incisive account of what, in the concept of community, is thought yet crucially still remains unthought.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1786608898

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9781786608895

Book's by Leslie Paris

Postmark Paris

Postmark Paris

The Little Pleasures of Paris

The Little Pleasures of Paris

Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium

Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium

Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras

Frederic Franklin

Frederic Franklin

Blanchot, Extreme Contemporary

Blanchot, Extreme Contemporary

Blanchot

Blanchot

Disciplinary Literacy and Gamified Learning in Middle School Classrooms

Disciplinary Literacy and Gamified Learning in Middle School Classrooms

A Workforce Divided

A Workforce Divided

Nancy, Blanchot

Nancy, Blanchot

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