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Historical Anthropology of the Family

By: Martine Segalen

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Historical Anthropology of the Family

By: Martine Segalen

Over the past decade or so, the social scientific sociological analysis of the family has been obliged to reconsider its traditional view that industrialisation triggered a shift within society from the 'large family', which fulfilled all social functions from socialising the children to caring for the sick and the old, to the modern nuclear family, which was regarded solely as being the locus for emotional relationships. Historians have shown that in the past there was a variety of family structures within a range of varying demographic, economic and cultural frameworks, distinctive for each society. At the same time, the interaction between sociology and social anthropology has led to a clearer conceptual analysis of that vague, polysemic term 'family'; and notions of dwelling-place, descent, marriage, the relative roles of husband and wife and parent-child relations, as well as the more general relations between generations, have in a variety of past and present social contexts been taken apart and analysed. In this book, the author synthesises European and North American historical and social anthropological material on the family that shows the reversal of the frequently held view of the family as an institution in decline, showing it instead to be both dynamic and resistant.

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346

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Cambridge University Press

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0521276705

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9780521276702

Biological Invasions, a Question of Nature and Society

By: Robert Barbault,Martine Atramentowicz

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Biological Invasions, a Question of Nature and Society

By: Robert Barbault,Martine Atramentowicz

Invasions of introduced species cause varying degrees of harm on the ecosystems in question and it is up to society to deal with the consequences. How can we prevent biological invasions? How can we assess the risk they represent? What can be done to control current invasions? Aware of this problem, the Ministry of Ecology has requested a community of researchers from a variety of disciplines to decipher these questions using biological, sociological and economic approaches. Although the definitive response to the problems raised by invasive species in natural spaces is not provided here, undeniable progress in understanding mechanisms underlying these invasions can shed light on the decisions which have to be taken by environmental managers. Scientists, teachers and students will also find results and thought-processes in this book to supplement their knowledge.

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184

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Editions Quae

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2759208729

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9782759208722

Reconsidering Biography

Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

By: Martine Watson Brownley

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Reconsidering Biography

Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

By: Martine Watson Brownley

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting critical questions about both Johnsonian biography and the genre of biography generally. Reconsidering Biography collects new essays that explore Hawkins’s biography of Johnson within its historical, political, legal, and personal contexts. More particularly, this volume considers how Hawkins’s approach to recording the Life of Johnson opens up broader questions about early modern biography and its relationship with eighteenth-century trends in aesthetics, politics, and historiography. These sophisticated and informed essays on a curious and often vexed friendship, and its literary offspring, supply a colorful and expansive view of the role of life-writing in the eighteenth-century literary imagination.

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197

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Lexington Books

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1611483840

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9781611483840

Demarco's Edinburgh

By: Richard Demarco,Roddy Martine

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Demarco's Edinburgh

By: Richard Demarco,Roddy Martine

The Edinburgh Festival of those days was a much more accessible village... The ground rules were well enough understood. Everything about it was containable. The Fringe was the seed bed for talent and ran happily in step with its established elders and betters. They both knew their place. But then something equally remarkable was about to take place in the New Town of the city I knew and loved... The same year, Roddy Martine is born. In 1963 when, at the age of sixteen, he interviewed Sir Yehudi Menuhin and David Frost for an Edinburgh Festival magazine he edited and the following year, met Marlene Dietrich. Both Richard and Roddy have unique perspectives on the most remarkable international festival of the arts the world has ever known. They have witnessed its evolution over the years and are passionate believers in the power of creativity within everyone. In this fascinating book, Richard – the 2013 UK recipient of the Citizen of Europe medal – explores the original world vision of Sir John Falconer and Rudolph Bing and, with Roddy, recalls the highs and lows of The Edinburgh International Festival, The Fringe, Art, Book, Jazz and Television Festivals, and The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Now in its eighth decade, can the Edinburgh Festival survive? Where do we go from here?

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309

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Luath Press Ltd

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1804251178

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9781804251171

Camarades

By: Martine Pillette

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Camarades

By: Martine Pillette

Designed to meet the needs of wide-ability classes, the Camarades French course is divided into four units and fulfils the criteria of the National Curriculum/5-14 Guidelines, fully preparing all pupils for GCSE/Standard Grade examinations. The Teacher's Book contains an overview of each unit; offers clear, concise teaching notes; provides notes for the four assessment sections and the answers to all Pupil's Book exercises; and comprises tapescripts in sequence that are highlighted for ease of reference. The book has been revised for the National Curriculum 2000.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748763805

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9780748763801

Canadian Reference Sources

An Annotated Bibliography : General Reference Works, History, Humanities

By: Mary E. Bond,Martine M. Caron

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Canadian Reference Sources

An Annotated Bibliography : General Reference Works, History, Humanities

By: Mary E. Bond,Martine M. Caron

In parallel columns of French and English, lists over 4,000 reference works and books on history and the humanities, breaking down the large divisions by subject, genre, type of document, and province or territory. Includes titles of national, provincial, territorial, or regional interest in every subject area when available. The entries describe the core focus of the book, its range of interest, scholarly paraphernalia, and any editions in the other Canadian language. The humanities headings are arts, language and linguistics, literature, performing arts, philosophy, and religion. Indexed by name, title, and French and English subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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1102

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UBC Press

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077480565X

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9780774805650

Words of Pierre Goursat

Collected and presented by Martine Catta

By: Martine Catta

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Words of Pierre Goursat

Collected and presented by Martine Catta

By: Martine Catta

Pierre Goursat is the founder of the Emmanuel Community. He was a man of prayer and his teachings and the advice he gave were words of fire. His Words reaveal his strong character and also the way in which he introduced people to a Christian life of evangelization lived out in the real world. It is the kind of book one needs to read slowly, and to re-read.

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Editions de l'Emmanuel

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2353893341

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9782353893348

George Sand

By: Martine Reid

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George Sand

By: Martine Reid

The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, remains one of France’s most infamous and beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless translation by Gretchen van Slyke, Martine Reid’s acclaimed biography of Sand is now available in English. Drawing on recent French and English biographies of Sand as well as her novels, plays, autobiographical texts, and correspondence, Reid creates the most complete portrait possible of a writer who was both celebrated and vilified. Reid contextualizes Sand within the literature of the nineteenth century, unfolds the meaning and importance of her chosen pen name, and pays careful attention to Sand’s political, artistic, and scientific expressions and interests. The result is a candid, even-handed, and illuminating representation of a remarkable woman in remarkable times. With its clear, flowing language and impeccable scholarship, this Ernest Montusès Award–winning biography of the author of La Petite Fadette and A Winter in Majorca will be of great interest to those specializing in Sand and nineteenth-century literature—and to readers everywhere.

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Penn State Press

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0271082720

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9780271082721

Christine de Pizan in Bruges. The Flemish Codex of Le Livre de la Cité Des Dames (London, British Library, MS Add. 20698).

By: Orlanda Soei Han Lie,Mark Aussems,Martine Meuwese,Hermina Joldersma

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Christine de Pizan in Bruges. The Flemish Codex of Le Livre de la Cité Des Dames (London, British Library, MS Add. 20698).

By: Orlanda Soei Han Lie,Mark Aussems,Martine Meuwese,Hermina Joldersma

Christine de Pizan (1364-c.1430) composed 'Le Livre de la Cité des Dames' as a response to the misogynistic writings of the time. In 1475, Jan de Baenst, a descendant of a Bruges family, ordered a translation, 'Het Bouc van de Stede der Vrauwen'. This book tells the story of this codex by focusing on the background of the commissioner, the codicological aspects, the illumination program (41 miniatures), and the translator's personal epilogue. With a summary in Dutch and French.

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Uitgeverij Verloren

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9087045395

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9789087045395

Claire Denis

By: Martine Beugnet

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Claire Denis

By: Martine Beugnet

Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debut success with 'Chocolat' (1986), she has produced an impressive series of features which have been intriguing, visually striking, and often highly controversial (including 'Beau Travail' (2000) and 'Trouble Every Day' (2001)). Beugnet provides a thematic and stylistic framework within which to consider Denis' work, as well as a comprehensive analysis of individual films. She highlights the resonance of Denis' films in relation to ongoing debates about French national identity and culture, and issues of postcolonial identity, alienation and transgression, as well as examining their exploration of the interface between sexuality, desire and sensuality. This is an essential introduction to Denis, and a sophisticated and illuminating study of her work to date.

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Manchester University Press

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1526162806

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9781526162809

Proust at the Movies

By: Martine Beugnet,Marion Schmid

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Proust at the Movies

By: Martine Beugnet,Marion Schmid

Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation, the resonances between his own radical reworking of writing styles and the novelistic forms, and cinema as the art of time are undeniable. Proust at the Movies is the first study in English to consider these rich interconnections. Its introductory chapter charts the missed encounter between Proust and the cinema and addresses the problems inherent in adapting his novel to the screen. The following chapters examine the various cinematic responses to A la recherche du temps perdu attempted to date: Luchino Visconti and Joseph Losey's failed attempts at adapting the whole of the novel in the 1970s, Volker Schlöndorff's Un Amour de Swann (1984), Raoul Ruiz's Le Temps retrouvé (1999), Chantal Akerman's La Prisonnière in La Captive (2000), and Fabio Carpi's Quartetto Basileus (1982) and Le Intermittenze del cuore (2003). The last chapter tracks the echoes of Proust's writing in the work of various directors, from Abel Grace to Jean-Luc Godard. The approach is multidisciplinary, combining literary criticism with film theory and elements of philosophy of art. Special attention is given to the modernist legacy in literature and film with its distinctive aesthetic and narrative features. An outline of the history and recent evolution of contemporary art cinema thus emerges: a cinema where the themes at the heart of Proust's work - memory, time, perception - are ceaselessly explored.

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384

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Routledge

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1351908081

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9781351908085

Yourcenar Dramaturge

Microcosme D'une Œuvre

By: Martine J. Kincaid

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Yourcenar Dramaturge

Microcosme D'une Œuvre

By: Martine J. Kincaid

Theatre of ideas, the theatre of Marguerite Yourcenar lets us foresee the philosophical fabric which implies its writing: a vision of the world with lucid, tragic and revolutionary time. Order and measurement characterize the style of Yourcenar. This s

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Peter Lang

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0820478318

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9780820478319

Wildlife Waystation

True Animal Rescue Stories from an Animal Refuge Center

By: Martine Colette,Liz Nickles

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Wildlife Waystation

True Animal Rescue Stories from an Animal Refuge Center

By: Martine Colette,Liz Nickles

A heartwarming collection of true animal rescue stories from Wildlife Waystation, a unique refuge for wild animals near Los Angeles. "Small or large, common or endangered, every wild animal in need finds a haven at Wildlife Waystation". That's the motto of the one-of-a-kind West Coast sanctuary for wild animals, and the real-life stories collected in this fascinating book prove it lives up to its word. Wildlife Waystation will appeal to all animal lovers and conservationists, especially since the animals here are exotic (they include tigers, zebras, bears, lions, and chimps) and have escaped harrowing, abusive situations, thanks to the dedication of Martine Colette and her staff and volunteers at the refuge. With many of the approximately 1000 animals sponsored by well-known celebrities, among them Betty White, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Drew Barrymore, and Candice Bergen, Wildlife Waystation is the only place available for certain creatures to live out the rest of their lives in dignity. This fact, coupled with lively writing that brings the individuality of each animal vividly alive, makes this book a moving and memorable reading experience.

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320

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Harpercollins

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0060191287

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9780060191283

Book's by Martine Colette

Historical Anthropology of the Family

Historical Anthropology of the Family

Biological Invasions, a Question of Nature and Society

Biological Invasions, a Question of Nature and Society

Reconsidering Biography

Reconsidering Biography

Demarco's Edinburgh

Demarco's Edinburgh

Camarades

Camarades

Canadian Reference Sources

Canadian Reference Sources

Words of Pierre Goursat

Words of Pierre Goursat

George Sand

George Sand

Christine de Pizan in Bruges. The Flemish Codex of Le Livre de la Cité Des Dames (London, British Library, MS Add. 20698).

Christine de Pizan in Bruges. The Flemish Codex of Le Livre de la Cité Des Dames (London, British Library, MS Add. 20698).

Claire Denis

Claire Denis

Proust at the Movies

Proust at the Movies

Yourcenar Dramaturge

Yourcenar Dramaturge

Wildlife Waystation

Wildlife Waystation

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