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Haussmann, or the Distinction

A Novel

By: Paul LaFarge

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Paul La Farge's stunning, imaginative novel about the great architect of Paris "full of artful prose, wit, and provocative ideas.” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who demolished and rebuilt Paris in the middle of the nineteenth century, was the first urbanist of the modern era--and perhaps the greatest. He presided over two decades of riches, peace, and progress in a city the likes of which no one had ever seen before, with boulevards monumentally conceived and brilliantly lit, clean water, public transportation, and sewers that were the envy of every nation in the world. Yet there is a story that, on his deathbed, Haussmann wished all his work undone. "Would that it had died with me!" he is supposed to have said. What is the secret of the baron's last regret? To answer this question, Haussmann tells the story of Madeleine, a foundling who grew up in the magical, chaotic world that Haussmann destroyed; of de Fonce, one of the great artistes démolisseurs who tore Paris down and sold its rubble as antiques; and of a three-sided affair that pits love against ambition, architecture against flesh, and the living Parisians against Haussmann's unbuilt masterpiece, the Railroad of the Dead. Although steeped in history, Paul La Farge's Haussmann, or the Distinction is a novel not bound by fact; it is an account of the hidden, sometimes fantastical life of the nineteenth century, a work that will make readers think of Borges as well as Balzac; it is a view of cities, of love, and of history itself from the other side of the mirror.

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Haussmann, or the Distinction

A Novel

By: Paul LaFarge

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Transnationalism in Practice

Essays on American Studies, Literature and Religion

By: Paul Giles

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Transnationalism in Practice

Essays on American Studies, Literature and Religion

By: Paul Giles

Transnationalism in Practice brings together fourteen essays written by Paul Giles between 1994 and 2009 on the subjects of American studies, literature and religion. In an introduction written especially for the collection, Giles traces the evolution of critical transnationalism as it developed through the 1980s and 1990s. The volume includes "e;Reconstructing American Studies"e; (1994), one of the first articles to address the field from a transnational perspective, along with other pieces on methodological and practical issues surrounding the internationalization of American studies. The essays on American literature contain work on Theodore Dreiser, Henry James and the critic F. O. Matthiessen, along with a new study of Jamaica Kincaid in relation to postcolonialism. The section on religion traces the circulation of secularized forms of Catholicism in U.S. culture, from nineteenth-century slave narratives to the musical performances of Bruce Springsteen. Transnationalism in Practice ranges widely, from the culture of colonial America to the novels of Robert Coover and Kathy Acker, while also encompassing a broad range of interdisciplinary topics, from the presidency of George W. Bush to the role of religion in American society. This book will be of interest to all of those concerned with the place of U.S. culture in the world today.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474468489

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Global Strategy and Management

By: Paul N. Gooderham,Birgitte Grøgaard,Kirsten Foss

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Global Strategy and Management

By: Paul N. Gooderham,Birgitte Grøgaard,Kirsten Foss

This book addresses the most crucial challenges facing managers of MNCs as they operate across different institutional frameworks and complex cultural contexts. What is the optimal balance between local responsiveness and global integration? How can a common culture be developed in the face of profound cultural differences? How can knowledge be transferred across the MNC? What employment policies are legitimate in a world of differing standards?

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1788114841

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The All-True Gold-Seeking Adventures of Hitty O'Donnell

By: Paul McPhie

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The All-True Gold-Seeking Adventures of Hitty O'Donnell

By: Paul McPhie

Based in part on real journals, the novel traces an epic overland journey in 1862 by train, steamboat, wagon, river raft, and horseback to the thriving gold fields of Barkerville in British Columbia's Cariboo region. Packed with exciting incident, the tale is told by the wryly reflective Hitty who comes of age amid a memorable gallery of rogues and dreamers and against the magnificent landscape and lurking perils of mid-nineteenth century North America

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Lulu.com

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0557728878

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The Artist of the Missing

A Novel

By: Paul LaFarge

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The Artist of the Missing

A Novel

By: Paul LaFarge

A surrealistic tale on an artist searching for his missing girlfriend, a police crime photographer. He encounters some revolutionaries, also seeking missing persons, joins them and lands in jail.

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Serving Their Country

American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century

By: Paul C Rosier

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Serving Their Country

American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century

By: Paul C Rosier

Over the twentieth century, American Indians fought for their right to be both American and Indian. In an illuminating book, Paul C. Rosier traces how Indians defined democracy, citizenship, and patriotism in both domestic and international contexts. Battles over the place of Indians in the fabric of American life took place on reservations, in wartime service, in cold war rhetoric, and in the courtroom. The Society of American Indians, founded in 1911, asserted that America needed Indian cultural and spiritual values. In World War II, Indians fought for their ancestral homelands and for the United States. The domestic struggle of Indian nations to defend their cultures intersected with the international cold war stand against terminationÑthe attempt by the federal government to end the reservation system. Native Americans seized on the ideals of freedom and self-determination to convince the government to preserve reservations as places of cultural strength. Red Power activists in the 1960s and 1970s drew on Third World independence movements to assert an ethnic nationalism that erupted in a series of protestsÑin Iroquois country, in the Pacific Northwest, during the occupation of Alcatraz Island, and at Wounded Knee. Believing in an empire of liberty for all, Native Americans pressed the United States to honor its obligations at home and abroad. Like African Americans, twentieth-century Native Americans served as a visible symbol of an America searching for rights and justice. American history is incomplete without their story.

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Harvard University Press

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0674066235

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Standby and Commercial Letters of Credit

By: Brooke Wunnicke,Paul S. Turner

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Standby and Commercial Letters of Credit

By: Brooke Wunnicke,Paul S. Turner

Standby and Commercial Letters of Credit, Third Edition alerts you to current developments and discusses the recent UCP600, former UCP500, ISP98, UCC Article 5, and current trade practices and problems. The authors review letter of credit law and practices, helping to resolve concerns of applicants, beneficiaries, and issuers. This essential resource includes: Sample forms and clauses, procedures and checklists Current court cases and extensive Table of Cases What can happen to letters of credit in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings Fraud and injunction nightmares Cross-reference table UCP600 and UCP500 Strategies for bank reimbursement agreements Standby and Commercial Letters of Credit, Third Edition gives you immediate guidance when you need it most. And it supplies real-world letters of credit situations, with analyses of what was done right and wrong.

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735517339

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Steppingstones

Pivotal Moments in Art Education History

By: Paul E. Bolin,Ami Kantawala,Mary Ann Stankiewicz

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Steppingstones

Pivotal Moments in Art Education History

By: Paul E. Bolin,Ami Kantawala,Mary Ann Stankiewicz

Representing the first extensive volume on the history of art education to be published in 20 years, this book will generate new interpretations of both local and global histories for 21st-century readers. Steppingstones captures pivotal moments in art education history within the United States and globally. Chapters are situated within the broad and active stream of history, identified by the authors as places to pause, step down, and deeply explore these moments and the vibrant terrain that surrounds them. Some steppingstones in the volume are new and fresh reappraisals of familiar and well-recognized landing places in art education history. Other steppingstones contain discussions of previously unknown or overlooked material uncovered by the authors. Digging deep, getting beneath, and revealing steppingstones that embrace a pathway through the past, this book explores dynamic and spirited narratives about various people, institutions, events, tensions, and international perspectives that have shaped and continue to direct the course of art and design education. Book Features: Investigates contemporary issues through a lens toward the past, including issues of race, cultural protocols, intersectionality, international influence, White privilege, disability studies, and other social concerns.Presents contributions from well-known senior scholars alongside new voices of several emerging scholars of color.Includes biographical accounts of African American artists and educators, and the role and influence of the Harlem Renaissance.Contains discussion of art education in colonial India and explores complex relationships between colonizer-colonized histories.Focuses on art education in the United States with discussion of specific international influences.Offers contemporary best practices for doing historical research and strategies for teaching art education history courses at the university level.Highlights the significance of digital humanities and digital scholarship.

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Teachers College Press

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0807779423

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The Night Ocean

A Novel

By: Paul La Farge

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The Night Ocean

A Novel

By: Paul La Farge

From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends--or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist, and she doesn't believe them. A tour-de-force of storytelling, The Night Ocean follows the lives of some extraordinary people: Lovecraft, the most influential American horror writer of the 20th century, whose stories continue to win new acolytes, even as his racist views provoke new critics; Barlow, a seminal scholar of Mexican culture who killed himself after being blackmailed for his homosexuality (and who collaborated with Lovecraft on the beautiful story "The Night Ocean"); his student, future Beat writer William S. Burroughs; and L.C. Spinks, a kindly Canadian appliance salesman and science-fiction fan -- the only person who knows the origins of The Erotonomicon, purported to be the intimate diary of Lovecraft himself. As a heartbroken Marina follows her missing husband's trail in an attempt to learn the truth, the novel moves across the decades and along the length of the continent, from a remote Ontario town, through New York and Florida to Mexico City. The Night Ocean is about love and deception -- about the way that stories earn our trust, and betray it.

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1101981091

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Mergers and Acquisitions

Text and Cases

By: Kevin K. Boeh,Paul W. Beamish

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Mergers and Acquisitions

Text and Cases

By: Kevin K. Boeh,Paul W. Beamish

Mergers and Acquisitions: Text and Cases provides guiding frameworks and information on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), complemented by a set of well-matched cases. The purpose is not to rehash the existing set of M&A books, but to provide real-world examples of situations that allow the reader to utilize the core concepts and processes in M&A. The authors present a process-based framework of M&A, within which the reader is given in-depth information about the steps in doing deals. The reader then has the ability to apply these concepts and frameworks to the full-length cases. The book can be used as a stand-alone text because it provides good coverage of the entire M&A process. In order to more specifically focus on any particular aspect of M&A, the text can easily be supplemented with focused materials.

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SAGE

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1412941040

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Decide & Deliver

5 Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization

By: Marcia W. Blenko,Michael C. Mankins,Paul Rogers

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Decide & Deliver

5 Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization

By: Marcia W. Blenko,Michael C. Mankins,Paul Rogers

-Identify your critical decisions. Focus on those that matter most to your company's performance. --

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Harvard Business Press

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1422147576

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Wagons in the Peak District

By: Paul Harrison

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Wagons in the Peak District

By: Paul Harrison

With previously unpublished images documenting the variety of wagons on railways in the Peak District.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1398108758

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9781398108752

Mastering Discourse

The Politics of Intellectual Culture

By: Paul A. Bové

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Mastering Discourse

The Politics of Intellectual Culture

By: Paul A. Bové

Mastering Discourse gathers and elaborates more than a decade of thought on the problems of the intellectual in contemporary society, by one of the most distinguished critics writing on these issues today. From Derrida and Foucault to Kristeva and Irigaray, Paul A. Bové looks at the practices of literary and cultural theory, and discusses the way theorists have produced their institutional positions and politics. Examining some of the major theories developed out of and in relation to the problems of discourse, Bové analyzes the limited successes and failures of these efforts. Mastering Discourses offers an account of why "theory" fails to deal adequately with the politics of discursive cultures and warns that unless critics take much more seriously their own disciplinary inscriptions they will always reproduce structures of power and knowledge that they claim to oppose. Moreover, Bové argues, they will not fulfill the main role of the post-enlightenment intellectual, namely: to respond effectively to the present, through new theoretical and historical formulations that address the changing world of transnational capitalism and its neoliberal ideologies.

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Duke University Press

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082231245X

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The Night Ocean

A Novel

By: Paul La Farge

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A Novel

By: Paul La Farge

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The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa

Anthropology, Literature, and History

By: E. Paul Durrenberger

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The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa

Anthropology, Literature, and History

By: E. Paul Durrenberger

In The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa E. Paul Durrenberger recounts the transformation of Iowa’s family farms into today’s agricultural industry through the lens of the lives and writings of Iowa novelist Paul Corey and poet Ruth Lechlitner. This anthropological biography analyzes Corey’s fiction, Lechlitner’s poetry, and their professional and personal correspondence to offer a new perspective on an era (1925–1947) that saw the collapse and remaking of capitalism in the United States, the rise of communism in the Soviet Union, the rise and defeat of fascism around the world, and the creation of a continuous warfare state in America. Durrenberger tells the story that Corey aimed to record and preserve of the industrialization of Iowa’s agriculture and the death of its family farms. He analyzes Corey’s regionalist focus on Iowa farming and regionalism’s contemporaneous association in Europe with rising fascism. He explores Corey’s adoption of naturalism, evident in his resistance to heroes and villains, to plot structure and resolution, and to moral judgment, as well as his ethnographic tendency to focus on groups rather than individuals. An unusual and wide-ranging study, The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa offers important insight into the relationships among fiction, individual lives, and anthropological practice, as well as into a pivotal period in American history.

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University Press of Colorado

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1646422082

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Painting, Science, and the Perception of Coloured Shadows

‘The Most Beautiful Blue’

By: Paul Smith

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Painting, Science, and the Perception of Coloured Shadows

‘The Most Beautiful Blue’

By: Paul Smith

Many artists and scientists – including Buffon, Goethe, and Philipp Otto Runge – who observed the vividly coloured shadows that appear outdoors around dawn and dusk, or indoors when a candle burns under waning daylight, chose to describe their colours as ‘beautiful’. Paul Smith explains what makes these ephemeral effects worthy of such appreciation – or how depictions of coloured shadows have genuine aesthetic and epistemological significance. This multidisciplinary book synthesises methodologies drawn from art history (close pictorial analysis), psychology and neuroscience (theories of colour constancy), history of science (the changing paradigms used to explain coloured shadows), and philosophy (theories of perception and aesthetic value drawn from Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty). This title will be of interest to scholars in art history, art theory, and the history of science and technology.

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Routledge

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1351042009

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Long Island's Gold Coast

By: Paul J. Mateyunas,Foreword by Nelson DeMille

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Long Island's Gold Coast

By: Paul J. Mateyunas,Foreword by Nelson DeMille

In the spotlight with the publication of The Great Gatsby, the North Shore's Gold Coast boasted perhaps the greatest concentration of wealth in the country during the first half of the 20th century. In its heyday, over 1,200 grand homes lined the shoreline from Eaton's Neck to Great Neck and as far south as Old Westbury. With inspiration from around the globe, as well as the development of many new American styles, an architectural renaissance occurred, bringing together the greatest artisans, architects, landscape architects, and designers to create an exclusive enclave that flourished until World War II. Captains of industry, founding families, and even royalty called Long Island home. Everyone from Morgan, Woolworth, Vanderbilt, Hearst, Field, and Phipps to the Duke of Windsor resided here. Lavish parties celebrated weddings, Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, and other events. Today, approximately one-third of these houses still survive in various states, providing a glimpse of what was the Gold Coast.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738591319

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9780738591315

Cardiac Catheterization Handbook

By: Morton J. Kern,Paul Sorajja,Michael J Lim, MD

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Cardiac Catheterization Handbook

By: Morton J. Kern,Paul Sorajja,Michael J Lim, MD

This unique, easy-to-access handbook returns with enhanced coverage and clear instructions on what to expect, what to avoid, and how to manage complications in the cath lab. Ideal for cardiologists who need a quick clinical primer on cardiac catheterization, it offers easy access to information on the latest diagnostic and treatment advances necessary for optimal patient care. Straightforward, easy-to-understand approach and pocket-sized format are ideal for reference on the go. Covers vascular closure devices, radial artery catheterization, congenital heart disease, and drug-coated, carotid, and renal stenting. Focused update covers treatment protocols for every procedure you'll encounter, as well as the latest knowledge and clinical trials regarding recent scientific breakthroughs. Highlights the newest catheterization techniques, including new-generation stents, guidance devices, and closure devices, to ensure you're completely up to date. Discusses the management of common patient problems, focusing on cautions and outcomes to help you make informed decisions. Includes discussions on structural heart disease and new developments in heart valve disease. Brand-new illustrations - 40 in total - enhance your visual understanding of the material. Detailed videos of Dr. Kern demonstrating various procedures in the cath lab are linked within the chapters on Expert Consult, which will be regularly updated as new videos are created. Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, videos, images, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323340393

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9780323340397

Freight in the Peak District

By: Paul Harrison

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Freight in the Peak District

By: Paul Harrison

Previously unpublished illustrations documenting freight trains within the Peak District. This book will illustrate some of the traffic flows, both past and present.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445687739

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Economics: European Edition

By: Paul Krugman,Robin Wells,Kathryn Graddy

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Economics: European Edition

By: Paul Krugman,Robin Wells,Kathryn Graddy

Economics: European Edition is the ideal text for introductory economics, bringing together an international scope of real world examples and economic theory. The text is supported by a number of features to enhance student understanding as well as supplements to consolidate the learning process.

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Macmillan

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0716799561

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Luminous Airplanes

A Novel

By: Paul LaFarge

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Luminous Airplanes

A Novel

By: Paul LaFarge

After his grandfather dies, a young programmer must go back to Thebes, a town so isolated that the residents have their own language, and soon begins a romance with an old flame and reflects on other ghosts of the past. By the author of Haussmann, or the Distinction. 15,000 first printing.

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0374194319

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