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By a Slow River

A Novel

By: Philippe Claudel

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A bestseller in France and winner of the Prix Renaudot, By a Slow River is a mesmerizing and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I.The placid daily life of a small town near the front seems impervious to the nearby pounding of artillery fire and the parade of wounded strangers passing through its streets. But the illusion of calm is soon shattered by the deaths of three innocents–the charming new schoolmistress who captures every male heart only to kill herself; an angelic ten-year-old girl who is found strangled; and a local policeman’s cherished wife, who dies alone in labor while her husband is hunting the murderer. Twenty years later, the policeman still struggles to make sense of these tragedies, a struggle that both torments and sustains him. But excavating the town's secret history will bring neither peace to him nor justice to the wicked. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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0307425134

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The American Enemy

The History of French Anti-Americanism

By: Philippe Roger

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The American Enemy

The History of French Anti-Americanism

By: Philippe Roger

Georges-Louis Buffon, an eighteenth-century French scientist, was the first to promote the widespread idea that nature in the New World was deficient; in America, which he had never visited, dogs don't bark, birds don't sing, and—by extension—humans are weaker, less intelligent, and less potent. Thomas Jefferson, infuriated by these claims, brought a seven-foot-tall carcass of a moose from America to the entry hall of his Parisian hotel, but the five-foot-tall Buffon remained unimpressed and refused to change his views on America's inferiority. Buffon, as Philippe Roger demonstrates here, was just one of the first in a long line of Frenchmen who have built a history of anti-Americanism in that country, a progressive history that is alternately ludicrous and trenchant. The American Enemy is Roger's bestselling and widely acclaimed history of French anti-Americanism, presented here in English translation for the first time. With elegance and good humor, Roger goes back 200 years to unearth the deep roots of this anti-Americanism and trace its changing nature, from the belittling, as Buffon did, of the "savage American" to France's resigned dependency on America for goods and commerce and finally to the fear of America's global domination in light of France's thwarted imperial ambitions. Roger sees French anti-Americanism as barely acquainted with actual fact; rather, anti-Americanism is a cultural pillar for the French, America an idea that the country and its culture have long defined themselves against. Sharon Bowman's fine translation of this magisterial work brings French anti-Americanism into the broad light of day, offering fascinating reading for Americans who care about our image abroad and how it came about. “Mr. Roger almost single-handedly creates a new field of study, tracing the nuances and imagery of anti-Americanism in France over 250 years. He shows that far from being a specific reaction to recent American policies, it has been knit into the very substance of French intellectual and cultural life. . . . His book stuns with its accumulated detail and analysis.”—Edward Rothstein, New York Times “A brilliant and exhaustive guide to the history of French Ameriphobia.”—Simon Schama, New Yorker

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University of Chicago Press

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0226723690

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9780226723693

Toussaint Louverture

A Revolutionary Life

By: Philippe Girard

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Toussaint Louverture

A Revolutionary Life

By: Philippe Girard

The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history

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0465094139

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Modern Phosphonate Chemistry

By: Philippe Savignac,Bogdan Iorga

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Modern Phosphonate Chemistry

By: Philippe Savignac,Bogdan Iorga

A century after their discovery, phosphonates have become important compounds recognized both for their use as efficient reagents in organic synthesis and for their biological and industrial importance. This unique, up-to-date reference presents a concise summary of the state of the art in phosphonate chemistry, covering the role of phosphonates in

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CRC Press

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0203503678

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9780203503676

Kissing Number

By: Philippe St-Jean

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Kissing Number

By: Philippe St-Jean

Shred Wallace's Oblivion, Pynchon's V , Leyner's Sugar Frosted Nutsack* and Ou ednik's Instant Propice. Gather in a 2 Gallon Ziplocr Brand Freezer Bag. Shake, half-bake. And here's this subtly crusted bilingual English/French-Canadian novel entitled Kissing Number. Keywords? Sure! Pseudo-thermodynamics. Limerence. High finance as an art form. Cuban cattlehead refrigerators. Why you, the well-advised, polymath reader ought to spend hard-earned money on this book on the sole basis of self-proclaimed cross-references and a few keywords is beyond reason. To tell you the truth, you're currently holding a pure akratic object in your hands, yet reasonably priced at single-digit dollars and 99 cents. Good luck with that one. * This novel by Leyner isn't yet published as I go to press, the influence here being non-causal, making the two books entangled in a quantum mechanical sense. Can't wait to see how The Sugar Frosted Nutsack turns out as it will instantly determine the opposite content of KN. Exciting!!! Later note: Leyner's book just came out a minute ago. Pure genius. Well, so much for this book! Put it back on the shelf, now.

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iUniverse

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147590570X

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9781475905700

Neural Network Models

Theory and Projects

By: Philippe de Wilde

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Neural Network Models

Theory and Projects

By: Philippe de Wilde

Providing an in-depth treatment of neural network models, this volume explains and proves the main results in a clear and accessible way. It presents the essential principles of nonlinear dynamics as derived from neurobiology, and investigates the stability, convergence behaviour and capacity of networks.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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184628614X

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9781846286148

Past Imperfect

Time and African Decolonization, 1945-1960

By: Pierre-Philippe Fraiture

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Past Imperfect

Time and African Decolonization, 1945-1960

By: Pierre-Philippe Fraiture

This book proposes to examine French and Francophone intellectual history in the period leading to the decolonization of sub-Saharan Africa (1945-1960). The analysis favours the epistemological links between ethnology, museology, sociology, and (art) history. In this discussion, a specific focus is placed on temporality and the role ascribed by these different disciplines to African pasts, presents, and futures. It is argued here that the post-war context, characterized, inter alia, by the creation of UNESCO, the birth of Pr�sence Africaine and the prevalence of existentialism, bore witness to the development of new regimes of historicity and to the partial refutation of a progress-based modernity. This investigation is predicated on case studies from West and Central Africa (AOF, AEF and Belgian Congo) and, whilst adopting a postcolonial methodology, it explores African and French authors such as Georges Balandier, Cheikh Anta Diop, Frantz Fanon, Chris Marker, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Claude L�vi-Strauss, Alain Resnais, Jean-Paul Sartre and Placide Tempels. This study explores the intellectual legacy of the 'long nineteenth century' and the difficulty encountered by these authors to articulate their anti-colonial agenda away from the modern methodologies of the 'colonial library'. By focussing on issues of intellectual alienation, this book also demonstrates that the post-WW2 period foreshadowed twenty-first century debates on extroversion, racial inequalities, the decolonization of history, and cultural (mis)appropriation.

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Oxford University Press

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1800348401

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9781800348400

The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914-1938

By: Philippe Bernard,Henri Dubief

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The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914-1938

By: Philippe Bernard,Henri Dubief

This book provides a detailed account of the Third Republic in France between the outbreak and conduct of the First World War and the fall of Leon Blum's Front Populaire soon after Hitler's invasion and annexation of Austria in 1938. Following the trauma of war, France slipped into the "era of illusions" which despite the comparative prosperity of the 1920s led to the slump and the severe social and economic unrest of the 1930s. The short-lived experiment of Blum's Front Populaire gave way to more conservatively-based ministries, but by 1938 a new common enemy began to draw together the political opinion of the country.

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Cambridge University Press

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052135854X

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9780521358545

A Second Wind

The True Story that Inspired the Motion Picture The Intouchables

By: Philippe Pozzo di Borgo

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A Second Wind

The True Story that Inspired the Motion Picture The Intouchables

By: Philippe Pozzo di Borgo

An inspiring, heartfelt, tragi-comic memoir by an aristocratic Frenchman who was paralyzed in a paragliding accident and has to adjust to his new circumstances with the help of his unlikely caregiver-a hot-headed Algerian immigrant with troubles of his own. The basis of the hit French film "Untouchables," coming to the US from the Weinstein Company in summer 2012"--

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Simon and Schuster

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1451689705

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9781451689709

Counterpoints

Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts

By: Philippe Junod

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Counterpoints

Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts

By: Philippe Junod

Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict associated with multimedia is not a new phenomenon. From opera to the symphonic poem to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time and space. Counterpoints explores this artistic evolution from ancient times to the present day. The book’s main focus is music and its relationship with painting, sculpture, and architecture. Philippe Junod draws on theoretical and practical examples to show how different art movements throughout history have embraced or rejected creative combinations. He explains how the Renaissance, neoclassicism, and certain brands of modernism tried to claim the purity of each mode of expression, while other movements such as romanticism, symbolism, and surrealism called for a fusion of the arts. Counterpoints is a unique cultural history, one that provides a critical understanding of a popular but previously unheralded art form.

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Reaktion Books

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1780238592

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9781780238593

The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon

Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804

By: Philippe R. Girard

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The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon

Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804

By: Philippe R. Girard

In this ambitious book, Girard employs the latest tools of the historian's craft, multi-archival research in particular, and applies them to the climactic yet poorly understood last years of the Haitian Revolution. Haiti lost most of its archives to neglect and theft, but a substantial number of documents survive in French, U.S., British, and Spanish collections, both public and private. In all, this book relies on contemporary military, commercial, and administrative sources drawn from nineteen archives and research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817317325

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9780817317324

Nanometer-scale Defect Detection Using Polarized Light

By: Pierre-Richard Dahoo,Philippe Pougnet,Abdelkhalak El Hami

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Nanometer-scale Defect Detection Using Polarized Light

By: Pierre-Richard Dahoo,Philippe Pougnet,Abdelkhalak El Hami

This book describes the methods used to detect material defects at the nanoscale. The authors present different theories, polarization states and interactions of light with matter, in particular optical techniques using polarized light. Combining experimental techniques of polarized light analysis with techniques based on theoretical or statistical models to study faults or buried interfaces of mechatronic systems, the authors define the range of validity of measurements of carbon nanotube properties. The combination of theory and pratical methods presented throughout this book provide the reader with an insight into the current understanding of physicochemical processes affecting the properties of materials at the nanoscale.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1848219369

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9781848219366

Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

By: Philippe Rège

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Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

By: Philippe Rège

Cinema has been long associated with France, dating back to 1895, when Louis and Auguste Lumi_re screened their works, the first public viewing of films anywhere. Early silent pioneers Georges MZli_s, Alice Guy BlachZ and others followed in the footsteps of the Lumi_re brothers and the tradition of important filmmaking continued throughout the 20th century and beyond. In Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Philippe Rège identifies every French director who has made at least one feature film since 1895. From undisputed masters to obscure one-timers, nearly 3,000 directors are cited here, including at least 200 filmmakers not mentioned in similar books published in France. Each director's entry contains a brief biographical summary, including dates and places of birth and death; information on the individual's education and professional training; and other pertinent details, such as real names (when the filmmaker uses a pseudonym). The entries also provide complete filmographies, including credits for feature films, shorts, documentaries, and television work. Some of the most important names in the history of film can be found in this encyclopedia, from masters of the Golden Age_Jean Renoir and RenZ Clair_to French New Wave artists such as Fran_ois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.

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Scarecrow Press

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081086939X

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9780810869394

Spirituality and Business: A Christian Viewpoint

An Open Letter to Christian Leaders in Times of Urgency

By: Philippe de Woot

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Spirituality and Business: A Christian Viewpoint

An Open Letter to Christian Leaders in Times of Urgency

By: Philippe de Woot

Are the demands placed on 21st-century business leaders compatible with Christian values? Is it possible to act ethically and be socially responsible within a global system driven by economic demands? This important book explores the current conflict between spirituality and corporate leadership and asks challenging questions of business leaders and decision-makers.

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Routledge

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135127614X

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9781351276146

De mes nouvelles

By: Philippe Dell'Ova

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De mes nouvelles

By: Philippe Dell'Ova

Des nouvelles, des vraies ! Du rythme, de l’émotion, des sentiments, un imaginaire débordant et des chutes toujours déroutantes...

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2313000346

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Modern Phosphonate Chemistry

Kissing Number

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Neural Network Models

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Past Imperfect

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The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914-1938

The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914-1938

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The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon

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Nanometer-scale Defect Detection Using Polarized Light

Nanometer-scale Defect Detection Using Polarized Light

Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Spirituality and Business: A Christian Viewpoint

Spirituality and Business: A Christian Viewpoint

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