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The Essence of Provence

The Story of L'Occitane

By: Pierre Magnan

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The Essence of Provence

The Story of L'Occitane

By: Pierre Magnan

In this slim tribute to the founder of the company that sells products with fragrances distilled from aromatic plants such as rosemary, lavender, honeysuckle, sage and thyme, Magnan (The Murdered House) tells the story of Olivier Baussan, who turned his passion for Provence and its sweet-smelling herbs into a highly successful business, l'Occitane. While he was a young member of the back to the land movement, Baussan found an old still, began distilling herbal essences, and in the 1970s started a business that grew into the world-renowned company that sells a wide variety of herbal soaps, shampoos, colognes and bath products. The quintessential entrepreneur, he took his business to Africa, where he used the jatropha bush in the Cape Verde Islands to make soap and the karita tree in Burkina Faso to make creams and lotions. In 1992, Baussan sold the business, though he retained the title of managing director, and Magnan leaves the story of the company there in order to follow its founder into new ventures-a proposal to l'Occitane that Braille be included on its labels and a project for a school where blind children can learn a vocation in the perfume industry.

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145

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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ISBN 10

1611454956

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9781611454956

Anthropology and Development

Understanding Contemporary Social Change

By: Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan

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Anthropology and Development

Understanding Contemporary Social Change

By: Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan

This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology‘s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and ‘political‘ strategies.

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377

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Zed Books Ltd.

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ISBN 10

1848136137

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9781848136137

Reading the French Garden

Story and History

By: Denise Le Dantec,Jean-Pierre Le Dantec

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Reading the French Garden

Story and History

By: Denise Le Dantec,Jean-Pierre Le Dantec

Alternating discursive accounts with fictional vignettes that recreate time and place, this book skillfully integrates the history of French gardens with the modern history of ideas.

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292

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MIT Press

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0262620871

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9780262620871

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide

By: Robert M. Parker (Jr.),Pierre-Antoine Rovani

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Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide

By: Robert M. Parker (Jr.),Pierre-Antoine Rovani

Parker's acclaimed guide, fully revised with ratings on the latest vintages from around the world, is one of the most authoritative wine guides available and now comes with expanded sections on the popular wines of California and Italy.

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1654

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Simon and Schuster

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0743229312

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9780743229319

Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960

On the Halls on the Screen

By: Paul Matthew St. Pierre

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Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960

On the Halls on the Screen

By: Paul Matthew St. Pierre

In Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960, Dr. St. Pierre examines strategies of representing British music hall performance (1854-1919) and the performance of the body in British cinema in the silent era (1895-1927) and the sound era (1927-60). The focus is on films of Fred and Joe Evans, Frank Randle, Will Hay, George Formby, Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, Cicely Courtneidge, Jessie Matthews, Norman Evans, Max Miller, Stanley Holloway, Jack Warner, Gracie Fields, and Charles Chaplin. Consideration is given to themes such as war propaganda and gender impersonation.

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268

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Associated University Presse

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0838641911

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9780838641910

East-West East-West

By: Pierre Christin

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East-West East-West

By: Pierre Christin

Prolific comic book author Pierre Christin, who penned the game-changing classic sci-fi series "Valerian and Laureline," switches to autobiography here to bring us the thoughtful, enlightening tale of two vastly different lands, the American West during the civil rights movement and the counter-culture phenomenon, and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, as seen through the eyes of an inquisitive French artist and journalist with a love for travel, intellectual query, gypsies, and jazz. Christin and his faithful road companion and "Valerian" co-creator Jean-Claude Mézières drive across landscapes ranging from Utah to Bulgaria in a series of cars each more dilapidated than the next, encountering people and adventures of all kinds in a story that is part travel journal, part geo-political documentary, and part artistic coming-of-age.

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130

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Europe Comics

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9791032807187

Book's by Pierre Olivier

The Essence of Provence

The Essence of Provence

Anthropology and Development

Anthropology and Development

Reading the French Garden

Reading the French Garden

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide

Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960

Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960

East-West East-West

East-West East-West

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