Tom Le Bas's Books

Regarding Faure

By: Tom Gordon

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Regarding Fauré , the result of a 1995 conference on Fauré's important contribution to classical music, was written by Tom Gordon, artistic director the Ensemble Musica Nova and a professor in the Department of music at Bishop's University in Quebec. Also included are contributions from some of the world's most renowned Fauré scholars including Jean-Michel Nectous, Robert Orledge, Edward Phillips, and Steven Huebner. With a lifetime that spanned the developments of Chopin, Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky, the great French composer Gabriel-Urbain Fauré (1845-1924) lived during one of the most interesting periods in music history, yet steered a course uniquely his own. Exploring the composer's role as an educator, critic, composer, and advocate for French music, Regarding Fauré is critical, analytical, and interdisciplinary in its approach to understanding Fauré's prodigious works and life. Also includes musical examples. His numerous compositions include more than 100 songs (known as 'melodie', or French a

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1134391188

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9781134391189

Poésie Bourrique

3è Millénaire

By: MBANGA TOM

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Poésie Bourrique

3è Millénaire

By: MBANGA TOM

Ceci est le premier livre de l'auteur. Trois autres sont en voie d'achèvement, un livre de fiction en langue française, et une autobiographie et un drame en langue anglaise. Tom Mbanga a été inspiré par la mauvaise gestion de l'Homme par l'homme, pour la réalisation de ce livre de poésie qui édifie l'insatisfaction de l'homme avec sa propre nature. Le thème de Poésie Bourrique: L'Homme mortel dans son insatiabilité a la conviction qu'il est capable de se hisser et s'égaler à son créateur. Dans sa quête, il, (c'est-à-dire) l'homme voit son semblable comme sa créature d'où la Dictature.

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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1631353942

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9781631353949

Young Researchers 2004

By: Tom Dupuis

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Young Researchers 2004

By: Tom Dupuis

The selection of papers in this special issue of WEMS illustrates the various aspects of water and wastewater treatment and management. These papers were presented at the 2nd Young Researchers Conference held on 23-24 April 2004, at the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands. It was organised on behalf of the International Water Association (IWA) and supported by the European Symposium of Environmental Biotechnology (ESEB 2000). The IWA Young Researcher Conferences' mission is to provide young researchers in water and wastewater science, technology and management with a forum to discuss current and future environmental concerns. The conferences aim to confront environmental researchers with technologists and regulatory instances dealing with environmental quality. Moreover, the IWA Young Researchers Conferences address issues related to the development of careers in the water sector.

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1843395053

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Regional Identity and Economic Change

The Upper Rhine, 1450-1600

By: Tom Scott

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Regional Identity and Economic Change

The Upper Rhine, 1450-1600

By: Tom Scott

The current debate about the best methods of European organization - central or regional - is influenced by an awareness of regional identity, which offers an alternative to the rigidities of organization by nation-state. Yet where does the sense of regionalism come from? What are thedistinctive factors that transform a geographical area into a particular 'region'? Tom Scott addresses these questions in this study of one apparently 'natural' region - the Upper Rhine - between 1450 and 1600. This region has been divided between three countries and so historically marginalized,yet Dr Scott is able to trace the existence of a sense of historical regional identity cutting across national frontiers, founded on common economic interests. But that identity was always contingent and precarious, neither 'natural' nor immutable.

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Oxford University Press

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0198206445

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Pierre de L'Estoile and His World in the Wars of Religion

By: Tom Hamilton

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Pierre de L'Estoile and His World in the Wars of Religion

By: Tom Hamilton

The Wars of Religion embroiled France in decades of faction, violence, and peacemaking in the late sixteenth century. When historians interpret these events they inevitably depend on sources of information gathered by contemporaries, none more valuable than the diaries and collection of Pierre de L'Estoile (1546-1611), who lived through the civil wars in Paris and shaped how they have been remembered ever since. Taking him out of the footnotes, and demonstrating his significance in the culture of the late Renaissance, this is the first life of L'Estoile in any language. It examines how he negotiated and commemorated the conflicts that divided France as he assembled an extraordinary collection of the relics of the troubles, a collection that he called "the storehouse of my curiosities." The story of his life and times is the history of the civil wars in the making. Focusing on a crucial individual for understanding Reformation Europe, this study challenges historians' assumptions about the widespread impact of confessional conflict in the sixteenth century. L'Estoile's prudent, non-confessional responses to the events he lived through and recorded were common among his milieu of Gallican Catholics. His life-writing and engagement with contemporary news, books, and pictures reveals how individuals used different genres and media to destabilize rather than fix confessional identities. Bringing together the great variety of topics in society and culture that attracted L'Estoile's curiosity, this volume rethinks his world in the Wars of Religion.

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Oxford University Press

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0198800096

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9780198800095

The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing

By: Tom Conley

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The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing

By: Tom Conley

This book studies the importance of typographic shapes in French Renaissance literature in the context of psychoanalysis and of the history of printed writing. Focusing on the poetry of Clement Marot, Rabelais's Gargantua, Ronsard's sonnets and the Essais of Montaigne, it argues that printed characters can either supplement or betray what they appear to articulate. They often reveal compositional patterns that do not appear to be under authorial control, and open political and subjective dimensions through the interaction of verbal and visual materials. This unconscious, proto-Freudian writing has complex historical relations with practices found in the media of the twentieth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521410312

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The Accidental Joe

The Top-Secret Life of a Celebrity Chef

By: Tom Straw

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The Accidental Joe

The Top-Secret Life of a Celebrity Chef

By: Tom Straw

One of the Washington Post’s “5 mystery novels to savor this summer” A maverick celebrity chef reluctantly agrees to let the CIA use his hugely popular international food, culture, and travel TV series as cover for a dangerous espionage mission. When the CIA approaches celebrity chef Sebastian Pike about using his award-winning food and culture travel show as cover for espionage, the outspoken bad-boy host says no. When they point out how roaming the globe interviewing foodies, heads of state, rock stars, journalists-in-exile, poets, subversives, supermodels—even the pope—gives him perfect cover, Pike smiles and says, “F@#! no.” They push. Promising it’s only one mission. Vowing he won’t be in danger. Calling him the MVB: Most Valuable Bystander. They’d embed their top agent in his crew to do the spy work. It’s still no. But when they hit him with the patriotism card, he weakens. And when romantic sparks crackle between him and the female agent, Pike’s all in, kicking off a romantic spy thriller in which the globetrotting celebrity chef uses his TV series to help sneak Putin’s accountant out of Russia before he’s exposed as a mole for US intelligence. The high-stakes mission quickly puts Pike in harm’s way. So much for MVB. There’s danger, there’s double dealing, there’s torture, there’s shooting with real bullets. Plus, a minefield of complications from the hot romance that grows between Pike and his gutsy CIA handler-producer, Cammie Nova. From Paris to Provence, this chef is no bystander. Beyond their attraction, Pike and Nova become an operational team, not only to survive the perils they face but to pull off an operation fraught with one twist after another, capped by a shocking, emotional climax.

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Simon and Schuster

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A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard

By: Tom Conley,T. Jefferson Kline

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A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard

By: Tom Conley,T. Jefferson Kline

This compendium of original essays offers invaluable insights into the life and works of one of the most important and influential directors in the history of cinema, exploring his major films, philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics and directors. Presents a compendium of original essays offering invaluable insights into the life and works of one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema Features contributions from an international cast of major film theorists and critics Provides readers with both an in-depth reading of Godard’s major films and a sense of his evolution from the New Wave to his later political periods Brings fresh insights into the great director’s biography, including reflections on his personal philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics and filmmakers Explores many of the 80 features Godard made in nearly 60 years, and includes coverage of his recent work in video

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118587014

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A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion

Gender and Justice in Renaissance France

By: Tom Hamilton

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A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion

Gender and Justice in Renaissance France

By: Tom Hamilton

Paris, 1599. At the end of the French Wars of Religion, the widow Renée Chevalier instigated the prosecution of the military captain Mathurin Delacanche, who had committed multiple acts of rape, homicide, and theft against the villagers who lived around her château near the cathedral city of Sens. But how could Chevalier win her case when King Henri IV's Edict of Nantes ordered that the recent troubles should be forgotten as 'things that had never been'? A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion is a dramatic account of the impact of the troubles on daily life. Based on neglected archival sources and an exceptional criminal trial, it recovers the experiences of women, peasants, and foot soldiers, who are marginalized in most historical studies. Tom Hamilton shows how this trial contributed to a wider struggle for justice and an end to violence in postwar France. People throughout the society of the Old Regime did not consider rape and pillage as inevitable consequences of war, and denounced soldiers' illicit violence when they were given the chance. As a result, the early modern laws of war need to be understood not only as the idealistic invention of great legal thinkers, but also as a practical framework that enabled magistrates to do justice for plaintiffs and witnesses, like Chevalier and the villagers who lived under her protection.

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Oxford University Press

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0192697404

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Instant French Vocabulary Builder

By: Tom Means

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Instant French Vocabulary Builder

By: Tom Means

Many words in French are nearly the same as their English counterparts, except for the word ending. For example, English words ending in 'ary' (ordinary) usually end in 'aire' in French (ordinaire). This book teaches 23 word-ending patterns between English and French and provides over 4,000 vocabulary words that follow them. Perfect as a classroom supplement or for self-study, it is appropriate for all ages and levels of experience. The companion audio CD teaches pronunciation.

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0781809827

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Authentic Fictions

Cosmopolitan Writing of the Troisième République, 1908-1940

By: Tom Genrich

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Authentic Fictions

Cosmopolitan Writing of the Troisième République, 1908-1940

By: Tom Genrich

This comparative study examines the prose writings of the best-known cosmopolitan authors of the Third French Republic: the modernists Jean Giraudoux, Valery Larbaud and Paul Morand, and the best-selling popular writer Maurice Dekobra. It investigates what constituted the 'cosmopolitanism' that they publicly proclaimed between the World Wars, a classification which has been widely accepted by commentators ever since. In particular, it considers whether conventional definitions of cosmopolitanism - as an unproblematic attitude of xenophilia coupled with wanderlust, or as an ecumenical humanism - can co-exist with the blind spots and prejudices of its practitioners. This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the writers' identity politics based on their approach to Otherness (gender, race, nationality, political affiliation) as well as to formal innovation. It argues that cosmopolitanism is the organizing principle for their literary and existential attempts at cultivating authentic Selfhood. Through its socio-political embeddedness, this cosmopolitanism reveals the ideological and cultural preoccupations of the day.

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Peter Lang

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3039102850

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9783039102853

Le Monde Polyconscient T2

By: Tom Fringant

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Le Monde Polyconscient T2

By: Tom Fringant

Dans ce deuxième tome, laissons agir nos voix polyconscientes, multiples, radicales et impertinentes. Les unes claironnent leur séduction, les autres allument leur douche cynique, les troisièmes ne se départissent pas de leur masque d'objectivité, cachent leurs intentions derrière, et militent comme les autres, pour l'impartialité. Toutes ne rêvent que d'un peu de gloire...Taraudés par le besoin de maîtriser cet univers, ne cherchons-nous pas tous les obstacles qui peuvent se présenter, au fur et à mesure que nous avons sauté la haie précédente? Il existe toujours un regard sceptique, un objet mal intentionné, une vicieuse frappe du sort, pour nous faire douter.Saurons-nous nous défendre avec un réenchantement inattaquable, et par quelle méthode? L'esquive du chat, le vol erratique du moustique, la dissuasion du hérisson, le blindage du rhino, ou le moelleux du sumo?...

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Lulu.com

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1291364064

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9781291364064

International Law

A European Perspective

By: Jan Wouters,Cedric Ryngaert,Tom Ruys,Geert De Baere

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International Law

A European Perspective

By: Jan Wouters,Cedric Ryngaert,Tom Ruys,Geert De Baere

This textbook offers for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the classic doctrines and main areas of international law from a European perspective, meeting the needs of the many European law schools teaching public international law in English. Special attention is devoted to the practice of the European Union, the Council of Europe and European States – both civil law and common law countries – with regard to international law. In particular the book analyses the interplay between international law, EU law and national law in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU, the European Court of Human Rights and national jurisdictions in Europe. It provides the reader with insights into how the international legal practice of the EU and its Member States impacts the development of international law, both in terms of doctrines such as treaty-making and customary law, the exercise of (extraterritorial) jurisdiction, state responsibility and the settlement of disputes, as well as particular sub-fields of international law, such as human rights law and international economic law. In addition the book covers other important areas such as the use of force and collective security, the law of armed conflict, and global and regional international organisations. It provides European perspectives on all these issues and will be of great value to students, scholars and practitioners.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509909044

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9781509909049

The Black Count

Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)

By: Tom Reiss

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The Black Count

Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)

By: Tom Reiss

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • ONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. But, hidden behind General Dumas's swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: he was the son of a black slave—who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas made his way to Paris, where he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution—until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat. The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a window into the modern world’s first multi-racial society. TIME magazine called The Black Count "one of those quintessentially human stories of strength and courage that sheds light on the historical moment that made it possible." But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.

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Crown

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0307952959

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9780307952950

Song for My Fathers

A New Orleans Story in Black and White

By: Tom Sancton

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Song for My Fathers

A New Orleans Story in Black and White

By: Tom Sancton

Song for My Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by a consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging black jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era. Contemporaries of Louis Armstrong, most of them had played in local obscurity until Preservation Hall launched a nationwide revival of interest in traditional jazz. They called themselves “the mens.” And they welcomed the young apprentice into their ranks. The boy was introduced into this remarkable fellowship by his father, an eccentric Southern liberal and failed novelist whose powerful articles on race had made him one of the most effective polemicists of the early Civil Rights movement. Nurtured on his father’s belief in racial equality, the aspiring clarinetist embraced the old musicians with a boundless love and admiration. The narrative unfolds against the vivid backdrop of New Orleans in the 1950s and ‘60s. But that magical place is more than decor; it is perhaps the central player, for this story could not have taken place in any other city in the world.

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Other Press, LLC

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1590513894

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9781590513897

All-New Wolverine

Orphans Of X

By: Tom Taylor

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All-New Wolverine

Orphans Of X

By: Tom Taylor

Collects All-New Wolverine #25-30. Daken has been kidnapped, and it's up to Wolverine to find him. But when his trail brings her back to the Facility, the place that tortured and created her, what new horrors will Laura find cooking there? Who, exactly, are the Orphans of X? How are they connected to the Wolverine? And what do they know about Laura and her past?

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302502522

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9781302502522

George Lewis

A Jazzman from New Orleans

By: Tom Bethell

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George Lewis

A Jazzman from New Orleans

By: Tom Bethell

George Lewis, one of the great traditional jazz clarinetists, was born in 1900 at about the same time that jazz itself first appeared in New Orleans. And by the time he died, on the last day of 1968, New Orleans jazz had pretty much run its course, too. By then a jazz museum stood on Bourbon Street, and a cultural center was under construction where Globe Hall had Stood. Lewis's life thus paralleled that of New Orleans jazz, and in his later years hew as the best known standard bearer of his city's music. He came to the attention of the jazz world at the time of the so-called "New Orleans Revival" of the 1940's, when veteran trumpeter Bunk Johnson was recorded by a number of jazz enthusiasts, notably William Russell. In this new biography, Tom Bethell challenges a favorite myth of the history of jazz: that the music became moribund in New Orleans after the legal red light district, Storyville, was closed in 1917, resulting in most jazz musicians going "up the river." In fact, Bethell shows, many more jazzmen stayed in the city than left, and the musical style continued to develop and grow. Thus the jazz fans who arrived in the city in the early 1940's did not encounter a "revival" of an old style so much as an ongoing tradition, with clarinetists like Lewis having been influenced by Benny Goodman and the Swing Era in addition to Lorenzo Tio and the Creole School. After Bunk Johnson's death in 1949, at a time when many other social changes were beginning to be felt in the city, the New Orleans jazz tradition began to go into a decline. It became increasingly rigid and repetitive, and was often designed to please what one observer called "Dixieland fans yelling for their favorite members." The book is based on lengthy research in New Orleans, including interviews with George Lewis shortly before his death, and unpublished material from the diaries kept by William Russell on his visits to New Orleans between 1942 and 1949. It also includes a statement by Lewis on jazz and the best way to play it and a complete Lewis discography. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

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0520311027

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Moon Angkor Wat

Including Siem Reap & Phnom Penh

By: Tom Vater

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Moon Angkor Wat

Including Siem Reap & Phnom Penh

By: Tom Vater

A group of young monks, their robes a luminous orange, cross the causeway. A stone's throw away, rice paddies and golden temple roofs of Angkor shimmer in the morning sun. Monkeys swing from the trees and elephants stand in the shade nearby, waiting for passengers. This is the trip of a lifetime. It will leave you with a new sense of wonder — and some great stories to share. Expert traveler Tom Vater tells you everything youneed to know to make this trip possible in Moon Angkor Wat: Including Siem Reap & Phnom Penh: How to get there, how long it will take, and where to stop along the way — including information on the cities of Siem Riep, Battambang, and Phnom Penh as well as excursions to remote temples How to choose the best means of transportation, whether you're traveling by tuk-tuk, taxi, motorbike, or bicycle Background on authentic cultural experiences, from street food feasts to New Year's celebrations — and where to find them Day-by-day itinerary suggestions

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Moon Travel

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1612383661

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9781612383668

Food Fights & Culture Wars

A Secret History of Taste

By: Tom Nealon

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Food Fights & Culture Wars

A Secret History of Taste

By: Tom Nealon

In this eclectic book of food history, Tom Nealon takes on such overlooked themes as carp and the Crusades, brown sauce and Byron, and chillies and cannibalism, and suggests that hunger and taste are the twin forces that secretly defined the course of civilization. Through war and plague, revolution and migration, people have always had to eat. What and how they ate provoked culinary upheaval around the world as ingredients were traded and fought over, and populations desperately walked the line between satiety and starvation. Parallel to the history books, a second, more obscure history was also being recorded in the cookbooks of the time, which charted the evolution of meals and the transmission of ingredients around the world. Food Fights and Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste explores the mysteries at the intersection of food and society, and attempts to make sense of the curious area between fact and fiction. Beautifully illustrated with material from the collection of the British Library, this wide-ranging book addresses some of the fascinating, forgotten stories behind everyday dishes and processes. Among many conspiracies and controversies, the author meditates on the connections between the French Revolution and table settings, food thickness and colonialism, and lemonade and the Black Plague.

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ABRAMS

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1468314521

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9781468314526

Shipwreck

The Coast of Utopia, Part II

By: Tom Stoppard

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Shipwreck

The Coast of Utopia, Part II

By: Tom Stoppard

The Coast of Utopia is Tom Stoppard’s long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who come of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term “intelligentsia” was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman's son and the first self-proclaimed socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus of this drama of politics, love, loss and betrayal. In The Coast of Utopia, Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism and practical reformation in what The New York Times calls, “The biggest theatrical event of the year. . . . Brilliant, sprawling. . . . A rich pageant.”

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080219530X

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9780802195302

Scripture, Logic, Language

Essays on Dharmakirti and his Tibetan Successors

By: Tom J. F. Tillemans

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Scripture, Logic, Language

Essays on Dharmakirti and his Tibetan Successors

By: Tom J. F. Tillemans

Dharmakirti, an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the seventh century, explored the nature, limits, and justifications of rationality within the context of Buddhist religious and metaphysical concerns. While Dharmakirti is widely recognized for his crucial innovations in Indian logic and semantic theory, his notoriously difficult thought nonetheless remains poorly understood. In this volume, one of the world's leading scholars of Buddhist philosophy sheds light on the interrelated topics of scripture, logic, and language in the works of Dharmakirti and his philosophical heirs, both Indian and Tibetan. Professor Tillemans' knowledgeable explanations of such technical subjects as the apoha theory of reference and the problem of entailment (vyapti) are coupled throughout with insightful reflections on how best to evaluate Dharmakirti's theories in light of contemporary philosophical thought. Scripture, Logic, Language is an informative and thought-provoking study for students of Buddhism as well as for those in the wider field of philosophy.

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Simon and Schuster

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0861717619

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9780861717613

Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature

By: Tom Hawkins

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Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature

By: Tom Hawkins

This is the first book to study how Haitian authors – from independence in 1804 to the modern Haitian diaspora – have adapted Greco-Roman material and harnessed it to Haiti’s legacy as the world’s first anti-colonial nation-state. In nine chronologically organized chapters built around individual Haitian authors, Hawkins takes readers on a journey through one strand of Haitian literary history that draws on material from ancient Greece and Rome. This cross-disciplinary exploration is composed in a way that invites all readers to discover a rich and exciting cultural exchange that foregrounds the variety of ways that Haitian authors have ‘hacked classical forms’ as part of their creative process. Students of ancient Mediterranean cultures will learn about a branch of the Greco-Roman legacy that has never been deeply explored. Experts in Caribbean culture will find a robust register of Haitian literature that will enrich familiar texts. And those interested in anti-colonial movements will encounter a host of examples of artists creatively engaging with literary monuments from the past in ways that always keep the Haitian experience in central focus. Written in a broadly accessible style, Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature appeals to anyone interested in Haiti, Haitian literature and history, anti-colonial literature, or classical reception studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000936384

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9781000936384

Gaslight Arcanum

Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes

By: Charles Prepolec,J. R. Campbell,Stephen Volk,Christopher Fowler,Kim Newman,Paul Kane,Simon Kurt Unsworth,Tom English,Tony Richards,William Meikle,Fred Saberhagen,Kevin Cockle,Lawrence C. Connolly,Simon Clark

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Gaslight Arcanum

Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes

From the comforting glow of Baker Street gas-lamps to the gloom of the ocean's depths, Sherlock Holmes lays bare the secrets of men, monsters and evil in twelve new tales of the bizarre, the uncanny and the arcane.

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EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

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1894817958

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The Shell Channel Pilot

By: Tom Cunliffe

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The Shell Channel Pilot

By: Tom Cunliffe

South coast of England, the North coast of France and the Channel Islands

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Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd

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1786792702

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Making a New World

Architecture & Communities in Interwar Europe

By: Tom Avermaete

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Making a New World

Architecture & Communities in Interwar Europe

By: Tom Avermaete

A heavily illustrated study of the foundations and working mechanisms of modern communities.

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257

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Leuven University Press

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9058679098

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Nouvelles de la banque d'en bas

By: Tom Pheriac

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Nouvelles de la banque d'en bas

By: Tom Pheriac

Les banques, pour de bonnes ou mauvaises raisons, sont sous les feux de l'actualité. Ce livre peut donc tomber au bon moment. Il raconte quelques souvenirs d'évènements particuliers, vécus au cours de quarante ans passés dans une banque. Y sont évoquées les relations avec la hiérarchie et avec certains clients dont la vie est parfois un roman. Sans autre prétention que de distraire. Il peut se lire dans les transports, sur la plage, en attendant l'avion... Embauché par cet établissement financier pour un job d'étudiant, j'y suis retourné à la fin du service militaire. J'y suis resté quarante ans en passant par toutes les fonctions du réseau. Ces anecdotes indépendantes les unes des autres peuvent se lire comme autant de nouvelles (d'où le titre) reliées par le fil du temps. Tout est vrai mais déformé par ma propre lecture des évènements. Quelqu'un qui aurait connu cette banque de l'intérieur pourrait la reconnaître très facilement.

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211

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Lulu.com

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1291003428

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9781291003420

Volcanoes of the World

Third Edition

By: Lee Siebert,Tom Simkin,Paul Kimberly

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Volcanoes of the World

Third Edition

By: Lee Siebert,Tom Simkin,Paul Kimberly

This impressive scientific resource presents up-to-date information on ten thousand years of volcanic activity on Earth. In the decade and a half since the previous edition was published new studies have refined assessments of the ages of many volcanoes, and several thousand new eruptions have been documented. This edition updates the book’s key components: a directory of volcanoes active during the Holocene; a chronology of eruptions over the past ten thousand years; a gazetteer of volcano names, synonyms, and subsidiary features; an extensive list of references; and an introduction placing these data in context. This edition also includes new photographs, data on the most common rock types forming each volcano, information on population densities near volcanoes, and other features, making it the most comprehensive source available on Earth’s dynamic volcanism.

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Univ of California Press

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0520947932

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9780520947931

Gastronomie!

Food Museums and Heritage Sites of France

By: E. Thomas Hughes,Tom Hughes,Meredith Sayles Hughes

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Gastronomie!

Food Museums and Heritage Sites of France

By: E. Thomas Hughes,Tom Hughes,Meredith Sayles Hughes

Written by the founders of The Food Museum in Albuquerque, NM, this book explores the fascinating regional ingredients that make up the heritage of French food.

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Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.

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1593730292

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Action, Action, Action

The Early Cinema of Raoul Walsh

By: Tom Conley

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The Early Cinema of Raoul Walsh

By: Tom Conley

Director of over 150 films from 1912 to 1964, Raoul Walsh was a core figure in Hollywood from its beginnings to the end of the studio system. Perhaps best known for such films as The Big Trail (starring John Wayne in his first leading role), High Sierra, and White Heat, Walsh cut his teeth under D. W. Griffith, and, like his contemporary John Ford, found a style and signature in his silent cinema and early talkies. Through close analysis of seven of his films, six shot between 1915 and 1933 and one a remake from 1956, and stressing the visual character of their settings and situations, Tom Conley examines how composition and montage—or action—often overtake the crisp narratives these films convey. Rife with contradiction, they ask us to see what makes them possible and how they contend with prevailing codes. Films discussed include Regeneration (1915); Sadie Thompson (1928) and a likely avatar, The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956); The Cock-Eyed World (1929); The Big Trail (1930); Me and My Gal (1932); and The Bowery (1933).

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State University of New York Press

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1438488874

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9781438488875

Sources of Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century

Architecture, Art, and Literature

By: Linda Van Santvoort,Tom Verschaffel

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Sources of Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century

Architecture, Art, and Literature

By: Linda Van Santvoort,Tom Verschaffel

Architectural concepts and styles seem to flourish from the most local of contexts to the global." "This book investigates the regional, often conceived today as a late nineteenth-century phenomenon, primarily on account of the preservation and restoration movements that arose. An interdisciplinary approach to regionalism, as manifested not only in architecture but also in art and literature, necessitates a more thorough examination of the complexity and multilayered quality of the phenomenon." "The research is limited in lime to the nineteenth century plus the years leading up to the First World War, and in place to Western Europe, with an emphasis on Belgium, France and England, and to a lesser extent on the Netherlands, Germany and Spain."--BOOK JACKET.

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9058676498

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