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Four French Travelers in Nineteenth-century Cuba

By: Yvon Joseph

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Four French Travelers in Nineteenth-century Cuba

By: Yvon Joseph

The nineteenth century marks the apex of the travel genre. This book focuses on the representation of Cuba by four French travelers to the island from 1810 to 1866. The travelogues of these voyagers allow their first-hand experience to be considered under the mutual gaze involved in cross-cultural encounters. Four French Travelers in Nineteenth-Century Cuba argues that politics and science, as well as romanticism and commerce, coalesce in the travelers' representations of Cuban culture and institutions. The travel accounts constitute exercises in how knowledge spreads and gathers as travelers attempt to entice other visitors to emulate them and forge identities for the Cuban «Others» they have encountered.

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Peter Lang

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0820488305

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9780820488301

The Lachine Canal

Riding the Waves of Industrial and Urban Development, 1860-1950

By: Yvon Desloges,Alain Gelly

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The Lachine Canal

Riding the Waves of Industrial and Urban Development, 1860-1950

By: Yvon Desloges,Alain Gelly

Ideal for history buffs interested in inland navigation and industrial history, this volume reveals how the construction of the Lachine Canal starting in 1821 played a pivotal role in the industrial development of Montreal and all of Canada. Truly revolutionary, the canal ultimately allowed ships to bypass the previously insurmountable rapids and reach the Great Lakes, and its many consequences and benefits are described in detail.

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Les éditions du Septentrion

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2894483317

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9782894483312

A Frequency Dictionary of French

Core Vocabulary for Learners

By: Deryle Lonsdale,Yvon Le Bras

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A Frequency Dictionary of French

Core Vocabulary for Learners

By: Deryle Lonsdale,Yvon Le Bras

A Frequency Dictionary of French is an invaluable tool for all learners of French, providing a list of the 5000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on a 23-million-word corpus of French which includes written and spoken material both from France and overseas, this dictionary provides the user with detailed information for each of the 5000 entries, including English equivalents, a sample sentence, its English translation, usage statistics, and an indication of register variation. Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index. Throughout the frequency listing there are thematically-organized lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, weather, clothing, and family terms. An engaging and highly useful resource, the Frequency Dictionary of French will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of French vocabulary. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415775311 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work. Deryle Lonsdale is Associate Professor in the Linguistics and English Language Department at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah). Yvon Le Bras is Associate Professor of French and Department Chair of the French and Italian Department at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah).

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Routledge

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1135973504

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9781135973506

Culture and the Cuban State

Participation, Recognition, and Dissonance under Communism

By: Yvon Grenier

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Culture and the Cuban State

Participation, Recognition, and Dissonance under Communism

By: Yvon Grenier

Culture and the Cuban State examines the politics of culture in communist Cuba. It focuses on cultural policy, censorship, and the political participation of artists, writers and academics such as Tania Bruguera, Jesús Díaz, Rafael Hernández, Kcho, Reynier Leyva Novo, Leonardo Padura, and José Toirac. The cultural field is important for the reproduction of the regime in place, given its pretense and ambition to be eternally “revolutionary” and to lead a genuine “cultural revolution”. Cultural actors must be mobilized and handled with care, given their presumed disposition to speak their mind and to cherish their autonomy. This book argues that cultural actors also seek recognition by the main (for a long time the only) sponsor and patron of the art in Cuba: the “curator state”. The “curator state” is also a “gatekeeper state,” arbitrarily and selectively opening and closing the space for public expression and for access to foreign currencies and the global market. The time when everything was either mandatory or forbidden is over in Cuba. The regime seems to have learned from egregious mistakes that led to a massive exodus of artists, writers and academics. In a country where things change so everything could stay the same, the controlled opening in the cultural field, playing on the actors' ambition and fear, illuminates a broader phenomenon: the evolving rules of the political game in the longest standing dictatorship of the hemisphere.

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Lexington Books

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1498522246

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9781498522243

The Responsible Company

What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years

By: Yvon Chouinard,Vincent Stanley

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The Responsible Company

What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years

By: Yvon Chouinard,Vincent Stanley

The Responsible Company, by Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia, and Vincent Stanley, co-editor of its Footprint Chronicles, draw on the their 40 years' experience at Patagonia – and knowledge of current efforts by other companies – to articulate the elements of responsible business for our time. Patagonia, named by Fortune in 2007 as the coolest company on the planet, has earned a reputation as much for its ground-breaking environmental and social practices as for the quality of its clothes. In this exceptionally frank account, Chouinard and Stanley recount how the company and its culture gained the confidence, by step and misstep, to make its work progressively more responsible, and to ultimately share its discoveries with companies as large as Wal-Mart or as small as the corner bakery. In plain, compelling prose, the authors describe the current impact of manufacturing and commerce on the planet’s natural systems and human communities, and how that impact now forces business to change its ways. The Responsible Company shows companies how to reduce the harm they cause, improve the quality of their business, and provide the kind of meaningful work everyone seeks. It concludes with specific, practical steps every business can undertake, as well as advice on what to do, in what order. This is the first book to show companies how to thread their way through economic sea change and slow the drift toward ecological bankruptcy. Its advice is simple but powerful: reduce your environmental footprint (and its skyrocketing cost), make legitimate products that last, reclaim deep knowledge of your business and its supply chain to make the most of opportunities in the years to come, and earn the trust you’ll need by treating your workers, customers and communities with respect.

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Patagonia

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1938340108

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9781938340109

Messages from God

Hear God Like Never Before

By: Yvon Bell

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Messages from God

Hear God Like Never Before

By: Yvon Bell

What if you could hear detailed messages from God? Messages from God is an emotion-packed story explaining that there are no limits to hearing the voice of God, to clearly receiving divine instruction. Chronologically, it documents Bells journey across many years as God first reaches then teaches her. Messages from God puts a strong emphasis on listening to Gods voice. Hearing Gods voice, what He will tell you, will be simply inspiring, confesses Bell. For Bell, one of these life-changing experiences was a divine instruction to travel to Los Angeles to speak to vast audiences about what she was learning. With no plan Bell made that trip and found herself addressing jam-packed audiences for months afterward. Session after session, Bell held audiences spell-bound for hours with unique and unplanned talks, never preparing a speech prior to the any of the meetings. After sharing her heart and experiences with her audiences she spend 10 years writing Messages from God. My goal is not to explain God, but to offer personal examples and real-life situations through which God manifests in our lives. Once I began hearing Gods voice, it instantly led to a very interesting life. I learned that God does not give up on anyone. I am now convinced that God makes His message clear to anyone who opens their ears. Messages from God is written to assist readers to find their own personal entrance to supernatural life but to hear GODs voice at an incredible high level.

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iUniverse

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1532034776

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9781532034770

Everyday Lives in China's Cold War Military-Industrial Complex

Voices from the Shanghai Small Third Front, 1964-1988

By: Youwei Xu,Y. Yvon Wang

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Everyday Lives in China's Cold War Military-Industrial Complex

Voices from the Shanghai Small Third Front, 1964-1988

By: Youwei Xu,Y. Yvon Wang

This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from China’s most cosmopolitan city—Shanghai. Small Third Line factories became oases of relatively prosperous urban life among more impoverished agricultural communities. These accounts, plus the guiding questions, contextual notes, and further readings accompanying them, show how everyday lives fit into the sweeping geopolitical changes in China and the world during the Cold War era. Furthermore, they reveal how the Chinese Communist Party’s military-industrial strategies have shaped China’s economy and society in the post-Mao era. The approachable translations and insight into areas of life rarely covered by political or diplomatic histories like sexuality and popular culture make this book highly accessible for classroom use and the general-interest reader.

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393

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Springer Nature

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3030996883

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9783030996888

From Art to Politics

Octavio Paz and the Pursuit of Freedom

By: Yvon Grenier

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From Art to Politics

Octavio Paz and the Pursuit of Freedom

By: Yvon Grenier

This book offers an analysis of Paz's political thought, arguing that it is rooted in two separate and often antagonistic traditions, Liberalism and Romanticism. Grenier shows that Paz's political thought is best approached not so much by looking at the specific positions Paz took in the issues of his day, but rather by uncovering the core values at the heart of Paz's political philosophy. From Art to Politics gives not only a better understanding of Paz's thought, but also a discussion of the political culture and democratization of Mexico. The book takes a novel look at issues such as the relations between art and politics, the role of intellectuals, and the penchant of academics for "machination" theories in the area of art and culture. The result is an account of Paz's work that is both more focused and more ambitious than those offered in previous books on Paz's politics.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742511286

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9780742511286

The Rhythm of My Life

Tuning into the Rocky Rhythm of Fire

By: Yvon Milien

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The Rhythm of My Life

Tuning into the Rocky Rhythm of Fire

By: Yvon Milien

Throughout his life, author Yvon Milien has faced delays, denials, frustrations, isolation, failure, betrayals, affronts from friends, and the premature loss of loved ones many times. His experiences were a mix of the sad and the tragic, and he needed to develop values to survive and support himself. In The Rhythm of My Life, he narrates his story. Inspirational in substance, this memoir offers a perspective of how to deal with the challenges, how to tune into the rhythm of fires the wind of destiny blows into life. Milien tells how providence, the government of God, made him aware that the only way to overcome the negative was to develop his inner strength. Milien documents his sour, spicy life to share with others the methodology he used to deal with his dilemmas. Providence persuaded him to see that sharing his story was a vehicle to inspire others and help them make their lives an adventure rather than a sentence.

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iUniverse

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1532063652

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9781532063657

Le Trajet

L’Espoir Quand Tout Est Impossible

By: Dr. Yvon J. Henrilus

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Le Trajet

L’Espoir Quand Tout Est Impossible

By: Dr. Yvon J. Henrilus

Naître dans un pays pauvre, vivre avec drépanocytose et s'entendre dire que je ne vivrais pas jusqu'à mon seizième anniversaire ont été les sources de mon inspiration. J'avais de grands rêves, même s'il semblait n'y avoir aucune raison logique d'être optimiste. Grâce à ce livre, vous apprendrez que Dieu a un plan pour vos bons et mauvais moments; vous n'êtes pas seul, et Dieu ne vous a pas oublié. Ceux qui croient en Lui peuvent jouir de la paix, de la joie et de l'espoir qui surpassent toute compréhension en Lui, même face à des circonstances affreuses, tragiques et humiliantes (voir Phil. 4:7).

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669808181

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9781669808183

The Emergence of Insurgency in El Salvador

Ideology and Political Will

By: Yvon Grenier

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The Emergence of Insurgency in El Salvador

Ideology and Political Will

By: Yvon Grenier

Grenier offers a better understanding of the causes of revolution in El Salvador through an analysis of the central role of ideas and ideologues. The insurgency was not merely the charismatic embodiment of structurally determined processes, as it is commonly suggested, it was the expression of a distinct and forceful political will. The focus is placed on the period of emergence of insurgency (roughly, the 1970s and early 1980s), a period too often confounded (and not only in the Salvadoran case) with subsequent periods of the revolutionary cycle.

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236

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Springer

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1349148334

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9781349148332

First Person Singular

An Alternative to God

By: Yvon Cormier

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First Person Singular

An Alternative to God

By: Yvon Cormier

There is no soul that lives on past the death of the body, no reincarnation, no life after death. Most religions today are outdated, and their teachings can no longer be logically sustained. Fear of death and what is to become of us after we die has motivated humans to create stories and belief systems that do not stand up to rational argument. The universe is eternal, but a single human’s place in it is not. First Person Singular replaces the need to believe in a God that can be explained into nonexistence. This book perspective has been crafted to help us confront the reality of our mortality. The First Person Singular—“I”—will always exist. By examining issues of religion, history, biology, astrophysics, and philosophy, the author explains how religions cannot be defended as offering a promise of eternal life or reincarnation. Human lives, however remarkable, are but trivial in the scope of evolution and the universe. First Person Singular offers assurance that “I” will live as long as the last human being is alive on Earth.

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FriesenPress

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1525570056

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9781525570056

The Journey

Hope in the Midst of Impossibilities

By: Dr. Yvon J. Henrilus

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The Journey

Hope in the Midst of Impossibilities

By: Dr. Yvon J. Henrilus

Being born in an impoverished country, living with sickle cell disease, and being told that I would not live to see my sixteenth birthday had been the sources of my inspiration. I had big dreams despite no logical reason to be hopeful. Through this book, you will learn God has a plan for your good and bad times. Those who hope in God may enjoy the hope, joy, and peace that surpasses all understanding in Him, (Phil. 4:7) even in the face of awful, tragic, and humiliating circumstances.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669804186

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9781669804185

Revealing the Healer

A Complete Guide to Manifesting the Healing Power of Jesus

By: Yvon Attia

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Revealing the Healer

A Complete Guide to Manifesting the Healing Power of Jesus

By: Yvon Attia

You can heal like Jesus did. When she was six years old, Yvon Attia fell out of a three-story building in Cairo, Egypt. In a dramatic encounter with Jesus, she was divinely healed. Today, as a healing minister, she teaches on Divine healing with the authority of a practitioner, not a theorist. Yvon believes that if Jesus is our...

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Destiny Image Publishers

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0768453933

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9780768453935

First Descents

In Search of Wild Rivers

By: Richard Bangs,John Yost,Yvon Chounard,Royal Robbins

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First Descents

In Search of Wild Rivers

By: Richard Bangs,John Yost,Yvon Chounard,Royal Robbins

Dropping into the unknown on a rubber raft, hurled against rocks and cliff walls, only to round a blind bend, go vertical on a 10-foot standing wave, and flip over backwards into a deafening vat of near-freezing whitewater. Such is life for the brave souls who commit themselves to exploring the world’s untried rivers. First Descents collects the most enthralling tales from the world’s most respected river explorers. Vivid portrayals in the adventurers’ own words and original photographs tell of solitary efforts and major expeditions on rivers both famous and unknown, including the Yangtze River in China, the Colorado River in Arizona, Ethiopa’s Baro River, and the Braldu River in Pakistan. With stories from Royal Robbins, Tao Berman, Yvonne Chouinard, and others, this newly revised and expanded edition of the 1989 classic captures the excitement, fear, and elation of over four decades of river exploration.

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Menasha Ridge Press

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0897326873

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9780897326872

The Smaller, Independent Manufacturer

12 Quebec Case Studies

By: Amboise, Gérald d',Rob Dainow,Yvon Gasse,Institute for Research on Public Policy

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The Smaller, Independent Manufacturer

12 Quebec Case Studies

By: Amboise, Gérald d',Rob Dainow,Yvon Gasse,Institute for Research on Public Policy

From the back cover: The objective of this book is to provide students in administrative sciences with a number of cases of Quebec manufacturers presenting several aspects of managing the small and medium-sized business. The cases are drawn from four sub-sectors: shoe manufacturers, sporting goods, machine and equipment building and aviation manufacturing. Each case presents a problem that is common to the industrial sector and that must be resolved. A brief expose of each sub-sector is provided in order to familiarize the reader with the realities of the particular industry. In addition to the cases, the book presents four articles that discuss particular preoccupations of the small and medium-sized business.

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IRPP

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0886450357

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9780886450359

The Devout Christian's Mission in Spreading Hope

The Lifestyle of Hope

By: Yvon J Baptiste

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The Devout Christian's Mission in Spreading Hope

The Lifestyle of Hope

By: Yvon J Baptiste

There is hope in the mercy and grace of God and there is hope any situations. God always restore those who repent and turn to HIM.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664182179

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9781664182172

Francia

Forschungen zur westeuropaïschen Geschichte

By: Jan Thorbecke Verlag,Yvon Lacaze

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Francia

Forschungen zur westeuropaïschen Geschichte

By: Jan Thorbecke Verlag,Yvon Lacaze

R. Wittenbrock: Die Stadterweiterung von Metz (1898-1903). Nationalpolitische Interessen und Konfliktfelder in einer grenznahen Festungsstadt; V. Ackermann: "Ceux qui sont mort pieusement pour la France" Die Identitat des Unbekannten Soldaten; U. Reusch: Le Saint-Siege, la France et l'idee de l'equilibre europeen (1939-1945); Y. Lacaze: L'opinion francaise et la crise de Munich; U. Lappenkuper: "Ich bin ein wirklich guter Europaer". Ludwig Erhards Europapolitik 1949-1966. Zur Forschungsgeschichte und Methodendiskussion: C. Charle: Ou en est l'histoire sociale des elites et de la bourgeoisie? Essai de bilan critique de l'historiographie contemporaine; O. Motte: Lettres d'archeologues, d'epigraphistes et d'historiens francais du dix-neu vieme siecle dans les archives de l'Institut archeologique allemand a Rome; O. Motte: Sur les reseaux informels de la science: Les amities europeennes de Gabriel Monod; J.Voss: La Revolution francaise et la revolution allemande de 1918/1919. Une comparaison etablie en 1920; A. Nielen: La vie politique dans Bordeaux libere. De la liberation de la ville aux premieres elections generales (1944-1946). Miszellen: C. Wischermann: Groastadt und Wohnen in Frankreich im spaten 19.Jahrhundert; C. Buffet: Berlin. Histoires d'une ville a nulle autre pareille; D. Brotel: Frankreich und der Ferne Osten. Zur Kolonialphase und Dekolonisierung Vietnams und Kambodschas. Rezensionen. Nekrolog: F. Bedarida: Martin Broszat (1926-1989).

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