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Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist
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Jon Elster |
The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Drawing on his earlier work on the explana… |
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Postcards from France
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Megan McNeill Libby |
A high school junior living abroad takes readers on an insightful, witty, and poignant journey through her year in France--complete with triumphs, heartaches, and words of wisdom--and it's all true. |
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Capturing the Light
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Roger Watson,Helen Rappaport |
An intimate look at the journeys of two men -- a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist -- as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography. Duri… |
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Paul-Henri Rips |
The son of a diamond merchant in Antwerp's famous diamond exchange, Paul Henri Rips was ten years old when the Nazis invaded Belgium in May 1940 and ended what he calls his "golden childhood: forever. |
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My life in France
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Julia Child |
Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestsel… |
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My battle of Algiers
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Ted Morgan |
Historian and biographer Morgan recalls a war that we would do well not to forget, recounting his own experiences as a French soldier in the savage Algerian War in 1956-1957. A Yale graduate who had … |
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The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French industrial enterprise, 1850-1970
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Robert J. Smith |
Drawing on family papers and business records spanning four generations, this account of the ascent of the Bouchayers and the eventual decline of their firm seeks to illuminate the complex relationsh… |
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Behind enemy lines
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Wendy Holden,Marthe Cohn |
Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by thei… |
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Autobiography of Madame Guyon
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Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon,Marie-Louise Gondal |
Madame Guyon was a French noblewoman who was born in an unprincipled time fated to its corruption. She grew up in a church as licentious as the world in which it was established: spiritually desponde… |
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Madame Tussaud
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Kate Berridge |
Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim … |
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Sac de billes
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Joseph Joffo |
292 p. ; 24 cm |
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