Download or read book Deep France written by William Glove and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Cave Life in France, Deep France continues the charming and humorous account of an American couple's life in the French countryside. It is a delightful tale told with dry and subtle wit and a rare look into the heart of deep France. It is a story of wine, food and the characters who color this unique corner of the world.
Download or read book Deep France written by Celia Brayfield and published by Pan. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture, countryside and a great regional cuisine - this is a book that gets to the heart of what makes France so special for so many. Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer and the cats in the back of the car, and the blessing of her student daughter, she drove South until the dawn came up in the Bearn, the most romantic, remote and rustic region of France. Deep France is the diary of Celia's year spent in a tiny French village. It's a walk in the swashbuckling footsteps of The Three Musketeers and King Henri IV, full of funny and perceptive anecdotes.
Download or read book Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences written by Charles Wesley Shilling and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume follows and updates AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON DIVING AND SUBMARINE MEDICINE published by Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., in 1971. The time period covered is primarily the calendar years 1970 and 1971. Also included, however, is much material from the calendar years 1968 and 1969 not in the previous publication. A brief analysis of the sources of material precedes the citations and abstracts, which comprise the main section of the volume. The bibliography is followed by a permuted subject index and an author index. Also included, following the indexes, is a micro thesaurus. Although no attempt has been made to do a critical subject analysis, such an analysis could be accomplished through selecting a particular subject, looking up the appropriate key works in the rotated index, identifying the abstracts, analyzing them, obtaining complete copy as desired, and completing the critical review. David C. Weeks, Ph.D. Director, BSCP Washington, D.C.
Download or read book The New French Wine written by Jon Bonné and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first definitive guide to contemporary French wines and producers, from a two-time James Beard Award winner This comprehensive and authoritative resource takes readers on a tour through every wine region of France, featuring some 800 producers and more than 7,000 wines, plus evocative photography and maps, as well as the incisive narrative and compelling storytelling that has earned Jon Bonné accolades and legions of fans in the wine world. Built upon eight years of research, The New French Wine is a one-of-a-kind exploration of the world’s most popular wine region. First, examine the land through a thoroughly reported narrative overview of each region—the soil and geography, the distinctive traditions and contemporary changes. Then turn to a comprehensive reference guide to the producers and their wines, similarly detailed by region. From Burgundy to Bordeaux and everywhere in between, this is sure to be the resource on modern French wine for decades to come.
Download or read book French Dreams written by and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of photographs taken over a seven-year period consists of landscapes, portraits, still lifes, vignettes, and studies, all delicately capturing the intimate beauty of France.
Download or read book French Rugby Football written by Philip Dine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As France's oldest team sport, rugby football has throughout its 125-year history reflected major changes in French society. This book analyzes for the first time the complex variety of motives that have led the French to adopt and remake this rather unlikely British sport in their own image. A major site for the construction of masculine, class-based regional and national identities, France's tradition of 'Champagne rugby' continues to be as subject to dramatic upheavals as the society that produced it. The game's precocious professionalism and endemic violence have not infrequently caused the French to be cast as international pariahs. Such isolation, exacerbated by internal politics, has led the French not only to encourage the extension of the sport beyond its British imperial base (into Italy and Romania, for instance), but also to engage in some uncomfortable tactical alliances, most obviously with apartheid South Africa.Taking his analysis both on and off the field, the author tackles these issues and much more: the relationship of sport and the state (including particularly the Vichy period and the period under de Gaulle); professionalization; the persistence of colonial and postcolonial structures (including the role of ethnic minorities); and gender issues - especially masculine identities. At the same time he links the evolution of the sport to the broader context of French socio-economic, political and cultural history.This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the cultural analysis of sport or French popular culture.
Download or read book Dynamic European Maritime Clusters written by N. Wijnolst and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European maritime industries are often fragmented, not only geographically, but also in terms of sectors and company size. This book states that, in order to face the increasing global competition, Europe should address these constraints and create a more integrated network and market of the European maritime sectors, industries and entrepreneurs.
Download or read book Almost French written by Louis Jansen van Vuuren and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he first visited Paris as a young student, artist Louis Jansen van Vuuren could never have imagined that one day he would end up owning a château in rural France. Almost French is the entertaining, often hilarious account of his induction over the past 21 years into all things French: snooty waiters, highbrow countesses, numerous faux pas with the French language and, of course, encounters with the infamous French bureaucracy. Turning the dilapidated Château de la Creuzette into a celebrated boutique hotel with his life partner, Hardy Olivier, required patience and perseverance. Many lessons were learnt the hard way. For instance, four heaters are not enough to hear an entire château and they will blow your power supply. Louis interweaves the stories about his life in France with fascinating snippets of history, culture, food and drink, and tradition. A must for all Francophiles and anyone who loves good living.
Download or read book World Medievalism written by Louise D'Arcens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present.
Download or read book Eminent Horizons written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-04-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Eminent Horizons Fernand Paul Achille Braudel was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: The Mediterranean, Civilization and Capitalism (1955-79), and the unfinished Identity of France (1970-85). He was a member of the Annales School of French historiography and social history in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a student of Henri Hauser. How you will benefit (I) Insights about the following: Chapter 1: Fernand Braudel Chapter 2: Annales school Chapter 3: Georges Duby Chapter 4: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Chapter 5: François Simiand Chapter 6: Lucien Febvre Chapter 7: Jacques Le Goff Chapter 8: Thomas Hodgskin Chapter 9: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences Chapter 10: Ernest Labrousse Chapter 11: Étienne Balazs Chapter 12: Longue durée Chapter 13: Paul Bairoch Chapter 14: Alain Corbin Chapter 15: Pierre Chaunu Chapter 16: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales Chapter 17: André Aymard Chapter 18: Peter Schöttler Chapter 19: Historical anthropology Chapter 20: Paul Lacombe (historian) Chapter 21: Jean-Claude Perrot Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about Eminent Horizons.
Download or read book Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie French historian Emmanuel Bernard Le Roy Ladurie was primarily concerned with Languedoc under the Ancien régime, and more specifically with the history of the peasantry. His work was mostly centered on the region. Le Roy Ladurie, who is widely recognized as one of the most influential historians in France, has been referred to as the "rock star of the medievalists" and the "standard-bearer" of the third generation of the Annales school. He is also renowned for his contributions to the field of social history. How you will benefit (I) Insights about the following: Chapter 1: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Chapter 2: Annales school Chapter 3: Catharism Chapter 4: Fernand Braudel Chapter 5: Parlement Chapter 6: Georges Lefebvre Chapter 7: Montaillou Chapter 8: Pierre Clergue Chapter 9: Bernard Clergue Chapter 10: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences Chapter 11: Ernest Labrousse Chapter 12: Ancien régime Chapter 13: Château de Montaillou Chapter 14: Guillaume Bélibaste Chapter 15: Pierre Chaunu Chapter 16: Jean Duvernoy Chapter 17: Jacques Le Roy Ladurie Chapter 18: Louis Salleron Chapter 19: Montaillou (book) Chapter 20: Revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers Chapter 21: French peasants Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie.
Download or read book The Dominici Affair written by Martin Kitchen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1952, the distinguished British scientist Sir Jack Drummond, alongside his wife, Lady Ann, and their ten-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, was brutally murdered on a roadside in rural France. Sir Jack, a well-known nutritionist who modernized the classification of vitamins and helped devise UK rationing in World War II, was on holiday with his family in the French Riviera when they stopped to make camp just off the road near a farm called La Grand'Terre in Provence. The family was found murdered the following morning. Gaston Dominici, the illiterate, seventy-five-year-old patriarch of the nearby La Grand'Terre was accused, convicted, and condemned to death by guillotine soon after. When Dominici was first convicted there was general agreement that the ignorant, pitiless, and depraved old peasant had gotten what he deserved. At the time, Dominici stood for everything backwards and brutish about a peasantry left behind in the wake of France's post-war transformation and burgeoning prosperity. But with time perspectives changed. Subsequent enquiries coupled with widespread doubts and misgivings prompted President de Gaulle to order his release from prison in 1960, and by the 1980s many in France came to believe--against all evidence--that Gaston Dominici was innocent. He had become a romanticized symbol of a simpler, genuine, and somehow more honest life from a bygone era. Reconstructing the facts of the case and setting it against broader social, economic, and historical currents in post-war France, The Dominici Affair sheds light on one of the most puzzling and notorious crimes of 20th Century France, illuminating an entire Rorschach of social dynamics in the country.
Download or read book The Canadian Shields written by Carol Shields and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly discovered work by one of Canada’s favourite writers The Canadian Shields brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields (1935–2003), including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays and two dozen essays previously published but never before collected. Invaluable to scholars and admirers of Shields’s work, the writings discovered in the National Library Archives by Nora Foster Stovel and presented to the public here for the first time reflect Shields’s interest in the relationships between reality and fiction, mothers and daughters, and gender and genre. They also reveal her love of Canada, especially Winnipeg, her home for twenty years. Originally written for women’s magazines, travel journals, convocation addresses, and even graduate school term papers, Shields’s imaginative essays explore ideas about home, Canadian literature, contemporary women’s writing, and the future of fiction. Whether autobiographical, cultural, or feminist in focus, these works vividly illuminate the multiple chapters of Shields’s writing life. Margaret Atwood and Lorna Crozier frame Shields’s texts with tributes to her work and impact. An introduction by Stovel situates Shields as a Canadian author and subversive feminist writer, demonstrating how American-born-and-raised Carol Anne Warner became “the Canadian Shields”—a quintessential and beloved Canadian writer and the only author to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Gold Medal for Fiction.
Download or read book Nationalism and Globalization written by Leo Suryadinata and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the end of the Cold War, nationalism has re-emerged as a challenge to world order. This study focuses in a comparison of nationalism in Asia and the West, and the relevance of nationalism in the face of globalization.
Download or read book The Global Sports Arena written by John Bale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athletes are on the move. In some sports this involves labour, movement from one country to another within or between continents. In other sports, athletes assume an almost nomadic migratory lifestyle, constantly on the move from one sport festival to another. In addition, it appears that sport migration is gaining momentum and that it is closely interwoven with the broader process of global sport development taking place in the late twentieth century.
Download or read book Make The Most Of Your Time On Earth 3 written by Rough Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rough Guides' bestselling, inspirational travel ebook, featuring 1000 unique experiences around the globe. Make The Most Of Your Time On Earth is the product of the combined travel experience of Rough Guides' authors over the last 30 years, each an expert in his or her own territory. Our authors have cherry-picked their favourite experiences from their travels to inspire yours - making this the perfect book for planning your next big adventure, or just dreaming of future travels. The third edition has been fully revised, with stunning, brand-new colour photos throughout, and a wealth of new writing, from taking breakfast in a Burmese teahouse to witnessing the world's most intense storms in Venezuela. Entries are divided into regions, so it's easy to go straight to the part of the world you're interested in, and all the nitty-gritty practical information you'll need to find out more is contained in the "Need to know" sections at the end of each chapter. Packed full of inspiring ideas and beautiful photography, Make The Most Of Your Time On Earth is pure escapism for active travellers and armchair fantasists alike.
Download or read book Paris The Collected Traveler written by Barrie Kerper and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each edition of this unique series marries a collection of previously published essays with detailed practical information, creating a colorful and deeply absorbing pastiche of opinions and advice. Each book is a valuable resource -- a compass of sorts -- pointing vacationers, business travelers, and readers in many directions. Going abroad with a Collected Traveler edition is like being accompanied by a group of savvy and observant friends who are intimately familiar with your destination. This edition on Paris features: Distinguished writers, such as Mavis Gallant, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Herbert Gold, Olivier Bernier, Richard Reeves, Patricia Wells, Catharine Reynolds, and Gerald Asher, who share seductive pieces about Parisian neighborhoods, personalities, the Luxembourg Gardens, Père-Lachaise and other monuments, restaurants and wine bars, le Plan de Paris, and le Beaujolais Nouveau. Annotated bibliographies for each section with recommendations for related readings. An A-Z "renseignements pratiques" (practical information) section covering everything from accommodations, marches aux puces (flea markets), and money to telephones, tipping, and the VAT. Whether it's your first trip or your tenth, the Collected Traveler books are indispensable, and meant to be the first volumes you turn to when planning your journeys.
