Download or read book The Beast in the Boudoir written by Kathleen Kete and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourgeoisie. Kete's study draws on a range of literary and archival sources, from dog-care books to veterinarians's records to Dumas's musings on his cat. The fad for aquariums, attitudes toward vivisection, the dread of rabies, the development of dog breeding—all are shown to reflect the ways middle-class people thought about their lives. Petkeeping, says Kete, was a way to imagine a better, more manageable version of the world—it relieved the pressures of contemporary life and improvised solutions to the intractable mesh that was post-Enlightenment France. The faithful, affectionate family dog became a counterpoint to the isolation of individualism and lack of community in urban life. By century's end, however, animals no longer represented the human condition with such potency, and even the irascible, autonomous cat had been rehabilitated into a creature of fidelity and affection. Full of fascinating details, this innovative book will contribute to the way we understand culture and the creation of class. 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 1994.

Download or read book L histoire est presque Totale Guide pratique des mangeurs de Temps written by Lim Word and published by Litres. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 1699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sulla était-il avant Spartacus ou vice versa? Nero – avant ou après Caligula? Quelles sont les dynasties des Habsbourg et des Hohenzollern, quel rôle ont-elles joué dans l’établissement du Second Reich? Combien de chars ont combattu près de Prokhorovka? Quand la guerre de Yom Kippour a éclaté et qui l’a gagnée? Pourquoi le grand URSS s’est-il effondré? Souvenons-nous de tout, nous passerons en revue la bande de film du temps, image par image, afin que tout se passe bien aujourd’hui.

Download or read book Intermediate French Short Stories written by Touri Language Learning and published by Touri Language Learning. This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grow your vocabulary & improve your French skills with these 10 engaging intermediate French short stories! Intermediate French Stories Volume 2 is packed with even more breathtaking tales to catapult you to French speaking fluency! There are so many reasons to learn a new language. Just imagine the experience of real French culture and fun activities with locals that you will never forget for the rest of your life. The best way to learn a new language is by reading and building a strong base of vocabulary. In this intermediate French book you will find yourself mesmerized page after page to each captivating story that will keep you so engaged you’ll practically forget you’re even learning French! In this book you will find: -10 engaging short stories that range from a magical genie, a colorful world of fairies, life lessons and even outer space voyages! Filled with unexpected plot twists among other topics that you will find easy to understand and relate to. -The stories are broken down into manageable chapters, so you always make progress with the story. -Carefully written stories with you as an intermediate level reader in mind, using easy to understand grammar and commonly used words so you can enjoy reading while learning new grammatical structures without being overwhelmed. -Tons of natural dialogues in each story that you would actually use in an everyday conversation, which will significantly improve your speaking and comprehension ability at the same time! -At the end of each chapter there is a comprehensive guide specially designed for intermediate level readers. You will find a vocabulary list of some of the words from the story as well as a summary in French and English to make sure that you understand the tale completely. Chapter by chapter you will find yourself effortlessly reading each story. Not struggling like in boring reads or basic French textbooks. You will become captivated by reading the dialogue of the characters and learn how to express yourself in different contexts. Most importantly you will see massive growth through new French words that will get you closer to your goal of becoming fully conversational! Enjoy the book and remember to have fun on your French learning journey! So scroll back up and grab your copy of Intermediate French Short Stories Volume 2 right now!

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Download or read book Fran ais Interactif written by Karen Kelton and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook includes all 13 chapters of Français interactif. It accompanies www.laits.utexas.edu/fi, the web-based French program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Tex's French Grammar (2000) www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ Français interactif is an open acess site, a free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees. Français interactif has been funded and created by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas, and is currently supported by COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning UT-Austin, and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251) as an example of the open access initiative.

Download or read book Vegan Le Guide Pratique written by Virginie Gerber and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Speed Management written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Report addresses the key issues surrounding traffic speed management and highlights the improvements in policy and operations needed to reduce the extent of speeding.

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Download or read book Spark and the Falcon written by France Trudeau and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this story about a young girl named Spark and her friend Falcon set in the Sedona valley, the author brings to life for young readers the awe, mystery, beauty, and joy found within all of nature in evocative language that both feeds the imagination and nourishes the spirit. Although this story is intended for young readers, adult readers will also enjoy this beautiful, mystical tale. Spark’s joy of being in nature, whether through play or contemplation, brought her to Red Rock Mesa and her solid friend Rock. This is where she also met a special bird, full of wisdom: Falcon. Voici l’histoire, sise dans la vallée de Sedona, d’une jeune fille prénommée Spark et de son ami Faucon. L’auteure donne vie à l’émerveillement, au mystère, à la beauté et à la joie que l’on ressent lorsque l’on arpente la nature, en employant pour ses jeunes lecteurs un langage évocateur qui stimule l’imagination et nourrit l’esprit. Ce récit à la fois beau et mystique ravira tout autant les adultes que les jeunes auxquels il est principalement destiné. La joie que Spark ressent en pleine nature, qu’elle arpente par le biais du jeu ou de la contemplation, l’a conduite jusqu’au plateau des rochers rouges et à son ami le rocher, Rock. C’est là aussi qu’elle a rencontré un oiseau très spécial, empreint de sagesse : Faucon.

Download or read book Painted Love written by Hollis Clayson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.

Download or read book Why We Play written by Roberte Hamayon and published by Hau. This book was released on 2016 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play is one of humanity's straightforward yet deceitful ideas: though the notion is unanimously agreed upon to be universal, used for man and animal alike, nothing defines what all its manifestations share, from childish playtime to on stage drama, from sporting events to market speculation. Within the author's anthropological field of work (Mongolia and Siberia), playing holds a core position: national holidays are called "Games," echoing in that way the circus games in Ancient Rome and today's Olympics. These games convey ethical values and local identity. Roberte Hamayon bases her analysis of the playing spectrum on their scrutiny. Starting from fighting and dancing, encompassing learning, interaction, emotion and strategy, this study heads towards luck and belief as well as the ambiguity of the relation to fiction and reality. It closes by indicating two features of play: its margin and its metaphorical structure. Ultimately revealing its consistency and coherence, the author displays play as a modality of action of its own. "Playing is no 'doing' in the ordinary sense" once wrote Johan Huizinga. Isn't playing doing something else, elswhere and otherwise ?

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Download or read book Le grand dictionnaire Hachette Oxford written by Marie-Hélène Corréard and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 2084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that lists French language words and gives their equivalent in English, and English language words with their equivalent in French.