Download or read book King Leopold s Ghost written by Adam Hochschild and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.

Download or read book Hungry for France written by Alec Lobrano and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A culinary tour of some of the most alluring inns, food producers, restaurants, and winemakers of France, with more than seventy-five recipes updating classic regional dishes. Every food lover's ultimate dream is to tour the countryside of France, stopping off at luxurious inns with world-class restaurants and sampling fresh produce from local markets. Imagine having as your guide a savvy bon vivant, someone who lives for the pleasures of the table and knows just where to ferret out all the delicacies in each town. This book delivers just that. Each chapter covers a different region, from Normandy to Provence, and includes recommendations for a handful of the area's most excellent, off-the-beaten-path restaurants, along with recipes. Uniting all of the places in the book is an embrace of the farm-to-table ethos that has swept France's new generation of chefs and fueled such movements as Le Fooding. The more than seventy-five recipes sprinkled throughout exemplify contemporary riffs on quintessential regional specialties. For instance, from Normandy, there is Curried Pork in Cider Sauce; from Provence, Tartare of Salt Cod with Sesame-Chickpea Puree; from the Rhone, Pink Praline Tart. Hungry for France will inspire you to transform your cooking at home as well as to plan the trip of a lifetime.

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Download or read book The True Prophecies Or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus Physician to Henry II Francis II and Charles IX Kings of France and One of the Best Astronomers that Ever Were written by Nostradamus and published by . This book was released on 1672 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte written by Ida Minerva Tarbell and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book The House Surgeon written by Rudyard Kipling and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an evening after Easter Day, I sat at a table in a homeward bound steamer's smoking-room, where half a dozen of us told ghost stories. As our party broke up a man, playing Patience in the next alcove, said to me: "I didn't quite catch the end of that last story about the Curse on the family's first-born." "It turned out to be drains," I explained. "As soon as new ones were put into the house the Curse was lifted, I believe. I never knew the people myself." "Ah! I've had my drains up twice; I'm on gravel too." "You don't mean to say you've a ghost in your house? Why didn't you join our party?"

Download or read book Anatomy of Design written by Steven Heller and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAnatomy of Design dissects fifty examples of graphic design piece by piece, revealing an array of influences and inspirations. These pieces represent contemporary artifacts that are well conceived, finely crafted, and filled with hidden treasures. Some are overtly complex. Others are so simple that it is hard to believe there’s a storehouse of inspiration hidden underneath. The selections include all kinds of design work including posters, packages, and more. Each exhibit is selected for its ubiquity, thematic import, and aesthetic significance, and every page shows howgreat work is derived from various inspirational and physical sources, some well-known, some unknown./div

Download or read book Manresa written by David Kinch and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited cookbook by one of the San Francisco Bay Area's star chefs, David Kinch, who has revolutionized restaurant culture with his take on the farm-to-table ethic and focus on the terroir of the Northern California coast. Since opening Manresa in Los Gatos in 2002, award-winning Chef David Kinch has done more to create a sense of place through his food—specifically where the Santa Cruz Mountains meet the sea—than any other chef on the West Coast. Manresa’s thought-provoking dishes and unconventional pairings draw on techniques both traditional and modern that combine with the heart of the Manresa experience: fruits and vegetables. Through a pioneering collaboration between farm and restaurant, nearby Love Apple Farms supplies nearly all of the restaurant’s exquisite produce year round. Kinch's interpretation of these ingredients, drawing on his 30 years in restaurants as well as his far-flung and well-fed travels, are at the heart of the Manresa experience. In Manresa, Chef Kinch details his thoughts on building a dish: the creativity, experimentation and emotion that go into developing each plate and daily menu—and how a tasting menu ultimately tells a deeper story. A literary snapshot of the restaurant, from Chef Kinch's inspirations to his techniques, Manresa is an ode to the mountains, fields, and sea; it shares the philosophies and passions of a brilliant chef whose restaurant draws its inspiration globally, while always keeping a profound connection to the people, producers, and bounty of the land that surrounds it.

Download or read book The Kongo Kingdom written by Koen Bostoen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.

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Download or read book Isis Pelagia Images Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas written by Laurent Bricault and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas, Laurent Bricault, one of the principal scholars of the cults of Isis, presents a new interpretation of the multiple sources that present Isis as a goddess of the seas. Bricault discusses a wealth of relatively unknown archaeological and textual data, drawing on a profound knowledge of their historical context. After decades of scholarly study, Bricault offers an important contribution and a new phase in the debate on understanding the “diffusion” as well as the “reception” of the cults of Isis in the Graeco-Roman world. This book, the first English-language monograph by the leading French scholar in the field, underlines the importance of Isis Studies for broader debates in the study of ancient religion.

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Download or read book Plutarch Caesar written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and covers virtually all of the major events of the last generation of the Republic. Pelling's volume gives a new translation of the Life, together with an introduction and commentary, while also acknowledging the literary aspects of the narrative.

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Download or read book Three Temporal Kings written by Michal Deschausses and published by . This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This modern rendition of the quatrains of Nostradamus is offered after more than three decades of research. This clarification of the enigmatic verse of Nostradamus is the most comprehensive to date that brings forth the first true understanding - a connection and meaning for the verses not heretofore seen. Each of the verses of the quatrains of Nostradamus speaks about the rampant strategies of one of three Antichrists. Two of these Antichrists would dominate the human race culminating spiritual forces into the Third Antichrist - the One who would fully incarnate the supernatural forces of Satan ultimately torturing humanity in the great and final war against God bringing the End of Days and the cataclysmic changes ushering in a new age. The prophecies of Nostradamus have been in print for almost five hundred years - longer than any book except the Holy Bible. His prophecies are biblically sound. In each new generation people in nearly every nation have continued to pour over the verses of Nostradamus seeking higher truth and understanding. Nostradamus wrote poetic prophecy in the form of quatrains, four line stanzas filled with a medley of perplexing symbols and rhetoric. Each original chapter, called Centuries, contained one hundred quatrains. Even as John in Revelation, Nostradamus did not understand in high detail all the future modalities that he envisioned, and the use of symbolism allowed him to portray his visions without the limitation of mere words. In Century III, Verse 94, Nostradamus explained the fate of his work. He stated that for five centuries his verses would be shrouded in mystery. Then, in the twentieth century an interpreter would bring them to light and understanding. The quatrains of Nostradamus relay an important, divine message to humankind and contain highly moralistic, philosophical, and spiritual wisdom which cannot be ignored. Nostradamus was a prophetic messenger of the Divine Plan. The social, economic, political, and spiritual rewards make it evident that the Nostradamus verses are a divine gift in severe servitude to humanity. The primary purpose for Nostradamus' quatrains has always been to shed light upon written prophecies that were offered to the world in an effort to educate mankind in reference to human iniquities and the effects thereof rendered upon the world in which we live. But, even more, the verses were intended to help people reconnect to the Divine seeing that the spiritual world is a reality that we cannot ignore. Nostradamus wrote exclusively and specifically about Three Temporal Kings who would rise to power resulting from political events beginning in about 1700 A.D. These Antichrists would change the course of history and life on earth for beyond three hundred years until the biblical end of the world when the entire cosmic order would change into a new age. This message of the old prophet coincides directly with the messages of the honored biblical prophecies. Not even taking into account the fact of strong evidence that the quatrains are divine and intended to educate humans in reference to a higher evolutionary path, they have remained in print since the sixteenth century, are a vital part of literature today, and more than likely will be around for a very long time.