Proud Promise

Proud Promise
Author: Jean Huon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 199
Release: 1995
Genre: France
ISBN: 9780889351868

WTF?!: What the French

WTF?!: What the French
Author: Olivier Magny
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 042528347X

With Stuff Parisians Like, Olivier Magny shared his hilarious insights into the fervently held opinions of his fellow Parisians. Now he moves beyond the City of Light to skewer the many idiosyncrasies that make modern France so very unique. In France, the simple act of eating bread is an exercise in creative problem solving and attempting to spell requires a degree of masochism. But that’s just how the French like it—and in WTF, Olivier Magny reveals the France only the French know. From the latest trends in baby names, to the religiously observed division of church and state, prepare yourself for an insider's look at French culture that is surprising, insightful, and chock full of bons mots. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

French Theory

French Theory
Author: François Cusset
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2008
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0816647321

Explores how the French theory of philosophy, which became popular during the last three decades of the twentieth century, spread to America and examines the critical practices that French theory inspired.

French and English

French and English
Author: Evelyn Everett-Green
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2019-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3734060079

Reproduction of the original: French and English by Evelyn Everett-Green

Proud Beggars

Proud Beggars
Author: Albert Cossery
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2011-12-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590174631

Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery’s wry black comedy is not the cause of this death but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the most materially impoverished life. Chief among Cossery’s proud beggars is Gohar, a former professor turned whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and street philosopher. Such is his native charm that he has accumulated a small coterie that includes Yeghen, a rhapsodic poet and drug dealer, and El Kordi, an ineffectual clerk and would-be revolutionary who dreams of rescuing a consumptive prostitute. The police investigator Nour El Dine, harboring a dark secret of his own, suspects all three of the murder but finds himself captivated by their warm good humor. How is it that they live amid degrading poverty, yet possess a joie de vivre that even the most assiduous forces of state cannot suppress? Do they, despite their rejection of social norms and all ambition, hold the secret of contentment? And so this short novel, considered one of Cossery’s masterpieces, is at once biting social commentary, police procedural, and a mischievous delight in its own right.

Petain

Petain
Author: Robert B. Bruce
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2008-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1574885987

Analyzes the military career of one of the greatest, yet controversial, French military commanders of the twentieth century

Nostradamus

Nostradamus
Author: Thomas Jones
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1434918238

Terrorism: Theory and Practice

Terrorism: Theory and Practice
Author: Lewis M Alexander
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-06-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000314421

The study of terrorism has now "arrived" internationally, as evidenced by the birth of a new international multidisciplinary journal, Terrorism; the proliferation of scientific conferences and papers; and the growth of university research and teaching on the subject. Historians, social scientists, lawyers, criminologists, administrators, and political leaders are showing an increasing awareness of the need for more informed scholarly analysis of the growing international incidence of acts of terrorism perpetrated by extremist groups of almost every ideological hue and in every continent.

The Two Vietnams

The Two Vietnams
Author: Bernard Fall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2019-07-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000306518

This book is devoted to a comparison of the governmental and economic institutions of north and south zones of Viet-Nam; that each zone has its own set of economic and political troubles and that both sides are engaged in military efforts which may well overwhelm them in the end.

From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times

From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times
Author: Federica Francesconi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2018-08-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004376712

From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times is a polyphonic collection of essays in honor of Jane S. Gerber’s contributions as a leading scholar and teacher. Each chapter presents new or underappreciated source materials or questions familiar historical models to expand our understanding of Sephardic cultural, intellectual, and social history. The subjects of this volume are men and women, rich and poor, connected to various Sephardic Diasporas—Spanish, Portuguese, North African, or Middle Eastern—from medieval to modern times. They each, in their own way, challenged the expectations of their societies and helped to define the religious, ethnic, and intellectual experience of Sephardim as well as surrounding cultures throughout the world.