Proud Promise
Author | : Jean Huon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780889351868 |
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Author | : Jean Huon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780889351868 |
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
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.
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
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.
Author | : Thomas Jones |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2012-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1434918238 |
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.
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.
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.