Le Petit Bonhomme Janvier

Le Petit Bonhomme Janvier
Author: Cornell P. Landry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2011-11-12
Genre: Cajun folklore
ISBN: 9780984671007

Cornell Landry explains in rhyme about the excitement of Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the traditional aspects of the celebration.

Dictionary of Louisiana French

Dictionary of Louisiana French
Author: Albert Valdman
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 934
Release: 2010
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1604734043

The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts published after 1930, and from archival recordings. The new authoritative resource, the DLF not only contains the largest number of words and expressions but also provides the most complete information available for each entry. Entries include the word in the conventional French spelling, the pronunciation (including attested variants), the part of speech classification, the English equivalent, and the word's use in common phrases. The DLF features a wealth of illustrative examples derived from fieldwork and textual sources and identification of the parish where the entry was collected or the source from which it was compiled. An English-to-Louisiana French index enables readers to find out how particular notions would be expressed in la Louisiane .

Lake Pavin

Lake Pavin
Author: Télesphore Sime-Ngando
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2016-10-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319399616

This book represents the first multidisciplinary scientific work on a deep volcanic maar lake in comparison with other similar temperate lakes. The syntheses of the main characteristics of Lake Pavin are, for the first time, set in a firmer footing comparative approach, encompassing regional, national, European and international aquatic science contexts. It is a unique lake because of its permanently anoxic monimolimnion, and furthermore, because of its small surface area, its substantially low human influence, and by the fact that it does not have a river inflow. The book reflects the scientific research done on the general limnology, history, origin, volcanology and geological environment as well as on the geochemistry and biogeochemical cycles. Other chapters focus on the biology and microbial ecology whereas the sedimentology and paleolimnology are also given attention. This volume will be of special interest to researchers and advanced students, primarily in the fields of limnology, biogeochemistry, and aquatic ecology.

Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600

Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600
Author: Malcolm Walsby
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 911
Release: 2020-11-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004324143

Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France presents short biographies for over 2700 booksellers, printers and bookbinders active outside Paris and Lyon in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French

Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French
Author: Edwin A. Lovatt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2005-09-16
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134930623

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Win Me Something

Win Me Something
Author: Kyle Lucia Wu
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1951142810

A NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year A Washington Post, Shondaland, NPR Books, Parade, Lit Hub, PureWow, Harper’s Bazaar, PopSugar, NYLON, Alta, Ms. Magazine, Debutiful and Good Housekeeping Best Book of Fall A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging—of a young woman determined to be seen. Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too. For years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet the unease inside her. But when she begins working for the Adriens—a wealthy white family in Tribeca—as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had. As she draws closer to the family and eventually moves in with them, Willa finds herself questioning who she is, and revisiting a childhood where she never felt fully at home. Self-examining and fraught with the emotions of a family who fails and loves in equal measure, Win Me Something is a nuanced coming-of-age debut about the irreparable fissures between people, and a young woman who asks what it really means to belong, and how she might begin to define her own life.

Author:
Publisher: TheBookEdition
Total Pages: 202
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 2958130010

Homemade Christmas

Homemade Christmas
Author: Mary Harvey Gurley
Publisher: Wimmer Cookbooks
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1995
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781879958272

Entertain family and friends with regional recipes sure to please every holiday table. Gather ideas for menus and entertaining--from how to prepare a New England Christmas Eve remembrance and menu to a Northwest Holiday Brunch. Create a Winter Winterland with simple holiday decorating ideas. Learn how to make your own gifts, from macaroni angels to hang on the tree to goodies from the kitchen, like Fantasy Fudge or Herb Butters. A portion of the proceeds benefits the Marine Toys for Tuts Foundation.