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Fragile Glory

Author : Richard Bernstein

Publisher : Plume Books

Page : 376 pages

File Size : 16,55 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Biography & Autobiography

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"The most penetrating account of contemporary France we're ever likely to own. In looking for clues to French character, the author explores everything from wine culture to cultural politics, movies, food and the higher eroticism."--New York Times An enormously entertaining account of contemporary France from the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times. Bernstein combines personal memoir, informed observation, and news-hound curiosity to offer a stirring and unforgettable panaorama of France--at times exalted, troubling, and occasionally absurd.



Fragile Glory

Author : Bernstein

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Page : pages

File Size : 17,86 MB

Release : 1988-11-15

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ISBN : 9780517472989

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Fame and Glory

Author : Charles Sumner

Publisher :

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 34,11 MB

Release : 1847

Category : Fame

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Published in 1847, Boston: W.D. Ticknor. Includes a lock of Sumner's hair, tied with a ribbon, enclosed in envelope annotated: "Charles Sumner's hair. Received from Mr. Edward L. Pierce."



The Nature of Fragile Things

Author : Susan Meissner

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 46,75 MB

Release : 2021-02-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 045149220X

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April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. The first, pretty and pregnant, is standing on her doorstep. The second is hundreds of miles away in the American Southwest, grieving the loss of everything she once loved. The fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear. From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War and As Bright as Heaven comes a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity.



Cross and Cosmos

Author : John D. Caputo

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 309 pages

File Size : 23,17 MB

Release : 2019-07-23

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0253043131

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The renowned theologian “brings Luther and cosmology into dialogue with radical theological movements that have their point of departure in deconstruction” (George Pattison, author of Eternal God/Saving Time). John D. Caputo stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. Mapping out his summative theological position, he identifies with Martin Luther to take on notions of the hidden god, the theology of the cross, confessional theology, and natural theology. Caputo also confronts the dark side of the cross with its correlation to lynching and racial and sexual discrimination. Caputo is clear that he is not writing as any kind of orthodox Lutheran but is instead engaging with a radical view of theology, cosmology, and poetics of the cross. Readers will recognize Caputo’s signature themes—hermeneutics, deconstruction, weakness, and the call—as well as his unique voice as he writes about moral life and our strivings for joy against contemporary society and politics. “This work will be eagerly awaited and immediately read by John D. Caputo’s many followers. They will be looking for him to fill out the ‘big picture’ which makes manifest for the first time all the parts and pieces he has contributed to the theological project he launched early in the previous decade.” —Carl Raschke, author of Postmodern Theology “Caputo is always distinctive.” —George Pattison, author of Eternal God/Saving Time



Fashioning the City

Author : Agnès Rocamora

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 19,84 MB

Release : 2009-04-30

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 085771256X

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While much attention has been paid to the making of Paris in the work of writers and artists, little is known about the city as defined and created by the fashion media. Filling this gap in studies of the French capital, this original and illuminating book focuses on how the French fashion press - with its rich conjunction of words and images - has been able to construct Paris as a leading world fashion city.Based in an original analysis of fashion writing and images in contemporary French fashion magazines and newspapers, the book shows how the fashion media have been central to the consecration of the city of Paris on the fashion map, as well as its celebration in the collective imaginary. Agnes Rocamora explores, for example, the figures of 'la Parisienne' and 'la passante' (the female passer by), and the presence of the Eiffel tower in fashion visuals. She gives attention to the continuum between the French journalistic discourse and that of cultural forms such as films, paintings and literature, thus revealing the persistence across texts and time of visions of Paris and shedding light on the production and reproduction of the Paris myth.



Michael Psellos

Author : Stratis Papaioannou

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 365 pages

File Size : 38,3 MB

Release : 2013-05-09

Category : History

ISBN : 1107026229

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This comprehensive study of Michael Psellos unravels the rich history of authorship, literature and self-representation in Byzantium.



Roots of Realism

Author : Benjamin Frankel

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 454 pages

File Size : 17,65 MB

Release : 1996

Category : History

ISBN : 9780714642031

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Realism has dominated international relations scholarship since the end of WW2. The 1970s saw the emergence of structural realism, or neorealism, which has been the subject of fierce debate ever since. The essays here reflect this debate.



The Wealth Money Can't Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life

Author : Robin Sharma

Publisher : Jaico Publishing House

Page : 404 pages

File Size : 29,65 MB

Release : 2024-04-09

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 8119792386

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A REVOLUTIONARY METHOD TO BECOME TRULY WEALTHY The Wealth Money Can’t Buy offers you a completely life-changing new philosophy and methodology for enjoying an honestly rich life, one filled with personal power, unusual authenticity, exceptionally fulfilling work and a beautiful lifestyle that will make you feel that real fortune has finally smiled on you. Based on The 8 Forms of Wealth learning model that Robin Sharma—legendary personal growth expert and famed mentor to billionaires, professional sports superstars and heads of state—has taught to his clients with transforma-tional results, this masterwork is sure to become your daily guide to enjoying the lifetime of your highest dreams. Discover the hidden habits to live your richest life and avoid the lasting regrets of potential unfulfilled Real wealth is so much more than cash in the bank, flashy cars in the driveway and luxury vacations on exotic islands. Many financially prosperous people are very poor in the areas that truly matter for a life of happiness, healthiness, connectedness and peacefulness. There’s no point in chasing the trappings of success that society has sold to us when the truth is that they mostly lead to emptiness, frustration and lasting regret. There is a much better way to live. In The Wealth Money Can’t Buy, you will discover a life-altering system that will easily help you lead your richest life, the one that the strongest and wisest part of you knows you deserve to live, before it’s too late. On the pages within, you’ll learn valuable instructions to master your destiny and experience true success, including: • how to become a perfect moment creator • why your choice of mate is 90% of your joy • the power of “The 10,000 Dinners Question” • top rules of authentically wealthy people • superb strategies for making your Project X • ways to apply the special magic of wealth words • the brilliance of going ghost for a year • when to put your last day first Full of highly original insights, practical tools and transformational tactics, The Wealth Money Can’t Buy will cause profound increases in your positivity, productivity, prosperity and daily serenity. It's a work that will significantly raise the remainder of your life. Forever.



Seducing the French

Author : Richard F. Kuisel

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 314 pages

File Size : 50,19 MB

Release : 1993

Category : History

ISBN : 0520206983

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When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In analyzing early French resistance and then the gradual adaptation to all things American that evolved by the mid-1980s, he offers an intriguing study of national identity and the protection of cultural boundaries. The French have historically struggled against Americanization in order to safeguard "Frenchness." What would happen to the French way of life if gaining American prosperity brought vulgar materialism and social conformity? A clash between American consumerism and French civilisation seemed inevitable. Cold War anti-Communism, the Marshall Plan, the Coca-Cola controversy, and de Gaulle's efforts to curb American investment illustrate ways that anti-Americanization was played out. Kuisel also raises issues that extend beyond France, including the economic, social, and cultural effects of the Americanized consumer society that have become a global phenomenon. Kuisel's lively account reaches across French society to include politicians, businessmen, trade unionists, Parisian intelligentsia, and ordinary citizens. The result reveals much about the French—and about Americans. As Euro Disney welcomes travellers to its Parisian fantasyland, and with French recently declared the official language of France (to defend it from the encroachments of English), Kuisel's book is especially relevant.