Author : Michelin
Publisher : Michelin City Plans
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : 9782067211582
Discover Paris by foot, car or bike using the updated Michelin Paris by Arrondissements Pocket Atlas #62 (scale 1:10,000). In addition to Michelin's clear and accurate mapping, this detailed, indexed street atlas of the city will help you explore and navigate across Paris thanks to a full index and comprehensive legend pinpointing major sites, landmarks and tourist attractions, as well as practical information on public transportation, taxi stands, gas stations and shopping!
Author : Michelin
Publisher : Michelin Travel & Lifestyle
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 2067208551
Discover the nooks and crannies of the renowned City of Light with the eBook version of the updated Green Guide Paris. Its famed star-rating system of attractions, maps, illustrations and walking tours ensure you don't miss a thing, from iconic sites like the Eiffel Tower to browsing among riverside stalls of old books, to a Friday night roller-blade rally through city streets. From flea markets to fine dining, whatever your budget, the guide’s features and recommended restaurants, accommodations and activities help you uncover all that Paris has to offer. In this eBook you’ll find: • Full-color photos and plenty of detail travelers look for. • Attractions reviewed and rated, using Michelin’s celebrated star-rating system, from the 2-star medieval architecture of the Conciergerie to the 3-star Gothic jewel, the Sainte-Chapelle. • Walk-throughs of major museums, galleries, churches and attractions. Illustrations and floor plans zoom in on the highlights of major attractions, such as the treasures of the Louvre and Notre-Dame Cathedral. • Multiple walking tours all over Paris with clear directions and maps for a more in-depth, personal experience of the city. Explore the Latin Quarter on foot, stopping off for a coffee and patisserie on Boulevard St-Michel. • Comprehensive illustrated sections on modern-day Paris, history, politics, art, architecture and culture—all written by experts in their fields. • Sidebars throughout the guide on intriguing topics such as the natural attractions of the Bois and Château de Vincennes. • Detailed visitor information for every attraction, opening hours, entry fees, tour times, phone, website. • Michelin maps. • Recommendations for great places to eat and stay for all budgets. Download onto any kind of eReader (tablet or smartphone), and you’re set to go. Use the guide to orient yourself at any time with a treasure trove of 70 detailed maps, even if you’re offline with no Wi-Fi or 3G connection. With the interactive navigation, it’s easy to move within the guide. Click from the index to a point of interest or from a sight description to its location on the map. With one touch, you can even phone an establishment directly from the page or click through to a website for more information. No matter what eReader you use, with the Green Guide Paris eBook, you’re all set to explore the City of Light and craft some unforgettable experiences.
Author : Lorànt Deutsch
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 125002367X
A phenomenal bestseller in France, Metronome presents a fascinating history of Paris through the lens of the city's iconic Metro system Did you know that the last Gallic warriors massacred by the Romans lie beneath the Eiffel Tower? That the remains of Paris's first cathedral are under a parking lot in the Fifth District? Metronome follows Loránt Deutsch, historian and lifelong Francophile, as he goes on a compelling journey through the ages, treating readers to Paris as they've never seen it before. Using twenty-one stops of the subway system as focal points—one per century—Deutsch shows, from the underground up, the unique, often violent, and always striking events that shaped one of the world's most romanticized city. Readers will find out which streets are hiding incredible historical treasures in plain sight; peer into forgotten nooks and crannies of the City of Lights and learn what used to be there; and discover that, however deeply buried, something always remains.
Author : Franck Sabattier
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2003-04
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : 9789057670985
With "100% Paris "by your side, you will know the city like the back of your hand in no time. Musee du Louvre, Centre Pompidou, Jardin du Luxembourg, Pere Lachaise and the best places for shopping, dinner and drinks. Sights, museums, green spaces, restaurants, pubs and shops are all clearly indicated per neighborhood. Six walks will lead you to the best places right away and give plenty of tips on where to spend your nights, whatever the budget. Maps clearly indicate where you are and where you need to go. "100% Paris": you won't miss a thing!
Author : Adam Nicolson
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780517550434
Author : Hollis Clayson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367296
In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.
Author : Julius Babyetsiza
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2011-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781461035794
"Destined To Triumph" is a story of an African child who has seen it all. Julius Babyetsiza poses a universal question as what is the return on investment in education in Uganda/Africa given that the continent has remained crawling technologically when the rest of the world is running. He sounds an oracle to Uganda's political and university leaders to build knowledge-driven national economy; else “History catches them on the wrong side”. Woe, however, “The falcon cannot hear the falconer.” Find his views regarding how to address disheartening graduates' unemployment problem in Uganda - letters to Ugandan President and calls to leaders of universities.One of the hallmarks of “Destined To Triumph” is the suggested new leadership paradigm shift that will enthrone universities/university leaders as the guardians of political and socio-economic accountability.Striking highlights of his story include: a socially rich life and untimely death and spectacular mourning of the death of his father; his survival of a vicious attack of his leg by mysterious swelling which was cured through the miraculous intervention of his already divorced step-mother; his perseverance through primary and secondary school education with no reliable source of income; how he won a scholarship to study Economics and Statistics at the Odessa State Economic University in the Ukraine, former Soviet Union where he had flamboyant study time after failing to beat the intense competition to enter Makerere University – the only one in Uganda at the time; his shying-away from the love of Novikava, a young, beautiful classmate from Moldova who, disappointed, showers her love on another student from the Congo, bears him a son and gets occasion to taunt Babyetsiza (in the presence of her husband) with the searing comment, 'You know that child should have been yours'; his failure to get a job for several years in Uganda after his return with a Master's degree; his marriage to a beautiful Rwandan con woman whom he met at his computer training institute in Kampala and who deserts him after stealing from him dear sums of money with the connivance of witch-doctors; his dabbling in advocacy for sustainable use of the environment by virtue of his employment with a local civil society organization, which finally sacks him for his 'pursuance of political interests'.The author, Julius Babyetsiza, can be contacted on: - Email: [email protected]; Tel: (+256)782-188904. See also Amazon Kindle version: http://www.amazon.com/Destined-to-Triumph-ebook/dp/B005V0JIHA
Author : Michelin
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 2022-05
Category :
ISBN : 9782067254800
Highlighting 51 road trips and scenic drives the Michelin's updated Large Format North America Road Atlas 2023 helps you enjoy the planning and the journey. Large-format maps and larger lettering for towns and sites (compared to the midsize atlas) make for easier reading while the tiled format flows maps from page to page--the ideal complement to GPS and online directions. Four jam-packed pages highlight selected US and Canadian national parks, with points of interest, hikes and drives. -Covers US, Canada & Mexico. Large grid map to quickly locate atlas pages. -Easy-read text and mapping. Map pages are 36% larger than midsize atlas. -Inspired ideas for outdoor fun and road trip adventures in the US and Canada with four jam-packed pages highlighting selected national and provincial parks. Michelin's renowned travel guides are the resource for points of interest, hikes and scenic drives. -Tiled atlas format: user-friendly, convenient and logical to use, offering continuity when driving and providing the big picture to round out GPS and online directions. -Detailed place name index to quickly pinpoint destinations and sights. -50+ large-scale city maps for navigating in and around cities. -Distance chart for major US and Canadian cities, as well as convenient city-to-city mini distance chart on each two-page map spread, for more effective trip planning. -Tire tips to improve consumer driving safety.
Author : Daniel Aaron Silver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 022635699X
Setting the scene -- A theory of scenes -- Quantitative flânerie -- Back to the land, on to the scene : how scenes drive economic development -- Home, home on the scene : how scenes shape residential patterns -- Scene power : how scenes influence voting, energize new social movements, and generate political resources / with Christopher M. Graziul) -- Making a scene : how to integrate the scenescape into public policy thinking -- The science of scenes / with Christopher M. Graziul)
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307908704
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. His accounts of the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar are dramatic and exhilarating. Holmes documents as well the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher (who rose) seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology); and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. A seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics of flights, Falling Upwards explores the interplay between technology and imagination. And through the strange allure of these great balloonists, it offers a masterly portrait of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision. (With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
