Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Modern Art Practices and Debates)

Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Modern Art Practices and Debates) Review

This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The books provide an introduction to modern European and American art and criticism that should be valuable both to students and to the general reader. This first volume focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris between 1848 and 1900. Discussing works by Courbet, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Morisot and other great painters of the period, the authors demonstrate how some historians view this art as representative of the social, historical, and economic circumstances in which it was produced, how the painterly effects of the art are evaluated and how a feminist perspective can help to explain art works and change our perception of them.

The Glasgow Salad & Other Great French Fry Recipes

The Glasgow Salad & Other Great French Fry Recipes Review

French fries are a national obsession. We eat mountains of them every year. Whether fried in oil, cooked from frozen in the oven or microwaved, one in every four potatoes ends up being sliced into strips and served up as chips. Quick and easy to cook we consume them on their own as a quick snack, or slide them on to the plate alongside just about anything. They are one of the most versatile and convenient foodstuffs. This book explores our enduring love affair with the French fry, traces its history and development and offers a range of mouth-watering recipes for homemade fries and a vast assortment of tasty sauces, seasonings and accompaniments.

In-Flight French: Learn Before You Land

In-Flight French: Learn Before You Land Review

Living Language In-Flight French is the perfect boarding pass to learning French before you land.

There's no better way to make use of all that spare time on a plane than to master the essentials of a language. This 60-minute program is the simplest way to learn just enough to get by in every situation essential to both the tourist and business traveler.

The program covers everything from greetings and polite expressions to asking directions, getting around, checking into a hotel, and going to a restaurant. There are even sections for meeting people and spending a night on the town.

Short lessons make In-Flight French easy to use, and a handy pocket-sized insert is included as a cheat sheet for use on the go.

French Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

French Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Review

The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, extensive in time and space, and appealing both to its immediate public--readers of French--and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations. The first great works of this repertory were written in the twelfth century in northern France, and now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, this literature includes authors writing in many parts of the world, ranging from the Caribbean to Western Africa. This Very Short Introduction gives the reader a basic orientation to this lively literary world by focusing on texts (epics, novels, plays, poems, screenplays) that concern protagonists whose adventures and conflicts reveal shifts in literary and social practices. From the hero of the medieval Song of Roland to the Caribbean heroines of I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem or the European expatriate in Japan in Fear and Trembling, these problematic protagonists allow us to understand what interests writers and readers across the wide world of French literature.

Berlitz Rush Hour Express French: Learn a New Language in Just One Hour (Berlitz Express) (French Edition)

Berlitz Rush Hour Express French: Learn a New Language in Just One Hour (Berlitz Express) (French Edition) Review

BERLITZ RUSH HOUR EXPRESS FRENCH

Take the fastest route to a new language


Have you ever noticed how you still remember words to a song you haven t heard in years? Berlitz Publishing knows that putting words to music makes the words easier to remember. Learn a new language in just one hour! Rush Hour Express presents the words and expressions you need to know in order to begin to communicate in French. Plus, original music engages you, so you remember what you learn.


Effective and Entertaining!

*Great low price

*No books needed

*No rules to memorize


1 CD includes:

*Track 1: numbers, greeting, introductions, telling time

*Track 2: colors, clothing, food, weather, transportation

*Track 3: travel, schedules, appointments

*Track 4: days, months, seasons, occupations

*Track 5: menu items, restaurant expressions

French Music for Accordion Volume 1 (Mel Bay Presents)

French Music for Accordion Volume 1 (Mel Bay Presents) Review

One of the most melodic and romantic genres of music is that found on the streets of Paris as played on the musette. Larry Hallar has artfully crafted keyboard accordion solo arrangements from 25 favorite French musette compositions. These are wonderful solo pieces for any accordionist, and convey the lyrical beauty and romance characteristic of the genre.

Locker Room Nudes / Dieux du Stade: The French National Rugby Team

Locker Room Nudes / Dieux du Stade: The French National Rugby Team Review

This remarkable collection of candid nude photos of France’s national rugby team goes beneath the uniform to reveal what real jocks look like underneath it all. Each image taken by leading French photographer François Rousseau depicts the rugby player―alone or with teammates―undressing, lounging on the bench, showering. Locker Room Men is at once a celebration of athletes and the beauty of the male form as well as the fulfillment of the fantasy of going behind the scenes in a winning team’s locker room.
Sure to appeal to both gay men and straight women, these photos are unusual because the men are not models. They don’t work out just to look good―and look good they do―their bodies are sculpted by winning victories on the field. They aren’t made up, shaved, or prettified in any way. These are some of the world’s best rugby players―brawny, tough, competitive.
Since 1999, the French national rugby team has posed nude or semi-nude for an annual calendar. The purpose behind the calendar was to get wider “exposure” for rugby and the team. In 2004, François Rousseau was selected as photographer, and he successfully brought out the sensual beauty and sexiness inherent in the rugby players’ rough and tumble exterior. The calendar became a cult hit, and thus the book was born so that even more of these unparalleled images could be savored.
Whether or not rugby will become more popular in this country remains to be seen, but this book will certainly raise the game’s profile…

The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 (New Approaches to European History)

The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 (New Approaches to European History) Review

This book is a new edition of Mack P. Holt's classic study of the French religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on the scholarship of social and cultural historians of the Reformation, it shows how religion infused both politics and the socio-economic tensions of the period to produce a long extended civil war. Professor Holt integrates court politics and the political theory of the elites with the religious experiences of the popular classes, offering a fresh perspective on the wars and on why the French were willing to kill their neighbors in the name of religion.

InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign (2nd Edition)

InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign (2nd Edition) Review

Adobe InDesign is the world’s premier page-layout tool, and its user-friendly yet sophisticated typographic controls are a big reason why. This updated edition of Nigel French’s InDesign Type, the first book to focus exclusively on the typographic features of InDesign, provides a comprehensive overview of the application’s vast array of type capabilities, from the basics of character-level formatting to strategies for designing complex layouts using grids. With practical examples, loads of tips, and a wealth of illustrations, InDesign Type offers guiding principles for how to get the best-looking type in the most efficient way possible. InDesign Type is a rich resource for anyone who wants to master the fine points of typography and works with Adobe InDesign.

French The Easy Way (Barron's E-Z Series)

French The Easy Way (Barron's E-Z Series) Review

This updated edition of a popular self-teaching language-learning book presents the basics of French grammar and vocabulary for those who have little or no prior knowledge of the language. Emphasizing proficiency in informal conversational French, the text includes true-to-life dialogues with translations, as well as skill-building exercises, fun-to-solve puzzles, useful verb conjugation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, and many more language-learning features. In addition to being a self-teaching manual, this very useful book can serve as a textbook or textbook supplement in classroom settings. The many new illustrations in this fourth edition capture much of the spirit of contemporary France.

Great Country French Style (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating)

Great Country French Style (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating) Review

• Page after page of rich, beautiful full-color photography will inspire homeowners.
• More than 30 home tours and nearly 300 photos showcase Country French style in every room of the house.
• Real homes illustrate the range of interpretations of Country French style, from rustic to casual to more formal.
• The book shows how to get the look with furniture, accessories, color, pattern, and architecture.

The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern

The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern Review

The French Revolution created a new cultural world that freed women from the constraints of corporate privilege, aristocratic salons, and patriarchal censorship, even though it failed to grant them legal equality. Women burst into print in unprecedented numbers and became active participants in the great political, ethical, and aesthetic debates that gave birth to our understanding of the individual as a self-creating, self-determining agent. Carla Hesse tells this story, delivering a capacious history of how French women have used writing to create themselves as modern individuals.

Beginning with the marketplace fishwives and salon hostesses whose eloquence shaped French culture low and high and leading us through the accomplishments of Simone de Beauvoir, Hesse shows what it meant to make an independent intellectual life as a woman in France. She offers exquisitely constructed portraits of the work and mental lives of many fascinating women--including both well-known novelists and now-obscure pamphleteers--who put pen to paper during and after the Revolution. We learn how they negotiated control over their work and authorial identity--whether choosing pseudonyms like Georges Sand or forsaking profits to sign their own names. We encounter the extraordinary Louise de Kralio-Robert, a critically admired historian who re-created herself as a revolutionary novelist. We meet aristocratic women whose literary criticism subjected them to slander as well as writers whose rhetoric cost them not only reputation but marriage, citizenship, and even their heads.

Crucially, their stories reveal how the unequal terms on which women entered the modern era shaped how they wrote and thought. Though women writers and thinkers championed the full range of political and social positions--from royalist to Jacobin, from ultraconservative to fully feminist--they shared common moral perspectives and representational strategies. Unlike the Enlightenment of their male peers, theirs was more skeptical than idealist, more situationalist than universalist. And this alternative project lies at the very heart of modern French letters.

Attacking Chess: The French (Everyman Chess Series)

Attacking Chess: The French (Everyman Chess Series) Review

Simon Williams presents an ambitious opening repertoire for Black based on the ever-popular French Defence. In this book one of the world’s most imaginative Grandmasters combines his unique attacking ideas with the traditionally solid French structure, resulting in a powerful armoury of weapons. This will prove ideal for players who like to seize the initiative and cause problems for their opponents from the outset. Williams’ recommendations are based on his own practical experience, where his ideas have stood the test of time against powerful grandmaster opposition.

 

Attacking Chess is a brand new series of opening repertoire books. It focuses on traditional attacking openings, as well as creative and forceful ways to play openings that are not always associated with attacking chess. It provides ambitious repertoires designed for players of all levels.

 

*A Grandmaster’s repertoire in the French Defence

*Packed with new ideas, analysis and novelties

*Illustrative games explain typical plans and tactics

Petit Singe cherche son refuge/Little Monkey's One Safe Place (French/English Edition) (English and French Edition)

Petit Singe cherche son refuge/Little Monkey's One Safe Place (French/English Edition) (English and French Edition) Review

Written in simple, easy-to-read French and English, this sweet story about the parent-child bond is a charming introduction to a new language. It tells the story of Little Monkey, who, frightened by a storm, runs home to his mother. She reassures him that even in the vast jungle there is always one safe place for him. Little Monkey’s quest to find that place makes for a soothing bedtime story.

À votre tour! Intermediate French

À votre tour! Intermediate French Review

The main objective of À votre tour! is to bring readers to a level where they can comfortably express themselves on a variety of French and francophone topics. Avoiding the excessive rigor of most intermediate texts, À votre tour! immerses readers in authentic language and cultural contexts to achieve three key objectives: to build and reinforce oral and written communication skills, to develop reading skills and cultural awareness, and to forge a strong linguistic base.

Deux (The French Kiss Chronicles)

Deux (The French Kiss Chronicles) Review

After sparks fly between lonely housewife Jane and the bombshell divorcee Margot, a soft spot blossoms, revealing a deeper need—to find love.

Jane is a wife and mother who's stuck in a rut. Spending too much time at the gym perfecting her physique, she learns that what she really wants is someone new to share her body with.

After Margot's divorce, she's feeling frumpy and unloved. Until one day, Jane corners her in the dressing room and makes it perfectly clear that she finds her ripe curves desirable.

Together, the couple shares the passion they thought long dead, and in doing so, discover they harbor a deeper need—to find love.

Art of French Horn Playing

Art of French Horn Playing Review

Art of French Horn Playing Feature

• Book Pages: 96
• By Philip Farkas
• Format Book

First to be published in the series was The Art of French Horn Playing by Philip Farkas, now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music at Indiana University. In 1956, when Summy-Birchard published Farkas's book, he was a solo horn player for the Chicago Symphony and had held similar positions with other orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Kansas City Conservatory, DePaul University, Northwestern University, and Roosevelt University in Chicago. The Art of French Horn Playing set the pattern, and other books in the series soon followed, offering help to students in learning to master their instruments and achieve their goals.