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Finding Fontainebleau

Author : Thad Carhart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143109286
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Finding Fontainebleau written by Thad Carhart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the French Heritage Literary Award A beguiling memoir of a childhood in 1950s France from the much-admired New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank "Like the castle, [Carhart's] memoir imaginatively and smoothly integrates multiple influences, styles and whims."—The New York Times For a young American boy in the 1950s, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic, home to a continual series of adventures: a different language to learn, weekend visits to nearby Paris, family road trips to Spain and Italy. Then there was the château itself: a sprawling palace once the residence of kings, its grounds the perfect place to play hide-and-seek. The curiosities of the small town and the time with his family as expats left such an impression on him that thirty years later Carhart returned to France with his wife to raise their two children. Touring Fontainebleau again as an adult, he began to appreciate its influence on French style, taste, art, and architecture. Each trip to Fontainebleau introduces him to entirely new aspects of the château's history, enriching his memories and leading him to Patrick Ponsot, the head of the château’s restoration, who becomes Carhart’s guide to the hidden Fontainebleau. What emerges is an intimate chronicle of a time and place few have experienced. In warm, precise prose, Carhart reconstructs the wonders of his childhood as an American in postwar France, attending French schools with his brothers and sisters. His firsthand account brings to life nothing less than France in the 1950s, from the parks and museums of Paris to the rigors of French schooling to the vast château of Fontainebleau and its village, built, piece by piece, over many centuries. Finding Fontainebleau is for those captivated by the French way of life, for armchair travelers, and for anyone who has ever fallen in love with a place they want to visit over and over again.

The Revelations of Madame X

Author : Maggie Bertrand
Publisher : Bertrand Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revelations of Madame X written by Maggie Bertrand and published by Bertrand Books. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Stories and Historical Events Bridging The Past to Present In 2012, Gabriel and Maggie entered a self-imposed exile, fleeing the United States for France. Their plans to marry in Gabriel’s homeland take an unexpected twist when Gabriel discovers that he was born under the controversial French law Accouchement Sous X (Anonymous Childbirth Under Madame X). In search of his birth origins, Gabriel becomes engulfed in a game of cat-and-mouse with Camille, the woman he had always known unquestionably as his mother. Embarking on an odyssey sparked by a mystery to solve, Gabriel and Maggie retrace the footsteps of the Delacroix and Bertrand families, their lives intertwined by scandal, deceit, and decadence beginning in WWII under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Intersecting with their own lives, Gabriel and Maggie become swept up in the terror attacks in France, the European migration crisis of 2015, and Brexit in their search for truth, justice, and closure. Riveting, thought-provoking, and timely, The Revelations of Madame X is a dramatic three-generational family saga and an extraordinary love story that reminds us of our history, the Holocaust, and the extremes of what we, as human beings, are truly capable of.

Learning to Teach Modern Languages in the Secondary School

Author : Norbert Pachler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134552203
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Teach Modern Languages in the Secondary School written by Norbert Pachler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the key skills of teaching modern foreign languages. A practical focus is underpinned by theoretical perspective and account is taken of national statutory frameworks.

Learning to Teach Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School

Author : Norbert Pachler
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415162815
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Teach Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School written by Norbert Pachler and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a text to support student teachers in training, this book focuses on the key skills of teaching modern foreign languages. The practical focus of the book is underpinned by a theoretical perspective including ample opportunities for reflection. Account is taken of national statutory frameworks. The book aims to assist student teachers in developing a personal approach to modern foreign languages teaching and to choose the most effective and appropriate methods to help pupils gain relevant knowledge, skills and understanding. For mentors and tutors working with student teachers this book provides an overview of the areas covered by student teachers during their course of initial teacher education. Chapters cover, for instance: the teaching of grammar and cultural awareness assessment the use of the target language for instruction and interaction the use of new technologies in the classroom. Examples are given in French, German and Spanish, but most are transferable to other languages.

Hiking the Gulf Coast

Author : Joe Cuhaj
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493014501
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Hiking the Gulf Coast written by Joe Cuhaj and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiking the Gulf Coast highlights the 40 best hikes in the “Third Coast” region, from easy to more moderate and difficult. The book spans Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Complete with full-color and maps throughout, this is a must-have hiking guide to the area.

Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train

Author : Ina Caro
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393082016
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train written by Ina Caro and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’d rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James.”—Newsweek In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the visions of Joan of Arc or to the Place de la Concorde to witness the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro animates history with her lush descriptions of architectural splendors and tales of court intrigue. “[An] enchanting travelogue” (Publishers Weekly), Paris to the Past has become one of the classic guidebooks of our time.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank

Author : Thad Carhart
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0375507000
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book The Piano Shop on the Left Bank written by Thad Carhart and published by Random House. This book was released on 2001-06-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm and intuitive portrait of the secret Paris—one closed to all but a knowing few—The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is the perfect book for music lovers, or for anyone who longs to recapture a lost passion. Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Pairs neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his attempts to gain entry rebuffed at every turn. An accidental introduction finally opened the door to the quartier’s oddest hangout, where locals—from university professors to pipefitters—gather on Friday evenings to discuss music, love, and life over a glass of wine. Luc, the atelier’s master, proves an excellent guide to the history of this most gloriously impractical of instruments. A bewildering variety passes through his restorer’s hands: delicate ancient pianofortes, one perhaps the onetime possession of Beethoven. Great hulking beasts of thunderous voice. And the modest piano “with the heart of a lion” that was to become Thad’s own.

1,000 Books to Read Before You Die

Author : James Mustich
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1523505125
Total Pages : 2079 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die written by James Mustich and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 2079 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The ultimate literary bucket list.” —The Washington Post “If there’s a heaven just for readers, this is it.” —O, The Oprah Magazine Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that’s as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends. Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children’s books, history, and more, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die ranges across cultures and through time to offer an eclectic collection of works that each deserve to come with the recommendation, You have to read this. But it’s not a proscriptive list of the “great works”—rather, it’s a celebration of the glorious mosaic that is our literary heritage. Flip it open to any page and be transfixed by a fresh take on a very favorite book. Or come across a title you always meant to read and never got around to. Or, like browsing in the best kind of bookshop, stumble on a completely unknown author and work, and feel that tingle of discovery. There are classics, of course, and unexpected treasures, too. Lists to help pick and choose, like Offbeat Escapes, or A Long Climb, but What a View. And its alphabetical arrangement by author assures that surprises await on almost every turn of the page, with Cormac McCarthy and The Road next to Robert McCloskey and Make Way for Ducklings, Alice Walker next to Izaac Walton. There are nuts and bolts, too—best editions to read, other books by the author, “if you like this, you’ll like that” recommendations , and an interesting endnote of adaptations where appropriate. Add it all up, and in fact there are more than six thousand titles by nearly four thousand authors mentioned—a life-changing list for a lifetime of reading. “948 pages later, you still want more!” —THE WASHINGTON POST

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Author : James Bieri
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138702
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Percy Bysshe Shelley written by James Bieri and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume ends after Shelley's important Swiss summer of 1816 with Byron. A latter volume will cover Shelley's Italian years, the circumstances of his death in 1822, and the subsequent lives of his intimates."--Jacket.

Serlio on Domestic Architecture

Author : Sebastiano Serlio
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486293523
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Serlio on Domestic Architecture written by Sebastiano Serlio and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixth book of classic treatise by influential Italian Renaissance architect. 76 plates -- with extensive editorial apparatus -- depicting farmhouses, villas, fortresses, pavilions, palaces, etc. Extensive scholarly discussions. Introduction. Notes. 173 illustrations.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank

Author : Thad Carhart
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375758623
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Piano Shop on the Left Bank written by Thad Carhart and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-03-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris neighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign—Desforges Pianos—he enters, only to have his way barred by the shop’s imperious owner. Unable to stifle his curiosity, he finally lands the proper introduction, and a world previously hidden is brought into view. Luc, the atelier’s master, proves an indispensable guide to the history and art of the piano. Intertwined with the story of a musical friendship are reflections on how pianos work, their glorious history, and stories of the people who care for them, from amateur pianists to the craftsmen who make the mechanism sing. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is at once a beguiling portrait of a Paris not found on any map and a tender account of the awakening of a lost childhood passion. Praise for The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: “[Carhart’s] writing is fluid and lovely enough to lure the rustiest plunker back to the piano bench and the most jaded traveler back to Paris.” –San Francisco Chronicle “Captivating . . . [Carhart] joins the tiny company of foreigners who have written of the French as verbs. . . . What he tries to capture is not the sight of them, but what they see.” –The New York Times “Thoroughly engaging . . . In part it is a book about that most unpredictable and pleasurable of human experiences, serendipity. . . . The book is also about something more difficult to pin down, friendship and community.” –The Washington Post “Carhart writes with a sensuousness enhanced by patience and grounded by the humble acquisition of new insight into music, his childhood, and his relationship to the city of Paris.” –The New Yorker NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism

Author : Paul K. Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199665524
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism written by Paul K. Edwards and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a practical guide to the application of Critical Realism (CR), an increasingly popular philosophy of social science, in empirical research projects. Each purpose-written chapter reviews major social science research methods and contains extended illustration of how to conduct inquiry using CR.

Reflections on Groups and Organizations

Author : Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119965977
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Groups and Organizations written by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on Groups and Organizations is the third and final book in the On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries series. Broadening the Kets De Vries canvas, this book examines concepts of organizational health, performance, and change. Material ranges from studies of high performance teams – based on time the author spent with the pygmies of central Africa – to the study of organizational stars, to the use of coaching interventions to improve personal and organizational functioning. Kets de Vries looks at the interpersonal and group processes that determine how organizations work within specific contexts, including family firms. He studies dysfunctional leader-follower relationships, downsizing, and organizational transformation. Kets de Vries also introduces his concept of the "authentizotic" organization – a pleasant, healthy, well-functioning workplace.

Climbing

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Climbing written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs

Author : California (State).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon

Author : Louis Constant Wairy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon written by Louis Constant Wairy and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: