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Book Synopsis Jacques Garnier - a Deconstructed Odyssey by : Jacques Garnier
Download or read book Jacques Garnier - a Deconstructed Odyssey written by Jacques Garnier and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude." Susan SontagThe first photograph, taken by Joseph Niépce in 1825, helped establish a new way of expressing oneself. As technology advanced, photography nudged its way into the art world, moving from one movement to another, constantly searching for new ways of rendering a three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensional surface.As the speed and stresses of modern life encroach upon us, Jacques Garnier takes photography to another level, stripping the excesses from his photographs, creating a more tranquil affirmation of what is. These abstracted and deconstructed images represent a new reality, a new way of seeing that reinforces the essence of life, cleansed of all that is extraneous and expendable.
Book Synopsis The Shaping of French National Identity by : Matthew D'Auria
Download or read book The Shaping of French National Identity written by Matthew D'Auria and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shaping of French National Identity casts new light on the intellectual origins of the dominant and 'official' French nineteenth-century national narrative. Focussing on the historical debates taking place throughout the eighteenth century and during the Restoration, Matthew D'Auria evokes a time when the nation's origins were being questioned and discussed and when they acquired the meaning later enshrined in the official rhetoric of the Third Republic. He examines how French writers and scholars reshaped the myths, symbols, and memories of pre-modern communities. Engaging with the myth of 'our ancestors the Gauls' and its ideological triumph over the competing myth of 'our ancestors the Franks', this study explores the ways in which the struggle developed, and the values that the two discourses enshrined, the collective actors they portrayed, and the memories they evoked. D'Auria draws attention to the continuity between ethnic discourses and national narratives and to the competition between various groups in their claims to represent the nation and to define their past as the 'true' history of France.
Book Synopsis Real Algebraic Geometry and Ordered Structures by : James J. Madden
Download or read book Real Algebraic Geometry and Ordered Structures written by James J. Madden and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1899 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Napoleon written by Michael Broers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like volume one of Michael Broers’s magnificent biography, The Spirit of the Age is based on the new version of Napoleon’s correspondence, made available by the Fondation Napoléon in Paris. It is the story of Napoleon’s conquest of Europe—and that of his magnificent Grande Armée—as they sweep through the length and breadth of Europe. This narrative opens with Napoleon’s as yet untested army making its way through the Bavarian Alps in the early winter of 1805 to fall upon the unsuspecting Austrians and Russians at Austerlitz. This was only the beginning of a series of spectacular victories over the Prussians and Russians over the next two years. The chronicle then follows the army into Spain, in 1808, the most ill-considered step in Napoleon’s career as ruler, and then through the most daunting triumph of all, the final defeat of Austria at Wagram, in 1809, the bloodiest battle in European history up to that time.
Download or read book The Untamed Sheik written by Tessa Radley and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Megan is invited by Jacques, the man of her dreams, to a luxurious vacation in the desert country of Dhahara, it seems too good to be true. Could this be an opportunity to get closer to him? Having arrived at the airport, Megan waits for Jacques, who was supposed to be waiting for her. But there is no sign of him. Shafir, a handsome man with a cold glare who claims to be Jacques’s friend, tells the concerned Megan that he’ll escort her in his place. She accompanies Shafir to his car, only to be taken to a remote castle in the dunes?the Palace of Roses.But is the man she’d taken for a ransom-seeking bandit actually…a prince?
Book Synopsis Geographers by : Charles W. J. Withers
Download or read book Geographers written by Charles W. J. Withers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geographers Bio-bibliographical Series Volume 28 includes essays on Dick Chorley, the influential geomorphologist, Charles P. Daly, long-serving president of the American Geographical Society, Marion Newbigin, one of the leading women geographers of the early twentieth century and Peter Heyleyn, early modern humanist, historian and geographical author.
Download or read book Jacques Garnier written by Janet Blake and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Napoleon written by Alan Forrest and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Napoleon was solemnly carried on a riverboat from Courbevoie on its final journey to the Invalides. The return of their long-dead emperor's corpse from the island of St. Helena was a moment that Paris had eagerly awaited, though many feared that the memories stirred would serve to further destabilize a country that had struggled for order and direction since he had been sent into exile. In this book Alan Forrest tells the remarkable story of how the son of a Corsican attorney became the most powerful man in Europe, a man whose charisma and legacy endured after his lonely death many thousands of miles from the country whose fate had become so entwined with his own. Along the way, Forrest also cuts away the many layers of myth and counter myth that have grown up around Napoleon, a man who mixed history and legend promiscuously. Drawing on original research and his own distinguished background in French history, Forrest demonstrates that Napoleon was as much a product of his times as their creator.
Book Synopsis The Betrayal of Faith by : Emma Anderson
Download or read book The Betrayal of Faith written by Emma Anderson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anderson uses one man’s compelling story to explore the collision of Christianity with Native religion in colonial North America. Pastedechouan’s story illuminates struggles to retain and impose religious identity on both sides of the 17th-century Atlantic, even as it has relevance to the contemporary encounter between native and nonnative peoples.
Download or read book Waterloo written by Alan Forrest and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved the deployment of huge armies and incurred heavy losses on both sides; for those who fought in it, Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and Hanoverians as well as British and French troops, it was a murderous struggle. It was a battle that would be remembered very differently across Europe. In Britain it would be seen as an iconic battle whose memory would be enmeshed in British national identity across the following century. In London news of the victory unleashed an outburst of patriotic celebration and captured the imagination of the public. The Duke of Wellington would go on to build his political career on it, and towns and cities across Britain and the Empire raised statues and memorials to the victor. But it was only in Britain that Waterloo acquired this iconic status. In Prussia and Holland its memory was muted - in Prussia overshadowed by the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, in Holland a simple appendage to the prestige of the House of Orange. And in France it would be portrayed as the very epitome of heroic defeat. Encapsulated in the bravery of General Cambronne and the last stand of the Old Guard, remembered movingly in the lines of Stendhal and Victor Hugo, the memory of Waterloo served to sustain the romantic legend of the Napoleonic Wars - and contributed to the growing cult of Napoleon himself.
Book Synopsis Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by : United States. Patent Office
Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 2026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spy and telepath, I hacked UFOs: Towards the final declassification by : Bellin
Download or read book Spy and telepath, I hacked UFOs: Towards the final declassification written by Bellin and published by Editions Arca Minore. This book was released on 2024-09-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the exceptional document of a whistleblower who will probably rank with Edward Snowden, but for UFOs. Scary: he worked on an unthinkable hypothesis regarding the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370 in 2014! This book indeed recounts the work of a telepathic spy, or Remote-Viewer, who worked on UFOs, inside the secret services in France - a state known to be very opaque. This is a huge scoop: every major intelligence service in the world does indeed have telepathic spy groups, links in global intelligence chains. But never, before this testimony, had anyone described to such an extent the intimacy and violence of the functioning of these services, when they direct their very high technicality towards the understanding of an immemorial enigma: that of UFOs, to which they provides a new and revolutionary explanation. But it is its French readers who talk about it best. “Beyond the infinite and the timeless. Excellent work. The author immerses us in an unknown universe, not to say unknown. It opens up unsuspected perspectives." "An indispensable book." "Excellent writing, which, through the interview with Anonymous, allows neophytes as well as those who wonder about the secret actions of the french secret services to discover the objectives and the means deployed, in order to spy and manipulate any guy. An investigation experienced from the inside, between spies, UFOs, extraterrestrials and state services." "Being a ufology enthusiast since 1965, I found this book excellent in that, probably for the first time, it discusses the operation of the secret services in relation to the UFO subject and the various ufological movements. The author voluntarily maintains a dose of uncertainty whose only purpose is to protect himself against the possible actions of the intelligence services. It's heavy. A must read for anyone interested in the subject." "Very interesting. To Read ++++++++ Very interesting, instructive and edifying book. Describes remarkably well how we are watched by the intelligence services and by Space beings in particular, all those who have an ethic and love and defend truth and democracy. Truth will eventually triumph, Light will prevail over darkness! "Being the target of Remote Viewers I can tell you that everything told in this book is true, at least for the remote viewing part: if one day you hear voices you are not necessarily ''crazy'' ". Beware of what you think, someone else may think it for you. “The brain has no firewall”!!! “Exceptional book: the book holds a lot of secrets for those who want to hear." »
Book Synopsis The Papers of James Madison by : James Madison
Download or read book The Papers of James Madison written by James Madison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1. 16 Mar. 1751-16 Dec. 1779 -- v. 2. 20 Mar. 1780-23 Feb. 1781 -- v. 3. 3 Mar.-31 Dec. 1781 -- v. 4. 1 Jan.-31 July 1782 -- v. 5. 1 Aug.-31 Dec. 1782 -- v. 6. 1 Jan.-30 Apr. 1783 -- v. 7. 3 May 1783-20 Feb. 1784 -- v. 8. 10 Mar. 1784-28 Mar. 1786 -- v. 9. 9 Apr. 1786-24 May 1787, with suppl. 1781-1784 -- v. 10. 27 May 1787-3 Mar. 1788 -- v. 11. 7 Mar. 1788-1 Mar. 1789 -- v. 12. 2 Mar. 1789-20 Jan. 1790, with suppl., 24 Oct. 1775-24 Jan. 1789 -- v. 13. 20 Jan. 1790-31 Mar. 1791 -- v. 14. 6 Apr. 1791-16 Mar. 1793 -- v. 15. 24 Mar. 1793-20 Apr. 1795 -- v. 16. 27 Apr. 1795-27 Mar. 1797 -- v. 17. 31 Mar. 1797-3 Mar. 1801, with suppl., 22 Jan. 1778-9 Aug. 1795.
Book Synopsis Bonapartists in the Borderlands by : Rafe Blaufarb
Download or read book Bonapartists in the Borderlands written by Rafe Blaufarb and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonapartists in the Borderlands recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, Gulf pirates, and international adventurers to seek their fortune in the Gulf borderlands. The U.S. Congress welcomed the French to America and granted them a large tract of rich Black Belt land near Demopolis, Alabama, on the condition that they would establish a Mediterranean-style Vine and Olive colony. This book debunks the standard account of the colony, which stresses the failure of the aristocratic, luxury-loving French to tame the wilderness. Instead, it shows that the Napoleonic officers involved in the colony sold their land shares to speculators to finance an even more perilous adventure--invading the contested Texas borderlands between Spain and the U.S. Their departure left the Vine and Olive colony in the hands of French refugees from the Haitian slave revolt. While they soon abandoned vine cultivation, they successfully recast themselves as prosperous, slaveholding cotton growers and gradually fused into a new elite with newly arrived Anglo-American planters. Rafe Blaufarb examines the underlying motivations and aims that inspired this endeavor and details the nitty-gritty politics, economics, and backroom bargaining that resulted in the settlement. He employs a wide variety of local, national, and international resources: from documents held by the Alabama State Archives, Marengo County court records, and French-language newspapers published in America to material from the War Ministry Archives at Vincennes, the Diplomatic Archives at the Quai d'Orasy, and the French National Archives.
Book Synopsis The Invention of Free Press by : Edoardo Tortarolo
Download or read book The Invention of Free Press written by Edoardo Tortarolo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracking the relationship between the theory of press control and the realities of practicing daily press censorship prior to publication, this volume on the suppression of dissent in early modern Europe tackles a topic with many elusive and under-researched characteristics. Pre-publication censorship was common in absolutist regimes in Catholic and Protestant countries alike, but how effective it was in practice remains open to debate. The Netherlands and England, where critical content segued into outright lampoonery, were unusual for hard-wired press freedoms that arose, respectively, from a highly competitive publishing industry and highly decentralized political institutions. These nations remained extraordinary exceptions to a rule that, for example in France, did not end until the revolution of 1789. Here, the author’s European perspective provides a survey of the varying censorship regulations in European nations, as well as the shifting meanings of ‘freedom of the press’. The analysis opens up fascinating insights, afforded by careful reading of primary archival sources, into the reactions of censors confronted with manuscripts by authors seeking permission to publish. Tortarolo sets the opinions on censorship of well-known writers, including Voltaire and Montesquieu, alongside the commentary of anonymous censors, allowing us to revisit some common views of eighteenth-century history. How far did these writers, their reasoning stiffened by Enlightenment values, promote dissident views of absolutist monarchies in Europe, and what insights did governments gain from censors’ reports into the social tensions brewing under their rule? These questions will excite dedicated researchers, graduate students, and discerning lay readers alike.
Book Synopsis Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics by : Susan Gourvenec
Download or read book Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics written by Susan Gourvenec and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work contains 150 papers that were presented during ISEC-03, the 3rd International Conference on Structural and Construction Engineering, that was held in Tokuyama College of Technology, Shunan, Japan, from September 20 to 23, 2005. The theme of the conference was Collaboration and Harmony of Creative Systems. The conference was to encourage and assist the collaboration of any and all kinds of structural, system, and construction engineering using information technology in an environmentally friendly manner. This book contains these challenging papers.
Download or read book Napoleon written by Steven Englund and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sophisticated and masterful biography, written by a respected French history scholar who has taught courses on Napoleon at the University of Paris, brings new and remarkable analysis to the study of modern history's most famous general and statesman. Since boyhood, Steven Englund has been fascinated by the unique force, personality, and political significance of Napoleon Bonaparte, who, in only a decade and a half, changed the face of Europe forever. In Napoleon: A Political Life, Englund harnesses his early passion and intellectual expertise to create a rich and full interpretation of a brilliant but flawed leader. Napoleon believed that war was a means to an end, not the end itself. With this in mind, Steven Englund focuses on the political, rather than the military or personal, aspects of Napoleon's notorious and celebrated life. Doing so permits him to arrive at some original conclusions. For example, where most biographers see this subject as a Corsican patriot who at first detested France, Englund sees a young officer deeply committed to a political event, idea, and opportunity (the French Revolution) -- not to any specific nationality. Indeed, Englund dissects carefully the political use Napoleon made, both as First Consul and as Emperor of the French, of patriotism, or "nation-talk." As Englund charts Napoleon's dramatic rise and fall -- from his Corsican boyhood, his French education, his astonishing military victories and no less astonishing acts of reform as First Consul (1799-1804) to his controversial record as Emperor and, finally, to his exile and death -- he is at particular pains to explore the unprecedented power Napoleon maintained over the popular imagination. Alone among recent biographers, Englund includes a chapter that analyzes the Napoleonic legend over the course of the past two centuries, down to the present-day French Republic, which has its own profound ambivalences toward this man whom it is afraid to recognize yet cannot avoid. Napoleon: A Political Life presents new consideration of Napoleon's adolescent and adult writings, as well as a convincing argument against the recent theory that the Emperor was poisoned at St. Helena. The book also offers an explanation of Napoleon's role as father of the "modern" in politics. What finally emerges from these pages is a vivid and sympathetic portrait that combines youthful enthusiasm and mature scholarly reflection. The result is already regarded by experts as the Napoleonic bicentennial's first major interpretation of this perennial subject.
