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Those Paris Days: With The World At The Crossroads

Author : Dr. Samuel N. Watson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782893555
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Those Paris Days: With The World At The Crossroads written by Dr. Samuel N. Watson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the volume the former Dean of the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris Samuel N. Watson recounts his experiences across America and Europe in his many years in the priesthood. Perhaps of particular interest are his reminiscences of the First World War, from which period the book takes its title and forms the majority of the pages, the Dean was a well-known and well respected pillar of the expatriate American community in Paris. Through his contacts and by his charm and grace he organized a great deal of the aid effort that flowed through the Church during World War One. An interesting snapshot of the Great War from a different perspective than the many frontline accounts.

The Crossroads of Civilization

Author : Angus Robertson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639361960
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book The Crossroads of Civilization written by Angus Robertson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the Congress of Vienna to the Austria World Summit, the city of Vienna has hosted key meetings on peace to climate action. This is a first-class book about Vienna as the crossroads of civilization and as the international capital." —Arnold Schwarzenegger A rich and illuminating history of the world capital that has transformed art, culture, and politics. Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe in the wake of Napoleon's downfall, to bridge-building summits during the Cold War, Vienna has been the scene of key moments in world history. Scores of pivotal figures were influenced by their time in Vienna, including: Empress Maria Theresa, Count Metternich, Bertha von Suttner, Theodore Herzl, Gustav Mahler, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, John F. Kennedy, and many others. In a city of great composers, artists, and thinkers, it is here that both the most positive and destructive ideas of recent history have developed. From its time as the capital of an imperial superpower, through war, dissolution, dictatorship to democracy Vienna has reinvented itself and its relevance to the rest of the world.

New England Division Bulletin

Author : American Red Cross. New England Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New England Division Bulletin written by American Red Cross. New England Division and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Most Beautiful Walk in the World

Author : John Baxter
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062092057
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Most Beautiful Walk in the World written by John Baxter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years. In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literary walking tours" through the city. Baxter sets off with unsuspecting tourists in tow on the trail of Paris's legendary artists and writers of the past. Along the way, he tells the history of Paris through a brilliant cast of characters: the favorite cafés of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce; Pablo Picasso's underground Montmartre haunts; the bustling boulevards of the late-nineteenth-century flâneurs; the secluded "Little Luxembourg" gardens beloved by Gertrude Stein; the alleys where revolutionaries plotted; and finally Baxter's own favorite walk near his home in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1422 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Billboard

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1943-03-20 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Works and Days

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works and Days written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Istanbul

Author : Thomas F. Madden
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0670016608
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Istanbul written by Thomas F. Madden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Time’s 12 Books for the History Buffs on Your Holiday Gift List The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present. For more than two millennia Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing across the shores of Asia. The history of this city--known as Byzantium, then Constantinople, now Istanbul--is at once glorious, outsized, and astounding. Founded by the Greeks, its location blessed it as a center for trade but also made it a target of every empire in history, from Alexander the Great and his Macedonian Empire to the Romans and later the Ottomans. At its most spectacular Emperor Constantine I re-founded the city as New Rome, the capital of the eastern Roman empire, and dramatically expanded the city, filling it with artistic treasures, and adorning the streets with opulent palaces. Around it all Constantine built new walls, truly impregnable, that preserved power, wealth, and withstood any aggressor--walls that still stand for tourists to visit. From its ancient past to the present, we meet the city through its ordinary citizens--the Jews, Muslims, Italians, Greeks, and Russians who used the famous baths and walked the bazaars--and the rulers who built it up and then destroyed it, including Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the man who christened the city "Istanbul" in 1930. Thomas F. Madden's entertaining narrative brings to life the city we see today, including the rich splendor of the churches and monasteries that spread throughout the city. Istanbul draws on a lifetime of study and the latest scholarship, transporting readers to a city of unparalleled importance and majesty that holds the key to understanding modern civilization. In the words of Napoleon Bonaparte, "If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital."

Diplomatic Bluebook

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Diplomatic Bluebook written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

THE BYZANTINES

Author : THOMAS CALDECOT CHUBB
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE BYZANTINES written by THOMAS CALDECOT CHUBB and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-05-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weather was balmy. The myrtle was in bloom. The leaves on the twisted gray olive trees flashed silver. The sky was fine and clear. The wind was gentle and favorable. Indeed, it barely ruffled the water. But it filled hundreds and hundreds of sails of every possible color. Red sails. Golden sails. Lavender sails. Green sails. Orange sails. And sails of a wonderful bright yellow. Even Geoffrey of Villehardouin, a bold French baron and famous historian who was one of the passengers, could not say how many they were. But he did know that they took his breath away...from the books.

Reports and Documents

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1812 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All Those Strangers

Author : Douglas Field
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199384177
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book All Those Strangers written by Douglas Field and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still to others, few authors defy any single critical narrative to the confounding extent that James Baldwin manages. Was he a black or queer writer? Was he a religious or secular writer? Was he a spokesman for the civil rights movement or a champion of the individual? His critics, as disparate as his readership, endlessly wrestle with paradoxes, not just in his work but also in the life of a man who described himself as "all those strangers called Jimmy Baldwin" and who declared that "all theories are suspect." Viewing Baldwin through a cultural-historical lens alongside a more traditional literary critical approach, All Those Strangers examines how his fiction and nonfiction shaped and responded to key political and cultural developments in the United States from the 1940s to the 1980s. Showing how external forces molded Baldwin's personal, political, and psychological development, Douglas Field breaks through the established critical difficulties caused by Baldwin's geographical, ideological, and artistic multiplicity by analyzing his life and work against the radically transformative politics of his time. The book explores under-researched areas in Baldwin's life and work, including his relationship to the Left, his FBI files, and the significance of Africa in his writing, while also contributing to wider discussions about postwar US culture. Field deftly navigates key twentieth-century themes-the Cold War, African American literary history, conflicts between spirituality and organized religion, and transnationalism-to bring a number of isolated subjects into dialogue with each other. By exploring the paradoxes in Baldwin's development as a writer, rather than trying to fix his life and work into a single framework, All Those Strangers contradicts the accepted critical paradigm that Baldwin's life and work are too ambiguous to make sense of. By studying him as an individual and an artist in flux, Field reveals the manifold ways in which Baldwin's work develops and coheres.

The City

Author : Joel Kotkin
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307432041
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The City written by Joel Kotkin and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines the evolution of urban life over the millennia and, in doing so, attempts to answer the age-old question: What makes a city great? Despite their infinite variety, all cities essentially serve three purposes: spiritual, political, and economic. Kotkin follows the progression of the city from the early religious centers of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and China to the imperial centers of the Classical era, through the rise of the Islamic city and the European commercial capitals, ending with today’s post-industrial suburban metropolis. Despite widespread optimistic claims that cities are “back in style,” Kotkin warns that whatever their form, cities can thrive only if they remain sacred, safe, and busy–and this is true for both the increasingly urbanized developing world and the often self-possessed “global cities” of the West and East Asia. Looking at cities in the twenty-first century, Kotkin discusses the effects of developments such as shifting demographics and emerging technologies. He also considers the effects of terrorism–how the religious and cultural struggles of the present pose the greatest challenge to the urban future. Truly global in scope, The City is a timely narrative that will place Kotkin in the company of Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and other preeminent urban scholars.

Paris, Lille, Brussels

Author : Laurence Phillips
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841620459
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Paris, Lille, Brussels written by Laurence Phillips and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mentor-world Traveler

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Mentor-world Traveler written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Omega Days

Author : Danny Bernardo Bajit
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456880241
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book The Omega Days written by Danny Bernardo Bajit and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

La Vie de Paris

Author : James Brogan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595490115
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book La Vie de Paris written by James Brogan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a youngster in 1912, Toby Edgeworth first visited Paris. His holiday ended far too soon, but Toby vowed to return. He fulfilled his promise in 1923 and stayed a lifetime. In this fictional memoir, journalist James Brogan is assigned to discover what became of Toby, a fellow journalist, who once wrote a column for the same British daily for which James now works. Toby's columns presented vivid images of what occupied the attentions and possessed the imaginations of Parisians between World Wars I and II. Surprised to find Toby still alive, James develops a close friendship with him. Beyond penning just a single newspaper profile, Toby asks James to chronicle his life story, including detailed reminisces of Paris when she was alive with the littérateur and bon viveur. Over their six-year relationship, Brogan listens to Toby's recollections and lyrically illustrates one of the most glamorous periods in Paris history. La Vie de Paris captures Toby's joys of living, from promenading the Grande Boulevards to observing the kaleidoscope of people from café terraces. Through Toby's story, you'll delight in everything from a restful morning in Luxembourg Gardens to a glimpse of nightlife on the fairyland-like tableau of the Champs Elysee.