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French (Cameroon) Language Audio Training Course
Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in Cameroon
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
French (Cameroon) Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the French (Cameroon) Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Cameroon. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone...
Translating Slavery, Volume 1
Gender and Race in French Abolitionist Writing, 1780-1830
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
A new, revised, and expanded edition of a translation studies classic
Translating Slavery explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race by focusing on antislavery writing by or about French women in the French revolutionary period. Now in a two-volume...
by Paul Feval
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic mystery novel in the original French. Number 6 in the series Les Habits Noirs. According to Wikipedia: "Paul Henri Corentin Feval, (29 September 1816 - 8 March 1887) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was the author of popular swashbuckler novels such as Le Loup Blanc (1843) and the perennial...
Spatial Ecologies
Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the spatial turn in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst...
Les Petits Sweets
Two-Bite Desserts from the French Patisserie
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
When it comes to sweets, the French do it best!
If you love macarons, sablés, petit fours, and madeleines, you're in for a sweet treat. This delicious cookbook is full of recipes for bite-size French desserts that pack a sweet punch. With the tiny desserts featured in Les Petits Sweets, you...
French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire
Marseilles to Constantinople, 1650-1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel writing. The journals of contemporaries Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Jean Thévenot, Laurent D’Arvieux,...
by Marius Deshumbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This vintage book contains a comprehensive catalogue of common problems and pitfalls faced by learners of the French language. It is a dictionary of troublesome phrases, words, and idioms with explanations and tips on how to properly employ them when speaking or writing French. This volume will be...
French (Mali) Language Audio Training Course
Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in Mali
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
French (Mali) Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the French (Mali) Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Mali. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested...
A Critical History of French Children's Literature
Volume Two: 1830-Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
This two-volume critical history of French children’s literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children’s literature to a wider audience. The works of a number of French writers, notably La Fontaine, Charles Perrault, Jules Verne,...
by T William Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
French Food Dictionary: the Essential Menu Translator by T. William Walker is designed with the traveler in mind. It contains well over 4,800 food items that appear on menus in French-speaking countries, especially France, Belgium and parts of Switzerland.
The hyperlinked Table of Contents...
by Eliane Kurbegov
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Gain the language skills you want
Practice Makes Perfect: Basic French is the proven companion to your French-learning experience. In each bite-sized lesson, author Eliane Kurbegov explains one—and only one—grammar concept and illustrates it with clear examples. These lessons are purposefully...
by Elizabeth Malet Spradbery
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
A light-hearted, illustrated look at the French language, concentrating on the words and phrases that could trip up unwary students. If a French person asks you for ‘assistance’ they are not asking for your help, but your attendance at an event. When they say ‘attendez’, they are not inviting...
Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture
The Game of Slipknot
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers and writers born outside France. Focusing on the commonalities revealed in their shared language and colonial history, Walker examines for the first...
by Paul Feval
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic mystery novel in the original French. Number 6 in the series Les Habits Noirs. According to Wikipedia: "Paul Henri Corentin Feval, (29 September 1816 - 8 March 1887) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was the author of popular swashbuckler novels such as Le Loup Blanc (1843) and the perennial...