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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson acquired 828,000 square miles of French territory in what became known as the Louisiana Purchase. Although today Louisiana makes up only a small portion of this immense territory, this exceptional state embraces a larger-than-life history and a cultural blend unlike...
Welcome Home
Make Your House a Healthy, Wealthy, and Happy Place to Live
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
This luxe little gift book holds the key to making a home harmonious. From the front door to the bedroom, every square inch of a dwelling can bring its occupants luck, and Welcome Home shows readers how. Compiled with vintage appeal, easy-to-peruse entries explain how to ward off negativity with dill,...
A Tohunga's Natural World
Plants, Gardening and Food
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Historian Dr Paul Moon again travels deep into Tuhoe territory – and deep into its past – to uncover a wealth of material. This time he reveals his discussions with Hohepa Kereopa on traditional plants, cultivation, gardening, foods, medicines, and other aspects of the natural Maori world. This...
by julia talmadge
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Life is't always what we expected...at times when we think we are old...can't change...well it forces us to do just that and we must make a leap to the next stage. Humans often talk about aliens...life from other planets...but what we fail to realize is that when it does become real...can we...
Practice of Everyday Life
Volume 2: Living and Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
To remain unconsumed by consumer society—this was the goal, pursued through a world of subtle and practical means, that beckoned throughout the first volume of The Practice of Everyday Life. The second volume of the work delves even deeper than did the first into the subtle tactics of resistance and...
The Great Good Place
Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 1999
The landmark survey that celebrates all the places where people hang out--and is helping to spawn their revival
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
"Third places," or "great good places," are the many public places where people can gather, put aside the concerns...
by Ginette Spanier
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Ginette Spanier discovered her talent for ‘selling very expensive things to very rich people’ at Fortnum and Mason in the 1930s. This uninhibited and amusing account takes her from hiding in occupied France to the world of haute couture, as Directrice of the House of Balmain from 1947 to 1976...
by Margo Lestz
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
Ahh, Provence… that magical place in the south of France. It fills our minds with images of lazy, sunny days sitting in the central square of a quaint village, just drinking in the ambience.
While that’s all very pleasant, you can add an extra layer of enjoyment to your Provençal experience...
by Frédéric Gaëtan de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Extrait : "Le système pénitentiaire a prétendu d'abord que l'on devait construire des prisons exprès pour lui. Les plus grands esprits se sont disputé le meilleur mode d'établissement. Je ne prétends pas plaisanter ; il m'a paru étonnant, mais il est certain, que les hommes que je vénère les...
Napoléon et les femmes
L'Amour
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Extrait : "Je sortais des Italiens et me promenais à grands pas sur les allées du Palais-Royal. Mon âme, agitée par les sentiments vigoureux qui la caractérisent, me faisait supporter le froid avec indifférence ; mais, l'imagination refroidie, je sentis les ardeurs de la saison et gagnai les galeries....
Nous les Allemands
Un peuple, au-delà des clichés
Language: French
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Que connaissons-nous des Allemands, de leur identité, de leur culture ? Peu de choses...Cette question n’a jamais cessé de hanter les Allemands eux-mêmes. Depuis la chute du Mur en 1989 et la réunification de 1990, l’Allemagne s’interroge sur son passé, mais aussi sur son devenir : sur quelles...
by Eugène Cordier, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Extrait : "On chercherait peut-être vainement dans les poésies nationales du Béarn et de la Bigorre, à part quelques récits d'histoire effacés, d'autres peintures que celles de la vie pastorale, d'autre sentiment que celui de l'amour, d'autres tristesses que celles de la misère. La muse simple,...
by Louis Levêque, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Extrait : "La question des traditions provençales qui a déjà provoqué tant de controverses, n'est pas près d'être épuisée. Quelques érudits se persuadent bien à tort qu'ils les ont détruites, et qu'il n'y a plus à y revenir. Cependant, loin d'être couronnés du succès dont ils se flattent,...
Vieilles coutumes, usages et traditions populaires des Vosges
Provenant des cultes antiques, et particulièrement de celui du soleil
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "Il existe encore, dans les Vosges, des adorateurs du soleil. Plusieurs fois, aux sommets du Ballon de Guebwiller, du Ballon d'Alsace, j'ai trouvé — le 24 Juin, au solstice d'été — des montagnards arrivés de très bonne heure (il y en avait même qui passaient la nuit) pour assister...