The French In Our Lives

Author : Kathleen Stein-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000549294

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The French in Our Lives examines the profound influence of French language, culture, and thought in the world and, specifically, on the US and Americans throughout history. While many books discuss the similarities and differences between the two cultures, this book focuses on the influences – frequently overlooked – of French culture on the US. The insights provided through this examination promote a better appreciation and understanding of the significance of the French language, and of French ideas and values, throughout the world and in the US. Designed to enhance awareness of the significance of the French language and Francophone culture in the US and globally, this book will be of interest to students and instructors across disciplines, from French language and culture to US history and international studies.

Author : Vicki Archer
Publisher : Avery
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : House & Home
ISBN : UOM:39015077121450

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My French Life by Vicki Archer Pdf

Offering an insiders view of life and culture in France, an intimate account describes how the author achieved her lifelong dream when she and her family purchased a seventeenth-century property in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and spent three years restoring the farmhouse and the surrounding land.

Author : Alice Kaplan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226566481

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French Lessons by Alice Kaplan Pdf

“[A] cultural odyssey, a brave attempt to articulate the compulsions that drove [Kaplan] to embrace foreignness in order to become truly herself.” —The Washington Post Book World Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. In spare, midwestern prose, by turns intimate and wry, Kaplan describes how, as a student in a Swiss boarding school and later in a junior year abroad in Bordeaux, she passionately sought the French “r,” attentively honed her accent, and learned the idioms of her French lover. When, as a graduate student, her passion for French culture turned to the elegance and sophistication of its intellectual life, she found herself drawn to the language and style of the novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine. At the same time, she was repulsed by his anti-Semitism. At Yale in the late 70s, during the heyday of deconstruction she chose to transgress its apolitical purity and work on a subject “that made history impossible to ignore”: French fascist intellectuals. Kaplan’s discussion of the “de Man affair” —the discovery that her brilliant and charismatic Yale professor had written compromising articles for the pro-Nazi Belgian press—and her personal account of the paradoxes of deconstruction are among the most compelling available on this subject. French Lessons belongs in the company of Sartre’s Words and the memoirs of Nathalie Sarraute, Annie Ernaux, and Eva Hoffman. No book so engrossingly conveys both the excitement of learning and the moral dilemmas of the intellectual life.

Author : Viola & Jim Halbert
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Missions
ISBN : 9781411670365

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Ivory in Our Hearts: the Special Work of God in Our Lives by Viola & Jim Halbert Pdf

JIM AND VIOLA HALBERT served as missionaries for 29 years, mostly in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) of West Africa. Viola wanted to be a missionary from the time she was five years old. Jim made his commitment as a teenager. Initially they pioneered in an area previously unreached by the gospel. They saw the Senoufo tribe churches grow from one believer to over 10,000. Their experiences included Africans being delivered from evil spirits and an African boy being made a human sacrifice. Viola was active in teaching children and women as well as providing a ministry of hospitality. Jim frequently served as a speaker at missionary and African conferences and camps. He was also a leader in nationwide and continentwide inter-mission cooperative ministries. He was knighted by the Ivoirien government for eminent services rendered to Cote d'Ivoire. Ivory in Our Hearts contains photos and maps, an 18-page index, and a foreword by Dr. Clyde Cook, president of BIOLA University.

Author : Janine Marsh
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782437338

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My Good Life in France by Janine Marsh Pdf

One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not something she'd expected or planned for. Janine eventually gave up her job in London to move with her husband to live the good life in France. Or so she hoped. While getting to grips with the locals and la vie Française, and renovating her dilapidated new house, a building lacking the comforts of mains drainage, heating or proper rooms, and with little money and less of a clue, she started to realize there was lot more to her new home than she could ever have imagined. These are the true tales of Janine's rollercoaster ride through a different culture - one that, to a Brit from the city, was in turns surprising, charming and not the least bit baffling.

Author : Eve Otto,Jozef Otto
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595335633

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Our Times, Our Lives by Eve Otto,Jozef Otto Pdf

Eve Otto explains, "When I began writing this book, I had in the back of my mind that those who are young now might someday be interested in what life was like when their grandparents were growing up -- how life changed drastically with the coming of World War II in Europe and the turbulent years that followed... the traumas of our emigration to America with our three young children and the difficult adjustments we had to make. My book, then, is sort of a legacy to them."

Author : Siham Mazouz
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781423648178

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How the French Live by Siham Mazouz Pdf

At home with modern French families . . . Si Mazouz, curator of the popular blog FRENCHBYDESIGN, introduces a dozen sophisticated French families in her debut book, How the French Live to engage and inspire. Si shares each family’s personality and values through the lens of their uniquely styled homes. The aesthetic is clean and unpretentious; décor elements are eclectic—reflecting each family's Frenchness regardless of where they live. Each chapter closes with a family recipe to prolong the warmth of the hospitality they've shared. This is the new paragon of a generation living the French lifestyle in France, Morocco, and the U.S. Si Mazouz is a French girl expatriated in San Francisco. She is the curator of the FRENCHBYDESIGN blog, where she compiles daily a selection of interiors, house tours, or DIY projects. She is also a strategic marketing and social media consultant.

Author : Kristin Espinasse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743287296

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Words in a French Life by Kristin Espinasse Pdf

Based on the popular blog (French-word-a-day.com) and newsletter comes a heart-winning collection from an American woman raising two "very" French children with her French husband in Provence, and carrying on a lifelong love affair with the language.

Author : J. E. Fender
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1584653752

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Our Lives, Our Fortunes by J. E. Fender Pdf

Geoffrey Frost participates in a key battle of the American Revolution in the latest installment of the Frost Saga.

Author : Franklin Dohanyos
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780758288653

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Cats Of Our Lives by Franklin Dohanyos Pdf

Memorable stories about people and their favorite felines are gathered here. Some of the contributors are well known, some are not, but all have in common a story to tell about a special cat who changed their lives.

Author : Tim Delaney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317262145

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Connecting Sociology to Our Lives by Tim Delaney Pdf

Many introductory texts claim to make sociology relevant to student interests. Perhaps no other text has done this so completely - and engagingly - as Connecting Sociology to Our Lives. Tim Delaney not only uses popular and contemporary culture examples, he explains sociology thoroughly within the frame of the contemporary culture of students - a culture shaped by political, economic, and environmental trends just as much as by today's pop stars. This book will help academics to engage their students in sociology through the prism of their own culture. It involves students in critical thinking and classroom discussion through the book's many 'What Do You Think?' inserts, and will inspire them to careers with the book's unique chapter, 'Sociology's Place in Society: Completing the Connection'.

Author : Alvin Finkel
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1550285513

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Our Lives: Canada After 1945 by Alvin Finkel Pdf

This book offers a short, comprehensive history of post-war Canada. All the major events and developments in Canadian history are discussed: the evolution of the welfare state; the growth of economic domination by the United States; the halcyon days as a Middle Power; the Quiet Revolution; the First Nations' quest for autonomy; the flowering of English-Canadian nationalism; Quebec nationalism; the women's movement; neo-conservatism; and globalization. Finkel covers political, economic, social, and cultural history in this volume. This second edition includes a substantial new chapter that discusses the people, events, and developments that have dominated the period from 1995 to 2012. This chapter looks at the growing social inequality within Canadian society; the effects of globalization on Canada's industries, economy, and workers; and the increasing environmental challenges that we face. Extensively illustrated, Our Lives: Canada after 1945 is a uniquely accessible and comprehensive overview of a period only beginning to attract the attention of historians.

Author : Robert B Ridinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317766346

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Speaking for Our Lives by Robert B Ridinger Pdf

Read the words they risked everything for! This landmark volume collects more than a hundred years of the most important public rhetoric on gay and lesbian subjects. In the days when homosexuality was mentioned only in whispers, a few brave souls stood up to speak for the rights of sexual minorities. In Speaking for Our Lives: Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and Lesbian Rights (1892-2000), their stirring words have finally been gathered together, along with the political manifestoes, broadsheets, and performance pieces of the gay and lesbian liberation movement. Speaking for Our Lives comprises speeches and manifestoes prompted by events ranging from demonstrations to funerals. Scholars and researchers will appreciate the brief commentary introducing each piece, which discusses the author, the occasion, and the political and social contexts in which it first appeared. You’ll find the words of a broad variety of individuals and groups, including: the Victorian humanist and crusader Robert Ingersoll key groups such as the Mattachine Society, Homosexual Law Reform Society, Gay Activists Alliance, and International Gay Association activists and educators Robin Morgan, Joseph Bean, and Dr. Franklin Kameny, artists and journalists of the movement, such as John Eric Larsen, Joan Nestle, Barbara Grier, and Jim Kepner elected officials, including Bella Abzug, Ed Koch, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Gerry Studds, Tammy Baldwin, and Bill Clinton Many of these documents have long been out of print. Speaking for Our Lives makes these noteworthy texts readily available to the broader public they deserve. This book preserves an essential part of twentieth-century history.

Author : Napoleon Bonaparte
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781177889353

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Napoleon's life in camp and cabinet, from the French of M. de Bourienne, Segur, Las Cases, &c. &c. &c by Napoleon Bonaparte Pdf

Author : William Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020063021

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The life of Napoleon Bonaparte, once Emperor of the French, who died in exile, at St. Helena, after a captivity of six years' duration by William Hodgson Pdf