Demoiselles Of Numidia
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Demoiselles Of Numidia
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Author : Mohamed Leftah
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2023-06-06
Demoiselles Of Numidia written by Mohamed Leftah and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-06 with Fiction categories.
The acclaimed Moroccan author’s debut novel, this stunning portrait of the world of sex work describes its sordid reality with beautiful, poetic prose. Available now for the first time in English, Demoiselles of Numidia offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of young women working in a Casablanca brothel—their relationships with each other and with their pimps, their dramas, and the rare moments of happiness that bloom in this violent underbelly. Originally published in French in 1992, the novel quickly established Mohamed Leftah as one of Morocco’s great writers. It showcases the extraordinary combination of elegant language and graphic physicality, as well as the nuanced questioning of traditional gender roles, which would come to characterize his works.
The Measure Of The Earth Being An Account Of Several Observations Made For That Purpose By Divers Members Of The Royal Academy Of Sciences At Paris A Translation Of Jean Picard S Mesure De La Terre Translated Out Of The French By Richard Waller
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language : en
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Release Date : 1688
The Measure Of The Earth Being An Account Of Several Observations Made For That Purpose By Divers Members Of The Royal Academy Of Sciences At Paris A Translation Of Jean Picard S Mesure De La Terre Translated Out Of The French By Richard Waller written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1688 with categories.
1668
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Author : Peter Sahlins
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-17
1668 written by Peter Sahlins and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-17 with History categories.
Peter Sahlins’s brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied “animal moment” in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At the center of the Year of the Animal was the Royal Menagerie in the gardens of Versailles, dominated by exotic and graceful birds. In the remarkable unfolding of his original and sophisticated argument, Sahlins shows how the animal bodies of the menagerie and others (such as the dogs and lambs of the first xenotransfusion experiments) were critical to a dramatic rethinking of governance, nature, and the human. The animals of 1668 helped to shift an entire worldview in France — what Sahlins calls Renaissance humanimalism — toward more modern expressions of Classical naturalism and mechanism. In the wake of 1668 came the debasement of animals and the strengthening of human animality, including in Descartes’s animal-machine, highly contested during the Year of the Animal. At the same time, Louis XIV and his intellectual servants used the animals of Versailles to develop and then to transform the symbolic language of French absolutism. Louis XIV came to adopt a model of sovereignty after 1668 where his absolute authority is represented in manifold ways with the bodies of animals and justified by the bestial nature of his human subjects. 1668: The Year of the Animal in France explores and reproduces the king’s animal collections — in printed text, weaving, poetry, and engraving, all seen from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Sahlins brings the animals of 1668 together and to life as he observes them critically in their native habitats — within the animal palace itself by Louis Le Vau, the paintings and tapestries of Charles Le Brun, the garden installations of André Le Nôtre, the literary work of Charles Perrault and the natural history of his brother Claude, the poetry of Madeleine de Scudéry, the philosophy of René Descartes, the engravings of Sébastien Leclerc, the trans_fusion experiments of Jean Denis, and others. The author joins the non_human and human agents of 1668 — panthers and painters, swans and scientists, weasels and weavers — in a learned and sophisticated treatment that will engage scholars and students of early modern France and Europe and readers broadly interested in the subject of animals in human history.
1683 1694
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Author : Royal Society (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1809
1683 1694 written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1809 with Science categories.
Vivant Denon S Travels In Upper And Lower Egypt During The Operations Of The French Army Under The Command Of General Bonaparte
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Author : Vivant Denon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1803
Vivant Denon S Travels In Upper And Lower Egypt During The Operations Of The French Army Under The Command Of General Bonaparte written by Vivant Denon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1803 with Egypt categories.
Endless Fall
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Author : Mohamed Leftah
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2024-06-18
Endless Fall written by Mohamed Leftah and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this poignant account of a classmate’s suicide, the acclaimed Moroccan author gives both a biting critique of small-town bigotry in the 1960s and a moving tribute to the fleeting beauty of adolescence. In Settat in the 1960s, when it was still a tiny village, a young man leapt to his death in front of his stunned class and their teacher, left holding a brief, devastating suicide note. Among the students was Mohamed Leftah. Haunted by the uncommon grace of that desperate act, and the tragic image of his body lying in the courtyard, Leftah penned this chronicle of life at the time, marked by repressed desire and shame. A fiery yet thoughtful meditation on taboo acts—homosexuality, adultery, suicide—and the hypocrisy and cruelty often found in those who judge them, Endless Fall also offers a fascinating window into the mind of the seminal writer.
Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society Of London
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Author : Royal Society of London..
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1685
Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society Of London written by Royal Society of London.. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1685 with Meteorology categories.
The Courtiers Anatomists
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Author : Anita Guerrini
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-05-27
The Courtiers Anatomists written by Anita Guerrini and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-27 with Science categories.
The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Parisian scientists, with the support of the king, dissected hundreds of animals from the royal menageries and the streets of Paris. Guerrini is the first to tell the story of Joseph-Guichard Duverney, who performed violent, riot-inducing dissections of both animal and human bodies before the king at Versailles and in front of hundreds of spectators at the King's Garden in Paris. At the Paris Academy of Sciences, meanwhile, Claude Perrault, with the help of Duverney’s dissections, edited two folios in the 1670s filled with lavish illustrations by court artists of exotic royal animals. Through the stories of Duverney and Perrault, as well as those of Marin Cureau de la Chambre, Jean Pecquet, and Louis Gayant, The Courtiers' Anatomists explores the relationships between empiricism and theory, human and animal, as well as the origins of the natural history museum and the relationship between science and other cultural activities, including art, music, and literature.
Philosophical Transactions Giving Some Accompt Of The Present Undertakings Studies And Labors Of The Ingenious In Many Considerable Parts Of The World
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Author : John Martyn (Londres)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1688
Philosophical Transactions Giving Some Accompt Of The Present Undertakings Studies And Labors Of The Ingenious In Many Considerable Parts Of The World written by John Martyn (Londres) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1688 with categories.
Philosophical Transactions Giving Some Account Of The Present Undertakings Studies And Labours Of The Ingenious In Many Considerable Parts Of The World
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Author : Royal Society (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1688
Philosophical Transactions Giving Some Account Of The Present Undertakings Studies And Labours Of The Ingenious In Many Considerable Parts Of The World written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1688 with Mathematics categories.