Failing Paris
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Failing Paris
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Author : Samantha Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Amazon Encore
Release Date : 2011-12
Failing Paris written by Samantha Dunn and has been published by Amazon Encore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12 with Fiction categories.
Nominated for the PEN USA/West Fiction Prize. Failing Paris is the story of a week in the life of Sabine Wilcox, the 19-year-old student who has left the stifling rural existence of the American Southwest in exchange for a year in Paris. But the City of Light offers her no refuge. With only one week to address a dire problem, Sabine's past and present painfully collide. Her life intertwines with two men who prove to be both more, and less, than they first appeared. This is a first novel by a writer whose work must not be overlooked.
We Ll Always Have Paris
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Author : Emma Beddington
language : en
Publisher: Pan
Release Date : 2017-03-28
We Ll Always Have Paris written by Emma Beddington and has been published by Pan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with British categories.
As a bored, moody teenager, Emma Beddington came across a copy of French ELLE in the library of her austere Yorkshire school. As she turned the pages, full of philosophy, sex and lipstick, she realised that her life had one purpose and one purpose only: she needed to be French. Instead of skulking in her bedroom listening to The Smiths or trudging to Bettys Tea Room to buy fondant fancies, she would be free and solitary, sitting outside the Caf de Flore with a Scottie dog at her feet, a Moleskine on the table and a Gauloise trembling on her lower lip. And so she set about becoming French: she did a French exchange, albeit in Casablanca; she studied French history at university, and spent the holidays in France with her French boyfriend. Eventually, after a family tragedy, she found herself living in Paris, with the same French boyfriend and two half-French children. Her dream had come true, but how would reality match up? Gradually Emma realised that she might have found Paris, but what she really needed to find was home.
We Ll Always Have Paris
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Author : Emma Beddington
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-04-21
We Ll Always Have Paris written by Emma Beddington and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As a bored, moody teenager, Emma Beddington came across a copy of French ELLE in the library of her austere Yorkshire school. As she turned the pages, full of philosophy, sex and lipstick, she realized that her life had one purpose and one purpose only: she needed to be French. Instead of skulking in her bedroom listening to The Smiths or trudging to Betty's Tea Room to buy fondant fancies, she would be free and solitary, sitting outside the Café de Flore with a Scottie dog at her feet, a Moleskine on the table and a Gauloise trembling on her lower lip. And so she set about becoming French: she did a French exchange, albeit in Casablanca; she studied French history at university, and spent the holidays in France with her French boyfriend. Eventually, after a family tragedy, she found herself living in Paris, with the same French boyfriend and two half-French children. Her dream had come true, but how would reality match up? Gradually Emma realized that she might have found Paris, but what she really needed to find was home. Written with enormous wit and warmth, We'll Always Have Paris is a memoir for anyone who has ever worn a Breton T-shirt and wondered, however fleetingly, if they could pass for une vraie Parisienne.
Paris 1919
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Author : Margaret MacMillan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Paris 1919 written by Margaret MacMillan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt us still. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize • Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize • Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and wildly idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflict peacefully, Wilson is only one of the larger-than-life characters who fill the pages of this extraordinary book. David Lloyd George, the gregarious and wily British prime minister, brought Winston Churchill and John Maynard Keynes. Lawrence of Arabia joined the Arab delegation. Ho Chi Minh, a kitchen assistant at the Ritz, submitted a petition for an independent Vietnam. For six months, Paris was effectively the center of the world as the peacemakers carved up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals, and prejudices of the men who shaped the settlement. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China, and dismissed the Arabs. They struggled with the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; above all they failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made the scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. She refutes received ideas about the path from Versailles to World War II and debunks the widely accepted notion that reparations imposed on the Germans were in large part responsible for the Second World War. Praise for Paris 1919 “It’s easy to get into a war, but ending it is a more arduous matter. It was never more so than in 1919, at the Paris Conference. . . . This is an enthralling book: detailed, fair, unfailingly lively. Professor MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift.” —Allan Massie, The Daily Telegraph (London)
Not By Accident
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Author : Samantha Dunn
language : en
Publisher: She Writes Press
Release Date : 2015-08-11
Not By Accident written by Samantha Dunn and has been published by She Writes Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Samantha Dunn used to live for the feeling of wind blowing in her hair and the powerful intoxication of her horse's steady gallop. A tug of Harley's leathery reins could instantly eradicate mounting bills, unfinished work, and the reality of a troubled marriage from her mind. But one day, as she was leading Harley across a stream in a picturesque California canyon, he panicked, knocked her to the ground, and trampled her—nearly severing her leg in the process. Dunn had always been “accident prone”—but in the aftermath of this incident, she began to analyze the details of her life and her propensity for accidents. Was she really just a klutz? Or could there be some underlying emotional reason she was always putting her life in danger? A blend of personal narrative and of research about what drives some people to have more accidents than others, Not by Accident is an insightful, incisive memoir that helps bridge the gap in understanding that exists on the concept of accident proneness.
Complaint
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Author : Sara Ahmed
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-09
Complaint written by Sara Ahmed and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-09 with Social Science categories.
In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when complaints are made and what actually happens. To make complaints within institutions is to learn how they work and for whom they work: complaint as feminist pedagogy. Ahmed explores how complaints are made behind closed doors and how doors are often closed on those who complain. To open these doors---to get complaints through, keep them going, or keep them alive---Ahmed emphasizes, requires forming new kinds of collectives. This book offers a systematic analysis of the methods used to stop complaints and a powerful and poetic meditation on what complaints can be used to do. Following a long lineage of Black feminist and feminist of color critiques of the university, Ahmed delivers a timely consideration of how institutional change becomes possible and why it is necessary.
Thoughts On The Late Negotiation At Paris
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1797
Thoughts On The Late Negotiation At Paris written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1797 with Anglo-French War, 1793-1802 categories.
The Ideology Of Failed States
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Author : Susan L. Woodward
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-03
The Ideology Of Failed States written by Susan L. Woodward and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-03 with Political Science categories.
Contests to reorganize the international system after the Cold War agree on the security threat of failed states: this book asks why.
Engineering Feats Failures
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Author : Stephanie Paris
language : en
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Engineering Feats Failures written by Stephanie Paris and has been published by Teacher Created Materials this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"What is the most impressive man-made thing you have ever seen? Whatever you think of, there is a good chance that it was made by an engineer. But, engineers are people. And people make mistakes. Sometimes our greatest feats can turn into our worst failures. Come explore some of engineering's greatest feats and failures!"--P. [4] of cover.
The Paris Review Book Of People With Problems
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Author : The Paris Review
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2005-08
The Paris Review Book Of People With Problems written by The Paris Review and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08 with Fiction categories.
The Paris Review asks: who hasn't survived a tax audit, a snowstorm, a break-up, or presided over a murder? The next addictively clever Paris Review anthology is not a self-help manual; rather it is a wicked elaboration on the human effort to overcome--and instigate--trouble. Throughout these pages you will find men plagued with guilt, women burdened by history, scientists bound by passion, mothers fogged with delusion, and lovers vexed with jealousy. In the theme that encompasses every life, no protagonist--or reader --is exempt. Among those to appear: - Annie Proulx - Andre Dubus - Norman Rush - Charles Baxter - Wells Tower - Julie Orringer - Elizabeth Gilbert - Ben Okri - Rick Bass