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Contes de Godard D'Aucour (1883)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Sexualité, mariage et famille au XVIIIe siècle
Quel était l'effet des mœurs libertines sur les valeurs familiales ? Comment la littérature clandestine ou autorisée de l'époque représentait-elle les diverses formes de la sexualité ? Notre image traditionnelle de la femme et de la mère au dix-huitième siècle a-t-elle été modifiée par les recherches récentes ? Les nouvelles attitudes envers la sexualité se font-elles entendre dans l'éducation ? Voilà quelques questions que les auteurs se sont posé : leurs réponses constituent une lecture stimulante et parfois surprenante. Venus de plusieurs pays européens, des États-Unis et du Canada, les auteurs tâchent de répondre aux questions soulevées ces dernières années par ...
New Larousse Gastronomique
Larousse Gastronomique is the world's classic culinary reference book, with over 35,000 copies sold in the UK alone. Larousse is known and loved for its authoritative and comprehensive collection of recipes. Here it is brought up to date for 2009 in an attractive edition containing over 900 new colour and black and white photographs. All chapters have been read and edited by field specialists, and 85 biographies of chefs have been added. Entries have also been regrouped for increased accessibility.Originally created by Prosper Montagnè and published in 1938, this essential addition to any kitchen has withstood the test of time and become an invaluable source of information for every enthusiastic cook. Without the exaggeration and extravagant distractions of many of today's cookery titles, New Larousse Gastronomique contains recipes, tips, cooking styles and origins for almost every dish in history.
French Orientalism
In 1798, Napoléon I launched his Egyptian Campaign and opened what has become recognized as the canonic period of French Orientalism, which extends from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. As defined by Edward W. Said (Orientalism, 1978), Orientalism is intrinsically Eurocentric and places the Orient in opposition to the European West as the quintessentially foreign Other. In this sense, the Occident supposedly defines itself by gazing at the East as its inverse image and purportedly asserts a geopolitical dominance materially confirmed through imperialism and colonization. Although Europe may cast the Orient as the archetypal Other, this necessarily entails deep confli...
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1, Nos. 1-155 (March - December, 1934)
Useful Enemies
From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. Typically they reacted to it with fear and distrust; and such feelings were reinforced by the deep hostility of Western Christendom towards Islam. Yet there was also much curiosity about the social and political system on which the huge power of the sultans was based. In the sixteenth century, especially, when Ottoman territorial expansion was rapid and Ottoman institutions seemed particularly robust, there was even open admiration. In this path-breaking book Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction, st...
