Paris in modern times

Paris in Modern Times

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Art Museum in Modern Times

Drawing on his unique experience at the helm of three major British art institutions, Charles Saumarez Smith traces how art museums across the world h

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When I Lived In Modern Times

Stylish reissue of the Orange Prize-winning novel.

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Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times

This book focuses on the forces, events, and personalities that over the past 150 years have shaped the Jewish communities of the Arab world, changing

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Alina Szapocznikow – Awkward Objects

Born in Kalisz, Poland, in 1926, Alina Szapocznikow studied in Prague and Paris, spent her life in France, and created an impressive number of sculptu

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Lacan in the End Times

This book explores themes around the Father, His absence in modern society, and the decline of mental health. The nature of this decline can be theori

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Iraqi in Paris

Assyrian Samuel Shimon, known as a relentless raconteur, a modern Odysseus, the Iraqi Don Quixote, dreams of becoming a Hollywood film-maker, but ends

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Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times

Summer 1923. The modern world. Orphaned Lucy Marsh climbs into the back of the old army truck and is whisked off to the woods, where the funny men liv

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Christian Mission in the Modern World

How does mission look in an ever changing world? John Scott's updated book is a must have for sharing God in Modern times

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Thirty Days in Paris: The gorgeously escapist, romantic and uplifting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author - Henry Veronica

Anotace: THE STUNNING AND ROMANTIC NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VERONICA HENRY - PRE-ORDER NOW!`Magical, romantic, fantastique` MILLY JOHNSON`A perfect Parisian fantasy every woman will love` KATIE FFORDE`Wow, wow, WOW. Her best and most perfect book yet. I adored every word. Sublime, as always` JILL MANSELL`The perfect weekend read. I was so captivated...

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Thirty Days in Paris: The gorgeously escapist, romantic and uplifting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author - Veronica Henry

<p>THE STUNNING AND ROMANTIC NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VERONICA HENRY - PRE-ORDER NOW!'Magical, romantic, fantastique' MILLY JOHNSON'A perfect Parisian fantasy every woman will love' KATIE FFORDE'Wow, wow, WOW. Her best and most perfect book yet. I adored every word. Sublime, as always' JILL MANSELL'The perfect weekend read. I was so captivated ...

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Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris

The ever-popular novels of Sunday Times bestselling sensation, Jenny Colgan, are given a beautiful contemporary new look in this re-issue series.

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Icons of Modern Art

An exhibition catalog for a landmark show in Paris of Russian avant-garde, French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Modern paintings acquired in

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Pious Pilgrims, Discerning Travellers, Curious Tourists: Changing Patterns of Travel to the Middle East from Medieval to Modern Times

This volume comprises a varied collection of seventeen papers presented at the biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt

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Rules for Modern Life

A satirical masterclass in navigating the social niceties of modern life, by the "Financial Times" agony uncle. Covers correct footwear for shooting, how to look professional in a bath towel, the etiquette of doggy bags, and much more.

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Modern Iranian Philosophy

Offers a concise overview of developments in Iranian philosophy from ancient times to the seventeenth century. The text places Iranian philosophy with

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Perilous Times: The Sunday Times Bestseller compared to ´Good Omens with Arthurian knights´ - Lee Thomas D.

Anotace: IN PERILOUS TIMES LIKE THESE, THE REALM DOESN`T JUST NEED A HERO.IT NEEDS A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR.Sir Kay and his fellow knights awake from their mythical slumber whenever Britain has need of them; they fought at Agincourt and at the Somme. But in these perilous modern times, the realm is more divided than ever, a dragon has been seen for the first time in ce...

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What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday Times Bestseller) - Hyde Marina

Anotace: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNow includes ELEVEN new columns and a whole THREE new prime ministers.Relive the delusional fever-dream of the modern era.`Thank f*ck for Marina Hyde: the most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time.`PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE`The most brilliantly funny columnist of our time.`GARY LINEKER`It`s a scientific FACT: Marina Hyd...

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What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday Times Bestseller) - Marina Hyde

<p>THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Now includes ELEVEN new columns and a whole THREE new prime ministers. Relive the delusional fever-dream of the modern era. 'Thank f*ck for Marina Hyde: the most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time.' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE 'The most brilliantly funny columnist of our time.' GARY LINEKER 'It's a scientific FACT:...

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The Modern Fairies

'Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Anais Nin - the book I really really needed' SARAH PERRY, author of The Essex SerpentWhy don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story?Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a...

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Paris Agent

Two otherwise ordinary women become female spies in WWII France in this sweeping historical suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly

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Paris Library

The instant New York Times bestseller, inspired by the true story of the librarians at the American Library in Paris who risked their lives during the

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Paris: The Memoir - Hilton Paris

Anotace: PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created. The labels attached to Paris Hilton. Founder. Entrepreneur. Pop Culture Maker. Innovator. Survivor. Activist. Daughter. Sister. Wife. Mother. The roles Pa...

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Legendborn: The New York Times bestselling fantasy debut! (1398501875)

Kniha - autor Tracy Deonn, 512 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná SOME LEGACIES ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN. An explosive fantasy debut that is taking TikTok by storm. Perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare, Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J. Maas and Cinderella is Dead! Filled with mystery and Southern Black Girl Magic, Tracy Deonn's New York Times bestselling Legendborn offe...

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Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

From the author of My Brilliant Friend, a powerful new novel set in a divided Naples. Soon to be adapted into a NETFLIX original series. 'Incendiary.' - Mail on Sunday 'The most intense writing about the experiences and interior life of a girl on the cusp of adulthood that I have ever read.' - Financial Times 'An astonishing, deeply moving tale.' - The Guardian 'Moder...

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How to Survive the Modern World

A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing.

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Little Paris Patisserie

â€Irresistible’ Sunday Times bestseller Katie Fforde In a cosy corner of Paris, a delicious little patisseri

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Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe

This lucid and accessible book examines Ottoman relations with Europe in Early Modern times. The Ottoman Empire has consistently been regarded a place

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Little Paris Kitchen

Rachel Khoo serves up a modern twist on classic French cooking. Rachel Khoo was determined to get to grips with French cooking, so to learn more she moved to Paris, not speaking a word of French, and enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu, the world-famous cookery school. Six years later, she still lives and works in Paris, cooking up a selection of classic French dishes from all ove...

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Middlesex (Collins Modern Classics) - Jeffrey Eugenides

<p>Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret, born on the slopes of Mount Olympus and...

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Rules For Modern Life - Tang Sir David

Anotace: Do gentlemen wear shorts? What are the rules regarding interior decor in a high-security prison? Is it ever acceptable to send Valentine`s cards to one`s pets? The twenty-first century is an age of innumerable social conundrums. Around every corner lies a potential faux pas waiting to happen. But if you`ve ever struggled for the right response to an unwelcome gi...

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Rules For Modern Life - Sir David Tang

<p>Do gentlemen wear shorts? What are the rules regarding interior decor in a high-security prison? Is it ever acceptable to send Valentine's cards to one's pets? The twenty-first century is an age of innumerable social conundrums. Around every corner lies a potential faux pas waiting to happen. But if you've ever struggled for the right response to an unwelcome gif...

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Marcus Simaika

"The compelling life and times of a leading figure of modern Coptic Egyptian history"

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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood - Bill Bryson

<p>From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generation, Bryson grew up w...

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The London Seance Society: The New York Times Bestseller - Sarah Penner

<p>May mercy be upon the man who finds himself the enemy of a vengeful medium…</p> <p>1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who kill...

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The Survivor: A Sunday Times Thriller of the Month - Conway Simon

Anotace: Jude Lyon of MI6 has narrowly foiled the traitor Fowle`s plot to level London, but the public are demanding answers.Answers the government doesn`t have. As the country reels, a new populist political figure carves a stratospheric trajectory - but is he all he seems? In Moscow the President is furious. The world now knows the destructive power of the programme ...

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The Survivor: A Sunday Times Thriller of the Month - Simon Conway

<p>Jude Lyon of MI6 has narrowly foiled the traitor Fowle's plot to level London, but the public are demanding answers.Answers the government doesn't have. As the country reels, a new populist political figure carves a stratospheric trajectory - but is he all he seems? In Moscow the President is furious. The world now knows the destructive power of the programme h...

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Little Paris Patisserie HarperCollins Publishers

â€Irresistible’ Sunday Times bestseller Katie Fforde In a cosy corner of Paris, a delicious little patisserie is just waiting to be discovered. And romance might just be on the menu…...

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Literary Landscapes Paris - Sandrine Voillet

<p>From Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature.</p> <p>The book is an elegant photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary restaurants and storied streets of Europe’s favourite tourist destination.</p> <p>Literary Landscapes: Paris takes this major Eur...

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Modern Art 1870–2000. Impressionism to Today - Hans Werner Holzwarth

<p>Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they escaped the power of the Salon by organizing their own independe...

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Paris. The Shaping of the French Capital

Through various stages in history from the Roman to the Medieval, to the Renaissance and the Early Modern and Modern, the book shows how political pow

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Light Over Liskeard: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Captain Corelli´s Mandolin - Bernieres Louis de

<p>Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future. A novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he's looking for somewhere to ride out what's ahead...

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The Justice of Kings: the Sunday Times bestseller (Book One of the Empire of the Wolf) - Richard Swan

<p>THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A stunning piece of modern fantasy writing' RJ Barker'Utterly compelling, thoroughly engrossing and written with such skilful assurance I could barely put it down' Nicholas EamesNO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAWThe Empire of the Wolf simmers with unrest. Rebels, heretics and powerful patricians all challenge the power of the imperial thr...

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Censorship in Japan

This book explores censorship, particularly film and video censorship, in Japan in modern times. It shows how most censorship has been the film and vi

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Coin Finds in Britain

Provides a catalogue of commonly encountered coins, dating from ancient times until the modern day, explaining their historical context, how they migh

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Napoleon in Egypt

Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 was the first attack on a Middle Eastern country by a Western power in modern times. He was just twenty-eight whe

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The Paris Apartment: A Novel (0063227924)

Kniha - autor Lucy Foley, 320 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide… Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-b...

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Roman Law in European History

Peter Stein explains in a lucid, concise volume how Roman law has influenced European legal and political thought right up to modern times. Unparallel

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In Spite Of The Gods

* The bestselling book on modern India by the ex-South Asia correspondent for the Financial Times, reissued with new material

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Seven Days in June

A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (JUNE 2021)'A sexy, modern love story' Reese Witherspoon'I absolutely loved it' Jodi PicoultSeven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again... When Eva Mercy, a single mother and bestselling erotica writer, and the enigmatic, award-winning novelist Shane Ha...

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Silver in the Bone

From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of Lore and The Darkest Minds trilogy comes this stunning series opener inspired by Arthurian legend and fuelled by love, revenge and pure adrenaline - cementing Alexandra Bracken's status as one of the top fantasy authors writing today.Tamsin Lark didn't ask to be a Hollower. As a mortal with no magical talent, she was neve...

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HR ROBO SAPIENS: Decoding Artificial Intelligence for Modern Recruitment and HR Marketing - José Kadlec

<p> In this revolutionary guide, José Kadlec, co-founder of the 415th fastest-growing company in Europe as recognized by the Financial Times, former ethical hacker, and recruiting nerd, unveils his step-by-step approach to transforming you into an HR professional adept at harnessing the power of artificial intelligence. Whether you‘re a recruiter, HR marketer, talen...

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The Dream of Enlightenment : The Rise of Modern Philosophy - Anthony Gottlieb

<p>The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of mode...

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic - Winchester Simon

Anotace: `A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter` New York Times `An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly`Sunday Times From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarte...

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic - Simon Winchester

<p>'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly'Sunday Times From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kinderg...

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Chameleon in a Candy Store

Anonymous is back with the intoxicating, darkly dangerous, and wildly addictive sequel to his New York Times bestselling debut novel Diary of an Oxygen Thief . Picking up the story where it left off, the controversial protagonist of cult classic Diary of an Oxygen Thief retools his advertising skills to seduce women online. It's a pursuit that quickly becomes a dangerous ...

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Religion and Violence in Western Traditions

This book examines the connection between religion and violence in the Western traditions of the three Abrahamic faiths, from ancient to modern times.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human exp

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The Therapist, 1. vydání - B.A. Paris

<p>TELL ME YOUR SECRETS… ‘Tense and compulsive’ Louise Candlish, bestselling author of The Other Passenger ‘Suspicion, betrayal and dark secrets abound’ TM Logan, bestselling author of The Catch ‘A delicious web of lies’ Jane Corry, bestselling author of I Made a Mistake When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, an exclusive gated commun...

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The Alienist (Film Tie In) - Carr Caleb

Anotace: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SOON TO BE A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES "A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages."--Entertainment Weekly "Caleb Carr`s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us."--The Detroit News When The Alienist was f...

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