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How to Die in Paris
Seal Press 2011; US$ 17.00How to Die in Paris is an edgy, poetic, often darkly comic, memoir of a young middle-class black woman who escapes a tortured past in New York to pursue a new life in Europe?only to find herself broke, desperate, and contemplating suicide on the streets of Paris. Penniless, scared, and hoping for rescue, Thomas turns to a series of unlikely male... more...
Lunch in Paris
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2011; US$ 11.99This is amazing, I said. You have to give me the recipe.There is no recipe, he said, smiling. I use whatever I have. It never tastes the same way twice.I had no way of knowing, that first damp evening in Paris, how this man, and his non-recipes, would change my life.Has a meal ever changed your life?Part... more...
Ladder of Shadows
University of California Press 2008; US$ 50.00Bits of late Roman coinage, the mutilated torso of a marble Venus, blue debris from an early medieval glassworks, and the powder rasped from the reputed tomb of Mary Magdalene?these tantalizing mementos of human history found scattered throughout the landscape of southeastern France are the points of departure for Gustaf Sobin's lyrical narrative.... more...
Provence
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 14.49Celebrated by writers from Petrarch to Peter Mayle, Provence's rugged mountains, wild maquis and lavender-filled meadows are world-famous. Historic cities like Arles, Avignon and Aix contain Roman amphitheatres, papal palaces and royal residences, while market towns and picturesque villages maintain age-old traditions of wine producing and agriculture.... more...
Settlement and Social Organization
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 46.00An historical and archaeological examination of social organisation in the Merovingian region of Metz. more...
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
Short Books 2012; US$ 13.11Paris is a pedestrian?s city ? each block a revelation, every neighbourhood a new feast for the senses, a place rich with history and romance at every turn. In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and Paris resident John Baxter sets off on the trail of Paris's legendary artists and writers. Along the way, he tells the city?s story, introducing... more...
Travelers' Tales Paris
Travelers' Tales 2011; US$ 23.00Paris is one city that everyone should endeavor to know over the course of a lifetime, and not just in one or two visits. The City of Light has bestowed on millions the gift of the incandescent present, an image or experience into which all life is condensed and reflected upon for years to come. Travelers' Tales Paris captures the romance of the world's... more...
Cosmopolitan Europe
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 119.95Based on in-depth, lively interviews with 80 men and 80 women ranging from 101 to 20 years, and from all over the world (France, Germany, Alsace-Lorraine, Portugal, Italy, ex-Yugoslavia, Albania, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Cameroon, and Afghanistan amongst other countries), the author draws out of these powerful testimonies all sorts of compelling insights... more...
Ten Trees and a Truffle Dog
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2012; US$ 9.99There is a moment every morning when the countryside takes a pause. The birds stop singing, the dogs choke back their barks, and cats pause mid-stride. Everything waits. Its in this vacuum that a man working alone has the best chance of finding truffles.The plot of land was perfect, just what theyd been looking for, offering expansive views... more...
The Battle of Vouillé, 507 CE
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 112.00This volume highlights the heretofore largely neglected Battle of Vouillé in 507 CE, when the Frankish King Clovis defeated Alaric II, the King of the Visigoths. Clovis? victory proved a crucial step in the expulsion of the Visigoths from Francia into Spain, thereby leaving Gaul largely to the Franks. It was arguably in the wake of Vouillé that Gaul... more...









