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  • Notes to a Black Woman

    by Francoise Ega ...
    Translated by Emma Ramadan ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    The extraordinary testimony of a daring Caribbean writer-activist, determined to expose injustice and defend the dignity of migrant workersIn the 1960s, hundreds of women traveled from French colonies in the West Indies to become domestic workers for white families in France. Lured by the French government with the false promise of economic opportunity, these women instead found themselves ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond

    Stay Strong, Supported, and Stress-Free

    by Francoise Barbira Freedman ...
    A practical, step-by-step photographic guide to yoga poses specifically chosen to support you safely through pregnancy and the first months following the birth.Yoga is more important during pregnancy than at any other time of your life. As your body becomes unfamiliar to you from trimester to trimester and as labor approaches, you need safe, strengthening, and supportive sequences to guide you on ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Saints

    Faith without Borders

    Edited by Françoise Meltzer, Jas Elsner ...
    While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity—categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Comics 2012

    Edited by Françoise Mouly, Jessica Abel, Matt Madden ...
    "When I started RAW magazine in the '80s, there were mostly superheroes, a few children's comics, and the dirty, intentionally lowbrow, underground comix. And now, comics can tackle any topic."—Françoise Mouly, from the IntroductionFEATURING Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Joyce Farmer, Chris Ware, Gary Panter, Sergio Aragonés, Christoph Niemann, Adrian Tomine, Sarah Varon, and others.This year with ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Altered Inheritance

    CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing

    by Françoise Baylis ...
    A leading bioethicist offers critical insights into the scientific, ethical, and political implications of human genome editing.Designer babies, once found only in science fiction, have become a reality. We are entering a new era of human evolution with the advent of a technology called CRISPR, which allows scientists to modify our genes. Although CRISPR shows great promise for therapeutic use, it ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Syriac World

    In Search of a Forgotten Christianity

    by Francoise Briquel Chatonnet ...
    A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity over three thousand yearsSyriac is often referred to as the third main language of Christianity, along with Latin and Greek, and it remains a foundational classical, literary, and religious language throughout the world. Originating in Mesopotamia along the Roman and Parthian frontiers, it was never the language of a powerful state or ethnic group, but ... Read more

    $26.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wombs of Women

    Race, Capital, Feminism

    by Françoise Vergès ...
    Translated by Kaiama L. Glover ...
    Series series Theory in Forms
    In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries, for which they sought government compensation. When the scandal broke in 1970, the doctors claimed to have been encouraged to perform these abortions by French politicians ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • That Mad Ache

    A Novel

    by Françoise Sagan ...
    Translated by Douglas R Hofstadter ...
    That Mad Ache, set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960's, recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but rootless young woman who finds herself caught between her carefree, tranquil love for 50-year-old Charles, a gentle, reflective, and well-off businessman, and her sudden wild passion for 30-year-old Antoine, a hot-blooded, impulsive, and struggling editor. As ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Life with Picasso

    by Françoise Gilot, Carlton Lake ...
    Françoise Gilot’s candid memoir remains “one of the most illuminating [books] we’ve had on the mind and spirit of Picasso”—and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists (Los Angeles Times).Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Compassion Fatigue Workbook

    Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization

    by Françoise Mathieu ...
    Series series Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series
    The Compassion Fatigue Workbook is a lifeline for any helping professional facing the physical and emotional exhaustion that can shadow work in the helping professions. Since 2001 the activities in this Workbook have helped thousands of helpers in the fields of healthcare, community mental health, correctional services, education, and the military. In addition to a comprehensive description of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • An Elephant in My Kitchen

    What the Herd Taught Me About Love, Courage and Survival

    by Françoise Malby-Anthony, Katja Willemsen ...
    Series Book 2 - Elephant Whisperer
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"Malby-Anthony offers a book of great inspiration and wide appeal to nature-loving readers." —Publishers WeeklyA heart-warming sequel to the international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony's wife Françoise Malby-Anthony.A chic Parisienne, Françoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserv... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics

    Edited by Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly ...
    A gorgeous 350-page collection of the greatest children’s comics, compiled by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly, now back in print for a new generation of kids (and classic comics fans of all ages).This unprecedented collection of the greatest comics for children was artfully compiled by two of the best-known creators in publishing and the field of comics, Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly, who ... Read more

    $22.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus