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The House of Fragile Things

Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France

by James McAuley ...

A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction"The depths of French anti-Semitism is the stunning subject that Mr. McAuley lays bare. . . . [He] tells this haunting saga in eloquent detail. As French anti-Semitism rises once again today, the effect is nothing less than chilling."—Diane Cole, Wall Street Journal ... Read more

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A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction"The depths of French anti-Semitism is the stunning subject that Mr. McAuley lays bare. . . . [He] tells this haunting saga in eloquent detail. As French anti-Semitism rises once again today, the effect is nothing less than chilling."—Diane Cole, Wall Street Journal
... Read more

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The Shadow and the Flame

A Story of Loss, Survival, and the Making of Holocaust Memory

by James McAuley ...

**An urgent history—intimate in its telling, epic in its scope—of an argument that shaped the postwar world: how to define and remember the Holocaust.“Profoundly moving. An extraordinary book—one that I didn’t know could be written. It is essential reading.”—Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare With Amber Eyes**In 1945, the end of World War II also marked the end of the ... Read more

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**An urgent history—intimate in its telling, epic in its scope—of an argument that shaped the postwar world: how to define and remember the Holocaust.“Profoundly moving. An extraordinary book—one that I didn’t know could be written. It is essential reading.”—Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare With Amber Eyes**In 1945, the end of World War II also marked the end of the
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A Companion to Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland

Edited by James McAuley, Graham Spencer, Máire Braniff ...

Series Book 146 - Reimagining Ireland
This edited collection on the politics and society of Northern Ireland includes original material on the background to, and patterns of, conflict; its main protagonists; the social structure of Northern Irish society; popular culture and representations of the conflict; the memory and legacy of political violence, and discussions and debates concerning the future of Northern Ireland. It presents ... Read more

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This edited collection on the politics and society of Northern Ireland includes original material on the background to, and patterns of, conflict; its main protagonists; the social structure of Northern Irish society; popular culture and representations of the conflict; the memory and legacy of political violence, and discussions and debates concerning the future of Northern Ireland. It presents
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The Passenger: Paris

by The Passenger, Tash Aw, James McAuley, Samar Yazbek ...

Series series The Passenger
The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Paris—in the "rich and engrossing" series for literary travelers ( Times Literary Supplement).Paris's postcard image has suffered multiple blows in recent years: the November 2015 terrorist attacks, the demonstrations of the yellow vests, the riots in the suburbs, Notre-Dame in flames, record heatwaves and the coronavirus. ... Read more

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The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Paris—in the "rich and engrossing" series for literary travelers ( Times Literary Supplement).Paris's postcard image has suffered multiple blows in recent years: the November 2015 terrorist attacks, the demonstrations of the yellow vests, the riots in the suburbs, Notre-Dame in flames, record heatwaves and the coronavirus.
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Troubles of the past?

History, identity and collective memory in Northern Ireland

Edited by James McAuley, Dr Máire Braniff, Graham Spencer ...

This collection brings together academics and practitioners to consider the increasingly central role that memory and recalling the past plays in determining contemporary politics and the future direction of Northern Irish society. Using theoretical, comparative and case-study approaches, it considers not only how narratives of the past are constructed, reconstructed, understood and commemorated, ... Read more

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This collection brings together academics and practitioners to consider the increasingly central role that memory and recalling the past plays in determining contemporary politics and the future direction of Northern Irish society. Using theoretical, comparative and case-study approaches, it considers not only how narratives of the past are constructed, reconstructed, understood and commemorated,
... Read more
Abandoning historical conflict?

Former political prisoners and reconciliation in Northern Ireland

by Peter Shirlow, Jon Tonge, James McAuley, Catherine McGlynn ...

Drawing on over 150 interviews with former IRA, INLA, UVF and UFF prisoners, this is a major analysis of why Northern Ireland has seen a transition from war to peace. Most accounts of the peace process are ‘top-down’, relying upon the views of political elites. This book is ‘bottom-up’, analysing the voices of those who actually ‘fought the war’. What made them fight, why did they stop and what ... Read more

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Drawing on over 150 interviews with former IRA, INLA, UVF and UFF prisoners, this is a major analysis of why Northern Ireland has seen a transition from war to peace. Most accounts of the peace process are ‘top-down’, relying upon the views of political elites. This book is ‘bottom-up’, analysing the voices of those who actually ‘fought the war’. What made them fight, why did they stop and what
... Read more
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The House of Fragile Things

Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France

by James McAuley ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

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10 hours 21 min

A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destructionIn the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France's cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country's army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing ... Read more

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A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destructionIn the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France's cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country's army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing
... Read more

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The Shadow and the Flame

A Story of Loss, Survival, and the Making of Holocaust Memory

by James McAuley ...

Unabridged

14 hours

**An urgent history—intimate in its telling, epic in its scope—of an argument that shaped the postwar world: how to define and remember the Holocaust.“Profoundly moving. An extraordinary book—one that I didn’t know could be written. It is essential reading.”—Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare With Amber Eyes**In 1945, the end of World War II also marked the end of the ... Read more

$26.00 USD

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**An urgent history—intimate in its telling, epic in its scope—of an argument that shaped the postwar world: how to define and remember the Holocaust.“Profoundly moving. An extraordinary book—one that I didn’t know could be written. It is essential reading.”—Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare With Amber Eyes**In 1945, the end of World War II also marked the end of the
... Read more

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Letters to Camondo

by Edmund de Waal ...

Narrated by Edmund de Waal ...

Unabridged

3 hours 18 min

**"With deep appreciation for Camondo's generosity and taste, de Waal takes listeners on a journey they won't forget." -- AudioFile MagazineThis program is read by the authorA tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo**Letters to Camondo is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund de Waal to Moise de Camondo, the banker and art ... Read more

$15.99 USD

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**"With deep appreciation for Camondo's generosity and taste, de Waal takes listeners on a journey they won't forget." -- AudioFile MagazineThis program is read by the authorA tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo**Letters to Camondo is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund de Waal to Moise de Camondo, the banker and art
... Read more

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The Years

by Annie Ernaux ...

Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...

**WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize**Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize**Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions
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A Novel

by Michel Houellebecq ...

Translated by Lorin Stein ...

A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous literary figureParis, 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics, ... Read more

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A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous literary figureParis, 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics,
... Read more
La Seduction

How the French Play the Game of Life

by Elaine Sciolino ...

The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secretsFrance is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. But Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, has discovered that seduction is much more than a game to the French: it is the key to ... Read more

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The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secretsFrance is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. But Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, has discovered that seduction is much more than a game to the French: it is the key to
... Read more

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