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  • Audiobook

    Stories From The Shadows – The French

    Embrace the darkness

    by Marcel Schwob, Prosper Merimee, Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Guy De Maupassant, Anatole France, Honoré de Balzac, Jean Lorrain ...
    Narrated by Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 4 min

    An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dictionary of Louisiana French

    As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities

    by Barry Jean Ancelet, Richard Guidry, Thomas A. Klingler, Amanda LaFleur, Tamara Lindner, Michael D. Picone, Dominique Ryon ...
    The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Francs et Orientaux dans le monde des croisades

    by Jean Richard ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This latest volume by Jean Richard is concerned with the evolution of the crusading movement and with the interaction between crusaders and indigenous peoples of the Near East. The articles look at changes in the concept of crusading, means of financing it, and forms of indulgence; at how the adoption of maritime transport created a need to control the sea, and how contacts with the Muslims could ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Man Who Planted Trees

    by Jean Giono ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    ‘A book for children from 8 to 80. I love the humanity of this story and how one man’s efforts can change the future for so many. It’s a real message of hope.’ Michael MorpurgoDiscover this beloved masterpiece of nature writing that is a hymn to creation and to the power of the individual to do their bit to change the world for the better.In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds

    by Jean Richards ...
    Illustrated by Anca Hariton ...
    Many seeds travel inside fruits. The fruit is like a suitcase for the seeds. It protects them on their trip.Readers will learn how fruits are designed to protect a plant's seeds and also to help the plant spread its seeds to new places.With prose perfect for read-alouds and gorgeous watercolor illustrations, A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds delves into the world of seeds, their purpose, and how ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Nausea

    by Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Sartre's greatest novel — and existentialism's key text — now introduced by James Wood.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Fast Culture, Slow Justice

    How Digital Platforms Failed Black Lives Matter

    by Richard Jean So ...
    In the summer of 2020, Black Lives Matter became the largest social movement in American history. As millions of people took to the streets, countless more went on Twitter, Instagram, Wattpad, and other online platforms to share stories, post images, and add their voices to a chorus demanding racial justice. It felt to many like a turning point. Why did this moment turn out to be so ephemeral ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition

    An Introduction

    by Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic ...
    Series Book 87 - Critical America
    A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race TheorySince the publication of the third edition of Critical Race Theory: An Introduction in 2017, the United States has experienced a dramatic increase in racially motivated mass shootings and a pandemic that revealed how deeply entrenched medical racism is and how public disasters disproportionately affect minority communities. We have also seen a ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Pontescuro

    by Luca Ragagnin ...
    Translated by Mary Jean Lutz Bujdos, Jamie Richards ...
    Daphne is the beautiful daughter of the Pontescuro land owner and townsfolk employer. She lets herself be adored by the men, earning her the ire of the town's women. Then there is Ciaccio, the orphan close in age to her, whom she befriends. The story is lyrically told by unusual witnesses: the river, fog, a bird, an insect. When Daphne dies, her father brings in a retiring inspector. But even the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Louisiana French

    As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities

    Edited by Albert Valdman, Kevin J. Rottet ...
    The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Redlining Culture

    A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction

    by Richard Jean So ...
    The canon of postwar American fiction has changed over the past few decades to include far more writers of color. It would appear that we are making progress—recovering marginalized voices and including those who were for far too long ignored. However, is this celebratory narrative borne out in the data?Richard Jean So draws on big data, literary history, and close readings to offer an ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Biophysics of Cell Membranes

    Biological Consequences

    Edited by Richard M. Epand, Jean-Marie Ruysschaert ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume focuses on the modulation of biological membranes by specific biophysical properties. The readers are introduced to emerging biophysical approaches that mimick specific states (like membrane lipid asymmetry, membrane curvature, lipid flip-flop, lipid phase separation) that are relevant to the functioning of biological membranes. The first chapter describes innovative methods to mimic ... Read more

    $134.09 USD