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This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris. PARIS: A LOVE STORY is for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or t...

Resoundingly acclaimed, this brilliantly detailed historical account vividly presents the famed fighting force. Resoundingly acclaim...

"An extraordinary book . . . Peter Ackroyd is arguably the most talented and prolific writer working in Britain today." ―Daily Express (UK) In Foundation...

“In December 1776, a small boat delivered an old man to France.” So begins a dazzling narrative account of Benjamin Franklin’s French mission, the most exa...

Profiles three ordinary people--a German SS officer, a nineteenth-century lifeguard, and a contemporary therapist working with ex-convicts--who lit a candle...

When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than a...

Eleanor Herman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 257-274) And Index.Categories: Medical Books PsychologySocial Psychology & Interactions

Nemesis: Medieval England's Greatest EnemyCategories: HistoryMilitary

The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered i...

In 1665 the Carignan-Salières Regiment was sent to Canada by King Louis XIV to quell the Iroquois, whose attacks were strangling the colony's fur-based eco...

an Outstanding And Authoritative Biography Of One Of Britain's Greatest Masters. publishers Weekly phenomenal Drinking Habits, Chronic Sleep Deprivation, A...

Bruno Latour ; Translated By Catherine Porter. Includes Glossary.Categories: Engineering & Transportation EngineeringIndustrial, Manufacturing & Ope...

About the Author Shelley Puhak is a critically acclaimed poet and writer whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Lapham's Quarterly, Teen Vogue, Virgi...

Inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, Scandinavian rulers and German military monks conquered and settled Finland, Estonia and Prussia, before turning...

After starting a career as a bank broker, Paul Gauguin (born 1848) turned to painting only at age twenty-five. After initial successes within the Impressio...

Presents A Compelling Account Of The Eiffel Tower's Creation And A Superb Portrait Of Belle Epoque France. As Gustave Eiffel Held Court That Summer Atop His...

Napoleon And Russia Tells, For The First Time, The Full Story Of Napoleon And His Crucial Relationship With Russia, From The 1790s And Bonaparte's Rise To P...

Recalls The Nobel Laureate's War Years.Categories: HistoryMilitary

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocativ...

“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us...

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, archi...

in 1386, A Few Days After Christmas, A Huge Crowd Gathers At A Parisian Monastery To Witness What Will Become The Nation's Final "trial By Combat"—a Court...

The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of t...

They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is ...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade ...

The history and philosophy of the mysterious Cathar religion and its lost treasure • Demonstrates that Catharism is not simply a heretical Christian cul...