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  • The Anatomy of Laughter

    by Toby Garfitt ...
    "The nature of laughter has recently attracted the attention of a number of different disciplines. In two recent colloquia, TRIO (Translation Research in Oxford) brought together international authorities from fields as diverse as physiology, psychology, linguistics, translation and literary studies, and sociology, with scant regard for political correctness. This fascinating and often hilarious ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • God's Mirror

    Renewal and Engagement in French Catholic Intellectual Culture in the Mid–Twentieth Century

    by Katherine Davies, Toby Garfitt ...
    Gathering in one place a cohesive selection of articles that deepen our sense of the vitality and controversy within the Catholic renewal of the mid-twentieth century, God’s Mirror offers historical analysis of French Catholic intellectuals. This volume highlights the work of writers, thinkers and creative artists who have not always drawn the attention given to such luminaries as Maritain, ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Writing the Great War / Comment écrire la Grande Guerre?

    Francophone and Anglophone Poetics / Poétiques francophones et anglophones

    Edited by Nicolas Bianchi, Toby Garfitt ...
    Series Book 27 - Romanticism and after in France / Le Romantisme et après en France
    For France the First World War, or Great War, was a war of national self-defence, but for Britain it was not. Does that mean that French literary treatments of this unimaginably destructive war were very different from British ones? Not necessarily – but much can be learned from considering both traditions side by side, something that is rarely done.The essays collected in this bilingual volume, ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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  • How the French Think

    An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

    by Sudhir Hazareesingh ...
    Sudhir Hazareesingh's How the French Think is a warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyleWhy are the French an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? An important reason is that in France intellectual activity is regarded not just as the preserve of the thinking elite but for almost ... Read more

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  • Radical Enlightenment

    Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

    by Professor Jonathan I. Israel ...
    Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which ... Read more

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  • Code de la route

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    by Page Blanche ...
    L’épreuve théorique du code de la route consiste, en 30 minutes, à répondre à 40 questions autorisant 5 fautes au maximum.La réussite est donc liée à votre gestion intelligente de ces 5 « jokers », en les réservant aux questions vraiment difficiles.Les 35 autres questions doivent être traitées :- en examinant ce que l’examinateur attend exactement de vous ;- et en évitant les pièges !Nous vous ... Read more

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  • The Crooked Timber of Humanity

    Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between ... Read more

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  • Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne

    by Olympe de Gouges ...
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  • French Verbs - Intensive Lexical Builder with Embedded Sentences

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    This is an intensive lexical builder for French verbs. It presents the most common French verbs, embedded in sentences, thereby appealing to both short-term and long term memory and ensuring rapid and stable memorization. It is addressed mainly to beginner learners; however, intermediate learners could also profit from it, since care has been taken to highlight numerous idiomatic expressions in ... Read more

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  • Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love

    by R. Howard Bloch ...
    Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the ... Read more

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  • Pour aider un proche en fin de vie

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    Ce à quoi vous pouvez vous attendre et ce que vous pouvez faire pour aiderAider un proche malade à vivre ses derniers moments est l’une des expériences les plus difficiles de la vie. À mesure que la maladie progresse, il se peut que vous ayez à prendre des décisions importantes. Il se peut même que vous ayez à vous assurer que les besoins fondamentaux – de respect, de dignité et de confort de ... Read more

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