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Author: Maitland Club
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Thomas Gray
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Thomas Gray
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385147700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

Author: Andy Masaki Bellows
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262523189
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Essays examining the work of maverick scientific documentary filmmaker Jean Painleve.

Author: Guy de Maupassant
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Category : Short stories, French
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Author: Alain Malissard
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583487115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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[This book is written in French.] Vitale pour toute société humaine, l'eau est pour les Romains le symbole même de leur existence-depuis que Romulus, le fondateur, a été sauvé des eaux du Tibre-ainsi que de leur pouvoir sur les forces naturelles et sur les hommes. Ce livre montre comment ils ont répondu aux nécessités immédiates, mais aussi joint l'utile au plaisir, le futile à la grandeur. Avec une précision qui surprendra les ingénieurs et une suimplic-ité dont les profanes lui sauront gré, l'auteur retrace la quête obstinée de techniques souterraines et aériennes, qui permettent de capter les eaux dans les lointaines montagnes, de les conduire jusqu'aux villes, de les purifier, de les conserver et de les évacuer. On rencontre ici les Romains dans leur intimité, on entend leurs bavardages autour des fontaines, ou dans les latrines, on surprend leur admiration pour les empereurs évergètes qui leur offrent des thermes somptueux, mais on y trouve aussi les calculs des ingénieurs, leurs tâtonnements, leurs échecs et leurs réussites, et surtout la volonté de puissance d'un peuple qui, pour maîtriser la source de la vie, jetait à travers les plaines et par-dessus les val-lées profondes les arches puissantes et élégantes de ses aqueducs.

Author: Eric Bonkowski
Publisher: Penny Dreadful Publications
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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The year is 1935. The world is trapped between economic strife and the foreboding storm clouds of war. Things are pretty bad, right? Ah, yes, but they can always get worse. Enter Monsieur Black Fang Delacroix and his Legion of Madmen, Captain Heinrich Von Faust and the might of the German army, and a nefarious secret society known only asThe Cabal. Together they carry all the makings for armageddon. Unfortunately, "armageddon" in this case is literal. These dastardly villains have united with the sole purpose of destroying the world! But not if Brick Brannigan has anything to say about it! Working together with the lovely and brilliant scholar Dr. Liliana Halifax, the dapper pilot Archibald Nero, and a brave and loyal graduate assistant named Andrew, Hugo "Brick" Brannigan is all that stands between us and the end of existence as we know it. Can he, in fact, save the world? Written in the thrilling style of 1930s pulp icons Lester Dent and Norvell Page, Brick Brannigan is Knee-Deep in Peril! is filled with mad adventures, perilous desert crossings, exotic foreign cuisine, rare and lethal poisons, swing music, and evil subterfuge at every turn. Join our adventurers and return to a simpler yet infinitely stranger (and more unsettling!) time in our history. What are you waiting for?

Author: Marc Lescarbot
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Category : Acadia
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Author: Guy de Maupassant
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Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Samuli Schielke
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815651910
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Mulids, festivals in honor of Muslim "friends of God," have been part of Muslim religious and cultural life for close to a thousand years. While many Egyptians see mulids as an expression of joy and love for the Prophet Muhammad and his family, many others see them as opposed to Islam, a sign of a backward mentality, a piece of folklore at best. What is it about a mulid that makes it a threat to Islam and modernity in the eyes of some, and an indication of pious devotion in the eyes of others? What makes the celebration of a saint’s festival appear in such dramatically different contours? The Perils of Joy offers a rich investigation, both historical and ethnographic, of conflicting and transforming attitudes toward festivals in contemporary Egypt. Schielke argues that mulids are characterized by a utopian momentum of the extraordinary that troubles the grand schemes of order and perfection that have become hegemonic in Egypt since the twentieth century. Not an opposition between state and civil society, nor a division between Islamists and secularists, but rather the competition between different perceptions of what makes up a complete life forms the central line of conflict in the contestation of festive culture.