Author: John Edward
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765369215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A novel of metaphysical suspense traces the ultimate confrontation between good and evil as it unfolds on both the Earthly plane and the Other Side.
Fallen Masters
Author: John Edward
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765369215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A novel of metaphysical suspense traces the ultimate confrontation between good and evil as it unfolds on both the Earthly plane and the Other Side.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765369215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A novel of metaphysical suspense traces the ultimate confrontation between good and evil as it unfolds on both the Earthly plane and the Other Side.
The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775
Author: Steven Laurence Kaplan
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822381982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
In preindustrial Europe, dependence on grain shaped every phase of life from economic development to spiritual expression, and the problem of subsistence dominated the everyday order of things in a merciless and unremitting way. Steven Laurence Kaplan’s The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700–1775 focuses on the production and distribution of France’s most important commodity in the sprawling urban center of eighteenth-century Paris where provisioning needs were most acutely felt and most difficult to satisfy. Kaplan shows how the relentless demand for bread constructed the pattern of daily life in Paris as decisively and subtly as elaborate protocol governed the social life at Versailles. Despite the overpowering salience of bread in public and private life, Kaplan’s is the first inquiry into the ways bread exercised its vast and significant empire. Bread framed dreams as well as nightmares. It was the staff of life, the medium of communion, a topic of common discourse, and a mark of tradition as well as transcendence. In his exploration of bread’s materiality and cultural meaning, Kaplan looks at bread’s fashioning of identity and examines the conditions of supply and demand in the marketplace. He also sets forth a complete history of the bakers and their guild, and unmasks the methods used by the authorities in their efforts to regulate trade. Because the bakers and their bread were central to Parisian daily life, Kaplan’s study is also a comprehensive meditation on an entire society, its government, and its capacity to endure. Long-awaited by French history scholars, The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700–1775 is a landmark in eighteenth-century historiography, a book that deeply contextualizes, and thus enriches our understanding of one of the most important eras in European history.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822381982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
In preindustrial Europe, dependence on grain shaped every phase of life from economic development to spiritual expression, and the problem of subsistence dominated the everyday order of things in a merciless and unremitting way. Steven Laurence Kaplan’s The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700–1775 focuses on the production and distribution of France’s most important commodity in the sprawling urban center of eighteenth-century Paris where provisioning needs were most acutely felt and most difficult to satisfy. Kaplan shows how the relentless demand for bread constructed the pattern of daily life in Paris as decisively and subtly as elaborate protocol governed the social life at Versailles. Despite the overpowering salience of bread in public and private life, Kaplan’s is the first inquiry into the ways bread exercised its vast and significant empire. Bread framed dreams as well as nightmares. It was the staff of life, the medium of communion, a topic of common discourse, and a mark of tradition as well as transcendence. In his exploration of bread’s materiality and cultural meaning, Kaplan looks at bread’s fashioning of identity and examines the conditions of supply and demand in the marketplace. He also sets forth a complete history of the bakers and their guild, and unmasks the methods used by the authorities in their efforts to regulate trade. Because the bakers and their bread were central to Parisian daily life, Kaplan’s study is also a comprehensive meditation on an entire society, its government, and its capacity to endure. Long-awaited by French history scholars, The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700–1775 is a landmark in eighteenth-century historiography, a book that deeply contextualizes, and thus enriches our understanding of one of the most important eras in European history.
Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique
Author: J. Herbert Welch
Publisher: New York : R. F. Fenno
ISBN:
Category : Pelée, Mount (Martinique)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: New York : R. F. Fenno
ISBN:
Category : Pelée, Mount (Martinique)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Fallen
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538761378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Star FBI detective Amos Decker and his colleague Alex Jamison must solve four increasingly bizarre murders in a dying rust belt town--and the closer they come to the truth, the deadlier it gets in this rapid-fire #1 New York Times bestseller. Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes--obscure bible verses, odd symbols--have the police stumped. Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex's sister and her family. It's a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been there a few hours when he stumbles on a horrific double murder scene. Then the next killing hits sickeningly close to home. And with the lives of people he cares about suddenly hanging in the balance, Decker begins to realize that the recent string of deaths may be only one small piece of a much larger scheme--with consequences that will reach far beyond Baronville. Decker, with his singular talents, may be the only one who can crack this bizarre case. Only this time--when one mistake could cost him everything--Decker finds that his previously infallible memory may not be so trustworthy after all...
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538761378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Star FBI detective Amos Decker and his colleague Alex Jamison must solve four increasingly bizarre murders in a dying rust belt town--and the closer they come to the truth, the deadlier it gets in this rapid-fire #1 New York Times bestseller. Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes--obscure bible verses, odd symbols--have the police stumped. Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex's sister and her family. It's a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been there a few hours when he stumbles on a horrific double murder scene. Then the next killing hits sickeningly close to home. And with the lives of people he cares about suddenly hanging in the balance, Decker begins to realize that the recent string of deaths may be only one small piece of a much larger scheme--with consequences that will reach far beyond Baronville. Decker, with his singular talents, may be the only one who can crack this bizarre case. Only this time--when one mistake could cost him everything--Decker finds that his previously infallible memory may not be so trustworthy after all...
Saudi Arabia
The Half-back
Author: Ralph Henry Barbour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College sports
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College sports
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Two Worlds
Author: Arthur Symons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Jean-François Millet, Peasant and Painter
Author: Alfred Sensier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Vita Nuova and Its Author
Foreigners in Latin America and relations with foreign governments
Author: George Washington Crichfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description