Author: Maurice Druon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The She-Wolf of France
The Xipehuz and The Death of the Earth
Author: J.-H. Rosny
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
ISBN: 9780405110207
Category : Fantasy fiction, French
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
ISBN: 9780405110207
Category : Fantasy fiction, French
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
My Footprint
Author: Jeff Garlin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439199272
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Jeff Garlin shares his hysterical and eye-opening journey to reduce his waistline and his carbon footprint during the production of the seventh season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm Jeff Garlin has dedicated the filming of an entire season of Curb Your Enthusiasm to completely making over his lifestyle in two major ways—by lightening his physical and his ecological footprints. After many false starts, he believes that writing a book about the experiment is the only possible way to help him lose weight and go green. The hardest part of the endeavor is overcoming his food addiction—especially when craft service has a constant buffet of everything delicious you could imagine on set. In addition to cutting calories, Jeff accidentally falls into a love affair with pilates, sweats with Richard Simmons, and twice visits the Pritikin Longevity Center, which he says is "rehab for people who eat too much pizza." Larry David’s rooting for him. Jerry Seinfeld’s plotting against him. And his wife is just plain annoyed by everything. As far as going green, Jeff has always been a big recycler, but he has a lot to learn. For example, actor Ed Begley Jr. is the guy to call if you want to reduce your environmental impact. Jeff does, and it changes everything. He hopes that being healthy and green becomes a big part of who he is—if not now, when?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439199272
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Jeff Garlin shares his hysterical and eye-opening journey to reduce his waistline and his carbon footprint during the production of the seventh season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm Jeff Garlin has dedicated the filming of an entire season of Curb Your Enthusiasm to completely making over his lifestyle in two major ways—by lightening his physical and his ecological footprints. After many false starts, he believes that writing a book about the experiment is the only possible way to help him lose weight and go green. The hardest part of the endeavor is overcoming his food addiction—especially when craft service has a constant buffet of everything delicious you could imagine on set. In addition to cutting calories, Jeff accidentally falls into a love affair with pilates, sweats with Richard Simmons, and twice visits the Pritikin Longevity Center, which he says is "rehab for people who eat too much pizza." Larry David’s rooting for him. Jerry Seinfeld’s plotting against him. And his wife is just plain annoyed by everything. As far as going green, Jeff has always been a big recycler, but he has a lot to learn. For example, actor Ed Begley Jr. is the guy to call if you want to reduce your environmental impact. Jeff does, and it changes everything. He hopes that being healthy and green becomes a big part of who he is—if not now, when?
The Hollywood Economist 2.0
Author: Edward Jay Epstein
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612190510
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A fully revised edition of the popular guide to Hollywood finances, updated to reflect even newer films and trends In a Freakonomics-meets-Hollywood saga, veteran investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein goes undercover to explore Hollywood’s “invisible money machine,” probing the dazzlingly complicated finances behind the hits and flops, while he answers a surprisingly difficult question: How do the studiosmake their money? We also learn: + How and why the studios harvest silver from old film prints ... + Why stars do—or don’t do—their own stunts ... + The future of Netflix: Why the “next big thing” now seems in such deep trouble... + What it costs to insure Nicole Kidman’s right knee… + How Hollywood manipulates Wall Street: including the story of the acquisition of MGM… wherein a consortium of banks and hedge funds lost some $5 billion… while Hollywood made millions. + Why Arnold Schwarzenegger is considered a contract genius… + The fate of serious fare: How HBO, AMC, and Showtime have found ways to make money offer adult drama, while the Hollywood studios prefer to cater to teen audiences. + Why Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is considered a “masterpiece” of financing ...
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612190510
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A fully revised edition of the popular guide to Hollywood finances, updated to reflect even newer films and trends In a Freakonomics-meets-Hollywood saga, veteran investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein goes undercover to explore Hollywood’s “invisible money machine,” probing the dazzlingly complicated finances behind the hits and flops, while he answers a surprisingly difficult question: How do the studiosmake their money? We also learn: + How and why the studios harvest silver from old film prints ... + Why stars do—or don’t do—their own stunts ... + The future of Netflix: Why the “next big thing” now seems in such deep trouble... + What it costs to insure Nicole Kidman’s right knee… + How Hollywood manipulates Wall Street: including the story of the acquisition of MGM… wherein a consortium of banks and hedge funds lost some $5 billion… while Hollywood made millions. + Why Arnold Schwarzenegger is considered a contract genius… + The fate of serious fare: How HBO, AMC, and Showtime have found ways to make money offer adult drama, while the Hollywood studios prefer to cater to teen audiences. + Why Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is considered a “masterpiece” of financing ...
Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow
Author: Christopher Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781593173289
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
When a mysterious book comes into their possession, strange things begin to happen to ninth-graders Hunter, Stretch, and Stubbs, from a strange janitor and a supernatural book to a disappearing bookstore.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781593173289
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
When a mysterious book comes into their possession, strange things begin to happen to ninth-graders Hunter, Stretch, and Stubbs, from a strange janitor and a supernatural book to a disappearing bookstore.
The Amazing Absorbing Boy
Author: Rabindranath Maharaj
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307397289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Samuel, naïve and inexperienced, leaves his home in Trinidad for Canada following the death of his mother. He hasn't seen his father since he was six years old and now, thrust into a new life together, Samuel soon realizes that he is considered a burden. Undaunted, though still wide-eyed, and propelled by a comic book sensibility, Samuel begins to explore the vast foreign landscape that is Toronto. There he encounters molemen, super-villains, chimeras, trolls and a host of sidekicks. With his fourth novel, Rabindranath Maharaj gives us his best work yet, a powerful and funny story of a naive young immigrant who is wise in the culture of comic books, and a portrait of big-city Canada we have never seen before.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307397289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Samuel, naïve and inexperienced, leaves his home in Trinidad for Canada following the death of his mother. He hasn't seen his father since he was six years old and now, thrust into a new life together, Samuel soon realizes that he is considered a burden. Undaunted, though still wide-eyed, and propelled by a comic book sensibility, Samuel begins to explore the vast foreign landscape that is Toronto. There he encounters molemen, super-villains, chimeras, trolls and a host of sidekicks. With his fourth novel, Rabindranath Maharaj gives us his best work yet, a powerful and funny story of a naive young immigrant who is wise in the culture of comic books, and a portrait of big-city Canada we have never seen before.
The Silence of the Spirits
Author: Wilfried N'Sondé
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253029074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
What are the limits of empathy and forgiveness? How can someone with a shameful past find a new path that allows for both healing and reckoning? When Clovis and Christelle find themselves face-to-face on a train heading to the outskirts of Paris, their unexpected encounter propels them on a cathartic journey toward understanding the other, mediated by their respective histories of violence. Clovis, a young undocumented African, struggles with the pain and shame of his brutal childhood, abusive exploits as a child soldier, and road to exile. Christelle, a young French nurse, has her own dark experiences but translates her suffering into an unusual capacity for empathy, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Christelle opens her home and heart to Clovis and presses him to tell his story. But how will she react to that story? Will the telling start Clovis on a path to redemption or alienate him further from French society? Wilfried N'Sondé's brave novel confronts French attitudes toward immigrants, pushes moral imagination to its limits, and constructs a world where the past must be confronted in order to map the future.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253029074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
What are the limits of empathy and forgiveness? How can someone with a shameful past find a new path that allows for both healing and reckoning? When Clovis and Christelle find themselves face-to-face on a train heading to the outskirts of Paris, their unexpected encounter propels them on a cathartic journey toward understanding the other, mediated by their respective histories of violence. Clovis, a young undocumented African, struggles with the pain and shame of his brutal childhood, abusive exploits as a child soldier, and road to exile. Christelle, a young French nurse, has her own dark experiences but translates her suffering into an unusual capacity for empathy, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Christelle opens her home and heart to Clovis and presses him to tell his story. But how will she react to that story? Will the telling start Clovis on a path to redemption or alienate him further from French society? Wilfried N'Sondé's brave novel confronts French attitudes toward immigrants, pushes moral imagination to its limits, and constructs a world where the past must be confronted in order to map the future.
Benedict XVI's Reform
Author: Nicola Bux
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1586174460
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
When Benedict XVI reestablished the celebration of the older Latin Mass, voices of protest rose up from many sides. This book explains the motives behind the Pope's decision to allow two forms of the Mass by turning to the Pope's own theological and liturgical writings and also draws on the author's experiences on various Church commissions and in offices of the Roman Curia. The author also brings to his subject an astute understanding of current social and spiritual trends both inside and outside the Church. Sensitive to modern man's hunger for the sacred, he desires with Pope Benedict XVI that the Mass be first and foremost a place of encounter with the living God. --Publisher.
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1586174460
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
When Benedict XVI reestablished the celebration of the older Latin Mass, voices of protest rose up from many sides. This book explains the motives behind the Pope's decision to allow two forms of the Mass by turning to the Pope's own theological and liturgical writings and also draws on the author's experiences on various Church commissions and in offices of the Roman Curia. The author also brings to his subject an astute understanding of current social and spiritual trends both inside and outside the Church. Sensitive to modern man's hunger for the sacred, he desires with Pope Benedict XVI that the Mass be first and foremost a place of encounter with the living God. --Publisher.
Sex, Bombs, and Burgers
Author: Peter Nowak
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762776102
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
How War, Pornography, and Fast Food Have Shaped Modern Technology Guns, Germs, and Steel meets the age of technology in this rollicking history of how our pursuit of lust, gluttony, and rage has led to our greatest technological advancements. It is also a chronicle of popular culture, packed with surprising revelations. From the unexpected origins of aerosols, cold medicine, and Google to Saran Wrap, Tupperware, and video games, here is a fascinating look at modern life.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762776102
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
How War, Pornography, and Fast Food Have Shaped Modern Technology Guns, Germs, and Steel meets the age of technology in this rollicking history of how our pursuit of lust, gluttony, and rage has led to our greatest technological advancements. It is also a chronicle of popular culture, packed with surprising revelations. From the unexpected origins of aerosols, cold medicine, and Google to Saran Wrap, Tupperware, and video games, here is a fascinating look at modern life.
Business French
Author: Peter Dunn
Publisher: Assimil France
ISBN: 9782700502114
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offers users the opportunity to step confidently into the world of international business, being operational and effective in French. Using a fictional scenario, following three French graduates through their careers, the user will make rapid progress, discovering the ins and outs of the French speaking business world on both sides of the Atlantic: marketing, profitability studies, industrial disputes, commercial negotiations, financing etc. The approach to study is entertaining and underpinned by numerous exercises, both lively and varied, which are the essential tools of assessing knowledge. Multimedia package including 4 audio CDs also available.
Publisher: Assimil France
ISBN: 9782700502114
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offers users the opportunity to step confidently into the world of international business, being operational and effective in French. Using a fictional scenario, following three French graduates through their careers, the user will make rapid progress, discovering the ins and outs of the French speaking business world on both sides of the Atlantic: marketing, profitability studies, industrial disputes, commercial negotiations, financing etc. The approach to study is entertaining and underpinned by numerous exercises, both lively and varied, which are the essential tools of assessing knowledge. Multimedia package including 4 audio CDs also available.