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Dawn, Dusk or Night: A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy
by Yasmina Reza  Publisher Comments An enormous success in France and a media sensation around the world, Yasmina Reza’s Dawn, Dusk or Night will startle English-language readers with its utterly unorthodox (and candid and witty) portrait of a man in his quest for ultimate power....
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Paris in the Fifties
by Stanley Karnow 
Publisher Comments In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years...
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Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949
by Antony Beevor Publisher Comments In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the diplomatic battleground in the opening stages...
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May '68 and Its Afterlives (03 Edition)
by Kristin Ross Publisher Comments During May 1968, students and workers in France united in the biggest strike and the largest mass movement in French history. Protesting capitalism, American imperialism, and Gaullism, 9 million people from all walks of life, from shipbuilders to...
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Breaking the Silence : French Women's Voices From the Ghetto (06 Edition)
by Fadela Amara Publisher Comments Born in France to Algerian immigrant parents, Fadela Amara is a human rights activist who speaks with both a personal and collective voice. This book is a passionate account of her struggle to found the movement called Ni putes ni soumises (Neither...
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Aspects of Contemporary France
by Sheila Perry Synopsis This is a thematic introduction to contemporary French culture and society. Providing in-depth and original chapters on specific contemporary issues, it is ideal for those taking courses or options in French Studies....
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Justice Under Siege: One Woman's Battle Against a European Oil Company
by Eva Joly Publisher Comments France's top investigator of financial corruption tells her personal tale of the scandal that rocked French officials in the 1990s in this gripping autobiography. While examining the state-owned oil giant Elf Aquitaine, Joly uncovered billions of dollars...
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Ethnicity and Equality (07 Edition)
by Begag Publisher Comments In the fall of 2005 the streets of France were rocked by civil disturbances on a scale unseen for decades. Only months earlier Azouz Begag, France’s first minister for equal opportunities and first-ever cabinet minister of North African immigrant...
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Protest in Paris, 1968
by Serge Hambourg Synopsis May 9 through 13, 1968 was the beginning of a time of upheaval and social spectacle that pitted students and workers against an unsympathetic government in a series of spirited protests that would fundamentally change France. This catalogue showcases...
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Contemporary France: A Democratic Education (Europe Today Series)
by Anne Saadah Publisher Comments This dynamic introduction to contemporary France analyzes the problems and possibilities of democracy in a globalizing world. France was present at the creation of modern democratic politics in the eighteenth century, yet democratic stability has often...
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France in an Age of Globalization
by Hubert Vedrine Publisher Comments This provocative book takes the form of a dialogue between French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine and international relations expert Dominique Moisi. In this frank conversation, Vedrine spells out his vision of the U.S. hyperpower, France's role in the...
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Testimony: France, Europe, and the World in the Twenty-First Century
by Nicolas. Trans. By Philip H. Gordon Sarkozy Publisher Comments In an important book from the newly elected president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy sets forth his personal vision of France's role in world affairs and his plans for modernizing the country and equipping it for the twenty-first century. Testimony begins...
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The Politics of the Veil (Public Square)
by Joan Scott Publisher Comments In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of conspicuous signs of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds...
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Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television
by Tamara Chaplin Publisher Comments In 1951, the eight o’clock nightly news reported on Jean-Paul Sartre for the first time. By the end of the twentieth century, more than 3,500 programs dealing with philosophy and its practitioners—including Bachelard, Badiou, Foucault...
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French Lessons: A Memoir
by Alice Kaplan Publisher Comments Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of...
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Crime and Media in Contemporary France (Comparative Cultural Studies)
by Deborah S Reisinger Publisher Comments Reisinger examines contemporary French society's relationship with violence in an era of increased media dominance. The study's innovative and interdisciplinary approach integrates media, cinema, and literary studies to analyze how crime news functions...
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Battle for Coal: Miners & the Politics of Nationalization in France, 1940-1950
by Darryl Holter Book News Annotation Holter examines the French coal-mining industry's role in postwar reconstruction and the state's intervention into the industry in an effort to promote economic expansion. After surveying French coal- mining to 1939, he analyzes the impact of...
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French Lessons: A Memoir
by Alice Kaplan Publisher Comments Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of...
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Through French Windows: An Introduction to France in the Nineties
by James Corbett Publisher Comments A cultural portrait of contemporary France and its people that dispels persistent stereotypes and myths...
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Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory After May '68
by Peter Starr Publisher Comments “It is important and timely in the post-Cold War retreat of politics to have a historical assessment of how those politics, as well as certain stances inherited from the French Revolution ... were the original context around what we call ‘...
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