Author: Véronique BEAUMONT
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326001019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Au coeur de la Normandie, dans les villages perdus et paisibles, les habitants vivent parfois des histoires uniques, insolites, mais pourtant bien reelles. Decouvrez la rouerie des Normands, leur facetie, mais aussi leur avarice. Plongez sans retenue dans ce recueil chaleureux et drole d'histoires vraies et passez des moments savoureux en compagnie des Normands."
Histoires croustillantes de Normandie
Author: Véronique BEAUMONT
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326001019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Au coeur de la Normandie, dans les villages perdus et paisibles, les habitants vivent parfois des histoires uniques, insolites, mais pourtant bien reelles. Decouvrez la rouerie des Normands, leur facetie, mais aussi leur avarice. Plongez sans retenue dans ce recueil chaleureux et drole d'histoires vraies et passez des moments savoureux en compagnie des Normands."
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326001019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Au coeur de la Normandie, dans les villages perdus et paisibles, les habitants vivent parfois des histoires uniques, insolites, mais pourtant bien reelles. Decouvrez la rouerie des Normands, leur facetie, mais aussi leur avarice. Plongez sans retenue dans ce recueil chaleureux et drole d'histoires vraies et passez des moments savoureux en compagnie des Normands."
Histoires incroyables, mais vraies !
Author: Véronique BEAUMONT
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326001116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Qu'elles proviennent de Normandie ou du bout du monde, qu'elles proviennent de l'Administration ou du ""savoir"" de nos enfants, toutes ces histoires sont bien reelles et vous apporteront un peu de fraicheur dans votre quotidien. Passez d'excellents moments a rire seul, en famille ou entre amis et vivez des moments memorables. Regalez-vous !"
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326001116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Qu'elles proviennent de Normandie ou du bout du monde, qu'elles proviennent de l'Administration ou du ""savoir"" de nos enfants, toutes ces histoires sont bien reelles et vous apporteront un peu de fraicheur dans votre quotidien. Passez d'excellents moments a rire seul, en famille ou entre amis et vivez des moments memorables. Regalez-vous !"
Dogopolis
Author: Chris Pearson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679704X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Dogopolis presents a surprising source for urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships. Stroll through any American or European city today and you probably won’t get far before seeing a dog being taken for a walk. It’s expected that these domesticated animals can easily navigate sidewalks, streets, and other foundational elements of our built environment. But what if our cities were actually shaped in response to dogs more than we ever realized? Chris Pearson’s Dogopolis boldly and convincingly asserts that human-canine relations were a crucial factor in the formation of modern urban living. Focusing on New York, London, and Paris from the early nineteenth century into the 1930s, Pearson shows that human reactions to dogs significantly remolded them and other contemporary western cities. It’s an unalterable fact that dogs—often filthy, bellicose, and sometimes off-putting—run away, spread rabies, defecate, and breed wherever they like, so as dogs became a more and more common in nineteenth-century middle-class life, cities had to respond to people’s fear of them and revulsion at their least desirable traits. The gradual integration of dogs into city life centered on disgust at dirt, fear of crime and vagrancy, and the promotion of humanitarian sentiments. On the other hand, dogs are some people’s most beloved animal companions, and human compassion and affection for pets and strays were equally powerful forces in shaping urban modernity. Dogopolis details the complex interrelations among emotions, sentiment, and the ways we manifest our feelings toward what we love—showing that together they can actually reshape society.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679704X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Dogopolis presents a surprising source for urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships. Stroll through any American or European city today and you probably won’t get far before seeing a dog being taken for a walk. It’s expected that these domesticated animals can easily navigate sidewalks, streets, and other foundational elements of our built environment. But what if our cities were actually shaped in response to dogs more than we ever realized? Chris Pearson’s Dogopolis boldly and convincingly asserts that human-canine relations were a crucial factor in the formation of modern urban living. Focusing on New York, London, and Paris from the early nineteenth century into the 1930s, Pearson shows that human reactions to dogs significantly remolded them and other contemporary western cities. It’s an unalterable fact that dogs—often filthy, bellicose, and sometimes off-putting—run away, spread rabies, defecate, and breed wherever they like, so as dogs became a more and more common in nineteenth-century middle-class life, cities had to respond to people’s fear of them and revulsion at their least desirable traits. The gradual integration of dogs into city life centered on disgust at dirt, fear of crime and vagrancy, and the promotion of humanitarian sentiments. On the other hand, dogs are some people’s most beloved animal companions, and human compassion and affection for pets and strays were equally powerful forces in shaping urban modernity. Dogopolis details the complex interrelations among emotions, sentiment, and the ways we manifest our feelings toward what we love—showing that together they can actually reshape society.
Le Football
Author: Russ Crawford
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803290284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
There are two kinds of football in France. American football was first played in France in 1909 during the cruise of the Great White Fleet. Then, during World War I, the American military shipped footballs, helmets, and shoulder pads alongside rifles and ammunition to the western front. A 1938 tour of two teams lead by Jim Crowley of Fordham University maintained the game until World War II, when the arrival of millions of young Americans in France motivated the U.S. military to sponsor several bowl games. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the United States occupied bases in France during the Cold War, American soldiers, sailors, and airmen played more than a thousand football games. When France withdrew from NATO, however, American bases were forced to close, leaving American football without a natural home on Gallic shores. In the 1970s American college and semi-pro teams tried once more to generate interest in the game among French nationals through a series of tours, but until a French physical education instructor vacationed in Colorado and brought equipment back to France, there was little local enthusiasm for the sport. On the back of that vacation, and from one team in Paris, organized American football in France grew to more than 215 teams with more than 22,000 active players today. Le Football tackles the struggles and successes of American football in France and discusses how, unlike baseball and basketball, football has never been an overt instrument of American cultural influence. Russ Crawford keeps the chains moving as he shows how the modern, homegrown sport developed largely independent of American encouragement into a small but successful culture.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803290284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
There are two kinds of football in France. American football was first played in France in 1909 during the cruise of the Great White Fleet. Then, during World War I, the American military shipped footballs, helmets, and shoulder pads alongside rifles and ammunition to the western front. A 1938 tour of two teams lead by Jim Crowley of Fordham University maintained the game until World War II, when the arrival of millions of young Americans in France motivated the U.S. military to sponsor several bowl games. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the United States occupied bases in France during the Cold War, American soldiers, sailors, and airmen played more than a thousand football games. When France withdrew from NATO, however, American bases were forced to close, leaving American football without a natural home on Gallic shores. In the 1970s American college and semi-pro teams tried once more to generate interest in the game among French nationals through a series of tours, but until a French physical education instructor vacationed in Colorado and brought equipment back to France, there was little local enthusiasm for the sport. On the back of that vacation, and from one team in Paris, organized American football in France grew to more than 215 teams with more than 22,000 active players today. Le Football tackles the struggles and successes of American football in France and discusses how, unlike baseball and basketball, football has never been an overt instrument of American cultural influence. Russ Crawford keeps the chains moving as he shows how the modern, homegrown sport developed largely independent of American encouragement into a small but successful culture.
The Gentleman's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Killing Time
Author: Nicholas J Saunders
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752476181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The Great War of 1914-1918 now stands at the furthest edge of living memory. And yet, hardly a month passes without some dramatic and sometimes tragic discovery being made along the old killing fields of the Western Front. Graves of British soldiers buried during battle – still lying in rows seemingly arm in arm or found crouching at the entrance to a dugout; whole 'underground cities' of trenches, dugouts and shelters have been preserved in the mud; field hospitals carved out of the chalk country of the Somme marked with graffiti; unexploded bombs and gas canisters – all of these are the poignant and sometimes deadly legacies of a war we can never forget. Killing Time digs beneath the surface of war to uncover the living reality left behind. Nicholas J. Saunders brings together a wealth of discoveries to offer fresh insights into the human and often barbaric aspect of warfare. He uses discoveries in the trenches, family photographs, diaries and souvenirs to give the dead a voice. You cannot fail to be fascinated and moved by what he unearths.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752476181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The Great War of 1914-1918 now stands at the furthest edge of living memory. And yet, hardly a month passes without some dramatic and sometimes tragic discovery being made along the old killing fields of the Western Front. Graves of British soldiers buried during battle – still lying in rows seemingly arm in arm or found crouching at the entrance to a dugout; whole 'underground cities' of trenches, dugouts and shelters have been preserved in the mud; field hospitals carved out of the chalk country of the Somme marked with graffiti; unexploded bombs and gas canisters – all of these are the poignant and sometimes deadly legacies of a war we can never forget. Killing Time digs beneath the surface of war to uncover the living reality left behind. Nicholas J. Saunders brings together a wealth of discoveries to offer fresh insights into the human and often barbaric aspect of warfare. He uses discoveries in the trenches, family photographs, diaries and souvenirs to give the dead a voice. You cannot fail to be fascinated and moved by what he unearths.
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...
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Publisher:
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Gentleman's Magazine
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
L'humour
Author:
Publisher: Publications de La Societe Int
ISBN:
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : fr
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher: Publications de La Societe Int
ISBN:
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : fr
Pages : 442
Book Description