Author: Vesna Neskow
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1441305688
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
2011 Edition. This sleek guide to the City of Light and beyond will help you locate landmarks, arts and entertainment venues, restaurants, caf s, hotels, chic shops, and after-dark stops, with extra coverage of Top Pick attractions. Numbered entries in the text are keyed to area maps in each chapter. "Top Picks'' direct you to not-to-be-missed attractions. Spot illustrations throughout liven the text. 8 easy-to-use maps.
The Little Black Book of Paris, 2011 Edition
Author: Vesna Neskow
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1441305688
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
2011 Edition. This sleek guide to the City of Light and beyond will help you locate landmarks, arts and entertainment venues, restaurants, caf s, hotels, chic shops, and after-dark stops, with extra coverage of Top Pick attractions. Numbered entries in the text are keyed to area maps in each chapter. "Top Picks'' direct you to not-to-be-missed attractions. Spot illustrations throughout liven the text. 8 easy-to-use maps.
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1441305688
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
2011 Edition. This sleek guide to the City of Light and beyond will help you locate landmarks, arts and entertainment venues, restaurants, caf s, hotels, chic shops, and after-dark stops, with extra coverage of Top Pick attractions. Numbered entries in the text are keyed to area maps in each chapter. "Top Picks'' direct you to not-to-be-missed attractions. Spot illustrations throughout liven the text. 8 easy-to-use maps.
The Little Black Book of New York
Author: Ben Gibbard
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1593598904
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Here are the best of things to see and do, places to eat, drink, and shop, and where to take the kids in the greatest city on earth. Divided by area, each with its own map, this easy-to-use guide to Manhattan gives expert advice on everything not to be missed. Those new to the city (and those who are not) need this book! Newly revised for 2008. 200 pages, plus 8 foldout maps.
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1593598904
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Here are the best of things to see and do, places to eat, drink, and shop, and where to take the kids in the greatest city on earth. Divided by area, each with its own map, this easy-to-use guide to Manhattan gives expert advice on everything not to be missed. Those new to the city (and those who are not) need this book! Newly revised for 2008. 200 pages, plus 8 foldout maps.
The Little Black Book of Paris, 2012 Edition
Author: Vesna Neskow
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1441308156
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
2012 Edition. This sleek guide to the City of Light and beyond will help you locate landmarks, arts and entertainment venues, restaurants, cafés, hotels, chic shops, and after-dark stops, with extra coverage of Top Picks attractions. Author Vesna Neskow lived in Europe for 13 years. She speaks six languages. Her TV work has been produced by CBS and broadcast on NPR, and she has written for the New York Times Book Review.* Organized by district* Quick-reference subsections describe landmarks, arts and culture, dining, nightlife, shopping, and hotels* Easy-to-understand explanations of transportation, customs, currency, telephone procedures, business hours, and etiquette* Lists Paris's biggest seasonal events* Numbered entries in the text are keyed to area maps in each chapter* ''Top Picks'' direct you to not-to-be-missed attractions* Spot illustrations throughout liven the text* Ten maps, including overview map, area-detail maps, and transport map
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1441308156
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
2012 Edition. This sleek guide to the City of Light and beyond will help you locate landmarks, arts and entertainment venues, restaurants, cafés, hotels, chic shops, and after-dark stops, with extra coverage of Top Picks attractions. Author Vesna Neskow lived in Europe for 13 years. She speaks six languages. Her TV work has been produced by CBS and broadcast on NPR, and she has written for the New York Times Book Review.* Organized by district* Quick-reference subsections describe landmarks, arts and culture, dining, nightlife, shopping, and hotels* Easy-to-understand explanations of transportation, customs, currency, telephone procedures, business hours, and etiquette* Lists Paris's biggest seasonal events* Numbered entries in the text are keyed to area maps in each chapter* ''Top Picks'' direct you to not-to-be-missed attractions* Spot illustrations throughout liven the text* Ten maps, including overview map, area-detail maps, and transport map
The Little Black Book of London
Author: Vesna Neskow
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1593598866
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
With user-friendly foldout maps and insider tips, this pocket guide to the city on the Thames walks you through the best that London has to offer. Here's all you need to know about what to see and do, and where to eat, drink, shop, and stay in this historic city, where tradition meets charm. It's the Quintessential Guide to the Royal Capital! XXX pages, plus 11 foldout maps.
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1593598866
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
With user-friendly foldout maps and insider tips, this pocket guide to the city on the Thames walks you through the best that London has to offer. Here's all you need to know about what to see and do, and where to eat, drink, shop, and stay in this historic city, where tradition meets charm. It's the Quintessential Guide to the Royal Capital! XXX pages, plus 11 foldout maps.
God and the Little Grey Cells
Author: Dan W. Clanton, Jr.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567696103
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Dan W. Clanton, Jr. examines the presence and use of religion and Bible in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels and stories and their later interpretations. Clanton begins by situating Christie in her literary, historical, and religious contexts by discussing “Golden Age” crime fiction and Christianity in England in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. He then explores the ways in which Bible is used in Christie's Poirot novels as well as how Christie constructs a religious identity for her little Belgian sleuth. Clanton concludes by asking how non-majority religious cultures are treated in the Poirot canon, including a heterodox Christian movement, Spiritualism, Judaism, and Islam. Throughout, Clanton acknowledges that many people do not encounter Poirot in his original literary contexts. That is, far more people have been exposed to Poirot via “mediated” renderings and interpretations of the stories and novels in various other genres, including radio, films, and TV. As such, the book engages the reception of the stories in these various genres, since the process of adapting the original narrative plots involves, at times, meaningful changes. Capitalizing on the immense and enduring popularity of Poirot across multiple genres and the absence of research on the role of religion and Bible in those stories, this book is a necessary contribution to the field of Christie studies and will be welcomed by her fans as well as scholars of religion, popular culture, literature, and media.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567696103
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Dan W. Clanton, Jr. examines the presence and use of religion and Bible in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels and stories and their later interpretations. Clanton begins by situating Christie in her literary, historical, and religious contexts by discussing “Golden Age” crime fiction and Christianity in England in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. He then explores the ways in which Bible is used in Christie's Poirot novels as well as how Christie constructs a religious identity for her little Belgian sleuth. Clanton concludes by asking how non-majority religious cultures are treated in the Poirot canon, including a heterodox Christian movement, Spiritualism, Judaism, and Islam. Throughout, Clanton acknowledges that many people do not encounter Poirot in his original literary contexts. That is, far more people have been exposed to Poirot via “mediated” renderings and interpretations of the stories and novels in various other genres, including radio, films, and TV. As such, the book engages the reception of the stories in these various genres, since the process of adapting the original narrative plots involves, at times, meaningful changes. Capitalizing on the immense and enduring popularity of Poirot across multiple genres and the absence of research on the role of religion and Bible in those stories, this book is a necessary contribution to the field of Christie studies and will be welcomed by her fans as well as scholars of religion, popular culture, literature, and media.
Chronicles of Old Paris
Author: John Baxter
Publisher: Museyon Inc
ISBN: 0984633421
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Discover one of the world's most fascinating and beautiful cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning the rich history of Paris. John Baxter takes readers through 2,000 years of French history with tales of the kings, queens, saints, and sinners who shaped the city. Essays explore the major historic events from the martyrdom of Saint Denis near today's Abbesses Métro station to the epic romances of Heloise and Abelard, Josephine and Napoleon, and George Sand and Frédéric Chopin. Learn about the labyrinth of catacombs snaking under all of Paris and the artists who called the seedy Montmartre home in the 19th century. Then see it all for yourself with guided walking tours of each of Paris's historic neighborhoods, illustrated with color photographs and period maps.
Publisher: Museyon Inc
ISBN: 0984633421
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Discover one of the world's most fascinating and beautiful cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning the rich history of Paris. John Baxter takes readers through 2,000 years of French history with tales of the kings, queens, saints, and sinners who shaped the city. Essays explore the major historic events from the martyrdom of Saint Denis near today's Abbesses Métro station to the epic romances of Heloise and Abelard, Josephine and Napoleon, and George Sand and Frédéric Chopin. Learn about the labyrinth of catacombs snaking under all of Paris and the artists who called the seedy Montmartre home in the 19th century. Then see it all for yourself with guided walking tours of each of Paris's historic neighborhoods, illustrated with color photographs and period maps.
Pastry Paris
Author: Susan Hochbaum
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1892145944
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Pastry Paris is a collection of photographs of the world’s most enticing pastries set against the background of one of the world’s most iconic cities. The confections are taken out of their display cases and photographed “on location” at Paris’ best-known sights and everyday streetscapes, illuminating the visual and cultural connections between the city, its architecture, its culture, and its wildly beautiful desserts. Each entry is captioned, and the back of the book serves as a guide to the pâtisseries where each of the pastries is created, with addresses, phone numbers, and métro stops. The quirky, often humorous pairings of desserts and their hometown is a vicarious trip to that delicious city, where art and beauty can be found in everything from doorknobs to petit fours, a city that takes its desserts as seriously as its music, sculpture, and painting.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1892145944
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Pastry Paris is a collection of photographs of the world’s most enticing pastries set against the background of one of the world’s most iconic cities. The confections are taken out of their display cases and photographed “on location” at Paris’ best-known sights and everyday streetscapes, illuminating the visual and cultural connections between the city, its architecture, its culture, and its wildly beautiful desserts. Each entry is captioned, and the back of the book serves as a guide to the pâtisseries where each of the pastries is created, with addresses, phone numbers, and métro stops. The quirky, often humorous pairings of desserts and their hometown is a vicarious trip to that delicious city, where art and beauty can be found in everything from doorknobs to petit fours, a city that takes its desserts as seriously as its music, sculpture, and painting.
The Story of Little Black Sambo
Author: Helen Bannerman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0397300069
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The jolly and exciting tale of the little boy who lost his red coat and his blue trousers and his purple shoes but who was saved from the tigers to eat 169 pancakes for his supper, has been universally loved by generations of children. First written in 1899, the story has become a childhood classic and the authorized American edition with the original drawings by the author has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Little Black Sambo is a book that speaks the common language of all nations, and has added more to the joy of little children than perhaps any other story. They love to hear it again and again; to read it to themselves; to act it out in their play.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0397300069
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The jolly and exciting tale of the little boy who lost his red coat and his blue trousers and his purple shoes but who was saved from the tigers to eat 169 pancakes for his supper, has been universally loved by generations of children. First written in 1899, the story has become a childhood classic and the authorized American edition with the original drawings by the author has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Little Black Sambo is a book that speaks the common language of all nations, and has added more to the joy of little children than perhaps any other story. They love to hear it again and again; to read it to themselves; to act it out in their play.
Little Black Dress
Author: André Leon Talley
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847840573
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A selectively curated overview of the little black dress in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, organized by Vogue contributing editor and fashion force André Leon Talley and published on the occasion of an exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah College of Art and Design), André Leon Talley Gallery. Featuring an impeccably selected group of about sixty dresses from many of the most eminent fashion houses, the book is a celebratory tribute to the iconic little black dress and its deeply resonant cultural and social significance in the modern era. Defined by the simplest parameters—color and shape—yet voluminous in possibility, the little black dress is personalized by the designer who imagined it and the woman who wears it. In one silhouette it can capture a woman's allure, and in one evening worn provide her with a reservoir of memories. It can sum up in one wardrobe reconnaissance the way you wore the way you were. A little black dress in any other color could dent a reputation; in black it can only elevate one. Whether made from the most superior fabrics, or designed in cutting-edge neoprene, the little black dress maintains its status as the game-changer, the free spirit and pleasure-seeker (Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy in Breakfast at Tiffany's), the career-launcher (Elizabeth Hurley in Versace), the going-for-broke risk-taker (Virginie Gautreau as Madame X), inevitably revealing truths about the women who have chosen to wear one. Three original essays offer personal histories in praise of the little black dress. An introduction by André Leon Talley and a foreword by Paula Wallace complete this exquisite volume. Together with a stunning collection of images, this book presents a singularly elegant portfolio.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847840573
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A selectively curated overview of the little black dress in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, organized by Vogue contributing editor and fashion force André Leon Talley and published on the occasion of an exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah College of Art and Design), André Leon Talley Gallery. Featuring an impeccably selected group of about sixty dresses from many of the most eminent fashion houses, the book is a celebratory tribute to the iconic little black dress and its deeply resonant cultural and social significance in the modern era. Defined by the simplest parameters—color and shape—yet voluminous in possibility, the little black dress is personalized by the designer who imagined it and the woman who wears it. In one silhouette it can capture a woman's allure, and in one evening worn provide her with a reservoir of memories. It can sum up in one wardrobe reconnaissance the way you wore the way you were. A little black dress in any other color could dent a reputation; in black it can only elevate one. Whether made from the most superior fabrics, or designed in cutting-edge neoprene, the little black dress maintains its status as the game-changer, the free spirit and pleasure-seeker (Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy in Breakfast at Tiffany's), the career-launcher (Elizabeth Hurley in Versace), the going-for-broke risk-taker (Virginie Gautreau as Madame X), inevitably revealing truths about the women who have chosen to wear one. Three original essays offer personal histories in praise of the little black dress. An introduction by André Leon Talley and a foreword by Paula Wallace complete this exquisite volume. Together with a stunning collection of images, this book presents a singularly elegant portfolio.
Prequels, Coquels and Sequels in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
Author: Armelle Parey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429795882
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished novel are retrieved to be developed in new adventures set before, after or during the narrative time of the source-text. If autographic and allographic sequels are almost as old as literature, prequels – that imagine the anteriority of a narrative – and coquels – that develop secondary characters in the same story time as the source-text – are more recent. The overall trend for novel expansion spread in the mid-1980s and 1990s and has since shown no sign of abating. This volume is organised following three types of relationships to the source-texts even if these occasionally combine to produce a more complex structure. This book comprises 11 essays, preceded by an introduction, that examine narrative strategies, aesthetic, ethical and political tendencies underlying these novel expansions. Following the overview provided in the introduction, the reader will find case studies of prequels, coquels and sequels before a final chapter that encompasses them all and more.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429795882
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished novel are retrieved to be developed in new adventures set before, after or during the narrative time of the source-text. If autographic and allographic sequels are almost as old as literature, prequels – that imagine the anteriority of a narrative – and coquels – that develop secondary characters in the same story time as the source-text – are more recent. The overall trend for novel expansion spread in the mid-1980s and 1990s and has since shown no sign of abating. This volume is organised following three types of relationships to the source-texts even if these occasionally combine to produce a more complex structure. This book comprises 11 essays, preceded by an introduction, that examine narrative strategies, aesthetic, ethical and political tendencies underlying these novel expansions. Following the overview provided in the introduction, the reader will find case studies of prequels, coquels and sequels before a final chapter that encompasses them all and more.