In this enthralling international bestseller, two girls live inconspicuous lives in the center of an elegant Paris apartment building. It is only when a stranger moves into their building--and sees through the girls' disguises--that Paloma and Rene discover their kindred spirits.
Prize-winning author Gavalda has galvanized the literary world with her epic new novel of intimate lives. The author explores the twists of fate that connect four people in Paris who may be hopeless apart, but together, they may just be able to face the world.
Here are eight contemporary fables, populated by a cast of characters in search of happiness. Behind each story lies a simple truth: happiness is often right in front of one's eyes, though it is often overlooked.
For the fans of Andrea Barrett and Barbara Kingsolver, Darwin's Wink is the exquisite story of two naturalists who find unexpected love as they work to save a rare bird species on an island off the coast of Mauritius. Both are haunted by ghosts: Fran mourns the mysterious death of her Mauritian lover; Christian, a former Red Cross worker, has ...
Amlie is a young language teacher living in Tokyo. When she succumbs to the attentions of a student--the shy, wealthy, and oh-so-Japanese Rinri--the lovers find themselves swept along by an affair that is as unusual as it is tender.
From Dada to the Automatists, and from Max Ernst to Andre Breton, Gerard Durozoi provides the most comprehensive and fascinating history of the Surrealist movement to date. Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozoi tells the history of Surrealism through its activities, publications and ...
In this society in which the essential is generally considered incidental (which is reflected in the unbearable dullness of the contemporary man), Catherine David picks the essence from inconspicuous corners where it has been gathering dust and shows us how she uses it to unlock the gates leading to inner beauty. In this remarkable series of 26 ...
This book is an excellent review of health promotion in the context of the pharmacy practice. Since the publication of the first edition, major changes have taken place in the involvement of pharmacists in health promotion. Health promotion is now a core role for community (retail) pharmacist and health promotion is now taught as a core-subject in ...
The impossible love affair between Golda Meir and a Palestinian aristocrat. Albert Pharaon, heir to an enormous fortune, son of a rich Palestinian family, and bored banker, has a lover in Haifa. And not just any lover: she is Jewish; she is a militant Zionist; her name is Golda Meir, future president of Israel. Forbidden love and dangerous ...
A novel of adventure, myth, love lost and love found: a couple sailing through the Pacific takes refuge in a deserted lagoon for repairs, where they find a mysterious woman who has been stranded on an island there for over 40 years--and who may or may not be Amelia Earhart, missing since 1937.
"A dazzling masterpiece."-"Nigrizia" "A total immersion into the Arab world's magic and charm."-"Avvenimenti" "Om Kalthoum is great. She really is."-Bob Dylan The story of the Arab world's greatest and most popular singer, Umm Kulthum, told through the eyes of the poet Ahmad Rami, who wrote her lyrics and loved her in vain all his life. ...
Few tales of disaster at sea are able to convey the survivors' feelings of fear, hopelessness, and horror. This book is one of those successful few...the author, her husband, and their 5-year-old daughter were on a yacht cruise on the Bay of Biscay when they were struck by a storm. Fearing that the yacht was about to sink, the three took to the ...
The consumer ethic is ubiquitous. Everything we do, see, hear and even feel appears to be connected in some way to our experience as consumers. The increasingly high profile of debates over consumption, consumer culture, consumer behaviour and consumer rights reflects a world undergoing rapid change. The Changing Consumer charts the nature of ...
A novel of adventure, myth, love lost and love found: a couple sailing through the Pacific takes refuge in a deserted lagoon for repairs, where they find a mysterious woman who has been stranded on an island there for over 40 years--and who may or may not be Amelia Earhart, missing since 1937.
This book addresses the practices of consumption in tourism, a major theme in the sociology of tourism. To date, most tourism analysis has tended to concentrate on the production of tourist space, and assume that tourism consumption simply mirrors the intentions of the producers. By focussing on a number of relevant sub-themes, such as age, gender ...
This book is intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and the media within sociology, environmental studies, human geography and politics.
Between life and the art that imitates it is a vague, more shadowy category: images that exist autonomously. Pygmalion's mythical sculpture, which magnanimous gods endowed with life after he fell in love with it, marks perhaps the first such instance in Western art history of an image that exists on its own terms, rather than simply imitating ...
Drawing together insights from media studies, sociology and science and technology studies, this book offers a novel analysis of the early framing of nanotechnology and makes a fascinating and timely contribution to debates about the public communication of science. 'Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication' is one of the first major studies of ...
This work addresses the policy, market and sustainability aspects of defining and selecting technologies that will meet the demands for energy services by rural villages in a sustainable and reliable way. It offers a participative approach to the supply of energy services, with a clear emphasis on the need for energy services, putting needs rather ...
On September 20, 1994, Louise Longo, her husband, Bernard, and their five-year-old daughter, Gaella, left Rochefort, France, to go on a three-week cruise. On the night of October 5, a storm started in the dangerous Bay of Biscay. In the breaking seas, Bernard was afraid that the sailboat would sink and decided they would be safer in the liferaft. ...
Are you getting the real news on environmental issues? Or are the reports you are hearing slanted to meet the special interests of the reporters? The government? A lobbying group? How are our views on the Torrey Canyon oil spill, the demise of Brazilian rain forests, or the Chernobyl disaster shaped by individuals or organizations that know how to ...
Twice in the first decades of the seventeenth century the Julich-Kleve succession crises placed Europe on the verge of war. The triumph of diplomacy in the face of international enmities, suspicions, and mistrust lies at the heart of the Julich-Kleve story.
This book is based upon a critical examination of the news-making literature, and my own research conducted with claims-makers and reporters covering environmental affairs from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s.
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