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Historical dictionary of France / Gino Raymond.

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by Raymond, Gino.
Call Number 944.003
Publication Date 2008
Summary Presents a thorough history of France, including entries that cover kings, politicians, authors, architects, composers, artists, and philosophers.
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Algeria : France's undeclared war / Martin Evans.

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by Evans, Martin, 1964-
Call Number 965.046 22
Publication Date 2012
Summary Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the Algerian War of 1954 to 1962 was one of the longest and most violent of the decolonization struggles. An undeclared war in the sense that there was no formal beginning of hostilities, the war produced huge tensions that brought down four government.
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Queens and mistresses of Renaissance France / Kathleen Wellman.

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by Wellman, Kathleen Anne, 1951- author.
Call Number 944.0209252 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary This title tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognised royal mistress in 1444, including Anne of Brittany, Catherine de Medici, Anne Pisseleu, Diane de Poitiers, Marguerite de Valois among others, and concluding with Gabrielle d'Estrées, Henry IV's powerful mistress during the 1590s.
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Our man in Paris : a foreign correspondent, France and the French / by John Lichfield.

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by Lichfield, John, 1949- author.
Call Number 944.084 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary Since 1997 John Lichfield, The Independent's correspondent in France, has been sending dispatches back to the newspaper in London. More than transient news stories, the popular 'Our Man in Paris' series consists of essays on all things French. Sometimes serious, at other times light-hearted, they offer varied vignettes of life in the hexagone and trace the author's evolving relationship with his adopted country. Many of Lichfield's themes concern the mysteries of Paris and its people. Who is responsible for the city's extraordinary plumbing? How can you drive around the Arc de Triomphe and survive? He also ponders the phenomena that intrigue many foreigners, such as the eloquence of the capital's beggars and the identity of the intimidating but fast disappearing concierge.
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Suzanne Noël : cosmetic surgery, feminism and beauty in early twentieth-century France / Paula J. Martin.

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by Martin, Paula J., author.
Call Number 617.9520944 23
Publication Date 2014
Summary Working at the forefront of cosmetic surgery at the turn of the twentieth century, Dr Suzanne Noël was both a pioneer in her medical field and a firm believer in the advancement of women. Today her views on the benefits of aesthetic surgery to women may seem at odds with her feminist principles, but by placing Noël in the context of turn-of-the-century French culture, this book is able to demonstrate how these two worldviews were reconciled. This book sheds much valuable light on advances in aesthetic surgery, twentieth-century beauty culture, women and the public sphere, and the 'new woman'.
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SAS trooper : Charlie Radford's operations in enemy occupied France and Italy / Charlie Radford and Francis MacKay.

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by Radford, Charlie, 1923-
Call Number 356.167092 22
Publication Date 2011
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The French revolution / Thomas Carlyle ; introduced and selected by Ruth Scurr.

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by Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Call Number 944.04 22
Publication Date 2010
Summary In 1837 Thomas Carlyle published his work The French Revolution: A History and overnight became a celebrity. The work was filled with a passionate intensity, hitherto unknown in historical writing. In a politically-charged Europe, filled with fears and hopes of revolution, Carlyle's account of the motivations and urges that inspired the events in France became powerfully relevant. Carlyle's style emphasized this, continually pointing to the urgency of action - often using the present tense. For him, chaotic events demanded 'heroes' to take control over the competing forces erupting within society. In Carlyle's view only dynamic individuals could master events and direct these energies effectively. As soon as ideological formulas replaced heroes and human action, society became dehumanized. As Ruth Scurr shows in her masterly introduction and through the texts she has selected from Carlyle's masterpiece of historical writing, The French Revolution needs still to be read for its relevance and as one of the finest examples of English prose writing ever.
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The A to Z of the French Revolution.

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by Hanson, Paul R.
Call Number 944.0403 23
Publication Date 2007
Summary The French Revolution remains the most examined event and period in world history. Most historians would argue that it was the first ""modern"" revolution, an event so momentous that it changed the very meaning of the word revolution to its current connotation of a political and/or social upheaval that marks a decisive break with the past, moving the society in a forward or progressive direction. No revolution has occurred since 1789 without making reference to this first revolution, and most have been measured against it. When revolution shook the foundations of the Old Regime in France, shoc.
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Henri Poincar�e [electronic resource] : a scientific biography / Jeremy Gray.

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by Gray, Jeremy, 1947-
Call Number 509.2 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary "Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time--he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and a prominent philosopher of science whose fresh and surprising essays are still in print a century later. The first in-depth and comprehensive look at his many accomplishments, Henri Poincaré explores all the fields that Poincaré touched, the debates sparked by his original investigations, and how his discoveries still contribute to society today. Math historian Jeremy Gray shows that Poincaré's influence was wide-ranging and permanent. His novel interpretation of non-Euclidean geometry challenged contemporary ideas about space, stirred heated discussion, and led to flourishing research. His work in topology began the modern study of the subject, recently highlighted by the successful resolution of the famous Poincaré conjecture. And Poincaré's reformulation of celestial mechanics and discovery of chaotic motion started the modern theory of dynamical systems. In physics, his insights on the Lorentz group preceded Einstein's, and he was the first to indicate that space and time might be fundamentally atomic. Poincaré the public intellectual did not shy away from scientific controversy, and he defended mathematics against the attacks of logicians such as Bertrand Russell, opposed the views of Catholic apologists, and served as an expert witness in probability for the notorious Dreyfus case that polarized France. Richly informed by letters and documents, Henri Poincaré demonstrates how one man's work revolutionized math, science, and the greater world"--
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Giacomo Meyerbeer : reputation without cause? : a composer and his critics / by Jennifer Jackson.

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by Jackson, Jennifer.
Call Number 782.1092 22
Publication Date 2011
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Jean Paul Marat : tribune of the French Revolution / Clifford D. Conner.

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by Conner, Clifford D., 1941-
Call Number 944.04092 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary "Jean-Paul Marat's role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he has been portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that interpretation and argues that without Marat's contributions as an agitator, tactician, and strategist, the pivotal social transformation that the Revolution accomplished might well not have occurred. Clifford D. Conner argues that what was unique about Marat - which set him apart from all other major figures of the Revolution, including Danton and Robespierre - was his total identification with the struggle of the propertyless classes for social equality. This is an essential book for anyone interested in the history of the revolutionary period and the personalities that led it."--Publisher's website.
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Joan of Arc by herself and her witnesses / Régine Pernoud ; translated from the French by Edward Hyams.

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by Pernoud, Régine, 1909-1998.
Call Number 944.0260924 22
Publication Date 1982 1964
Summary Using historical documents and translated by Régine Pernoud, Joan of Arc seeks to answer the questions asked by Joan's contemporaries as well as us: Who was she? Whence came she? What had been her life and exploits?
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Robespierre : a revolutionary life / Peter McPhee.

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by McPhee, Peter, 1948-
Call Number 944.04092 23
Publication Date 2012
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Brown-Séquard : an improbable genius who transformed medicine / Michael J. Aminoff.

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by Aminoff, Michael J. (Michael Jeffrey)
Call Number 610.92 22
Publication Date 2011
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Between the queen and the cabby : Olympe de Gouges's Rights of woman / John R. Cole.

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by Cole, John R. (John Richard), 1941-
Call Number 305.42092 23
Publication Date 2011
Summary "Students of the French Revolution and of women's right are generally familiar with Olympe de Gouges's bold adaptation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. However, her Rights of Woman has usually been extracted from its literary context and studied without proper attention to the political consequences of 1791. In Between the Queen and the Cabby, John Cole provides the first full translation of de Gouges's Rights of Woman and the first systematic commentary on its declaration, its attempt to envision a non-marital partnership agreement, and its support for persons of colour. Cole compares and contrasts de Gouges's two texts, explaining how the original text was both her model and her foil. By adding a proposed marriage contract to her pamphlet, she sought to turn the ideas of the French Revolution into a concrete way of life for women. Further examination of her work as a playwright suggests that she supported equality not only for women but for slaves as well. Cole highlights the historical context of de Gouges's writing, going beyond the inherent sexism and misogyny of the time in exploring why her work did not receive the reaction or achieve the influential status she had hoped for. Read in isolation in the gender-conscious twenty-first century, de Gouges's Rights of Woman may seem ordinary. However, none of her contemporaries, neither the Marquis de Condorcet nor Mary Wollstonecraft, published more widely on current affairs, so boldly attempted to extend democratic principles to women, or so clearly related the public and private spheres. Read in light of her eventual condemnation by the Revolutionary Tribunal, her words become tragically foresighted: "Woman has the right to mount the Scaffold; she must also have that of mounting the Rostrum."--Publisher's website.
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Provence : a Cultural History.

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by Garrett, Martin.
Call Number 944.9
Publication Date 2012
Summary Celebrated by writers from Petrarch to Peter Mayle, Provence's rugged mountains, wild maquis and lavender-filled meadows are world-famous. Historic cities like Arles, Avignon and Aix contain Roman amphitheatres, papal palaces and royal residences, while market towns and picturesque villages maintain age-old traditions of wine producing and agriculture. From the highland towns of Digne and Sisteron to the marshy expanse of the Camargue, Provence encompasses a rich variety of landscapes. Mart ...
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Henry VIII and Francis I : the final conflict, 1540-1547 / by David Potter.

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by Potter, David, 1948-
Call Number 942.052 22
Publication Date 2011
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Diary of a witness : 1940-1943 / Raymond-Raoul Lambert ; translated from the French by Isabel Best ; edited with an introduction by Richard I. Cohen.

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by Lambert, Raymond-Raoul, 1894-1943.
Call Number 940.5318092 22
Publication Date 2007
Summary Raymond-Raoul Lambert's Diary has been among the most important untranslated records of the experience of French Jews in the Holocaust. Lambert, a leader of the Union of French Jews (UGIF), was, in the words of the historian Michael Marrus, ""arguably the most important Jewish official in contact with the Vichy government and the Germans."" Lambert's Diary survived the war and was published in France in 1985. It reveals Lambert's efforts to save the Jews in France, particularly the children.
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A portrait of pacifists : Le Chambon, the Holocaust, and the lives of André and Magda Trocmé / Richard P. Unsworth ; with a foreword by Peter I. Rose.

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by Unsworth, Richard P.
Call Number 940.5318092244595 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary Explores the lives of heralded Holocaust rescuers Andre and Magda Trocme, and the people of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon France who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis.
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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber : the Man and His Music.

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by Letellier, Robert Ignatius.
Call Number 780.92
Publication Date 2010
Summary Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the composer of La Muette de Portici (1828) and Fra Diavolo (1830), was once regarded as one of the great figures of music, a staple of the operatic repertoire in France, and indeed around the world. It is now almost impossible to understand the extent of his once universal fame, his influence on contemporary composers. His operas were in the theatre repertories of the world until the 1920s, and innumerable arrangements of them were published and sold ...
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Emile Durkheim [electronic resource] : sociologist and moralist / edited by Stephen P. Turner.

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by Turner, Stephen P., 1951- editor.
Call Number 301.092 20
Publication Date 1993
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Emile Durkheim [electronic resource] : sociologist and moralist / edited by Stephen P. Turner.

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by Turner, Stephen P., 1951- editor.
Call Number 301.092 20
Publication Date 1993
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The Napoleonic Wars : the Empires Fight Back 1808-1812.

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by Fisher, Todd.
Call Number 944.05092 21
Publication Date 2013
Summary First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Charlemagne / Johannes Fried ; translated by Peter Lewis.

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by Fried, Johannes, author.
Call Number 944.0142092
Publication Date 2016
Summary "When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped Europe's destiny in ways few figures, before or since, have equaled. Living in an age of faith, Charlemagne was above all a Christian king, Fried says. He made his court in Aix la Chapelle the center of a religious and intellectual renaissance, enlisting the Anglo Saxon scholar Alcuin of York to be his personal tutor, and insisting that monks be literate and versed in rhetoric and logic. He erected a magnificent cathedral in his capital, decorating it lavishly while also dutifully attending Mass every morning and evening. And to an extent greater than any ruler before him, Charlemagne enhanced the papacy's influence, becoming the first king to enact the legal principle that the pope was beyond the reach of temporal justice a decision with fateful consequences for European politics for centuries afterward. Though devout, Charlemagne was not saintly. He was a warrior king, intimately familiar with violence and bloodshed. And he enjoyed worldly pleasures, including physical love. Though there are aspects of his personality we can never know with certainty, Fried paints a compelling portrait of a ruler, a time, and a kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called 'the father of Europe'"--Provided by publisher.
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Fighting for America : the struggle for mastery in North America, 1519-1871 / Jeremy Black.

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by Black, Jeremy, 1955-
Call Number 970.01 23
Publication Date 2011
Summary Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most British garrisons, Britain accepted American mastery in North America. In this wide-ranging narrative, Black makes clear that the process by which America gained supremacy was far from inevitable. The story Black tells is one of conflict, diplomacy, geopolitics, and poli.
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Escape to freedom / Leon Rubinstein ; foreword by Michael Berenbaum.

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by Rubinstein, Leon, 1923-
Call Number 940.5318142092
Publication Date 2007
Summary As a ten-year-old child, Leon Rubinstein fled Germany with his parents in 1933 to Luxembourg and then Belgium, which they fled again on the morning of the Nazi invasion. They dwelt quietly as refugees in the south of France until the Vichy government began its roundup of foreign Jews for deportation. After his father's arrest, Leon endeavors to save himself and his mother with a daring journey to the border towns of southeastern France. Among their encounters, they hitch a ride with German SS officers, while disguising their identities. Their arduous journey leads them to Switzerland, where the memoir provides a rare look at the lives of Jewish refugees in the Swiss work camps. <br /><br />Throughout this deeply felt story is Rubinstein's awareness of his transformation from adolescence to young manhood amid the catastrophic losses and dislocations of the war years in Europe. His personal story resonates with anyone who remembers discovering love, as well as the necessity of choices and sacrifices.
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Revered commander, maligned general : the life of Clarence Ransom Edwards, 1859-1931 / Michael E. Shay.

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by Shay, Michael E., 1945-
Call Number 355.0092 23
Publication Date 2011
Summary Annotation Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards is a vital figure in American military history, yet his contribution to the U.S. efforts in World War I has often been ignored or presented in unflattering terms. Most accounts focus on the disagreements he had with General John J. Pershing, who dismissed Edwards from the command of the 26th (Yankee) Division just weeks before thewar's end. The notoriety of the Pershing incident has caused some to view Edwards as simply a political general with a controversial career. But Clarence Edwards, though often a divisive figure, was a greater man than that. A revered and admired officer whose men called him Daddy, Edwards attained an impressive forty-year career, one matched by few wartime leaders . Michael E. Shay presents a complete portrait of this notable American and his many merits inRevered Commander, Maligned General. This long-overdue first full-length biography of General Clarence Edwards opens with his earlyyears in Cleveland, Ohio and his turbulenttimes at West Point. The book details the crucial roles Edwards filled in staff and field commands for the Army before the outbreak of World War I in 1917: Adjutant-General with General Henry Ware Lawton in the Philippine-American War, first chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and commander of U.S. forces in the Panama Canal Zone. Revered Commander, Maligned Generalfollows Edwards as he forms the famous Yankee Division and leads his men into France. The conflict between Edwards and Pershing is placed in context, illuminating the disputes that led to Edwards being relieved of command. This well-researched biography quotes a wealth of primary sources in recounting the life ofan important American, a man of loyalty and service who is largely misunderstood. Photographs of Edwards, his troops, and his kinmany from Edwards own collectioncomplement the narrative. In addition, several maps aid readers in following General Edwards as his career moves from the U.S. to Central America to Europe and back stateside. Shays portrayalof General Edwards finally provides a balancedaccount of this unique U.S. military leader.
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Chianti Classico : The Search for Tuscany's Noblest Wine.

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by Nesto, Bill.
Call Number 641.2209455
Publication Date 2016
Summary This book tells the story of the ancient land named Chianti and the modern wine appellation known as Chianti Classico. In 1716, Tuscany's penultimate Medici ruler, Cosimo III, anointed the region of Chianti, along with three smaller areas in the Florentine State, as the world's first legal appellations of origin for wine. In the succeeding centuries, this milestone was all but forgotten. By the late nineteenth century, the name Chianti, rather than signifying this historic region and its celebrated wine, identified a simple Italian red table wine in a straw-covered flask.   In the twenty-first century, Chianti Classico emerged as one of Italy's most dynamic and fashionable wine zones. Chianti Classico relates the fascinating evolution of Chianti as a wine region and reveals its geographic and cultural complexity. Bill Nesto, MW, and Frances Di Savino explore the townships of Chianti Classico and introduce readers to the modern-day winegrowers who are helping to transform the region. The secrets of Sangiovese, the principal vine variety of Chianti, are also revealed as the book unlocks the myths and mysteries of one of Italy's most storied wine regions. The publication of Chianti Classico coincides with the three hundredth anniversary of the Medici decree delimiting the region of Chianti on September 24, 1716.
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Turner.

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by Angoh, Stéphanie.
Call Number 759.054
Publication Date 2011
Summary At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth. He soon acquired the reputation of an immensely clever watercolourist. A disciple of Girtin and Cozens, he showed in his choice and presentation of theme a picturesque imagination which seemed to mark him out for a brilliant career as an illustrator. He travelled, first in his native land and then on several occasions in France, the Rhine Valley, Switzerland and Italy. He soon began to look beyond illustration. However, even in works in which we are tempted to see only picturesque imagination, there appears his dominant and guiding ide.
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Modigliani.

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by Charles, Victoria.
Call Number 759.5 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary Modigliani (1884-1920) was a painter of great unhappiness in his native Italy and felt only sorrow in his adopted country of France. Out of this discontent came forth Modigliani's original work, which was influenced by African art, the Cubists, and drunken nights in Montparnasse. His portrayal of women-sensual bodies, almost aggressive nudity, and mysterious faces-expresses their suffering and feelings of being unloved and unjustly disregarded. Modigliani died at the age of 36.
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Missionary bishop : Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans / Patrick Foley ; with a foreword by Gilbert R. Cruz.

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by Foley, Patrick, 1933-
Call Number 282.092
Publication Date 2013
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Living on the Western Front : Annals and Stories, 1914-1919.

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by Ward, Chris.
Call Number 940.41241
Publication Date 2013
Summary Living on the Western Front provides a highly original history of the settler experience in Befland ([B]ritish [E]xpeditionary [F]orce land) during the First World War. Using an unusual representational form that involves the stitching together of over a hundred extracts from primary sources, which can then in turn be read either chronologically or thematically, Chris Ward brilliantly depicts a sense of settlers' lives in Great War Belgium, Northern France and Germany. Simultaneously an annal and an anthology of stories, this book tells us about landscapes, sounds, smells, food, journeys, memo.
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Pauline Boutal : an artist's destiny, 1894-1992 / Louise Duguay ; translated by S.E. Stewart.

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by Duguay, Louis, 1954-
Call Number 759.11 23
Publication Date 2015
Summary "In the first part of the twentieth century few women in western Canada had careers as artists--Pauline Boutal had three: 23 years as a fashion illustrator for the Eaton's catalogue for the graphic design company, Brigden's of Winnipeg, 27 years as the Artistic Director at the Cercle Molière Theatre and 70 years as a visual artist. Born in Brittany in 1894, Boutal painted in a traditional style and trained at the Winnipeg School of Art, the Cape Cod School of Art, and at l'Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, France. She left an important legacy of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and illustrations as well as theatre sets and costume designs. This English translation of Louise Duguay's award-winning "Pauline Boutal: Destin d'artiste 1894 1992" shares the story of an important artist who lived an exceptional life."--
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More than cowboys : travels through the history of the American west / Tim Slessor.

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by Slessor, Tim.
Call Number 978 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary So many books about the American West leave out the more intriguing details:When, in 1803, the young USA doubled its size with the purchase from France of an unexplored vastness called La Louisiane, it was a British bank which lent the Americans most of the 15 million that they didn't have. So the financial papers for the biggest real-estate deal in history are, to this day, held in a London vault. Not many people know that ... If his ranching uncle-by-marriage had had his way, the t ...
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Ladies in the laboratory II : West European women in science, 1800-1900 : a survey of their contributions to research / Mary R.S. Creese, with contributions by Thomas M. Creese.

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by Creese, Mary R. S., 1935-
Call Number 500.8209409034 22
Publication Date 2004
Summary A fascinating analysis of the work of notable women by national group, giving thorough data comparing the contributions of women in choice fields. Among the women presented are more than a few colorful personalities representative of the entire social scale, from a royal princess to the daughter of a Paris slum shopkeeper. Researchers in the field of women's history and science history will find this indexed volume a valuable resource.
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John Quincy Adams / Lynn Hudson Parsons.

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by Parsons, Lynn H.
Call Number 973.55092 22
Publication Date 1998
Summary As son of the second president of the United States, father to the minister to the Court of St. James, and grandfather to author Henry Adams, John Quincy Adams was part of an American dynasty. In his own career as secretary of state, President, senator, and congressman, Adams was an actor in some of the most dramatic events of the nineteenth century. In this biography, Lynn Hudson Parsons chronicles the life of one of America's most absorbing figures. From the day in 1778 when as a boy he accompanied his father on a diplomatic mission to France, to his last years as an eloquent opponent of his country's foreign and domestic policies, Adams was rarely detached from public affairs. And yet, this biography reveals Adams as a man never truly at home anywhere - in Washington he was stubborn and reclusive, in Europe he was a phlegmatic ideologue, a bulldog among spaniels. His story parallels America's own.
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From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day : the American Armed Forces in World War II / D. Clayton James, Anne Sharp Wells.

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by James, D. Clayton, author.
Call Number 940.541273 20
Publication Date 1995
Summary A compact but comprehensive history of the American armed forces in World War II, examining the strategy, logistics, high command, operations, and home-front aspects of the military campaign. "Consistently absorbing ... As inclusive and compact a rundown as general readers are likely to get anytime soon."--Kirkus Reviews. American Ways Series.
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The Kurds : an encyclopedia of life, culture, and society / Sebastian Maisel, editor.

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by Maisel, Sebastian, 1970- editor.
Call Number 909.0491597003 23
Publication Date 2018
Summary This book provides an examination the Kurds through thematic and country-specific essays as well as important primary documents that allow for a greater understanding of the diversity and pluralism of the region.
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Roosevelt's second act : the election of 1940 and the politics of war / Richard Moe.

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by Moe, Richard.
Call Number 973.917092 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary ""In Roosevelt's Second Act Richard Moe has shown in superb fashion that what might seem to have been an inevitable decision of comparatively little interest was far from it.""--David McCullough On August 31, 1939, nearing the end of his second and presumably final term in office, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was working in the Oval Office and contemplating construction of his presidential library and planning retirement. The next day German tanks had crossed the Polish border; Britain and France had declared war. Overnight the world had changed, and FDR found himself being forced to c.
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A journey of hope / Oscar Mann.

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by Mann, Oscar.
Call Number 610.92 22
Publication Date 2005
Summary In this touching and courageous memoir, Oscar Mann recounts his boyhood in France, the onset of World War II and the Holocaust, his immigration to America, and his years in the military and as a doctor. Mann's honest narrative offers us a glimpse into his past and a critical time in 20th century history and reminds us all of the power of hope.
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Deontología profesional / Beatriz Vila Ramos, coordinadora ; Helena Ancos Franco, [and others].

2024-05-20T06:54:23Z

by Vila Ramos, Beatriz, editor of compilation.
Call Number 340.112 23
Publication Date 2013
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La espiral comunicativa, educativa y migratoria para África / Guillermina Franco Álvarez y David García Martul, coordinadores.

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by Franco Álvarez, Guillermina, editor of compilation.
Call Number 304 22
Publication Date 2013
Summary Por otro lado, esta obra colectiva, al integrar investigadores de distintos países de África con investigadores de centros universitarios españoles, con inquietudes por la cooperación con el continente africano, ha supuesto un importante paso en la cooperación interuniversitaria de nuestro país con los países de África Occidental. Las diferentes aportaciones a esta publicación, se construyen desde diferentes prismas y espirales que atienden a los ejes temáticos abordados en el título del libro acerca de la realidad africana. Así pues, no es casual que el primer capítulo sea donde los directores de la obra desarrollan una propuesta de implementación y diseño para una plataforma e-learning destinada a la educación permanente de una comunidad inmigrante senegalesa. Esta plataforma educativa aporta como novedad la creación de una señalética propia fundamentada inicialmente en indicadores antropológicos así como objetos usados (usabilidad) habitualmente en la vida cotidiana por parte de los integrantes de una comunidad senegalesa. El concepto de alfabetizacioón informacional es ejemplificado, en uno de los capítulos por parte de los coordinadores de la obra, a partir del modelo teórico propuesto por el Prof. David Bawden llevando a cabo una experiencia en el entorno educativo de una comunidad inmigrante senegalesa. Por ello, las investigaciones presentadas en esta obra suponen un marco de diálogo intercultural primario a partir del cual esperamos generar inquietudes entre los lectores acerca del desarrollo de África.
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Deontología profesional / Beatriz Vila Ramos, coordinadora ; Helena Ancos Franco, [and others].

2024-05-20T06:54:23Z

La espiral comunicativa, educativa y migratoria para África / Guillermina Franco Álvarez y David García Martul, coordinadores.

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Focus of hope : fifty resilient students speak / Erik E. Morales, Frances K. Trotman.

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by Morales, Erik E.
Call Number 370.19341 22
Publication Date 2011
Summary Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnicbackgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships between groups of protective factors are documented and explored. A Resilience Cycle theory, which was chronicled in previous works of the authors, is used as a framework.
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Dominion : England and its island neighbours, 1500-1707 / Derek Hirst.

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by Hirst, Derek.
Call Number 942.05 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary "Dominion: England and its Island Neighbours c.1500-1707 is a rich narrative history of England's increasing dominance over the cluster of territories that became known as the British Isles. It brings alive a period and a geography remarkable for repeated religious wars and a long colonial struggle as well as for London's emergence as a political, economic, and cultural hub. While Dominion concentrates on English actions and purposes, it pays careful attention to interactions in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and to the pressures of European competition. It does so by drawing on the vibrant recent scholarship of the separate nations and considerable primary research, and also on the language of the actors, from Henry VIII and Elizabeth, Spenser and Shakespeare, to Oliver Cromwell and John Milton. Its purpose is not just to explore English understandings and ideologies, but their consequences, both creative and disruptive. The landmarks of the Tudor and Stuart centuries may be familiar: the creation of Ireland as a subordinate but fractured kingdom, the unification of Wales with England, the unstable union of the crowns of England and Scotland, the bloody conquest and reconquest of Ireland, and the formation of the United Kingdom amid fierce rivalry with France. By interweaving these strands as a single coherent story of English reactions and projections, this book opens up a new understanding of this formative period in the history of these islands - and also of its fractious legacy."--Publisher's website.
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Building the continental empire : American expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War / William Earl Weeks ; [maps by Victor Thompson].

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by Weeks, William Earl, 1957-
Call Number 327.73 22
Publication Date 1996
Summary In this fresh survey of foreign relations in the early years of the American republic, William Weeks argues that the construction of the new nation went hand in hand with the building of the American empire. That empire, he maintains, was of fundamental importance to the new nation, and he shows how a dispute over the future of the empire led the nation to civil war. Mr. Weeks traces the origins of the imperial initiative to the 1750s, when the Founding Fathers began to perceive the advantages of colonial union and the possibility of creating an empire within the British Empire that would provide security and the potential for commerce and territorial expansion. After the adoption of the Constitution - which brought a far stronger central government than had been popularly imagined - the need to expand combined with a messianic American nationalism. The result was Manifest Destiny, a complex of ideas and emotions that rhetorically justified both the nation and the empire. With aggressive diplomacy by successive presidential administrations, the United States built a transcontinental empire and achieved supremacy in the Western Hemisphere. From the acquisition of Louisiana and Florida to the Mexican War, from the Monroe Doctrine to the annexation of Texas, Mr. Weeks describes the ideology and scope of American expansion. Relations with Great Britain, France, and Spain; the role of missionaries, technology, and the federal government, and the issue of slavery that forced a breakdown of the expansionist consensus - these are key elements in this succinct and thoughtful view of the making of the continental nation.
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The men who lost America : British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire / Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy.

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by O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson.
Call Number 973.32 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary "The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire"--
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The lure of Texas / by Robert D. Morritt.

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by Morritt, Robert D.
Call Number 976.4 22
Publication Date 2011
Summary This book affords the reader an in-depth history of Texas from the earliest Paleographical era, providing details of the occupation of Texas by Spain, France and Mexico, and gives the reader contemporary accounts of battles and incursions leading up to th.
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North America : the Historical Geography of a Changing Continent / edited by Thomas F. McIlwraith and Edward K. Muller.

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by McIlwraith, Thomas F., editor.
Call Number 911.7
Publication Date 2001
Summary This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North American regions from European exploration and colonization to the second half of the twentieth century. Collectively the contributors explore the key themes of acquisition of geographical knowledge, cultural transfer and acculturation, frontier expansion, spatial organization of society, resource.
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Leaving the shade of the middle ground : the poetry of F.R. Scott / selected with an introduction by Laura Moss and an afterword by George Elliott Clarke.

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by Scott, F. R. (Francis Reginald), 1899-1985.
Call Number C811.52 22
Publication Date 2011
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Karl Marx : the story of his life / by Franz Mehring translated by Edward Fitzgerald.

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by Mehring, Franz.
Call Number 335.4092 22
Publication Date 2010
Summary Containing footnotes and an extensive bibliography, this edition of Franz Mehring's classic biography is designed to assist the English-speaking reader towards a better understanding of Marx, his work and Marxism.
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The Human Tradition in Modern Europe, 1750 to the Present.

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by Granata, Cora.
Call Number 940.2
Publication Date 2007
Summary This engaging and humanizing text traces the development of Europe since the mid-eighteenth century through the lives of people of the time. Capturing key moments, themes, and events in the continent's turbulent modern past, the book explores how ordinary Europeans both shaped their societies and were affected by larger historical processes. By focusing on the lives of individual actors, both famous and obscure, students can gain a sense for how the well-known revolutions, wars, and social transformations of the modern era were experienced in private homes, work places, political forums, and o.
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Historical Atlas of the United States.

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by Carnes, Mark C.
Call Number 911.73
Publication Date 2013
Summary Designed for all libraries, this large-format, full-color atlas is an authoritative guide to the history of the United States. From the formation of the continent up through current events and information based on the most recent census, this work uses the geography of the United States to portray the history of the land and its people. The 300-plus maps tell the engaging story of America with detailed, clear information; accompanying text highlights key information presented in each map. An indispensable tool for students and educators alike, the Historical Atlas of the United Sta.
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Georges and Pauline Vanier : portrait of a couple / Mary Frances Coady.

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by Coady, Mary Frances.
Call Number 971.06420922 23
Publication Date 2011
Summary The dramatic personal and professional story of Canada's most influential married couple.
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Letters to Alice : birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch dynasty / edited and annotated by Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick ; with a foreword by Thomas H. Kreneck.

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by Kleberg, Robert Justus, 1853-1932.
Call Number 976.4113 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary "In the summer of 1881, Robert Justus Kleberg rode across the hot, dusty South Texas brush country to the palatial home of Capt. Richard King to consult with the cattle baron about attending to his legal affairs. On that same journey, the young lawyer also first laid eyes on Alice King, "Princess of the Wild Horse Desert." Neither of their lives would ever be the same. Published for the first time in this book, the love letters written by Kleberg to Alice Gertrudis King provide a glimpse of the lives of two of the most influential people in Texas history. Editors Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick have also provided generous documentation and annotation of these important primary documents from the Special Collections at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, affording historians and interested readers an insider's view of one of the world's greatest ranching empires as it transitioned from its founders to the next generation. Letters to Alice: Birth of the Kleberg-King-Ranch Dynasty represents the only existing collection of letters between any of the great Texas cattle barons and their wives. Although a great deal is already known about the ranch and its development, Monday and Vick present for the first time Robert Justus Kleberg's personal perspective on his first meeting with Alice King, their early courtship, the difficulties obtaining her parents' permission to marry, and the poignant time surrounding Captain King's death."--Provided by publisher.
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Search Results for France - Narrowed by: Electronic books. - 1:ONLINE

Historical dictionary of France / Gino Raymond.

Algeria : France's undeclared war / Martin Evans.

Queens and mistresses of Renaissance France / Kathleen Wellman.

Our man in Paris : a foreign correspondent, France and the French / by John Lichfield.

Suzanne Noël : cosmetic surgery, feminism and beauty in early twentieth-century France / Paula J. Martin.

SAS trooper : Charlie Radford's operations in enemy occupied France and Italy / Charlie Radford and Francis MacKay.

The French revolution / Thomas Carlyle ; introduced and selected by Ruth Scurr.

The A to Z of the French Revolution.

Henri Poincar&#xFFFD;e [electronic resource] : a scientific biography / Jeremy Gray.

Giacomo Meyerbeer : reputation without cause? : a composer and his critics / by Jennifer Jackson.

Jean Paul Marat : tribune of the French Revolution / Clifford D. Conner.

Joan of Arc by herself and her witnesses / Régine Pernoud ; translated from the French by Edward Hyams.

Robespierre : a revolutionary life / Peter McPhee.

Brown-Séquard : an improbable genius who transformed medicine / Michael J. Aminoff.

Between the queen and the cabby : Olympe de Gouges's Rights of woman / John R. Cole.

Provence : a Cultural History.

Henry VIII and Francis I : the final conflict, 1540-1547 / by David Potter.

Diary of a witness : 1940-1943 / Raymond-Raoul Lambert ; translated from the French by Isabel Best ; edited with an introduction by Richard I. Cohen.

A portrait of pacifists : Le Chambon, the Holocaust, and the lives of André and Magda Trocmé / Richard P. Unsworth ; with a foreword by Peter I. Rose.

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber : the Man and His Music.

Emile Durkheim [electronic resource] : sociologist and moralist / edited by Stephen P. Turner.

Emile Durkheim [electronic resource] : sociologist and moralist / edited by Stephen P. Turner.

The Napoleonic Wars : the Empires Fight Back 1808-1812.

Charlemagne / Johannes Fried ; translated by Peter Lewis.

Fighting for America : the struggle for mastery in North America, 1519-1871 / Jeremy Black.

Escape to freedom / Leon Rubinstein ; foreword by Michael Berenbaum.

Revered commander, maligned general : the life of Clarence Ransom Edwards, 1859-1931 / Michael E. Shay.

Chianti Classico : The Search for Tuscany's Noblest Wine.

Turner.

Modigliani.

Missionary bishop : Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans / Patrick Foley ; with a foreword by Gilbert R. Cruz.

Living on the Western Front : Annals and Stories, 1914-1919.

Pauline Boutal : an artist's destiny, 1894-1992 / Louise Duguay ; translated by S.E. Stewart.

More than cowboys : travels through the history of the American west / Tim Slessor.

Ladies in the laboratory II : West European women in science, 1800-1900 : a survey of their contributions to research / Mary R.S. Creese, with contributions by Thomas M. Creese.

John Quincy Adams / Lynn Hudson Parsons.

From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day : the American Armed Forces in World War II / D. Clayton James, Anne Sharp Wells.

The Kurds : an encyclopedia of life, culture, and society / Sebastian Maisel, editor.

Roosevelt's second act : the election of 1940 and the politics of war / Richard Moe.

A journey of hope / Oscar Mann.

Deontología profesional / Beatriz Vila Ramos, coordinadora ; Helena Ancos Franco, [and others].

La espiral comunicativa, educativa y migratoria para África / Guillermina Franco Álvarez y David García Martul, coordinadores.

Deontología profesional / Beatriz Vila Ramos, coordinadora ; Helena Ancos Franco, [and others].

La espiral comunicativa, educativa y migratoria para África / Guillermina Franco Álvarez y David García Martul, coordinadores.

Focus of hope : fifty resilient students speak / Erik E. Morales, Frances K. Trotman.

Dominion : England and its island neighbours, 1500-1707 / Derek Hirst.

Building the continental empire : American expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War / William Earl Weeks ; [maps by Victor Thompson].

The men who lost America : British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire / Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy.

The lure of Texas / by Robert D. Morritt.

North America : the Historical Geography of a Changing Continent / edited by Thomas F. McIlwraith and Edward K. Muller.

Leaving the shade of the middle ground : the poetry of F.R. Scott / selected with an introduction by Laura Moss and an afterword by George Elliott Clarke.

Karl Marx : the story of his life / by Franz Mehring translated by Edward Fitzgerald.

The Human Tradition in Modern Europe, 1750 to the Present.

Historical Atlas of the United States.

Georges and Pauline Vanier : portrait of a couple / Mary Frances Coady.

Letters to Alice : birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch dynasty / edited and annotated by Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick ; with a foreword by Thomas H. Kreneck.

Henri Poincar�e [electronic resource] : a scientific biography / Jeremy Gray.