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  • Fractured France

    A Journey Through a Divided Nation

    by OBE Andrew Hussey ...
    The old ideals that formed the French Republic have crumbled to a battleground of competing ideologies and cultures. Here, Hussey travels from the post-industrial north to the badlands of the south, speaking to commentators, writers, and politicians, talking with locals and walking the streets, to trace the social, political and economic fault-lines that are shaping the new France. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The French Intifada

    The Long War Between France and Its Arabs

    by OBE Andrew Hussey ...
    Beyond the affluent centre of Paris and other French cities, in the deprived banlieues, a war is going on. This is the French Intifada, a guerrilla war between the French state and the former subjects of its Empire, for whom the mantra of 'liberty, equality, fraternity' conceals a bitter history of domination, oppression, and brutality. This war began in the early 1800s, with Napoleon's lust for ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Paris

    The Secret History

    by Andrew Hussey ...
    If Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon described daily life in contemporary Paris, this book describes daily life in Paris throughout its history: a history of the city from the point of view of the Parisians themselves. Paris captures everyone's imaginations: It's a backdrop for Proust's fictional pederast, Robert Doisneau's photographic kiss, and Edith Piaf's serenaded soldier-lovers; a home as much ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Speaking East

    The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou

    by Andrew Hussey ...
    Isidore Isou was a young Jew in war-time Bucharest, and barely survived the Romanian Holocaust. He made his way to Paris where in 1945 he founded the avant-garde movement Lettrism, described as the missing link between Dada, Surrealism, Situationism and May ’68.In Speaking East Andrew Hussey presents a colourful picture of the post-war Left Bank, where Lettrist fists flew in avant-garde punch-ups ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Nairn's Paris

    by Ian Nairn ...
    50th Anniversary of original publication; this is a unique Paris guidebook from the late, great, architecture and travel writer Ian Nairn.Illustrated with the author's black and white snaps of the city, Nairn shows his eye for detail - whether it is stonework on an archway, shadows cast by a railing, or an empty chair in a Paris park, in this book which celebrates the City of Light. Nairn's Paris ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Theological Education

    Foundations, Practices, and Future Directions

    by Andrew M. Bain, Ian Hussey ...
    Series series Australian College of Theology Monograph Series
    This volume draws upon historical and theological sources and empirical research to provide a unique and diverse perspective on theological education in the twenty-first century. The volume develops and promulgates the best thinking about theological education by drawing upon the breadth of expertise represented by the faculty of colleges within the Australian College of Theology. This volume not ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire

    by J. M. Hussey ; Andrew Louth ...
    Series series Oxford History of the Christian Church
    This book describes the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.600-c.1453). As an integral part of its policy it was (as in western Christianity) closely linked with many aspects of everyday life both official and otherwise. It was a formative period for Orthodoxy. It had to face doctrinal problems and heresies; at the same time it experienced the continuity and deepening ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

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    After Dark in the City of Light

    by John Baxter ...
    An irresistible nighttime tour of Paris, past and present, by the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the WorldEvery guidebook to Paris is crammed with sites to see during the day, but visitors are often cast adrift once the sun sets and the Louvre, Notre Dame, and other tourist attractions shut their doors. Sadly for those who have retreated into their hotel rooms, it's only when ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unruly Places

    Lost Spaces Secret Cities And Other Inscrutable Geographies

    by Alastair Bonnett ...
    Alastair Bonnett’s tour of the world’s most unlikely micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man’s lands shows us the modern world from surprising new vantage points, and is bound to inspire urban explorers, off-the-beaten-trail wanderers, and armchair travellers. He connects what we see on maps to what’s happening in the world by looking at the places that are hardest to pin down: ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Paris Reborn

    Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City

    by Stephane Kirkland ...
    A "wide-ranging and readable history" of Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and one of the greatest transformations of a major city in modern history ( The New Yorker ).Traditionally known as a dirty, congested, and dangerous city, 19th-century Paris, France was transformed in an extraordinary period from 1848 to 1870, when the government launched a huge campaign to build streets, squares, parks, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

    An Adventure History of Paris

    by Graham Robb ...
    The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of the acclaimed The Discovery of France.This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Dreyfus Affair

    The Scandal That Tore France in Two

    by Piers Paul Read ...
    July 20, 1894. The German Military Attache in Paris. Colonel Maximillien von Schwarzkoppen received a visit from a seedy-looking middle-aged Frenchman who would not give his name. He told Schwarzkoppen that he was a French army officer serving on the General Staff; that he was in desperate need of money; and was therefore prepared to sell military secrets to the Germans.Captain Alfred Dreyfus, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD