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This book provides as no other book has done -- an extensively illustrated behind--the-scenes journey into a culinary scene that is becoming, in true Sin City fashion, one of the world's most exciting. Within the pages of the book readers learn about some of the city's top restaurants and the philosophies, missions and little-known (and often fascinating) personal histories of the people who run them. And for those who can't get to Las Vegas as often as they would like -- or are searching for a little inspiration -- the book provides a selection of the chefs' favourite recipes, each accompanied by a colour photograph.
For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and historiography, Himmelfarb adds four new essays. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and Fukuyama's "end of history," Himmelfarb enriches her exploration of the ways historians make sense of the past.
Preface Part 1 - Time in History The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II: Extract from the Preface The Situation of History in 1950 Part 2 - History and the Other Human Sciences History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée Unity and Diversity in the Human Sciences History and Sociology Toward a Historical Economics Toward a Serial History: Seville and the Atlantic, 1504-1650 Is There a Geography of Biological Man? On a Concept of Social History Demography and the Scope of the Human Sciences Part 3 - History and the Present Age In Bahia, Brazil: The Present Explains the Past The History of Civilizations: The Past Explains the Present Index.
A word-by-word translation in English and IPA, and annotated guides to the dialogue and recitative versions of the opera, this book is a complete reference for anyone studying or producing Bizet's Carmen. It provides all the material necessary for practical use by singers, conductors, coaches, stage directors, opera producers, students and teachers. - from the publisher's notes.
In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before and especially after World War I; and finally, into the fate of the discipline and its practitioners under the German Occupation and its immediate aftermath. Conklin addresses the influence exerted by academic networks, museum collections, and imperial connections in defining human diversity sociocu...
An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from Ancient Greece to September 11 What if history, as we know it, had run another course? Touching on alternate histories of the future and the past, or uchronias, A Past of Possibilities encourages deeper consideration of watershed moments in the course of history. Wide-ranging in scope, it examines the Boxer Rebellion in China, the 1848 revolution in France, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, and integrates science fiction, history, historiography, sociology, anthropology, and film. In probing the genre of literature and history that is fascinated with hypotheticals surrounding key points in history, Quentin Deluermoz and Pierre Singaravélou reach beyond a mere reimagining of history, exploring the limits and potentials of the futures past. From the most bizarre fiction to serious scientific hypothesis, they provide a survey of the uses of counterfactual histories, methodological issues on the possible in Social Sciences, and practical proposals for using alternate histories in research and the wider public.
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This collection of essays by scholars of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French music has been assembled in homage to the influential and inspirational French musicologist Fran‘s Lesure who died in 2001. Lesure's immense erudition was legendary and spanned music from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Two French composers who were particular foci in his scholarship were Berlioz and Debussy and this collection is based on scholarship around these two composers and the sources, contexts and legacies relating to their work.