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The late sixteenth century saw a redrawing of the borders of north-west Europe. Wales and Brittany entered into unions with neighboring countries England and France. This book uses Brittany and Wales' responses to unification to describe a comparative history of national identity during the early modern period.
Le Grand Hôtel and the Opéra Garnier compose the setting of one of the most beautiful squares in Paris. Since its inauguration by Empress Eugénie in 1862, the hotel has been at the crossroads of the worlds of art, fashion, and politics. The terrace of the adjoining Café de la Paix has been graced by such famous names as Victor Hugo and Emile Zola, Marlene Dietrich and Josephine Baker, Sonia Rykiel and Vivienne Westwood, to name but a few. Now fully renovated by Pierre-Yves Rochon, Le Grand Hôtel is more than ever the symbol of Parisian elegance, offering visitors a supreme example of the French art of living. - Includes a booklet featuring the Café de la Paix's signature recipes.
Vincent Ferrer (1350–1419), a celebrated Dominican preacher from Valencia, was revered as a living saint during his lifetime, receiving papal canonization within fifty years of his death. In The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby, Laura Ackerman Smoller recounts the fascinating story of how Vincent became the subject of widespread devotion, ranging from the saint's tomb in Brittany to cult centers in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and Latin America, where Vincent is still venerated today. Along the way, Smoller traces the long and sometimes contentious process of establishing a stable image of a new saint.Vincent came to be epitomized by a singularly arresting miracle tale in which a mother kil...
Scattered across the globe, the Isma'ilis constitute the second largest Shi'i community in the Muslim World. This study traces their history and doctrinal developments from their origins to the present day over a period of twelve centuries.
This book is a translation by Professor Sami El Hage of Volume I of Le Grand's three-volume treatise on physiological optics. It is the last of the three volumes to be translated into English. Le Grand's second volume was translated into English by Hunt, Walsh and Hunt and published in 1957 under the title Light, Colour and Vision. His third volume was translated into English by Millodot and Heath in 1966 and published under the title Form and Space Vision. Although Le Grand's three volumes have been compared to the three volumes of Helmholtz, it is important to note that Le Grand has distributed differently the topics in his three volumes. This book is a mixture of the tradition established by Helmholtz and followed by Tscherning and Sheard with the tradition originated by Danders and followed by Landolt and Laurance and others. Helmholtz's first volume was concerned with the image forming structure of the eye, almost without reference to practical problems of examining patients and fitting them with glasses. It dealt with the problems of a single eye.
« Avec toute mon admiration pour le dynamisme du Tour de France à la Voile, qui a donné à nos jeunes une impulsion pour les joies de la mer. » Amiral Yves Leenhardt « C'est la plus sympathique et la plus réussie de toutes les initiatives de sponsoring. » Edmond de Rothschild « Bon vent au Tour de France à la Voile et un grand bravo à ses remarquables organisateurs. » Ambroise Guellec « Parmi les sept ou huit bonnes idées, toutes issues d'initiatives privées, qui ont marqué la modernité de la voile au cours de ces 15 dernières années, le Tour de France à la Voile est l'une des meilleures. Encore fallait-il la mettre en œuvre ; je l'ai vu naître, grandir et s'affirmer jus...
Colour Vision Deficiences VIII brings together information on the latest trends in the following areas of research: -Visual effects of intense lights; -Effects of intoxications on colour vision; -Ageing and vision; -Methods of examination; -Congenital defects; -Acquired defects; -Practical aspects; -Physiological bases. This volume is a natural follow-up on Volumes VI and VII published in 1981 and 1983 respectively by Dr. W. Junk Publishers.