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21) The way to cook
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1989
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Often hailed as the godfather of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on "impossible" missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers' legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England's dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of...
33) The sweet life in Paris: delicious adventures in the world's most glorious - and perplexing - city
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood.But he soon discovered it's a different world en France.From learning...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative, sweeping, and fresh new biography of the nation's first president, Colin G. Calloway's book reveals fully the dimensions and depths of George Washington's relations with the First Americans."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and "father of his country." Less often discussed is Washington's military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as the Revolutionary War commander in chief. Now, in a revealing work of historical biography, Edward Lengel has written the definitive account of George Washington the soldier. Based largely on Washington's personal papers,...
37) Remembered
Author
Series
Fountain Creek chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
The threat of war--and a final request--send Véronique Girard from France to a distant and uninviting country. In the Colorado Territory, she searches for the man who has held her heart since childhood--her father. Pierre Girard left Paris for the Americas to seek his fortune in fur trading, vowing to send for his wife and daughter. But twenty-five years have passed and his vow remains unfulfilled. Sifting through shards of broken promises, Véronique...
39) Impressionism
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley in association with the Art Institute of Chicago
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Author
Series
Graphic history volume 7
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the darkly humorous story of the French colonial state's failed efforts to impose its vision of modernity upon the colonial city of Hanoi, Vietnam. This book offers a case study in the history of imperialism, highlighting the racialized economic inequalities of empire, colonization as a form of modernization, and industrial capitalism's creation of a radical power differential between "the West and the rest." On a deeper level, The Great Hanoi...
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