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Not your usual history book, De Pere of Yesteryear combines short stories, newspaper clippings, and genealogical information, in this fun to read history of early De Pere. Snippets of De Pere's history are told through 75 short stories, which include The First De Pere Land Patents, Early Mail Carrier, First East Side Settler, First West Side Settler, Bank of the Fox River Hydraulic Company, Brown County Courthouse in De Pere, The De Pere Advertiser Newspaper, First Marshal, Daughters of Revolutionary War Soldiers, First National Iron Company, The First Photographers, Sorenson Shipyard, The Forgotten Church - St. Ignatius, Pratsch Hardware Store, Sharp - The Furniture Maker, The Mayor of Nicolet, The Transit House, The First St. Josephs Church, H. R. Jones Bank, Arent Drug Store, The Lee Store, The Brick School, Hickory Grove Sanitarium, Allouez Land Improvement Company & the Bicycle Factory, Fox River Driving Park, The Saengerfest Excursion Train, West De Pere High School, The Old Stone School, De Peres First Automobile, Nicolet High School Band, De Pere Polo, The First Bridges, Sweets Island, Heesacker Kid Stack, Tobeys Beach, The Interurban Line, The Fire of 1882, The 1919 Champions of Northern Wisconsin Game between the De Pere City Team and the Green Bay Packers, plus many more.Featured families include Armstrong, Bingham, Bowring, Call, Clermont, Collette, Dickinson, Dunham, Handeyside, Hopkins, Hunt, Hurd, Jackson, Jones, Laborde, Lawe, Lee, Lenfestey, Lessey, Mailer, Marsh, McGeehan, Merrill, Outhwaite, Pratsch, Reid, Sharp, Smith, Stewart, Thiele, Touhey, Vande Walle, Van Dyck, Van Gemert, and Wilcox.

A celebration of the monuments, landmarks and other sites that make Paris unmistakable from any other world city in a fun, interactive pop-up book format A selection of the city's most iconic monuments, landmarks, and architectural wonders unfold in seven pop-ups contained in a charming pint-sized package making it an easy impulse purchase. Easy to tuck in a bag or a pocket, this book is truly the perfect keepsake for tourists as well as the ideal gift for anyone who wants to share their love of the world's favorite city - Paris. Each spread delivers an iconic building or monument accompanied by a two page spread of text provifing the historical background and cultural significance of the structure depicted by the pop-up. The package is designed with a retro feel like travel guides from the past lending it a nostalgic charm. This elegant, charming little book is the ideal gift or souvenir for anyone who wishes a keepsake of a visit to Paris. Represented as pop-ups are the most beautiful classic architectural sites of Paris: Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, Hôtel des Invalides, the Louvre, Notre Dame, Place des Vosges, Centre Pompidou, and Sacré-Coeur. Artist Dominique Ehrhard has conceived a one of a kind work that will delight all ages.

Encounters with the Other brings together a range of eighteenth-century texts in which the exploration of lingua incognita figures as a prominent topos . Drawing mostly on a corpus of French texts, but also including a number of works in English, Martin Calder attempts to realign well-known texts with more canonically marginalized works. The originality of the perspectives offered by this book lies in the comparative reading of works not previously conjoined. Encounters with otherness are marked by a transgression of the limits of language, occurring when language becomes alien or unfamiliar. Alterity may take various forms: a foreign language, a familiar language marked by the traits of foreignness, something unrecognizable as language, or even one’s own language breaking down, as in madness. Unfamiliar language may be produced by a foreigner, by a child who cannot yet speak, in extreme cases by something unrecognizably human, in all cases by an agency somehow marked by difference. Narratives of encounters with otherness have written into them narratives of the discovery of the self. Implicitly informed by the reading techniques associated with literary theory, Encounters with the Other offers an insightful commentary on issues surrounding colonialism, cultural difference, gender and the importance of language to identity. Martin Calder’s work challenges certain Eurocentric notions and exposes the problematic links between Enlightenment rationality and colonial expansion. This book is of interest both to undergraduate students and to academic researchers, and to a more general readership concerned with understanding the relationship between Europe, the ‘West’ and a wider world.

THIS EDITION: The Mystery of the Yellow Room (in French, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune) is a classic French 'locked-room' mystery novel written by Gaston Leroux. (A Dual-Language Book Project) 2Language Books

This book is the first scientific study of present-day French anti-Semitism. As from the beginning of the 21st century France has been witness to a renewal of anti-Semitism which owes as much to internal developments in French society as to global factors and in particular to the conflict in the Middle East.