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Velda De La Garza does it all in this cookbook of Mexcian Favorites, that are healhy and low-fat, PLUS, good tasting!!! I love Mexican Food and New Mexican Food, and have been eating it all my life, but as I've grown older I've had to limit my intake of Mexican Foods because of all the fat content it can have. This book is the answer to all that. I can now eat all the Mexican food i enjoy, and not have to worry about all the fat I'm consuming. I haven't gained weight in month's either. Lean and mean in Albuquerque.

Since I don't know Greek or even much Hebrew, I did not get nearly as much out of this book as a scholarly reader would. (P.S. Although it is not available in bookstores it may be available in university libraries or through interlibrary loan).

But even for me, it was somewhat worthwhile. Lieberman successfully traced the links between early rabbinic Judaism and Greco-Roman culture, showing that the early rabbis were by no means completely isolated from the surrounding culture.
Lieberman shows how:

*Midrashic folktales imitated pagan tales. For example, one Midrash asserts that Jacob told an Egyptian king: "May years from my years be added to yours." Lieberman shows that Romans made similar vows to each other.

*The early rabbis used colorful phrases found in Greco-Roman epics, and even the occasional Greek word.

*In interpreting the laws of sacrifice, the early rabbis imposed special restrictions in order to avoid imitating heathen practices- a technique that obviously requires some knowledge of those practices.

*Similarly, the rabbis held that animals consecrated to idol-worship cannot be sacrificed to God. But to know how much pre-sacrificial activity amounted to "consecration", rabbis had to know something about pagan rituals.

The ultimate message of this work is that 2000 years ago, as today, Jews tried to strike a balance between too much isolation from the surrounding non-Jewish culture and too much assimilation.

Lieberman also veers off into other areas, such as the rabbinic attitude towards study of Greek and Greek philosophy (permitted for learned Jews but not impressionable youth) and the similarity between Jewish rules of biblical interpretation and pagan concepts of text interpretation (significant as to midrashic stories, much less so as to religious law).

Did Hennepin copied Lasalle letters to write his book in 1683 (Delanglez opinion). A hundred years fight between historians comes to and end with this study. Typewriten in french. Should be availlable soon.

All true admirers of French artist Henri Matisse should take the time to acquire (or at least look at) this very rare volume. One of the most beautiful art books ever published in France (and in this reviewer's opinion, the most beautiful book ever published on this artist), "Contre Vents et Marees" (meaning, "Against Winds and Storms") is the most extensive work to date on Matisse's work during the period of his so-called "Second Life," of the early 1940s - the period when he not only executed some of his most extraordinary paintings, but also completed the famous "Themes and Variations" suite of drawings as well as beginning work on the "Jazz" suite of paper cut-outs. The author (who died in 1998 at the age of 87) was a 20-year-old White Russian immigrant living in Paris when she met the man who would change her life and make her face immortal in 20th century art. A chance meeting on a Paris bus with another Russian immigrant led her to Matisse's door. Taken on as a temporary studio assistant, she at first only worked for Henri Matisse for a few weeks before being formally engaged as a live-in nursemaid, secretary and companion to Madame Amelie Matisse. At this time, Matisse apparently ceased to take any interest in her. About a year into her employment, she was standing on a stool in Matisse's library getting some books off the shelves for his invalid wife's reading pleasure, when the artist suddenly said, "Stop. Don't move!" and drew a few quick sketches of her for his own pleasure. And thus began one of the most fascinating artist-model relationships of the 20th century. By 1935, Miss Delectorskaya was Matisse's regular model, posing for such famous works as the highly simplified "Pink Nude." As the thirties wound on, her status in the household gradually altered as Matisse himself placed more and more responsibility on her young and lovely shoulders. By 1939, Miss Delectorskaya was Matisse's regular model, studio assistant, and general factotum and had no further contact with Matisse's wife. By 1940, Matisse and his wife had formally separated, and Miss Delectorskaya was elevated to the official position of Matisse's housekeeper among her other duties, becoming known among Matisse's servants and relations as "Madame Lydia." Madame Lydia would remain by Matisse's side until his death in 1954, exercising all the functions of a wife for the great artist, and enabling him to devote himself totally to his art. Without her, the great flowering of Matisse's art in the 1940s would never have occurred, and the world would have been much the poorer. In this book, Madame Lydia assembles literary and photographic documentation to reconstruct Matisse's life and work during the turbulent years of 1939-1943. All of Matisse's paintings, drawings, book illustrations and engravings which he produced during this period are published in this book, many in full-page color plates. In addition, many color and duotone photographs of Matisse's rooms, props and household are reproduced. For Matisse scholars, this book is a treasure trove of information about a rather under-appreciated period of his life and oeuvre. Physically, the book is a joy to behold - the standard of reproduction is the highest I have ever seen, the paper is heavy, glossy and acid-free, and the design and layout are second to none. Although the text (which contains many insights into Matisse's daily life, working methods, and practice, along with the amazing adventure story of his flight in "the Exodus" after the declaration of war in September 1939) is in French, it is the pictures that tell the story. Madame Lydia's visage was worthy of immoralization in art - her perfect oval face, long blue eyes, flawless complexion and brunette locks occur over and over again throughout the works themselves, like 1939's "Music" and the Themes and Variations drawings from 1941. Here, one sees the true meaning of artistic inspiration and collaboration. Her beauty made Matisse reach deeper into himself to produce works of unprecedented grace and elegance in a dark era of war and massacre. Whether or not Madame Lydia and Matisse were lovers in a physical sense is unknown, but the love that grew up between them brought great art into the world, and thus, all who love great art should find this book.

This is an extremely interesting book, full of information and concepts. My personal interest is to "understand" what I decide to eat and to put it in context (to better manage my hedonism). Indeed, the contextualisation of the evolution of the cuisine, deeply tied to the rest of the human activity is absolutely necessary to understand why and what happened. If only, it is a bit short in pages.

This book comes in more than one part. This book is Part 1 and we have another listed that is part II. I wonder if there are more books to the set than that.....

The art work in this book is beautiful. While most of it is in black and white there are a lot of gorgeous full-color vivid photos of art.

Written all in French. But the photos are universal in language.

Reprint of one of Saint-Hilaire's better histories on Napoleonic subjects.

Illustrations alone are worth the price of this volume, with rare color uniform prints of the period.

OOB's in tabular form are highly detailed.

While Saint-Hilaire's prose might be considered too "romantic" by some I found it refreshing and entertaining in this history. Far superior to Segur or Thiel's history of the same subject.

Enjoy!

Le nom et image de Louis XIV restent attaches au triomphe de l'absolutisme. Au terme d'un processus de reduction a l'obeissance, ordre, authorite et controle monarchique s'imposent dans les provinces du royaume. Mais la volonte hegemonique du roi, en Europe, entraine la France dans des guerres couteuses et destabilisatrices.

Moins belliqueux, le siecle des Lumieres est celui des "revolutions silencieuses" : une serie de mutations dans les domaines demographique, social, cultural, portees par une croissance economique inedite.

Surtout l'affirmation de l'opinion publique, en erigeant la raison en instrument critique, est une manifestation decisive du siecle de Voltaire et de Rousseau, Face au roi, elle ouvre un espace concurrent de discussion et de debat. A terme, elle annonce un transfert de la souverainete de la Couronne a la Nation.

Joel Cornette est professeur a l'Universite Paris VIII. Il a publie notamment, dans la meme collection : Histoire de la France: L'affirmation de l'Etat absolu : 1515-1652 (Carré Histoire).
--- from book's back cover

L'histoire economique a connu une evolution importante dans les dernieres decennies: l'ecole des Annales a place les phenomenes economiques et sociaux au premier rang des preoccupations des historiens, tandis que les economistes ont reinvesti la discipline en apportant leurs outils d'analyse: les ecoles de la cliometrie, ou New Economic History, et de la nouvelle economie institutionnaliste, ou Institutionalisme neoclassique, ont profondement modifie les approches et les interpretations sur nombre d'aspects essentiels des fait economiques du passe. C'est la cas des racines anciennes de la revoltion industrielle, de ses mecanismes au 18 siecle, ou du role compare de la France et de l'Angleterre dans cette grande transformation. Ce manuel vise a presenter les nouvelles analyses et leurs resultats, dans le cadre d'une histoire generale des faits economiques et sociaux dans le monde. L'accent est mis sur les transformations instituionelles et les changements techniques qui apparaissent comme les deux sources principales du developpement economique, et particulierement du phenomene d'industrialisation rapide a partir des annees 1760. Le cadre evenementiel est en meme temps constamment rappele pour permettre au lecteur de resituer l'evolution economique dans le contexte geopolitique de l'epoque.
--- from book's back cover

If you are an avid Francophile like myself, there can be no question; BUY THIS BOOK! In all of my years of searching for information on the history of Paris, this is positively the most informative and meticulous work I've seen yet. Every conceivable aspect of Parisian life, past and present, is fully covered, from Neolithic settlers to Jacques Chirac. The layout of the book is straightforward and functional, and includes a complete year-by-year timeline describing all of the important events in Parisian history. The dictionary section provides a detailed summary of pertinent people, objects, events, and cultural issues. This book is written in French and, as yet, has not been translated into English, so a good knowledge of the French language is necessary to read it. I wholeheartedly recommend this book, and gratefully thank the author, Alfred Fierro, for his admirable dedication to this outstanding work. Formidable, monsieur, formidable!