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Marie-Antoinette et Madame du Barry Histoire d’une rivalité (French Edition)


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French | May 14, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0C57JXZNP | 67 pages | EPUB | 0.59 Mb
L’archiduchesse Marie-Antoinette avait épousé, le 16 mai 1770, le Dauphin petit-fils de Louis XV. Elle avait trouvé installée à la Cour la comtesse du Barry, présentée au mois d’avril de l’année précédente. Au souper de la Muette, la veille du mariage, la favorite s’était assise avec la famille royale, et Marie-Antoinette ayant demandé la charge de cette dame, on lui avait répondu qu’elle avait pour fonction de distraire le Roi . Alors, avait répondu la jeune fille avec la candeur de ses quinze ans, je veux être sa rivale. Une rivalité s’engageait, en effet, tout autre qu’elle ne l’attendait, entre cette innocence et ce vice, une lutte sourde d’abord, bientôt visible et touchant aux plus hauts intérêts de la politique.

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The Absurd Life of Barry White


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English | July 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1917214154 | True EPUB | 254 pages | 1.1 MB
Barry White Jr. is a self-professed man-child, and he likes it that way. He’s also a content creator for a logistics firm. No one in the village really knows what that means – least of all Barry.

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The Land’s Wild Music Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin


Free Download Mark Tredinnick, "The Land’s Wild Music: Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin"
English | ISBN: 1595340181 | 2005 | 384 pages | AZW3 | 859 KB
The Land’s Wild Music explores the home terrains and the writing of four great American writers of place―Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin. In their work and its relationship with their home places, Tredinnick, an Australian writer, searches for answers to such questions such as whether it’s possible for a writer to make an authentic witness of a place; how one captures the landscape as it truly is; and how one joins the place in witness so that its lyric becomes one’s own and enters into one’s own work. He asks what it might mean to enact an ecological imagination of the world and whether it might be possible to see the work―and the writer―as part of the place itself. The work is a meditation on the nature of landscape and its power to shape the lives and syntax of men and women. It is animated by the author’s encounters with Lopez, Matthiessen, Williams, and Galvin, by critical readings of their work, and by the author’s engagement with the landscapes that have shaped these writers and their writing―the Cascades, Long Island, the Colorado Plateau, and the high prairies of the Rocky Mountains. Tredinnick seeks "the spring of nature writing deep in the nature of a place itself, carried in a writer’s wild self inside and resonated over and over again at the desk until it is a work in which the place itself sings."

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Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up


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English | 2001 | pages: 244 | ISBN: 0345440641, 0517595745 | EPUB | 4,8 mb
You can’t make this stuff up! Dave Barry would never lie-and here are the real life, laugh-out-loud stories from across America to prove it: a U.S. Supreme Court justice shares his remedy for preventing gas ("I had not realized that this was a matter of concern in the highest levels of government"); a newspaper headline in Ohio announces the combustibility of strawberry Pop-Tarts ("A story that can really help you gain a better understanding of how you can be killed by breakfast snack food"); the frightening fact that snakes have mastered the pipelines leading directly to your toilet-and they’re not shy ("Many women might view this as a fair punishment for all the billions of times that guys have left the seat up").

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Utter Disloyalist Tadhg Barry and the Irish Revolution


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English | October 29th, 2021 | ISBN: 178117797X | 288 pages | True EPUB | 1.49 MB
Tadhg Barry was the last high-profile victim of the crown forces during the Irish War of Independence. A veteran republican, trade unionist, journalist, poet, GAA official and alderman on Cork Corporation, he was shot dead in Ballykinlar internment camp on 15 November 1921.

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Sundial in the Shade The Story of Barry Richards the Genius Lost to Test Cricket


Free Download Andrew Murtagh, "Sundial in the Shade: The Story of Barry Richards: the Genius Lost to Test Cricket"
English | 2016 | pages: 416 | ISBN: 1785311425 | EPUB | 6,9 mb
As a former county player, Andrew Murtagh is often asked, "who is the best batsman he has ever played with or against?" His answer is always unequivocal-"Richards." And then comes the inevitable rider-"Barry, that is, not Viv." It is a travesty that the cricket world has largely forgotten Barry Richards-a cricketing genius. Debuting for South Africa in 1970, his run-scoring, technique, and audacious, extravagant strokeplay took the breath away. A glittering international career beckoned. However, the apartheid storm burst, and Richards had played his first and last Test series. Consigned to plying his trade for Hampshire, Natal, and South Australia, Richards became increasingly frustrated and disenchanted with the game he had loved. Following retirement, personal tragedy and professional controversy continued to stalk him, though he has now come to an uneasy acceptance that he will be forever known as the genius lost to Test cricket.

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Barry Le Va The Aesthetic Aftermath


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English | 2015 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0816694699, 0816694680 | PDF | 4,4 mb
Of the conceptual artists who began their careers in the 1960s and 1970s-Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, and Mel Bochner among them-Barry Le Va may be the most elusive. As this first study of his work reveals, his rigorously planned art was instigated to mask its creator’s intentions and methods, presenting itself as an "aftermath" of modernism’s claim to permanency and civil society’s preferred mode of monumentalism.

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