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François Chartier
TASTE BUDS AND MOLECULES
Internationally renowned sommelier F. Chartier shares the results of his gourmet foray along the aromatic path of the volatile compounds of wines and foods. This pioneering research is helping to shed light on the links that exist between your favourite foods and vintages.
216pp (Les Éditions La Presse)
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Juanita Rose Violini
ALMANAC OF THE INFAMOUS, THE INCREDIBLE, AND THE IGNORED
This Almanac is a fact-collector’s dream directory of history’s mysteries and unexplained events. Each date has one or more historical events, a quote, an illustration, and a “secret power.” Topics include the Crystal Skull, UFO encounters, and other enigmas of nature, uncanny experiments in science, oincidences, the unsolved, and the downright peculiar.
304pp - two-color illustrations (Weiser Books)
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Philippe Montillier
HIMALAYA WITH THE NEPALESE PORTERS
(Himalaya, avec les Porteurs du Nepal)
Most books on the Himalayas celebrate the bravery of the men who conquered the highest summits but they rarely speak about the porters who made these exploits possible. Preface by Jaming Tenzing Norgay, son of Sherpa Tenzing.
160pp (Editions Olizane)
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Luce Boulnois
THE SILK ROAD – Monks, Warriors and Merchants
(La Route de la Soie – Dieux, Guerriers et Marchands)
The author is doing research on the Silk Road for almost 50 years. She speaks Greek, Latin, Russian and Chinese which gives her access to the most important sources on the Silk Road. „...Those who want to fuel their Silk Road reveries should read this seminal book by Luce Boulnois, a world-renowned authority on the history of the fabled trade route.” - Far East.Economic Review
560pp (Editions Olizane); Rights sold: English, Spanish, Italian
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Dominique Lelièvre
CHINESE TRAVELERS – How they Discovered the World
(Voyageurs Chinois à la Découverte du Monde. De l’antiquité au XIXe siècle)
The Western world often ignores that many chinese travelers travelled throughout the world since the earliest times. It is their particular view of non chinese civlisations that enlightens our own history.
480pp (Editions Olizane)
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Guillaume Rozenberg
RENOUNCEMENT AND POWER – The Appeal of Holiness in Contemporary Burma
(Renoncement et Puissance. La quête de la sainteté dans la birmanie contemporaine)
In Burma «forest monks» embody the most radical detachment. Their reputation is enormous and fuels a great veneration that sometimes also creates strange paradoxes.
304pp (Editions Olizane)
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Terry Harrison
IRELAND IN WATERCOLOUR
Pull-out outlines on tracing paper are provided for six beautiful paintings, along with full step-by-step instructions for how to bring Irish landscapes to life with watercolours. Scenes include an Irish castle, a traditional fishing harbour, a thatched cottage, Georgian Dublin and a Connemara landscape.
48pp (Gill & Macmillan)
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Tom Ferris
IRISH RAILWAYS - A New History
This paperback edition of Tom Ferris’s critically acclaimed book provides many insights into the social and economic effects of the railways. This is a story rich in human interest, a tale of triumph and tragedy, superb achievement and monumental incompetence, which will appeal to all who have even a passing interest in this most romantic of inventions.
256pp (Gill & Macmillan)
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Jonathan Bardon
A HISTORY OF IRELAND IN 250 EPISODES
New revised edition of the critically acclaimed bestseller. Originally commissioned as a series of over 200 short radio programmes, the texts have now been re-edited and re-structured to provide a sweeping single narrative of Irish history from the end of the ice age to the peace settlement in Northern
Ireland.
544pp (Gill & Macmillan)
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Richard Killeen
HISTORIC ATLAS OF DUBLIN
This is a survey of the political, social and economic history of Dublin from earliest times to the present. It is splendidly illustrated with colour illustrations and maps and offers an accessible overview of the life of the city from earliest
times to the present day.
192pp - colour illustr.; PubDate: Nov. 2009 (Gill & Macmillan)
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