Author: Victoria Pybu
Publisher: Crimson Publishing
Keywords: france, live, work, living, working, guide, practical, accurate, comprehensive
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-01-25
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1854584197
ISBN-13: 9781854584199
Live and Work in France is the definitive book to living and working in France and is full of personal case histories from people who have made the move there. The book gives essential information on the customs, laws and regulations and way of life that will be encountered there, and gives advice on securing a residence permit, getting the best health care, making friends with the locals, opening the right bank account, finding your ideal home, obtaining a competitive mortgage, dealing with surveys and conveyance and making the most of your leisure time.Set out to be easily accessible, each c
Author: Genevieve Brame
Publisher: Kogan Page
Keywords: france, working, living, amp, chez, vous
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-11-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0749454091
ISBN-13: 9780749454098
French national Genevieve Brame welcomes newcomers to her country with a wealth of information on French values and customs.  Living and Working in France: Chez Vous en France introduces readers to their new surrounding and helps them find their way through the labyrinth of administrative and immigration procedures. Sections on the socio-economic environment, the European Union, language, travel, health, home, education and the French lifestyle will help readers get settled in their new home.
Author: M Shipway
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: france, paper, vol, contemporary, vietnam, war, road
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2003-01-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1571811494
ISBN-13: 9781571811493
". . . this is an important book . . . If I have gone on so long, it is out of enthusiasm for the story Shipway has to tell and the skillful way he tells it. This book is extremely well written, and I found reading it almost effortless . . . I recommend this book to anyone interested in the origins of what may one day be considered the second thirty-years war of our ’short’ century." · H-Net Reviews ". . . an important contribution to understanding the tangled and tragic unfolding of the modern history of Indochina." · Choice ". . . in this absorbing study, Martin Shipway exa
Author: Colin Jones
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: france, penguin, history, new, napoleon, louis, nation
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2003-12-30
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0140130934
ISBN-13: 9780140130935
There can be few more mesmerizing historical narratives than the story of how the confident monarchy left by Louis XIV in 1715 became the discredited failure toppled by revolution in 1789. This brilliant new book is the first in forty years to describe the whole period, from the last days of the "Sun King" to the wars of Napoleon. In a groundbreaking work of scholarship, Colin Jones argues that, contrary to popular belief, the house of Bourbon’s downfall was hardly a foregone conclusion. Producing an illuminating account of a society torn apart from within, he recounts the saga
Author: Kathryn Robso
Publisher: Lexington Book
Keywords: france, world, postcolonial, francophone, representations, indochina, cultural, empire
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-04-21
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0739108409
ISBN-13: 9780739108406
At the intersection of literary, cultural, and postcolonial studies, this volume looks at French perceptions of _Indochina_ as they are conveyed through a variety of media including cinema, literature, art, and historical or anthropological writings. The volume is long awaited, as France’s memory of _Indochina_ is understudied compared to its relationship with its former colonies in West and North Africa. The book has contemporary urgency as the makeup of France’s immigrant population changes and grows to include Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotioan populations.
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: france, lectures, college, territory, collãƒâ¨ge, security, population
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0312203608
ISBN-13: 9780312203603
Marking a major development in Foucault’s thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of "biopower," studying the foundations of this new technology of power over populations. Distrinct from punitive disciplinary systems, the mechanisms of power are here finely entwined with the technologies of security. In this volume, though, Foucault begins to turn his attention to the history of "governmentality," from the first centuries of the Christian era to the emergence of the modern nation state--shifting the center of gravity of the lectures from the question of biopower to t
