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This work offers English-language readers an introduction to one of the forgotten masterpieces of French literature, Louis-Sebastien Mercier's 12-volume "Le Tableau de Paris" (published from 1781 to 1788), an important and original work that helped shape many kinds of French writing. The text provides a portrait of everyday life in Paris on the eve of the French revolution, describing the interactions of workers, street peddlers, prostitutes, police spies, actresses, noblemen, parish priests, servants, and criminals. Based on Helen Simpson's 1933 abridged translation, this edition includes seven newly translated chapters and an introduction by Jeremy D. Popkin. Earlier authors had described Paris's monuments and the lives of its wealthy elites, but Mercier was the first to try to capture in words the texture of its everyday life. His text, contemporary with Rousseau's "Confessions", is the first attempt to write the autobiography of a unique urban community. His writing deeply influenced Balzac and other 19th century French novelists and continues to serve as a major source of social and cultural history for French historians. "Panorama of Paris" should be of interest to students of French literature and history, and to anyone interested in the origins of modern attitudes toward city life..
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The demonology Tableau de linconstance des mauvais anges et demons (1612) is an important text in the history of the early modern European witch persecutions (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). It is a report of the authors four-month stay in the Labourd (Basque) region of France, which is situated in the extreme southwest corner bordering Spain and Navarre. De Lancre was there as a member of a royal commission empowered to cleanse the region of witches. This narrative is based on his own experiences and trial records now lost. This text contains one of the most detailed accounts of the witches Sabbath that survives. An ethnologist before his time, de Lancre gives an expert and meticulous account of the Basque people, their lives, their culture, and their alleged easy commerce with Satan and bad angels. The text was translated into German in a truncated version in 1630, but has never until now been rendered into English..
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Seasonal nature tables are an invaluable way of making young children aware of the changing cycle of the year.

With simple materials and basic knitting and crocheting skills, a series of colorful and effective tableaux can be made at home or in school for depicting the seasons and major festivals.

Illustrated, with many in full color..
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1827 edition by Laurent frères, Bruxelles .
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"Nobody's Fool" is the ultimate guide to the art of debunkery Chapters dealing with spending and borrowing, making sound investments, the truth about Social Security, and how to avoid being victimized by America's many intimidating institutions are included. The Ten Ground Rules presented in the book ensure success in attaining one's goals..
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Have you ever imagined Woodrow Wilson’s thoughts as he declared war on Germany in 1917? Did you ever wonder what raced through John Marshall’s mind when he conducted the first peaceful transition of political power in history?

History’s Moments Revealed: American Historical Tableaus, Teacher’s Edition brings back the long-forgotten art of tableaus. Popular entertainment during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, tableaus feature several people who stand, motionless, in a particular scene from history, while a narrator describes their thoughts, feelings, and emotions. The tableaus included in History’s Moments Revealed entice audiences to become emotionally involved in a frozen moment of time that significantly defines the American character.

This anthology of thirty dramas provides a wide range of snapshots from the least to the most famous characters from U.S. history. Elementary through high school history classes can perform these thought-provoking and insightful scenes to help generate meaningful discussions that will facilitate deeper understanding. Teachers can also use the historical notes and supplementary materials included for each tableau to challenge their students to embark on further research.

With this innovative technique, you’ll be able to broaden your students’ knowledge of American history and have fun at the same time!

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Whether it's a young man trapped beneath the sea in the belly of an iron behemoth or an old woman trapped within the confines of an abusive marriage, Michael McCrann paints dramatic portraits of people in unpleasant situations. Sometimes they're good people, sometimes they're not so good, but always the characters that inhabit these dark worlds are fleshed-out in remarkably vivid dimensions. The twelve tales of dark fiction contained in Midnight Tableau are sophisticated, character-driven, and crafted for a discerning adult readership. The stories include: Lured, La Ara'a, Afortunada, Forever Isabella, What Needs Doing Will Get Done, Awake, Down the Cellar, The Rubbish Man, The Pledge, The Wail of the Banshee, The Lizard's Tale, Close Your Eyes, Sweet Angel, and the novella, Coven of the Unwanted. Each of the settings--from the exotic to the commonplace--are more than mere backdrops. They are carefully fashioned to lure the reader into the fictional nightmare. The plots are filled with thrills and twists. The malevolent forces within range from creepy-crawlies and viscous garden gnomes to more esoteric antagonists like an evil little secret from the past. But, ultimately, it will be the people--the predators as well as the prey--that remain to skulk in the mind for some time to come.

Midnight Tableau is a tightly-crafted collection of twelve tales of dark fiction that is something noteworthy within the genre. The stories are thematic portraits of the human essence, a shadowy montage of our dark, individual souls.

Michael McCrann purposely avoids the label "horror" when defining his work because, unfortunately, the term is associated with writing that is juvenile in content and style. There are no vampires, werewolves or gratuitous gore in the stories. These select tales are sophisticated pieces that aim to be more creepy than scary, more chilling than shocking. The collection contains developed characters, original plots, dark humor, and lively, active prose. The author's writing has been influenced by the great works of Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Ed Gorman, Christopher Fowler, Ramsey Campbell, Shirley Jackson from within the genre and others, such as John Irving, Wally Lamb, and Tom Robbins from the mainstream.

Midnight Tableau has realistic, fleshed-out characters placed in precarious situations and explores themes including: isolation, social displacement, interpersonal control, fortune and misfortune as birthrights, and more. Taken as a whole, the collection depicts the dark facet, the black core within the heart of the human animal. But more importantly, Midnight Tableau is entertaining. It will appeal to a broad-based readership. The collection was particularly written for all the discerning adults who don't much care for the current conventions within the horror genre--and for those who don't become unsettled easily.

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