books about: jean-luc (paris-roubaix postmodernism professional)

books about: jean-luc

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Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard

3 reviews
Richard Brody

Metropolitan Books, 2008

Everything Is Cinema:The Working Life Of JLG - Richard Brody
Excellent portrait of JLG & the complexities & foibles of a person driven to question the very form of filmaking. Thoroughly engrossing read, written in an easy flowing style without the inflections of worship or prejudice. A primary source for the understanding of a demanding intellect & a fascinating insight to private life/public art manifestation. Thoroughly recomended.

24 Penguins Before Christmas: A 365 Penguins Advent Calendar
Jean-luc Fromental

Abrams Calendars, 2008

Based on Abrams' bestselling book 365 Penguins , this charming diptych-style pop-up advent calendar features the house and family from the story. Behind each of the twenty-four die-cut windows readers will find one, two, three, or even more penguins. A miniature book giving door-by-door explanations, all in silly rhyme, is included. This delightful and reusable calendar promises to be a holiday favorite for years to come.

101 French Idioms

8 reviews
Jean-Marie Cassagne, Luc Nisset

McGraw-Hill, 1995

Maintenant, je suis branché!
This book really fulfills its purpose. I've already come across some of the expressions in 'real life' movies/books/conversation. It's not aimed at beginners looking for language basics. That said, all of the context examples are translated at the end of the book. (My friend found the context examples to be useful in and of themselves.) There are also two indexes: image (i.e. flowers) and ...

Professional Team Foundation Server

3 reviews
Jean-Luc David, Mickey Gousset, ...

Wrox, 2006

A View of Team Server from the Management Aspect
There are a lot of books on Microsoft's Studio Team System that are written from the standpoint of the developer involved with a team development project. These books seem to be lacking the first forty pages or so. That is, they don't explain just what it is that you are trying to do, how to set up a development team, how to administer the Team System software. It turns out that there's a lot ...

Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell

5 reviews
Philippe Bouvet, Pierre Callewaert, ...

VeloPress, 2007

A Beautiful Book about an Ugly Race
Greg Lemond famously said about cycling:" It doesn't get any easier. You just get faster." And for a sport that values the ability to suffer, the least easy of all races is Paris-Roubaix, variously feted as "the Queen of the Classics" and cursed as "the Hell of the North." In 2006, L'Équipe published a gorgeous history of the race and it is this book, in an excellent idiomatic English ...

Formula One Yearbook 2007-2008 (Formula One Yearbook)

4 reviews
Luc Domenjoz

Chronosports Editeur, 2008

Prefect as always
The photograph is extremely beautiful and the rest of the book captures the drama of the season really good.

A Field Guide to the Plants and Animals of the Middle Rio Grande Bosque

1 review
Jean-Luc E. Cartron, David C. Lightfoot, ...

University of New Mexico Press, 2008

great field guide
This is a wonderful addition to our collection of SW and western field guides. Handy to have one book with plants & animals likely to be found in the bosque.

An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson

8 reviews
Agnes Sire, Jean-Luc Nancy

Thames & Hudson, 2006

An eye that truly saw the inner silence . . .
As you browse the millions of photos available on Flickr and other web photo sharing sites, it is apparent that most people wielding a camera do not - cannot - aspire to the special talent of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Renowned for capturing the "decisive moment," Cartier-Bresson was also a highly skilled portraitist. Ninety-seven of his portraints appear here accompanied by one mercifully short ...

365 Penguins

25 reviews
Jean-Luc Fromental

Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2006

This book exceeded my expectations, I thought that "math" is fun might be a hard sell, I was wrong
On New years day a penguin arrives with a note - I am number one, please feed me. Well it's strange, but on day two when another arrives, it's a little silly. But by day 7 the family recieving the penguins is getting a little frantic. By the end of the first month you have how many penguins? And February only has how many days? So by the end of February how many penguins do they have? How will ...

Resistance (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

30 reviews
J.M. Dillard

Star Trek, 2007

Very well done Borg story
I found this novel entertaining and quite well done, connecting up storylines and Star Trek Voyager and TNG. I enjoyed the Crusher/Picard storyline, but I didn't completely like the characterization of Janeway, but it was close enough. I loved both Voyager and TNG and found it a good read.

The Inoperative Community (Theory and History of Literature)

3 reviews
Jean-Luc Nancy

University of Minnesota Press, 1991

A difficult but hugely important book.
This book has been very influential in France. If you don't take your philophy neat, of if you are new to Nancy's thought, then I recommend starting with Maurice Blanchot's _The Unavowable Community_, which relates Nancy's concept of finitude to the work and life of Georges Bataille. Blanchot shows why, in the face of the various totalitarianisms of the 20th century, we should care about ...

Q&A (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

14 reviews
Keith R. A. DeCandido

Star Trek, 2007

smiles
Wow they defiantly answered a lot of q questions in this book especially liked the reasoning behind q going after picard so much.

Outboard Motors Maintenance And Repair Manual

2 reviews
Jean-luc Pallas

Sheridan House, 2006

Buy it !
I went to Borders Singapore yesterday looking for books on outboard motors, and bought this book together with 'Cheap Outboards', not knowing I've already ordered this same book from Amazon.com ! Well... if I've picked this book from Amazon, and decided to buy it at the bookstore after actually reading it... that should say something about how good it is, right? ;-) No regrets getting 2 ...

Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

3 reviews
Jean-Luc Nancy

Fordham University Press, 2008

A revolutionary analysis of theistic religion
Written by Jean-Luc Nancy (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Universite Marc Bloch) and skillfully translated from the original French by the team of Bettina Bergo, Gabriel Malenfant, and Michael B. Smith, Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity most assuredly lives up to its subtitle as a methodical reverse-engineering of Christianity as a "religion that provided the exit from ...

God Without Being: Hors-Texte (Religion and Postmodernism Series)

6 reviews
Jean-Luc Marion

University Of Chicago Press, 1995

"If 'God is love,' then God loves before being."
Let me admit first off that Marion's "God Without Being" is a difficult read; I admit this despite the fact that, when I first read it, my brain was well steeped in the work of Derrida, Heidegger, Levinas, and many others into and out of whose discourses Marion constructs his own argument. There are large chunks of the essay that still puzzle me, but the clarity of the ultimate movements will ...

The Walnut Cookbook

3 reviews
Jean-Luc Toussaint

Ten Speed Press, 1998

great recipes and health benefits too
This book has a very interesting section on the historial and health related-aspects of walnuts. Most people don't realize how beneficial for cardiovascular risk factors walnuts are, and the book outlines the "Perigord paradox" which points out how walnuts can favorably influence blood lipid levels. The recipes are fabulous, and have a genuinely French feel and taste. A must-have book.

Listening

2 reviews
Jean-Luc Nancy

Fordham University Press, 2007

An excellent read for music theory students and scholars, as well as philosophers.
Skillfully translated from the original French by Charlotte Mandell, Listening is Professor of Philosophy Jean-Luc Nancy's thoughtful treatise upon the philosophical ramifications of sound and its relationship to the human body. Contemplating how music affects the listener, not only physically but also emotionally and ideologically, Listening is at times technical yet overall an ingenious yet ...

Blue Genes

16 reviews
Paul Meier, Todd Clements, ...

Tyndale House Publishers, 2006

Compassionately Destigmatizes Medication
I wish every Christian would read this book. I have encountered so many well-meaning, misinformed Christians who dismiss mood disorders, particularly depression, as soley a spiritual problem for people who simply don't have enough faith to overcome it. It is equally disheartening to hear Christians ignorantly tout that schizophrenics--or others who suffer from psychotic breaks--are ...

Godard On Godard (Da Capo Paperback)

3 reviews
Jean-luc Godard

Da Capo Press, 1986

Godard and Films
I've just read the book and though it dragged at some points because I wasn't familiar with a couple of the films he was talking about it, the overall experience was uplifting. If you have the slightest interest in Godard and the New Wave read the book and get inside a New Wave director's head and see how he looks at films. The book contains a number of his Cahiers du Cinema reviews and ...

Corpus (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

1 review
Jean-Luc Nancy

Fordham University Press, 2008

mens sana
The primary essay in this work, Corpus, reminds me a little of that comedian who would smash melons, scattering seeds and fruit flesh everywhere. Under the hammer here, to be both pounded and enlarged, is Corpus, the body. The writing is ebullient and intelligent, the rhetoric takes flight. This expression plants all kinds of seeds and it is a relief to read about the importance, potential, and ...