Offers recipes and provides a history of the craftmanship of the boulangers, artisan bakers of bread, and of the many boulangeries in France where fresh breads, baguettes, croissants, and pastries can be purchased

Boulangerie: The Craft and Culture of Baking in France

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Rambali, Paul

Regional & International

Macmillan- Prentice Hall

Drawing on stays made over a half-dozen years, Paul Rambali - a natural storyteller with a sharp eye for contradiction - dissolves the sugarcoating common to travel writing on Brazil. Carnaval and Copacabana take a backseat as Rambali propels us on a wild-side walk through this enigmatic nation on the brink. Tracing back the abundant miseries of the Brazilians, Rambali goes from Third World megalopolis to virgin rain forest, where he is confronted with hard and perhaps irreconcilable truths about our drive to build cities, and our romance with the jungle. Here is a country where gunmen are hired to get rid of the orphans who live homeless at the feet of luxury high-rises; where an illiterate population gets its news from TV soaps; where animist religion - Macumba - pervades everything, but an evangelical church, waging "holy war" against it, collects millions from destitute true believers, where gangsters provide shantytowns with everything from electricity to law and order. Here is the last frontier of the New World, where greed, ambition, and folly are the circumstances of daily life. In prose that is vivid, impressionistic, and occasionally novelistic, Paul Rambali captures Brazil's vitality even as he reveals its manifold paradoxes and absurdities. The result is an unsettling account of paradise lost, by a writer whose genuine affection for his subject never clouds the sharp truth of his vision.

In the Cities and the Jungles of Brazil

History

Americas

Henry Holt Co.

The author of French Blues provides a surrealistic study of the richly complex country of Brazil, capturing its teeming cities, poverty-stricken homeless and luxury highrises, endangered natural resources, death squads, and ethnic diversity. 10,000 first printing.

In the Cities and Jungles of Brazil

The Bandit Queen Of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey From Peasant To International Legend

She was born in India to the lowest caste, a group with few rights and even fewer prospects. Enduring cruel poverty, Phoolan Devi survived the humiliation of an abusive marriage, the savage killing of her bandit-lover and horrifying gang rape to claim retribution for herself and all low-caste women of the Indian plains. In a three-year campaign that rocked the government, she delivered justice to rape victims and stole from the rich to give to the poor, before negotiating surrender on her own terms. Throughout her years of imprisonment without trial, Phoolan Devi remained a beacon of hope for the poor and the downtrodden. In 1996, amidst both popular support and media controversy, she was elected to the Parliament. On July 25th, 2001, Phoolan Devi was shot dead in Delhi. The identity of her killers is unknown, but it is thought that they may include relatives of villagers killed by her gang nearly twenty years ago. For over a decade millions have found the power and scope of Phoolan Devi's myth irresistible. Now she finally tells the story of her life through her eyes and in her own voice.

The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey From Peasant to International Legend

Biographies & Memoirs

Cuny, Marie-Thérèse

Phoolan Devi

Community & Culture

UNKNO

She was born in India to the lowest caste, a group with few rights and even fewer prospects. Enduring cruel poverty, Phoolan Devi survived the humiliation of an abusive marriage, the savage killing of her bandit-lover and horrifying gang rape to claim retribution for herself and all low-caste women of the Indian plains. In a three-year campaign that rocked the government, she delivered justice to rape victims and stole from the rich to give to the poor, before negotiating surrender on her own terms. Throughout her years of imprisonment without trial, Phoolan Devi remained a beacon of hope for the poor and the downtrodden. In 1996, amidst both popular support and media controversy, she was elected to the Parliament. On July 25th, 2001, Phoolan Devi was shot dead in Delhi. The identity of her killers is unknown, but it is thought that they may include relatives of villagers killed by her gang nearly twenty years ago. For over a decade millions have found the power and scope of Phoolan Devi's myth irresistible. Now she finally tells the story of her life through her eyes and in her own voice.

Devi, Phoolan

“It’s an astonishing sight, I must say: the Ethiopian, Abebe Bikila, is racing barefoot.”—BBC Radio Olympic commentary, Rome, 1960
Abebe Bikila was the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal. He won the marathon running barefoot in Rome in 1960 and won again wearing shoes in Tokyo in 1964, becoming the first person to win the most grueling of all human contests twice.
Born into bitter poverty in rural Ethiopia in 1932, at sixteen Bikila joined the Imperial Guard of the Emperor Haile Selassie. It was there that he came to the notice of the Swedish athletics coach Onni Niskanen, whom Selassie had engaged to try and raise his country’s profile through sport. Bikila became the focus of these ambitions—and an unwitting figurehead for black African nationalism.
Following the 1960 Olympics, Bikila’s life took a dramatic turn when he was implicated in a failed coup against Selassie. Bikila was initially sentenced to death but was eventually pardoned following Niskanen’s intervention. Despite an attack of appendicitis, Bikila recovered in time to win the Olympic marathon once again. Bikila died in 1973.
 Paul Rambali is a writer and broadcaster and was a rock journalist for NME during the punk era. The author of two books about France and works including It’s All True and In the Cities and Jungles of Brazil, a personal odyssey exploring issues of development and culture in the Third World, he also ghost-wrote Phoolan Devi, the autobiography of India’s Bandit Queen, which has been published in twenty-six countries. He now lives in Paris.

Barefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila

Serpent's Tail

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