For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life. 
"Miles: The Autobiography, " like Miles himself, holds nothing back. For the first time Miles talks about his five-year silence. He speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem and how he overcame it. He condemns the racism he has encountered in the music business and in American society generally. And he discusses the women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about music and musicians, including the legends he has played with over the years: Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Trane, Mingus, and many others. 
 The man who has given us some of the most exciting music of the past few decades has now given us a compelling and fascinating autobiography, featuring a concise discography and thirty-two pages of photographs.

Miles The Autobiography /anglais

Biographies & Memoirs

Davis, Miles

Arts & Literature

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One of the most potent icons of female sexuality, Josephine has largely been reduced to an empty cipher, the butt of one of the oldest jokes around. Hitherto, her life has been portrayed almost entirely in connection with Napoleon, but that relationship was only a tiny fraction of the life she led as a Caribbean women in the salons of eighteenth-century Paris. Andrea Stuart shares with her subject a Caribbean background and is able to offer a unique insight into the world which Josephine left for Paris and marriage to her cousin, Viscount Alexandre Beauharnais. Expecting an exotic Creole bride, Beauharnais set about a radical transformation and the dowdy teenager soon became a sophisticated sensual beauty, the darling of the pre-revolutionary salons. As the revolution reached its endgame, Josephine, now widowed with two small children, met her Emperor and the rest, as they say, is history. More eventful than the most lurid novel, no single life so embodies the vice and virtues, the tumult and dangers of the period through which she lived. By reconstructing Josephine`s life and world, Andrea Stuart brilliantly captures the extraordinary drama of the age and its unique atmosphere and

Josephine The Rose of Martinique /anglais

Stuart, Andrea

Paris is one of the most alluring cities in the world; however well we know it, it never ceases to surprise. Reading this book, which retells its history through the lives of its inhabitants from Balzac to Baudelaire, Sartre to Sarkozy, is like stumbling upon a tiny restaurant frequented by eccentric locals. Robb is both a scholar and an adventurer, and from 250 years of urban history, he weaves a dazzling tapestry of fact and fantasy, memory and myth. Slightly off-mint.

Parisians /anglais

History

Robb, Graham

Europe

In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of Louis-Napoleon and Eugenie, and the First World War and De Gaulle. Interweaving historical narrative with telling detail, this is a fluent and definitive work of social and cultural history.
`The best book I have read on Paris in a long time` Gregor Dallas,BBC HistoryBooks of the Year
`ReadingSeven Ages of Parisis like taking an exciting trip in a French balloon` Antonia Fraser,New StatesmanBooks of the Year
`Provides not only a panorama of the capital, but also a well-crafted history of France with a nice balance between broad overviews and engaging episodes and details` Jonathan Fenby,The Times

Seven Ages of Paris /anglais

HORN ALISTAIR

World

Janet Arnold (1932-1998) was a fashion historian with a unique range and depth of knowledge. Her books are essential for the study of dress and used in museums, theatres and fashion schools throughout the world. Completed after her death, Patterns of Fashion 4 features hundreds of photographs of genuine examples of ruffs, shirts and more from the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods, together with detailed patterns for recreating such pieces, including advice on how to starch and set intricate ruffs.

Pattern of Fashion 4 [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2000] Arnold J (MACMILLAN)

Arnold, Janet

Parenting & Relationships

The reign of Athenais de Montespan as principal mistress of Louis XIV corresponds with the most glorious period of the Grand Siecle. Athenais was "the true Queen of France", symbol of a dazzling French culture in the 17th century. As a lover, she risked the disgrace of double adultery to conduct an affair which scandalized Europe; as a patron she supported many of the leaders of the cultural renaissance including Moliere and Racine; as a mother she is the ancestor of most of the royal houses of Europe. The greatest beauty of her day, Athenais lived her life publicly and sensationally until accusations of witchcraft forced her from power in the "Affair of the Poisons", a mystery which remains unsolved. She fascinates not only because she achieved power at a time when it was denied to most women, but because she achieved that power through her manipulation of a prescribed role. This biography explores her life and influence.

The Real Queen of France Athenais and Louis XIV /anglais

Hilton, Lisa

Ten Days to D-Day Countdown to the Liberation of Europe /anglais

STAFFORD, David

As a little girl in Austria, Marie Antoinette had nothing more stressful to think about than what to eat next. When she was just a little older she was taken to France to marry the future king, and life became a lot more serious! Relishing the details of courtly life and narrating the pressures of becoming one of the world's most famous - and infamous - queens, this delightful and beautiful book brings a real historical figure to life.

MOI AND MARIE ANTOINETTE /ANGLAIS

Cullen, Lynn.

A tiny mother and child bustle through a dusty township in Cape Town, while a miniature informant whispers in a telephone box in Beijing. Thumb-sized riot police climb the Acropolis in Athens, while an inch-high woman pole-dances around a lamppost in a Hong Kong red light district. From West London to the West Bank, from the scorched flagstones of Marrakech to the lowest of low-rise views of Manhattan, all life is here. Global Model Village collects together the international works of Slinkachu, the London-based artist who as part of his 'Little People Project' has been abandoning tiny model people on the mean streets of the world since 2006. Documented through photography, these little dramas of hope and tragedy, loneliness and humour somehow get to the heart of what it means to be human; to be alone among millions of other people, all experiencing the particular melancholy and magic of life in the big city. Praise for Slinkachu’s work: ‘We care about these little humans. We can see how frail they are – a fact so less easy to absorb when we are sharing the same dimensions’ Evening Standard ‘[These] tiny figurines are more fully us than any possible full-size models . . . I love Slinkachu’s works. I hope you will too’ Will Self

Little People The Global Model Village /anglais

Arts & Photography

SLINKACHU

History & Criticism

THE DIARY OF EDWARD THE HAMSTER, 1990 TO 1990 /ANGLAIS (BOXTREE)

Humor & Entertainment

Elia, Miriam

Humor

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