Category Archives: French

Complete French with Two Audio CDs: A Teach Yourself Guide (Teach Yourself Language)

It’s easy to teach yourself French! Complete French provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to French, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing French with confidence. Within each of the 25 thematic … Continue reading

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Rousseau and Freedom

Debates about freedom, an ideal continually contested, were first set out in their modern version by the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His ideas and analyses were taken up during the philosophical enlightenment, often invoked during the French Revolution, and … Continue reading

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Colloquial French 2: The Next step in Language Learning (Routledge Colloquials)

Do you know French already and want to go a stage further? If you’re planning a visit to France, need to brush up your French for work, or are simply doing a course, Colloquial French 2 is the ideal way … Continue reading

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Women at War 1939-45 (Men-at-Arms)

For centuries fighting was primarily a man’s job and this only began to change in World War I. By World War II women were playing a major auxiliary role in all branches of the armed forces. From the daring female … Continue reading

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Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy

From raising the dead to foretelling the future, this historical tour of the occult offers a captivating exploration of sorcery and ceremonial magic. Prepared by a noted French historian, it ventures into virtually all of the classical arts, with 375 … Continue reading

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Space in Theory: Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze. (Spatial Practices An Interdisplinary Series in Cultural History, Geography and Literature)

Space in Theory: Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze seeks to give a detailed but succinct overview of the role of spatial reflection in three of the most influential French critical thinkers of recent decades. It proposes a step-by-step analysis of the changing … Continue reading

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A Frequency Dictionary of French: Core Vocabulary for Learners

“A Frequency Dictionary of French” is an invaluable tool for all learners of French, providing a list of the 5000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on a 23-million-word corpus of French which includes written and spoken material … Continue reading

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Tune Up Your French with MP3 Disc

Turn your rusty French language skills into polished conversation confidence Tune Up Your French offers you an entertaining and practical way to hone your French-language conversation skills. This book is structured around numerous key areas for improvement, covering everything from … Continue reading

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The Paradox of Photography. (Faux Titre)

The Paradox of Photography analyzes the discourse on photography by four of the most important modern French poets and theorists (Baudelaire, Breton, Barthes and ValĂ©ry). It stresses in particular the importance of this visual language for the development of both … Continue reading

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Practice Makes Perfect French Sentence Builder (Practice Makes Perfect Series)

Practice Makes Perfect helps you put your French vocabulary and grammar skills together! You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed–but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your … Continue reading

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