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Product Description: On the evening of October 17, 1961 twenty-thousand Algerians marched in Paris in defiance of and in protest against a curfew imposed by Maurice Papon, chief of the Paris Metropolitan Police. The protesters were met with ferocious and uninhibited violence...read more

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9781612191461 | Melville Pub House, October 16, 2012, cover price $14.95 | also contains Murder in Memoriam | About this edition: On the evening of October 17, 1961 twenty-thousand Algerians marched in Paris in defiance of and in protest against a curfew imposed by Maurice Papon, chief of the Paris Metropolitan Police.
9781852427955 | Serpents Tail, January 1, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: “Murder in Memoriam is the kind of book that begins to restore one’s confidence in the detective story.

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Product Description: On the evening of October 17, 1961 twenty-thousand Algerians marched in Paris in defiance of and in protest against a curfew imposed by Maurice Papon, chief of the Paris Metropolitan Police. The protesters were met with ferocious and uninhibited violence...read more
By Liz Heron (trans)

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9781612191461 | Melville Pub House, October 16, 2012, cover price $14.95 | also contains Murder in Memoriam | About this edition: On the evening of October 17, 1961 twenty-thousand Algerians marched in Paris in defiance of and in protest against a curfew imposed by Maurice Papon, chief of the Paris Metropolitan Police.
9781852422066 | Serpents Tail, June 1, 1992, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In a demonstration in Paris in 1961, hundreds of Algerians are killed by the police.

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Product Description: An international best-seller, Alexandra Lapierre's Artemisia sweeps us through the streets once frequented by Caravaggio, Velasquez, and Van Dyck and into the studios of artists who used their daggers as efficiently as their brushes...read more

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9780802116727 | Grove Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: In a re-creation of Baroque Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the Western world's first major women artists, is raped by her father's partner, and refuses to deny the crime, an attitude that ostracizes her from Rome and from her father.

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9780099581697 | Vintage Uk, October 2, 2012, cover price $18.60 | About this edition: An international best-seller, Alexandra Lapierre's Artemisia sweeps us through the streets once frequented by Caravaggio, Velasquez, and Van Dyck and into the studios of artists who used their daggers as efficiently as their brushes.
9780802138576 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 2001), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In a re-creation of Baroque Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the Western world's first major women artists, is raped by her father's partner, and refuses to deny the crime, an attitude that ostracizes her from Rome and from her father.

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By Nanni Balestrini, Liz Heron (trans) and Antonio Negri (foreword by)

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9781844677672 | Updated edition (Verso Books, January 2, 2012), cover price $16.95

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Product Description: In the autumn of 1924, just before André Breton published the Manifeste du surréalisme, two young men met in Paris for the first time.  Georges Bataille, 27, starting work at the Bibliothèque Nationale; Michel Leiris, 23, beginning his studies in ethnology...read more

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9781905422678 | Seagull Books, August 5, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In the autumn of 1924, just before André Breton published the Manifeste du surréalisme, two young men met in Paris for the first time.

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The author describes his childhood in Nazi-occupied Belgium during World War II.
By Liz Heron (trans), Marcel Liebman and Jacqueline Rose (introduced by)

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9781844670390 | Verso Books, November 1, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author describes his childhood in Nazi-occupied Belgium during World War II.

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9781859848289 | Verso Books, October 30, 2004, cover price $75.00

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9781859841990 | Verso Books, October 30, 2004, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: Raoul Vaneigem is an iconic figure in French philosophy. One of the founding fathers -- along with Guy Debord -- of the Situationist movement, his writings helped trigger the events of May 1968. After the inevitable Situationist split, Vaneigem pursued his own interests, and he has since established a unique place in the world of French political thought...read more
By Liz Heron (trans) and Raoul Vaneigem

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9780745320229 | Pluto Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Raoul Vaneigem is an iconic figure in French philosophy.

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Product Description: Despite our tendencies to separate the mind and body, good and evil, Flahault argues that both stem from the same source within us. This knot, inherent to the human condition, is the tension between our desire for absolute self-affirmation and the fact that each of us can only exist through mediation by others...read more

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9781859846919 | Verso Books, March 1, 2003, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Despite our tendencies to separate the mind and body, good and evil, Flahault argues that both stem from the same source within us.

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9781859844816 | Verso Books, March 1, 2003, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Despite our tendencies to separate the mind and body, good and evil, Flahault argues that both stem from the same source within us.

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Product Description: Diplomatique In this elegantly argued and compelling study, French anthropologist Marc Augé continues his critical exploration of contemporary modernity with an examination of the role of dreams, myth and fiction in the age of satellite TV and the Internet - a world in which information overload threatens to colonise us all, and to destroy the very real distinctions between fact (the real) and fiction (those invented ways in which we have, over the years and in very different communities, made sense of our collective identity in the face of otherness)...read more
By Marc Auge and Liz Heron (trans)

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9780745313894 | Pluto Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $95.00

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9780745313849 | Pluto Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Diplomatique In this elegantly argued and compelling study, French anthropologist Marc Augé continues his critical exploration of contemporary modernity with an examination of the role of dreams, myth and fiction in the age of satellite TV and the Internet - a world in which information overload threatens to colonise us all, and to destroy the very real distinctions between fact (the real) and fiction (those invented ways in which we have, over the years and in very different communities, made sense of our collective identity in the face of otherness).

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Product Description: A fascinating deconstruction of Western accounts of 'Oriental despotism' in the 17th & 18th cent., focusing on portrayals of the Ottoman Empire & the supposedly enigmatic structure of the despot's power & his court of mutes, dwarfs, eunuchs & wives...read more

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9781859848166 | Verso Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Edward Said’s Orientalism has been much praised for its account of Western perceptions of the Orient.

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9780756790929, titled "Sultan's Court: European Fantasies of the East" | Diane Pub Co, September 30, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A fascinating deconstruction of Western accounts of 'Oriental despotism' in the 17th & 18th cent.
9781859841228 | Verso Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Edward Said’s Orientalism has been much praised for its account of Western perceptions of the Orient.

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By Terry Hale (editor) and Liz Heron (trans)

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9781873982877 | Dedalus Ltd, December 1, 1997, cover price $15.99

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Product Description: Based on Puccini's opera, Floria Tosca reinterprets for today's times the relationship between Scarpia, chief of police, and Tosca, singer and lover of Cavaradossi, the radical, whom Scarpia plans to arrest and torture. In elegant, precise writing, Paola Capriolo takes us to a world where love and hatred, piety and devilry, abstinence and desire come together...read more
By Paola Capriolo and Liz Heron (trans)

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9781852423810 | Serpents Tail, July 1, 1997, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Based on Puccini's opera, Floria Tosca reinterprets for today's times the relationship between Scarpia, chief of police, and Tosca, singer and lover of Cavaradossi, the radical, whom Scarpia plans to arrest and torture.

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Product Description: The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of women’s writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women’s perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years...read more
By Liz Heron (editor) and Val Williams (editor)

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9780822317845 | Duke Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of women’s writings on photography.

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9780822317920 | Duke Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: As a woman, Rachilde was a rarity among Decadent authors, and in Raoule de Venerande she created a Decadent heroine of singularly monstrous proportions. For the imperious Raoule, Amazon and expert fencer, scion of an aristocratic line that has engendered Sadean libertines and pious spinsters, lesbianism is merely a banal vice...read more

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9781873982204 | Dedalus Ltd, July 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: As a woman, Rachilde was a rarity among Decadent authors, and in Raoule de Venerande she created a Decadent heroine of singularly monstrous proportions.

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Product Description: In her first novel, Monsieur Venus, Rachilde created Raoule de Venerande, a Decadent heroine as depraved as she is resourceful and ingenious. The Marquise de Sade, published three years later, in 1887, has a female protagonist to rival Raoule in her relish for destruction and her passion for outrage...read more

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9781873982068 | Dedalus Ltd, October 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In her first novel, Monsieur Venus, Rachilde created Raoule de Venerande, a Decadent heroine as depraved as she is resourceful and ingenious.

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A blend of autobiography and fiction by the French journalist and novelist offers a portrait of family life, from early scandals to the author's extended dependence on his parents to his admitted homosexuality and the emotional trauma of his mother's mastectomy
By Herve Guibert and Liz Heron (trans)

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9781852422868 | Serpents Tail, July 1, 1994, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A blend of autobiography and fiction by the French journalist and novelist offers a portrait of family life, from early scandals to the author's extended dependence on his parents to his admitted homosexuality and the emotional trauma of his mother's mastectomy

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Product Description: How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War...read more
By Giorgio Agamben and Liz Heron (trans)

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9780860914709 | Verso Books, June 1, 1993, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: How and why did experience and knowledge become separated?

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9780860916451 | Verso Books, December 1, 1993, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: How and why did experience and knowledge become separated?

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Gathers stories about London, Paris, Tokyo, Copenhagen, New York, Lagos, Leningrad, Barcelona, Naples, Rome, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Vienna, and Sydney
By Liz Heron (editor)

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9780807083307 | Beacon Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Gathers stories about London, Paris, Tokyo, Copenhagen, New York, Lagos, Leningrad, Barcelona, Naples, Rome, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Vienna, and Sydney

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9780807083314 | Beacon Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Gathers stories about London, Paris, Tokyo, Copenhagen, New York, Lagos, Leningrad, Barcelona, Naples, Rome, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Vienna, and Sydney

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Product Description: When New York private eye, Sam Murchison, is hired by a wealthy industrialist to find his missing daughter, he soon finds himself in deep and murky waters. Following the girl and her boyfriend to Paris he gets embroiled in car chases and shoots-outs, drug-dealers and gangsters.

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9781872180298 | Reprint edition (Fourth Estate Classic House, December 1, 1992), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: When New York private eye, Sam Murchison, is hired by a wealthy industrialist to find his missing daughter, he soon finds himself in deep and murky waters.

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Product Description: For a brief but explosive period in the mid-seventies, the young, the unemployed and the homeless of Italy’s cities came together in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy. Against the austerity programmes and social discipline of the ruling Christian Democrats and their would-be partners in the Communist Party, the movement developed a “politics of refusal”—expressed in school occupations and factory sabotage, mass shoplifting and violent street protest, combined with carnivalesque creativity...read more

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9780860912422 | Verso Books, December 1, 1989, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For a brief but explosive period in the mid-seventies, the young, the unemployed and the homeless of Italy’s cities came together in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy.

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Product Description: Book by LIZ HERON
By Liz Heron (editor)

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9780860685968 | Virago Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Book by LIZ HERON

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