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Books of the Marvels of the World ( French: Livres des merveilles du monde ) or Description of the World ( Divisament dou monde ), also nicknamed Il Milione (" The Million ") or Oriente Poliano and commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo, describing the travels of the latter through Asia, Persia, China, and Indonesia between 1271 and 1291.
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He prepared five volumes of Pahlavi texts ( the Marvels of Zoroastrianism ) for Prof. Max Müller's monumental Sacred Books of the East series, published from the years 1880 to 1897.
Books and World
* Dick Heckstall-Smith ( 2004 ), The Safest Place in the World: A Personal History of British Rhythm and blues, Clear Books.
The World Factbook 2010 ( Potomac Books reprint edition ) cover
* Countries of the World-29 years of CIA World Fact Books ( 1982 – 2012 )
Chicago, London & Toronto: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1952 ( Great Books of the Western World coll .).
* An English translation of Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life ( ISBN 1-932416-18-8 ) was published by Believer Books in 2005.
* Cartridges of the World 8th Edition, Book by Frank Barnes, DBI Books, 1997, ISBN 0-87349-178-5
** Three Books of Known Space ( 1996 reprint of Tales of Known Space, with " Madness Has Its Place " in place of " The Borderland of Sol ", packed with World of Ptavvs and A Gift from Earth )
* Great Books of the Western World ( 1952, 52 volumes ), 2nd edition 1990, 60 volumes
* Hassell, A, and MacRae, S: Alliance of Enemies: The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II, Thomas Dunne Books, 2006
* On to Mars: Colonizing a New World ( 2002 Apogee Books ), co-edited with Frank Crossman.
* On to Mars 2: Exploring and Settling a New World ( 2005 Apogee Books ), co-edited with Frank Crossman.
* Dag Øistein Endsjø, Sex and Religion: Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths, Reaktion Books 2011.
), Great Books of the Western World, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, IL, 1952.
One of the notable attempts at compiling an authoritative canon in the English-speaking world was the Great Books of the Western World program.
The Great Books of the Western World is an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 60 volumes
* Great Books of the Western World
* Easton Press – Books That Changed the World series
* Franklin Library – Great Books of the Western World and Oxford Library of the World's Great Books series
* Stuart Asquith Wargaming World War Two, Special Interest Model Books ; New edition edition ( 31 December 1998 ) ISBN 978-1-85486-000-2
* On the Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the World ( 2007 ) ISBN 978-0-8021-4342-6
* Mahan, Brian and L. Dale Richesin, The Challenge of Liberation Theology: A First World Response, 1981, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York.
* The Berlin Olympics ( World Focus Books ), by James P. Barry
56 of the Great Books of the Western World series.
55 of the Great Books of the Western World series.
Books and French
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Penguin Books ( 1989 ).
Basic Books, 2001, pp. 187 – 207 ; see p. 191 for the description: A French doctor, Jacques Lantier, who attended an FGM procedure in Somalia in the 1970s described how the inner and outer labia were separated and attached to each thigh using large thorns.
* Zhou, Daguan ( 2007 ) The customs of Cambodia, translated into English from the French version by Paul Pelliot of Zhou's Chinese original by J. Gilman d ' Arcy Paul, Phnom Penh: Indochina Books, prev publ.
New England Captives Carried to Canada: Between 1677 and 1760 During the French and Indian Wars, Heritage Books, 1989 ( reprint 1925 ).
* Fowlie, Wallace ( 1967 ), Dionysus in Paris ; A Guide to Contemporary French Theater, Meridian Books, Inc, New York, ISBN 0-452-00092-0.
* RobertBresson. org: Videos, Books, Notes ... ( French )
* Alexander, Don W. Rod of Iron: French Counterinsurgency Policy in Aragon During the Peninsular War ( SR Books, 1985 ) ISBN 0-8420-2218-X.
* Cooking the French Way / French Cooking ( 400 French Recipes ), London, Spring Books ( 1958, 60, 62, 63 ); Elizabeth Smart & Agnes Ryan ( wife of Patrick Swift )
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution ( New York: Vintage Books, 1989 ), 809, 840.
( This is a new edition of the surviving Greek text ( Books I – IV ), a full edition of the surviving Arabic text ( Books I – VII ) with French translation and commentaries.
* Dec 1918 Popular Science World War 1 article about a French engineer using a ground stethoscope to listen for German sappers – Listening to Enemy Sappers, Popular Science monthly, January 1919, page 27, Scanned by Google Books
A decade before her death, she and a collaborator, Louis Valentin, wrote another memoir in French, Le Palais des Solitudes, which was translated into English as Palace of Solitude ( London: Quartet Books Ltd, 1992 ); ISBN 0-7043-7020-4.
The most important is the Mawaiz wa al -' i ' tibar bi dhikr al-khitat wa al -' athar ( 2 vols., Bulaq, 1854 ), translated into French by Urbain Bouriant as Description topographique et historique de l ' Égypte ( Paris, 1895 – 1900 ; compare A. R. Guest, " A List of Writers, Books and other Authorities mentioned by El Maqrizi in his Khitat ," in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1902, pp. 103 – 125 ).
Hill & Wang, 1960, translated from the French by Stella Rodway ; Bantam Books edition, 1982, using the same translation.
Virgin Books and Music is a Virgin-branded entertainment retail chain exclusively at airports and travel locations, operated by the Lagardère Services division of the French conglomerate Lagardère Group.
* Miller, Melanie Randolph, Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution ( Potomac Books, 2005 )
* 1989 New York Times Best Books of the Year, for Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
* 2008 The Daily Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library, for Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
* An online exhibition of work in the Gordon Collection of French Books at the University of Virginia Library
While in Cuba, where he interviewed Fidel Castro, Scheer obtained an introduction by the Cuban leader for the diary of Che Guevara — which Scheer had already obtained, with the assistance of French journalist Michele Ray, for publication in Ramparts and by Bantam Books.
Schoenhof's Foreign Books is owned by the French Éditions Gallimard.
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