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Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia

Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia

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Born Caroline Alice Lejeune in Didsbury, Manchester, England, on March 27, 1897; died in 1973; daughter of Adam Edward Lejeune and Jane Louisa ( MacLaren) Lejeune; had four sisters and three brothers; graduated from the University of ...
The C. A. Lejeune Film Reader

The C. A. Lejeune Film Reader

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For students of film history, this is essential reading. For lovers of old films, it is an instructive and nostalgic delight. And, like C.A. Lejeune's column, it will appeal to any reader who appreciates good writing and civilized values.
A Mickey Mouse Reader

A Mickey Mouse Reader

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C. A. (Caroline Alice) Lejeune Didsbury, near Manchester, England, Mar. 27, 1897–Apr. 1, 1973, London Lejeune began her career as a music critic for the Manchester Guardian, but soon switched to writing a weekly film column. In 1928 she ...
Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular ...

Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular ...

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Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities Jean-Francois Lejeune, Michelangelo Sabatino ... of origin was the encounter at the WolfsonianFIU in 2005 between the future book editors, JeanFrançois Lejeune and Michelangelo Sabatino.
Cinema

Cinema

C. A. Lejeune

We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Dictionary of Foreign Quotations

The Dictionary of Foreign Quotations

Anthony Lejeune

Here are the answers, not only to such famous questions but for anyone who comes across a foreign language quotation in a book or a newspaper and can't quite make out what it means, or wonders who said it.
The Gentlemen's Clubs of London

The Gentlemen's Clubs of London

Anthony Lejeune

This is a new, thoroughly updated edition.This book lays forth the histories of the clubs, why and how each came into being, who belongs and belonged to which, how members are chosen, and how the clubs have changed down the generations - if ...
Three Score and Ten: A Novel

Three Score and Ten: A Novel

Angela Thirkell

The last of the Barsetshire novels, left unfinished by Thirkell at her death at 75, was completed from extensive notes by a friend and fellow writer, C A Lejeune. Regardless of its provenance, it is a remarkable reprise of the whole series.
Modern architecture and the Mediterranean: vernacular ...

Modern architecture and the Mediterranean: vernacular ...

Jean-François Lejeune

Chapters by an international cast of scholars adopting a number of different methodological perspectives are subdivided into two sections: the first discusses architects who lived and worked in Mediterranean Countries and examines how they ...
Quote Unquote - Italian

Quote Unquote - Italian

Anthony Lejeune

First published in 1998 as the much acclaimed Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations, and now repackaged in fresh, convenient pocket-sized editions, here are famous sayings in five languages - Latin, French, Italian, German and Spanish - ...
The Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations

The Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations

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As the compiler of this work, Anthony Lejeune, remarks, any Dictionary of Quotations is a quarry where a reader, dropping in, can browse and inform himself and find constant delight. But one function of this present volume is entirely practical.
Algarve Building: Modernism, Regionalism and Architecture in ...

Algarve Building: Modernism, Regionalism and Architecture in ...

Ricardo Agarez

Sert, Coderch, Bohigas, de la Sota, del Amo', in JeanFrançois Lejeune and Michelangelo Sabatino, eds, Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities, pp. 64–93 (London: Routledge, 2010).
Nolan's Law

Nolan's Law

Lee Lejeune

As he rode out towards the ranch he met the Reverend Jerry Justice on his big black horse. 'That's a fine black horse you've got there,' Jude said. 'She's a beauty , isn't she?' the preacher replied. 'D'you mind if I ride out to the ranch with you?
Houston Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Bayou City

Houston Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Bayou City

Ronnie Crocker

To Mountain Brew author Ed Sealover and The History Press commissioning editor Becky LeJeune for getting me into this project. I never cursed their names once. To Patricia Shepherd, my partner in life, another thoughtful reader of drafts  ...
Last Car To Elysian Fields

Last Car To Elysian Fields

James Lee Burke

A masterful exploration of the troubled side of human nature and the dark corners of the heart, peopled by familiar characters such as P.I. Clete Purcel and Robicheaux's old flame Theodosia LeJeune, LAST CAR TO ELYSIAN FIELDS is vintage ...
Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military ...

Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military ...

Marjorie Cohn

Kief Schladweiler, librarian, Afi''ican-American Involvement in the Vietnam War, http://www.aavw.org/. 19. “Army Aide Urges Race Awareness,” New York Times, October 14, 1969. 20. House Committee on Armed Forces, Inquiry into the Disturhances atMarine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, onjuly 20, 1969, Wash. DC GPO, 1969, 9lst Cong., 1st sess., Dec. 15, 1969, http://www.aavw.org/ served/ racetensions_riots_abstract03_full.html. 21. DoD Directive 1350.2, "Department of Defense ...

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