Ritz & Escoffier: the hotelier, the chef, and the rise of the leisure class [First edition] 9780804186292, 9780804186308, 0804186294, 9780804186315, 0804186316

Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class 9780804186292, 2017015344, 0804186294

In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York Times bestselling Provence, 1970, transpo

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The Theory of the Leisure Class [1] 9781628643985

n The Theory of the Leisure Class, Veblen writes critically of conspicuous consumption and its function in social-class

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The Harried Leisure Class 0231086490, 9780231086493

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Креативный класс [The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life] 9785000577332

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Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the 19th Century 9780691209487

In a social and cultural study of nineteenth-century bourgeois women in northern France, Bonnie Smith shows how the adve

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Caribbean Middlebrow : Leisure Culture and the Middle Class 9780801460142, 9780801448140

It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture—which is considered derivative of Eur

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Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul 9780857455451

Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their

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Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class 9780804771108

Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today.

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Escoffier: The King of Chefs 9781474210317, 9781852853969

Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) was the first great star of modern cooking. Acknowledged during his lifetime as the greate

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Fictitious capital : silk, cotton, and the rise of the Arabic novel [First edition.] 9780823277216, 0823277216

The ups & downs of silk, cotton & stocks synchopated with serialized novels in the late 19th-century Arabic pres

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