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The young man arrived in Paris, a refugee from political
repression, just as World War I was sputtering to a close. He came
with only a few coins in his pocket after sailing the world as a
lowly deckhand, still a painfully shy twentysomething who stammered
when he spoke in public. He moved into a dingy hotel on a
cul-de-sac in Montmartre, falling into a demimonde populated by
radicals, poor artists, prostitutes, the luckless and rebellious.
When, half a dozen years later, he stole out of town on a train
bound for the young Soviet Union, he had emerged as the fiery,
passionate leader of the Vietnamese independence movement and a
founder of the French Communist Party. In between had been years
living under various pseudonyms in a succession of seedy
apartments, arrests and beatings, jobs in restaurants and photo
shops, revolutionary writing in the reading room of the
Bibliotheque Nationale, and meetings with Maurice Chevalier and
Colette, all while being dogged by French spies--much of what we
know about the young man's Paris years is thanks to near-total
police surveillance of him, down to accounts of arguments he had
with friends at home. Joseph Andras recalls Ho Chi Minh's early
years and walks Ho's Paris neighborhoods. Searching for traces of
the past in the streets of today, the author hears echoes of other
angry histories, from terror attacks to tent encampments of the
houseless to the protests of the Gilets jaunes. Ultimately this
slim, intensely lyrical, and genre-bending book becomes a
meditation on what could be called the grandeur of the the poor,
the free, the outcast, and the rebellious--people who may or may
not find a place in history books but without whom history could
not be written.
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Turtlemen (Paperback)
Andra Simons
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Turtlemen... a myth born from the loss of myth. A book of prose,
poem and play arising from generations of a people who were
isolated on the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, a people torn from
their continent and severed from their ancestral stories. In a
language often raw and heartbreaking, Turtlemen is composed to take
you to the deepest recesses of sex, oppression, intimacy and
ultimately what it means to survive - it is for speaking out loud.
This detailed volume focuses on best practices and conditions for
maintaining the most commonly used salamander species in the
laboratory. Salamanders in Regeneration Research: Methods and
Protocols guides readers through experimental manipulations in vivo
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variety of structures, ranging from the limb to the heart and to
the brain, and methods for studying genetically modified organisms
and tools for mining in the genomic databases. Written in the
highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format,
chapters include introduction to their respective topics, lists of
the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily
reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and
avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and up-to-date, Salamanders
in Regeneration Research: Methods and Protocols provides a
comprehensive collection of methods chapters.
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