![]() A longtime collector and owner of two fine art galleries, Alterman wanted to create a user-friendly book intended not only to educate collectors and enthusiasts about this art but to help train one's eye. Alterman, an expert in the field of Pennsylvania Impressionist and Modernist painting. ![]() New Hope for American Art was authored, designed and published by James M. In this book, you'll find biographies and artwork from such artists as: This book, with its 612 pages and over 1,000 color plates of artwork include biographies of 165 individual Pennsylvania Impressionists and New Hope Modernists as well as artists from the Philadelphia Ten, a pioneering group of women all educated at Philadelphia art schools. New Hope for American Art is the most comprehensive book ever published on artists from, and surrounding, the New Hope Art Colony (also known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists). ![]()
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![]() Semme lĪbout the Author: Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. While trying to fix a toaster that he left behind, Thomas discovers a secret, setting into motion a series of events leading to the dissolution of his life, and plunging him into a dark, shadowy underworld of violence and betrayal.Ī gripping story written with a poet’s sensibility and attention to language, Rock, Paper, Scissors showcases all of Aidt’s gifts and will greatly expand the readership for one of Denmark’s most decorated and beloved writers. Rock, Paper, Scissors opens shortly after the death of Thomas and Jenny’s criminal father. Naja Marie Aidt’s long-awaited first novel is a breathtaking page-turner and complex portrait of a man whose life slowly devolves into one of violence and jealousy. ![]() ![]() This is the hallmark of great short stories, from Chekhov’s portraits of discontented Russians to Joyce’s struggling Dubliners.” Yet you know exactly where in the universe you are. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More than one person will die before Miss Marple discovers the murderer. Accompanied by her novelist nephew Raymond West, she finds herself on a bus filled with a strange assortment of people from all stations and walks of life - from debutantes to nuns and butlers to war heroes. The only thing she knows about the crime being a single word: 'nemesis'. All she gets are two tickets to a mystery bus tour and the advice to invite someone trustworthy to the bus trip. The only thing she knows about the Jason Rafiel, an old friend of Miss Marple's, dies and leaves her an unusual legacy, to grant his final wish: she has to uncover a possible murder that may or may not have happened already. Battle noticed how similar her circumstances. Summary: Jason Rafiel, an old friend of Miss Marple's, dies and leaves her an unusual legacy, to grant his final wish: she has to uncover a possible murder that may or may not have happened already. Strange Jest (in which Miss Marple helps a young couple find an inheritance), The Tape-Measure Murder (set in Miss Marple’s own St Mary Mead), The Case of the Caretaker (where the wonderful Dr Haydock brings a frail Miss Marple a mystery to solve to help revitalise her), The Case of the Perfect Maid (bringing together Miss Marple and her. After Nevile Strange has been acquitted, new leads implicate his ex-wife Audrey, who then confessed to the crime. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was to map the reality these men were trying to create. For two years he read their classified documents and attended secret meetings. They asked Elster to conceptualize their efforts-to form an intellectual framework for their troop deployments, counterinsurgency, orders for rendition. Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar-an outsider-when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. ![]() In the middle of a desert “somewhere south of nowhere,” to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war advisor has gone in search of space and time. ![]() Now, in Point Omega, he takes on the secret strategists in America’s war machine. Writing about conspiracy theory in Libra, government cover-ups in White Noise, the Cold War in Underworld, and 9/11 in Falling Man, “DeLillo’s books have been weirdly prophetic about twenty-first century America” ( The New York Times Book Review ). ![]() ![]() It gives a valuable overview of Tolkien's life and the publishing history of The Hobbit, and explains how every feature of The Hobbit fits within the rest of Tolkien's invented world. The Annotated Hobbit shows how Tolkien worked as a writer, what his influences and interests were, and how these relate to the invented world of Middle-earth. Tolkien's original line drawings, maps and color paintings are also included, making this the most lavishly informative edition of The Hobbit available. ![]() Integrated with Anderson's notes and placed alongside the fully restored and corrected text of the original story are more than 150 illustrations showing visual interpretations of The Hobbit specific to many of the cultures that have come to know and love Tolkien's Middle-earth. ![]() Anderson's The Annotated Hobbit is the definitive explication of the sources, characters, places, and things of J.R.R. Newly expanded and completely redesigned, Douglas A. ![]() For readers throughout the world, The Hobbit serves as an introduction to the enchanting world of Middle-earth, home of elves, wizards, dwarves, goblins, dragons, orcs and a host of other creatures depicted in The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion - tales that sprang from the mind of the most beloved author of all time, J.R.R. ![]() ![]() But the very intimacy of the story hints at this book's limitations. He had human teeth, which he bought from slaves, who pulled them from their own mouths.Here we see the strengths of this biography: the interweaving of the inner and outer man a sensitivity to the impact of a seemingly minor matter the juxtaposition of a civic saint with the trade in human flesh (or calcium, in this case). George Washington did not have wooden teeth. His understanding of human nature is extraordinary and that is what makes his biography so powerful. ![]() He has no ax to grind his only object seems to be to render his subject as fully and as roundly as possible. Chernow has written his biography with sympathetic detachment, keenly aware of the limitations of life. It is Chernow’s well-paced and readable prose and the smooth organization of his story together with the sensible and impartial nature of his judgments that make the book so persuasive. ![]() Although there is nothing really original in this characterization, no one before has ever put together between two covers such a convincing depiction of the great man. One comes away from the book feeling that Washington has finally become comprehensible. Because he also has a feel for the contentious historical issues in the lives of his characters, his book ought to satisfy academic historians as well as the general readers who may be unaware of these issues. ![]() ![]() Ability to master the secondary sources as well as the primary materials is the secret of his remarkable success as a biographer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jewelle Gomez with spouse Diane Sabin, 2013. Delany, Jewelle Gomez, and Tannanarive Due at the SciFi writers conference at Spelman College, 2010, Atlanta, GA. Jewelle Gomez with Nancy Bereano, founder of Firebrand Books. The young slave finally inherits the name Gilda from the 300-year-old vampire. After being taken to the brothel, she is accepted as family and given education. Jewelle Gomez at an Old Lesbians Organizing for Change event, 2007. The story of Gilda through the 150 years reflects on the rise from a simple slave girl to a strong black woman manifesting on the near-future of America. Jewelle Gomez photographed for a San Francisco Public Library Poster. Jewelle Gomez at Pride, 1989, New York, NY. Jewelle Gomez with Dorothy Allison, 1986. Jewelle Gomez with Audre Lordre filming Before Stonewall, 1984. Jewelle Gomez with the Say Brother staff, 1969. ![]() ![]() Jewelle Gomez as a baby with the Morandus family, 1948, Boston, MA. 30 2005 by Jewelle Gomez (Author) 241 ratings Kindle Edition 18.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback from 40.83 2 Used from 40.83 5 New from 94.60 MP3 CD 37.70 3 Used from 52.79 4 New from 31. Fog and sunlight took turns dancing outside the windows on the May 2017 morning when Jewelle sat down to tell OUTWORDS her story. Jewelle and her wife Diane Sabin, executive director of the Lesbian Health & Research Center at the UC San Francisco, live in a beautifully preserved California Craftsman bungalow in San Francisco’s Westwood Park neighborhood. The Gilda Stories is a sensual masterpiece and soulful adventure of the black lesbian experience across historical realms under the tastefully alluring. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ An epic, action-packed tale of love, revenge, and betrayal.” - Jennifer Estep, New York Times bestselling author of Kill the Queen And as her feelings for Aren transform from frosty hostility to fierce passion, Lara must choose which kingdom she’ll save… and which kingdom she’ll destroy. ![]() Yet as she infiltrates her new home and gains a deeper understanding of the war to possess the bridge, Lara begins to question whether she’s the hero or the villain. So when she’s sent as a bride under the guise of peace, Lara is prepared to do whatever it takes to fracture its impenetrable defenses. The only route through a storm-ravaged world, the Bridge Kingdom enriches itself and deprives its rivals, including Lara’s homeland. And the second is that she’ll be the one to bring him to his knees. The first is that King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom is her enemy. Ī warrior princess trained in isolation, Lara is driven by two certainties. What if you fell in love with the one person you’d sworn to destroy? Passionate and violent, THE BRIDGE KINGDOM is a seductive fantasy perfect for fans of From Blood and Ash and A Court of Thorns and Roses. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning was first published in 1879, Spyri became famous in only a few weeks. She started her writing career when she relocated to the center of Zurich after her marriage in 1852. The building in which the museum is located formerly served as the village’s public school house, which also Spyri attended. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spyri was born in 1827 in Hirzel, a village about 20 miles south of Zurich. It was exactly this context that inspired Spyri, and many other representatives of Romantic literature, to gloss over the social problems of the time with stories of a peaceful rural life. As author Johanna Spyri described it, the city itself turned into a giant, noisy construction site. Whole city quarters (mostly slums) turned into factory plants, and there was a mass migration of poor farmers seeking jobs as factory workers. Rapid industrialization turned the city upside down. But as this small museum details, the rustic story actually masks the societal issues caused by rapid 19th-century urbanization and industrialization.ĭuring the 1850s and 1860s, Zurich faced a radical change. As one of the bestselling children’s books of all times, and through various successful movie and cartoon adaptations, “Heidi” tells the tale of an idyllic, ahistorical rural life filled with beautiful mountains, goats, and harmony. ![]() ![]() That single-pointed focus, just like the intense attention required of an arrow maker or demanded of someone shooting arrows at their mark, had to be totally undisturbed”.Ībaris had been shown by the god within him that in Pythagoras he would find a living incarnation of the same god. Kingsley explains, using evidence from pre-Buddhist Tibet (where the practice has survived within Buddhism) as well as Mongolia: “Wind walkers could go anywhere cover enormous distances with apparently effortless ease find their way over every conceivable obstacle and straight past the most impassable landscapes … in one unbroken trance, holding their god inside them. For Abaris was a wind walker, and on a mission. He carried a golden arrow in his hand, though in a way it carried him. ![]() Kingsley’s Abaris walked, or in some sense flew, from his homeland to meet Pythagoras. They still and still live under their older name in Dagestan, a Russian republic in the northern Caucasus. The Avars are one of the peoples ancestral to modern Mongols. ![]() Pythagoras got most of his own education outside of the Greek cultural sphere, and Kingsley focuses here on his relationship with Abaris the Hyperborean*, using ancient texts to guide him.Ībaris is not a personal name. Peter Kingsley is a scholar of early Greek philosophy, and A Story Waiting to Pierce You (1) links Pythagoras (ca 590-470 BCE) with central Asian shamanism. ![]() |