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Author |
: Don Easton |
Publisher |
: Dundurn |
Total Pages |
: 409 |
Release |
: 2016-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781459734289 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1459734289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Delicate Matter by : Don Easton
Jack Taggart is once again thrown into conflict with his longtime nemesis, Satans Wrath gang leader Damien Zabat. When Jack obtains evidence to implicate Damien’s son, Buck, in a murder, he thinks he finally has what he needs to get Damien to turn informant. But little does Taggart know that a new, even more terrifying, enemy is on the rise.
Author |
: Oliver Wunsch |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2024-02-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271096674 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271096675 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Delicate Matter by : Oliver Wunsch
Eighteenth-century France witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of materially unstable art, from oil paintings that cracked within years of their creation to enormous pastel portraits vulnerable to the slightest touch or vibration. In A Delicate Matter, Oliver Wunsch traces these artistic practices to the economic and social conditions that enabled them: an ascendant class of art collectors who embraced fragile objects as a means of showcasing their disposable wealth. While studies of Rococo art have traditionally focused on style and subject matter, this book reveals how the physical construction of paintings and sculptures was central to the period’s reconceptualization of art. Drawing on sources ranging from eighteenth-century artists’ writings to twenty-first-century laboratory analyses, Wunsch demonstrates how the technical practices of eighteenth-century painters and sculptors provoked a broad transformation in the relationship between art, time, and money. Delicacy, which began the eighteenth century as a commodified extension of courtly sociability, was by century’s end reimagined as the irreducible essence of art’s autonomous value. Innovative and original, A Delicate Matter is an important intervention in the growing body of scholarship on durability and conservation in eighteenth-century French art. It challenges the art historical tendency to see decay as little more than an impediment to research, instead showing how physical instability played a critical role in establishing art’s meaning and purpose.
Author |
: Rebecca Forster |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0671682512 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780671682514 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Delicate Matter by : Rebecca Forster
Author |
: John le Carré |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 2013-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101618028 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101618027 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Delicate Truth by : John le Carré
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. "A novel that beckons us beyond any and all expectations."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post A counter-terrorist operation, code-named Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister’s personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Three years later, a disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be—or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher “Kit” Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely observed by Kit’s daughter, Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?
Author |
: Sholem Aleichem |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253304016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253304018 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bloody Hoax by : Sholem Aleichem
Novel portraying Jewish life in a Russian city prior to WWI.
Author |
: Makoto Hayashi |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 397 |
Release |
: 2013-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107002791 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107002796 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Conversational Repair and Human Understanding by : Makoto Hayashi
A state-of-the art review of conversational repair, with contributions from internationally recognized leaders in the field of conversation analysis.
Author |
: Sherwin Cody |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 520 |
Release |
: 1915 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015012847391 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Deal with Human Nature in Business by : Sherwin Cody
Author |
: Janice Hallett |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2023-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781668035887 |
ISBN-13 |
: 166803588X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Christmas Appeal by : Janice Hallett
This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows the hilarious Fairway Players theater group as they put on a Christmas play—and solve a murder that threatens their production. The Christmas season has arrived in Lower Lockwood, and the Fairway Players are busy rehearsing their festive holiday production of Jack and the Beanstalk to raise money for a new church roof. But despite the season, goodwill is distinctly lacking among the amateur theater enthusiasts with petty rivalries, a possibly asbestos-filled beanstalk, and some perennially absent players behind the scenes. Of course, there’s also the matter of the dead body onstage. Who could possibly have had the victim on their naughty list? Join lawyers Femi and Charlotte as they investigate Christmas letters, examine emails, and pore over police transcripts to identify both the victim and killer before the curtain closes on their holiday production—for good.
Author |
: Jennifer Fallon |
Publisher |
: Tor Books |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2016-03-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466875562 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466875569 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lyre Thief by : Jennifer Fallon
Ten years have passed since the events of the Demon Child books that left the god Xaphista dead, the nation Karien without a religion or king and the matriarchal country of Medalon ruled by men. But it is in the kingdoms of the south that things really heat up. When Princess Rakaia of Fardohnya discovers she is not of royal birth, she agrees to marry a much older Hythrun noble in a chance to escape her 'father's wrath. Rakaia takes nothing but her jewels and her base-born half-sister, Charisee, who has been her slave, handmaiden and best friend since she was six years old. And who can pass as Rakaia's double. These two sisters embark on a Shakespearian tale of switched identities, complicated love triangles...and meddlesome gods. Rakaia is rescued on the road by none other than the Demon Child, R'shiel, still searching for a way to force Death to release her near immortal Brak. Charisee tries to act like the princess she was never meant to be and manages to draw the attention of the God of Liars who applauds her deception and only wants to help. Then there is the little matter of the God of Music's magical totem that has been stolen...and how this theft may undo the universe. Powerful magics, byzantine politics, sweeping adventure, and a couple of juicy love stories thrown in for good measure, The Lyre Thief is classic Fallon that is sure to appeal to her fans. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author |
: William Lobscheid |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 1867 |
ISBN-10 |
: COLUMBIA:CU09420703 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis English and Chinese Dictionary by : William Lobscheid