The Book of Exposition

The Book of Exposition
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ISBN-10 : 1850779015
ISBN-13 : 9781850779018
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Synopsis The Book of Exposition by : Jalal Addin Al-Siyuti

Kitab al-izah fi'ilm al-nikah b-it-tamam w-al-kamal: literally translated from the Arabic, with translator's foreword, numerous important notes illustrating the text, and several interesting appendices / by an English bohemian. The writing of this treatise is credit to Jalal Addin Al-Siyuti and the book was translated from the Arabic at the beginning of the century by an English Bohemian. It was originally published in France as a limited edition of only 300 copies. An imaginative translation has been accomplished in a fascinating style, attempting to mimic Arabic rhythmic prose.

Expositions

Expositions
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 0520073258
ISBN-13 : 9780520073258
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Expositions by : Philippe Hamon

In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by the cultural histories of Walter Benjamin and Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Expositions explores the spatial and cultural logic of Haussmann's sweeping Paris boulevards, classic novels by Balzac and Zola, the Bon March� department store, and the poetry of Baudelaire.

Peril at the Exposition

Peril at the Exposition
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Publisher : Minotaur Books
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9781250855046
ISBN-13 : 1250855047
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Peril at the Exposition by : Nev March

Captain Jim Agnihotri and his new bride, Diana Framji, return in Nev March's Peril at the Exposition, the follow up to March's award-winning, Edgar finalist debut, Murder in Old Bombay. 1893: Newlyweds Captain Jim Agnihotri and Diana Framji are settling into their new home in Boston, Massachusetts, having fled the strict social rules of British Bombay. It's a different life than what they left behind, but theirs is no ordinary marriage: Jim, now a detective at the Dupree Agency, is teaching Diana the art of deduction he’s learned from his idol, Sherlock Holmes. Everyone is talking about the preparations for the World's Fair in Chicago: the grandeur, the speculation, the trickery. Captain Jim will experience it first-hand: he's being sent to Chicago to investigate the murder of a man named Thomas Grewe. As Jim probes the underbelly of Chicago’s docks, warehouses, and taverns, he discovers deep social unrest and some deadly ambitions. When Jim goes missing, young Diana must venture to Chicago's treacherous streets to learn what happened. But who can she trust, when a single misstep could mean disaster? Award-winning author Nev March mesmerized readers with her Edgar finalist debut, Murder in Old Bombay. Now, in Peril at the Exposition, she wields her craft against the glittering landscape of the Gilded Age with spectacular results.

Exposition

Exposition
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9781948980043
ISBN-13 : 1948980045
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Exposition by : Nathalie Léger

The first in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists. Exposition is the first in a triptych of books by the award-winning writer and archivist Nathalie Léger that includes Suite for Barbara Loden and The White Dress. In each, Léger sets the story of a female artist against the background of her own life and research—an archivist's journey into the self, into the lives that history hides from us. Here, Léger's subject is the Countess of Castiglione (1837–1899), who at the dawn of photography dedicated herself to becoming the most photographed woman in the world, modeling for hundreds of photos, including “Scherzo di Follia,” among the most famous in history. Set long before our own “selfie” age, Exposition is a remarkably modern investigation into the curses of beauty, fame, vanity, and age, as well as the obsessive drive to control and commodify one's image.

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
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Publisher : Historylink
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105124158960
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Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition by : Alan J. Stein

This richly illustrated and well-researched volume recounts in detail the history of the fair that brought Seattle and Washington into the national spotlight. The A-Y-P Exposition, held in Seattle in 1909 on the future site of the University of Washington, welcomed 3.7 million visitors and was the first world's fair to make a profit.

The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899

The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 496
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ISBN-10 : 9780803278806
ISBN-13 : 0803278802
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899 by : Wendy Jean Katz

The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omaha’s key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progressive metropolis after the Panic of 1893. The exposition also promoted the rise of the United States as an imperial power, at the time on the brink of the Spanish-American War, and the nation’s place in bringing “civilization” to Indigenous populations both overseas and at the conclusion of the recent Plains Indian Wars. The Omaha World’s Fair, however, is one of the least studied American expositions. Wendy Jean Katz brings together leading scholars to better understand the event’s place in the larger history of both Victorian-era America and the American West. The interdisciplinary essays in this volume cover an array of topics, from competing commercial visions of the cities of the Great West; to the role of women in the promotion of City Beautiful ideals of public art and urban planning; and the constructions of Indigenous and national identities through exhibition, display, and popular culture. Leading scholars T. J. Boisseau, Bonnie M. Miller, Sarah J. Moore, Nancy Parezo, Akim Reinhardt, and Robert Rydell, among others, discuss this often-misunderstood world’s fair and its place in the Victorian-era ascension of the United States as a world power.

The Bible Exposition Commentary

The Bible Exposition Commentary
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Publisher : David C Cook
Total Pages : 758
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ISBN-10 : 0781435315
ISBN-13 : 9780781435314
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bible Exposition Commentary by : Warren W. Wiersbe

With this final installation in this six-volume set, Dr. Wiersbe has covered the entire Bible!

Behold, He Cometh

Behold, He Cometh
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Total Pages : 800
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ISBN-10 : 1944555455
ISBN-13 : 9781944555450
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Behold, He Cometh by : Herman Hoeksema

Behold, He Cometh is an essay-style commentary on the much disputed book of Revelation. By careful exegesis, the author gives a solidly Reformed, amillennial interpretation of scripture. This book sets forth in clear, concise language the comforting truths concerning the end times.