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"Hunter often said Harrell was the best copy editor he'd ever worked with" (William McKeen, Outlaw Journalist).  But what was the rest of the story?            Keep This Quiet! captures the fear and loathing, charm and romance of Hunter in the late Sixties - along with tales of...

At age thirteen, most boys are finding trouble in all its infinite forms. In 1939, thirteen-year-old Jon Lippens’s worst troubles found him in a predawn Nazi invasion that left his hometown of Ghent, Belgium, enveloped in mass death and destruction. His childhood ended that day. Jon’s life...

Alain Stanké a vécu non pas une, ni même deux ou trois, mais bien quatre vies ! La première en Lituanie, la deuxième en Allemagne, la suivante à Paris et la quatrième au Québec. C'est celle-ci qu'il raconte avec une joie communicative dans cet ouvrage. Il débarque à Montréal en 1951 et...

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death, world-renowned da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores 100 of the master’s milestones in art, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy, and more.   Leonardo da Vinci was born in the small Tuscan town of Vinci in April 1452. Over...

My e-book considers a number of cases of booksellers and magazine dealers being arrested on obscenity charges. The most well-known of these was eventually decided in the United States Supreme Court. This case involved Times Square bookseller Louis Finkelstein who marketed the notorious serial "Nights...

Il mio passato mi dice chi sono, da dove provengo, chi erano i miei genitori, i miei fratelli, i guai che mi hanno accompagnato dalla nascita, chi sono diventato; l’avvenire mi dice che c’è tutto un universo che aspetta di essere scoperto, un oceano di possibilità creative che so essere realizzabili, un’unità tra me e il prodotto delle mie mani.

Über Stefanie Sargnagel wisse doch jeder alles, im Internet mache sie sich ja quasi nackt, sagen Kritiker der umstrittenen Künstlerin. Sie selbst sieht das ganz anders. Wie, davon hat Stefanie Sargnagel Antonia Thiele erzählt, backstage, während 300 Zuhörer auf ihre Lesung warteten, und bei einer...

I've selectioned hot men, lover boys and Adonis from classic paintings. How did maestros draw lover boys. I've collectioned from famous paintings so as form unknowns in dogmatic, biased and avocational way. Please watch in bigger picture by double tapping.

Named after a Japanese steakhouse, Kobe Bryant is the child of former NBA user Joe "Jellybean" Bryant. In 1984, after finishing his NBA profession, the elder Bryant took the family to Italy where he utilized the Italian League. Growing in Italy along with 2 sports more mature relatives,...

Example in this ebook Sir Joshua Reynolds—to whom is the name unfamiliar? to whom, hearing it, does not appear in mental vision the equally familiar autograph portrait of the deaf artist? This picture, painted originally for Mr. Thrale, shows us the painter "in his habit as he lived," spectacles...

Décryptez l’art de Michel-Ange en moins d’une heure !Enfant « terrible » de la Renaissance italienne, souvent opposé au « gracieux » Raphaël, Michel-Ange est décidément l’artiste de tous les superlatifs, à l’image de son style, monumental, et de ses figures, colossales et expressives...

  During his short art-career Van Gogh had sold only one painting. His most excellent paintings were created in no more than 3 years in a method that graduated more and more emotional in brushstroke, in symbolic and powerful colors, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration...

本書は、太宰治の短編六編と、横山大観の絵画十四点を配して編集しています。一九〇〇年代の前半の作品ながら古さを感じさせない太宰治の作品と、神々しいまでの富士山をはじめとする荘厳な横山大観の作品の数々。それぞれ時代が違えども、今なお色あせることなく美しく輝いています。どうぞ、二人の天才の作品から新しい芸術世界を創造してください。...

Calvin Harris, also known as Adam Richard is a Scottish-born DJ, singer-songwriter, and producer appears to be living a rather charmed life of late.   In 2006, he was discovered on MySpace and was signed by EMI, Sony BMG, and the Three Six Zero Group.  His first album, "I...