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Cover of Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of...
Cover of Vejestud
by Danny Rivera
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2013

Los momentos posteriores a la meditación diaria, los ratos de esparcimiento en el hogar, las horas de espera en aeropuertos y en vuelos al trasladarme de un país a otro, son espacios para reflexionar, rememorar, evaluar, proyec- tar o pasar revista de mis actos y de mis pensamientos... Y, muy particularmente,...
Cover of here in SF
by Jer Johns
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015

Jer Johns had just spent the last year-and-a-half traveling around the country. He had stayed in over 70 different homes in over 50 cites with hundreds of strangers that would become friends. After arriving in San Francisco in March of 2015, He decided that it was time for a new experience. He challenged...
Cover of Les Vagabonds du Rail
by Jack LONDON
Language: French
Release Date: April 12, 2016

Extrait :  Quelque part dans l’État de Nevada, il existe une femme à qui j’ai menti sans vergogne pendant deux heures d’affilée.  Je ne cherche point ici à faire mes excuses, loin de là ! Je désire seulement m’expliquer. Hélas, je...
Cover of Principes de la flute traversiere, ou flute d'Allemagne, de la flute à bec ou flute douce et du hautbois, divisez par traitez
by Jacques-Martin Hotteterre
Language: French
Release Date: April 21, 2016

Extrait : De la ſituation du Corps, & de la poſition des Mains. COMME IL EST NECESSAIRE pour arriver à la perfection des exercices dans leſquels on veut réüſſir, de joindre autant qu’il eſt poſſible la bonne grace à l’habileté,...
Cover of Rembrandt
by Émile Verhaeren
Language: French
Release Date: March 24, 2016

Ceux qui, ces derniers temps, ont jugé Rembrandt l’ont mesuré à l’aune de leur critique exacte, intelligente et renseignée. Ils se sont appliqués à détailler sa vie année par année, joie par joie, deuil par deuil, malheur par malheur. Il en est résulté que nous le connaissons par le...
Cover of IL S'APPELAIT CHAMPOLLION
by GUY CHASSAGNARD
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2016

L’auteur de ce livret n’a pas l’ambition de présenter, en quelques dizaines de pages, une biographie exhaustive de Jean-François Champollion – d’ailleurs publiée en 2001, et rééditée en 2016, en livre papier aux Éditions Segnat (Les Frères Champollion) ; il entend, plus simplement,...
Cover of Frank Lloyd Wright
by Robert McCarter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006

A cultural icon who defined the twentieth-century American landscape, Frank Lloyd Wright has been studied from what seems to be every possible angle. While many books focus on his works, torrid personal life, or both, few solely consider his professional persona, as a man enmeshed in a web of prominent...
Cover of Leyla GENCER
by Zeynep Oral
Language: French
Release Date: March 5, 2014

La “Diva Turca” commence sa vie sur les rives du Bosphore pour connaître un formidable succès à Naples puis à La Scala de Milan avant de conquérir les grandes scènes lyriques internationales, sous les baguettes de Toscanini, Serafin, Simonetto, Gui, Gavanezzi,...
Cover of How To Get Paid To Take Digital Photos
by Jimmy Cai
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

And anyone knows that the best way to make money is to take what you love and turn it into a business. Well, congratulations. You have taken the first step towards making money doing what you love: Taking digital photos. Not many people know that you can make a good living just by selling photos over...
Cover of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Illustrated
by Frederick Keppel
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012

Frederick Keppel takes a brief look at the “Grand Style” art of Joshua Reynolds, the influential British portrait painter of the late 18th century.
Cover of Paint and Canvas

Paint and Canvas

A Life of T. C. Steele

by Rachel Berenson Perry
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

At the age of fourteen, a young man in Waveland, Indiana, had taken over the family farm after the death of his father. Now responsible for taking care of his widowed mother and supporting his four brothers, he took up the reins on the plow to begin preparing the field for planting. Family legend...
Cover of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

Anatomy of an Enigma

by Michael Peppiatt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Published in 1996, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma was the first in-depth study of the artist's life. It has not been superseded. In this substantially revised, updated edition - to coincide with the artist's centenary, which will be celebrated from autumn 2008 through summer 2009 - Peppiatt...
Cover of Chelsea Lately Report
by Mark Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014

Chelsea Handler is an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, and late night cable talk show host.   Chelsea Handler grew up in New Jersey, and has performed nationwide as a stand-up comedian. Handler appeared as a regular in Oxygen's Girls Behaving Badly and acted in other...
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