Anthony: 6598 books
Velázquez and The Surrender of Breda
The Making of a Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Behind the famous painting by Diego Velázquez lies a rich story of the artist's life in art
What began as propaganda art to celebrate a rare Spanish victory in the Eighty Years' War with Holland, The Surrender at Breda is today recognized as Velázquez's narrative masterpiece.
Breda...
Medieval Philosophy
A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance.The middle ages saw a...
Sir John Franklin: Expeditions to Destiny
Expeditions to Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition became one of the most exhaustive quests of the 19th century. Despite tantalizing clues, the ships were...
A Checklist for Murder
The True Story of Robert John Peernock
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
As seen on Investigation Discovery: the story of killer husband and father Robert Peernock from the New York Times–bestselling author of Impossible Odds.
Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life. Working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and coming home to his wife and...
Jarhead
A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a searing, unforgettable narrative.
When the marines -- or "jarheads," as they call themselves -- were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on...
by Mr Anthony Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
He was six feet tall, huge-chested, handsome, ebullient, a warrior, a hunter, a fisherman, a drinker.'
Ernest Hemingway was 'a man who lived it up to write it down' and his life became the root from which his novels grew. At the age of 18 he was awarded a medal for bravery in the First World...
Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine
A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine represents a fascinating...
The Art of the Con
The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons perpetrated...
Hollywood Unknowns
A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first history devoted to extras from the silent era through the present. Hollywood Unknowns discusses the...
The New York Times Essential Library: Opera
A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Works and the Best Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
An insightful, provocative selection of the best opera performances, chosen by The New York Times's chief classical music critic in one hundred original essays
Opera intertwines the drama of the theater with the powerful emotionality of music. In this magical and illuminating guide to the best...
Silent Players
A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
" From his unique perspective of friendship with many of the actors and actresses about whom he writes, silent film historian Anthony Slide creates vivid portraits of the careers and often eccentric lives of 100 players from the American silent film industry. He profiles the era's shining stars...
Imperial Alchemy
Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The mid-twentieth century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history, when a range of imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, either by revolution or decolonisation. Nationalism was the great alchemist, turning the base metal of empire into the gold of nations. To achieve...
A People Passing Rude
British Responses to Russian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin’d", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements—in music, art and particularly literature—achieved widespread recognition in...
半生不熟：關於廚藝與人生的真實告白
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Language: Chinese
Release Date: June 22, 2018
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最「辛辣，但真誠」的人生告白
毫無保留，火力全開！ **
「『毫不在乎』對我來說一直是很成功的商業模式。」
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