Author:Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674011304
Total Pages:282
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Author:Julien Bogousslavsky,M. G. Hennerici,H. Baezner,C. Bassetti
Publisher:Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN:3805593309
Total Pages:242
Viewed:437
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The third part of Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists presents painters, musicians, and writers who had to fight against an acute or chronic neurological disease. Sometimes this fight was without success (e.g. Shostakovich, Schumann, Wolf, Pascal), but often a dynamic and paradoxical creativity of the clinical disorder was integrated into their artistic production (e.g. Klee, Ramuz). Occasionally, some even wrote the first report of a medical condition they observed in themselves, like Stendhal who made a detailed report of aphasic transient ischemic attacks before dying of stroke shortly thereafter. In rarer instances, a neurological disease was inaccurately attributed to an artist in order to explain certain features of his work (de Chirico, Schiele). Some chapters in this publication focus on neurological conditions reported in artistic work, including descriptions by Shakespeare and Dumas. Bringing new light to both artists and neurological conditions, this book serves as a valuable and entertaining read for neurologists, psychiatrists, physicians, and anybody interested in arts, literature and music.
Author:James P. Roberts
Publisher:Badger Books Inc.
ISBN:9781878569851
Total Pages:218
Viewed:1999
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From Aldo Leopold to Zona Gale, here are the profiles of 35 Famous Wisconsin Authors. Meet Native American authors as well as poets, novelists, and contemporary authors.
Author:Alan Bisbort
Publisher:Pomegranate
ISBN:9780764917387
Total Pages:154
Viewed:471
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Whether Inspiring, Incomprehensible, insightful, bleak, or absurd, last words can be spoken by the living as well as the dying. Among the dying, last words are truly final, as was the case with Dylan Thomas, who uttered "I've just had eighteen straight whiskeys. I think that's the record." Famous Last Words records the parting shots of dozens of folks no longer with us, from those dead for political reasons to those who themselves decided to end it all. And it records the words of those who went on with their lives after uttering a memorable farewell but whose reputation was made by their words, often to their lasting frustration, such as the infamous Richard Milhous Nixon: "You won't have me to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." Famous Last Words also preserves the last words of those inhabiting the world of fiction, whether in a book, on the stage, in a movie or on TV. Blanche DuBois's "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" ranks right alongside Charles Foster Kane's "Rosebud" and Sidney Carton's "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done. . . ." The mutterings of the imagined are always floating around in our culture's consciousness, kicking lustily. Author Alan Bisbort consulted unimpeachable sources and original texts in compiling this compendium of 140 choice good-byes. But not only the farewells capture our attention: Bisbort's concise, witty, and informative text adds revealing context to the quoted words. Famous Last Words is fascinating, illuminating, and immensely rewarding. Reading through the pages may reveal some unifying impulse behind all those bye-byes; if so, you have truly stumbled uponthe meaning of life.
Author:Carol Matz
Publisher:Alfred Music
ISBN:9781457420900
Total Pages:24
Viewed:858
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Famous & Fun: Classics, Book 1 offers a wonderful introduction to the timeless masterpieces of the great composers. Featuring arrangements of themes from symphonic, operatic and keyboard literature, these works have been carefully selected to appeal to beginners at the early elementary level. Optional duet parts for teacher or parent.
Author:N.A
Publisher:rob tencer
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Author:Kiva Publishing, Incorporated
Publisher:Kiva Publishing
ISBN:9781885772237
Total Pages:63
Viewed:1940
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Provides brief biographies of important Native American figures, including Pocahontas, Tecumseh, Sequoya, Sacagawea, Geronimo, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull.
Author:Art Johnson
Publisher:Libraries Unlimited
ISBN:9781563084461
Total Pages:179
Viewed:1122
Books Description:
Presents brief stories about the life and work of famous mathematicians, including Euler, Fermat, Fibonacci, Fourier, Gauss, Moebius, and Pythagoras, and introduces their theories with puzzles and tasks for students to solve.
Author:Hannah Heidi Levy
Publisher:Badger Books Inc.
ISBN:9781932542127
Total Pages:316
Viewed:413
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- This book profiles well-known artists and architects as well as lesser known off-beat characters.
Author:Gini Graham Scott
Publisher:Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN:9780275983468
Total Pages:266
Viewed:1846
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Profiles the crimes of the rich and famous, from the beginnings of the 20th century to the present, and argues that the "rules" are different for the rich and famous.
Author:Seymour Maitland Pitcher,William Shakespeare
Publisher:SUNY Press
ISBN:9780873950022
Total Pages:256
Viewed:706
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In the opinion of the author, the anonymous sixteenth-century playscript entitled "The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth" is actually one of the first efforts by the young but spirited dramatist, William Shakespeare. Produced about 1586--when the still unknown playwright-actor was 22 years old--the play in question is neither poetic nor highly distinguished. But Professor Pitcher, an ardent Shakespearean scholar, here presents an interesting and ingenious argument for his belief that the unknown playwright was the Bard himself. The object of much critical disparagement and scholarly dispute, "The Famous Victories" covers approximately the same span of events as that in the playwright's famous trilogy immortalizing Henry of Monmouth. In its own time, it was considered exciting. "What a glorious thing it is," wrote Thomas Nash in 1592, "to have Henry the Fifth represented on the stage leading the French king prisoner and forcing him and the dolphin to swear fealty." Dr. Pitcher believes that Heming and Condell omitted "The Famous Victories" from their First Folio in 1623 because they felt it was not worthy of a place with the later, highly professional plays of Shakespeare, none of which contains such inexperienced writing. If Dr. Pitcher's line of reasoning is correct, his conclusion is of great value in dissipating some of the mystery surrounding Shakespeare's early years. For despite the play's slapstick and buffoonery, it shows that its 22-year-old author was no mere holder of horses at theatre doors, but was already well read enough among "rusty brass and wormeaten books" to piece together his story of "The Famous Victories" from the chronicles of Edward Hall, Raphael Holinshed, and John Stow. Certain to arouse violent discussion among Shakespearean scholars, Dr. Pitcher's book is the considered product of many years of thought and study. The text of the Elizabethan play concerned will in itself be of interest to students of the drama, and the possibility that Shakespeare himself penned its lines will lend an excitement to the reading of the scenes. The famous "Grafton portrait" of a youth believed to be the young Shakespeare appears as frontispiece.
Author:Natalie Rompella
Publisher:Lobster Press
ISBN:9781897073551
Total Pages:48
Viewed:1240
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Describes sports and activities originating in the United States and their history, including surfing, snowboarding, in-line skating, and cheerleading.
Author:Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
Publisher:Cambridge Scholars Press
ISBN:1904303471
Total Pages:126
Viewed:1039
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Since the late 1970s, more than 200 biographical plays about famous artists (composers, fine artists, poets, actors etc.) were written and staged in the United Kingdom. The book analyses the range of these plays, arguing that the dramatists often place the main artist character(s) in an adverse situation, inward (e.g., mental illness) or outward (a personal enemy, or an anonymous power, such as war). Against the background of such adverse forces, the artist characters tend come across as flawed human beings. At the same time, most plays take care to provide good insights into the artists genius and their artistic integrity in the face of the adversity. The book also addresses the question why there have been so many biographical plays about famous artists over the past twenty-five years, providing answers in the context of theatre history and developments across academic disciplines and society as a whole.
Author:Alison Booth,Professor of English Alison Booth
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
ISBN:9780813914374
Total Pages:393
Viewed:621
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Famous Last Words traces a broad historical transition- from the 1840s to the 1980s- from the more rigid dichotomy of the Victorian novel, in which good women must marry and fallen women die, to the more open alternatives of twentieth-century fiction, which sometimes permit the independent female protagonist to survive and occasionally allow alternative constructions of gender as well as plot. Each essay treats a narrative- novel, novella, or novel poem- by a single author in light of conventions of closure and of gender in historical context. The contributors recover forgotten texts, revise our understanding of women writers once successful, but now somewhat marginalized, and give voice to cultural "others." Works by the already canonized George Eliot are reassessed, and the representation of women in the canonical novels of male writers William Thackeray and Henry James is explored.
Author:Sura College of Competition
Publisher:Sura Books
ISBN:9788174781666
Total Pages:N.A
Viewed:1191
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Author:Michael R. Pitts
Publisher:Scarecrow Press
ISBN:9780810836907
Total Pages:399
Viewed:830
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This book not only includes chapters on more than twenty new screen sleuths but also updates information on several detectives included in the first two volumes of Famous Movie Detectives. Author Michael Pitts also provides new material on sleuths in silent films and serials, as well as a listing of radio and television detective programs.
Author:Steve Schaecher
Publisher:Pomegranate
ISBN:9780764912603
Total Pages:63
Viewed:795
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Outhouses have been much ridiculed and maligned structures, thought worthy of only the lowliest of humor and virtually ignored by architectural critics as inconsequential blips in the development of building design. And yet--as architect Steve Schaecher so poignantly reveals in this collection of renderings--architects of genius from time immemorial have used their considerable talents to enhance the beauty and function of the outhouse. His extensive research has uncovered a wealth of stunning outdoor bathroom designs that say much about the history of architecture. Although Schaecher's friends and family have worried about his obsession with bathroom drawings, it is clear that with the publication of this tome, his seat in the annals of architectural history will never be put down.Here are reproductions of stylish (dare we say perfectionist?) renderings of Thronehenge, Wright's Flushing Water, the Odor Dame Cathedral, the Taj Ma-stall, Jefferson's Johnicello, Sullivan's Merchants First National Outhouse, Le Corbusier's Bidet Savoye, Fuller's Geodesic Throne, the Hancock's John Building, the Centre Pompidoodoo-the unmistakable outhouse for that weird-looking French museum-and many others. Each is accompanied by insightful historical and analytical text, depending on your definitions of insightful and analytical. The preface, by architectural critic I.P. Daley, will leave you in no doubt of the importance of this completely nonsensical book.
Author:Jeremy Thornton
Publisher:The Rosen Publishing Group
ISBN:9780823962761
Total Pages:24
Viewed:1861
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Briefly describes the parts played by a few women in the American Revolution, including Deborah Samson, Nancy Morgan Hart, Sybil Ludington, Phillis Wheatley, Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, and Mary Katherine Goddard.
Author:Felix Klein,Wooster Woodruff Beman,David Eugene Smith
Publisher:Courier Corporation
ISBN:9780486495514
Total Pages:92
Viewed:1911
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Widely regarded as a classic of modern mathematics, this expanded version of Felix Klein's celebrated 1894 lectures uses contemporary techniques to examine three famous problems of antiquity: doubling the volume of a cube, trisecting an angle, and squaring a circle. Today's students will find this volume of particular interest in its answers to such questions as: Under what circumstances is a geometric construction possible? By what means can a geometric construction be effected? What are transcendental numbers, and how can you prove that e and pi are transcendental? The straightforward treatment requires no higher knowledge of mathematics. Unabridged reprint of the classic 1930 second edition.
Author:Colin Campbell-Hunt
Publisher:Auckland University Press
ISBN:9781869402495
Total Pages:237
Viewed:1859
Books Description:
A study of world-class New Zealand businesses based on ten case studies of internationally competitive companies which have been successful overseas. It aims to reveal the secrets of their competitive advantage and explores the question of what makes a successful business.
Author:Spike Hughes
Publisher:Courier Corporation
ISBN:9780486228587
Total Pages:245
Viewed:1413
Books Description:
Music excerpts are presented to show Mozart's use of tonal quality, voice interaction, and mood and melody changes in his five greatest operas
Author:Donna Trembinski
Publisher:Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN:9780778713562
Total Pages:32
Viewed:1500
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Presents profiles of notable people from Medieval times.
Author:Leonard A. Parry
Publisher:Beard Books
ISBN:9781587980312
Total Pages:348
Viewed:1394
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Author:Ellen H. Bleiler
Publisher:Courier Corporation
ISBN:9780486291581
Total Pages:99
Viewed:1368
Books Description:
Enjoy the passion and power of 145 arias from 50 operas by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini, 12 other composers. Selections from Rigoletto, The Marriage of Figaro, Il Trovatore, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, La Bohème, many more. Original Italian librettos with excellent line-for-line literal English translations in facing columns. Introduction.
Author:Steve Burgess
Publisher:John Hunt Publishing
ISBN:1846944945
Total Pages:176
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Steve Burgess is one of the UK's leading Hypnotherapists who has completed many thousands of past life regressions. This intriguing book is the story of some of his clients who in regression sessions appear to have been very famous historical characters in their previous lives. These famous past lives include Queen Elizabeth I, her elder sister Queen Mary, one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute victims, Titus Oates from the Scott of the Antartic Expedition and William Shakespeare. Whilst in trance, Steve's clients give fascinating accounts of their past life alter egos, often experiencing things known only to historians. As they re-live their famous past lives they even provide unknown information, which gives us a fuller insight into the lives of the famous characters, including Elizabeth's passionate affair with Robert Dudley and the fate of their love child, and Shakespeare's travels abroad. This book may be the book that proves the reality of reincarnation, and will be of interest to both sceptics and spiritually minded people.
Author:Carol Pugliano-Martin
Publisher:Scholastic Inc.
ISBN:9780439323338
Total Pages:48
Viewed:438
Books Description:
Connect reading and social studies with 15 engaging and easy-to-read plays about famous Americans such as George Washington, Betsy Ross, Martin Luther King, Jr., Pocahontas, Harriet Tubman, and more! Kids will enjoy learning about these fascinating figures while building reading and oral-language skills. Designed for emergent readers, the plays feature simple, predictable language, as well as rhyme and repetition. Includes background information and extension activities. For use with Grades K-2.
Author:Bruce LaFontaine
Publisher:Courier Corporation
ISBN:9780486293622
Total Pages:47
Viewed:600
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For coloring book enthusiasts and architecture students — 44 finely detailed renderings of Wright home and studio, Unity Temple, Guggenheim Museum, Robie House, Imperial Hotel, more.
Author:Social Studies School Service
Publisher:Social Studies
ISBN:1560042354
Total Pages:N.A
Viewed:1484
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Author:Debra J. Housel
Publisher:Teacher Created Materials
ISBN:9781433390678
Total Pages:32
Viewed:471
Books Description:
Many talented and skilled immigrants came to America from various places in the world and brought with them their own cultures and traditions to enrich the American culture and way of life. Among the famous immigrants whose lives have impacted the twentieth century are Elijah McCoy, Irving Berlin, Father Edward Flanagan, and I. M. Pei.
Author:Liza Schafer
Publisher:Scholastic Inc.
ISBN:9780590494748
Total Pages:200
Viewed:463
Books Description:
Plays about Ben Franklin, Harriet Tubman, and other historical figures are accompanied by suggestions for teachers on how to incorporate them into their classes
Author:Hugh Thomson Kerr,John M. Mulder
Publisher:Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN:9780802840653
Total Pages:265
Viewed:1677
Books Description:
A collection of fifty first-person conversion accounts spanning Christian history from the Apostle Paul to St. Augustine to Malcolm Muggeridge and Charles Colson. The selections, intended to be representative rather than exhaustive, are each prefaced with brief comment by the editors.
Author:N.A
Publisher:On The Mark Press
ISBN:1770727779
Total Pages:N.A
Viewed:729
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Author:Joan Axelrod-Contrada
Publisher:Capstone
ISBN:1429665165
Total Pages:32
Viewed:1224
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"Describes reports of encounters with the ghosts of several deceased entertainers and celebrities"--Provided by publisher.
Author:Patricia L. Thompson
Publisher:Arcadia Publishing
ISBN:9780738566887
Total Pages:127
Viewed:1162
Books Description:
Central Kentucky is home to many magnificent horses and their farms, and a photographic guide goes beyond the numbers and provides insight into the character of these beloved creatures by featuring stories straight from those closest to the horses--the grooms. Original.
Author:Jim Gigliotti
Publisher:Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN:9780778731887
Total Pages:32
Viewed:1769
Books Description:
Looks at some of the most famous race tracks in NASCAR racing and their unique features that drivers must adjust to in order to have a winning career.
Author:N.A
Publisher:Great, Grand & Famous Hotels
ISBN:
Total Pages:N.A
Viewed:604
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Author:Frank Erickson
Publisher:Alfred Music
ISBN:9781457441196
Total Pages:24
Viewed:1209
Books Description:
A diverse and timeless collection of 66 famous chorales arranged for concert band by Frank Erickson. The chorales are all arranged in four parts (SATB) and, in addition to full band, are playable by a wide variety of smaller groups, from quartet on up. Besides being an excellent warm-up tool, 66 Festive and Famous Chorales for Band provides a perfect opportunity to work on musicianship, phrasing, balance and intonation.
Author:Brenda Strickland,Pat Walker
Publisher:Teacher Created Resources
ISBN:0743932609
Total Pages:144
Viewed:1570
Books Description:
Activities designed to bring the past into the present by involving students in projects featuring historic Americans.
Author:Eugenia R. Van Vliet
Publisher:iUniverse
ISBN:9780595297290
Total Pages:456
Viewed:814