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101 Great Samurai Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:Utagawa Kuniyoshi [Kuniyoshi, Utagawa]

28. Suzuki Shigehide. Samurai Suzuki Shigehide is shown with many of the Japanese warrior’s traditional weapons, but also with a smoking firearm in his right hand. The Portuguese brought the ...
( Category: Portraits April 26,2017 )
Byzantine Wars by John Haldon
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2008-10-31 | Author:John Haldon [Haldon, John]

Sa’if ad-Daulah’s Raid of 956 The raid in question was launched in early spring of that year, intended as a booty-collecting expedition, as an attack on the Roman frontier provinces, ...
( Category: Military April 15,2017 )
Reich by James Lucas
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:James Lucas

PART THREE Military Perspectives In a game of chess, a logical, intellectual game, there comes a point where one player will cry ‘checkmate’. That player has manoeuvred his opponent into ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 6,2017 )
Jackson (The Truth Series Book 4) by Elaine May
epub |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Elaine May [May, Elaine]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN THE PAST KITTY AGED SIXTEEN For the rest of that weekend my cell goes off constantly with either a missed call or text from Jackson. I can't stomach ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 22,2017 )
Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives by Chase F. Robinson
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Chase F. Robinson

20 al-Idrisi, cosmopolitan cartographer (1165) What does our world look like? The question is deceptively simple. Familiar with images from satellites and the like, we now know that it is ...
( Category: History March 22,2017 )
Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Jeanette Winterson [Winterson, Jeanette]

And it is exactness. Art always dresses for dinner. Does this seem stuffy in the jeans and T-shirt days of popular culture? Perhaps, but without a formal space art cannot ...
( Category: Criticism March 19,2017 )
Leonardo on the Human Body (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) by Leonardo da Vinci
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Leonardo da Vinci [Vinci, Leonardo da]

102 ventricles of the heart The page was originally part of a single sheet, the other half being 107-8. The arguments presented here are consequently similar since they date from ...
( Category: Basic Sciences March 11,2017 )
Pro Eto by Vladimir Mayakovsky
epub |eng, rus | 2009-05-11 | Author:Vladimir Mayakovsky [Mayakovsky, Vladimir]

медведь медвееее! Потом извертясь вопросительным знаком хозяин полглаза просунул – oднако! Маяковский! Хорош медведь! – Пошел хозяин любезностями медоветь: Пожалуйста Прошу-с Ничего – я боком. Нечаянная радость-с, как сказано у ...
( Category: Russian March 9,2017 )
Greek Art by John Boardman
epub |eng | 2016-02-25 | Author:John Boardman

149 Figures of Athena and a Victory (Nike) from the balustrade round the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis of Athens. About 410 BC. Height 87 cm. (Acr.) Down ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 26,2017 )
The French in London by Isabelle Janvrin
epub |eng | 2016-07-03 | Author:Isabelle Janvrin

Places to visit THE LAST KINGS OF FRANCE Apsley House. Magnificent set of Sèvres porcelain with an Egyptian theme, given to the Duke of Wellington by Louis XVIII to thank ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 24,2017 )
Birds Art Life by Kyo Maclear
epub |eng | | Author:Kyo Maclear

• • • In May, one night, while thinking about falling I came across a funny and melancholy dance by Pina Bausch on YouTube. Early into the performance (1980—A Piece ...
( Category: Plants & Animals January 8,2017 )
The Art of Getting Over by Stephen Powers
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Powers

Yo Reas: Billie Jean is not my lover. Dante, Reas. Relm: We were painting a wall in L.A., Reas climbed a ladder to finish his piece. On his way back ...
( Category: Art January 8,2017 )
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women by Siri Hustvedt
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Siri Hustvedt

Phantasy Land in Its Sincere and Ironic Modes The idea that immortality is just around the bend via machine intelligence has been avidly promoted by Ray Kurzweil, scientist, inventor, and ...
( Category: Women in Art December 8,2016 )
Bring on the Apocalypse by George Monbiot
epub |eng | | Author:George Monbiot

This Is What We Paid for Tony Blair has lost the election. It’s true he wasn’t standing, but we won’t split hairs. His policies have just been put to the ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 7,2016 )
East Bay Trails by David Weintraub
epub |eng | 2005-12-05 | Author:David Weintraub

◆ Carquinez Strait Regional Shoreline ◆ FRANKLIN RIDGE Length: 2.8 miles Time: 1 to 2 hours Rating: Moderate Regulations: EBRPD. Facilities: Picnic tables, toilets, horse staging. Directions: From Highway 4 ...
( Category: Pacific December 6,2016 )

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