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France 1940 by Philip Nord
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philip Nord

PART III DEATH COMES TO THE REPUBLIC CHAPTER 5 ARMISTICE France’s Chamber of Deputies and Senate met in joint session on 10 July. The setting was Vichy, a spa town ...
( Category: European June 8,2015 )
Solar Dance by Modris Eksteins
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Modris Eksteins [Eksteins, Modris]

CELA N’EST PAS … Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) By 1932 Otto Wacker, who said he loved beautiful things, was in deep financial difficulty. But so was Count Harry Kessler, ...
( Category: History June 7,2015 )
The Alchemy of Paint by Bucklow Spike
epub |eng | 2009-10-09 | Author:Bucklow, Spike [Bucklow, Spike]

i Three of Kronos’ children have already been mentioned. Empedocles identified Hades, Zeus and Hera, as fire, air and earth respectively. (The fourth element, water, was Kronos’ grandchild, Persephone, daughter ...
( Category: Use of Color June 6,2015 )
The Metropolis of Tomorrow by Hugh Ferriss
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Hugh Ferriss

CROWDING TOWERS TO THE SKYSCRAPING HEIGHTS of the Future City, the popular fancy usually adds something remarkable in the way of overhead traffic avenues. Scores of drawings have been produced, ...
( Category: Architecture June 4,2015 )
Warhol: The Biography by Victor Bockris
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Victor Bockris [Bockris, Victor]

* By August the mood of the Factory was changing. Paul Morrissey was having cubicles installed to encourage a business approach. Andy was looking for new directions. Gerard Malanga, who ...
( Category: Criticism June 1,2015 )
The Emperor's Snuff-Box
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Dickson Carr [Carr, John Dickson]

Toby found his voice. ‘You wrote her a note . . .?’ he began in a dazed voice. Prue paid no attention to him, beyond giving him an absent - ...
( Category: International Mystery & Crime May 31,2015 )
The Burning Court
epub |eng | 1985-12-14 | Author:John Dickson Carr [Carr, John Dickson]

"Yes, I could feel what you were thinking the minute I walked in here," he declared. His startled grin became a chuckle, "Let me ask you something. Did you expect ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives May 31,2015 )
Art, Agency and Living Presence: From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object by van Eck Caroline
epub |eng | 2015-02-05 | Author:van Eck, Caroline [van Eck, Caroline]

Designing and looking at a building thus conceived both draw on a cultural memory shared by the architect and the viewer, and appeal to the viewer’s capacity to appreciate the ...
( Category: History May 28,2015 )
Crazy Horse: A Life by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Larry McMurtry [McMurtry, Larry]

11 BY THE SUMMER of 1875 the crisis over the Black Hills could no longer be postponed. Custer’s grand announcement caught the nation’s attention: after that the miners could not ...
( Category: Native American Studies May 28,2015 )
Whatever You Are, Be a Good One by Lisa Congdon
epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:Lisa Congdon

“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”—Simone de Beauvoir. “Translation”, from Force Of Circumstance ...
( Category: Themes May 27,2015 )
The China Collectors by Karl E. Meyer
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Karl E. Meyer

Chapter Fourteen Threads of Heaven On January 1, 1912, the revolutionary leader and Christian convert Sun Yat-sen returned from foreign exile to be inaugurated in Nanking as the first provisional ...
( Category: History May 27,2015 )
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Koolhaas Rem
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Koolhaas, Rem [Koolhaas, Rem]

A machine for metropolitan bachelors … Madelon Vriesendorp, Flagrant délit. How Perfect Perfection Can Be: The Creation of Rockefeller Center I get so sentimental when I see How perfect perfection ...
( Category: State & Local May 27,2015 )
Master Thieves by Kurkjian Stephen
epub |eng | 2015-01-11 | Author:Kurkjian, Stephen

Whereabouts in the shed, one agent asked him casually. And Robert Jr., who shared his father’s softer side, gave him a straight answer—his father had placed a false floor in ...
( Category: Organized Crime May 27,2015 )
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-17 | Author:Sarah Thornton [Thornton, Sarah]

With a week to go before the awards ceremony, Phil Collins hosted a press conference at a shabby gilt-and-mirrors hall in Piccadilly. As part of his piece return of the ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 27,2015 )
Four Quartets by T S Eliot
epub |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:T S Eliot [Eliot, T S]

But the torment of others remains an experience Unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition. People change, and smile: but the agony abides. Time the destroyer is time the preserver, Like the ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 25,2015 )

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