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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
epub, mobi |ukr | 2008-11-04 | Author:Claire Tomalin [Tomalin, Claire]

17. The Secret Scientist Pepys became a member of the Royal Society in 1665 and went on to become its president in 1684. As president his name appears on the ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
A Life of Picasso by John Richardson
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-11-08 | Author:John Richardson [Richardson, John]

Above: Picabia, Olga, Picasso, and Germaine Everling at Château de Mai, 1925. Photograph by Poupard-Lieussou. Left: Picabia. Mardi Gras (The Kiss), 1925. Ripolin on canvas, 92×73 cm. Private collection. Picabia ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 26,2014 )
Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

* * * A LEGEND OF THE RHINE. CHAPTER I. SIR LUDWIG OF HOMBOURG. It was in the good old days of chivalry, when every mountain that bathes its shadow ...
( Category: British & Irish March 26,2014 )
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:William Blake

A MEMORABLE FANCY [Plate 15] I was in a Printing house in Hell & saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. In the first chamber ...
( Category: European March 26,2014 )
Da Vinci's Ghost by Lester Toby
epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Lester, Toby [Lester, Toby]

IT WAS THE moment Leonardo had been waiting for. “When fortune comes,” he would write in about 1490, “seize her firmly by the forelock, for she is bald at the ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
Age of Revolution 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

III However, the economic development of this period contains one gigantic paradox: France. On paper no country should have advanced more rapidly. It possessed, as we have seen, institutions ideally ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Michel Foucault [Foucault, Michel]

VI DOCTORS AND PATIENTS THE therapeutics of madness did not function in the hospital, whose chief concern was to sever or to “correct.” And yet in the non-hospital domain, treatment ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:John Berger

THE AMBASSADORS BY HOLBEIN 1497/8–1543 It is painted with great skill to create the illusion in the spectator that he is looking at real objects and materials. We pointed out ...
( Category: Medieval March 26,2014 )
Njal's Saga by Anonymous
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

98 There was a man called Lyting, who lived at Samsstadir. He was married to a woman named Steinvor Sigfussdottir, Thrain’s sister. Lyting was a big, strong man, prosperous but ...
( Category: Family Saga March 26,2014 )
Friedrich Nietzsche by Curtis Cate
epub |eng | 2012-07-09 | Author:Curtis Cate [CATE, CURTIS]

CHAPTER 27 Incipit tragoedia – ‘Love is the danger of the loneliest, love of everything, if only it is alive! Laughable, verily, are my folly and my modesty in love!’ ...
( Category: Philosophers March 26,2014 )
The Borgias and Their Enemies by Christopher Hibbert
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Christopher Hibbert [Hibbert, Christopher]

Chapter 17 Duke of the Romagna "FROM ALL PARTS COME REPORTS OF THE ILL INTENTIONS OF THE POPE AND THE DUKE" CESARE RODE OUT OF ROME on October 2, 1500, ...
( Category: Italy March 26,2014 )
Draw Real People! (Discover Drawing) by Hammond Lee
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-03-15 | Author:Hammond, Lee [Hammond, Lee]

Erase your graph. Apply #1 dark to the line in between the lips and where the lips part inside the left corner. Apply #2 dark gray to the upper lip ...
( Category: Figure Drawing March 26,2014 )
Tales of London's Docklands by Henry T Bradford
epub |eng | 2013-07-11 | Author:Henry T Bradford [Bradford, Henry T]

12 JIM L., JOE B. AND THE LAMB INCIDENT Jim L. and Joe B. were brothers-in-law. Jim was married to Joe’s sister. It was no secret the two men hated ...
( Category: Human Geography March 26,2014 )
Scotland (Lonely Planet, 5th Edition) by Neil Wilson
mobi |eng | 2010-10-07 | Author:Neil Wilson

It is thought that the stones were set up to record Pictish lineages and alliances, but no-one is sure exactly how the system worked. They are decorated with unusual symbols, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
England by David Else
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-14 | Author:David Else

East Anglia * * * CAMBRIDGESHIRE ESSEX SUFFOLK NORFOLK CAMBRIDGE AROUND CAMBRIDGE ELY PETERBOROUGH COLCHESTER AROUND COLCHESTER SAFFRON WALDEN AROUND SAFFRON WALDEN SOUTHEND-ON-SEA IPSWICH AROUND IPSWICH STOUR VALLEY BURY ST ...
( Category: General England Travel Guides March 25,2014 )

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