Roman Rhapsody

Author : Sara Alexander
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496715517

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A Roman Rhapsody by Sara Alexander Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Four Hundred and Forty Steps to the Sea and Under a Sardinian Sky comes a lyrical new novel set against a stunning Italian backdrop. Famed for its natural beauty and rich history, Sardinia in 1968 is notorious, too, for the bandits who kidnap wealthy landowners for ransom. Eleven-year-old Alba Fresu’s brother, and her father, Bruno, are abducted by criminals who mistake Bruno for a rich man. After a grueling journey through the countryside, the two are eventually released—but the experience leaves Alba shaken and unable to readjust to normal life, or to give voice to her inner turmoil. Accompanying her mother to cleaning jobs, Alba visits the villa of an eccentric signora and touches the keys of a piano for the first time. The instrument’s spell is immediate. During secret lessons, forbidden by her mother, Alba is at last able to express emotions too powerful for words alone. Ignoring her parents’ insistence that she work in the family’s car dealership and marry a local boy, Alba accepts a scholarship to the Rome Accademia. There she immerses herself in a vibrant world of art—and a passionate affair. But her path will lead her to a crossroads, where Alba will have to reconcile the past she fled with her longing for love and family to fully convey the music of her heart . . . Praise for Sara Alexander’s Under a Sardinian Sky “Alexander paints a loving and breathtaking picture of the Mediterranean island, especially glorious descriptions of food. For readers who enjoy women’s fiction set against a background of momentous events and clashing cultures.” —Library Journal “Will leave readers riveted until the explosive conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Sunka Simon
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791453499

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Mail-Orders by Sunka Simon Pdf

Explores contemporary uses of letters and letter writing—including electronic mail—in literature, film, and art.

Author : James Cracraft,Daniel B. Rowland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781501723582

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Architectures of Russian Identity, 1500 to the Present by James Cracraft,Daniel B. Rowland Pdf

From the royal pew of Ivan the Terrible, to Catherine the Great's use of landscape, to the struggles between the Orthodox Church and preservationists in post-Soviet Yaroslavl—across five centuries of Russian history, Russian leaders have used architecture to project unity, identity, and power. Church architecture has inspired national cohesion and justified political control while representing the claims of religion in brick, wood, and stone. The architectural vocabulary of the Soviet state celebrated industrialization, mechanization, and communal life. Buildings and landscapes have expressed utopian urges as well as lofty spiritual goals. Country houses and memorials have encoded their own messages. In Architectures of Russian Identity, James Cracraft and Daniel Rowland gather a group of authors from a wide variety of backgrounds—including history and architectural history, linguistics, literary studies, geography, and political science—to survey the political and symbolic meanings of many different kinds of structures. Fourteen heavily illustrated chapters demonstrate the remarkable fertility of the theme of architecture, broadly defined, for a range of fields dealing with Russia and its surrounding territories. The authors engage key terms in contemporary historiography—identity, nationality, visual culture—and assess the applications of each in Russian contexts.

Author : Professor M.R. Ali
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781783060351

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Salute the Word by Professor M.R. Ali Pdf

Salute the Word is the fourth collection of poetry from Professor M.R Ali. The poems included in this collection are influenced by the diversity and richness of language as the author injects English ideas with an Arabic perspective. Salute the Word is testimony to the power of words and ideas; a fascinating journey from one language to another and from one culture domain to another, leading us to familiarity. Two of our five senses are word orientated, speaking and hearing. Words make us happy or sad, they make us capable of love or hate, words can even make us learn – and the poems in this collection create powerful words that move readers.

Author : Marco Fantuzzi,Helen Morales,Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316518588

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Reception in the Greco-Roman World by Marco Fantuzzi,Helen Morales,Tim Whitmarsh Pdf

Harnesses the insights generated by 30 years of reception studies to enhance the study of classical Greek literature.

Author : Mick Rock
Publisher : Weldon Owen International
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681888187

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SHOT! by Rock by Mick Rock Pdf

Born in 1948 in Hammersmith, London, Michael Rock became a photographer after graduating from college, and developed his visual style with photos of the local rock music scene in England. Soon thereafter his photography career took off, going higher and higher with each new musician he shot for. His work is embodied in this text, full of luscious, color-saturated photography of some of the most dynamic and enthralling musical acts and stars in rock history—and likewise filled with amazing and amusing behind-the-scenes stories of musicians from Mick Jagger to Miley Cyrus and beyond. A sure-fire hit with rock and musical history fans!

Author : Gohar Muradyan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004524361

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Ancient Greek Myths in Medieval Armenian Literature by Gohar Muradyan Pdf

This is the first study which brings together the references to ancient Greek myths (154 episodes) in medieval Armenian literature. The main source for such stories are translations, but direct citations from Greek in original Armenian works also exist.

Author : Aliza Cohen-Mushlin,Sergey Kravtsov,Vladimir Levin,Giedrė Mickūnaitė,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė
Publisher : VDA leidykla
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Jewish architecture
ISBN : 9789955854609

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Synagogues in Lithuania A-M by Aliza Cohen-Mushlin,Sergey Kravtsov,Vladimir Levin,Giedrė Mickūnaitė,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė Pdf

Author : Robert Thomas Vyner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Dogs
ISBN : MINN:319510023752926

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Notitia Venatica by Robert Thomas Vyner Pdf

Author : Cornelius Tongue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Fox hunting
ISBN : NYPL:33433082498613

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The Kennel Stud Book by Cornelius Tongue Pdf

Author : Julie Kistler
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459283046

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Ryan's Bride by Julie Kistler Pdf

The Socialite and the Bad Boy Lockett Kensington, pampered and rich, faced the spectacular society wedding of the year—her own. She had more than a case of cold feet—they were numb! Taking the most direct route, she gathered up her skirts to descend the trellis from her bedroom window, when she fell into the waiting arms of the original rebel—Antonio Ryan, her ex-husband. As a teenager, she'd married Ryan to spite her dad, so she thought. But as Ryan rescued her in her prenuptial hour of need, dark eyes snapping and leather jacket gleaming, she wondered what it would mean to climb onto his motorcycle…and back into his life.

Author : Melissa Marra-Alvarez,Elizabeth Way
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350164369

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Food and Fashion by Melissa Marra-Alvarez,Elizabeth Way Pdf

Food and Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This beautifully illustrated book featuring over 100 enticing full-color images, from fashion runways to fine art photography and period cookbooks, examines the influence of food culture through the lens of fashion over the last 250 years. It focuses on the ways that food culture has expressed itself in fashion and how these connect to broader socio-cultural change, examining how vital both have been in expressing cultural movements across centuries, and specifically exploring the role food plays in fashionable expression. With its superb selection of images, and thought-provoking and engaging discussion, Food and Fashion appeals to fashion enthusiasts who have an overlapping interest in food and food studies, including scholars and students, those who enjoy the fashion of food, and all who appreciate the visual culture of food, fashion, and art.

Author : Alejandro Nava
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226819150

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Street Scriptures by Alejandro Nava Pdf

This book explores an important aspect of hip-hop that is rarely considered: its deep entanglement with spiritual life. The world of hip-hop is saturated with religion, but rarely is that element given serious consideration. In Street Scriptures, Alejandro Nava focuses our attention on this aspect of the music and culture in a fresh way, combining his profound love of hip-hop, his passion for racial and social justice, and his deep theological knowledge. Street Scriptures offers a refreshingly earnest and beautifully written journey through hip-hop’s deep entanglement with the sacred. Nava reveals a largely unheard religious heartbeat in hip-hop, exploring crosscurrents of the sacred and profane in rap, reggaeton, and Latinx hip-hop today. Ranging from Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, Lauryn Hill, Cardi B, and Bad Bunny to St. Augustine and William James, Nava examines the ethical-political, mystical-prophetic, and theological qualities in hip-hop, probing the pure sonic and aesthetic signatures of music, while also diving deep into the voices that invoke the spirit of protest. The result is nothing short of a new liberation theology for our time, what Nava calls a “street theology.”

Author : R.T. Vyner
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : History
ISBN : 9785878485395

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Notitia venatica: a treatise on fox-hunting by R.T. Vyner Pdf

Author : Robert Paul Kolt
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461707134

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Robert Ward's The Crucible by Robert Paul Kolt Pdf

In Robert Ward's The Crucible: Creating an American Musical Nationalism, Robert Paul Kolt explores the life of the American composer Robert Ward through an examination of his most popular and enduring work, The Crucible. Focusing on the musical-linguistic relationships within the opera, Kolt demonstrates Ward's unique synthesis of text and music, one that lends itself to the perception of American musical nationalism. This book contains the most thorough and in-depth biography of Ward yet in print. Based on interviews with the composer, Kolt presents new information about Ward's life and career, focusing on his opera and examining the formation and construction of The Crucible's libretto and score, in turn offering new insights into the process of composing an opera. Kolt observes how the libretto's linguistic aspects helped Ward formulate the opera's melodic and rhythmic musical material. A detailed and unique analysis of the opera, particularly the musical and linguistic techniques Ward employed, demonstrates how these techniques lend themselves to the opera's reception as a work of American musical nationalism. The book also provides yet unpublished information on Arthur Miller's play, examining how it came to be written and soon after became the basis for Ward's work. Several appendixes provide a fuller picture, including a deleted scene from Miller's play and Ward's version of the scene, a chronological overview of the Salem Witchcraft Trials, and illustrations and photo reproductions from Ward's manuscript.