Author : Irving Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:732768836
The Agony And The Ecstasy
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The Agony of Ecstasy
Author : Julian Madigan
Publisher : Poolbeg PressLtd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1853716820
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The Great Adventure of Michelangelo
Author : Irving Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Artists
ISBN : PSU:000000652001
The Great Adventure of Michelangelo by Irving Stone Pdf
An abridged illustrated edition of The agony and the ecstasy, especially for young readers.
Rolling Away
Author : Lynn Marie Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743490443
Rolling Away by Lynn Marie Smith Pdf
The unflinching memoir of a young woman nearly destroyed by Ecstasy abuse follows her inspiring journey to battle drug addiction and become a nationally renowned role model.
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674244191
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy Pdf
What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. We meet the epic heroes of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. To discover Nagy’s Homer is to be twice civilized. “Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years.” —Times Literary Supplement “Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that heroes—mortal strivers against fate, against monsters, and...against death itself—form the heart of Greek literature... [He brings] in every variation on the Greek hero, from the wily Theseus to the brawny Hercules to the ‘monolithic’ Achilles to the valiantly conflicted Oedipus.” —Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly
I, Michelangelo, Sculptor
Author : Michelangelo Buonarroti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Artists
ISBN : 9010073068
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Agony/Ecstasy
Author : Jane Litte
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425243451
Agony/Ecstasy by Jane Litte Pdf
With historical, contemporary and futuristic backdrops, this outrageously diverse collection of original stories explores every conceivable variation of BDSM erotica - from knitting circles to the Titanic to the retelling of The Little Mermaid. Agony/Ecstasy features all-new tales by some of the hottest names in romance and erotica, as well as a host of newcomers. Authors include Meljean Brook, Jean Johnson, Bettie Sharp and many more.
The History of Jazz
Author : Ted Gioia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199840298
The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia Pdf
Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities, New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave dances held in Congo Square and nurtured by early ensembles led by Buddy Belden and Joe "King" Oliver, jazz began its long winding odyssey across America and around the world, giving flower to a thousand different forms--swing, bebop, cool jazz, jazz-rock fusion--and a thousand great musicians. Now, in The History of Jazz, Ted Gioia tells the story of this music as it has never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history--Jelly Roll Morton ("the world's greatest hot tune writer"), Louis Armstrong (whose O-keh recordings of the mid-1920s still stand as the most significant body of work that jazz has produced), Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, and Lester Young, Charlie Parker's surgical precision of attack, Miles Davis's 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Ornette Coleman's experiments with atonality, Pat Metheny's visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion, the contemporary sounds of Wynton Marsalis, and the post-modernists of the Knitting Factory. Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians, intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. Gioia also evokes the many worlds of jazz, taking the reader to the swamp lands of the Mississippi Delta, the bawdy houses of New Orleans, the rent parties of Harlem, the speakeasies of Chicago during the Jazz Age, the after hours spots of corrupt Kansas city, the Cotton Club, the Savoy, and the other locales where the history of jazz was made. And as he traces the spread of this protean form, Gioia provides much insight into the social context in which the music was born. He shows for instance how the development of technology helped promote the growth of jazz--how ragtime blossomed hand-in-hand with the spread of parlor and player pianos, and how jazz rode the growing popularity of the record industry in the 1920s. We also discover how bebop grew out of the racial unrest of the 1940s and '50s, when black players, no longer content with being "entertainers," wanted to be recognized as practitioners of a serious musical form. Jazz is a chameleon art, delighting us with the ease and rapidity with which it changes colors. Now, in Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz, we have at last a book that captures all these colors on one glorious palate. Knowledgeable, vibrant, and comprehensive, it is among the small group of books that can truly be called classics of jazz literature.
The Silence
Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982164577
The Silence by Don DeLillo Pdf
From the National Book Award–winning author of Underworld, a “daring…provocative…exquisite” (The Washington Post) novel about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein’s 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed. What follows is a “brilliant and astonishing…masterpiece” (Chicago Tribune) about what makes us human. Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of the Covid pandemic. His language, the dazzle of his sentences offer a kind of solace in our bewildering world. “DeLillo’s shrewd, darkly comic observations about the extravagance and alienation of contemporary life can still slice like a scalpel” (Entertainment Weekly). “In this wry and cutting meditation on collective loss, a rupture severs us, suddenly, from everything we’ve come to rely on. The Silence seems to absorb DeLillo’s entire body of work and sand it into stone or crystal.” —Rachel Kushner
The Agony of Ecstasy
Author : Olivia Gordon
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0826480276
The Agony of Ecstasy by Olivia Gordon Pdf
A story of a young person's experience of the drug ecstasy and how she emerged from her dark night into a new life. After a description of the highs, the author gives an account of her first euphoric trip, a flashback to childhood, a sensation of the whole of life flashing before her, and the depression that followed.
13
Author : James Howe
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1416926844
13 by James Howe Pdf
"If thirteen is supposed to be an unlucky number...you would think a civilized society could come up with a way for us to skip it." -- from "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" by Bruce Coville No one will want to skip any of the twelve short stories and one poem that make up this collection by some of the most celebrated contemporary writers of teen fiction. The big bar mitzvah that goes suddenly, wildly, hilariously out of control. A first kiss -- and a realization about one's sexual orientation. A crush on a girl that ends up putting the boy who likes her in the hospital. A pair of sneakers a kid has to have. By turns funny and sad, wrenching and poignant, the moments large and small described in these stories capture perfectly the agony and ecstasy of being thirteen.
The Control of Drugs and Drug Users
Author : Ross Coomber
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9057021889
The Control of Drugs and Drug Users by Ross Coomber Pdf
Informed debate on how, why, or even if, drugs and those that use them should be controlled needs an insight into the background of such controls, how effective they have been and what reasonable alternatives there may be. This book seeks to provide such an insight. Reviewing important aspects of past and current drug control policies in Britain and America, the international compliment of expert contributors seek to explore the rationality of the reasoning which produced the initial controls, the continuing relevance of those currently employed, and provide alternative scenarios for future policy.
Tigrai
Author : Salomon ʻEnqwāy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Peasant uprisings
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131970803
Tigrai by Salomon ʻEnqwāy Pdf
Cloak and Dagger: Agony and Ecstasy
Author : Marvel Comics
Publisher : Marvel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1302918818
Cloak and Dagger: Agony and Ecstasy by Marvel Comics Pdf
From despair to D'Spayre! With Tyrone Johnson dead and buried, a blind and grief-stricken Dagger deals with the agony of loss - while the villainous Ecstasy wears Cloak's cloak! But rumors of Ty's death have been greatly exaggerated - does he have what it takes to reclaim his mantle? He'd better hope so, because when the Acts of Vengeance hit, our reunited duo will encounter the Avengers! Meanwhile, the evil Mr. Jip has been scheming for months - and his multifaceted plans will soon come to fruition! But what does Doctor Doom have to do with it? Plus, Spider-Man and Ghost Rider help Cloak and Dagger take on...Mephisto? And can our heroes cope with the demonic D'Spayre, who bears shocking revelations about their origins? COLLECTING: MUTANT MISADVENTURES OF CLOAK AND DAGGER 5-13, CLOAK AND DAGGER (1990) 14-19, DOCTOR STRANGE (1974) 78
A Medal of Honor
Author : John Morton
Publisher : Bookpartners
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Winter Olympics
ISBN : 188522186X