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Author : Jennifer Williams Publisher : William Morrow Page : 200 pages File Size : 44,8 Mb Release : 1998 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : UVA:X004254896
Victoria, the Pleasures of Staying in Touch by Jennifer Williams Pdf
Send a letter, give a gift. Finding a letter amid catalogs, impersonal flyers, & bills is like getting an unexpected present -- created just for the recipient. Victoria The Pleasures of Staying in Touch gives excellent, reassuring advice, helping the reader to get started. Whether the occasion calls for an invitation, a thank-you, a note of congratulations, or a letter of condolence, Victoria shows the way. Examples of memorable & appropriate letters for every situation are included, providing both help & inspiration. In a society accustomed to telephones, faxes, & e-mail, there is an antidote: a handwritten letter. While store-bought & preprinted cards can be personal to a degree, handwritten words to a family member or friend are true treasures. One can read & reread these thoughts & reflect on them whenever one likes. Many letters can bring one back to a particular time, a particular moment, a happy recollection. What Victoria The Pleasures of Staying in Touch conveys is that the important part of a letter is that it comes from the heart. No matter what one's writing skills, a sincere expression of love, sympathy, or simply a sharing of thoughts is a lifetime keepsake.
When in 1895 twenty-one-year-old Guglielmo Marconi made his first wireless transmission over land, he became the boy wonder of the world. When subsequently, he made similar transmissions across the Atlantic Ocean, thus proving to the world that his radio-related inventions had immediate and wide-spread applications for all of humanity, young Marconi ushered in the Age of Communication. The life, the works, the character of one of the greatest scientists of this Century, Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the Radio, are described in this carefully documented, impassioned and deeply involved book by an exceptional witness: his wife Maria Cristina. He was called 'The genius who gave a voice to silence'. Acclaimed by the whole world, the recipient of the most prestigious honours and decorations, he never lost his innate modesty and discretion even at the height of his success.
Leoncavallo: Life and Works is the first fully documented biography of the beloved and popular composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), whose credits include Pagliacci and the operatic works Chatterton, Der Roland von Berlin, Zazà, Maïa, Zingari, La bohème, and the incomplete trilogy Crepusculum. Author Konrad Dryden has amassed material from hundreds of unpublished letters and photographs, creating the most complete portrait of the composer to date. This book examines various facets of Leoncavallo's history: from his youth as the son of the Naples' judge who presided over the murder trial on which Pagliacci was based to his studies with the poet Giosuè Carducci, and from his sojourn in France as a café-chantant pianist to his appointment in Egypt as music instructor to the Khedive. Careful documentation and plot synopses of Leoncavallo's numerous works are provided and his two U.S. tours are discussed. The biography also sheds new light on Leoncavallo's colleagues and contemporaries, including composers Mahler, Massenet, Puccini, Verdi, and Mascagni; singers Caruso, Ruffo, Tetrazzini, and Sanderson; and historical personalities like Toscanini, Hugo, Carducci, Wilhelm II, and Queen Victoria. A foreword by Plácido Domingo, a photo spread featuring more than 25 photos, and an appendix offering the complete list of the composer's opus add to the bibliography and index, making this the ultimate reference on this important figure in music and opera history.
This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity, and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the autistic? How is touch developed differently across cultures? What are the boundaries of pain and pleasure? Is there a politics of touch? Bringing together classic writings and new work, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the body, the senses and the experiential world.
Author : Peter Gay Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company Page : 336 pages File Size : 43,5 Mb Release : 1998-01-17 Category : History ISBN : 9780393243536
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay Pdf
A master historian shows us a new side of the Victorian Era--the role of the Bourgeois as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism. The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of the ideas and sensibilities that dominated Victorian culture.
Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1740–1901 by Kimberly Cox Pdf
From Robert Lovelace’s uninvited hand-grasps in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to to Basil Hallward’s first encounter with Dorian Gray, literary depictions of touching hands in British literature from the 1740s to the 1890s communicate emotional dimensions of sexual experience that reflect shifting cultural norms associated with gender roles, sexuality, and sexual expression. But what is the relationship between hands, tactility, and sexuality in Victorian literature? And how do we best interpret what those touches communicate between characters? This volume addresses these questions by asserting a connection between the prevalence of violent, sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century novels such as those by Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, and Frances Burney and growing public concern over handshake etiquette in the nineteenth century evident in works by Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, and Flora Annie Steel. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary analysis with close analyses of paintings, musical compositions, and nonfictional texts, such as etiquette books and scientific treatises, to make a case for the significance of tactility to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century perceptions of selfhood and sexuality. In doing so, it draws attention to the communicative nature of skin-to-skin contact as represented in literature and traces a trajectory of meaning from the forceful grips that violate female characters in eighteenth-century novels to the consensual embraces common in Victorian and neo-Victorian literature.
Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England by PatriziaDi Bello Pdf
This beautifully illustrated study recaptures the rich history of women photographers and image collectors in nineteenth-century England. Situating the practice of collecting, exchanging and displaying photographs and other images in the context of feminine sociability, Patrizia Di Bello shows that albums express Victorian women's experience of modernity. The albums of individual women, and the broader feminine culture of collecting and displaying imagesare examined, uncovering the cross-references and fertilizations between women's albums and illustrated periodicals, and demonstrating the way albums and photography, itself, were represented in women's magazines, fashion plates, and popular novels. Bringing a sophisticated eye to overlooked images such as the family photograph, Di Bello not only illustrates their significance as historical documents but elucidates the visual rhetorics at play. In doing so, she identifies the connections between Victorian album-making and the work of modern-day amateurs and artists who use digital techniques to compile and decorate albums with Victorian-style borders and patterns. At a time when photographic album-making is being re-vitalised by digital technologies, this book rewrites the history of photographic albums, placing the female collector at its centre and offering an alternative history of photography focused on its uses rather than on its aesthetic or artistic considerations. It is remarkable in elegantly connecting the history of photography with the fields of material culture and women's studies.
Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links between the terrestrial organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives – those of mycologists and ecologists, foragers and forayers, naturalists and farmers, aesthetes and artists, philosophers and Traditional Owners. It explores how a history of entrenched fears and misconceptions about fungi has led to their near absence in Australian ecological consciousness and biodiversity conservation. Through a combination of text and visual essays, the author reflects on how aesthetic, sensate experience deepened by scientific knowledge offers the best chance for understanding fungi, the forest and human interactions with them.
A new world. A new existence. Victoria is learning. Learning that she must let go of what she was to become what she will be. For James centuries have past without thought to his beginning. The decision, his irrational act has brought with it the event at the Gorge. Exact payment for the destruction of their old world or buy time until he is sure Victoria can stand on her own. The decision becomes inescapable. The Journey So Far: MEETING, The Business: Journal I Enter Victoria Hamiltons well thought out organized personal and professional life as it is challenged by her eyes and her heart. As much as she tries, nothing will ever be the same. UNDERSTANDING, The Business: Journal II What do you do when the minds reality doesnt match the awareness of the heart? Victoria is breaking the promises she made to herself. Feel free to play, but always stay in control. Enjoy, but dont commit beyond the next event. And, above all, never, ever allow anything into your heart.
Leah Vasquez and Victoria Lockwood should not fall in love. They’re smart enough to know a star-crossed lovers’ situation never works out. Leah’s a loner, working two jobs and aching to leave their sleepy hometown in her rear view forever. Victoria lives in a mansion with her overbearing parents, surrounded by friends and known to none of them, living what others consider a charmed life. Leah Vasquez and Victoria Lockwood should not fall in love, but they do. Five years after their scorching summer romance flames out, Victoria returns home to visit her dysfunctional family, fiancé in tow. She’s surprised to find that Leah had never left town and astonished to discover the feelings still between them. Leah Vasquez and Victoria Lockwood definitely should not fall in love…again. Of course, even if Leah can open her bruised heart to the only girl she ever loved, Victoria must make a life-changing choice—love safely or love bravely.
Norse & Viking Mythology, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy Framed for her lover's murder... Victoria Storm, Alpha of the Storm Pack, leads her beleaguered family of wolf-shifters in a desperate flight from Odin's mortal followers. Her worst enemy, a rogue hunter, won't stop until his brother's death is avenged and he'll kill anyone who gets in his way. Following Freya's prophecy, Victoria seeks sanctuary in a small town high in the secluded Sierra Nevada Mountains. In Sierra Pines, nothing is as it seems. Victoria considers a marriage of convenience with Arik Koenig, a powerful lawyer with a Loki-like gift for twisting the truth to his advantage. The more she learns of his mysterious past, the greater her mistrust. With the fate of her pack on the line, Victoria undertakes an investigation into the murder of Arik's wife. When her prying uncovers layers of lies and deception, a blizzard of Ragnarök proportions threatens to consume them all. Suggested reading order for Loki's Wolves: #1. Valkyrie's Vengeance #2. Hunger Moon #3. Battle Cry #4. Gallows God #5. Hunter's Mark (prequel) #6. Fragile Gods #7. Blood Brothers (To be released) PRAISE FOR THE LOKI'S WOLVES / RAGNAROK: DOOM OF THE GODS SERIES: "Write fast Ms. Snark!" ~ 4.5 Stars from InD'Tale Magazine "Melissa Snark is next on my reading list. I look forward to reading more of her books." ~ 4.5 stars Top Pick from Night Owl Reviews This book is a great time! It combines all the best elements of the paranormal with a spine-chilling mystery. Although short, it is a well-told story full of twists and turns. The author has a light easy-going touch with a descriptive style that draws the reader into the action. Although a little light on the shape-shifting aspect of the characters, the story explores other aspects of the supernatural, drawing inspiration from Viking mythology. This use of mythology in a modern way opens up a plethora of new ideas for the genre. "Valkyrie's Vengeance" is a niceeasy read, perfect for unwinding after work or on a Sunday afternoon. ~InD'Tale Magazine RONE Awards 2016 Finalist Fans of the following books and series are known to enjoy this Norse & Viking mythology, paranormal & urban fantasy series: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman Demon Hunter by Rachel Medhurst (Viking Soul) Ragnarok Rising by Nora Ash (The Omega Prophecy) Urban Mythic: Eleven Novels of Adventure and Romance, Featuring Norse and Greek Gods, Demons and Djinn, Angels, Fairies, Vampires, and Werewolves in the Modern World by C. Gockel, Christine Pope, Meg Collett, C.J. Brightley, Mark E. Cooper, Helen Harper, Melissa Snark, Debra Dunbar, Ron Neito, S. T. Bende, Nancy Straight The Morrigan: Celtic Goddes of Magick and Might by Courtney Weber Pagan Portals - Brigid: Meeting The Celtic Goddess Of Poetry, Forge, And Healing Well by Morgan Daimler Tending Brigid's Flame: Awaken to the Celtic Goddess of Hearth, Temple, and Forge by Lunaea Weatherstone Someday My Count Will Come (I Bring the Fire) by C. Gockel Legends Of The Gods: eBook Edition by E. A. Wallis Budge Reign of the Anunnaki: The Alien Manipulation of Our Spiritual Destiny by Jan Erik Sigdell Pagan Portals - Loki: Trickster and Transformer by Dagulf Loptson The Wild Curse (Faerie Sworn) by by Ron C. Nieto See No Evil (Soul Eater) by Pippa DaCosta Finding Grace (The Remarkable Life of Zach Wiche Continued) by Cate Dean Shadow Mate by Caryn Moya Block 'Til Dragons Do Us Part by Lorenda Christensen Refuge (The Healers of Meligna: Klawdia Series) by K. J. Colt Keywords related to this Norse & Viking mythology, paranormal & urban fantasy series: Loki, Fantasy Books, Epic Sagas, Werewolves and Shifters, Animals & Nature, Popular Series, Paranormal Fantasy Books, Top Rated Books, Tricks, Fantasy Omnibus, Spells & Charms, Romance Books, Loki Books, Wizards, Fantasy Romance Books, Essential Reads, Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, Epic Fantasy, Vampires, Omnibus Bundle, Paranormal Romance Series, Adventure Books, Mythology and Folklore, Top Rated Fantasy Collection With Vikings And Shapeshifters, Fantasy Bundle, Heroine, Dryads, Supernatural and Occult, Sword And Sorcery, Shifter Romance, Modern Paranormal Romance Series, Fantasy Stories, Shifter Series, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy Books, Shifter Omnibus, Best Rated Omnibus, Omnibus Collection, Paranormal Romance Books, Magical Adventures, Alpha, Warriors, Shadow, Asgard Stories, Demon, Chaos, Fairy Tales, Thor, Odin, Freya, Frigg, Angel, Wolves, Norse mythology weapons, Ymir, Best books on Norse Mythology, Norse myths, Norse Mythology novel, the Nine Worlds of Norse Mythology, Gods of Norse Mythology, Norse Mythology for dummies, Viking gods, Norse worlds, the Norse mythology, Norse mythology creation, Vikings mythology, Norse mythology book, Books about Norse mythology.
Desire Life Now depicts my life struggles, my mistakes, my weaknesses, disappointments, betrayals, rejections, and dealings with family foundations; my triumphant journey in the discovery of myself, my purpose, and destiny in the midst of all the chaos. My overcoming to become the person I am today came with me finding God who is reflected and manifested in my image as I am his child.