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The secret life of words: how English became English
By Henry Hitchings. 2009
An account of the transplanted, stolen, and bastardized words that make up the English language. A history of English as…
a whole, and of the thousands of individual words, from more than 350 foreign tongues, that trickled in gradually over hundreds of years of trade, colonization, and diplomacy. Covers the Norman Conquest to the present day, chronicling the English language as a living archive of human experience. Some strong language. 2009.The rare and the beautiful: the art, loves, and lives of the Garman sisters
By Cressida Connolly. 2004
The scandalous, bohemian Garman sisters were famous for their passion for the arts, defiance of convention, and the power to…
turn heads and break hearts. Kathleen, an artist's model and aspiring pianist, was the lover of sculptor Jacob Epstein; Mary married poet Roy Campbell; and Lorna became the lover of poet Laurie Lee and of painter Lucian Freud. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.The perfect house: a journey with the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio
By Witold Rybczynski. 2002
An appreciation of the residential work of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The author provides a detailed analysis, both historical and…
architectural, of ten of the 30 villas attributed to Palladio. Includes biographical detail, precise descriptions of design elements, and insights into daily life in the 16th century. 2002.The Penguin dictionary of art and artists (Reference Bks.)
By Peter Murray, Linda Murray. 1983
This comprehensive and detailed reference contains entries on major artists of the last seven centuries; short biographies of over 1,200…
artists; descriptions of artistic techniques and styles; definitions of artistic movements; and much more. 1983.The paper garden: an artist {begins her life's work} at 72 (Maple leaf audio)
By Molly Peacock. 2011
Celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany. In the 1770s, at the age…
of 72, the twice-widowed and nearly broke Delany turned her interest in botany into beautiful paper "mosaick" flowers still revered today. 2011.The Oxford dictionary of saints (Oxford paperback reference)
By David Hugh Farmer. 2003
This book features concise accounts of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of over 1,400 saints, from the famous to…
the obscure, the rich to the poor, and the academic to the uneducated. From all walks of life and from all periods of history, the wide varieties of personalities and achievements of the canonized are reflected. Featuring maps of pilgrimage sights in Europe and fully updated appendices. Recently-added saints include the Martyrs of Korea, Vietnam, and the Spanish Civil War, Andrew of Crete, and Emily Rodat, a female hermit of the 7th century. There are also more Scottish and Irish saints, and ancient Welsh saints; more European saints from all centuries, as well as more saints from Eastern Europe; more recently canonized saints, and female saints from the USA. 2003. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.The meaning of everything: the story of the OED
By Simon Winchester. 2003
This companion to "The Professor and the Madman" (DC18092) recounts the monumental, seventy-year effort to compile the definitive, twelve-volume Oxford…
dictionary, completed in 1928. Winchester describes the goal to provide comprehensive meanings of all words, the project's complexity, crucial volunteer participation, and key figures directing the task. 2003.The many deaths of Tom Thomson: separating fact from fiction
By Gregory Klages. 2016
Commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the death of the renowned Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson, the book offers a…
review of the historical record, testimony, and archives about the artist's tragic and mysterious demise. Putting the whole range of theories under examination, the author separates truth from legend in this great Canadian mystery. 2016.The life of William Morris
By J. W Mackail. 1995
William Morris was a poet, an artist, a manufacturer and a socialist whose works and ideas had a great effect…
on Victorian art, design and industry. This biography was first published within a few years of his death and remains the primary biographical source on his life and work. 1995.The last mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the hidden history of Hollywood
By Dennis McDougal. 1998
Biography of one of Hollywood's most powerful moguls who joined the industry at the beginning of talking films and could…
singlehandedly make or break a career. Wasserman was also a confidant to other powerful people; politicians and businessmen as well as Mafia bosses, as the head of Universal Studios. Some strong language. c1998.The laughing one: a journey to Emily Carr
By S. M Crean. 2001
A combination of historical research and fictionalized accounts of five key periods in the life of Canadian artist and writer…
Emily Carr, that attempts to discover how and why she became a national icon. The book touches on issues of feminism, colonialism, native-white relations, and art, presented in the context of legal and illegal events shaping the fate of BC's native peoples. Crean attempts to discover Carr's true attitude to native culture and to explore not her famous eccentricities but her work. 2001.The inlet: memoir of a modern pioneer
By Helen Piddington. 2001
Easy American idioms: [hundreds of idiomatic expressions to give you an edge in English!] (Esl Ser.)
By Living Language. 2006
"It slipped my mind," "Don't fly off the handle," and "I'm counting on you" are just a few of the…
idiomatic expressions that native English speakers might use on any given day. For non-native speakers, however, these phrases can be confusing. "Easy American idioms" cuts through that confusion and teaches natural sounding conversational English. The lessons in "Easy American idioms" focus on situations that everyone can relate to: meeting people, expressing likes/satisfaction, expressing dislikes/displeasure, working, shopping, socializing, sports, television, going out, and more. Each section features useful and appropriate idiomatic expressions, with dialogues interspersed between lessons. Idioms can be complicated, but the lessons and dialogues are simple and clear. Includes over 4 hours of recordings. 2006.Easy pronunciation
By Living Language. 2005
More than nine million Americans do not speak English well or at all (according to the 2000 U.S. Census), and…
only two million of those adults can afford the time and cost required to enroll in an ESL class. This comprehensive self-study course offers an affordable and highly effective alternative to classroom study. "Easy pronunciation" is for all levels of ESL students as well as native speakers with strong regional accents. 2005.The eye: an insider's memoir of masterpieces, money, and the magnetism of art
By Philippe Costamagna. 2019
This is an art adventure story and a memoir all in one, written by a leading expert on the Renaissance…
whose profession is a high-stakes detective game involving massive amounts of money and frenetic activity in the service of the art market and scholarship alike. 2019. Uniform title: Histoires d'œils.Va où il est impossible d'aller: mémoires
By Costa-Gavras. 2018
Né en Arcadie, dans une Grèce déchirée par l'Occupation et la guerre civile, le jeune Costa-Gavras arrive à Paris en…
1955, immigré sans argent. Son rêve : suivre des études. Au hasard des rencontres, il découvrira la Sorbonne, la Cinémathèque d'Henri Langlois, et deviendra rapidement l'assistant des plus grands : René Clair, René Clément, Jacques Demy, Henri Verneuil, Jean Becker, Jean Giono... Il passe à la réalisation avec un premier film coup de poing, Compartiment tueurs. Et enchaîne les succès internationaux : ce sera Z, L'Aveu, Section spéciale, Music Box, Missing, Amen... Il est l'auteur de dix-huit films qui ont autant changé le cinéma que notre manière de voir le monde. Ses Mémoires retracent sa jeunesse, sa vie d' avant , et fourmillent de détails sur Hollywood, les acteurs, les tournages... On y croise bien sûr des légendes, Luis Bunuel ou John Ford, des actrices et acteurs tels Romy Schneider, Jessica Lange, Jean Seberg, Jack Lemmon, Marlon Brando, John Travolta ou Dustin Hoffman. Mais plus encore, ce livre redonne vie à une magnifique famille de pensée dont il suffit d'évoquer les noms - Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jorge Semprún, Salvador Allende, Artur et Lise London, Chris Marker, Romain Gary - pour faire comprendre que Costa-Gavras a été nourri des plus grands rêves de notre époque, comme de ses combats les plus rudes. 2018.You must change your life: the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
By Rachel Corbett. 2016
In 1902, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, broke and suffering from writer’s block, accepted a commission to go to Paris to…
research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rodin in his sixties, notoriously carnal, revered; Rilke in his twenties, delicate, unknown. Nonetheless, they fell into an instantaneous friendship and would work closely together as master and disciple for the next few years, as Rodin showed Rilke how to become the writer he wished to be. Corbett transports readers to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Paris to explore this surprising friendship and the development of their influential ideas about art and creativity. 2016.Ma vie avec Chagall
By Virginia Haggard-Leirens, Eleonore Bakhtadze. 1987
En 1945, Chagall jouit d'une renommée mondiale lorsqu'il rencontre Virginia Haggard. Elle a trente ans de moins que lui. Une…
liaison profonde, marquée par l'admiration et l'entraide mutuelle, va les unir pendant sept ans. 1987.Artemisia, ou, La Renommée
By Rauda Jamis. 1990
Biographie d'Artemisia Gentileschi, femme peintre (1593-1653), dont le destin fut aussi brillant que dramatique. Violée à l'âge de 18 ans…
par son professeur de perspective, il en résultera un procès resté dans les annales. 1990.Léonard de Vinci: l'homme et son temps
By Sylvia Alberti de Mazzari, Bernard Guyader. 1987
Il n'est sans doute pas d'artiste qui soit aussi connu et méconnu que Léonard de Vinci. Connu parce que ses…
oeuvres ont fait couler beaucoup d'encre, et méconnu parce que rares sont ceux qui ont cherché à explorer, derrière le génie, sa vie d'homme et d'artiste plongé dans le monde effervescent de la Renaissance. 1987.