Book Description
A mesage to a Medici, unseen for 500 years has been found. It reveals the true purpose of Botticelli's Primavera, while opening a window on the cryptic world of the Renaissance Pagan Revival
Author : Eugene - Lane Spollen
Publisher : Shepheard Walwyn (Publishers) Limited
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0856832960
A mesage to a Medici, unseen for 500 years has been found. It reveals the true purpose of Botticelli's Primavera, while opening a window on the cryptic world of the Renaissance Pagan Revival
Author : Jean Gillies
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1450221629
Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 1967
Category : World politics
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Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0771008791
An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.
Author : Natalie Underberg-Goode
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 2022-12-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1000801950
This book explores the relationship between multiplicity and representation of non-European and European-American cultures, with a focus on comics and superheroes. The author employs a combination of research methodologies, including close reading of transmedia texts and interviews with transmedia storytellers and audiences, to better understand the way in which diverse cultures are employed as agents of multiplicity in transmedia narratives. The book addresses both commercial franchises such as superhero narratives, as well as smaller indie projects, in an attempt to elucidate the way in which key cultural symbols and concepts are utilized by writers, designers, and producers, and how these narrative choices affect audiences – both those who identify as members of the culture being represented and those who do not. Case studies include fan fiction based on Marvel’s Black Panther (2018), fan fiction and art created for the Moana (2016) and Mulan (2020) films, and creations by both U.S.-based and international indie comics artists and writers. This book will appeal to scholars and students of new media, narrative theory, cultural studies, sociocultural anthropology, folkloristics, English/literary studies, and popular culture, transmedia storytelling researchers, and both creators and fans of superhero comics.
Author : Lisa Hilton
Publisher : HMH
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 054457785X
This surprising portrait of the Tudor queen offers an “ambitious re-examination of the intersection of gender and monarchy” (The New York Times Book Review). Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her “‘weak and feeble’ woman’s body” to do so for political gain. But in Elizabeth, historian Lisa Hilton offers ample evidence why those famous words should not be taken at face value. With new research out of France, Italy, Russia, and Turkey, Hilton’s fresh interpretation is of a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince—an expert in Machiavellian statecraft. Elizabeth depicts a sovereign less constrained by her femininity than most accounts claim, challenging readers to reassess Elizabeth’s reign and the colorful drama and intrigue to which it is always linked. It’s a fascinating journey that shows how a marginalized newly crowned monarch, whose European contemporaries considered her to be the illegitimate ruler of a pariah nation, ultimately adapted to become England’s first recognizably modern head of state.
Author : Stephen Alford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1608193624
In a Europe aflame with wars of religion and dynastic conflicts, Elizabeth I came to the throne of a realm encircled by menace. To the great Catholic powers of France and Spain, England was a heretic pariah state, a canker to be cut away for the health of the greater body of Christendom. Elizabeth's government, defending God's true Church of England and its leader, the queen, could stop at nothing to defend itself. Headed by the brilliant, enigmatic, and widely feared Sir Francis Walsingham, the Elizabethan state deployed every dark art: spies, double agents, cryptography, and torture. Delving deeply into sixteenth-century archives, Stephen Alford offers a groundbreaking, chillingly vivid depiction of Elizabethan espionage, literally recovering it from the shadows. In his company we follow Her Majesty's agents through the streets of London and Rome, and into the dank cells of the Tower. We see the world as they saw it-ever unsure who could be trusted or when the fatal knock on their own door might come. The Watchers is a riveting exploration of loyalty, faith, betrayal, and deception with the highest possible stakes, in a world poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.
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Page : 504 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 1829
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Author : Shradha kaul
Publisher : Oswal Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 31,30 MB
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9389937256
We are proud to present Objective English which is divided into three sections: Grammar, Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension. The explanation makes learning of English grammar easier , especially for the students who come from the Hindi Heartland of India. This book is an useful resource for students appearing for Banking, Insurance, SSC, AFCAT, CTET, Railways , State Level Examinations , Managementm aptitude test , and other Entrance exams
Author : Cornell University
Publisher :
Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 1921
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