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As a fan of mainstream Singer and Songwriter music I have become an expert in the dualistic creative process and passion involved in art.
Author : John Patrick Acevedo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1664127119
As a fan of mainstream Singer and Songwriter music I have become an expert in the dualistic creative process and passion involved in art.
Author : Georges Perec
Publisher : Harvill Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2002-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781860467530
Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. Perec's first novel won the Prix Renaudot and became the cult book for a generation. In A Man Asleep, a young student embarks upon a disturbing and exhaustive pursuit of indifference, following his experience in non-existence with relentless logic.
Author : Julian Bell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500287546
“Exuberant, astute, and splendidly illustrated history of world art . . . draws fascinating parallels between artistic developments in Western and non-Western art.”—Publishers Weekly In this beautifully written story of art, Julian Bell tells a vivid and compelling history of human artistic achievements, from prehistoric stone carvings to the latest video installations. Bell, himself a painter, uses a variety of objects to reveal how art is a product of our shared experience and how, like a mirror, it can reflect the human condition. With hundreds of illustrations and a uniquely global perspective, Bell juxtaposes examples that challenge and enlighten the reader: dancing bronze figures from southern India, Romanesque sculptures, Baroque ceilings, and jewel-like Persian manuscripts are discussed side by side. With an insider’s knowledge and an unerring touch, Bell weaves these diverse strands into an invaluable introduction to the wider history of world art.
Author : Matt Ridley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0061452068
For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon be getting much worse. But in fact, life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before. In his bold and bracing exploration into how human culture evolves positively through exchange and specialization, bestselling author Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. An astute, refreshing, and revelatory work that covers the entire sweep of human history—from the Stone Age to the Internet—The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.
Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1408102579
Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.
Author : Stanley Gedzelman
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 2014-11-23
Category :
ISBN : 9780991197613
A book tracing the history of how artists have portrayed the sky including clouds and optical phenomena as well as descriptions and explanations. The book is lavishly illustrated with phtographs
Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0743262859
The author of the acclaimed bestseller Bobos in Paradise, which hilariously described the upscale American culture, takes a witty look at how being American shapes us, and how America's suburban civilization will shape the world's future. Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat. You see suburban guys at Home Depot doing that special manly, waddling walk that American men do in the presence of large amounts of lumber; super-efficient ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize the PTA, and weigh less than their children; workaholic corporate types boarding airplanes while talking on their cell phones in a sort of panic because they know that when the door closes they have to turn their precious phone off and it will be like somebody stepped on their trachea. Looking at all this, you might come to the conclusion that we Americans are not the most profound people on earth. Indeed, there are millions around the world who regard us as the great bimbos of the globe: hardworking and fun, but also materialistic and spiritually shallow. They've got a point. As you drive through the sprawling suburbs or eat in the suburban chain restaurants (which if they merged would be called Chili's Olive Garden Hard Rock Outback Cantina), questions do occur. Are we really as shallow as we look? Is there anything that unites us across the divides of politics, race, class, and geography? What does it mean to be American? Well, mentality matters, and sometimes mentality is all that matters. As diverse as we are, as complacent as we sometimes seem, Americans are united by a common mentality, which we have inherited from our ancestors and pass on, sometimes unreflectingly, to our kids. We are united by future-mindedness. We see the present from the vantage point of the future. We are tantalized, at every second of every day, by the awareness of grand possibilities ahead of us, by the bounty we can realize just over the next ridge. This mentality leads us to work feverishly hard, move more than any other people on earth, switch jobs, switch religions. It makes us anxious and optimistic, manic and discombobulating. Even in the superficiality of modern suburban life, there is some deeper impulse still throbbing in the heart of average Americans. That impulse is the subject of this book.
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : London : Bloomsbury Pub.
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Cerebrovascular disease
ISBN : 9780747528890
Author : Anne Stibbs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Limited
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Games
ISBN : 9780747550754
An aid to solving crosswords. It contains over 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names, place names and technical terms, euphemisms and compound expressions, as well as abbreviations.
Author : Robert Redford
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780448120249
A journey through time.