Download or read book A Mishap in Venice written by James Holding and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seemed a pity to Paolo that romance in Venice should be at the mercy of racketeers. So he turned their space-work upside down... A chilling suspense novelet!
Download or read book The Life and Times of Titian written by Joseph Archer Crowe and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Titian His Life and Times written by Joseph Archer Crowe and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Incident in Venice written by Pat Meier and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Venice Atonement written by Merryn Allingham and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragic accident at the opera - or the murder of someone keeping dangerous secrets? While watching the opera at La Fenice, Nancy Tremayne is shocked to see a woman fall to her death. But how did this tragedy occur? Newlywed Nancy is accompanying her art professor husband, Leo, on a work trip. As she explores Italy's beautiful city on the water, she is increasingly compelled to uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding the woman's death. Leo is adamant it was an accident but his assistant, Archie, reluctantly helps Nancy despite his seeming coldness to her. Nancy's determination to reveal the facts puts her in harm's way more than once. As she learns more about Venice's secrets she realises she may be forced to make a choice - the truth, or her life? An engaging and atmospheric historical crime novel perfect for fans of Kate Furnivall and Rachel Rhys.
Download or read book Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe written by Grace Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Shared World written by Molly Greene and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Molly Greene moves beyond the hostile "Christian" versus "Muslim" divide that has colored many historical interpretations of the early modern Mediterranean, and reveals a society with a far richer set of cultural and social dynamics. She focuses on Crete, which the Ottoman Empire wrested from Venetian control in 1669. Historians of Europe have traditionally viewed the victory as a watershed, the final step in the Muslim conquest of the eastern Mediterranean and the obliteration of Crete's thriving Latin-based culture. But to what extent did the conquest actually change life on Crete? Greene brings a new perspective to bear on this episode, and on the eastern Mediterranean in general. She argues that no sharp divide separated the Venetian and Ottoman eras because the Cretans were already part of a world where Latin Christians, Muslims, and Eastern Orthodox Christians had been intermingling for several centuries, particularly in the area of commerce. Greene also notes that the Ottoman conquest of Crete represented not only the extension of Muslim rule to an island that once belonged to a Christian power, but also the strengthening of Eastern Orthodoxy at the expense of Latin Christianity, and ultimately the Orthodox reconquest of the eastern Mediterranean. Greene concludes that despite their religious differences, both the Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire represented the ancien régime in the Mediterranean, which accounts for numerous similarities between Venetian and Ottoman Crete. The true push for change in the region would come later from Northern Europe.
Download or read book Leviathan written by Robert McCammon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-12-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling conclusion to the Matthew Corbett colonial-era mystery series by the New York Times–bestselling author of The King of Shadows. Matthew Corbett barely escaped from the beguiling and sinister island of Golgotha, where he and his companions, Hudson Greathouse and Professor Fell, had searched in vain for a fabled sorcerer’s mirror said to possess demon-summoning powers. The island instead pulled them ever deeper into its influence—with the goal of erasing their very minds. But now, in the waning summer of 1704, still reeling from their harrowing journey, they must pay a price for their rescue from Golgotha by the Spanish. The trio are to resume their abandoned quest for Ciro’s mirror while under the watchful eyes of soldiers and a witch-hunter. And they must do it before the Family of the Scorpion finds the mirror and uses it for their own nefarious purposes. . . . Praise for the Matthew Corbett Novels “Rich, atmospheric stories.” —Booklist on The King of Shadows “Excellent . . . full of tension and suspense.” —Stephen King on Speaks the Nightbird “Compulsively readable.” —Publishers Weekly on Speaks the Nightbird “This popular series takes us to a long-forgotten time with characters who never fail to entertain.” —The Florida Times-Union on The King of Shadows
Download or read book Daniel Silva Gabriel Allon Novels 5 8 written by Daniel Silva and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novels five through eight of the Gabriel Allon series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva. Prince of Fire Gabriel Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation: the existence of a dossier in terrorist hands that strips away his secrets and lays bare his history… The Messenger Gabriel Allon is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer—photographs that lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning an attack aimed straight at the heart of the Vatican. The Secret Servant A terrorist plot in London leads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon on a desperate search for a kidnapped woman, in a race against time that will compromise Allon’s own conscience—and life... Moscow Rules The death of a journalist leads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn if he wants to prevent a former KGB colonel from delivering Russia's most sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda. Praise for the #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva and the Gabriel Allon series “Those in the know are calling him the new John Le Carré. Those who are reading him can't put him down."—Chicago Sun-Times "The enigmatic Gabriel Allon remains one of the most intriguing heroes of any thriller series."—The Philadelphia Inquirer "A writer who brings new life to the international thriller."—Newsday "Allon is Israel’s Jack Bauer…Thrill factor:*****."—USA Today "Nobody handles this kind of intrigue as well Silva. He gives Gabriel and the rest of his team the kind of depth seen only in spy novels by Robert Ludlum and Tom Clancy."—Richmond Times Dispatch "A terrific thriller…one of the best-drawn fictional assassins since The Day of the Jackal."—The San Francisco Examiner “Silva builds tension with breathtaking double and triple turns of plot.”—People
Download or read book The Messenger written by Daniel Silva and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the trail of a deadly al-Qaeda operative, Gabriel Allon returns in a spellbinding story of deception, power, and revenge by the #1 New York Times bestselling "world-class practitioner of spy fiction" (Washington Post). Gabriel Allon—art restorer and spy—is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer—photographs that lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of its most audacious attacks ever, aimed straight at the heart of the Vatican. Allon and his colleagues soon find themselves in a deadly duel of wits against one of the most dangerous men in the world—a hunt that will take them across Europe to the Caribbean and back. But for them, there may not be enough of anything: enough time, enough facts, enough luck. All Allon can do is set his trap—and hope that he is not the one caught in it.
Download or read book Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation written by Brendan Hennessey and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning, much of Italian cinema has been sustained by transforming literature into moving images. This tradition of literary adaptation continues today, challenging artistic form and practice by pressuring the boundaries that traditionally separate film from its sister arts. In the twentieth century, director Luchino Visconti is a keystone figure in Italy's evolving art of adaptation. From the tumultuous years of Fascism and postwar Neorealism, through the blockbuster decade of the 1960s, into the arthouse masterpieces of the 1970s, Visconti's adaptations marked a distinct pathway of the Italian cinematic imagination. Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation examines these films together with their literary antecedents. Moving past strict book-to-film comparisons, it ponders how literary texts encounter and interact with a history of cultural and cinematic forms, genres, and traditions. Matching the major critical concerns of the postwar period (realism, political filmmaking, cinematic modernism) with more recent notions of adaptation and intermediality, this book reviews how one of Italy's greatest directors mined literary ore for cinematic inspiration.
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Download or read book Convergent Leadership Divergent Exposures written by Franco Oboni and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims, through its chapters, at providing the knowledge to make competent decisions, convince peers or top management to take appropriate action, or beat out the competition for climate adaptation measures including adjustments for design and operations. Topics discussed include business-as-usual vs. divergence; the effects of public pressure on corporate, industrial and government decision making; techniques for gathering the proper information to assess risks and hazards; the importance determining risk tolerance thresholds; the difference between tolerable risks, intolerable ones that benefit from mitigation and those that require strategic shifts; why common practice approaches such as FMEA, and risk matrices are inadequate in today’s world and do not help ensure infrastructural and systemic resilience and sustainability. Case histories and three complete case studies that can be adapted to any industry or project walk the reader step by step from client request to recommendations and conditions of validity. The ultimate aim is to understand how to reduce risks to tolerable and societally acceptable levels while simultaneously creating sustainable and ethical systems.
Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 1977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
Download or read book Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe written by Mrs. Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Venetian Vendetta written by Merryn Allingham and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrible accident-or the murder of someone keeping dangerous secrets? Newly-wed Nancy is shocked to see a woman fall to her death. But was it really an accident? Plunging more and more deeply into the secrets Venice holds close, Nancy realises she may be forced to make a choice-the truth or her life?
