Download or read book Age of Opulence written by Hebe Dorsey and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edwardian Portraits written by Kenneth McConkey and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records a wealthy society's desire to immortalise itself in fabulous self-portraits. It found artists who succeeded brilliantly and this book, the only one devoted to the subject, records both the sitters and the work of the artists.
Download or read book Bar Harbor s Gilded Century written by Lydia Vandenberg and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine's premier tourist destination, Bar Harbor has many historic buildings. The area was once a shipbuilding and farming hamlet that became a Gilded Age resort of the highest order-until a fire in 1947 destroyed many of its buildings. This pictorial history takes Bar Harbor from its origins to the fire. It also offers intriguing curiosities, including insights on the upstairs-downstairs aspects of resort life. The book's captions are packed with fascinating information.
Download or read book The Birds of Opulence written by Crystal Wilkinson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical exploration of love and loss, this book centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern Black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single mother Francine Clark is haunted by her dead, lightning-struck husband and forced to fight against both the moral judgment of the community and her own rebellious daughter, Mona. The residents of Opulence struggle with vexing relationships to the land, to one another, and to their own sexuality. As the members of the youngest generation watch their mothers and grandmothers pass away, they live with the fear of going mad themselves and must fight to survive. The author offers up Opulence and its people in lush, poetic detail. It is a world of magic, conjuring, signs, and spells, but also of harsh realities that only love - and love that's handed down - can conquer.
Download or read book Social Opulence and Private Restraint written by Noel W. Thompson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Opulence and Private Restraint is a study of the place of the consumer and consumption in the political economy of British socialism, from its early-nineteenth-century origins, through 'New Times' Marxism, to the consumer-focused New Labourism and political economies critical of consumerism that can be found in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Left. Noel Thompson identifies and explicates recurrent themes which cross the boundaries of the conventional periodisation of the history of British socialist thought; themes which illustrate the sustained nature of the multifaceted ideological challenge presented by the accommodation of the consumer within socialist political economy. This challenge necessitates an engagement with the character and priorities of a future socialist society. As such it touches on some of the key issues which socialists have confronted in pursuit of their vision of a good society: issues with a strong contemporary relevance such as the desirability of private as against social opulence; the relationship between consumption and happiness; the need to educate and/or to liberate desire; and, in particular, the environmental and social consequences of rising levels of consumer expectation and consumption. The study also throws light on how the disparate ways in which these issues were addressed reflected and shaped the socialist political economies that emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while also engendering tensions between them.
Download or read book Good Kids Tough Choices written by Rushworth M. Kidder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical analysis and inspiring guide for teaching kids "ethical fitness" Parents are beginning to realize that deficiencies in ethics and character are becoming a big problem among our nation's children. According to the latest data, lying, cheating, and rampant insensitivity to other people are increasingly common. What can parents do? In this book, ethics expert Rushworth Kidder shows how to customize interventions to a child's age and temperament. He encourages parents not to give up, since what they do can always make a difference, regardless of how long or deep the bad habits of dishonesty may be. Encourages parents to intervene early and re-establish children on the right course Explores the keys to ethical behavior: honesty, responsibility, respect, fairness, and compassion All of Kidder's practical advice is based on the latest psychological and neuroscientific research about how kids develop character and learn what's right and wrong.
Download or read book The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age written by Arnold Lewis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Victorian homes, shows and describes their halls, drawing rooms, dining rooms, libraries, music rooms, guest rooms, and parlors
Download or read book Sheer Opulence written by Nicholas Haslam and published by CICO Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Haslam is one of the world's finest interior designers, sought by rock stars, royalty, and the aristocracy alike. His interiors have chutzpah and a touch of opulence that seduce you the momentyou catch a glimpse. Rooms look glamorous and sexy, yet liveable in, practical, and, above all, flattering to their owner and their surroundings. He makes great use of the completely unexpected and is known for effects such as linen carpets, silver-papered ceilings, slashed leather curtains, and Picasso-inspired fabric footstools. Sheer Opulence, with specially commissioned photography by David Montgomery, reveals Haslam's decorating secrets and instinctive approach to both classic and contemporary interiors in a visual diary with Haslam's own watercolor plans accompanying the stunning photographs of rooms around the world. * The first book from the rock stars' and royalty's favorite interior designer. * Previously published in hardcover by Watson-Guptill (ISBN:082347970). * His autobiography, Redeeming Features, is published by Random House.
Download or read book The Age of Light written by Whitney Scharer and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Books of the Year: Parade, Glamour, Real Simple, Refinery29, Yahoo! Lifestyle. "A startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse to artist." --Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere "I'd rather take a photograph than be one," Lee Miller declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray. Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. As they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee's life forever. Lee's journey of self-discovery takes took her from the cabarets of bohemian Paris to the battlefields of war-torn Europe during WWII, from inventing radical new photography techniques to documenting the liberation of the concentration camps as one of the first female war correspondents. Through it all, Lee must grapple with the question of whether it's possible to stay true to herself while also fulfilling her artistic ambition--and what she will have to sacrifice to do so.
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Download or read book Opulence Among Us written by Gary D. Henry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about an amazing group of friends that set out to change the world one person at a time. They were all extremely wealthy through hard work or inheritance. They all figure that they can only drive one car at a time and live in one house at a time and everything else is really not needed. The ten friends set out to change thousands of people’s lives in this country. They would pick a downtrodden neighborhood and breathe life into it by paving the streets, fixing all existing homes, giving the people good paying jobs, and paying off all their outstanding debt. These poor people who could barely feed their kids would now have a place they were proud to call home. They paid their taxes and lived their lives. The friends branched out to adjoining communities and were met with the same love and admiration that they enjoyed enhancing lives in the first neighborhood. The group would branch out and soon they have renovated nearly an entire county until corrupt politicians and drug lords attempt to put a stop to these good deeds because it was removing the slums that these entities rely on to do business.
Download or read book Between East and West written by R. D. Charques and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative short history of Russia, from the mysterious origins of the nation-state to the death of Stalin A classic work now back in print for the first time since 1956—and still regarded as one of the groundbreaking books on the subject—this narrative history of Russia was the first to encompass the myth-befogged beginnings of the nation-state, the rise and cataclysmic fall of tsarism, and the Spartan years of the U.S.S.R. Charques emphasizes three points of view: that autocracy has played a dominant role throughout all of Russian history; that serfdom is the fabric of Russia’s social history; and that it is of paramount importance to recognize Russia’s present regime under Putin and Medvedev as the latest phase in a long history of oppression.
Download or read book A Survey of the Strength and Opulence of Great Britain Wherein is Shewn the Progress of Its Commerce Agriculture Population c Before and Since the Accession of the House of Hanover written by Thomas Brooke Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of the Strength and Opulence of Great Britain Wherein is Shewn the Progress of Its Commerce Agriculture Population c Before and Since the Accession of the House of Hanover by the Rev Dr Clarke With Observations by Dean Tucker and David Hume Esq in a Correspondence with Lord Kaimes Now First Published written by Thomas Brooke Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Law of Opulence written by Wallace D. Wattles and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Law of Opulence, originally published in 1905 as a series of three articles in The Nautilus, the leading New Thought magazine of its day, explains how success can be attained by living happily in God's world. Read and learn about attaining health, wealth, and happiness.
Download or read book The Opulent Era written by Elizabeth A. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
