Download or read book An Inherent Obsession for Collecting written by H. W. Shutler and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry retired from business in 1990. He joined the Vintage and Veteran Club (VVC) in 1969, serving on the committee for 10 years and was Chairman for 3 years. Honorary Life Membership of the VVC was bestowed upon Harry in 1996. He is still the current Club Dating Officer, a position held for the past 29 years. He also held the position of Vehicle Dating Chairman for the South African Veteran & Vintage Association (SAVVA) for 14 years.

Download or read book Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums written by Paul van der Grijp and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-12-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be. Presenting case studies from Europe, North America, East Asia, and the South Pacific, this book is concerned with both elite and popular collections and examines the act of donating art from the collector’s point of view. Demonstrating that art museums depend on donations from private collectors, Paul van der Grijp emphasizes that it is crucial to understand the psychological, sociological, economic, and educational motivations for gifting works of art to institutions. Taken together, the chapters argue that collectors donate to museums because the latter represent an imagined community, to whom those collectors would like to bestow a sacred gift. Private collectors are, Van der Grijp maintains, motivated to ensure the immortality of their collections and, ultimately, to preserve some memory of their own lives in the process. Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums will be of interest to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums, culture, art, anthropology, history, and sociology.

Download or read book The Golden Flea A Story of Obsession and Collecting written by Michael Rips and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lovable oddball cast of characters is at the heart of this treasure-hunt through the last days of one of the greatest flea markets on earth. "[Rips] has humanity, humor and the gift of a limpid, agile, unpretentious prose style.… A captivating portrait.”—Ben Downing, Wall Street Journal Across America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost treasures. For decades, no such market was more renowned than the legendary Chelsea flea market, which sprawled over several blocks and within an old garage on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would trawl through booths crammed with vintage dresses, rare books, ancient swords, glass eyeballs, Afghan rugs, West African fetish dolls, Old Master paintings, and much more. In The Golden Flea, the acclaimed writer Michael Rips takes readers on a trip through this charmed world. With a beguiling style that has won praise from Joan Didion and Susan Orlean, Rips recounts his obsession with the flea and its treasures and provides a fascinating account of the business of buying and selling antiques. Along the way, he introduces us to the flea’s lovable oddball cast of vendors, pickers, and collectors, including a haberdasher who only sells to those he deems worthy; an art dealer whose obscure paintings often go for enormous sums; a troubadour who sings to attract customers; and the Prophet, who finds wisdom among all the treasures and trash. As Rips’s passion for collecting grows and the flea’s last days loom, he undertakes a quest to prove the provenance of a mysterious painting that just might be the one.

Download or read book Alejandro Morales Collected Plays written by Alejandro Morales and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three provocative plays by Cuban-American dramatist Alejandro Morales. Mixing gothic horror, humor and Lorquian homages, this collection is a bold look at new US Latino drama's possibilities. Prefaced by interview with award-winning playwright Caridad Svich

Download or read book The Collected Works Volume One written by Malcolm Bradbury and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three satires of academia by the beloved British critic, teacher, and novelist—including his “outstanding” comic masterpiece, The History Man (The Guardian). “A satirist of great assurance and accomplishment,” Malcolm Bradbury remains one of the sharpest comic novelists of the twentieth century (The Observer). In Rates of Exchange and Stepping Westward, as “in almost all of Bradbury’s novels, the most frequently recurring theme is that of the slightly naïve, liberal innocent, usually an academic, hilariously abroad in an unfamiliar, and occasionally slightly threatening, context” (The Guardian). In The History Man, the tables are turned, and the professor himself is the threat, resulting in “grim wit, chill comedy and a fictional energy which is as imaginative as the tale is shocking” (A. S. Byatt). Rates of Exchange: University lecturer and seasoned international traveler Angus Petworth is unprepared for the oddities of culture and circumstance that await him on the other side of the iron curtain—in the eastern European nation of Slaka. In two eventful weeks, the professor gives an incendiary interview, is seduced by a femme fatale, and becomes embroiled in a plot of international intrigue. Satirizing everything from critics and diplomats to Marxism and academia, Rates of Exchange is a witty and lighthearted novel of cultural interchange at the height of the Cold War, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. “Explosively funny.” —The Daily Telegraph The History Man: Bradbury’s classic skewering of 1970s academia and ideological hypocrisy centers around Professor Howard Kirk, who prides himself on being the most highly evolved teacher on campus. But beneath Kirk’s scholarly bohemianism and studied cool is a ruthless, self-serving Machiavellian streak. Kirk is vain and bigoted, dismissing female students and colleagues while releasing vitriol against those who contradict him, particularly his clever, wayward wife, Barbara, the long-suffering mother of his two children. Someone needs to teach him a lesson . . . “[A] genuinely comic novel.” —The New York Times Stepping Westward: At the height of the swinging sixties, mediocre British writer James Walker accepts an academic post in America for a year he’ll never forget. As Benedict Arnold University’s writer in residence, he finds himself something of a celebrity—his work, though met with shrugs at home, is the subject of vibrant scholarly criticism among American academics. But the buttoned-up professor is about to take a crash course in culture shock taught by spirited advocates of free love and aggressively ambitious colleagues. “Highly entertaining.” —Margaret Drabble, The Sunday Times

Download or read book Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Ultimate Collection Illustrated written by Agatha Christie and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays and more than 50 short stories. The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book (The Mysterious Affair at Styles), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book (Curtain), where he visits Styles before his death. Contents: The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd Hercule Poirot. Poirot Investigates The Adventure of the Western Star The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor The Adventure of the Cheap Flat The Mystery of the Hunters Lodge The Million Dollar Bond Robbery The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan The Kidnapped Prime Minister The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman The Case of the Missing Will Hercule Poirot. Poirot's Early Cases The Affair at the Victory Ball The Adventure of the Clapham Cook The Cornish Mystery The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly The Double Clue The King of Clubs The LeMesurier Inheritance The Lost Mine The Plymouth Express The Chocolate Box The Submarine Plans The The Veiled Lady Market Basing Mystery

Download or read book The Customer Centricity Ebook Collection 3 Books written by Peter Fader and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the First Time—Three Books in One! The Customer Centricity Ebook Collection is a must-have for any business leader looking to understand and implement customer-centric strategies. This collection includes three essential books by renowned experts Peter Fader, Bruce Hardie, Michael Ross, and Sarah Toms, all of whom are leaders in the field of customer centricity. The collection includes three books in a single volume:Customer Centricity, by Peter FaderThe Customer Centricity Playbook, by Peter Fader and Sarah TomsThe Customer-Base Audit, by Peter Fader, Bruce Hardie, and Michael Ross The Customer Centricity Ebook Collection offers a comprehensive guide to understanding, implementing, and measuring the impact of customer-centric strategies.

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Edward M Matthews written by Edward M. Matthews and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcripts of Radio Talks.

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Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Theodore Dreiser Illustrated written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 7685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American writer of the naturalist school, Theodore Dreiser produced controversial novels, often featuring protagonists that succeeded at their objectives in spite of their lack of morality. Celebrated novels such as ‘Sister Carrie’ and ‘An American Tragedy’ led to Dreiser’s nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature, establishing his name as an American master. This comprehensive eBook presents Dreiser’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dreiser’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 6 novels in the US public domain, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes Dreiser’s plays, first time in digital print * A selection of Dreiser’s non-fiction * Special ‘Contextual Pieces’ section, with reviews, letters and essays evaluating Dreiser’s contribution to literature * Features Dreiser’s autobiography ‘A Book About Myself’ - discover the author’s personal and literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: two novels and a short story collection published after 1922 cannot appear in this collection due to copyright. When new texts enter the public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Sister Carrie Jennie Gerhardt The Financier The Titan The “Genius” The Shorter Fiction Free and Other Stories The Plays Plays of the Natural and Supernatural The Hand of the Potter The Non-Fiction A Traveler at Forty A Hoosier Holiday Twelve Men Hey Rub-A-Dub-Dub The Contextual Pieces Contextual Articles, Essays and Reviews The Autobiography A Book About Myself Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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Download or read book Hegel Collected Works written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 4683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary collection contains all the major works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, including the criticism of his work, his biography and all other information necessary to understand and contemplate the works of the father of absolute idealism._x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Introduction:_x000D_ The Life and Work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel_x000D_ Books:_x000D_ The Phenomenology of Mind _x000D_ The Science of Logic_x000D_ The Philosophy of Mind_x000D_ The Philosophy of Right_x000D_ The Philosophy of Law_x000D_ The Philosophy of Fine Art_x000D_ Lectures on the Philosophy of History_x000D_ Lectures on the History of Philosophy_x000D_ Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God_x000D_ The Criticism of Hegel's Work and Hegelianism:_x000D_ The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer _x000D_ Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche _x000D_ Key to Understanding Hegel by William Wallace

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