Download or read book Chasing Napoleon written by Tony Scherman and published by Cameron Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a series of portraits of Napoleon, beginning with his youth as portrayed in "Napoleon's First Shave" and culminating with "The Last Shave: St. Helena" in which Napoleon contemplates death. The paintings were created by Scherman (b.1950), an artist living in Toronto, who works masterfully in encaustic--that mixture of wax and pigments that so effectively evokes the passage of time. The book contains three texts: Jacques Henric (a French novelist, essayist, and art critic) gives background to Scherman's work; art historians Hans Belting and David Moos discuss Napoleon project and its execution; and an interview with Scherman by cultural historian and writer Sanford Kwinter illuminates the artist's motivation and concerns. Oversize: 11.75x12.5". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Corsican written by Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Berezina written by Sylvain Tesson and published by Europa Editions UK. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 1812, Napoleon enters Moscow. The Russians have set fire to the city, soon it will be reduced to a pile of ash. The Emperor equivocates, decides to turn back. This is the beginning of the retreat from Russia, a page of history that has become legendary for its degree of suffering and horror, but also for the heroic acts that took place. Two hundred years later, Sylvain Tesson, accompanied by four friends (two Russians and two French), decides to follow the route of the retreat. Perched on two Soviet Ural sidecar motorcycles, they will rejoin Paris from Moscow, guided only by the spectres of the two hundred thousand soldiers who died through cold, starvation, and in battle. Twenty five hundred miles travelled in a wild escapade to salute the ghosts of history, across the white plains of Russia.

Download or read book To Save the Country written by Francis Lieber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Civil War-era treatise addressing the power of governments in moments of emergency The last work of Abraham Lincoln's law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost--until Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt discovered it in the National Archives. Lieber's manuscript on emergency powers and martial law addresses important contemporary debates in law and political philosophy and stands as a significant historical discovery. As a key legal advisor to the Lincoln White House, Columbia College professor Francis Lieber was one of the architects and defenders of Lincoln's most famous uses of emergency powers during the Civil War. Lieber's work laid the foundation for rules now accepted worldwide. In the years after the war, Lieber and his son turned their attention to the question of emergency powers. The Liebers' treatise addresses a vital question, as prominent since 9/11 as it was in Lieber's lifetime: how much power should the government have in a crisis? The Liebers present a theory that aims to preserve legal restraint, while giving the executive necessary freedom of action. Smiley and Witt have written a lucid introduction that explains how this manuscript is a key discovery in two ways: both as a historical document and as an important contribution to the current debate over emergency powers in constitutional democracies.

Download or read book Napoleon in Egypt Workbook written by Cristina Berna and published by BOD GmbH DE. This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This workbook invites readers to do their own short art analysis, historical analysis and write it down as notes on the blank pages next to the artwork. It can also be used in a group or classroom setting. It can be great fun when used for training in the English language conversation in a group setting. You can add your answers or add your own questions in the blank space. ............. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) continues to fascinate even today, more than 200 years after his death. His legacy is shown in beautiful paintings. He was an unrivalled general, although he did make occasional mistakes both on the tactical and the strategic level - the most significant was his attack on Russia, which annihilated most of his Grande Armée and led to his downfall. One of the most fascinating periods of his caréer was his expedition to Egypt 1797-1801 and the most important incident here was the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, which allowed the deciphering of the Egyptian old writing, the hieroglyphs. The Muslims had chopped it up and used it as building material at Fort St Julien. We hope the readers will enjoy our selection and the activity. We hope it will contribute to a better understanding of Napoleon, his time and of art itself.

Download or read book Byron Sully and the Power of Portraiture written by John Clubbe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image, have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of people of all political and social stripes in Britain, Europe, America, and around the world. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron known to have been painted by a major artist. In private hands from 1826 until this day, Thomas Sully's Byron has never before been the subject of scholarly study. Beginning with his discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portrait's provenance and its relation to other well-known Byron portraits, the author discusses the work within the broad context of British and American portraiture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Receiving most attention are Thomas Lawrence and Sully, his American counterpart. The author gives the fullest account to date of Sully's career and his relation to English influences and to figures prominent in the early-nineteenth-century American imagination, among them, Washington, Fanny Kemble, Lafayette, Joseph Bonaparte, and Nicholas Biddle. Byron is discussed as an icon of the young American Republic whose Jubilee year coincided with Sully's initial work on the poet's portrait. Later chapters offer a close reading of the portrait, arguing that Sully has given a visual interpretation truly worthy of his celebrated, controversial, and famously handsome subject.

Download or read book Almost a Lady written by Jane Feather and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhilarating new novel of romance and intrigue, New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather tells the tale of an adventurous young woman and the hardened spy who is unexpectedly–and most inconveniently–captivated by her.... Independent and inquisitive, Meg Barratt wants nothing to do with any stifling society marriage. Meg yearns for the kind of passion that exists only in books–until a violent storm lands her on the high seas with the most dangerous and seductive man she’s ever encountered…or imagined. For Cosimo, women are objects, to be manipulated for business or pleasure…sometimes both. But when the seafaring assassin accidentally kidnaps Meg on his latest mission, he must reconsider his position. Recruiting his unsuspecting captive for the danger ahead is far more challenging than he expected–and far more seductive.

Download or read book A Light in the Storm written by Karen Hesse and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1861, Amelia Martin's father is stripped of his post as a ship's captain when he is caught harboring the leader of a slave rebellion. Now he is an assistant lighthouse keeper on Fenwick Island, off the coast of Delaware-a state wedged between the North and the South, just as Amelia is wedged between her constantly arguing parents. Amelia's mother blames her abolitionist husband for their living conditions, which she claims are taking a toll on her health. As the Civil War rages on, Amelia slowly learns that she cannot stop the fighting, but by keeping watch in the lighthouse each day, lighting the lamps, cleaning the glass, and rescuing victims of Atlantic storms, she can make a difference.

Download or read book George Cruikshank s omnibus ed by L Blanchard written by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Georg Cruikshank s Omnibus written by George Cruikshank and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Lord Byron written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set reissues 7 books on the Romantic poet Lord Byron originally published between 1957 and 2005. The volumes examine Byron’s poetry, his poetic development, and his social and private life. Lord Byron’s epic satiric poem Don Juan is examined by some of the leading scholars of Romanticism.

Download or read book The Little Poppy written by Robert S. Pimm and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author is a product of the Great Depression and the Second World War. He met and married Esther Campbell in Scotland. They live in Ottawa, Ontario. As an adult student at Atkinson College, York University, Toronto, he earned his B.A. (English). When he retired he and Esther planned on living in Europe. This they did for twelve years after which they returned to Canada. A second twelve years passed before he decided to write a book about their experiences in Spain, France and Portugal. The book is called The Little Poppy, sub-titled, The Diary of a Retiree. The author has combined well developed powers of observation with practical analytical skills to produce a thoughtful diary style narrative which will keep you reading well past your bedtime. From the vague thoughts of retiral, we are taken to the point, when after twelve years of retirement, he has decided that the time has come to retire. On the way his descriptions of people they met are illuminated by appropriate anecdotes, his descriptions of places visited will whet the appetite of anyone considering a visit, lists of flowers photographed (555 specimens) will be of interest to amateur field naturalists and to the ever growing group of conservationists. All in all, a very useful, entertaining and at times light-hearted approach to retirement. It could be a guide for many a one of the oncoming Boomers.

Download or read book Intelligence in War written by John Keegan and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2004-10-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-eminent war historian John Keegan sets out to answer the question, how much does military intelligence matter to victory? By examining case studies from Nelson’s pursuit of Napoleon’s Fleet across the Mediterranean in 1788 to the Battle of the Atlantic in 1940, Keegan gives us a new history of war through the prism of intelligence.

Download or read book The Naval History of Great Britain from the Year MDCCLXXXIII to MDCCCXXXVI written by Edward Pelham Brenton and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twinkie Deconstructed written by Steve Ettlinger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes information on amino acids, animal feed, artificial vanilla, baking powder, bread, browning, butter, canola oil, Cargill, chlor/alkali industry, chlorine, corn, cosmetics, cream, Crisco, egg whites, egg yolks, ethylene, ethylene oxide, explosives, fermentation, flour, Food and Drug Administration, food coloring, glycerin, Hostess, hydrochloric acid, hydrogenation, ice cream, Kraft, lime, limestone, monoglycerides, monosodium glutamate (MSG), Monsanto, natural gas, Neutrogena, nitrogen, obesity, oxygen, palm oil, Papett's Hygrade Egg products, petroleum, phosphates, phosphoric acid, plaster, plastic, polysorbates, preservatives, propylene glycol, protein, red no. 40, refined sugar, salad dressings, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, shelf life, shortening, Silver Springs (New York), soap, soda ash, soybean oil, soybeans, stearic acid, sucrose, sugarcane, sulfuric acid, trans fats, trees, triglycerides, Trona, vanilla, vanillin, vitamins, Wise, Wonder Bread, yellow no. 5, etc.

Download or read book The Naval History of Great Britain written by Edward Pelham Brenton and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nostradamus For Dummies written by Scarlett Ross and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nostradamus made simple-a surefire prophecy of success! Michel Notredame, or Nostradamus (1503-1566), was a French physician, astrologer, and prophet whose books of visionary four-line verses have intrigued and beguiled readers for hundreds of years. Now, with this fun and easy guide, everyone can finally get a handle on Nostradamus and his "Centuries" of prophecies, which many people believe to have predicted the French Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the Kennedy assassination, and 9/11, among other events. The book covers Nostradamus's life and beliefs, his use of cryptic language and anagrams, interpretations of his work that link it to specific historical incidents, and critics who are skeptical of his prophecies. It also explores the implications of his work on the past, present, and future, and much more!