Download or read book Franzi written by Bernard Willimann and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a great sense of adventure, Franzi Willimann lives a happy and successful life. Now in his seventies, this retired corporate executive, Army veteran, husband, and father of four, is a proud American. But he began life in Switzerland in the 1930s, the child of hard-working hoteliers who taught him to love life, to cherish his faith and his family, and to give generously of himself every single day. Beloved by his family and a multitude of devoted friends, success, for this most happy fellow, is a divine mix of the dark and the light, the joys and sorrows of everyday living. Told with extraordinary humor and simplicity, his story offers each one of us a roadmap to lasting joy and contentment. As Franzi Willimann and his family will show you, the secret to true happiness is not in what we do, where we live, or how much we achieve, nor is it found in physical beauty, wealth, or social status. True happiness is created in tender minutia, in the small details of lives lived with devoted attention to relationships, to humble service, and to love. Enjoy the story of Opa, a genuine treasure of a life bestowing its riches on all those it touches as it unfolds one glorious day, one devoted hour, one joyously savored moment at a time.
Download or read book FR NZI End of an error Three Br cke Artists One Model written by Gerd Presler and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it that fascinated the three painters? In an environment suppressed by provincial, deadlocked standards, Fränzi embodied the kind of freedom that was maintained only in distant archipelagos, a freedom that expressed uninhibited nudity and the joy of movement. A celebration, an inspiration for the painters.
Download or read book Dictionary of Artists Models written by Jill Berk Jiminez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reference work devoted to their lives and roles, this book provides information on some 200 artists' models from the Renaissance to the present day. Most entries are illustrated and consist of a brief biography, selected works in which the model appears (with location), a list of further reading. This will prove an invaluable reference work for art historians, librarians, museum and gallery curators, as well as students and researchers.
Download or read book The Rose Council written by Mark L. Bullock and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 3000 years of peace since the banning of the Gods, a balance is about to be tipped. David, an apprentice and son to the King's High Enchanter, struggles with the destiny he is to fulfill as the Bringer to find the next Kaiser Mage. Unfortunately, the struggle of the delicate balance favors against David, who by himself has little to no power. Unexpectedly, David has discovered a new gift that he must master to find the truth about himself. After a terrible accident Franziska, a fellow apprentice who conceals a strong love for David, finds herself trailing in David's shadow to keep him safe. The prophecies handed down through the ages are ambiguous, however, leading some to believe that it is Franziska, not David, who is the true Bringer of the next Kaiser Mage. It is a race against time and fate to bring forth the Kaiser Mage. But the prophecies are mixed and confusing, some believe that it is Franziska who is the bringer who shall find the next Kaiser Mage
Download or read book Bear Necessities written by Lisa Kemmerer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is also available in paperback. What is it like to rehabilitate sun bears in the rainforests of Malaysia? Why are sloth bears trained to dance? How is traditional Chinese medicine implicated in the deaths of black bears in North America? Bear Necessities answers all of these questions, and many more. Through the voices of activists, scientists, and educators, readers walk alongside those who pull sun bears from Vietnamese bile farms, track Andean bears in the rugged hills of Ecuador, work to protect Montana’s grizzlies in the courtroom, and gently heal the many wounded bears who live in sanctuaries around the world. Though almost every bear species is endangered or severely threatened, Bear Necessities offers hope through knowledge and understanding, which reside at the heart of change.
Download or read book Monograph of the Gonostomatidae and Kahliellidae Ciliophora Hypotricha written by Helmut Berger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present monograph is the fourth of six volumes which review the Hypotricha, a major group of the spirotrichs. The book is about the Gonostomatidae, the Kahliellidae, and some taxa of unknown position in the hypotrichs. Gonostomum was previously misclassified in the Oxytrichidae because its type species Gonostomum affine has basically an 18-cirri pattern, which is dominant in the oxytrichids. A new hypothesis, considering also molecular data, postulates that this 18-cirri pattern evolved in the last common ancestor of the hypotrichs and therefore it appears throughout the Hypotricha tree. The simple dorsal kinety pattern, composed of only three bipolar dorsal kineties, and gene sequence analyses strongly suggest that Gonostomum branches off rather early in the phylogenetic tree. Thus, the Gonostomatidae, previously synonymised with the oxytrichids, are reactivated to include the name-bearing type genus and other genera (e.g., Paragonostomum, Wallackia, Cladotricha) which have the characteristic gonostomatid oral apparatus. The Kahliellidae are a rather vague group mainly defined via the preservation of parts of the parental infraciliature. The kahliellids preliminary comprise, besides the name-bearing type genus Kahliella, genera such as Parakahliella and its African pendant Afrokahliella or the monotypic Engelmanniella. In total 68 species distributed in 21 genera and subgenera are revised. As in the previous volumes almost all morphological, morphogenetic, molecular, faunistic, and ecological data, scattered in almost 700 papers, are compiled so that the four volumes (Oxytrichidae, Urostyloidea, Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae, Gonostomatidae and Kahliellida) provide a detailed insight into the biology of almost 500 species of hypotrichs. The series is an up-to-date overview about this highly interesting taxon of spirotrichous ciliates mainly addressed to taxonomists, cell biologists, ecologists, molecular biologists, and practitioners.
Download or read book Hollywood Catwalk written by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The High School outsider takes off her glasses, puts on a dress, and becomes the Prom Queen; the dowdy woman has her hair done, buys some chic new clothes and starts to attract the men. Cinderella and Pygmalion stories still provide inspiration for the plots of Hollywood romantic comedies, dramas, and even action films. Their perennial use prompts a series of questions: is, for example, male agency necessary to effect the transformation, or can the woman change herself? Can she ever change him? Most pressingly, what do these images of change and transformation, of improvement and transcendence tell us, the viewers, about what we should be doing? Investigating these questions, this book examines a key but frequently overlooked aspect of film style: the costume. Across all the films discussed, costume and the body it covers becomes the crucial element in the transformation scene, exemplifying the 'before' and 'after' of the successful change. Exploring the fantasies of transcendence and transformation sold through these films and exemplified in the costumes, this book examines "Calamity Jane", "Midnight Cowboy", "Clueless", "The Long Kiss Goodnight", "The Devil Wears Prada", and many other examples from both classic and contemporary Hollywood.
Download or read book PONS Die Drei Lions and Crimes in Africa written by Kirsten Vogel and published by Langenscheidt. This book was released on 2024 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Kiss for the Enemy written by David Fraser and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All is fair in love and war... First published in 1988, it is a tale of two brought together by a drunken brawl in Oxford in 1937. Anthony Marvell and Frido von Arzfeld found friendship even as the threatening clouds of war were gathering over Europe. Then their families-sisters, cousins- found love against a background of growing hate and strident war cries. From the false idyll of pre-war England and Germany, through the desperate fall of France in 1940, across the ravaged mountains of North Africa, to the savage carnage of Stalingrad, the Marvellls and the von Arzfelds played their parts in the war and saw the bonds that had united their families put the final test.
Download or read book Quiver written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 12 contains: The Archer...Christmas, 1877.
Download or read book Max Pechstein The Rise and Fall of Expressionism written by Bernhard Fulda and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Pechstein (1881–1955) is one of the most prominent German artists of the twentieth century, not least because of his crucial role in the breakthrough of German Expressionism. This long overdue biography combines the portrayal of an outstanding artistic personality with the story of an individual German who struggled through the political upheavals of his time. Pechstein's work is presented in the cultural context of museum politics and art associations, art dealers and critics, market forces and cultural trends.
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Download or read book Vegan s Daily Companion written by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live a joyful, compassionate life, every day of the year with Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's guide, Vegan's Daily Companion! Mondays: For the Love of Food – A celebration of familiar and not-so-familiar foods to spark enthusiasm for eating healthfully. Tuesdays: Effective Communication – Techniques and tactics for speaking on behalf of veganism effectively and compassionately. Wednesdays: Optimum Health for Body, Mind, and Spirit – Care and maintenance for becoming and remaining a joyful vegan. Thursdays: Animals in the Arts: Literature, Film, Painting – Inspiration across the ages that reflects our consciousness of and relationship to non-human animals. Fridays: Stories of Hope, Rescue, and Transformation – Heartening stories of people who have become awakened and animals have found sanctuary. Saturdays + Sundays: Healthful Recipes – Favorite recipes to use as activism and nourishment.
Download or read book Aristocrash written by Ernestine Nicolussi Smyth and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel includes a contemporary history with biographical and historical background. Love, struggle and passion through war and peace. A thrilling adventure of good and bad times. Humorous and sad at the same time.The people and their destinies pass in front of the reader as if in a film so vivid is the description in this book. The author presents a completely personal story of her family over five generations. I read this book and I can truly say: a huge undertaking and a enthralling read – Heide Reyer, Textbüro Tintenfass,Zürich.
Download or read book Germania written by Brendan McNally and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their youth, Manni and Franzi, together with their brothers, Ziggy and Sebastian, captured Germany's collective imagination as the Flying Magical Loerber Brothers -- one of the most popular vaudeville acts of the old Weimar days. The ensuing years have, however, found the Jewish brothers estranged and ensconced in various occupations as the war is drawing near its end and a German surrender is imminent. Manni is traveling through the Ruhr Valley with Albert Speer, who is intent on subverting Hitler's apocalyptic plan to destroy the German industrial heartland before the Allies arrive; Franzi has become inextricably attached to Heinrich Himmler's entourage as astrologer and masseur; and Ziggy and Sebastian have each been employed in pursuits that threaten to compromise irrevocably their own safety and ideologies. Now, with the Russian noose tightening around Berlin and the remnants of the Nazi government fleeing north to Flensburg, the Loerber brothers are unexpectedly reunited. As Himmler and Speer vie to become the next Führer, deluded into believing they can strike a bargain with Eisenhower and escape their criminal fates, the Loerbers must employ all their talents -- and whatever magic they possess -- to rescue themselves and one another. Deftly written and darkly funny, Germania is an astounding adventure tale -- with subplots involving a hidden cache of Nazi gold, Hitler's miracle U-boats, and Speer's secret plan to live out his days hunting walrus in Greenland -- and a remarkably imaginative novel from a gifted new writing talent.
Download or read book PONS Die Drei Tea and Crimes in London written by and published by Langenscheidt. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Englisch lernen mit Kim, Franzi und Marie Die drei !!! ermitteln in London. Sie sind zur Hochzeit von Frau Winklers Cousine in die britische Metropole London eingeladen. Doch kurz vor dem Fest erhält die Braut einen Erpresserbrief. Wer hat Interesse daran, die Hochzeit zu verhindern? Die Suche nach dem Erpresser führt die drei !!! quer durch die Stadt. Dabei treffen Sie auf viele Menschen und alle sprechen natürlich Englisch! Englisch lernen nebenbei: 50 % englischer Leseanteil mit Angabe schwieriger Wörter. Trainiere Wortschatz, Verständnis und Grammatik mit detektivischen Übungen. Mit Scan2 Learn-App zum Buch: Höre die ganze Story als Hörbuch an.
Download or read book The French Spy written by Mark Ellis and published by Accent Press Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly atmospheric and brimming with suspense, Mark Ellis presents this insanely captivating wartime thriller of classic espionage. The third instalment in the Frank Merlin series, following on from Stalin's Gold. Previously published as Merlin at War. PRAISE FOR THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DCI FRANK MERLIN SERIES: 'A richly atmospheric, authentic, and suspenseful detective series' - Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author 'So immaculately nuanced they genuinely feel like they belong in the cannon of mid-20th century thrillers . . . Another belter!' - Fiona Phillips 'A truly spellbinding page turner that keeps you hooked right to the end' - Dorset Book Detective 'Brimming with action . . . complex, addictive and highly entertaining . . . I cannot wait to read more books by Mark Ellis' - The Book Cosy Book Club 'Brimming with authentic details . . . A compelling tale of crime fiction' - Foreword Reviews 'A mammoth read with a Dickensian plethora of characters that I thoroughly enjoyed immersing myself in . . . meticulously researched . . . deliciously complex' - CARAMEROLLOVESBOOKS ___________ Violent deaths. French double agents. Daring fraud. DCI Frank Merlin sets out on his most complex case yet... War rages across Europe. France is under Nazi rule. Britain has its back to the wall. In London, Scotland Yard detective Frank Merlin investigates a series of disturbing events - a young girl killed in a botched abortion, a French emigré shot in a seedy Notting Hill flat, a mysterious letter written by a British officer recently gunned down in Crete. With action spanning Buenos Aires, New York, Cairo and occupied France, Merlin and his team are plunged into a dark world of espionage, murder, love and betrayal.
