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Book Made in 1928 and Still Fabulous in October 2021

Download or read book Made in 1928 and Still Fabulous in October 2021 written by Colombo BIR and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you Looking For a perfect Birthday Gift? You are in the right place This Notebook Planner is a Great Gift For Family And Friends There is plenty of space to write as much as you want. Start jotting down your ideas, big and small, and make your goals and dreams come true. Small lined daily Diary / Journal / Notebook to write in, to record your daily gratitude list, creative writing, Organize Ideas, for creating lists, for scheduling and recording your thoughts. Scroll up and Grab one for yourself or a few for friends. Enjoy! .Journal Gift, .Lined Notebook with Goals Planner, To Do list, Gratitude .Journal and More... .100 pages, .Soft Cover, Matte Finish .Dimension: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm)

Book Made in August 1928 and Still Fabulous In 2021

Download or read book Made in August 1928 and Still Fabulous In 2021 written by Sophie Nellie and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perfect Birthday Gift for Sister and Brother Gift It To Your ,Daughter, Father, Mother, uncle, Aunt, Grandpa,Grandma,Great For Class, use as a Journal, Notebook, brainstorming, Drawing, Painting, Writing, School,Diary, And Much More,,, Perfect Birthday Gift For him And Her Trim Size : 6 x 9 Page Count : 110 White Paper Blank Lined Pages

Book Vanderbilt

Download or read book Vanderbilt written by Anderson Cooper and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts. One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021 When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by “the Commodore,” subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers—the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius’s grandson and namesake had built—the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all. Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family’s empire, basked in the Commodore’s wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other. Written with a unique insider’s viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.

Book Henry Ford

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samuel Simpson Marquis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Henry Ford written by Samuel Simpson Marquis and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nancy Cunard

Download or read book Nancy Cunard written by Jane Marcus and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of inadequate histories of radical writing and activism, this book rejects stereotypes of Cunard as spoiled heiress and 'sexually dangerous new woman', offering instead a bold, unapologetic, evidence-based portrait of a woman and her significant contributions to 21st century considerations of gender, race, and class.

Book Surrealism in Britain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Remy
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-09-10
  • ISBN : 042962719X
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Surrealism in Britain written by Michael Remy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was originally published in 1999, and is the first comprehensive study of the British surrealist movement and its achievements. Lavishly illustrated, the book provides a year-by-year narrative of the development of surrealism among artists, writers, critics and theorists in Britain. Surrealism was imported into Britain from France by pioneering little magazines. The 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London, put together by Herbert Read and Roland Penrose, marked the first attempt to introduce the concept to a wider public. Relations with the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War and World War Two fractured the nascent movement as writers and artists worked out their individual responses and struggled to earn a living in wartime. The book follows the story right through to the present day. Michael Remy draws on 20 years of studying British surrealism to provide this authoritative and biographically rich account, a major contribution to the understanding of the achievements of the artists and writers involved and their allegiance to this key twentieth-century movement.

Book Sargent  Whistler  and Venetian Glass

Download or read book Sargent Whistler and Venetian Glass written by Sheldon Barr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murano Glass and its Collectors in Aesthetic America / Melody Barnett Deusner -- Venetian Mosaics and Glass in the United States, 1860-1917 / Sheldon Barr -- "Where Have Titian's Beauties Gone?" : Sargent and Whistler on the Streets of Venice / Stephanie Mayer Heydt -- Interweaving Worlds : Antique and Revival Lace in Italy and in the United States, 1872-1927 / Diana Jocelyn Greenwold -- Sparks of Genius : American Art and the Appeal of Modern Venetian Glass / Crawford Alexander Mann III -- Biographies / Brittany Emens Strupp, Crawford Alexander Mann III.

Book My Omaha Obsession

    Book Details:
  • Author : Miss Cassette
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2020-11
  • ISBN : 149622471X
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book My Omaha Obsession written by Miss Cassette and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city’s unusual history. Rather than covering the city’s best-known sites, Miss Cassette is irresistibly drawn to strange little buildings and glorious large homes that don’t exist anymore as well as to stories of Harkert’s Holsum Hamburgers and the Twenties Club. Piecing together the records of buildings and homes and everything interesting that came after, Miss Cassette shares her observations of the property and its significance to Omaha. She scrutinizes land deeds, insurance maps, tax records, and old newspaper articles to uncover a property’s singular story. Through conversations with fellow detectives and history enthusiasts, she guides readers along her path of hunches, personal interests, mishaps, and more. As a longtime resident of Omaha, Miss Cassette is informed by memories of her youth combined with an enduring curiosity about the city’s offbeat relics and remains. Part memoir and part research guide with a healthy dose of colorful wandering, My Omaha Obsession celebrates the historic built environment and searches for the people who shaped early Omaha.

Book The House of Worth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chantal Trubert-Tollu
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2018-01-09
  • ISBN : 0500519439
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The House of Worth written by Chantal Trubert-Tollu and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first illustrated monograph dedicated to the history of the House of Worth, the world’s pioneering haute couture label Arriving in Paris in 1845, at the age of twenty and with only a few francs in his pocket, Charles Frederick Worth would go on to build the most prominent, innovative, and successful fashion house of the century. He was inspired by a love of fine art, luxurious fabrics, and his vision of the female ideal, and was the first to set out to dictate new styles and silhouettes to his elite clientele— not the other way around. He hosted them in his rue de la Paix salons, which included groundbreaking sportswear and maternity departments as well as silk, velvet, and brocade rooms, and a special salon with closed shutters and gas lighting designed to allow clients to try on ball gowns in lighting conditions precisely matched to those of the event at which they would be worn. Organized chronologically and illustrated with striking ensembles, paintings, and documents sourced from both private family archives and the best fashion collections from museums around the world, The House of Worth is an inspiring tribute to the house that started it all.

Book The Kansas City Star Quilts Sampler

Download or read book The Kansas City Star Quilts Sampler written by and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1928, the Kansas City Star newspaper printed its first quilt block pattern—they continued this tradition for 34 wonderful and influential years. Now for the first time, the best of the blocks from each year can be found in one place! Slow down and stitch 60+ vintage block patterns, culminating in an unforgettable sampler quilt to showcase each one. Meet the women who brought quilting to the newspaper, as profiled by best-selling author and quilt historian Barbara Brackman.

Book The Panda Chronicles Book 1

Download or read book The Panda Chronicles Book 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panda satire is alive and well in the first volume of The Panda Chronicles. Join Bob T. Panda and his cartoon friends from the popular blog, "The Panda Chronicles" as they prove that it IS all black and white! Be the bear! Book 2 continues the fun with more mischief from The Panda Kindergarten, More Panda Olympics, and just more pandas!

Book Fabulous New Orleans

Download or read book Fabulous New Orleans written by Lyle Saxon and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is rather like a Mardi Gras parade -- a series of impressions. Each chapter is like a decorated car which tells a story. Some of the stories are brave and courageous, others are informative, or amusing, or bizarre, or fantastic. or cruel; but they are all interlocking stories--a pageant of a city...I have not attempted to write history in its strict sense although the main events of the French, Spanish and American Dominations are outlined and several chapters on the new New Orleans have been added."-- from Introduction.

Book The Cut of Men s Clothes

Download or read book The Cut of Men s Clothes written by Norah Waugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the evolution of the style of men's dress through a sequence of diagrams accurately scaled down from patterns of actual garments, many of them rare museum specimens. The plates have been selected with the same purpose. Some are photographs of suits for which diagrams have also been given; others, reproduced from paintings and old prints, show the costume complete with its accessories. Quotations from contemporary sources--from diaries, travelers' accounts and tailors' bills--supplement Norah Waugh's text with comments on fashion and lively eyewitness descriptions.

Book Daughter of the Reich

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louise Fein
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-05-12
  • ISBN : 0062964062
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book Daughter of the Reich written by Louise Fein and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international bestseller The Hidden Child comes a spellbinding story of impossible love set against the backdrop of the Nazi regime, perfect for fans of The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See. She must choose between loyalty to her country or a love that could be her destruction… As the dutiful daughter of a high-ranking Nazi officer, Hetty Heinrich is keen to play her part in the glorious new Thousand Year Reich. But she never imagines that all she believes and knows will come into stark conflict when she encounters Walter, a Jewish friend from the past, who stirs dangerous feelings in her. Confused and conflicted, Hetty doesn’t know whom she can trust and where she can turn to, especially when she discovers that someone has been watching her. Realizing she is taking a huge risk—but unable to resist the intense attraction she has for Walter—she embarks on a secret love affair with him. But as the rising tide of anti-Semitism threatens to engulf them, Hetty and Walter will be forced to take extreme measures. Will the steady march of dark forces destroy Hetty’s universe—or can love ultimately triumph…? Propulsive, deeply affecting, and inspired by the author’s family history, Daughter of the Reich is a mesmerizing page-turner filled with vivid characters, a meticulously researched portrait of Nazi Germany, and a reminder that the past must never be forgotten.

Book The Hidden Child

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louise Fein
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2021-10-19
  • ISBN : 0063090945
  • Pages : 451 pages

Download or read book The Hidden Child written by Louise Fein and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international bestseller! “The Hidden Child is a heart-wrenching depiction of a golden couple in the 1920s…. Shocking, emotive, and compelling, but ultimately a story of hope. I loved it.” -- Deborah Carr, USA Today bestselling author Londoners Eleanor and Edward Hamilton have it all. But the 1929 financial crash is looming, and they’re harboring a shameful secret. How far are they willing to go to protect their charmed life? Eleanor Hamilton is happily married and mother to a beautiful four-year-old girl, Mabel. Her husband, Edward, is a leading light in the burgeoning Eugenics movement, which is designing the very ideas that will soon be embraced by Hitler. But when Mabel develops debilitating epileptic seizures and Eleanor discovers Edward has been keeping secrets, Eleanor's world fractures. In order to save her daughter, she takes matters into her own hands. Vividly rendered and deeply affecting, The Hidden Child is a sweeping story and a richly drawn portrait of a family torn apart by shame, deceit, and dangerous ideals.

Book Ghost Variations

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jessica Duchen
  • Publisher : Unbound Publishing
  • Release : 2016-09-20
  • ISBN : 1783529830
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Ghost Variations written by Jessica Duchen and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strangest detective story in the history of music – inspired by a true incident. A world spiralling towards war. A composer descending into madness. And a devoted woman struggling to keep her faith in art and love against all the odds. 1933. Dabbling in the fashionable “Glass Game” – a Ouija board – the famous Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi, one-time muse to composers such as Bartók, Ravel and Elgar, encounters a startling dilemma. A message arrives ostensibly from the spirit of the composer Robert Schumann, begging her to find and perform his long-suppressed violin concerto. She tries to ignore it, wanting to concentrate instead on charity concerts. But against the background of the 1930s depression in London and the rise of the Nazis in Germany, a struggle ensues as the “spirit messengers” do not want her to forget. The concerto turns out to be real, embargoed by Schumann’s family for fear that it betrayed his mental disintegration: it was his last full-scale work, written just before he suffered a nervous breakdown after which he spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. It shares a theme with his Geistervariationen (Ghost Variations) for piano, a melody he believed had been dictated to him by the spirits of composers beyond the grave. As rumours of its existence spread from London to Berlin, where the manuscript is held, Jelly embarks on an increasingly complex quest to find the concerto. When the Third Reich’s administration decides to unearth the work for reasons of its own, a race to perform it begins. Though aided and abetted by a team of larger-than-life personalities – including her sister Adila Fachiri, the pianist Myra Hess, and a young music publisher who falls in love with her – Jelly finds herself confronting forces that threaten her own state of mind. Saving the concerto comes to mean saving herself. In the ensuing psychodrama, the heroine, the concerto and the pre-war world stand on the brink, reaching together for one more chance of glory.

Book Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of the Four

Download or read book Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of the Four written by Roger Billcliffe and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A showcase of the artistic output of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert MacNair, Margaret and Frances Macdonald, known simply as 'The Four'.