Download or read book Palace of Clouds written by Rajyashree Kumari Bikaner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evokes the romance of the rugged desert kingdom of Bikaner and its Rajput royal family. It is a richly woven tapestry encompassing five generations of an aristocratic family's past and present. Tales of valour, battles and coronations, the splendour of the royal courts, the culture and traditions that made this Rathore state preeminent in the world, all set against the backdrop of imposing palaces, rugged forts and hunting lodges, the magnificence of the gilded age of the Maharajas. The author describes her formative years during the sixties when seismic changes in the world were taking place and which were to take her on an adventurous journey from her home in Bikaner to life in London. The author brings to life a treasure trove of anecdotes and introduces us to a world of elegance, sportsmanship and cosmopolitan culture.

Download or read book A Palace in the Clouds written by Pauline Warwick (pseud. [i.e. Betty Evelyn Davies.]) and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Purple Cloud written by Matthew Phipps Shiel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If now a swell from the Deep has swept over this planetary ship of earth, and I, who alone chanced to find myself in the furthest stern, as the sole survivor of her crew . . . What then, my God, shall I do?" The Purple Cloud is widely hailed as a masterpiece of science fiction and one of the best "last man" novels ever written. A deadly purple vapor passes over the world and annihilates all living creatures except one man, Adam Jeffson. He embarks on an epic journey across a silent and devastated planet, an apocalyptic Robinson Crusoe putting together the semblance of a normal life from the flotsam and jetsam of his former existence. As he descends into madness over the years, he becomes increasingly aware that his survival was no accident and that his destiny?and the fate of the human race?are part of a profound, cosmological plan.

Download or read book A Season of Clouds written by Alex Gerrick and published by . This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To his friends, family, and work colleagues, Alex is a successful senior bureaucrat, well respected and liked by those who view him as an inspirational leader. But behind the facade, Alexx is tormented by his past traumas, especially his betrayal of a young woman while on holiday in Greece in 1995. As Alex's mental health begins to rapidly deteriorate, he realises that his life has mostly been a lie and that the key to his immediate survival rests with several people he briefly met when he was a younger man. Can Alex use their belated wisdom to defeat his inner demons before he reaches the point of no return? Spanning several continents, A Season of Clouds is a book about love, conflict, friendship, redemption, and dealing with the tragic consequences of sexual assault and mental illness.

Download or read book A Palace in the Clouds written by Pauline WARWICK and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clouds written by Caroline Dakers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is essentially a study of British aristocratic and artistic patronage of the arts in the under-explored period after 1850, approached through an intensive look at a single house - Clouds, known as the house of the age. It was built by the glamorous and unconventionally gifted Percy and Madeline Wyndham, and designed by Philip Webb, one of Britain's greatest architects. It became one of the centres of artistic and political life in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and set the style for a whole generation of country house living. Dakers recreates the atmosphere and the lives lived in the house, the personalities of its three generations of Wyndham owners, and the succession of distinguished guests drawn to it - Henry James, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Kipling, Whistler and Lord Alfred Douglas, amongst many others. She tracks the decline in the tradition of aristocratic patronage through a decline in the fortunes of Clouds itself - by the 1930s, the palace of art was a vast white elephant, and the house was sold to an institution, its treasures dispersed and its structure dynamited into a more usable space.

Download or read book Palace of Clouds written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Last Palace written by Norman Eisen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past. From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s, and The Last Palace chronicles the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. There was the optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto Petschek, who built the palace after World War I as a statement of his faith in democracy, only to have that faith shattered; Rudolf Toussaint, the cultured, compromised German general who occupied the palace during World War II, ultimately putting his life at risk to save the house and Prague itself from destruction; Laurence Steinhardt, the first postwar US ambassador whose quixotic struggle to keep the palace out of Communist hands was paired with his pitched efforts to rescue the country from Soviet domination; and Shirley Temple Black, an eyewitness to the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by Soviet tanks, who determined to return to Prague and help end totalitarianism—and did just that as US ambassador in 1989. Weaving in the life of Eisen’s own mother to demonstrate how those without power and privilege moved through history, The Last Palace tells the dramatic and surprisingly cyclical tale of the triumph of liberal democracy.

Download or read book The Kingdom of Clouds written by Karine Najaryan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends, clever and adventurous Madlen and Alen find themselves in the Kingdom of Clouds, where they meet Bul-Bul, an amazing magical creature, whose job is to sprinkle rain. In this world full of wonders, everything is different, even the lemonade, which is flavoured rainwater! While Bul-Bul desperately needs to pass a very difficult upgrading test in order to become a Rainbow Painter, the children find out that self-confidence is essential for success. Will they be able to help Bul-Bul pass the test? Everything is getting more dangerous, as they learn about the evil witch, who resides nearby with her weird creatures. Are they ever going to defeat the witch, or is the sky going to be covered in lightning forever?

Download or read book Cloud Surfing written by Tom Koulopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people hear "the Cloud," they think of cloud computing, just a sliver of what the Cloud is today. The Cloud has grown: it represents the consummate disruptor to structure; a pervasive social and economic network that will soon connect and define more of the world than any other political, social, or economic organization. The Cloud is the first megatrend of the twenty-first century, one that will shape the way we will address virtually every challenge we face for at least the next 100 years. It is where we will all live, work, and play in the coming decades. The Cloud is ?where your kids go to dive into online play. It's where you meet and make friends in social networks. It's where companies find the next big idea. It's where political campaigns are won and lost. Cloud Surfing is the groundbreaking book that will explain how to access the full value of the Cloud and how to embrace its possibilities.

Download or read book The Moon Dragon The Secrets of Droon 26 written by Tony Abbott and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hidden door. A magical staircase. Discover the world of Droon! There's no place like home! Eric and his friends have finally restored the Rainbow Stairs, but that was the easy part. Now Gethwing is loose in the Upper World, and the Moon Dragon is causing big trouble. Eric, Julie, and Neal have to protect their town, but they're up against mysterious creatures, strangely-behaving parents, and powerful magic. Can the kids stop Gethwing before he destroys the Upper World -- for good?

Download or read book A Blueprint for Your Castle in the Clouds written by Barbara Sophia Tammes and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longing for a retreat? A safe haven where you can disappear from the world for awhile? A Blueprint for Your Castle in the Clouds is an inspirational guide that will help you lighten up your life by showing you how to design twenty-five mind expanding rooms to uncloud your thinking and create new opportunities in your life. Every room in your Castle in the Clouds has a special meaning and offers new insights perspectives to look at yourself in a completely new and original way. This beautiful book with the author's charming four-colour illustrations includes blueprints for:. The Mental Spa: For inner cleansing of intrusive, bothersome thoughts.. The Royal Suite of Evil: Where your dark side will be so comfortable you'll always know where it is (and it will stop surprising you at inopportune times). . A Small Chapel for Your Soul: Where you can release your ego and let go of false ideas. . The Hall of Tears: Where you are allowed to cry as much as you want. . The Library: Where you learn to trust your intuition when facing a problem or dilemma. . The Kitchen: Helps digest information and things that have been said to you.

Download or read book The Story Tellers Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cloud World written by David Cunningham and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heliopolis. A citadel divided into five layers, every citizen sure of their place and purpose. But there is one uncertainty that haunts all Heliopolitans. What lies beneath the thick ocean of cloud? A vast abyss? The fiery realm of the gods? Fourteen-year-old Marcus is about to find out. When his father fails to return from a diplomatic mission, Marcus joins an expedition across the cloudscape in search of him. But he discovers too late that danger lies closer to home - somebody wants him dead. And when his airship is attacked, Marcus is plunged into a terrifying new world beneath the clouds.

Download or read book A Library of Clouds written by J. E. E. Pettit and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early times, Daoist writers claimed to receive scriptures via revelation from heavenly beings. In numerous cases, these writings were composed over the course of many nights and by different mediums. New revelations were often hastily appended, and the resulting unevenness gave rise to the impression that Daoist texts often appear slapdash and contain contradictions. A Library of Clouds focuses on the re-writing of Daoist scriptures in the Upper Clarity (Shangqing) lineage in fourth- and fifth-century China. Scholarship on Upper Clarity Daoism has been dominated by attempts to uncover “original” or “authentic” texts, which has resulted in the neglect of later scriptures—including the work fully translated and annotated here, the Scripture of the Immaculate Numen, one of the Three Wonders (sanqi) and among the most prized Daoist texts in medieval China. The scripture’s lack of a coherent structure and its different authorial voices have led many to see it not as a unified work but the creation of different editors who shaped and reshaped it over time. A Library of Clouds constructs new ways of understanding the complex authorship of texts like the Scripture of the Immaculate Numen and their place in early medieval Daoism. It stresses their significance in understanding the ways in which manuscripts were written, received, and distributed in early medieval China. By situating the scripture within its immediate hagiographic and ritual contexts, it suggests that this kind of revelatory literature is best understood as a pastiche of ideas, a process of weaving together previously circulating notions and beliefs into a new scriptural fabric.

Download or read book Ladder to the Clouds written by Beverley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW IN PAPERBACK!For 13 centuries, throughout China male recruits studied diligently for a long series of grueling examinations in hopes of achieving the civil rank that would enable them to serve the emperor of China. For the fortunate few who passed these exams there were nine possible ranks, each identified by a square badge of finely woven kesi, embroidery, or brocade. Now available in paperback, LADDER TO THE CLOUDS offers a thorough analysis of symbols, styles, and techniques used in mandarin square ranks, along with the most complete information for their identification to date.An exploration of Chinese symbols and customs, many of which are still practiced today.Includes vintage photographs and detailed descriptions, photos, and illustrations.Finalist for the 2000 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Award.

Download or read book The Palace of Tears written by Alev Lytle Croutier and published by Delta. This book was released on 2002-01-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1868. On a balmy autumn afternoon in Paris, young winemaker Casimir de Châteauneuf wanders into a small shop filled with curiosities from the Orient. There he spies a cache of fine miniature portraits. Above all others, an ivory-skinned beauty captivates him. Her eyes ... one blue, the other yellow. That night they pursue Casimir in his dreams, as one burning question consumes him: Who is she? Thus begins Alev Croutier’s lush, stirring adventure of the heart — a mesmerizing tale of forbidden passion, true love, and destiny. For Casimir will forsake his family, his vocation, and his country to find the object of his obsession. His journey will lead him across desert and sea, from the Royal Court in Paris to a sultan’s palace in Istanbul. And there he will find the woman of his reveries, the woman with one blue eye, the other yellow. But in this city of passion, in a Palace of Tears, Casimir is about to discover what it will mean to make a dream real ... and what awaits him when his lover is set free.