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Book The Oliphant

    Book Details:
  • Author : Avînoʻam Šālēm
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9004137947
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book The Oliphant written by Avînoʻam Šālēm and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses a group of medieval carved ivory horns, namely oliphants. It draws upon medieval visual as well as literary sources both Arabic and Latin, with an eye to providing an original interpretation of these objects. In doing so, it breaks new ground in the understanding of both oliphants and the historical context of medieval artefacts in general.

Book Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Download or read book Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2020 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Love and Ruin

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  • Author : Paula McLain
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2018-05-01
  • ISBN : 1101967404
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Love and Ruin written by Paula McLain and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful novel of the stormy marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, a fiercely independent woman who became one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century—from the author of The Paris Wife and the new novel When the Stars Go Dark, available now! “Romance, infidelity, war—Paula McLain’s powerhouse novel has it all.”—Glamour NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • New York Public Library • Bloomberg • Real Simple In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in the devastating conflict. It’s her chance to prove herself a worthy journalist in a field dominated by men. There she also finds herself unexpectedly—and unwillingly—falling in love with Ernest Hemingway, a man on his way to becoming a legend. On the eve of World War II, and set against the turbulent backdrops of Madrid and Cuba, Martha and Ernest’s relationship and careers ignite. But when Ernest publishes the biggest literary success of his career, For Whom the Bell Tolls, they are no longer equals, and Martha must forge a path as her own woman and writer. Heralded by Ann Patchett as “the new star of historical fiction,” Paula McLain brings Gellhorn’s story richly to life and captures her as a heroine for the ages: a woman who will risk absolutely everything to find her own voice.

Book The Double Life of Laurence Oliphant

Download or read book The Double Life of Laurence Oliphant written by Bart Casey and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurence Oliphant lived one of the most remarkable lives of the Victorian era, dedicated to making a real difference for his fellow man–sometimes in very unconventional ways. At the age of 38, Laurence Oliphant, a successful Victorian writer, diplomat and Member of Parliament gave up his glittering career to join an American cult for a life of hard physical labor and sexual mysticism. Then, in his 50’s, Oliphant along with his beautiful wife Alice le Strange spent their final years working to save refugees by establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Oliphant’s obituary in The Times said of him, "Seldom has there been a more romantic or amply filled career; never, perhaps, a stranger or more apparently contradictory personality."

Book Hester

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  • Author : Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1883
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Hester written by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Four More Years

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  • Author : Pat Oliphant
  • Publisher : Simon & Schuster
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Four More Years written by Pat Oliphant and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant  Part III Volume 11

Download or read book The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant Part III Volume 11 written by Muireann O'Cinneide and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.

Book The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant

Download or read book The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant written by Margaret Oliphant and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of Margaret Oliphant—the prolific nineteenth-century novelist, biographer, essayist, reviewer, and prominent voice on the “woman question”—two well-intending relatives took the autobiographical manuscripts she composed over a thirty-year period, and recomposed them to suit the model of a conventional memoir. In the process, they suppressed more than a quarter of the material. Based on the original manuscripts, the Broadview edition now makes available the missing text in its original order, and the restored Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant portrays a woman of scathing irony, anger, and grief. Part of Broadview’s Nineteenth-Century British Autobiographies series, this edition also includes extensive excerpts from Oliphant’s diaries.

Book Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop

Download or read book Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop written by Pat Oliphant and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1994-10-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat Oliphant is the most widely syndicated editorial cartoonist in the world, appearing in more than 450 newspapers and magazines. Nothing on the current political scene escapes his rapier wit. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist presents more than 150 of his most jaded cartoons from the past year.

Book The Road to Camelot

Download or read book The Road to Camelot written by Thomas Oliphant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “provocative reconstruction of John F. Kennedy’s ‘five-year campaign’ for the White House” (The New Yorker), beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956 and culminating when he plotted his way to the presidency and changed the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned over accepted wisdom that his Catholicism was a barrier to winning an election. They hired Louis Harris to become the first presidential pollster. They twisted arms and they charmed. They turned the traditional party inside out. They invented The Missile Gap in the Cold War and out-glamoured Richard Nixon in the TV debates. Now “Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie, both veteran political journalists, retell the story of this momentous campaign, reminding us of now forgotten details of Kennedy’s path to the White House” (The Wall Street Journal). The authors have examined more than 1,600 oral histories at the John F. Kennedy library; they’ve interviewed surviving sources, including JFK’s sister Jean Smith, and they draw on their own interviews with insiders including Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. From the start of the campaign in 1955, “The Road to Camelot brings much new insight to an important playbook that has echoed through the campaigns of other presidential aspirants as disparate as Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The authors take us step by step on the road to the Kennedy victory, leaving us with an appreciation for the maniacal attention to detail of both the candidate and his brother Robert, the best campaign manager in American political history” (The Washington Post). “A must-read for fans of presidential history” (USA TODAY), this is “an excellent chronicle of JFK’s innovations, his true personality, and how close he came to losing” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Book The Privilege of Being Banal

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  • Author : Elayne Oliphant
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-10-22
  • ISBN : 9780226731261
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Privilege of Being Banal written by Elayne Oliphant and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than "heritage." In a creative inversion, Elayne Oliphant asks in The Privilege of Being Banal what, exactly, is hiding in plain sight? Could the banality of Catholicism actually be a kind of hidden power? Exploring the violent histories and alternate trajectories effaced through this banal backgrounding of a crucial aspect of French history and culture, this richly textured ethnography lays bare the profound nostalgia that undergirds Catholicism's circulation in non-religious sites such as museums, corporate spaces, and political debates. Oliphant's aim is to unravel the contradictions of religion and secularism and, in the process, show how aesthetics and politics come together in contemporary France to foster the kind of banality that Hannah Arendt warned against: the incapacity to take on another person's experience of the world. A creative meditation on the power of the taken-for-granted, The Privilege of Being Banal is a landmark study of religion, aesthetics, and public space.

Book Reports of Cases Determined in the District Courts of Appeal of the State of California

Download or read book Reports of Cases Determined in the District Courts of Appeal of the State of California written by California. District Courts of Appeal and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols.106-140 includes section "Reports of cases determined in the appellate departments of the Superior court of the State of California."

Book Laurence Oliphant  1829   1888  and The Household

Download or read book Laurence Oliphant 1829 1888 and The Household written by Jeffrey D. Lavoie and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the religious teachings of best-selling Victorian author and former Member of Parliament, Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888). While several biographies have been written on his captivating life, the stage of his life when Oliphant first established ‘The Household' commune has, until now, been largely unexplored. This book focuses on this later stage of his life, exploring Oliphant’s religious teachings. Additionally, this study incorporates a newly discovered archive, which reveals many behind-the-scenes details of The Household's teachings. Jeffrey D. Lavoie shows that Oliphant provided a unique interpretation of sexuality from a mystical Christian perspective, which opposed the restrictive contemporaneous “Victorian morality."

Book The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant  Part II Volume 6

Download or read book The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant Part II Volume 6 written by Linda H Peterson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.

Book The Pacific Reporter

Download or read book The Pacific Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mystery of Mrs  Blencarrow

Download or read book The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow written by Oliphant and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leadership

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  • Author : Pat Oliphant
  • Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Release : 2007-10
  • ISBN : 0740726749
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Leadership written by Pat Oliphant and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhibition catalog features editorial cartoons satirizing George Bush, his staff, and American politics during the first seven years of his administration.