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Book Thistles and Crowns

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Colman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-06-05
  • ISBN : 9781880897263
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Thistles and Crowns written by Benjamin Colman and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the eighteenth century, a small group of woodworkers and painters created a distinctive group of chests in the Connecticut towns of Guilford and Saybrook. Decorated with distinctive patterns of thistles, crowns, roses, fleurs-de-lis, and other evocative symbols in vibrant colors, these chests offer a striking view into the artistry, style, politics, and culture of colonial New England. This catalogue includes four richly illustrated chapters to examine the construction, decoration, use, and history of this fascinating story of American decorative arts and design. Now scattered to the premier collections of American decorative arts across the country, this catalogue is published by the Florence Griswold Museum in conjunction with the first exhibition in decades to bring together a group of major examples from this important tradition.

Book Crown of Thistles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Porter
  • Publisher : Pan Macmillan
  • Release : 2013-08-15
  • ISBN : 0230771696
  • Pages : 619 pages

Download or read book Crown of Thistles written by Linda Porter and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle between the fecund Stewarts and the barren Tudors is generally seen only in terms of the relationship between Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. But very little has been said about the background to their intense rivalry. Here, Linda Porter examines the ancient and intractable power struggle between England and Scotland, a struggle intensified during the reigns of Elizabeth and Mary's grandfathers. Henry VII aimed to provide stability when he married his daughter, Margaret, to James IV of Scotland in 1503. But he must also have known that Margaret's descendants might seek to rule the entire island. Crown of Thistles is the story of a divided family, of flamboyant kings and queens, cultured courts and tribal hatreds, blood feuds, rape and sexual licence on a breath-taking scale, and violent deaths. It also brings alive a neglected aspect of British history - the blood-spattered steps of two small countries on the fringes of Europe towards an awkward unity that would ultimately forge a great nation. Beginning with the unlikely and dramatic victories of two usurping kings, one a rank outsider and the other a fourteen-year-old boy who rebelled against his own father, the book sheds new light on Henry VIII, his daughter, Elizabeth, and on his great-niece, Mary Queen of Scots, still seductive more than 400 years after her death.

Book From the Ashes

Download or read book From the Ashes written by Jesse Thistle and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER *Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction *Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards *Winner, High Plains Book Awards *Finalist, CBC Canada Reads *A Globe and Mail Book of the Year *An Indigo Book of the Year *A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the Year In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is. If I can just make it to the next minute...then I might have a chance to live; I might have a chance to be something more than just a struggling crackhead. From the Ashes is a remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually the children landed in the home of their paternal grandparents, whose tough-love attitudes quickly resulted in conflicts. Throughout it all, the ghost of Jesse’s drug-addicted father haunted the halls of the house and the memories of every family member. Struggling with all that had happened, Jesse succumbed to a self-destructive cycle of drug and alcohol addiction and petty crime, spending more than a decade on and off the streets, often homeless. Finally, he realized he would die unless he turned his life around. In this heartwarming and heart-wrenching memoir, Jesse Thistle writes honestly and fearlessly about his painful past, the abuse he endured, and how he uncovered the truth about his parents. Through sheer perseverance and education—and newfound love—he found his way back into the circle of his Indigenous culture and family. An eloquent exploration of the impact of prejudice and racism, From the Ashes is, in the end, about how love and support can help us find happiness despite the odds.

Book The Tailor s Shop  Or  Crowns of Thorns and Coats of Thistles

Download or read book The Tailor s Shop Or Crowns of Thorns and Coats of Thistles written by Wilson Flagg and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crown of Thistles

Download or read book Crown of Thistles written by Linda Porter and published by Pan. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle between the fecund Stewarts and the barren Tudors is generally seen only in terms of the relationship between Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. But very little has been said about the background to their intense rivalry. Here, Linda Porter examines the ancient and intractable power struggle between England and Scotland, a struggle intensified during the reigns of Elizabeth and Mary's grandfathers. Henry VII aimed to provide stability when he married his daughter, Margaret, to James IV of Scotland in 1503. But he must also have known that Margaret's descendants might seek to rule the entire island. Crown of Thistles is the story of a divided family, of flamboyant kings and queens, cultured courts and tribal hatreds, blood feuds, rape and sexual licence on a breath-taking scale, and violent deaths. It also brings alive a neglected aspect of British history - the blood-spattered steps of two small countries on the fringes of Europe towards an awkward unity that would ultimately forge a great nation. Beginning with the unlikely and dramatic victories of two usurping kings, one a rank outsider and the other a fourteen-year-old boy who rebelled against his own father, the book sheds new light on Henry VIII, his daughter, Elizabeth, and on his great-niece, Mary Queen of Scots, still seductive more than 400 years after her death.

Book Royal Renegades

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Porter
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2018-02-20
  • ISBN : 1466858486
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Royal Renegades written by Linda Porter and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishers Weekly called Katherine the Queen “Rich, perceptive, and creative.” In Royal Renegades, Porter examines the turbulent lives of the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars. The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known, as is the restoration of his eldest son as Charles II eleven years later. But what happened to the king’s six surviving children is far less familiar. Casting new light on the heirs of the doomed king, acclaimed historian Linda Porter brings to life their personalities, legacies, and rivalries for the first time. As their family life was shattered by war, Elizabeth and Henry were used as pawns in the parliamentary campaign against their father; Mary, the Princess Royal, was whisked away to the Netherlands as the child bride of the Prince of Orange; Henriette, Anne’s governess, escaped with the king’s youngest child to France where she eventually married the cruel and flamboyant Philippe d’Orleans. When their "dark and ugly" brother Charles eventually succeeded his father to the English throne after fourteen years of wandering, he promptly enacted a vengeful punishment on those who had spurned his family, with his brother James firmly in his shadow. A tale of love and endurance, of battles and flight, of educations disrupted, the lonely death of a young princess and the wearisome experience of exile, Royal Renegades charts the fascinating story of the children of loving parents who could not protect them from the consequences of their own failings as monarchs and the forces of upheaval sweeping England.

Book Wayfaring Strangers

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  • Author : Fiona Ritchie
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2021-08-01
  • ISBN : 1469666278
  • Pages : 577 pages

Download or read book Wayfaring Strangers written by Fiona Ritchie and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.

Book The Tailor s Shop

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  • Author : Wilson Flagg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1844
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 58 pages

Download or read book The Tailor s Shop written by Wilson Flagg and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Freedom Business

Download or read book The Freedom Business written by Marilyn Nelson and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by Marilyn Nelson, accompanied by prose by African slave Venture Smith and watercolor painting by Deborah Dancy.

Book Pests of Field Crops and Pastures

Download or read book Pests of Field Crops and Pastures written by Peter T. Bailey and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2007 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time is a comprehensive handbook on economic entomolgy for field crops and pastures. It is organised by commodities such as cereals, sugar and tropical pasture legumes allowing all the arthropods on a particular commodity to be examined.

Book Beneficial Insects

    Book Details:
  • Author : David V. Alford
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2019-04-23
  • ISBN : 1482262614
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Beneficial Insects written by David V. Alford and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHOICE Highly recommended 2020 Insects are key components of life on our planet, and their presence is essential for maintaining balanced terrestrial ecosystems. Without insects humans would struggle to survive, and on a world scale food production would be severely compromised. Many plants and animals depend directly or indirectly on insects for their very survival, and this is particularly so in the case of insectivorous birds and other such creatures. The beneficial role of insects is often overlooked or misunderstood, and in farming circles their very presence on crops is often seen to be unwelcome. In reality, however, many insects are genuinely beneficial, as in the case of parasitic and predacious species. The use of chemical pesticides to control crop pests is becoming more tightly regulated and environmentally undesirable, and low-input farming, in which natural enemies of pests are encouraged to survive or increase, is becoming far more prevalent. Accordingly, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Integrated Pest Management (ICM) strategies are increasingly being developed, advocated and adopted. Features: Highlights information on many groups of insects and mites that act as natural enemies or biological control agents of phytophagous insects and mites, including plant pests. Profusely illustrated with high-quality colour photographs. Focuses mainly on insects and mites as natural enemies of plant pests, including parasitic and predacious species that have been accidentally or deliberately introduced in classical biological control programmes. Reviews the role of phytophagous European insects and mites in controlling or managing European plants that have become invasive weeds in other parts of the world, notably North America, Australia and New Zealand.

Book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Pocket Cyclopaedia

Download or read book The New Pocket Cyclopaedia written by Encyclopaedias and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prize Essays and Transactions

Download or read book Prize Essays and Transactions written by Highland and agricultural society of Scotland, Edinburgh and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: