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Book A Delicate Matter

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  • Author : Don Easton
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 2016-10-01
  • ISBN : 1459734289
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book A Delicate Matter written by Don Easton and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Taggart is once again thrown into conflict with his longtime nemesis, Satans Wrath gang leader Damien Zabat. When Jack obtains evidence to implicate Damien’s son, Buck, in a murder, he thinks he finally has what he needs to get Damien to turn informant. But little does Taggart know that a new, even more terrifying, enemy is on the rise.

Book A Delicate Matter

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  • Author : Oliver Wunsch
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2024-02-22
  • ISBN : 0271096675
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book A Delicate Matter written by Oliver Wunsch and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century France witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of materially unstable art, from oil paintings that cracked within years of their creation to enormous pastel portraits vulnerable to the slightest touch or vibration. In A Delicate Matter, Oliver Wunsch traces these artistic practices to the economic and social conditions that enabled them: an ascendant class of art collectors who embraced fragile objects as a means of showcasing their disposable wealth. While studies of Rococo art have traditionally focused on style and subject matter, this book reveals how the physical construction of paintings and sculptures was central to the period’s reconceptualization of art. Drawing on sources ranging from eighteenth-century artists’ writings to twenty-first-century laboratory analyses, Wunsch demonstrates how the technical practices of eighteenth-century painters and sculptors provoked a broad transformation in the relationship between art, time, and money. Delicacy, which began the eighteenth century as a commodified extension of courtly sociability, was by century’s end reimagined as the irreducible essence of art’s autonomous value. Innovative and original, A Delicate Matter is an important intervention in the growing body of scholarship on durability and conservation in eighteenth-century French art. It challenges the art historical tendency to see decay as little more than an impediment to research, instead showing how physical instability played a critical role in establishing art’s meaning and purpose.

Book A Delicate Matter

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  • Author : Rebecca Forster
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780671682514
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book A Delicate Matter written by Rebecca Forster and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Delicate Truth

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  • Author : John le Carré
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2013-05-07
  • ISBN : 1101618027
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book A Delicate Truth written by John le Carré and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. "A novel that beckons us beyond any and all expectations."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post A counter-terrorist operation, code-named Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister’s personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Three years later, a disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be—or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher “Kit” Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely observed by Kit’s daughter, Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?

Book The Bloody Hoax

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  • Author : Sholem Aleichem
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780253304018
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book The Bloody Hoax written by Sholem Aleichem and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel portraying Jewish life in a Russian city prior to WWI.

Book Conversational Repair and Human Understanding

Download or read book Conversational Repair and Human Understanding written by Makoto Hayashi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the art review of conversational repair, with contributions from internationally recognized leaders in the field of conversation analysis.

Book How to Deal with Human Nature in Business

Download or read book How to Deal with Human Nature in Business written by Sherwin Cody and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Christmas Appeal

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  • Author : Janice Hallett
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2023-10-24
  • ISBN : 166803588X
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book The Christmas Appeal written by Janice Hallett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows the hilarious Fairway Players theater group as they put on a Christmas play—and solve a murder that threatens their production. The Christmas season has arrived in Lower Lockwood, and the Fairway Players are busy rehearsing their festive holiday production of Jack and the Beanstalk to raise money for a new church roof. But despite the season, goodwill is distinctly lacking among the amateur theater enthusiasts with petty rivalries, a possibly asbestos-filled beanstalk, and some perennially absent players behind the scenes. Of course, there’s also the matter of the dead body onstage. Who could possibly have had the victim on their naughty list? Join lawyers Femi and Charlotte as they investigate Christmas letters, examine emails, and pore over police transcripts to identify both the victim and killer before the curtain closes on their holiday production—for good.

Book The Lyre Thief

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  • Author : Jennifer Fallon
  • Publisher : Tor Books
  • Release : 2016-03-08
  • ISBN : 1466875569
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book The Lyre Thief written by Jennifer Fallon and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years have passed since the events of the Demon Child books that left the god Xaphista dead, the nation Karien without a religion or king and the matriarchal country of Medalon ruled by men. But it is in the kingdoms of the south that things really heat up. When Princess Rakaia of Fardohnya discovers she is not of royal birth, she agrees to marry a much older Hythrun noble in a chance to escape her 'father's wrath. Rakaia takes nothing but her jewels and her base-born half-sister, Charisee, who has been her slave, handmaiden and best friend since she was six years old. And who can pass as Rakaia's double. These two sisters embark on a Shakespearian tale of switched identities, complicated love triangles...and meddlesome gods. Rakaia is rescued on the road by none other than the Demon Child, R'shiel, still searching for a way to force Death to release her near immortal Brak. Charisee tries to act like the princess she was never meant to be and manages to draw the attention of the God of Liars who applauds her deception and only wants to help. Then there is the little matter of the God of Music's magical totem that has been stolen...and how this theft may undo the universe. Powerful magics, byzantine politics, sweeping adventure, and a couple of juicy love stories thrown in for good measure, The Lyre Thief is classic Fallon that is sure to appeal to her fans. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book English and Chinese Dictionary

Download or read book English and Chinese Dictionary written by William Lobscheid and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Special Committee of the Assembly Appointed to Investigate the Public Offices and Departments of the City of New York and of the Counties Therein Included

Download or read book Report of the Special Committee of the Assembly Appointed to Investigate the Public Offices and Departments of the City of New York and of the Counties Therein Included written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Special Committee to investigate the public offices and departments of the city of New York and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1058 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Goldwin Smith  His Life and Opinions

Download or read book Goldwin Smith His Life and Opinions written by Arnold Haultain and published by McClelland & Goodchild. This book was released on 1914 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond

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  • Author : John Galsworthy
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-12-13
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Beyond written by John Galsworthy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Beyond' is a romance novel written by John Galsworthy. The story revolves around a father and his daughter, Gyp, whose relationship is complicated by the fact that the daughter was born after the death of her mother. Gyp's father lives off the memories of his one true love - Gyp's mother - with whom he spent only a short time. He is devoted to his daughter and finds happiness in his memories of his love, his values, and his unwavering love for his daughter.

Book Incomes Policy Legislation  1975

Download or read book Incomes Policy Legislation 1975 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sins of the Fathers

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  • Author : Mary Ellen Burke Hyde
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 588 pages

Download or read book The Sins of the Fathers written by Mary Ellen Burke Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: