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Book Cabinet De Curiosites

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  • Author : Assouline
  • Publisher : Editions Assouline
  • Release : 2013-09-05
  • ISBN : 9781614280729
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Cabinet De Curiosites written by Assouline and published by Editions Assouline. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceived and curated by Thierry W. Despont, Le Cabinet de Curiosites was a unique installation in which contemporary art converged with antiques to create a setting both old-world and otherworldly. An immersive environment of antiquities interspersed with Manolo Valdes s trompe l oeil sculptures and Claudio Bravo s hyperrealist paintings, plus Despont s Nebula paintings of imaginary celestial orbs and his fantastical sculptural creatures assembled from found objects and tools, all combined to create a multisensory experience evoking a sense of wonder and fantasy."

Book The Legendary Cabinet

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  • Author : E. M. G. Colquhoun
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1836
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Legendary Cabinet written by E. M. G. Colquhoun and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commonplace book containing poetry, gothic/romantic, humorous, and moral tales, music, and other extracts.

Book The Cabinet

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  • Author : Lindsay M. Chervinsky
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2020-04-07
  • ISBN : 0674986482
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book The Cabinet written by Lindsay M. Chervinsky and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet—the delegates to the Constitutional Convention explicitly rejected the idea. So how did George Washington create one of the most powerful bodies in the federal government? On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries—Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph—for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet? Because the US Constitution did not create or provide for such a body. Washington was on his own. Faced with diplomatic crises, domestic insurrections, and constitutional challenges—and finding congressional help lacking—Washington decided he needed a group of advisors he could turn to. He modeled his new cabinet on the councils of war he had led as commander of the Continental Army. In the early days, the cabinet served at the president’s pleasure. Washington tinkered with its structure throughout his administration, at times calling regular meetings, at other times preferring written advice and individual discussions. Lindsay M. Chervinsky reveals the far-reaching consequences of Washington’s choice. The tensions in the cabinet between Hamilton and Jefferson heightened partisanship and contributed to the development of the first party system. And as Washington faced an increasingly recalcitrant Congress, he came to treat the cabinet as a private advisory body to summon as needed, greatly expanding the role of the president and the executive branch.

Book The Legendary Cabinet

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  • Author : Legendary Cabinet
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2016-05-20
  • ISBN : 9781357845926
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Legendary Cabinet written by Legendary Cabinet and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Cabinet of Wonders

Download or read book The Cabinet of Wonders written by Marie Rutkoski and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Rutkoski's startling debut novel, the first book in the Kronos Chronicles, about the risks we take to protect those we love, brims with magic, political intrigue, and heroism. Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it's never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with his mind. He has been commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world's finest astronomical clock. Petra's life is forever changed when, one day, her father returns home – blind. The prince has stolen his eyes, enchanted them, and now wears them. But why? Petra doesn't know, but she knows this: she will go to Prague, sneak into Salamander Castle, and steal her father's eyes back. Joining forces with Neel, whose fingers extend into invisible ghosts that pick locks and pockets, Petra finds that many people in the castle are not what they seem, and that her father's clock has powers capable of destroying their world. The Cabinet of Wonders is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Book The Legendary Cabinet

Download or read book The Legendary Cabinet written by John Docwra Parry and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Legendary Cabinet

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  • Author : John Douvra Parry
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2016-05-23
  • ISBN : 9781359014061
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book The Legendary Cabinet written by John Douvra Parry and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Queer  the Quaint and the Quizzical  A Cabinet for the Curious

Download or read book The Queer the Quaint and the Quizzical A Cabinet for the Curious written by Frank H. Stauffer and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Queer, the Quaint, and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the Curious" is a collection of oddities, wonders, superstitions, and curiosities from different eras and cultures. This book presents a diverse array of topics, including unusual customs, bizarre beliefs, strange phenomena, and curious inventions. With a blend of humour, philosophy, and historical insights, this book explores the mysteries and eccentricities of human nature. It contains topics related to moon dials, sacred pins, shooting stars, or books with unpronounceable names.

Book Cabinet Gazetteer

Download or read book Cabinet Gazetteer written by J. W. and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cabinets   Storage Solutions

Download or read book Cabinets Storage Solutions written by Bill Hylton and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical, versatile, and just plain fun to build, cabinets are one of the most popular of woodworking projects. Now, Cabinets & Storage Solutions: Furniture to Organize Your Home brings you 16 of the best storage-furniture designs from some of the finest woodworker's in the country-all selected from the pages of Woodworker's Journal, the most trusted name in woodworking.

Book Honor   Lannuier  Cabinet Maker from Paris

Download or read book Honor Lannuier Cabinet Maker from Paris written by Peter M. Kenny and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1998 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although his brief but productive career as a cabinetmaker in New York lasted a mere sixteen years, the French-born maitre ebeniste Charles-Honore Lannuier (1779-1819) was a leading figure in the development of a distinctive and highly refined style of furniture in the Late Federal period. A contemporary of the renowned master Duncan Phyfe, Lannuier, like him, made fashionable gilded card tables, marble-topped pier tables, bedsteads, and seating furniture for wealthy clients numbering among the mercantile and social elite of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, and Savannah. This volume, which complements the exhibition "Honore Lannuier, Parisian Cabinetmaker in Federal New York" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in spring 1998, represents the most complete study of Lannuier's life and work published to date.

Book The Legendary Cabinet  a Collection of British National Ballads  Ancient and Modern  from the Best Authorities

Download or read book The Legendary Cabinet a Collection of British National Ballads Ancient and Modern from the Best Authorities written by John Docwra Parry and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book The Black Cabinet

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  • Author : Jill Watts
  • Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Release : 2020-05-12
  • ISBN : 0802146929
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book The Black Cabinet written by Jill Watts and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth history exploring the evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and ‘40s as FDR’s Black Cabinet. In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with the help of key African American defectors from the Republican Party. At the time, most African Americans lived in poverty, denied citizenship rights and terrorized by white violence. As the New Deal began, a “black Brain Trust” joined the administration and began documenting and addressing the economic hardship and systemic inequalities African Americans faced. They became known as the Black Cabinet, but the environment they faced was reluctant, often hostile, to change. “Will the New Deal be a square deal for the Negro?” The black press wondered. The Black Cabinet set out to devise solutions to the widespread exclusion of black people from its programs, whether by inventing tools to measure discrimination or by calling attention to the administration’s failures. Led by Mary McLeod Bethune, an educator and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, they were instrumental to Roosevelt’s continued success with black voters. Operating mostly behind the scenes, they helped push Roosevelt to sign an executive order that outlawed discrimination in the defense industry. They saw victories?jobs and collective agriculture programs that lifted many from poverty?and defeats?the bulldozing of black neighborhoods to build public housing reserved only for whites; Roosevelt’s refusal to get behind federal anti-lynching legislation. The Black Cabinet never won official recognition from the president, and with his death, it disappeared from view. But it had changed history. Eventually, one of its members would go on to be the first African American Cabinet secretary; another, the first African American federal judge and mentor to Thurgood Marshall. Masterfully researched and dramatically told, The Black Cabinet brings to life a forgotten generation of leaders who fought post-Reconstruction racial apartheid and whose work served as a bridge that Civil Rights activists traveled to achieve the victories of the 1950s and ’60s. Praise for The Black Cabinet “A dramatic piece of nonfiction that recovers the history of a generation of leaders that helped create the environment for the civil rights battles in decades that followed Roosevelt’s death.” —Library Journal “Fascinating . . . revealing the hidden figures of a ‘brain trust’ that lobbied, hectored and strong-armed President Franklin Roosevelt to cut African Americans in on the New Deal. . . . Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The Black Cabinet is sprawling and epic, and Watts deftly re-creates whole scenes from archival material.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune

Book The Legendary Cabinet

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  • Author : J. D. Parry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-07-19
  • ISBN : 9781331770527
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book The Legendary Cabinet written by J. D. Parry and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Legendary Cabinet: A Collection of British National Ballads, Ancient and Modern, From the Best Authorities Had there been no envy or malice in the case, this would have been deemed an excellence; but the heart of his great opponent, Mr. Ritson, had in it unfortunately a very large proportion of these ingredients, to which were superadded much grossness and impiety. A few others of the Ancient Ballads remain unaltered, as they were written - from the era of Queen Elizabeth to about the middle of the seventeenth century. In order to make this a National Selection, all compositions (with one or two exceptions only) have been excluded in which the scene is laid in foreign countries; and also translations from foreign languages, which are now numerous, and some of them very beautiful. Nor was it possible to include in this volume half the beauties of British Ballads. Should, therefore, the Public receive with favour this one of the novitiatory efforts of a young Author, it may probably lead to the production of a Second Volume, from these united sources, as a sequel to the present, and of the same size and character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Catalogue of the Private Library of Mr  George S  Davis

Download or read book Catalogue of the Private Library of Mr George S Davis written by George S. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Family Coins Belonging to     the Duke of Northumberland

Download or read book Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Family Coins Belonging to the Duke of Northumberland written by Algernon Percy Duke of Northumberland and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: