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Book cover of Traité élémentaire de la peinture
by Léonard de Vinci, R.F. S. D.C.
Language: French
Release Date: August 14, 2014

La perspective est la première chose qu’un jeune Peintre doit apprendre pour savoir mettre chaque chose à sa place, et pour lui donner la juste mesure qu’elle doit avoir dans le lieu où elle est : ensuite il choisira un bon maître qui lui fasse connoître les beaux...
Book cover of Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34
by Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015

Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.   The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion...
Book cover of Theatre Symposium, Vol. 23

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 23

Theatre and Youth

by David S. Thompson, Becky K. Becker, Camille L. Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

The curtain rises on Theatre and Youth, volume 23 of Theatre Symposium with keynote reflections by Suzan Zeder, the distinguished playwright of theatre for youth, and presents eleven original essays about theatre’s reflections of youth and the role of young people in making and performing theatre.   The...
Book cover of With the World's Great Travellers I
by Charles Morris, Oliver H. G. Leigh, Harriet Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016

This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY...
Book cover of Projections of Power

Projections of Power

The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919–1941

by Anne L. Foster, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010

Throughout its history, the United States has been both imperialistic and anticolonial: imperialistic in its expansion across the continent and across oceans to colonies such as the Philippines, and anticolonial in its rhetoric and ideology. How did this contradiction shape its interactions with European...
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The Civil War in Georgia

A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion

by Albert Churella, Barton A. Myers, Brad Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Book cover of The Philosophy of Tim Burton
by Ken Hada, Ryan Weldon, Daniel Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014

Director and producer Tim Burton impresses audiences with stunning visuals, sinister fantasy worlds, and characters whose personalities are strange and yet familiar. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalí, Washington Irving, and Dr. Seuss, Burton's creations frequently...
Book cover of Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography

Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography

The Definitive Biography of the Uncrowned King of Ireland

by F.S.L. Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005

In this masterly biography, F.S.L. Lyons tackles the life and times of one of the greatest Irish statesmen of modern times. One of modern Irish biography’s great triumphs, Charles Stewart Parnell has never been approached or surpassed. Charles Stewart Parnell, an enigmatic, icy aristocrat,...
Book cover of Coleridge - The Original Classic Edition
by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Coleridge. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan,...
Book cover of The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more

The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more

An All Time Favorite Collection from the Renowned Russian dramatists and Writers (Including Essays and Lectures on Russian Novelists)

by Nicholas Evrèinov, Denis Von Visin, Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is said that if you haven't read the great Russian playwrights and authors...
Book cover of The Lesser Key of Solomon
by S.L. MacGregor Mathers, Aleister Crowley
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012

The Lesser Key of Solomon by S.L. MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowley This edition of the Lesser Key of Solomon is based on manuscripts from the British Museum, edited by two prominent occultists. Although Mathers took lead on the body of the text, Crowley's literary fingerprints are all...
Book cover of Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy
by Michael L. Coulter, Richard S. Myers, Joseph A. Varacalli
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012

The two original volumes of the Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy were published in 2007. Those two volumes included 848 entries from nearly 300 contributors and included a wide range of entries in three general categories: entries exploring Catholic social...
Book cover of A New Hope For Mexico

A New Hope For Mexico

Saying No to Corruption, Violence, and Trump's Wall

by Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018

“THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS WE CAN’T ADDRESS . . . WHOEVER MAY OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE.” “I’m not going to limit myself to condemning corruption and calling for its eradication; I also want to set out . . . a new politics, a different economic model, and the strengthening of cultural, moral,...
Book cover of Old Dominion, New Commonwealth

Old Dominion, New Commonwealth

A History of Virginia, 1607–2007

by Ronald L. Heinemann, John G. Kolp, Anthony S. Parent Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008

"On the morning of 26 April 1607, three small ships carrying 143 Englishmen arrived off the Virginia coast of North America, having spent four months at sea.... All hoped for financial success and perhaps a little adventure; as it turned out, their tiny settlement eventually would evolve from...
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