Author: R.R. Bowker CompanyPublisher: R. R. Bowker
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Art Books, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker CompanyPublisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Art Books
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Including an international directory of museum permanent collection catalogs.
World's Libraries and Librarians
Author: British Universities Encyclopaedia: pt. 1-2. World's libraries and librarians
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
News
Author: Vermont Business Directory
Author: The Ambassador's Wife
Author: Jennifer SteilPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385539037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
From a real-life ambassador's wife and the acclaimed author of Exile Music comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited. When bohemian artist Miranda meets British ambassador Finn in the ancient stone streets of an Islamic city, the course of her life alters in extraordinary ways. Their marriage gives her the luxury to paint whenever she wants, a staff to wait on her, and a young daughter she adores, but she loses the freedom to wander where she likes and to meet the Muslim women she is secretly teaching to paint. Her husband also makes Miranda a target: One sunny afternoon while hiking in the mountains, she is brutally kidnapped. As Finn struggles to save his family and his career, and Miranda grows close to a stranger’s child in captivity, the secrets he and Miranda have each sought to hide place them and those who trust them in peril. Not even freedom could restore the happiness that once was theirs.
Maple King
Author: Matthew M. ThomasPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986277211
Category : Maple sugar industry
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Like many North American industries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the business of making maple sugar and syrup went through a period of maturation and modernization. Much of this change and new business model was influenced and controlled by one man and the company he created in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. George C. Cary and the Cary Maple Sugar Company grew in size and influence such that it controlled as much as 80 percent of the bulk maple sugar market, bestowing on Cary the title of Maple King and St. Johnsbury as the Maple Capital of the World. This book recounts the rise of the Cary Company and takes a closer look at who Cary was and the maple sugar and maple syrup empire that he created. As encompassing as the Cary Empire was, it overreached its limits and came tumbling to the ground with the stunning bankruptcy and death of its leader in 1931. However, Cary's legacy did not die with him, and as told here, St. Johnsbury continued to have a significant place and role in the ever-evolving maple sugar and syrup industry.
Martha's Mandala
Author: Martha Oliver-SmithPublisher: Spuyten Duyvil
ISBN: 9780966124286
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Literary Nonfiction. "According to Archetypal Psychologist James Hillman, it is the work of the soul to create meaningful experience out of the facts of one's life. In MARTHA'S MANDALA, Oliver-Smith entwines strands of her own personal journey of self-discovery with an imaginative accounting of her grandmother's life-work: to give beauty and coherence to the dark and mysterious voices that shattered Martha Bacon's psyche as a young mother; to find a quiet center and create a peaceful "home" amidst the tumult of an extraverted lifestyle of uncertain privilege and patriarchy; and to proceed throughout all of her life's circumstances with a private diligence and faithfulness to her own Truth."—Jennifer A. Fendya "Parsing the complexity of a family influenced by mental illness, Martha Oliver-Smith subtly weaves her grandmother's story into her own as both women work to solve the perplexing problem of the split self. Her grandmother's symbolic watercolors 'made out of her darkness' evolve beautifully in the telling as talismans of solace and balance."—Kathryn Abajian "This history and reflection stands on its own as a rich psychological biography. Of greater value is the chance it may open doors for each of us to personal and archetypal elements that determine our lives, relationships, and our connection to that which is present 'called or not called.'"—Frances M. Parks "The limitations upon the creativity of women—both imposed and self- imposed—chronicled in MARTHA'S MANDALA, is genuinely heartbreaking. Here we glimpse some of the 20th century's most important figures—notably Carl Jung—who the reader must re-evaluate in light of this story of family privilege, patriarchy, and downfall. MARTHA'S MANDALA, beautifully written as text and elegantly produced as object, offers us a glimpse of the author's grandmother—a member of the American aristocracy, a witness to history—and what might have been, had her considerable artistic and intellectual talents been recognized by the influential men around her, which they were not. This concise and insightful memoir makes us take stock of the 'progress' women—especially creative women—have, or have perhaps not, gained. Read this and get (retro-) actively outraged. Read this, and appreciate the work of this author who is now the important voice of the women in her family, now telling her grandmother's story."—Sue William Silverman
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