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Author: KJ Baker Publisher: KJ Baker ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 670
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My name is Marney and I am immortal. I walk the night, hunting rogue vampires, and keeping humanity safe. I work alone. I prefer it that way. Anyone who gets close to me ends up dead. But when a hunt for a deadly rogue goes wrong, I'm forced to accept help. And that help comes from a man whose smoky good looks and easy charm begin to thaw my heart of ice. There's only one problem: he's a vampire. The sworn enemy of an immortal. My duty tells me one thing, my heart another. Can I figure this out before the whole of London pays the price? Immortals of London is an action-packed enemies-to-lovers urban fantasy romance with a kick-ass heroine, a hot-as-hell hero, and a host of characters you'll fall in love with. This box set contains all three books in the series: Rogue Hunter, Shadow Dancer and Night Walker.
Author: KJ Baker Publisher: KJ Baker ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 670
Book Description
My name is Marney and I am immortal. I walk the night, hunting rogue vampires, and keeping humanity safe. I work alone. I prefer it that way. Anyone who gets close to me ends up dead. But when a hunt for a deadly rogue goes wrong, I'm forced to accept help. And that help comes from a man whose smoky good looks and easy charm begin to thaw my heart of ice. There's only one problem: he's a vampire. The sworn enemy of an immortal. My duty tells me one thing, my heart another. Can I figure this out before the whole of London pays the price? Immortals of London is an action-packed enemies-to-lovers urban fantasy romance with a kick-ass heroine, a hot-as-hell hero, and a host of characters you'll fall in love with. This box set contains all three books in the series: Rogue Hunter, Shadow Dancer and Night Walker.
Author: Peter Matthews Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0747811210 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 249
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The streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and monuments commemorating the city's great figures and events – from Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and Sir Christopher Wren's Great Fire Monument to the charming Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens, the range is glorious. Some commemorate events, while others celebrate people real or fictional; some take the form of small reliefs, while others are huge bronzes on pedestals, larger than life-size. Executed in stone, bronze and a range of other materials, London's statues and monuments include work by some of the world's greatest sculptors, and this book is a fully illustrated guide to the pieces and their stories: sometimes surprising and occasionally controversial, but always fascinating.
Author: David Brandon Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 1803991631 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 286
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London: City of the Dead is a groundbreaking account of London's dealing with death, covering the afterlife, execution, bodysnatching, murder, fatal disease, spiritualism, bizarre deaths and cemeteries. Taking the reader from Roman London to the 'glorious dead' of the First World War, this is the first systematic look at London's culture of death, with analysis of its customs and superstitions, rituals and representations. The authors of the celebrated London: The Executioner's City (Sutton, 2006) weave their way through the streets of London once again, this time combining some of the capital's most curious features, such as London's Necropolis Railway and Brookwood Cemetery, with the culture of death exposed in the works of great writers such as Dickens. The book captures for the first time a side of the city that has always been every bit as fascinating and colourful as other better known aspects of the metropolis. It shows London in all its moods - serious, comic, tragic and heroic-and celebrates its robust acceptance of the only certainty in life.
Author: Stuart Burch Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317103602 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 205
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This book provides an original, impassioned exploration of memory studies and the uses of the past in the present. It capitalises on London’s global appeal and Big Ben’s iconic status. Moving beyond this familiar facade the reader will journey around the hidden histories of Westminster’s streets, squares and statues. This tangible heritage supports a diversity of contested memories. The rationale for this approach is that, by linking theory with empirical examples, it becomes possible to tackle complex issues in a grounded, accessible manner. Readers will be encouraged to use this case study as a framework for addressing the politics of memory in their own lives as well as in other places, not just in Britain but around the world. This book will be of interest to scholars and students from a wide variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, sociology, culture and media studies, English literature, film and television studies, global studies, heritage studies, history, politics and human geography.
Author: Rebecca Wade Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1501332201 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 304
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Born near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1815, Domenico Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plaster casts in nineteenth-century Britain. This first substantive study shows how he and his business used public exhibitions, emerging museum culture and the nationalisation of art education to monopolise the market for reproductions of classical and contemporary sculpture. Based in Covent Garden in London, Brucciani built a network of fellow Italian émigré formatori and collaborated with other makers of facsimiles-including Elkington the electrotype manufacturers, Copeland the makers of Parian ware and Benjamin Cheverton with his sculpture reducing machine-to bring sculpture into the spaces of learning and leisure for as broad a public as possible. Brucciani's plaster casts survive in collections from North America to New Zealand, but the extraordinary breadth of his practice-making death masks of the famous and infamous, producing pioneering casts of anatomical, botanical and fossil specimens and decorating dance halls and theatres across Britain-is revealed here for the first time. By making unprecedented use of the nineteenth-century periodical press and dispersed archival sources, Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of Nineteenth-Century Britain establishes the significance of Brucciani's sculptural practice to the visual and material cultures of Victorian Britain and beyond.
Author: Marie Mulvey-Roberts Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131720641X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
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First published in 1990, this book represents the first full-length study of into the group of novels designated ‘Rosicrucian’ and traces the emergence of this distinct fictional genre, revealing a continuous occult tradition running through seemingly diverse literary texts. Taking the Enlightenment as a starting point, the author shows how the physician’s secular appropriation of the idea of eternal life, through the study of longevity and physical decay, attracted writers like William Godwin. It focuses on the bodily immortality of the Rosicrucian hero and investigates the novels of five major writers — Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Maturin, and Bulwer-Lytton.
Author: Mark Williams Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 069118304X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 608
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A sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fiction Ireland’s Immortals tells the story of one of the world’s great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation’s languages, the book describes how Ireland’s pagan divinities were transformed into literary characters in the medieval Christian era—and how they were recast again during the Celtic Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A lively narrative of supernatural beings and their fascinating and sometimes bizarre stories, Mark Williams’s comprehensive history traces how these gods—known as the Túatha Dé Danann—have shifted shape across the centuries. We meet the Morrígan, crow goddess of battle; the fire goddess Brigit, who moonlights as a Christian saint; the fairies who inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s elves; and many others. Ireland’s Immortals illuminates why these mythical beings have loomed so large in the world’s imagination for so long.
Author: Ludmilla Jordanova Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1780231539 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 202
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Portraiture as a genre is receiving increased attention at the same time that public curiosity about science is reaching unprecedented levels. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 14 April – 17 September 2000, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, from 27 September – 10 December 2000, Defining Features brings portraiture and science together. Ludmilla Jordanova's lucid text reflects on the nature of the relationship between art, science, medicine and technology by focusing on a selection of portraits that spans more than three centuries. Illustrated with likenesses of such notable personalities as Edward Jenner, Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Dorothy Hodgkin, and encompassing a variety of media from paintings and medals to bookmarks and key rings, Defining Features charts changing attitudes towards medical practice and scientific investigation, as well as exploring how notions of gender, heroism, popularization and celebrity have affected the public's understanding of how researchers do their work.
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