The Little Book of Vargas PDF Download

Author: Dian Hanson
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836520201
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This pocket-sized collection of leggy lovelies assembles the most popular wartime pin-ups from WWII's favorite artist, Alberto Vargas. These vintage images, rendered delicately in watercolor and airbrush, depict elegantly dressed, semi-nude to naked beauties--the ladies that inspired and comforted American men far from home.

Author: Reid Stewart Austin
Publisher: Aurum Press Limited
ISBN: 9781845131890
Category : Female nude in art
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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The pin-up girls painted in the 1940s and 1950s by Alberto Vargas are fiercely fought over by collectors. This work features a collection of Vargas paintings and drawings. It has the famous 'Varga Girls' from Playboy, as well as early works from the 1920s, watercolours rendered for Esquire, the legacy nudes, and more.

Author: Elizabeth Vargas
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455559644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Beloved former ABC 20/20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas share the truth about her alcohol addiction and anxiety disorder in this honest and emotional memoir. From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic," to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in Between Breaths, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety--which began suddenly at the age of six when her father served in Vietnam--and how she dealt with this anxiety as she came of age, eventually turning to alcohol for a release from her painful reality. The now-A&E Network reporter reveals how she found herself living in denial about the extent of her addiction, and how she kept her dependency a secret for so long. She addresses her time in rehab, her first year of sobriety, and the guilt she felt as a working mother who could never find the right balance between a career and parenting. Honest and hopeful, Between Breaths is an inspiring read. Winner of the Books for a Better Life Award in the First Book category Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller

Author: Raquel Chang-Rodríguez
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496220250
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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This collection of essays associated with Mario Vargas Llosa’s visits to the City College of New York offers readers an opportunity to learn about his body of work through his own perspective and those of key fiction writers and literary critics.

Author: Robert M. Levine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585286
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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This book examines the life, times, and legacy of Getúlio Vargas, Brazil's dictator and president during most of the period from 1930 to 1954. Levine's chief concern is how Vargas' legacy influenced Brazil, and to what extent his social legislation affected people's lives. Vargas ignored individual rights, working for state-regulated citizenship without disharmony, without the right to dissent. His revolution was partial; one in which new constituencies and rules were grafted onto traditional political practices. Vargas devoted as much effort to manipulating workers as he did to benefiting them. By the end of his long tenure in power, some things had hardly changed at all: the readiness of the armed forces to intervene; the elite's tenacious hold on privilege; and the historical predominance of the Center-South. Brazil's distribution of income remained among the least equable in the world, but Vargas did not perceive this as a problem that needed to be solved. That Vargas promised much and delivered little did not diminish the adulation that Brazilians held for him. Ordinary people would shrug and say 'O presidente sempre lembrou da gente' ('The President always thought about us').

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429921927
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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The Nobel Prize–winning author’s classic on the craft of novel writing “distills [the great works] brilliantly, revealing an architecture to their greatness” (The Washington Post Book World). In Letters to a Young Novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe—including Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet and others—he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversational, eloquent, and effortlessly erudite, this little book is destined to be read and re-read by young writers, old writers, would-be writers, and all those with a stake in the world of letters.

Author: Fred Vargas
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099488965
Category : Adamsberg, Jean-Baptiste (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer lost consciousness during the night of the crime and has no recollection of it. Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person, the terrifying Judge Fulgence. Years before, Adamsberg's own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsberg's help. History repeats itself when Adamsberg, who is temporarily based in Quebec for a training mission, is accused of having savagely murdered a young woman he had met. In order to prove his innocence, Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and find Judge Fulgence. Winner of the 2007 Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for The Three Evangelists.

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312427986
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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An apocalyptic prophet in the Brazilian backlands creates the state of Canudos. In it there is no money, property, marriage, income tax, decimal system, or census.

Author: Fred Vargas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074328402X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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"A small mountain community in the French Alps is roused to terror when they awaken each morning to find yet another of their sheep with its throat torn out. One of the villagers thinks it might be a werewolf, and when she's found killed in the same manner, people begin to wonder if she might have been right. Suspicion falls on Massart, a loner living on the edge of town"--Publisher website (April 2007).

Author: Robert Vargas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190245913
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Through an ethnographic case study of Chicago's Little Village, Wounded City demonstrates how competition for political power and state resources undermined efforts to reduce gang violence. Robert Vargas argues that the state, through different patterns of governance, can contribute to distrust and division among community members.