This is a comprehensive, yet unusual, book on the faith and life of Baptist Christians. It explores a Baptist understanding of the church, ministry, sacraments, and mission from a thoroughly theological perspective. In a series of interlinked essays, the a
Language: Spanish, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 512, Publishers: EDIMAT LIBROS S.A., Author: CHARLES,VICTORIA,PODOKSIK,ANATOLI, ISBN-13: 9788497944274, Date of issue: 2018
Experience five foundational Impressionists in a collection of monographs that explores the impact of Degas, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, and van Gogh with in-depth texts and impeccable reproductions. Learn how, via disparate life stories, these masters of light and color came to revolutionize the way the world was seen and painted.
Now available in a new edition, this introduction to fifty visionary architects traces the major aesthetic movements over the past six centuries and offers concise portraits of the geniuses behind them.
GIOVANNI BELLINI Giovanni Bellini (c . 1430-1516) is the author of some of the most exquisite of Renaissance paintings. He is, in a sense, the painter's painter, who had a long career, like his pupil, Titian, in painting. He influenced many artists, among them Titian, Giorgione, Vecchio, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Albrecht Durer. His influences include Andreas Mantegna, his father, Jacopo Bellini, Antonello, and Donatello. Bellini does everything in his paintings that Renaissance painters are supposed to do: he painted beautiful pictures, devotional images, of the Madonna, Christ and various saints; he painted mythological scenes, and scenes from history; he refined and defined Early Renaissance space, bringing it into the High Renaissance; he inaugurated a new feeling for landscape; he remained true to the sacred and emotional aspects of painting to the end of his career; he developed the various formats of Renaissance painting - the small, private devotional pictures, the large, public altarpieces, a host of secular portraits and large-scale friezes. One might see Bellini as supremely a high Renaissance artist, especially in his later altarpieces, where his sense of space seems in tune with Titian or Raphael. Bellini's style is very sweet. His paintings are full of a love for painting, and a love for his subjects. The ambiguities in his works do not arise from his intentions, which are, as with so many Renaissance painters, to be as exalting as possible. So his Madonnas and saints are lovingly painted. There is an undeniable sensuality in Giovanni Bellini's art. Central to his art is his sensuality. It is the same with the art of Leonardo, Caravaggio, Titian, Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens. The sensuality of the paintings themselves, as objects, is crucial to their evaluation aesthetically. Bellini is a sensual painter - not simply in his treatment of eroticism, or in the eroticism of his forms, but also because he painted self-consciously erotic subjects. He painted female nudes: the Woman with a Mirror (in Vienna), in The Feast of the Gods (in Washington) and in the restollo of Truth (in Venice). Giovanni Bellini's sacred art is as erotic as his secular art, as with many a painter. Indeed, one might say that some of Bellini's Christian paintings are more erotic than his paintings of mythological or historical subjects. His Pietas, for instance, with that lovingly described dead, nude Christ, may be seen as more erotic than the Classical scenes. The eroticism of art depends a lot on the viewer's response. And on painterly surface and technique.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 160, Publishers: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Author: Maira Kalman, ISBN-13: 9781635576689, Date of issue: 2020
Crediting sister-in-law Jo for Vincent van Gogh's posthumous fame, this book recounts the fascinating life of a visionary woman with the drive to shake the art world to its core.
En este libro concebido para el público general aficionado al arte y al estudiante que da sus primeros pasos en la materia, Dana Arnold proporciona un conocimiento básico sobre los aspectos fundamentales de la cultura visual. La obra aporta asimismo un análisis claro y conciso sobre los debates que existen dentro de la disciplina y permite al lector equiparse con las herramientas básicas necesarias para su estudio, cubriendo cronológica y temáticamente una gran variedad de cuestiones relacionadas con ella. Con todo, el principal objetivo de estas páginas es expresar lo mucho que podemos aprender del arte, así como sugerir diversas vías para disfrutarlo cuando lo miramos o pensamos acerca de él, y también cuando comprendemos su relación con nosotros mismos.
Kawaii, classic, sweet, and sailor These are girly styles made to tailor. It's a fashion sewn in Tokyo city cut in Harajuku by Angelic Pretty. Wear your printed pattern princess threads 'gram a selfie, knock 'em dead Click read mor
The master of crime fiction for nearly two decades has turned her talents in a bold new direction; a sweeping, utterly gripping historical novel set in the time of the Black Death. Lady Anne decides to protect her people from the Plague by bringing the serfs inside her walls. Conflicts arise with this overturning of the accepted social order, then a dreadful event threatens the uneasy status quo.
After bombs explode during an anarchist attack in Long Spoon Lane, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot . . . but by whom? As Thomas Pitt of the Special Branch delves into the case, he finds that there's more to the terrorism than the brutality of misguided idealists. Clues suggest that Inspector Wetron is the mastermind. As the shadowy leader of the Inner Circle, Wetron is using his influence with the press to stir up fears of more attacks and to rush a bill through Parliament that would severely curtail civil liberties. To defeat Wetron, Pitt must run in harness with his old enemy, Sir Charles Voisey. The unlikely allies are joined by Pitt's clever wife, Charlotte, and her great aunt, Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould. As they strive to prevent future destruction, nothing less than the fate of the British Empire hangs in precarious balance.
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher"Anyone who hasn't discovered Phryne Fisher by now should start making up for lost time." --BooklistPhr
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher"The appeal of this story is the glimpse it provides into the 1920s theater world and the opportunity it affords to obs
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne FisherPhryne Fisher is bored. Life appears to be too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant,
They came from the North and fought their way through France and Spain. Now this fearless band of brothers sets sail for the greatest city in the worldNConstantinople. Robbed of the woman he loves, Raven is destined to play a cunning role in the boldest of attacks.
Rebellion in the city, and a Royalist spy in his own ranks - Damian Seeker, Captain of Cromwell's guard, must eradicate both in this twisty, action-packed historical thriller
Vom Gauner zum Meisterdetektiv: Felix Blom bringt Berlins Verbrecher ins Schwitzen!Berlin, 1878: Der Gauner Felix Blom wird nach drei Jahren Haft aus dem Gefängnis entlassen. Doch in Freiheit ist nichts mehr so, wie es mal war: Sein Hab und Gut gepfändet, seine Verlobte ist mit jemand Neuem liiert. Alle Versuche, an Geld oder Arbeit zu kommen, scheitern. Aber dann hat Blom eine geniale Idee: Warum sich nicht mit der neuen Nachbarin zusammentun? Die ehemalige Prostituierte Mathilde führt eine Privatdetektei, allerdings sind die Aufträge rar, da man ihr als Frau diese Arbeit nicht zutraut. Ihr erster Fall führt die beiden gleich auf die Spur eines mysteriösen Mörders, der seinen Opfern Briefe mit der Botschaft zukommen lässt: "In wenigen Tagen wirst Du eine Leiche sein." Als auch Blom eine solche Karte unter seiner Tür durchgeschoben bekommt, wird die Sache persönlich ...Entdecken Sie auch die historischen Kriminalromane um Kommissar August Emmerich aus der Feder von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Alex Beer!
Berlin, 1932. Hulda Gold ist als Hebamme im berüchtigten Frauengefängnis Barnimstraße in der Nähe des Alexanderplatzes tätig. Dort versorgt sie inhaftierte Schwangere und Mütter mit ihren Kindern und hat einen guten Draht zu den oftmals verzweifelten Frauen. Als innerhalb der Gefängnismauern die junge Insassin Ruth völlig unerwartet stirbt, kann Hulda nicht untätig bleiben. Aber die Kriminalpolizistin, die mit der Aufklärung des scheinbar unbedeutenden Falls betraut wird, ist ausgerechnet Irma Siegel. Hulda und sie kennen sich von früher, doch sie gingen nicht als Freundinnen auseinander. Bald kommen Zweifel auf, dass Ruth eines natürlichen Todes starb. Der Verdacht fällt auf ihre Zellengenossin, die bereits wegen versuchten Mordes verurteilt ist und kurz vor der Entbindung ihres Kindes steht. Doch ist diese Frau, die Hulda als Gefängnishebamme betreut, wirklich die Mörderin? Hulda und die Kommissarin Irma Siegel müssen endlich zusammenarbeiten und gemeinsam gegen das Unrecht kämpfen - während sich die politischen Kräfte in Deutschland immer mehr radikalisieren.
"The Specimen is a fantastic read! Tense, gripping and full of fabulous characters ... I devoured it in two sittings." - Gareth Brown, bestselling author of The Book of DoorsLoosely based on Scotland's infamous Burke and Hare murders, The Specimen is a haunting historical crime thriller perfect for readers of The London Seance Society and A History of Fear.***Walk carefully, lest you become a part of Dr. Burnett's collection...Edinburgh, 1826. Isobel Tait does her best to raise her young son Thomas alone, but yellow fever has left him with a scarred heart. Even a specialist, the renowned Dr. Connall Burnett, can do nothing for him. Isobel decides to make the most of the remaining time with her son.Until he goes missing. A chance visit to Dr. Burnett's collection of specimens elicits a horrifying realisation: there, in a small jar among stuffed lizards and misshapen bones, is a new addition: a tiny human heart. The use of stolen bodies by Edinburgh's medical men is a controversial but open secret. But Isobel can't shake a horrible suspicion that the doctor's a proxy killer obsessed with his quest for specimens.Determined to find proof, she goes undercover as a maid in Burnett's house and soon becomes the keeper of his specimens. She'll have to gather evidence, protect his patients, and exact justice?and not get caught.Based on a true story, The Specimen is a mesmerising work of Gothic historical fiction that explores one woman's search for truth and vengeance in the darkest of places - where the deadliest secrets lie hidden in plain sight, on a freshly dusted shelf.TropesGothic ThrillerMysteryHistorical FictionEvil DoctorVengeful MotherBased On a True Story
Now an AMC miniseries - The acclaimed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carr , the legendary author of sophisticated spy thrillers, is at the t
July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. But just as they're wavering between ice creams and donkey rides, their fellow guests start to go missing--and the duo find themselves with a
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla."-Erik Larson"A model of superior historical fiction . . . an exciting, sometimes astonishing story."-The Washington PostFrom Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling novel-based on actual events-about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America.New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history-and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country?The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society-the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. The task facing him is beyond daunting. Edison is a wily, dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposal-private spies, newspapers in his pocket, and the backing of J. P. Morgan himself. Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs. How will he do it?In obsessive pursuit of victory, Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla, an eccentric, brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison, and with Agnes Huntington, a beautiful opera singer who proves to be a flawless performer on stage and off. As Paul takes greater and greater risks, he'll find that everyone in his path is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER"A satisfying romp . . . Takes place against a backdrop rich with period detail . . . Works wonderfully as an entertainment . . . As it charges forward, the novel leaves no dot unconnected."-Noah Hawley, The New York Times Book Review
The long-awaited paperback of the New York Times bestseller which has drawn comparisons to Rebecca and The Thirteenth Tale, Brunonia Barrys modern-day gothic story follows Towner Whitney, a troubled woman who can divine the future in lace patterns.
'There's nothing wrong with Britain. That is if you leave out the mammoth travelling distance from one's dear Roman heritage!' AD 75. As a passion for home improvement sweeps through the Roman Empire, Falco struggles to deal with a pair of terrible bath-house contractors who have been causing him misery for months. Far away in Britain, King Togidubnus of the Atrebates tribe is planning his own makeover. His huge new residence (known to us as Fishbourne Palace) will be spectacular - but the sensational refurbishment is beset by 'accidents'. The frugal Emperor Vespasian is paying for all this; he wants someone to investigate. Falco has a new baby, a new house, and he hates Britain. But his feud with Anacrites the Chief Spy has now reached a dangerous level, so with his own pressing reasons to leave Rome in a hurry, he accepts the task. A thousand miles from home, he starts restoring order to the chaotic building site and realises that someone with murderous intentions is now after him.
Profitant de l'absence de son mari et épaulée par le colonel Alfred van der Smissen, dont le charme ne la laisse pas insensible, Charlotte de Belgique a pris les rênes de l'empire mexicain. Malheureusement pour elle, au retour de Maximilien, les choses se gâtent. Les révoltes prennent de l'ampleur et pire encore, l'armée française se prépare à quitter le Mexique. Par ailleurs, Maximilien cherche par tous les moyens à concevoir un héritier à la couronne. Refusant de partager sa couche avec lui, le sachant atteint de syphilis, Charlotte doit se résoudre à avoir recours à l'adoption. À moins qu'elle ne finisse par succomber à l'appel de la chair avec le ténébreux van der Smissen...
Alors qu’elle a traversé l’Atlantique pour plaider la cause de son époux, l’impératrice Charlotte du Mexique découvre en Europe que ses alliés se font rares… Abandonnée de tous, la jeune souveraine bascule dans un égarement – parfois violent – dont profite ses ennemis pour l’enfermer… pendant soixante ans !L’épilogue magistral de la quadrilogie de Bonhomme et Nury, sur la vie tragique de Charlotte de Belgique, souveraine et pourtant femme à laquelle aucune souffrance n’aura été épargnée.
Tales of the Waffen SS and award winning comic writer and artist Wayne Vansant provides the stories of the German Panzer troops during World War II. This edition collects for the first time Wayne's previous tales that were released as individual comics or
Au-delà des mots, une rencontre picturale et sensorielle avec Charles Baudelaire.Illustrateur, peintre et auteur d’une trentaine de bandes dessinées (Le Troisième œil, Wika, Requiem, Chroniques de la Lune noire), Olivier Ledroit revient avec un défi digne de son sens de la démesure, de sa générosité visuelle et de sa passion pour les mondes oniriques, en adaptant le chef-d’œuvre de Charles Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal. En faisant revivre cette œuvre, Olivier Ledroit propose un regard singulier sur l’univers du poète, à travers le prisme de son propre univers, si apprécié des amateurs de bande dessinée et des collectionneurs d’art. « Je ne souhaitais pas me contenter d’illustrer les poèmes de Baudelaire, détaille Olivier Ledroit. D’autres l’ont fait avant moi. L’objectif est plutôt de reproduire le bain culturel dans lequel a trempé Baudelaire. Ses visions, ses angoisses, ses inspirations, son monde, son Paris du XIXe siècle ». Connu pour ses incroyables planches épiques autant que pour la délicatesse et la sensualité de ses figures, de ses formes et de ses compositions, retrouvez dans les pages de ce bel ouvrage toute la puissance de son trait. Les femmes splendides côtoient ici les monuments parisiens, les chats, les têtes de mort et les fantasmes tirés de substances psychotropes. Tantôt éclatant de couleur, tantôt mélancolique ou célébrant les corps féminins, c’est un voyage esthétique inédit au plus près du poète maudit du XIXe que nous propose Olivier Ledroit dans ce superbe ouvrage en grand format à l’italienne.
NOT SEW-WICKED STEPMOM ist ein fantastischer Hit-Webtoon aus Korea, der bereits hunderttausende Leser*innen begeistert. Mit toller Photocard in der 1. Auflage!Die klassische Märchen-Stiefmutter ist bekanntlich notorisch böse! Doch als Abigail nach einer Wiedergeburt plötzlich als Mutter der kleinen Prinzessin Blanche aufwacht, möchte sie dieses alte Klischee nicht erfüllen und ihre neue Tochter mit Liebe überschütten. Nun muss die ehemalige Kindermodedesignerin nur noch ihren neuen, kaltherzigen Ehemann davon überzeugen, dasselbe zu tun... In ihrem Bestreben, Blanche ein liebevolles Zuhause zu bieten, beginnt Abigail Geheimnisse und Intrigen innerhalb des Palastes aufzudecken. Wird sich die kleine Familie den teuflischen Kräften beugen müssen, oder wird es Abigail gelingen, sie zusammenzuhalten?Dieser Band ist komplett in Farbe.Der vierte Band des humorvollen Familiendramas!
Vom Grundstück zum Gartenparadies: Dieses Buch begleitet Sie zuverlässig durch den Gartenalltag und verleiht jedem Hobbygärtner einen grünen Daumen. Ob Ziergarten mit Gehölzen, Rosen, Stauden und Sommerblumen oder Obst-, Gemüse- und Kräutergarten, ob idyllischer Gartenteich oder sattgrüner Rasen: Es zeigt Ihnen, was Sie für die erfolgreiche Planung, Anlage und Pflege Ihres Gartens wissen müssen. Erfahren Sie alles über Düngung, Kompost, Schnitt und Pflege, und lesen Sie, wie Sie anfallende Arbeiten fachgerecht ausführen. Mit leicht verständlichen Erklärungen, wertvollen Profi-Tipps, nützlichem Arbeitskalender und über 1000 Pflanzenporträts gelingt das große Gartenglück garantiert!
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 176, Publishers: White Hopton Publications, Author: Claire Austin, ISBN-13: 9780993164736, Date of issue: 2021
Step-by-step instructions, with drawings and photographs--16 in full color, introduce the novice to the full range of growing methods, from sterile culture procedures--the basis of all tissue culture cloning techniques--to indoor bottle gardens to inddoor/outdoor compost gardens. Includes a section on producing small quantities of precisely-mixed compost indoors and a taxonomy of selected psilocybin-containing mushrooms.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 224, Publishers: TEN SPEED PR, Author: Alethea Harampolis, ISBN-13: 9781984860101, Date of issue: 2024
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 176, Publishers: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale, Author: Joseph Tychonievich,Liz Kozik, ISBN-13: 9781984857262, Date of issue: 2021
Celebrate the beauty and creativity of the worlds greatest contemporary gardens through this stunning survey highlighting the leading designers of today
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 112, Publishers: Quarto Publishing PLC, Author: Royal Horticultural Society, ISBN-13: 9780711293007, Date of issue: 2024
This essential resource for growers includes techniques and advice that work in real-life production, not just in the lab or trial greenhouses. Information is offered on how to decide what to grow, as well as tips on temperature, media, plant nutrition, ir
Möchten Sie Ihren Gärten so gestalten, dass er im tiefsten Winter attraktiv und farbenfroh ist? Über die einfache Wirkung von Raureif und Schnee hinaus wird Ihnen in diesem Buch gezeigt, wie Bäume mit auffälliger Rinde, Sträucher mit lebhaft gefärbten Trieben, immergrüne sowie winterblühende Pflanzen mit großer Sorgfalt gestalterisch eingesetzt werden können. Cédric Pollet führt Sie in 20 außergewöhnliche Gärten in Frankreich und England und zeigt Hunderte von Gestaltungen und mehr als 300 Arten und Sorten, die den Garten im Winter verschönern können. Ideen, die Sie dazu verführen, den Winter-Garten "bunt zu malen" und die so oft vernachlässigte Saison neu zu erfinden.
From the renowned editor of "House and Garden" magazine in the 1920s and 1930s comes an engaging and amusing collection of 365 short essays, one for each night of the year.
Today s garden?designers and avid home gardeners have new concerns about ensuring their gardens are above all resilient: They must reduce urban temperatures, protect and improve wildlife habitat, and be able to thrive without traditional chemical maintenance. This volume shows us how to do all that and more step by step, covering every aspect of designing a garden, including finding relevant local environmental data, defining the actual planting challenge, telling a narrative with plants, sketching plans, designing planting compositions full of structure and texture, generating plant palettes and seasonal color schemes, and evaluating sustainability. International case studies of the best new gardens by today s top designers highlight each of these topics and delve further into the design process.Illustrated with hundreds of full-color photos, Fisher Tomlin guides readers on how to create gardens that are truly appropriate for the needs of specific landscapes and therefore likely to succeed, as well as lovely. This book is intended for professionals and students in landscape design programs, and will also appeal to a crossover lay audience of avid home gardeners.
In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation of Algeria from France was truly a revolutionary event with lasting consequences for French social...
This new title in the Crossbill Guides covers the well-known region of Dordogne in southwestern France. This title poses and answers two key questions: what makes this area so special and how you can experience this uniqueness for yourself and describes the flora and fauna, landscape and traditional land use of this region.
