Author: Jonah Winter
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0307554007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
How hard is it to move 5 legless pianos 39 times? Beethoven owned five legless pianos and composed great works on the floor. His first apartment was in the center of Vienna's theater district... but he forgot to pay rent, so he had to move. (And it's very hard to move a piano. Even harder to move five). Beethoven's next apartment was in a dangerous part of town... so he moved, and the pianos followed on a series of pulleys. Then came an apartment with a view of the Danube (but he made too much noise and the neighbors complained), followed by an attic apartment (where he made even MORE of a rukus), and so Beethoven moved again and again. Each time, pianos were bought, left behind, transported on pulleys, slides, and by movers, all so that gifted Beethoven could compose great works of music for the world.
The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author: Jonah Winter
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0307554007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
How hard is it to move 5 legless pianos 39 times? Beethoven owned five legless pianos and composed great works on the floor. His first apartment was in the center of Vienna's theater district... but he forgot to pay rent, so he had to move. (And it's very hard to move a piano. Even harder to move five). Beethoven's next apartment was in a dangerous part of town... so he moved, and the pianos followed on a series of pulleys. Then came an apartment with a view of the Danube (but he made too much noise and the neighbors complained), followed by an attic apartment (where he made even MORE of a rukus), and so Beethoven moved again and again. Each time, pianos were bought, left behind, transported on pulleys, slides, and by movers, all so that gifted Beethoven could compose great works of music for the world.
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0307554007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
How hard is it to move 5 legless pianos 39 times? Beethoven owned five legless pianos and composed great works on the floor. His first apartment was in the center of Vienna's theater district... but he forgot to pay rent, so he had to move. (And it's very hard to move a piano. Even harder to move five). Beethoven's next apartment was in a dangerous part of town... so he moved, and the pianos followed on a series of pulleys. Then came an apartment with a view of the Danube (but he made too much noise and the neighbors complained), followed by an attic apartment (where he made even MORE of a rukus), and so Beethoven moved again and again. Each time, pianos were bought, left behind, transported on pulleys, slides, and by movers, all so that gifted Beethoven could compose great works of music for the world.
Behind the Apartments
Author: Ahmed Hammuda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"The book uniquely links past with present, scripture and rationale, and classical Arabia with the modern, Western paradigm..." - Ali Hammuda - To call Sūrat al-Hujurāt (The Apartments) a University of Ethics, Manners and Realities is an understatement. From a humble corner 'Behind the Apartments', this book endeavours to take a glimpse into the extraordinary meanings, treasures and subtleties buried within the Qur'ān's 49th chapter.In an age wherein many Muslims see 'religiosity' as detached from one's conduct, "Behind the Apartments" extracts a handful of universal and vitalising Qur'ānic insights, revealing the indivisible, interdependency between ethics and Īmān.This chapter of revelation teaches us that putting Allāh and His Messenger first underpins an exemplary political structure, drives social justice and guarantees the believer's individual honour and integrity. The divine guidance of Sūrat al-Hujurāt uproots social ills such as hearsay and gossip and pre-emptively extinguishes the flames of internal conflict.The book then deliberates on merciless behaviours, including those harboured in the depths of the heart, stamping out the roots of disunity before they transpire. It recalls the oldest companions, the Muhājirūn and Anṣār, who abandoned their reviled circumstances of misguidance; detachment from their Creator, and derisory social disorder in the Jāhiliyyah for the noblest social order history has ever known. This engaging and often thought-provoking commentary shows how internalising al-Hujurāt's ethics is the key to unlimited personal and societal benefit, extending to Muslims in their homes, local communities, and to the Ummah at large. Should that not be enough of a reward in itself, those who do this are granted Paradise in the Hereafter.Ahmed Hammuda is an Islamic and Political writer as well as a Chartered Engineer. He has studied with several instructors at the Muslim Research and Development Foundation (MRDF) and served as a senior editor at Islam21c. His writings focus on Qur'anic Tafsīr and reflection, Current Affairs and Islāmic thought.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"The book uniquely links past with present, scripture and rationale, and classical Arabia with the modern, Western paradigm..." - Ali Hammuda - To call Sūrat al-Hujurāt (The Apartments) a University of Ethics, Manners and Realities is an understatement. From a humble corner 'Behind the Apartments', this book endeavours to take a glimpse into the extraordinary meanings, treasures and subtleties buried within the Qur'ān's 49th chapter.In an age wherein many Muslims see 'religiosity' as detached from one's conduct, "Behind the Apartments" extracts a handful of universal and vitalising Qur'ānic insights, revealing the indivisible, interdependency between ethics and Īmān.This chapter of revelation teaches us that putting Allāh and His Messenger first underpins an exemplary political structure, drives social justice and guarantees the believer's individual honour and integrity. The divine guidance of Sūrat al-Hujurāt uproots social ills such as hearsay and gossip and pre-emptively extinguishes the flames of internal conflict.The book then deliberates on merciless behaviours, including those harboured in the depths of the heart, stamping out the roots of disunity before they transpire. It recalls the oldest companions, the Muhājirūn and Anṣār, who abandoned their reviled circumstances of misguidance; detachment from their Creator, and derisory social disorder in the Jāhiliyyah for the noblest social order history has ever known. This engaging and often thought-provoking commentary shows how internalising al-Hujurāt's ethics is the key to unlimited personal and societal benefit, extending to Muslims in their homes, local communities, and to the Ummah at large. Should that not be enough of a reward in itself, those who do this are granted Paradise in the Hereafter.Ahmed Hammuda is an Islamic and Political writer as well as a Chartered Engineer. He has studied with several instructors at the Muslim Research and Development Foundation (MRDF) and served as a senior editor at Islam21c. His writings focus on Qur'anic Tafsīr and reflection, Current Affairs and Islāmic thought.
Apartment in Athens
Author: Glenway Wescott
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A bestseller in 1945, this book has been out of print for over thirty years Like Wescott’s extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging “among the treasures of 20th-century American literature”), Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion—an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A bestseller in 1945, this book has been out of print for over thirty years Like Wescott’s extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging “among the treasures of 20th-century American literature”), Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion—an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.
The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings
Author: Steve Berges
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471684058
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Whether you?re a first-time real estate investor or a seasoned professional, The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings helps you map out your future, find apartment buildings at a fair price, finance purchases, and manage your properties. Now revised and expanded, this Second Edition includes tax planning advice, case studies of real acquisitions, and appendixes that add detail to the big picture. Plus, it includes a handy glossary of all the terms investors need to know, helpful sample forms that make paperwork quick and easy, and updated real estate forecasts. With this comprehensive guide at hand you?ll find profits easy to come by.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471684058
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Whether you?re a first-time real estate investor or a seasoned professional, The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings helps you map out your future, find apartment buildings at a fair price, finance purchases, and manage your properties. Now revised and expanded, this Second Edition includes tax planning advice, case studies of real acquisitions, and appendixes that add detail to the big picture. Plus, it includes a handy glossary of all the terms investors need to know, helpful sample forms that make paperwork quick and easy, and updated real estate forecasts. With this comprehensive guide at hand you?ll find profits easy to come by.
The Velvet Hours
Author: Alyson Richman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110161580X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
From the international bestselling author of The Lost Wife and The Garden of Letters, comes a story—inspired by true events—of two women pursuing freedom and independence in Paris during WWII. As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother’s treasure-filled apartment, unsure if she’ll ever return. An elusive courtesan, Marthe de Florian cultivated a life of art and beauty, casting out all recollections of her impoverished childhood in the dark alleys of Montmartre. With Europe on the brink of war, she shares her story with her granddaughter Solange Beaugiron, using her prized possessions to reveal her innermost secrets. Most striking of all are a beautiful string of pearls and a magnificent portrait of Marthe painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini. As Marthe’s tale unfolds, like velvet itself, stitched with its own shadow and light, it helps to guide Solange on her own path. Inspired by the true account of an abandoned Parisian apartment, Alyson Richman brings to life Solange, the young woman forced to leave her fabled grandmother’s legacy behind to save all that she loved.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110161580X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
From the international bestselling author of The Lost Wife and The Garden of Letters, comes a story—inspired by true events—of two women pursuing freedom and independence in Paris during WWII. As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother’s treasure-filled apartment, unsure if she’ll ever return. An elusive courtesan, Marthe de Florian cultivated a life of art and beauty, casting out all recollections of her impoverished childhood in the dark alleys of Montmartre. With Europe on the brink of war, she shares her story with her granddaughter Solange Beaugiron, using her prized possessions to reveal her innermost secrets. Most striking of all are a beautiful string of pearls and a magnificent portrait of Marthe painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini. As Marthe’s tale unfolds, like velvet itself, stitched with its own shadow and light, it helps to guide Solange on her own path. Inspired by the true account of an abandoned Parisian apartment, Alyson Richman brings to life Solange, the young woman forced to leave her fabled grandmother’s legacy behind to save all that she loved.
Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan
Author: Andrew Alpern
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486273709
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Lavishly illustrated volume provides detailed mini-histories of the Gramercy, Ansonia, Hotel des Artistes, Joseph Pulitzer's palatial residence, and many other luxurious lodgings. 175 illustrations — many from private sources — depict interiors and exteriors. Introduction. Index.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486273709
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Lavishly illustrated volume provides detailed mini-histories of the Gramercy, Ansonia, Hotel des Artistes, Joseph Pulitzer's palatial residence, and many other luxurious lodgings. 175 illustrations — many from private sources — depict interiors and exteriors. Introduction. Index.
The Haunting of Apartment 101
Author: Megan Atwood
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1512458422
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Jinx felt something rumble through the room. She began to shake and moved closer to Jackson. "Do you feel that?" she whispered. Jackson nodded. When Jinx glanced at him, his face had turned bright white. As if he'd seen a ghost. When a popular girl named Emily asks Jinx and Jackson to explore a haunting in her dad's apartment, Jackson insists they take the case. And the truth they find is even stranger than Emily's story.
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1512458422
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Jinx felt something rumble through the room. She began to shake and moved closer to Jackson. "Do you feel that?" she whispered. Jackson nodded. When Jinx glanced at him, his face had turned bright white. As if he'd seen a ghost. When a popular girl named Emily asks Jinx and Jackson to explore a haunting in her dad's apartment, Jackson insists they take the case. And the truth they find is even stranger than Emily's story.
Five Flights Up
Author: Toni Schlesinger
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 156898670X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A flop house, a pumping station, a maid's room, a homeless center, a former brothel, a Richard Meier building, a circus trailer, a sail boat, a skyscraper, buildings named Esther and Loraine—just a few of the places New Yorkers call home. For the past eight years writer Toni Schlesinger has been bringing us these "conversation places" in her weekly column in the Village Voice. Through her incisive questioning, original writing, and comic parallel reveries, Schlesinger creates miniature documentaries on the lives, passions, hopes, and heartbreaks of many of New York City's millions
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 156898670X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A flop house, a pumping station, a maid's room, a homeless center, a former brothel, a Richard Meier building, a circus trailer, a sail boat, a skyscraper, buildings named Esther and Loraine—just a few of the places New Yorkers call home. For the past eight years writer Toni Schlesinger has been bringing us these "conversation places" in her weekly column in the Village Voice. Through her incisive questioning, original writing, and comic parallel reveries, Schlesinger creates miniature documentaries on the lives, passions, hopes, and heartbreaks of many of New York City's millions
Apartment 16
Author: Adam Nevill
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330525700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it has been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying . . . Apartment 16 is another gripping novel full of suspense and horror from Adam Nevill, twice winner of the August Derleth award.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330525700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it has been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying . . . Apartment 16 is another gripping novel full of suspense and horror from Adam Nevill, twice winner of the August Derleth award.
Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book
Author: Joe Fairless
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997454321
Category : Real estate investment
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Do you want to purchase an apartment community but don't have prior real estate or apartment investing experience, don't have access to private capital, can't find a good deal, lack the skills to execute a business plan or a combination of the four? The Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book is the ONLY book that will solve these challenges.It provides a step-by-step system for completing your first apartment syndication deal and building a multimillion or multibillion dollar apartment investing empire. You will learn the exact process that I followed to go from making $30,000 each year at a New York City advertising firm to controlling over $400,000,000 in apartment communities, which includes: 1. Becoming an expert on the apartment syndication terminology 2. Setting a specific, quantifiable goal and creating a long-term, motivating vision 3. Building a powerful brand that attracts passive investors 4. Evaluating and selecting the real estate market that will be the launching point for your apartment empire 5. Surrounding yourself with an all-star real estate team 6. Tapping into your existing network to find passive investors 7. Creating a lead generation machine that pumps out qualified off-market apartment deals 8. Selecting the ideal business plan to maximize returns to passive investors 9. Learning the science behind evaluating, qualifying and submitting offers on apartment deals 10. Preparing and presenting an apartment offering to your passive investors and securing financial commitments 11. Impressing your investors by effectively implementing the business plan and exceeding their return expectations
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997454321
Category : Real estate investment
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Do you want to purchase an apartment community but don't have prior real estate or apartment investing experience, don't have access to private capital, can't find a good deal, lack the skills to execute a business plan or a combination of the four? The Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book is the ONLY book that will solve these challenges.It provides a step-by-step system for completing your first apartment syndication deal and building a multimillion or multibillion dollar apartment investing empire. You will learn the exact process that I followed to go from making $30,000 each year at a New York City advertising firm to controlling over $400,000,000 in apartment communities, which includes: 1. Becoming an expert on the apartment syndication terminology 2. Setting a specific, quantifiable goal and creating a long-term, motivating vision 3. Building a powerful brand that attracts passive investors 4. Evaluating and selecting the real estate market that will be the launching point for your apartment empire 5. Surrounding yourself with an all-star real estate team 6. Tapping into your existing network to find passive investors 7. Creating a lead generation machine that pumps out qualified off-market apartment deals 8. Selecting the ideal business plan to maximize returns to passive investors 9. Learning the science behind evaluating, qualifying and submitting offers on apartment deals 10. Preparing and presenting an apartment offering to your passive investors and securing financial commitments 11. Impressing your investors by effectively implementing the business plan and exceeding their return expectations