Author: Peter Van Der Krogt
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004614079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
With bibliography of globes made in the Low Countries, ca. 1525-1800.
Globi Neerlandici
Author: Peter Van Der Krogt
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004614079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
With bibliography of globes made in the Low Countries, ca. 1525-1800.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004614079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
With bibliography of globes made in the Low Countries, ca. 1525-1800.
The Fan
Author: Octave Uzanne
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016962131
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016962131
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Creation Revisited
Author: Peter William Atkins
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 9780140174250
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 9780140174250
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
R. Caldecott's Picture Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's songs
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's songs
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Colonel
Author: Alanna Nash
Publisher: Aurum Press
ISBN: 178131201X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Almost the only indisputable fact about Colonel Tom Parker is that he was the manager of the greatest performer in popular music: Elvis Presley. His real name wasn’t Tom Parker †“ indeed, he wasn’t an American at all, but a Dutch immigrant called Andreas van Kujik. And he certainly wasn’t a proper military colonel: he purchased his title from a man in Louisiana. But while the Colonel has long been acknowledged as something of a charlatan, this book is the first to reveal the extraordinary extent of the secrets he concealed, and the consequences for the career, and ultimately the life, of the star he managed. As Alanna Nash’ prodigious research has discovered, the Colonel left Holland most probably because, at the age of twenty, he bludgeoned a woman to death. Entering the US illegally, he then enlisted in the army as ‘Tom Parker’. But, with supreme irony for someone later styling himself as Colonel, Parker’s military career ended in desertion, and discharge after a psychiatrist had certified him as a psychopath. He then became a fairground barker, working sideshows with a zeal for small-scale huckstering and the casual scam that never left him. And by the height of Elvis’s success, Parker had become a pathological gambler who, at the same time as he was taking, amazingly, a full 50% of Presley’s earnings, frittered away all his wealth in the casinos of Las Vegas. As Nash shows, therefore, the often baffling trajectory of Elvis Presley’s career makes perfect sense once the secret imperatives of the Colonel’s life are known. Parker never booked Presley for a tour of Europe because of the dark secret that ensured he himself could never return there. Even at his most famous, Elvis was still being booked to play out-of-the-way towns in North Carolina †“ because the former fairground barker (who shamelessly negotiated as such even with top record company and film executives) knew them from his days on the circus circuit. And Elvis was trapped playing years of arduous seasons in Las Vegas †“ two shows nightly, seven days a week, until boredom and despair brought on the excessive drug use that killed him †“ because for Parker he was “an open chit†? whose huge earnings prevented his manager’s losses at the gambling tables being called in. Alanna Nash knew Parker towards the end of his life, and has now uncovered the whole story, improbable, shocking, and never less than compelling, of how this larger-than-life man made, and then unmade, popular music’s first and greatest superstar.
Publisher: Aurum Press
ISBN: 178131201X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Almost the only indisputable fact about Colonel Tom Parker is that he was the manager of the greatest performer in popular music: Elvis Presley. His real name wasn’t Tom Parker †“ indeed, he wasn’t an American at all, but a Dutch immigrant called Andreas van Kujik. And he certainly wasn’t a proper military colonel: he purchased his title from a man in Louisiana. But while the Colonel has long been acknowledged as something of a charlatan, this book is the first to reveal the extraordinary extent of the secrets he concealed, and the consequences for the career, and ultimately the life, of the star he managed. As Alanna Nash’ prodigious research has discovered, the Colonel left Holland most probably because, at the age of twenty, he bludgeoned a woman to death. Entering the US illegally, he then enlisted in the army as ‘Tom Parker’. But, with supreme irony for someone later styling himself as Colonel, Parker’s military career ended in desertion, and discharge after a psychiatrist had certified him as a psychopath. He then became a fairground barker, working sideshows with a zeal for small-scale huckstering and the casual scam that never left him. And by the height of Elvis’s success, Parker had become a pathological gambler who, at the same time as he was taking, amazingly, a full 50% of Presley’s earnings, frittered away all his wealth in the casinos of Las Vegas. As Nash shows, therefore, the often baffling trajectory of Elvis Presley’s career makes perfect sense once the secret imperatives of the Colonel’s life are known. Parker never booked Presley for a tour of Europe because of the dark secret that ensured he himself could never return there. Even at his most famous, Elvis was still being booked to play out-of-the-way towns in North Carolina †“ because the former fairground barker (who shamelessly negotiated as such even with top record company and film executives) knew them from his days on the circus circuit. And Elvis was trapped playing years of arduous seasons in Las Vegas †“ two shows nightly, seven days a week, until boredom and despair brought on the excessive drug use that killed him †“ because for Parker he was “an open chit†? whose huge earnings prevented his manager’s losses at the gambling tables being called in. Alanna Nash knew Parker towards the end of his life, and has now uncovered the whole story, improbable, shocking, and never less than compelling, of how this larger-than-life man made, and then unmade, popular music’s first and greatest superstar.
Novels of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton: Paul Clifford
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Come Lasses and Lads - Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott
Author:
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473365163
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
This story, 'Come Lasses And Lads', was originally published in 1884 as one of Randolph Caldecott's sixteen 'Picture Books'. These were published in pairs each Christmas from 1877 until Caldecott's death in 1886. Randolph Caldecott (1846 – 1886) was one of the most important British illustrators of the Victorian period. He transformed the world of decorated children’s books, with his delicate yet considered drawings and imaginative subject choices. Caldecott selected all the stories and rhymes he illustrated (and occasionally wrote) and frequently added to the stories himself. His delightful style and humour can still be enjoyed by young and old alike. Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of llustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage classic illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473365163
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
This story, 'Come Lasses And Lads', was originally published in 1884 as one of Randolph Caldecott's sixteen 'Picture Books'. These were published in pairs each Christmas from 1877 until Caldecott's death in 1886. Randolph Caldecott (1846 – 1886) was one of the most important British illustrators of the Victorian period. He transformed the world of decorated children’s books, with his delicate yet considered drawings and imaginative subject choices. Caldecott selected all the stories and rhymes he illustrated (and occasionally wrote) and frequently added to the stories himself. His delightful style and humour can still be enjoyed by young and old alike. Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of llustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage classic illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.
Architectural Painting in Delft
Author: Walter A. Liedtke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture in art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture in art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Happy Apple
Author: Dick Bruna
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apples
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
An apple's wish to see the world is fulfilled when he goes flying with the weathervane cock.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apples
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
An apple's wish to see the world is fulfilled when he goes flying with the weathervane cock.
Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici: The folio atlases published by Willem Jansz. Blaeu and Joan Blaeu
Author: Cornelis Koeman
Publisher: Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici
ISBN: 9789061944386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Blaeu atlases.
Publisher: Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici
ISBN: 9789061944386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Blaeu atlases.