Silver McQueen

Silver McQueen PDF Author: Fran Wilken
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 145754699X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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When Silver McQueen loses her beloved husband in a freak landslide, her life comes to a standstill. It is all she can do to live day by day. Two years later and still reeling from the loss, a weeklong getaway to a cabin in the woods seems like just the thing to finally heal the hurt. But the forest is not as peaceful as she imagines, and after being attacked by a grizzly bear, Silver finds herself wounded and stranded. She is rescued by C.D. Ranchester, a local cowboy laboring under the weight of his own demons. As they try to make their way home, they are pursued not only by the man-hungry bear but also a terrified mountain lion and two good ole boys searching desperately for treasure. Both Silver and C.D. are pushed to their limits, but in the middle of the unforgiving wilderness, Silver is reminded that God has a plan for her. Will she be brave enough to follow His path—and her heart—and let herself learn to love again?

Silver McQueen

Silver McQueen PDF Author: Fran Wilken
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 145754699X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Book Description
When Silver McQueen loses her beloved husband in a freak landslide, her life comes to a standstill. It is all she can do to live day by day. Two years later and still reeling from the loss, a weeklong getaway to a cabin in the woods seems like just the thing to finally heal the hurt. But the forest is not as peaceful as she imagines, and after being attacked by a grizzly bear, Silver finds herself wounded and stranded. She is rescued by C.D. Ranchester, a local cowboy laboring under the weight of his own demons. As they try to make their way home, they are pursued not only by the man-hungry bear but also a terrified mountain lion and two good ole boys searching desperately for treasure. Both Silver and C.D. are pushed to their limits, but in the middle of the unforgiving wilderness, Silver is reminded that God has a plan for her. Will she be brave enough to follow His path—and her heart—and let herself learn to love again?

Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen PDF Author: Andrew Bolton
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300169787
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Features garments made by the designer throughout his career, accompanied by quotes from the designer, an essay about his fashion career, and an interview with his long-time design assistant.

McQueen's Machines

McQueen's Machines PDF Author: Matt Stone
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 1610601114
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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No other Hollywood star has been so closely linked with cars and bikes, from the 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback he drove in Bullitt (in the greatest car chase of all time) to the Triumph motorcycle of The Great Escape. McQueen’s Machines gives readers a close-up look at the cars and motorcycles McQueen drove in movies, those he owned, and others he raced. With a foreword by Steve’s son, Chad McQueen, and a wealth of details about of the star’s racing career, stunt work, and car and motorcycle collecting, McQueen’s Machines draws a fascinating picture of one outsized man’s driving passion. Now in paperback.

Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen PDF Author: Katherine Gleason
Publisher: Race Point Publishing
ISBN: 1631064444
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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From Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims, his 1992 graduate collection, to Plato's Atlantis, the last show before his death in 2010, Lee Alexander McQueen was as celebrated for the exquisite tailoring, meticulous craftsmanship, and stunning originality of his designs as he was notorious for his theatrical—and often controversial—runway shows. McQueen found inspiration for his avant-garde collections everywhere: his Scottish ancestry, Alfred Hitchcock movies, Yoruba mythology, the destruction of the environment—even the fashion industry itself. Whatever his inspiration, however, McQueen’s concept for his runway show came first and was crucial to the development of the collection. Every show had a narrative and was staged with his characteristic dramatic flair. Highland Rape featured disheveled models smeared with “blood” staggering down the runway in town clothes. In Scanners, two robots sprayed paint on a model trapped on a spinning platform. In Widows of Culloden, a hologram of supermodel Kate Moss held center stage. Other McQueen shows staged models walking through water, drifting snowflakes, rain, and wind tunnels; pole-dancing in garish makeup at a carnival, playing living pieces in a bizarre chess game, and performing with trained dancers in a Depression-era-style marathon. Illustrated throughout with stunning photography and liberally sprinkled with quotations from McQueen and those who knew him best, Alexander McQueen: Evolution is the story of the designer’s thirty-five runway shows and the genius behind them.

Gods and Kings

Gods and Kings PDF Author: Dana Thomas
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101617950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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More than two decades ago, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen arrived on the fashions scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. Both wanted to revolutionize fashion in a way no one had in decades. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with daring, sexy designs. They turned out landmark collections in mesmerizing, theatrical shows that retailers and critics still gush about and designers continue to reference. Their approach to fashion was wildly different—Galliano began as an illustrator, McQueen as a Savile Row tailor. Galliano led the way with his sensual bias-cut gowns and his voluptuous hourglass tailoring, which he presented in romantic storybook-like settings. McQueen, though nearly ten years younger than Galliano, was a brilliant technician and a visionary artist who brought a new reality to fashion, as well as an otherworldly beauty. For his first official collection at the tender age of twenty-three, McQueen did what few in fashion ever achieve: he invented a new silhouette, the Bumster. They had similar backgrounds: sensitive, shy gay men raised in tough London neighborhoods, their love of fashion nurtured by their doting mothers. Both struggled to get their businesses off the ground, despite early critical success. But by 1997, each had landed a job as creative director for couture houses owned by French tycoon Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH. Galliano’s and McQueen’s work for Dior and Givenchy and beyond not only influenced fashion; their distinct styles were also reflected across the media landscape. With their help, luxury fashion evolved from a clutch of small, family-owned businesses into a $280 billion-a-year global corporate industry. Executives pushed the designers to meet increasingly rapid deadlines. For both Galliano and McQueen, the pace was unsustainable. In 2010, McQueen took his own life three weeks before his womens' wear show. The same week that Galliano was fired, Forbes named Arnault the fourth richest man in the world. Two months later, Kate Middleton wore a McQueen wedding gown, instantly making the house the world’s most famous fashion brand, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a wildly successful McQueen retrospective, cosponsored by the corporate owners of the McQueen brand. The corporations had won and the artists had lost. In her groundbreaking work Gods and Kings, acclaimed journalist Dana Thomas tells the true story of McQueen and Galliano. In so doing, she reveals the revolution in high fashion in the last two decades—and the price it demanded of the very ones who saved it.

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Publisher: N. M. Brown
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 361

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McQueen's Motorcycles

McQueen's Motorcycles PDF Author: Matt Stone
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 0760351759
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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McQueen's Motorcycles takes a close look at the unique bikes that McQueen raced and collected. Any true McQueen or motorcycle fan will love this focused look inside McQueen's garage.

The Dawn of Fury

The Dawn of Fury PDF Author: Ralph Compton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101127511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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A gunslinger gets bloody payback in this western from USA Today bestselling author Ralph Compton. Nathan Stone experienced the horror of Civil War battlefields. But the worst lies ahead. When he returns to Virginia, to the ruins of what was his home, he discovers his father butchered and his mother and sister stripped, ravished, and slain. The seven renegades who did it rode away to the West. Half-starved and afoot, he takes to their trail. Nathan Stone’s deadly oath—blood for blood—will cost him seven long years, as he rides the lawless trails of an untamed frontier. His skill with a Colt will match him with the likes of the Jameses and the Youngers, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, and Ben Thompson. Nathan Stone will become the greatest gunfighter of them all, shooting his way along the most relentless vengeance trail a man has ever ridden to the savage end…and this is how it all begins. More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

AngloMania

AngloMania PDF Author: Andrew Bolton
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392066
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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"Anglomania gripped Europe during the mid to late 18th century. Continental Anglophiles such as Voltaire and Montesquieu saw England as a land of reason, freedom, and tolerance. Yet what began as an intellectual phenomenon became, and has remained, a matter of style. Through the lens of fashion, this volume examines aspects of English culture that continue to capture the imaginations of Europeans and Americans, among them the class system, sport, royalty, pageantry, eccentricity, the gentleman, and the country garden. Englishness is a romantic construct, formed by fictive and imaginary narratives. These narratives are, however, not merely the product of European-American Anglophilia but are fostered by the English themselves. As this book reveals, they can be found in the novels of Samuel Richardson and in the paintings of George Stubbs and William Hogarth. AngloMania presents historical costumes with clothing of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in a series of theatrical vignettes staged in the Museum's English Period Rooms. The illuminating and entertaining texts are complemented by an essay, which traces the desire for all things British"-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson

Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson PDF Author: Roger G. Kennedy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199728224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529

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This book restores Aaron Burr to his place as a central figure in the founding of the American Republic. Abolitionist, proto-feminist, friend to such Indian leaders as Joseph Brant, Burr was personally acquainted with a wider range of Americans, and of the American continent, than any other Founder except George Washington. He contested for power with Hamilton and then with Jefferson on a continental scale. The book does not sentimentalize any of its three protagonists, neither does it derogate their extraordinary qualities. They were all great men, all flawed, and all three failed to achieve their full aspirations. But their struggles make for an epic tale. Written from the perspective of a historian and administrator who, over nearly fifty years in public life, has served six presidents, this book penetrates into the personal qualities of its three central figures. In telling the tale of their shifting power relationships and their antipathies, it reassesses their policies and the consequences of their successes and failures. Fresh information about the careers of Hamilton and Burr is derived from newly-discovered sources, and a supporting cast of secondary figures emerges to give depth and irony to the principal narrative. This is a book for people who know how political life is lived, and who refuse to be confined within preconceptions and prejudices until they have weighed all the evidence, to reach their own conclusions both as to events and character. This is a controversial book, but not a confrontational one, for it is written with sympathy for men of high aspirations, who were disappointed in much, but who succeeded, in all three cases, to a degree not hitherto fully understood.