Author: Michael Johnston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107066190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626542174
Category : Ciphers
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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A facsimile of an object of unknown authorship that has been the source of study and speculation for centuries and remains undecipherable to this day.
Author: Royal Skousen
Publisher: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Author: Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143110888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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A New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini "men we could do business with," if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom—that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940's to triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks's masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin. Churchill and Orwell is a perfect gift for the holidays!
Author: Cathy Bonidan
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250256313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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"Poignant and powerful."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) The Lost Manuscript is a charming epistolary novel about the love of books and magical ability they have to bring people together. Sometimes a book has the power to change your life... When Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation on the Brittany coast, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery. In search of something to read, she opens up her bedside table drawer in her hotel room, and inside she finds an abandoned manuscript. Halfway through the pages, an address is written. She sends pages to the address, in hopes of potentially hearing a response from the unknown author. But not before she reads the story and falls in love with it. The response, which she receives a few days later, astonishes her... Not only does the author write back, but he confesses that he lost the manuscript 30 years prior on a flight to Montreal. And then he reveals something even more shocking—that he was not the author of the second half of the book. Anne-Lise can’t rest until she discovers who this second mystery author is, and in doing so tracks down every person who has held this manuscript in their hands. Through the letters exchanged by the people whose lives the manuscript has touched, she discovers long-lost love stories and intimate secrets. Romances blossom and new friends are made. Everyone's lives are made better by this book—and isn't that the point of reading? And finally, with a plot twist you don't see coming, she uncovers the astonishing identity of the author who finished the story.
Author: Hal Leonard Corp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616776343
Category : Piano
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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(Faber Piano Adventures ). The Little Blue Manuscript Book is the perfect writing companion for students who are progressing through My First Piano Adventure . With 38 pages of large-sized staffs, teachers and students have plenty of room for writing assignments and exploring composition. But there is more to this handy book than simply blank staffs. Students receive extra support from an eight-page reference section covering note values, essential musical terms, staff orientation, how to draw clefs, and a simple introduction to composing with patterns. At the back of the book, teachers will find two pages of detailed assignment ideas for use in the lesson or for at-home writing.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Dickinson's poems, more than those of any other poet, resist translation into the medium of print. This elegant edition presents all of her manuscript books and unsewn fascicle sheets--1,148 poems on 1,250 pages--restored insofar as possible to their original order. The manuscripts are reproduced with startling fidelity in 300-line screen.
Author: Alcoholics Anonymous
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
ISBN: 159285947X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Book That Started It All Hardcover
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Celebrating the marriage of word and image on the written and printed page, The Art of the Book presents rarely examined treasures from the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Featuring a huge range of material spanning six centuries -- including illuminated manuscripts, fine bindings, the classics of children's literature, comic novels, and artists' books, it explores the ways in which books not only transmit information but become works of art in their own right. Thematic sections illustrate the key aspects of book design and production over the ages. With medieval books of hours sitting alongside contemporary paperback novels, the choice of artists, designers, subjects, and authors is wonderfully varied -- from Leonardo da Vinci to Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Aesop to Charles Dickens, and de Brunhoff's Babar the Elephant to Art Spiegelman's Maus. Strikingly illustrated with 100 colorplates, this absorbing compendium will be of interest to collectors, graphic designers, and booklovers.
Author: Valerie Kerr
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466962887
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 59
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As a music teacher, Valerie Kerr felt that existing books did not provide the information that music students needed at their fingertips while doing their music theory homework. In music theory books, the basic information that is provided is often hidden among other information, thus making it difficult for students to find instantly. Printed books only provide the staves with very little information. Valerie provided music information inside the covers of this book for people beginning the study of music to understand while doing their theory homework and be able to build on this knowledge and take it to the next level.
