Author: Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
ISBN: 9781555952679
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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"Elias Rivera's paintings have a sense of the photographic, with the compositions' inhabitants captured mid-sentence, mid-stride, or mid-gesture as the late afternoon sun casts light and shadow across the scene. Rivera spent many years in New York, observing people in cafes and automats. A move to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a trip to Guatemala in the 1980s brought a new dimension and vibrant palette to his work, establishing the Latin American paintings as his signature works. His often large-scale paintings leave viewers with the sense of actually having been there as Rivera skillfully allows us a glimpse of the everyday life of his subjects. Regardless of the particulars of culture, place, and time that appear in each painting, Elias Rivera consistently captures the essence of humanity."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher: SQP
ISBN: 9780865622456
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages :
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Everyone has their favorite fairy tale growing up, but artist Elias Chatzoudis presents us with a more grown-up look at those beloved stories. See the sexier side of Snow White, Tinkerbell, Cinderella, the not-so-Little Mermaid, and all the other legendary characters of yore. Both the pencilled originals and the fully-realized color illustrations are showcased in this exquisite collection.
Author: Naomi Kanakia
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1484728807
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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I'm your protagonist-Reshma Kapoor-and if you have the free time to read this book, then you're probably nothing like me. Reshma is a college counselor's dream. She's the top-ranked senior at her ultra-competitive Silicon Valley high school, with a spotless academic record and a long roster of extracurriculars. But there are plenty of perfect students in the country, and if Reshma wants to get into Stanford, and into med school after that, she needs the hook to beat them all. What's a habitual over-achiever to do? Land herself a literary agent, of course. Which is exactly what Reshma does after agent Linda Montrose spots an article she wrote for Huffington Post. Linda wants to represent Reshma, and, with her new agent's help scoring a book deal, Reshma knows she'll finally have the key to Stanford. But she's convinced no one would want to read a novel about a study machine like her. To make herself a more relatable protagonist, she must start doing all the regular American girl stuff she normally ignores. For starters, she has to make a friend, then get a boyfriend. And she's already planned the perfect ending: after struggling for three hundred pages with her own perfectionism, Reshma will learn that meaningful relationships can be more important than success-a character arc librarians and critics alike will enjoy. Of course, even with a mastermind like Reshma in charge, things can't always go as planned. And when the valedictorian spot begins to slip from her grasp, she'll have to decide just how far she'll go for that satisfying ending. (Note: It's pretty far.) In this wholly unique, wickedly funny debut novel, Naomi Kanakia consciously uses the rules of storytelling-and then breaks them to pieces.
Author: Elias Greig
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1760870226
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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As any retail or service worker will tell you, customers can be irrational, demanding, abusive, and brain-scramblingly, mind-bendingly strange. They can also be kind, thoughtful, funny, and full of pathos. Something about the often-fraught interaction between customer and worker, with the dividing line of the counter between them, loosens inhibitions, and has a kind of hot-house effect on eccentricity. In I Can't Remember the Title But the Cover is Blue, veteran bookseller Elias Greig collects the best, worst and downright weirdest customer encounters from his years working as a Sydney bookseller. From ill-behaved children to nostalgic seniors and everything in between, this hilarious and unpredictable book is the perfect gift for anyone who's ever been on the wrong side of a counter.
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Author: Jamal J. Elias
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674070666
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 395
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Media coverage of the Danish cartoon crisis and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan left Westerners with a strong impression that Islam does not countenance depiction of religious imagery. Jamal J. Elias corrects this view by revealing the complexity of Islamic attitudes toward representational religious art. Aisha’s Cushion emphasizes Islam’s perceptual and intellectual modes and in so doing offers the reader both insight into Islamic visual culture and a unique way of seeing the world. Aisha’s Cushion evaluates the controversies surrounding blasphemy and iconoclasm by exploring Islamic societies at the time of Muhammad and the birth of Islam; during early contact between Arab Muslims and Byzantine Christians; in medieval Anatolia and India; and in modern times. Elias’s inquiry then goes further, to situate Islamic religious art in a global context. His comparisons with Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu attitudes toward religious art show them to be as contradictory as those of Islam. Contemporary theories about art’s place in society inform Elias’s investigation of how religious objects have been understood across time and in different cultures. Elias contends that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought not only in theological writings or aesthetic treatises but in a range of Islamic works in areas as diverse as optics, alchemy, dreaming, calligraphy, literature, vehicle and home decoration, and Sufi metaphysics. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, Elias offers fresh insight into the relations among religion, art, and perception across a broad range of cultures.
Author: Henry H. Neff
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375871489
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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The world is at the brink of ruin . . . or is it salvation? Astaroth has been weakened, and the demon Prusias is taking full advantage of the situation to create an empire of his own. His formidable armies are on the move, and Rowan is in their sights. Rowan must rely on Max McDaniels and David Menlo and hope that their combined powers can stop Prusias's war machine before it's too late. But even as perils loom, danger stalks their every move. Someone has marked Max for death and no one is above suspicion. Should the assassins succeed, Rowan's fate may depend on little Mina whose abilities are prodigious but largely untested. And where is Astaroth? Has he fled this world or is he biding his time, awaiting his next opportunity? In the Tapestry's fourth book, author-illustrator Henry H. Neff boldly raises the stakes in an epic tale of mankind's struggle to survive in a world now populated by demons and demigods and everything in between!
Author: Edwin Forbes
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Author: Priya-Alika Elias
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1641605103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Besharam roughly translates to "shameless" in Hindi. This collection from Indian writer Priya-Alika Elias is a bold, sassy, and brilliantly written book on love, dating, body image, consent, and other issues that women today relate to and men should be thinking about. Elias reflects on, and challenges, the ideas of how women are told by society to be humble, obedient, and ashamed of their actions and desires. Her writing is fresh, feminist, and thought-provoking, disrupting taboos and exploring what it means to be a young women in today's world.
Author: William HUNT (Publisher, at Albany.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
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