Author: Daniel E. Sutherland
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300203462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A biography of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) that dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother.
Whistler
Author: Daniel E. Sutherland
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300203462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A biography of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) that dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300203462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A biography of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) that dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother.
Palaces in the Night
Author: Margaret F. MacDonald
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520230491
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In "Palaces in the Night", MacDonald looks at a key period in James Whistler's career, examining his unique vision of Venice and his development of the medium of etching. 120 illustrations.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520230491
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In "Palaces in the Night", MacDonald looks at a key period in James Whistler's career, examining his unique vision of Venice and his development of the medium of etching. 120 illustrations.
Mister Whistler
Author: Margaret Mahy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877467912
Category : Absent-mindedness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mr. Whistler, an absent-minded man, loses his train ticket and earns money when people mistake his searching for dancing.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877467912
Category : Absent-mindedness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mr. Whistler, an absent-minded man, loses his train ticket and earns money when people mistake his searching for dancing.
The Night Whistler
Author: Greg Woodland
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925923533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
A cracking rural crime debut that will have you on the edge of your seat until the final page
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925923533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
A cracking rural crime debut that will have you on the edge of your seat until the final page
James McNeil Whistler: the Etcher, the Painter, and the Man
Author: Frederick William Morton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Whistler
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101967676
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A high-stakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State, from the author hailed as “the best thriller writer alive” by Ken Follett “Riveting . . . an elaborate conspiracy.”—The New York Times Book Review We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity is the bedrock of the entire judicial system. We trust them to ensure fair trials, to protect the rights of all litigants, to punish those who do wrong, and to oversee the flow of justice. But what happens when a judge bends the law or takes a bribe? Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. It is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business, and he claims to know of a Florida judge who has stolen more money than all other crooked judges combined. And not just crooked judges in Florida. All judges, from all states, and throughout United States history. And now he wants to put a stop to it. His only client is a person who knows the truth and wants to blow the whistle and collect millions under Florida law. When the case is assigned to Lacy, she immediately suspects that this one could be dangerous. Dangerous is one thing. Deadly is something else.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101967676
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A high-stakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State, from the author hailed as “the best thriller writer alive” by Ken Follett “Riveting . . . an elaborate conspiracy.”—The New York Times Book Review We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity is the bedrock of the entire judicial system. We trust them to ensure fair trials, to protect the rights of all litigants, to punish those who do wrong, and to oversee the flow of justice. But what happens when a judge bends the law or takes a bribe? Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. It is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business, and he claims to know of a Florida judge who has stolen more money than all other crooked judges combined. And not just crooked judges in Florida. All judges, from all states, and throughout United States history. And now he wants to put a stop to it. His only client is a person who knows the truth and wants to blow the whistle and collect millions under Florida law. When the case is assigned to Lacy, she immediately suspects that this one could be dangerous. Dangerous is one thing. Deadly is something else.
Only in Whistler
Author: Stephen Vogler
Publisher: Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781550175042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
For several weeks in February, the eyes of the world will be on Whistler, BC, as it hosts the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and the appetite for a story to go with the place will be extreme. Stephen Vogler has that story, and in this book he tells it fully for the first time. Vogler is one of those rare Whistlerites who actually grew up in Whistler and he has for some years been running a one-man crusade as writer, broadcaster and author of books to prove his hometown is not only a bona fide community, but a uniquely interesting one. Whistler begins in the days when the town had a mere 500 year-round residents who referred to weekend visitors as "turkeys" or "gorbies." His parents were old-school European alpinists who had given up a comfortable life in Vancouver so they could teach their children how to yodel and schuss in an appropriate setting. People like them, with names like Ples and Wilhelmsen, had developed the ski hill in the 1960s and together formed one of Whistler's founding cultures. The other founding culture was a swarming, partying mass of snow-hippies who lived rent-free in rough squatters' shacks and liked marijuana as much as they didn"t like wearing clothes. Their "high" spirits melded with the soberer tradition of the transplanted Tyroleans to produce a hybrid "only in Whistler" character that is equally devoted to serious skiing and unserious living. It was no accident that the first Whistlerite to win an Olympic gold medal also tested positive for cannabis, and successfully defended himself by arguing that just breathing the air in his hometown was enough to put him over the limit. If anybody doubts that story, they won't after reading Only in Whistler: Tales of a Mountain Town.
Publisher: Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781550175042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
For several weeks in February, the eyes of the world will be on Whistler, BC, as it hosts the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and the appetite for a story to go with the place will be extreme. Stephen Vogler has that story, and in this book he tells it fully for the first time. Vogler is one of those rare Whistlerites who actually grew up in Whistler and he has for some years been running a one-man crusade as writer, broadcaster and author of books to prove his hometown is not only a bona fide community, but a uniquely interesting one. Whistler begins in the days when the town had a mere 500 year-round residents who referred to weekend visitors as "turkeys" or "gorbies." His parents were old-school European alpinists who had given up a comfortable life in Vancouver so they could teach their children how to yodel and schuss in an appropriate setting. People like them, with names like Ples and Wilhelmsen, had developed the ski hill in the 1960s and together formed one of Whistler's founding cultures. The other founding culture was a swarming, partying mass of snow-hippies who lived rent-free in rough squatters' shacks and liked marijuana as much as they didn"t like wearing clothes. Their "high" spirits melded with the soberer tradition of the transplanted Tyroleans to produce a hybrid "only in Whistler" character that is equally devoted to serious skiing and unserious living. It was no accident that the first Whistlerite to win an Olympic gold medal also tested positive for cannabis, and successfully defended himself by arguing that just breathing the air in his hometown was enough to put him over the limit. If anybody doubts that story, they won't after reading Only in Whistler: Tales of a Mountain Town.
The Whistler of Hutoriane
Author: Jimmy Eaton
Publisher: Jimmy Eaton
ISBN: 9781732731707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
After Bean loses his father hunting in the mountains of Utah, he meets an old medicine man who makes a blood-oath to help find him. Bean must retrieve an ancient artifact. With a magic whistle, map, and his backpack, Bean travels through portals finding himself in precarious circumstances and encountering curious strangers along the way.
Publisher: Jimmy Eaton
ISBN: 9781732731707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
After Bean loses his father hunting in the mountains of Utah, he meets an old medicine man who makes a blood-oath to help find him. Bean must retrieve an ancient artifact. With a magic whistle, map, and his backpack, Bean travels through portals finding himself in precarious circumstances and encountering curious strangers along the way.
A Whistler in the Nightworld
Author: Thomas Colchie
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A collection of twenty-one short stories representing some of the finest work by today's Latin American writers.
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A collection of twenty-one short stories representing some of the finest work by today's Latin American writers.
Reading the Man
Author: Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670038299
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Offers insight into the lesser-known complexities of the general's personality, in a biography based on his unpublished personal correspondence and covering such topics as his early years, relationships with family and slaves, and thoughts on military str
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670038299
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Offers insight into the lesser-known complexities of the general's personality, in a biography based on his unpublished personal correspondence and covering such topics as his early years, relationships with family and slaves, and thoughts on military str