Massimo Listri. The World's Most Beautiful Libraries
From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of knowledg...
George Vi And Elizabeth
A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's loving marriage saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal Archives From t...
George VI and Elizabeth
How King George VI and Queen Elizabeth saved the monarchy George VI should never have been king. But when Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, his younger brother - shy, sensitive, and afflicted with a stutter - found himself on the throne. Only with hi...
This Body of Death
Elizabeth George reigns as queen of the mystery genre. The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published. Entertainment WeeklyOne of the most acclaimed entries in Elizabeth Georg...
Elisabeth
Elisabeth Kaiserin wider Willen
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning ... A masterpiece'.One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabet...
Elizabeth
'The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth' Evening Standard A woman in a man's world, Queen Elizabeth I was to become England's most successful ruler. Confident in her destiny, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she...
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Wydeville, Queen consort to Edward IV, has traditionally been portrayed as a scheming opportunist. As this extraordinary biography shows, the first queen to bear the name Elizabeth lived a tragedy, love, and loss that no other queen has ...
Elizabeth
Sarah Bradford's Elizabeth is the definitive biography of the Queen, revealing the real woman behind the public figure The Queen lived through nearly a century of immense change and upheaval. Her own family experiences, a mixture of happi...
Elizabeth
Fully revised and updated. Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving monarch in British history, with a reign even longer than Queen Victoria. Her extraordinary life is expertly portrayed by Jennie Bond, former BBC royal correspondent, in this magnificent visually led biography. On February 6, 1952, Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, became Queen on the death of her father, King George VI. The reign that was to see major changes both in the country and Commonwealth and in the role of the monarchy began far away from Britain in a game reserve in Kenya. Elizabeth: A Celebration in Photographs, looks at this remarkable period in the history of Britain's monarchy in lavish and fascinating detail, featuring over 250 photographs. Constantly under scrutiny the entire time she was on the throne, this book presents a balanced and absorbing account of the Queen's life and of her role as the head of state in a country and a world that have changed almost beyond recognition in the seventy
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Taylor is known internationally as one of the most beautiful and talented women ever to grace the silver screen. She has won two Academy Awards and starred in over sixty films. She is just as well known for her tempestuous personal life,...
Elizabeth
THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, from the writer who knew her family best 'Compelling . . . Fascinating' DAILY MAIL 'The writer who got closest to the human truth ...
Elizabeth
A definitive portrait of one of the most compelling monarchs England has ever had: Elizabeth I. 'We are a prince from a line of princes.' Lisa Hilton's majestic biography of Elizabeth I, 'The Virgin Queen', uses new research to present a fresh int...
Prinsessa Elisabet, Ljudbok
Prinsessa, josta tuli sydänten hallitsija Eva-Maria Bastin Prinsessa Elisabet aloittaa vangitsevan romaanitrilogian kuningatar Elisabet II:n elämästä Huhtikuisena yönä vuonna 1926 Englannin kuningasperheeseen syntyy uusi jäsen, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary. Lilibetiksi kutsuttu tyttö kasvaa etuoikeutetussa ympäristössä, joka ei kuitenkaan täysin tyydytä voimakastahtoista ja päämäärätietoista nuorta naista.Suljettujen ovien takana tiedonjanoisten lehtimiesten ulottumattomissa Elisabet joutuu todistamaan sukunsa poliittista välienselvittelyä, kun hänen isänsä nousee Ison-Britannian valtaistuimelle vuonna 1936. Lisää dramatiikkaa nuoren Elisabetin elämään tuo yllättävä suhde Kreikan komeaan mutta rutiköyhään prinssi Philipiin, jonka ilmestymistä nuoren prinsessan elämään hovi ei katso hyvällä.Kun Elisabetin isän terveys romahtaa toisen maailmansodan jälkimainingeissa, joutuu prinsessa kansakuntansa valokeilassa miettimään uudelleen paikkaansa maailmassa ja tulemaan siksi hallitsijaksi, joksi kohtalo on häntä ohjannut. Elisabetin täytyy olla valmis taistelemaan saavuttaakseen suurimmat unelmansa sekä kuningattarena että ihmisenä. Eva-Maria Bastin Prinsessa Elisabet on historiallisen romaanitrilogian ensimmäinen osa, joka kertoo elävästi nuoren prinsessan tarinan.
Ida Elisabeth
Ida Elisabeth (1932) gifter sig med ungdomskärleken Frithjof, vilket visar sig vara ett misstag. Efter hans otrohet flyttar hon och de två barnen till en annan stad där hon träffar en ny man. Men är det verkligen möjligt att bli fri från si...
Elisabeth Welch
From her stage debut in 1922 to her final professional appearance in 1996, Elisabeth Welch was an important figure in the world of popular song. In 1923 she launched the Charleston and throughout the Jazz Age, she was associated with some of the g...
Elisabeth, Ljudbok
Elisabeth Stiernfors står i tur att gifta sig och sammanförs med den osympatiske friherren von Strauss. När den fattige språkadjunkten Mathias Storm förälskar sig i henne ställs hon inför ett svårt val och den enda hon har att anförtro sig åt är sin kammarflicka Vera. Det leder till en vänskap som växer sig allt starkare – men som också blir allt mer komplicerad. Till sist vet Elisabeth varken ut eller in. Vem är den rätte för henne och vad händer med Vera om hon gifter sig? Samtidigt kämpar storasyster Cecilia för att få sitt äktenskap med Jacques Rousseau att fungera. Hon vantrivs på den nergångna Apelgården och snart förstår hon att huset bär på en mörk hemlighet. När ett litet barn lämnas vind för våg på gården och Jacques förbjuder Cecilia att hjälpa det tvingas hon ta ett svårt beslut …Elisabeth är fortsättningen på historien om systrarna Stiernfors. Det är ett fängslande drama om kärlek, systerskap och om att vara kvinna under 1800-talet.Boken är tidigare utgiven under titeln Polarnatt.
Elisabeth II
Året är 1969 och Drottning Elisabeth av England är på statsbesök i Wien. Från sin balkong utmed paradgatan Ringstraße låter den åldrade industrimannen Herrenstein några bekanta ur den wienska överklassen få en skymt av drottninggens passage. Själv...
Massimo Listri. The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries. 45th Ed.
From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of knowledge, learning, and imagination offers a sense of infinite possibility. It’s the unrivaled realm of discovery, where every faded manuscript or mighty clothbound tome might reveal a provocative new idea, a far-flung fantasy, an ancient belief, a religious conviction, or a whole new way of being in the world. In this new photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries to reveal their architectural, historical, and imaginative wonder. Through great wooden doors, up spiraling staircases, and along exquisite, shelf-lined corridors, he leads us through outstanding private, public, educational, and monastic libraries, dating as far back as 766. Between them, these medieval, classical, baroque, rococo, and
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Georg Cantor
One of the greatest revolutions in mathematics occurred when Georg Cantor (1845-1918) promulgated his theory of transfinite sets. This revolution is the subject of Joseph Dauben's important studythe most thorough yet writtenof the philosopher and ...
Georg Lukàcs
The philosophical and political development that converted Georg Lukács from a distinguished representative of Central European aesthetic vitalism into a major Marxist theorist and Communist militant has long remained an enigma. In this this now classic study, Michael Löwy for the first time traced and explained the extraordinary mutation that occurred in Lukács's thought between 1909 and 1929. Utilizing many as yet unpublished sources, Löwy meticulously reconstructed the complex itinerary of Lukács's thinking as he gradually moved towards his decisive encounter with Bolshevism. The religious convictions of the early Lukács, the peculiar spell exercised on him and on Max Weber by Dostoyevskyan images of pre-revolutionary Russia, the nature of his friendships with Ernst Bloch and Thomas Mann, were amongst the discoveries of the book. Then, in a fascinating case-study in the sociology of ideas, Löwy showed how the same philosophical problematic of Lebensphilosophie dominated the
Georg Baselitz
Known for the audaciously simple but game-changing strategy of painting the motif on its head, Georg Baselitz has been a consistently challenging artist since the start of the 1960s. His work is always highly charged but surprisingly diverse, beginning with the raw, existential male figures famously removed from his first solo exhibition for indecency, and the series of “Heroes” that portrayed disabled and exposed figures in a destroyed landscape. During this development, the picture space became more and more fractured, and by the end of the decade the artist fully turned the world upside down: trees, factories, eagles, or nude self-portraits actually painted on their heads. This soon allowed him to freely paint and to engage with conceptual color schemes or off-beat themes, such as men eating oranges, Soviet propaganda paintings, or more recently so-called remixes in a reengagement with his own earlier work as a dialogue in time. Already a master of drawing, woodcut, and engraving,
Georg Baselitz
The Bavarian State Painting Collections hold 31 masterpieces by Georg Baselitz from all the artist's creative phases. The volume analyses for the first time these important paintings and sculptures within the context of the history of the collecti...
Georg Baselitz
A prolific artist with a protean output, Georg Baselitz has rethought the conventions of a range of media, predominantly painting and sculpture, over the course of a career of some sixty years. Born in 1938, Baselitz was expelled from art school i...
Georg Simmel
Until recently little of Simmel's work was available in translation and certain key texts were unknown outside Germany. David Frisby, the eminent Simmel scholar, provides not only an introduction to the major sociological writings of this importan...
Georg Jensen
A beautifully illustrated look at how Georg Jensen pushed the boundaries of modern domestic design¿ In 1904 Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866-1935) founded one of the world's most celebrated design companies. Famous for its signature silver ta...
Sten & Georg
Sten och Georg wikström är för evigt två legendariska profiler i Skellefteå med omnejd. Tvillingbröderna spred glädje omkring sig i alla möjliga och omöjliga sammanhang. Trots en tuff start i livet på institution lyckades duon ta sig fram öv...
Hök, Får Jag Låna Dina Vingar?
I "Hök, får jag låna dina vingar" berättar Elisabeth Bergstrand-Poulsen historien om maken Axel Poulsens barndom. Berättelsen om honom blandas med Elisabeths egna minnen och självbiografiska inslag. -