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Author : Hebe Dorsey
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Age of Opulence written by Hebe Dorsey and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth McConkey
Publisher : ACC Distribution
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Edwardian Portraits written by Kenneth McConkey and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records a wealthy society's desire to immortalise itself in fabulous self-portraits. It found artists who succeeded brilliantly and this book, the only one devoted to the subject, records both the sitters and the work of the artists.
Author : Crystal Wilkinson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813166934
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Birds of Opulence written by Crystal Wilkinson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical exploration of love and loss, this book centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern Black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single mother Francine Clark is haunted by her dead, lightning-struck husband and forced to fight against both the moral judgment of the community and her own rebellious daughter, Mona. The residents of Opulence struggle with vexing relationships to the land, to one another, and to their own sexuality. As the members of the youngest generation watch their mothers and grandmothers pass away, they live with the fear of going mad themselves and must fight to survive. The author offers up Opulence and its people in lush, poetic detail. It is a world of magic, conjuring, signs, and spells, but also of harsh realities that only love - and love that's handed down - can conquer.
Author : Lydia Vandenberg
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 0892728892
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Bar Harbor's Gilded Century written by Lydia Vandenberg and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine's premier tourist destination, Bar Harbor has many historic buildings. The area was once a shipbuilding and farming hamlet that became a Gilded Age resort of the highest order-until a fire in 1947 destroyed many of its buildings. This pictorial history takes Bar Harbor from its origins to the fire. It also offers intriguing curiosities, including insights on the upstairs-downstairs aspects of resort life. The book's captions are packed with fascinating information.
Author : Arnold Lewis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486252507
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age written by Arnold Lewis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Victorian homes, shows and describes their halls, drawing rooms, dining rooms, libraries, music rooms, guest rooms, and parlors
Author : Martin P. Eidelberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Opulence in an Age of Industry written by Martin P. Eidelberg and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noel W. Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199646015
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Social Opulence and Private Restraint written by Noel W. Thompson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Opulence and Private Restraint is a study of the place of the consumer and consumption in the political economy of British socialism, from its early-nineteenth-century origins, through 'New Times' Marxism, to the consumer-focused New Labourism and political economies critical of consumerism that can be found in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Left. Noel Thompson identifies and explicates recurrent themes which cross the boundaries of the conventional periodisation of the history of British socialist thought; themes which illustrate the sustained nature of the multifaceted ideological challenge presented by the accommodation of the consumer within socialist political economy. This challenge necessitates an engagement with the character and priorities of a future socialist society. As such it touches on some of the key issues which socialists have confronted in pursuit of their vision of a good society: issues with a strong contemporary relevance such as the desirability of private as against social opulence; the relationship between consumption and happiness; the need to educate and/or to liberate desire; and, in particular, the environmental and social consequences of rising levels of consumer expectation and consumption. The study also throws light on how the disparate ways in which these issues were addressed reflected and shaped the socialist political economies that emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while also engendering tensions between them.
Author : Rushworth M. Kidder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470875534
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Good Kids, Tough Choices written by Rushworth M. Kidder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical analysis and inspiring guide for teaching kids "ethical fitness" Parents are beginning to realize that deficiencies in ethics and character are becoming a big problem among our nation's children. According to the latest data, lying, cheating, and rampant insensitivity to other people are increasingly common. What can parents do? In this book, ethics expert Rushworth Kidder shows how to customize interventions to a child's age and temperament. He encourages parents not to give up, since what they do can always make a difference, regardless of how long or deep the bad habits of dishonesty may be. Encourages parents to intervene early and re-establish children on the right course Explores the keys to ethical behavior: honesty, responsibility, respect, fairness, and compassion All of Kidder's practical advice is based on the latest psychological and neuroscientific research about how kids develop character and learn what's right and wrong.
Author : Wallace D. Wattles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781646797707
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Law of Opulence written by Wallace D. Wattles and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create. Not to compete for what is already created." --Wallace D. Wattles The Law of Opulence, originally published in 1905 as a series of three articles in The Nautilus, the leading New Thought magazine of its day, explains how success can be attained by living happily in God's world. Read and learn about attaining health, wealth, and happiness by: - abandoning the idea of competition and limited supply - by being one with the mind of nature, which supports the abundance of life - by seeking for yourself what you seek for all These teachings are as inspiring as they were a century ago as evidenced by the 2006 hit movie and bestseller The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and the practice of many self-help gurus.
Author : William Ewart Gladstone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Studies on Homer and the Homeric age written by William Ewart Gladstone and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Whitney Scharer
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316524093
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Age of Light written by Whitney Scharer and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Books of the Year: Parade, Glamour, Real Simple, Refinery29, Yahoo! Lifestyle. "A startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse to artist." --Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere "I'd rather take a photograph than be one," Lee Miller declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray. Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. As they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee's life forever. Lee's journey of self-discovery takes took her from the cabarets of bohemian Paris to the battlefields of war-torn Europe during WWII, from inventing radical new photography techniques to documenting the liberation of the concentration camps as one of the first female war correspondents. Through it all, Lee must grapple with the question of whether it's possible to stay true to herself while also fulfilling her artistic ambition--and what she will have to sacrifice to do so.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth A. Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Opulent Era written by Elizabeth A. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Dedman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345534530
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Empty Mansions written by Bill Dedman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money? Dedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark’s cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to have frequent conversations with her. Dedman and Newell tell a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, born into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself away from the outside world. Huguette was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. A. Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las Vegas. She grew up in the largest house in New York City, a remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. She owned paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, a vast collection of antique dolls. But wanting more than treasures, she devoted her wealth to buying gifts for friends and strangers alike, to quietly pursuing her own work as an artist, and to guarding the privacy she valued above all else. The Clark family story spans nearly all of American history in three generations, from a log cabin in Pennsylvania to mining camps in the Montana gold rush, from backdoor politics in Washington to a distress call from an elegant Fifth Avenue apartment. The same Huguette who was touched by the terror attacks of 9/11 held a ticket nine decades earlier for a first-class stateroom on the second voyage of the Titanic. Empty Mansions reveals a complex portrait of the mysterious Huguette and her intimate circle. We meet her extravagant father, her publicity-shy mother, her star-crossed sister, her French boyfriend, her nurse who received more than $30 million in gifts, and the relatives fighting to inherit Huguette’s copper fortune. Richly illustrated with more than seventy photographs, Empty Mansions is an enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order, a last jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms.
Author : Wayne Craven
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393067545
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Gilded Mansions written by Wayne Craven and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gilded Age (1865-1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavored to live like Europe's blue-blooded nobility, shedding Puritan restraint as they joyously flaunted their new wealth--especially where their homes were concerned. They erected French chateaus and Italian palazzos on New York's Fifth Avenue, at Newport, and elsewhere, often taking inspiration from Parisian styles of the Second Empire. They rejected more modest American styles just as they rejected middle-class society, and for interior decoration they turned to such artisans as Tiffany, Herter Brothers, and Allard's of Paris. Immensely readable and illuminated with 250 stunning color and black-and-white illustrations, this is the fascinating story of America's first millionaire society, the way they lived and partied, and the lush artistic and cultural legacy they established.
Author : Renée Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451466713
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book What the Lady Wants written by Renée Rosen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary retail tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous motto: “Give the lady what she wants.” His legendary charm also won the heart of socialite Delia Spencer and led to an infamous love affair. The night of the Great Fire, as seventeen-year-old Delia watches the flames rise and consume what was the pioneer town of Chicago, she can’t imagine how much her life, her city, and her whole world are about to change. Nor can she guess that the agent of that change will not simply be the fire, but more so the man she meets that night... Leading the way in rebuilding after the fire, Marshall Field reopens his well-known dry goods store and transforms it into something the world has never seen before: a glamorous palace of a department store. He and his powerhouse coterie—including Potter Palmer and George Pullman—usher in the age of robber barons, the American royalty of their generation. But behind the opulence, their private lives are riddled with scandal and heartbreak. Delia and Marshall first turn to each other out of loneliness, but as their love deepens, they will stand together despite disgrace and ostracism, through an age of devastation and opportunity, when an adolescent Chicago is transformed into the gleaming White City of the Chicago’s World’s Fair of 1893.
