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Encyclopedia of the Exquisite

Author : Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
ISBN 13 : 0385533659
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Exquisite written by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of the Exquisite is a lifestyle guide for the Francophile and the Anglomaniac, the gourmet and the style maven, the armchair traveler and the art lover. It’s an homage to the esoteric world of glamour that doesn’t require much spending but makes us feel rich. Taking a cue from the exotic encyclopedias of the sixteenth century, which brimmed with mysterious artifacts, Jessica Kerwin Jenkins’s Encyclopedia of the Exquisite focuses on the elegant, the rare, the commonplace, and the delightful. A compendium of style, it merges whimsy and practicality, traipsing through the fine arts and the worlds of fashion, food, travel, home, garden, and beauty. Each entry features several engaging anecdotes, illuminating the curious past of each enduring source of beauty. Subjects covered include the explosive history of champagne; the art of lounging on a divan; the emergence of “frillies,” the first lacy, racy lingerie; the ancient uses of sweet-smelling saffron; the wild riot incited by the appearance of London’s first top hat; Julia Child’s tip for cooking the perfect omelet; the polarizing practice of wearing red lipstick during World War II; Louis XIV’s fondness for the luscious Bartlett pear; the Indian origin of badminton; Parliament’s 1650 attempt to suppress Europe’s beauty mark fad; the evolution of the Japanese kimono; the pilgrimage of Central Park’s Egyptian obelisk; and the fanciful thrill of dining alfresco. Cleverly illustrated, Encyclopedia of the Exquisite is an ode to life’s plenty, from the extravagant to the eccentric. It is a celebration of luxury that doesn’t necessarily require money. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Jessica Kerwin Jenkins's All the Time in the World.

Not Impossible!

Author : G. Hanson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595313329
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Not Impossible! written by G. Hanson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does our universe exist inside of a computer? Have the strange phenomena of quantum physics finally been explained? Not IMPOSSIBLE! demonstrates that the surprising answer may be "Yes!" "But the material world is real" we insist, knocking on wood. How can this all be just information inside of a computer? Surely that's impossible! Climb aboard as computer science and AI researcher, G. Wells Hanson, takes us on the seemingly impossible journey from our universe, into the depths of a computerized universe. As you ride, your fingers are pried loose from your current ideas of reality. Watch as your material world slowly begins to fade. You will travel through the machinery of the worlds of human thinking, quantum reality, the brain, and the mind. Finally, you enter a universe programmed within a computer, where the strange phenomena that appear there provides an explanation for the mysterious quantum physics that has puzzled humankind for a century. Shaun Holmes, MA, and high school math teacher, describes the book as "...an intellectual thrill-ride that takes us from our everyday world, to a place where I question my very existence...and there's no going back! I think it really has the potential to stir the pot."

The Duke Meets His Matchmaker

Author : Bianca Blythe
Publisher : Bianca Blythe
ISBN 13 : 1957458151
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book The Duke Meets His Matchmaker written by Bianca Blythe and published by Bianca Blythe. This book was released on 2020 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy Bianca Blythe's delightful, enchanting Duke Hunters Club regency romance series today! She’s determined to find him a match… whether he’s ready or not. Miss Daisy Holloway is in need of a position and fortunately she knows the best one: matchmaker. After all, she has no intention of staying in her family’s home forever. Daisy might not yet be England’s premiere matchmaker, but she is certain she will be once she convinces the Duke of Hammett, Bath’s newest temporary resident, to let her find him a bride. What better way to start her career than to find the perfect bride for a duke? And what more difficult duke to match than the dour, perpetually grumpy Duke of Hammett? The only thing worse than being injured in a boxing match for Reginald Smythe, Duke of Hammett, is being forced to go to Bath to heal. There’s a reason that the broadsheets have called him the Beast, and it’s not because of spending time in a spa town to recuperate. Reggie certainly has no need of a wife, despite what a particular aspiring, definitely pushy matchmaker desires. At least, he thought he didn’t desire a wife. Fall in love with this beauty and the beast romance set in Bath. A scarred duke, a cheerful heroine determined to matchmake him, and a heartwarming romance. The Duke Hunters Club Series 1. All You Need is a Duke 2. My Favorite Duke 3. A Duke Never Forgets 4. The Duke Before Christmas 5. The Duke Meets His Matchmaker 6. The Truth about Princesses and Dukes 7. Can't Buy Me a Duke

The Hotel Years

Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224880
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Hotel Years written by Joseph Roth and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first overview of all Joseph Roth’s journalism: traveling across a Europe in crisis, he declares,“I am a hotel citizen, a hotel patriot.” The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four feuilletons: on hotels; pains and pleasures; personalities; and the deteriorating international situation of the 1930s. Never before translated into English, these pieces begin in Vienna just at the end of the First World War, and end in Paris near the outbreak of the Second World War. Roth, the great journalist of his day, needed journalism to survive: in his six-volume collected works in German, there are three of fiction and three of journalism. Beginning in 1921, Roth wrote mostly for the liberal Frankfurter Zeitung who sent him on assignments throughout Germany - the inflation, the occupation, political assassinations - and abroad, to the USSR, Italy, Poland and Albania. And always: “I celebrate my return to lobby and chandelier, porter and chambermaid.”

Games, Design and Play

Author : Colleen Macklin
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 0134392221
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Games, Design and Play written by Colleen Macklin and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play-focused, step-by-step guide to creating great game designs This book offers a play-focused, process-oriented approach for designing games people will love to play. Drawing on a combined 35 years of design and teaching experience, Colleen Macklin and John Sharp link the concepts and elements of play to the practical tasks of game design. Using full-color examples, they reveal how real game designers think and work, and illuminate the amazing expressive potential of great game design. Focusing on practical details, this book guides you from idea to prototype to playtest and fully realized design. You’ll walk through conceiving and creating a game’s inner workings, including its core actions, themes, and especially its play experience. Step by step, you’ll assemble every component of your “videogame,” creating practically every kind of play: from cooperative to competitive, from chance-based to role-playing, and everything in between. Macklin and Sharp believe that games are for everyone, and game design is an exciting art form with a nearly unlimited array of styles, forms, and messages. Cutting across traditional platform and genre boundaries, they help you find inspiration wherever it exists. Games, Design and Play is for all game design students, and for beginning-to-intermediate-level game professionals, especially independent game designers. Bridging the gaps between imagination and production, it will help you craft outstanding designs for incredible play experiences! Coverage includes: Understanding core elements of play design: actions, goals, rules, objects, playspace, and players Mastering “tools” such as constraint, interaction, goals, challenges, strategy, chance, decision, storytelling, and context Comparing types of play and player experiences Considering the demands videogames make on players Establishing a game’s design values Creating design documents, schematics, and tracking spreadsheets Collaborating in teams on a shared design vision Brainstorming and conceptualizing designs Using prototypes to realize and playtest designs Improving designs by making the most of playtesting feedback Knowing when a design is ready for production Learning the rules so you can break them!

Catalogue

Author : Montgomery Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1182 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue written by Montgomery Ward and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Duke Hunters Club (Books 4-7)

Author : Bianca Blythe
Publisher : Somerset Park Press
ISBN 13 : 1957458461
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book The Duke Hunters Club (Books 4-7) written by Bianca Blythe and published by Somerset Park Press. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This box set collection contains Books 4-7 of The Duke Hunters Club series by Bianca Blythe! #4 The Duke Before Christmas #5 The Duke Meets His Matchmaker #6 The Truth about Princesses and Dukes #7 Can't Buy Me a Duke The Duke Before Christmas After her dreadful guardian insists they marry, Portia decides to elope to Guernsey in a hasty marriage of convenience to a practical stranger. Unfortunately, when a stranger takes her fiancé's ticket, Portia demands the man marry her instead. Little does she know she's just accidentally proposed to a duke… then he accepts. The Duke Meets His Matchmaker Daisy might not yet be England's premiere matchmaker, but she is certain she will be once she convinces the Duke of Hammett, Bath's newest temporary resident, to let her find him a bride. What better way to start her career than to find the perfect bride for a duke? And what more difficult duke to match than the dour, perpetually grumpy Duke of Hammett? The Truth about Princesses and Dukes Princess Aria is astonished when a young, spectacle-wearing man kidnaps her on her wedding day. She's in love with the duke—after all, he's sent her such wonderful letters for weeks. Soon though, she's on the run with Rupert to London. If only Rupert had sent her such lovely letters. . . Can't Buy Me a Duke When an American wallflower learns her younger sister is forbidden to become betrothed until someone courts her, she pays a duke to pretend to be her suitor. Enjoy this enchanting Regency-set historical romance box set collection!

Symposium on Lexicography X

Author : Henrik Gottlieb
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110933195
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Symposium on Lexicography X written by Henrik Gottlieb and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings cover new perspectives in the field of lexicography, including both theoretical and practical topics, and new aspects of special and bilingual dictionaries. The volume also includes contributions dealing with corpus-based dictionaries, anglicisms, valency, collocations, equivalents, semantics, grammar, etymology, vocabulary, phonetics, euphemisms, pragmatics, and the techniques of computerized dictionary production.

Lighting the Stars

Author : Gabriele Wills
Publisher : Mindshadows
ISBN 13 : 1775035425
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Lighting the Stars written by Gabriele Wills and published by Mindshadows. This book was released on with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tucked into the rugged Canadian wilderness of Muskoka's majestic lake country, Merilee Sutcliffe's peaceful town seems worlds away from the escalating conflict in Europe. But life is about to change dramatically in the Summer of 1940. As her patriotic friends and relatives leave for battle, her small town is thrust into the war machine. Merilee's formerly tranquil skies soon roar with aircraft from the Royal Norwegian Air Force, stationed nearby to train young men determined to liberate their country from Nazi occupation. When German Prisoners of War march into her shocked community, they become Merilee's closest neighbours - and biggest threat. What unfolds in her remote town and on foreign shores sets Merilee and her growing circle on a collision course with an unimagined destiny. Caught up in the chaos is Luftwaffe pilot Erich Leitner. Shot down during the Battle of Britain and transplanted to a lakeside prison in Muskoka, he discovers he has more to fear from his comrades than his captors. While her cousin-in-spirit, Elyse Thornton, navigates the treacherous skies of Britain as a Spitfire Girl, audaciously ferrying warplanes from factories to airfields, Merilee becomes quietly entangled in her own dangerous liaisons on the home front. Caught between worlds, with conflicted loyalties and a sense of duty, she joins the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division, and soon finds herself in ground-zero London, focusing her photographer's lens on a city under bombardment. Far from carefree summers on the lake, struggling to survive the relentless demands and sacrifices of war, Merilee, Elyse, and their friends wonder if they dare to risk their hearts as well. As unlikely lives intersect, ideologies and social hierarchies are challenged, loves and friendships are forged or broken, and countless heroes are made and lost. But even those who return to the serenity of Muskoka are changed forever.

Home Needlework Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Home Needlework Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The University Wine Course

Author : Marian W. Baldy, Ph.D.
Publisher : Board and Bench Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1891267124
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The University Wine Course written by Marian W. Baldy, Ph.D. and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Guide to the Elite Estates of the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer Wine Region

Author : Rudi Wiest
Publisher : Board and Bench Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0932664490
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Elite Estates of the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer Wine Region written by Rudi Wiest and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Destiny in Deep Clouds

Author : Chu WenJiangHu
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1649350694
Total Pages : 1189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Destiny in Deep Clouds written by Chu WenJiangHu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 1189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Servant Wu was born with a family name of Wu Jun, his real brother was called Wu Jun, his niece was called Wu Qian'er, his son-in-law was Zhu Zhizhan, he was the famous constitutional emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he had a famous concubine with the family name Wan Zhen'er. Wan Tong, every word loyal, direct descendant, commander of the Imperial Secret Service, blood brother called Wan Fu, Wan Gui, brother-in-law called Zhu Shizhen, blood sister called Wan Zhen'er .... These two people, who were originally parallel to each other, intersected ... The battle in the house ... The official battle ... Gong Dou ...

The World Is a Ball

Author : John Doyle
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1609612175
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The World Is a Ball written by John Doyle and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globe and Mail columnist John Doyle explores the international phenomenon of soccer In A Great Feast of Light, John Doyle viewed his childhood in Ireland through the television screen. Now, he turns his eye to the most popular sport on the planet: soccer. It's a journey that begins with the first game John saw, in 1960s-era Ireland, through soccer in the 21st century—the World Cups in '02 and '06, the European Championships in '04 and '08. And Doyle has traveled the globe during the build-up to the 2010 World Cup. In between the drunken fans, crazed taxi drivers, leprechauns and lederhosen, Doyle muses on the evolution of soccer as a global phenomenon. He shows a sport where for 90 minutes on the pitch anything seems possible. A game where colonized nations can tackle the power of their colonizers; where oppressed immigrant groups can thoroughly trounce their host countries. This book examines soccer from a new angle. John Doyle offers a compelling social history of the ultimate sport, each country and team competing in the historic 2010 World Cup, and how the game has kept pace as the global village has sprung up around the playing field.

A Scandalous Match

Author : Jane Dunn
Publisher : Boldwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1804835439
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book A Scandalous Match written by Jane Dunn and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Angelica had always known her lack of high birth, fortune or influence debarred her from being presented as an eligible young woman worthy of marriage. To cap it all, being an actress assured she was utterly beyond the pale of respectability.' Nightly at the Covent Garden Theatre in London, an enchanting actress is wowing the crowds with her affecting portrayal of Ophelia. Preyed on by rakes and opportunistic young bucks, feted by dukes and earls, even the Prince Regent himself, Angelica Leigh is a sensation. But in Regency England, beauty and talent are not enough to be considered marriage material, so when the eminently eligible Lord Charles Latimer sets his heart on Angelica, his uncle is sent to intervene. As a highly respected, hard-working and wealthy lawmaker, The Honourable Ivor Asprey, is himself seen as desirable husband material, but widowed with an eleven-year-old daughter Elinor, he has forsaken all thoughts of romance. Lord Latimer’s mother, the Duchess of Arlington, despairs of her son, despite being reassured by Ivor that his infatuation with the actress will pass. But there is something about Angelica Leigh that demands attention, and even the austere and upstanding Mr Asprey isn’t immune to her charms. Sunday Times bestselling author Jane Dunn brings the Regency period irresistibly to life. Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, Janice Hadlow, Gill Hornby, and anyone with a Bridgerton-shaped hole in their lives. Praise for Jane Dunn: 'Brilliant, sparkling and very clever.' Elizabeth Buchan 'Jane Dunn’s THE MARRIAGE SEASON gives all the immersive pleasure of Georgette Heyer’s brilliantly confected Regency novels, in a sublime alternative world of joy. Bridgerton look out!' Melanie Reid, The Times ‘Outstanding, perceptive and delightfully readable.’ Sunday Times Books of the Year ‘Jane Dunn has written a splendid piece of popular history with the ready-pen of a highly skilled writer, endowed with remarkable insight.’ Roy Strong, Daily Mail ‘Jane Dunn is one of our best biographers.’ Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times Readers love Jane Dunn: ‘I really loved Jane Dunn’s previous book, The Marriage Season, but to my amazement loved this even more. The heroine, Corinna, is so plucky and full of spirit, unwilling to accept the limitations of her life as a poor illegitimate country girl... All the characters were so alive, I wasn’t ready for the book to end and longed to know more of what happens to them... This is the Regency era come to vivid, believable, exciting life. I can’t wait for the next book from this author.’ ‘I can not rate this book high enough! As a lover as Georgette Heyer I've always looked for books that give as much historical detail as hers and I'm often disappointed, but not with this book! The characters are spirited and loveable and I can honestly say I didn't want to put it down.’ ‘Without a shadow of doubt, this is the best novel I have read in ages. Regency addicts won't find many heaving bosoms or tumbling ringlets. What they will find is an ingeniously plotted story with the emphasis on the men, with all their wit and cynicisms. This is underpinned by strong women whose story it really is, who cleverly manage these men with perfection... I am recommending this book to everyone, and have bought two more as gifts.’ ‘Jane has Dunn it again, reassuring us that this is how life really was – for the fortunate – when the boys came home from the Napoleonic wars, and making us feel at home then, nonetheless. Eat your heart out, Bridgerton!’ ‘A beautifully written story full of twists and turns that transports you straight into Regency England.’

McNeil's Match

Author : Gwynne Forster
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460338529
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book McNeil's Match written by Gwynne Forster and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a bitter divorce, twenty-nine-year-old Lynne Thurston is faced with the prospect of not knowing what to do with the rest of her life. Once a highly ranked pro tennis player, she gave it all up six years ago when she got married. Now, with nothing else to lose, can she make a comeback on the tennis circuit? And more important, can she regain her self-confidence and faith in love? Sloan McNeil is a businessman whose gruff manner and appearance belie his sensitive and caring nature. When he meets Lynne, all of that changes as he tries to convince her that she still has what it takes to compete in professional tennis. But with Lynne’s ex-husband relentlessly pursuing reconciliation, will Sloan be able to convince her to take another chance on love…with him?

Research Handbook on the History of Trademark Law

Author : Lionel Bently
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788973100
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on the History of Trademark Law written by Lionel Bently and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a variety of historiographical approaches, this Research Handbook explores the historical development of trademarks and the associated commercial practices of branding. It has an international scope, covering trademark history in Australia, Israel, pre-modern Europe, Sweden, the UK, and the US.