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Private Life

Author : Josep Maria de Sagarra
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 091467126X
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Private Life written by Josep Maria de Sagarra and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail. The novel, practically a roman-à-clef for its contemporaries, was a scandal in 1932. The 1960's edition was bowdlerized by Franco's censors. Part Lampedusa, part Genet, this translation will bring an essential piece of 20th-century European literature to the English-speaking public.

Private Life

Author : Jane Smiley
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571258778
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Private Life written by Jane Smiley and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer and an astronomer-a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck." Yet Andrew confounds Margaret's expectations from the moment their train leaves for his naval base in San Francisco, and soon she realizes that his devotion to science leaves little room for anything, or anyone, else. She stands by him through tragedies both personal and those they share with the nation. But as World War II approaches, Andrew's obsessions take a darker turn, forcing Margaret to reconsider the life she'd so carefully constructed.

The Private Lives of Public Birds

Author : Jack Gedney
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597145749
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book The Private Lives of Public Birds written by Jack Gedney and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to help the ordinary birdwatcher appreciate the fascinating songs, stories, and science of common birds Jack Gedney's studies of birds provide resonant, affirming answers to the questions: Who is this bird? In what way is it beautiful? Why does it matter? Masterfully linking an abundance of poetic references with up-to-date biological science, Gedney shares his devotion to everyday Western birds in fifteen essays. Each essay illuminates the life of a single species and its relationship to humans, and how these species can help us understand birds in general. A dedicated birdwatcher and teacher, Gedney finds wonder not only in the speed and glistening beauty of the Anna's hummingbird, but also in her nest building. He acclaims the turkey vulture's and red-tailed hawk's roles in our ecosystem, and he venerates the inimitable California scrub jay's work planting acorns. Knowing that we hear birds much more often than we see them, Gedney offers his expert's ear to help us not only identify bird songs and calls but also understand what the birds are saying. The crowd at the suet feeder will never look quite the same again. Join Gedney in the enchanted world of these not-so-ordinary birds, each enlivened by a hand-drawn portrait by artist Anna Kus Park.

Private Lives

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 9780573619250
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Private Lives written by Noel Coward and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Een gescheiden echtpaar ontmoet elkaar weer na vijf jaar, terwijl zij beiden op huwelijksreis zijn met hun nieuwe partner.

The Private Lives of Trees

Author : Alejandro Zambra
Publisher : Open Letter Books
ISBN 13 : 1934824240
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Private Lives of Trees written by Alejandro Zambra and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worried that his wife Veronica will not return home from an art class, Julian imagines his stepdaughter Daniela's future without her mother and tells her an improvisional bedtime story.

Private Lives

Author : Lawrence Meir Friedman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674015623
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Private Lives written by Lawrence Meir Friedman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on many revealing and sometimes colorful court cases of the past two centuries, Private Lives offers a lively short history of the complexities of family law and family life--including the tensions between the laws on the books and contemporary arrangements for marriage, divorce, adoption, and child rearing.

PRIVATE LIVES/PUBLIC CONSEQUENCES

Author : William Henry Chafe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674018778
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book PRIVATE LIVES/PUBLIC CONSEQUENCES written by William Henry Chafe and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political leader's decisions can determine the fate of a nation, but what determines how and why that leader makes certain choices? William H. Chafe, a distinguished historian of twentieth century America, examines eight of the most significant political leaders of the modern era in order to explore the relationship between their personal patterns of behavior and their political decision-making process. The result is a fascinating look at how personal lives and political fortunes have intersected to shape America over the past fifty years. One might expect our leaders to be healthy, wealthy, genteel, and happy. In fact, most of these individuals--from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Martin Luther King, Jr., from John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton--came from dysfunctional families, including three children of alcoholics; half grew up in poor or only marginally secure homes; most experienced discord in their marriages; and at least two displayed signs of mental instability. What links this extraordinarily diverse group is an intense ambition to succeed, and the drive to overcome adversity. Indeed, adversity offered a vehicle to develop the personal attributes that would define their careers and shape the way they exercised power. Chafe probes the influences that forged these men's lives, and profiles the distinctive personalities that molded their exercise of power in times of danger and strife. The history of the United States from the Depression into the new century cannot be understood without exploring the dynamic and critical relationship between personal history and political leadership that these eight life stories so poignantly reveal.

Naked Consumer

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naked Consumer written by Erik Larson and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1994-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some companies gather and sell personal information to assist businesses in their marketing campaigns. It this American business at its finest, or simply a horrible invasion of our privacy? This shocking book will make readers think twice before writing their next check or going to the grocery store.

Private Lives, Public Deaths

Author : Jonathan Strauss
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823251322
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Private Lives, Public Deaths written by Jonathan Strauss and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual.

The Private Life

Author : Josh Cohen
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619026376
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Private Life written by Josh Cohen and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With social networking and reality television, self–help columns and daytime talk shows, there's an infinite array of platforms to both expose our deepest thoughts and examine the thoughts of others. In this age of non–stop communication, one's privacy is subject to unrelenting examination, intrusion, and attack from the media, the government, friends, family, and complete strangers. So what are we trying to hide? And what are we trying to find out about others? Practicing psychoanalyst and professor of literature Josh Cohen tackles those questions in his study of privacy and personality, the "most vulnerable and indestructible region of your self." Using Sigmund Freud's theories on identity and the ego as a foundation, Cohen weaves through time and place to study an extensive variety of people who unearthed and revealed the rawest form of their selves. From Adam and Eve to the ballerinas in the hit 2010 film Black Swan, from Hester Prynne to British celebrity Katie Price, Cohen finds Freud's ideas in both fiction and reality alike. Yet even with all the times that we've exposed the inner workings of our psyches, Cohen is sure to emphasize that some part of every individual will always remain hidden. Like Freud once wrote, "The ego is not master in its own house." In a culture that floods our lives with light, how is it that we remain so helplessly in the dark?

The Private Lives of the Impressionists

Author : Sue Roe
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061978965
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Private Lives of the Impressionists written by Sue Roe and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-12-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller “Anyone who has ever lost themselves in Monet’s color-saturated gardens or swooned over Degas’s dancers will enjoy this revealing group portrait of the artists who founded the Impressionist movement. . . . For the armchair dilettante, as well as the art-history student, this is lively, required reading.” — People The first book to offer an intimate and lively biography of the world’s most popular group of artists, including Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt. Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, today astonishing sums are paid for their paintings. Their dazzling works are familiar to even the most casual art lovers—but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? Sue Roe's colorful, lively, poignant, and superbly researched biography, The Private Lives of the Impressionists, follows an extraordinary group of artists into their Paris studios, down the rural lanes of Montmartre, and into the rowdy riverside bars of a city undergoing monumental change. Vivid and unforgettable, it casts a brilliant, revealing light on this unparalleled society of genius colleagues who lived and worked together for twenty years and transformed the art world forever with their breathtaking depictions of ordinary life.

Shanghai Homes

Author : Jie Li
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538170
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Shanghai Homes written by Jie Li and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account—part microhistory, part memoir—Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist, and post-Mao eras. Exploring three dimensions of private life—territories, artifacts, and gossip—Li re-creates the sounds, smells, look, and feel of home over a tumultuous century. First built by British and Japanese companies in 1915 and 1927, the two homes at the center of this narrative were located in an industrial part of the former "International Settlement." Before their recent demolition, they were nestled in Shanghai's labyrinthine alleyways, which housed more than half of the city's population from the Sino-Japanese War to the Cultural Revolution. Through interviews with her own family members as well as their neighbors, classmates, and co-workers, Li weaves a complex social tapestry reflecting the lived experiences of ordinary people struggling to absorb and adapt to major historical change. These voices include workers, intellectuals, Communists, Nationalists, foreigners, compradors, wives, concubines, and children who all fought for a foothold and haven in this city, witnessing spectacles so full of farce and pathos they could only be whispered as secret histories.

Public Figures, Private Lives

Author : Christian West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732802100
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Public Figures, Private Lives written by Christian West and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Private Life of Books

Author : Henry Wessells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976466093
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Private Life of Books written by Henry Wessells and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Private Lives of the Tudors

Author : Tracy Borman
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1444782916
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book The Private Lives of the Tudors written by Tracy Borman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Borman approaches her topic with huge enthusiasm and a keen eye for entertaining...this is a very human story of a remarkable family, full of vignettes that sit long in the mind.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times 'Tracy Borman's eye for detail is impressive; the book is packed with fascinating courtly minutiae... this is a wonderful book.' The Times 'Borman is an authoritative and engaging writer, good at prising out those humanising details that make the past alive to us.' The Observer 'Fascinating, detailed account of the everyday reality of the royals... This is a book of rich scholarship.' Daily Mail 'Tracy Borman's passion for the Tudor period shines forth from the pages of this fascinatingly detailed book, which vividly illuminates what went on behind the scenes at the Tudor court.' Alison Weir 'I do not live in a corner. A thousand eyes see all I do.' Elizabeth I The Tudor monarchs were constantly surrounded by an army of attendants, courtiers and ministers. Even in their most private moments, they were accompanied by a servant specifically appointed for the task. A groom of the stool would stand patiently by as Henry VIII performed his daily purges, and when Elizabeth I retired for the evening, one of her female servants would sleep at the end of her bed. These attendants knew the truth behind the glamorous exterior. They saw the tears shed by Henry VII upon the death of his son Arthur. They knew the tragic secret behind 'Bloody' Mary's phantom pregnancies. And they saw the 'crooked carcass' beneath Elizabeth I's carefully applied makeup, gowns and accessories. It is the accounts of these eyewitnesses, as well as a rich array of other contemporary sources that historian Tracy Borman has examined more closely than ever before. With new insights and discoveries, and in the same way that she brilliantly illuminated the real Thomas Cromwell - The Private Life of the Tudors will reveal previously unexamined details about the characters we think we know so well.

Our Private Life

Author : Pedro Miguel Rozo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849439265
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Our Private Life written by Pedro Miguel Rozo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This isn't a village. We've got the largest shopping centre in the area. Now there's somewhere people can go to watch movies, have something to eat, spend money to make sense of their lives." When a rumour spreads like wildfire through a Colombian village, a respectable family start to wither in the heat. As long-buried secrets begin to surface, their efforts to discern truth from slander become fused with a desire for justice. A new black comedy of twisted morality set in modern Colombia.

Private Lives in Renaissance Venice

Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300102364
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Private Lives in Renaissance Venice written by Patricia Fortini Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As the sixteenth century opened, members of the patriciate were increasingly withdrawing from trade, desiring to be seen as "gentlemen in fact" as well as "gentlemen in name." The author considers why this was so and explores such wide-ranging themes as attitudes toward wealth and display, the articulation of family identity, the interplay between the public and the private, and the emergence of characteristically Venetian decorative practices and styles of art and architecture. Brown focuses new light on the visual culture of Venetian women - how they lived within, furnished, and decorated their homes; what spaces were allotted to them; what their roles and domestic tasks were; how they dressed; how they raised their children; and how they entertained. Bringing together both high arts and low, the book examines all aspects of Renaissance material culture."--BOOK JACKET.