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Author : Cloisters (Museum)
Publisher : Dutton Books
ISBN 13 : 0870991477
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Unicorn Tapestries written by Cloisters (Museum) and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorothy Dunnett
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307762432
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Unicorn Hunt written by Dorothy Dunnett and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire. Scotland, 1468: a nation at the edge of Europe, a civilization on the threshold of the Modern Age. Merchants, musicians, politicians, and pageantry fill the court of King James III. In its midst, Nicholas seeks to avenge his bride's claim that she carries the bastard of his archenemy, Simon St. Pol. When she flees before Nicholas can determine whether or not the rumored child is his own—or exists at all—Nicholas gives chase. So begins the deadly game of cat and mouse that will lead him from the infested cisterns of Cairo to the misted canals of Venice at carnival. Breathlessly paced, sparkling with wit. The Unicorn Hunt confirms Dorothy Dunnett as the genre's finest practitioner.
Author : C. C. Humphreys
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375858725
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book The Hunt of the Unicorn written by C. C. Humphreys and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite strange dreams and her ailing father's firm belief in the family lore of a long-ago ancestor's connection to the mythical unicorn, fifteen-year-old New Yorker Elayne remains skeptical until, during a school visit to the unicorn tapestries in the Cloisters, she finds herself entering a tumulteous world where she must fulfill the legacy of her ancestors by taming the unicorn and bringing a tyrant to justice.
Author : Adolph S. Cavallo
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870998684
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Adolph S. Cavallo and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1998 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is a set of tapestries depicting the hunt of the fabled unicorn. Each of the seven exquisite tapestries is reproduced in large colorplates and with a wealth of color details. Created in the Netherlands in 1495-1505, they contain supremely memorable images - from the vulnerable unicorn and the individualized faces of the hunters to the naturalistically depicted flora and fauna. The author also looks at the construction of the tapestries and the historical and cultural context in which they were woven.
Author : Bruce Coville
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545128072
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (451 download)
Download or read book The Last Hunt written by Bruce Coville and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Hunt weaves together all the strands of the great clash between the Hunters and the unicorns. As the Hunters invade Luster, bent on the extermination of the unicorns, the unicorns rally to defend themselves. To do so, they will be forced to make peace with their intimate enemies, the delvers. Even worse, the Hunters may not be the greatest danger. For Luster itself is beginnings to collapse from the damage done to the great world tree when Beloved tore a hole between the worlds. Preventing that collapse will require Cara--reunited at last with her mother and father--to discover the secret of how and why Luster was originally created. But first she must confront her own ancestor, the fierce and wily Beloved!
Author : Winston Ma
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119746604
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Hunt for Unicorns written by Winston Ma and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who holds the power in financial markets? For many, the answer would probably be the large investment banks, big asset managers, and hedge funds that are often in the media's spotlight. But more and more a new group of sovereign investors, which includes some of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, government pension funds, central bank reserve funds, state-owned enterprises, and other sovereign capital-enabled entities, have emerged to become the most influential capital markets players and investment firms, with $30 trillion in assets under management (“super asset owners”). Their ample resources, preference for lower profile, passive investing, their long-time horizon and adherence to sustainability as well as their need to diversify globally and by sector have helped to transform the investment world and, in particular, private markets for digital companies. They have helped create and sustain an environment that has fostered the rise of the likes of Uber, Alibaba, Spotify and other transformative players in the digital economy, while providing their founders and business models the benefit of long-term capital. Despite this increasingly important impact, sovereign investors remain mostly unknown, often maintaining a low profile in global markets. For the same reason, they’re also among the most widely misunderstood, as many view investments made by sovereign investors as purely driven by political aims. The general perception is that most sovereign investors lack transparency and have questionable governance controls, causing an investee nation to fear exposure to risks of unfair competition, data security, corruption, and non-financially or non-economically motivated investments. The current global tensions around the AI race and tech competition – and now the corona virus pandemic – have exacerbated such misperceptions, spawning controversies around sovereign investors and capital markets, governments, new technologies, cross-border investments, and related laws and regulations. As such, sovereign capital and the global digital economy are undergoing an unprecedented, contentious moment. In short, the emergence of sovereign funds symbolizes a major shift of the world’s economic power. For the first time, investment funds from developing countries are playing with OECD financial giants as equals. Furthermore, their investments into high tech enable them to participate at the cutting-edge of the fourth industrial revolution, challenging traditional innovation powerhouses like the US and Germany. For all stakeholders, from tech unicorns, VC funds, asset managers, financial firms, to policymakers, law firms, academics, and the general public, this is the must-have book to get to know these new venture capitalists and “super asset owners”.
Author : Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588397130
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book A Blessing of Unicorns written by Barbara Drake Boehm and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Bulletin examines the fascinating stories behind the only known sets of unicorn tapestries in the world—one at The Met Cloisters and another at the Musée de Cluny, Paris. The thirteen tapestries that compose the two sets—six at the Cluny and seven at The Met—remain shrouded in mystery, with their origins and original owners still unknown. Considering the iconography of these two collections together and drawing from primary sources, this Bulletin aims to reach a better understanding of these masterworks and their mythical subject that has captured the public imagination for centuries.
Author : Diana Peterfreund
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061861472
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Rampant written by Diana Peterfreund and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget everything you ever knew about unicorns. The fluffy, sparkly, friendly “horses” so popular the world over don’t exist. Real unicorns are killers. Beasts the size of elephants, with cloven hooves that shake the earth, hides impervious to bullets, and horns that contain a deadly poison, unicorns can outrun a sports car and smell a human from a mile away. And they can only be killed by virgin warriors descended from Alexander the Great. Sixteen-year-old Astrid Llewelyn has grown up with her mom Lilith’s tall tales about unicorns and their exalted family heritage, but figures her mom’s crazy. But the scary stories her mom told her about the monsters in her formative years left her with a firm phobia about unicorns, even the cutesy kind popular with young girls. But when one of the monsters attacks her boyfriend in the woods—thereby ruining any chance of him taking her to prom—Astrid finds herself headed to Rome to train as a unicorn hunter. “As swift and sure-footed as a killer unicorn, Rampant weaves a vibrant new mythology from venerable threads.”—Scott Westerfeld, bestselling author of the Uglies series
Author : Meredith Rusu
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338432052
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Unicorn Treasure Hunt (Beanie Boos Storybook) written by Meredith Rusu and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the Beanie Boo unicorns on a magical adventure through the Fantastical Forest and Shimmering Sky! When Treasure the unicorn receives a mysterious treasure map, she and her unicorn friends set off on a quest to find the hidden surprise.Join the Beanie Boo unicorns on this magical adventure in which they might just discover that friendship is the greatest treasure of all!
Author : Chris Lavers
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061900842
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book The Natural History of Unicorns written by Chris Lavers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lavers keeps his intellectual detective story passionate and suspenseful.” — Washington Post Book World From Biblical stories about virgins to adventures with Harry Potter, unicorns have enchanted people for millennia. In the endlessly fascinating The Natural History of Unicorns, author Chris Lavers ingeniously traces the legend of this mysterious creature to the real people, places, and animals that have influenced its story.
Author : Kamilla Benko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1681192462
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)
Download or read book The Unicorn Quest written by Kamilla Benko and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting, exciting fantasy about a real-world girl searching for her sister in a land full of magic and strange creatures, blending the timeless feel of A Wrinkle in Time with Frozen's powerful themes of identity, enchantment, and sisterhood. Claire Martinson still worries about her older sister Sophie, who battled a mysterious illness last year. But things are back to normal as they move into Windermere Manor . . . until the sisters climb a strange ladder in a fireplace and enter the magical land of Arden. There, they find a world in turmoil. The four guilds of magic no longer trust each other, the beloved unicorns have disappeared, and terrible wraiths roam freely. Scared, the girls return home. But when Sophie vanishes in the night, it will take all of Claire's courage to climb back up the ladder, find her sister, and uncover the unicorns' greatest secret. A Kids' Indie Next Selection A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year An ALA Top Ten First Novel for Youth
Author : Donna Galanti
Publisher : Unicorn Island
ISBN 13 : 9781524864705
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)
Download or read book The Secret of Lost Luck written by Donna Galanti and published by Unicorn Island. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the mist lies a magical secret waiting to be discovered . . . From Epic! Originals, Unicorn Island is a middle-grade illustrated novel series about a young girl who discovers a mysterious island full of mythical beasts and darker dangers! When Sam arrives in Foggy Harbor, population 3,230, all she can see is a small, boring town that's way too far from home. And knowing that she's stuck there all summer with her grumpy Uncle Mitch only makes things worse. But when Sam discovers a hidden trapdoor leading to a room full of strange artifacts, she realizes Foggy Harbor isn't as sleepy as it seems. With the help of a new friend, Sam discovers an extraordinary secret beyond the fog: an island of unicorns whose fates are intertwined with hers.
Author : Winston Ma
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119748917
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Digital War written by Winston Ma and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What new directions in China’s digital economy mean for us all China is the largest homogenous digital market on Earth: unified by language, culture, and mobile payments. Not only a consumer market of unrivaled size, it’s also a vast and hyperactive innovation ecosystem for new technologies. And as China’s digital economy moves from a consumer-focused phase to an enterprise-oriented one, Chinese companies are rushing to capitalize on ways the newer wave of tech—the Internet of Things, AI, blockchain, cloud computing, and data analytics (iABCD)—can unlock value for their businesses from non-traditional angles. In China’s Data Economy, Winston Ma—investment professional, capital markets attorney, adjunct professor of digital economy, and bestselling author—details the profound global implications of this new direction, including how Chinese apps for services such as food delivery expand so quickly they surpass their U.S. models within a couple of years, and how the sheer scale and pace of Chinese innovation might lead to an AI arms race in which China and the U.S. vie aggressively for leadership. How China’s younger netizens participate in their evolving digital economy as consumers, creators, and entrepreneurs Why Online/Office (OMO, Online-merge-with-Offline) integration is viewed as the natural next step on from the O2O (Online-to-Offline) model used in the rest of the world The ways in which traditional Chinese industries such as retail, banking, and insurance are innovating to stay in the game What emerging markets can learn from China as they leapfrog past the personal computer age altogether, diving straight into the mobile-first economy Anyone interested in what’s next for Chinese digital powerhouses—investors, governments, entrepreneurs, international business players—will find this an essential guide to what lies ahead as China’s flexes new digital muscles to create new forms of value and challenge established tech giants across the world.
Author : A. A. Attanasio
Publisher : A. A. Attanasio
ISBN 13 : 0983608431
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (836 download)
Download or read book The Dragon and the Unicorn written by A. A. Attanasio and published by A. A. Attanasio. This book was released on 2011-05-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demon Lailoken, as old as time, is tricked by angels and trapped in a human body. He becomes Merlinus, a wandering wise man expert in magic, destined to work for good among humans, opposed by the Furor (Odin). An encounter with the unicorn, a spirit similarly earthbound, brings Merlinus to Ygrane, queen of the Celts, and she sets him a task to find her king, a man seen in vision and fated to be her love-match. Merlinus-Lailoken seeks and finds him: Theodosius, a stable worker. But Ygrane has commanded the demon-wizard to bring her a king, so Merlinus sets to work making one.
Author : Janet Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781953510259
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Unicorn, the Mystery written by Janet Mason and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. C. Humphreys
Publisher : Bluefire
ISBN 13 : 0375853502
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book The Hunt of the Unicorn written by C. C. Humphreys and published by Bluefire. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite her father's belief in the lore of an ancestor's connection to the unicorn, Elayne remains skeptical until she finds herself entering a world where she must fulfill her legacy by taming the unicorn and bringing a tyrant to justice.
Author : Otfried Preussler
Publisher : Dial
ISBN 13 : 9780803705838
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Tale of the Unicorn written by Otfried Preussler and published by Dial. This book was released on 1989 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three brothers set out to hunt for the unicorn whose horn is made of ivory and whose hooves are pure gold.
