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The wife of the prominent Victorian painter of seascapes, James Clarke Hook (1819-1907), Rosalie was a trained artist and brought her artist’s sensibility, her humour, and her talent for relationships to the project of writing a diary of their travels to Italy in the two turbulent years of the Risorgimento leading up to 1848. Rosalie’s subsequent diary records a busy professional couple in the thick of running a country home with studio, annual trips to the bracing coastal sites where Hook painted, and their relations with famous contemporaries.Juliet McMaster, a descendant of the Hooks, provides a fascinating introduction on their professional and personal lives. The book is illustrated throughout by Hook’s vivid sketches and by many of James’s and Rosalie’s paintings. ... Read more

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Presenting the full narrative details of Rosalie Hook domestic partnership with her artist husband
Expertly edited by Juliet McMaster (Professor Emerita in English at the University of Albert and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada), Woman Behind The Painter: The Diaries Of Rosalie, Mrs. James Clarke Hook by Rosalie Hook presents the life, observations and comments of the wife of the artist James Clarke Hook. Presenting the full narrative details of Rosalie Hook domestic partnership with her artist husband, Woman Behind The Painter begins with the fifth day after the young couples' marriage in August of 1846, and continues through their travels to May of 1848. Hallmarked with her vivid and tangible dialogue, enhanced throughout with both color and B/W illustrations, and featuring three appendices ("Index of Artists", "Burton Family Tree", "Hook Family Tree from Adam Clarke"), a list of cited works, and an extensive Index, Rosalie Hook's Woman Behind The Painter is very highly recommended for Women's Studies, Art History, and Travel Diary supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections.
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Title: Proceedings of the General Court Martial Convened for the Trial of Commodore James Barron, Captain Charles Gordon, Mr. William Hook, and Captain John Hall, of the United States ' Ship Chesapeake, in the Month of January, 1808; Original Publisher: [Washington] Printed by J. Gideon, jr.; Publication date: 1822; Subjects: Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, 1807; Courts-martial and courts of inquiry; History / Military / General; Law / General; Law / Military; Law / Taxation; ... Read more

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Icons of surrealism such as the Lobster Telephone and Mae West Lips sofa would not exist if it weren't for Edward James. Born into fabulous wealth, —his father was a scion of the Phelps-Dodge dynasty, his mother a leading socialite, —James amassed one of the finest collections of surrealist art and was the major benefactor of Salvador Dali, Leonora Carrington, and Rene Magritte. He lavished his fortune on an ostentatious lifestyle and landmark artistic ventures such as Dali's 'Dream of Venus' pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair and a series of ballets known as Les Ballets Russes to woo his wife, the Viennese dancer Tilly Losch. Turning his back on the strictures of England society and his failed marriage, James followed the movable feast around Europe before leaving for America and 1940s Los Angeles where he was a member of the colony of artists and writers that included Man Ray, Isamu Noguchi, and Christopher Isherwood. But it was ultimately in Mexico that he felt at home and became an artist in his own right, creating the remarkable Las Pozas, in the remote town of Xilitla, an area abounding in waterfalls and wild orchids. Working with local Otomi Indians, he sculpted the jungle, illuminated the forest, and built parapets in the sky. Award-winning biographer Margaret Hooks tells the bizarre, often tragic tale of his life and the creation of his surreal masterpiece, illustrated with stunning photographs by Sally Mann, Michael Schuyt, Lourdes Almeida and others. ... Read more

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98 Million Dollars!
Margaret Hooks has written a brief life of the British eccentric and artist who created a surrealistic pavilion in the middle of a Mexican jungle, and did it all with his own money, taking not a drop of public funds.The irony is that today, James dead and his money long ago piddled away, huge impersonal foundations are being asked to underwrite preservation of crumbling, delapidated Las Pozas.The next quarter of a century will tell the tale, as any recent visitor will inform you.Hooks has been there many times, and she stresses the luxury of a visit, but the ordinary backpack traveler can find his or her own way there too, for the area was paved in the 1960s and you don't need an SUV any more to chop your way through the underbrush.

When constructing the folly, Edward James asked the proud Indian workers to strip off their clothes and work naked for him.His Caucasian secretaries were sometimes also asked to type in the nude.Joe LeSueur, once the boyfriend of the US poet Frank O'Hara, remembered the intimate side of Edward James, who took his sensible reluctance to "drink the water" to bizarre Howard Hughes like extremes.Once he watched James wash his hands 38 times within an hour.He kept his pencils plunged into a bar of soft soap to keep them "clean" and had his paper clips parboiled before re-using them.

He had relationships with women, including a stormy marriage to the notorious Austrian dancer Tilly Losch (DUEL IN THE SUN), and spent millions of dollars expanding her career, even hiring George Balanchine to create dances for her.He also had something of a crush on the actress Ruth Ford, lavished money on her as well.Hooks seems ambivalent about James' putative homosexuality, which is the first thing people noticed about him (even Losch married him assuming it was to be a marriage of convenience, and was appalled when he tried having sex with her).Hooks' brief book, no longer than one of those old William Shawn-era New Yorker articles, is written in a peculiar style, almost as if for children, and you probably have not in a long time read a biography with so many exclamation points in it.These punctuation marks appear whenever somethins especially startling happens to Edward James, which believe me, is pretty often, for he is the one who thought of the famous Surrealist "lobster telephone," and he made his own bedsheets carved out of wood, so that when you laid down on them, they were hard and stiff.

He had Tilly Losch's bare feet immortalized in a carpet that climbed the stairs, and later, when their marriage was over, he did the same thing with an Irish wolfhound.He built portholes for windows and installed a fish tank behind them, so you would think you were in a sinking ship.In Las Pozas he built an eighteen-foot tall human hand which is still there, crumbling and needing government assistance.He wrote upwards of thirty books and published all but one of them on his own private press.

The book is grandly illustrated with plenty of color closeups of the different weird things James built in Mexico.Edward James was about as deep as a square of pink satin, but he did know how to spend money like ouzo and that's always fun to read about. ... Read more

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Here is an informative volume featuring a comprehensive look at PaULS, the Pennsylvania Union List of Serials. The editors, both of whom have extensive experience with online union listing, have collected the previously published articles recording the development and implementation of PaULS; compiled new articles representing updated perspectives; provided the PaULS procedure manual; and included an annotated bibliography of literature about online union listing. Contributors to this fascinating volume describe extensive union listing activities of West Virginia University, a special library, Calgon Corporation, and a regional consortia, the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges. For professionals specifically interested in online union lists of serials and for those who are interested in the record of a large cooperative undertaking, especially one that involved building and maintaining a database, this is a most valuable book. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 3; Original Publisher: W. Blackwood; Publication date: 1822; Subjects: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley/ 1751-1816; Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820; ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 1; Original Published by: W. Blackwood in 1824 in 364 pages; Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Historical; Fiction / Literary; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; ... Read more

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These six cello sonatas in the galant style were originally published as Op. 24 in 1783. This edition includes simple piano accompaniment so that the works can be performed as concert pieces, as well as optional accompaniment of a second violoncello. ... Read more

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In a nuanced and fresh account, James Van Hook evaluates the American role in West German recovery and the debates about economic policy within West Germany. He examines the 1948 West German economic reforms that dismantled the Nazi command economy and ushered in the fabled "economic miracle" of the 1950s.By abandoning Nazi era economic controls, the West Germans discarded a pre-1945 economic and industrial culture. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lord Peter Wimsey, Bertie Wooster, Captain Hook, James Bond, James Bellamy, Psmith, George Hysteron-Proteron, Bingo Little, Joseph Crabtree, Anthony Blanche, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, Lord Sebastian Flyte. Excerpt:Anthony Blanche is a fictional character in the novel Brideshead Revisited , by Evelyn Waugh . The character was partially based on Brian Howard , a close friend of Waugh's at Oxford . Profile Anthony Blanche appears as a non-central character of great importance in what has perhaps become Waugh s most famous novel. In the enclosed worlds of the English aristocracy and Oxford University, he is an interloper. Prior to Oxford, he had spent two years at Eton College and, after being expelled for sexual misconduct, spent the rest of his adolescence globe-trotting with his mother, her two chauffeurs and her pekingese. He is of small build, not handsome and appears to be of Southern European background (he describes himself as a dago) as well as perhaps Jewish . He is sexually ambiguous, describing himself as an invert and appearing to be both homosexual and flamboyantly camp , he nevertheless claims an illicit affair with at least one European noblewoman. He is a raconteur , a gossip and a critic. Anthony Blanche appears just three times in the course of the novel. Each of his appearances is a virtual monologue in which, under the guise of lively gossip, he subjects the other characters to searching criticism and issues warnings to Charles Ryder, the novel's protagonist, on the nature of the English personality, its charm and its (pernicious) relation to Art . At the first meeting, Anthony and Charles have dinner together. Anthony tells the tale of how he was debagged and ducked in the fountain at Oxford by Boy Mulcaster and his friends, whom Anthony regards as the last ... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Shane Williams, Gavin Henson, Ian Gough, James Hook, Jason Spice, Andy Williams, Tommy Bowe, Tom Prydie, Barry Williams, Andrew Bishop, Adam Jones, Ryan Jones, Michael Phillips, Richie Rees, Jonathan Thomas, Filo Tiatia, Gavin Thomas, Lee Byrne, Ian Evans, Brent Cockbain, Dan Biggar, Duncan Jones, Barry Davies, Matthew Jones, Huw Bennett, Alun Wyn Jones, Paul James, Richard Hibbard, Aled Brew. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Shane Williams, né le 26 février 1977 à Swansea, est un joueur gallois de rugby à XV, évoluant au poste d'ailier. Débutant en demi de mêlée, il est positionné à l'aile lors de son arrivée au club de Neath. Il débute avec le XV gallois lors du tournoi des six nations 2000 face à la France. Il fut finalement révélé au grand public trois ans plus tard lors du spectaculaire match de Coupe du monde entre le XV du Dragon et les All Blacks. Sa vivacité et son sens de l'attaque en font l'un des joueurs au ratio essais marqués par match le plus élevé. En 2005, il participe activement au triomphe gallois dans le grand chelem, en marquant des essais contre les Anglais, Italiens et Écossais. Puis, durant l'été 2005, il participe à la tournée des Lions en Nouvelle-Zélande. Lors de celle-ci, avec cinq essais contre Manawatu, il égale le record du nombre d'essais marqués dans un match avec les Lions. Le 20 septembre 2007, Shane Williams devient l'ailier meilleur réalisateur en dépassant Ieuan Evans (33 essais en 72 tests). Shane Williams (24 essais en 29 tests entre 2000 et 2005, 40 essais en 55 tests au 9 mars 2008) inscrit six essais lors de la Coupe du monde (pour quatre matchs disputés) et il poursuit sur le même rythme los du tournoi des six nations 2008. Le 15 mars 2008, il dépasse ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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James Hook & Virginia Eller; Family History & GenealogyPublication date: 1925, 171p. ... Read more

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Chapters: Shane Williams, Gavin Henson, Mike Phillips, James Hook, Duncan Jones, Ryan Jones, Aled Brew, Lee Byrne, Tom Prydie, Brent Cockbain, Andrew Bishop, Adam Rhys Jones, Alun Wyn Jones, Liam Davies, Mark Taylor, Andy Williams, Martin Roberts, Ian Evans, Jamie Nutbrown, Ian Gough, Richie Pugh, Ricky Januarie, Kristian Phillips, Jonathan Thomas, James Bater, Tom Smith, Barry Williams, Dan Biggar, Huw Bennett, Jason Spice, Barry Davies, Tavis Knoyle, Tal Selley, Gavin Thomas, David Bishop, Steve Tandy, Richard Hibbard, Matthew Jones, Shaun Connor, Paul James, Craig Mitchell, Richard Mustoe, Ed Shervington, Tom Isaacs, Jonathan Spratt, Cai Griffiths, Andy Lloyd, Ben Lewis, Mike Powell, Ross Davies, Andrew Millward, Lyndon Bateman, Michael Collins, Jonny Vaughton. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 149. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Shane Mark Williams (born 26 February 1977) is a Welsh international rugby union player who plays as a wing for the Ospreys and who can also play scrum-half. Williams is notable for his well-known side-step, acceleration and his ability to find open space through opposition defence. He has been described as one of the most exciting wingers in the world , and is currently third on the international all-time Test try scoring list. In 2008, Williams was selected as the IRB International Player of the Year. Williams was born in Morriston, in Swansea, but grew up in Glanamman in the Amman Valley. He picked up his first rugby ball while still in primary school, and was always small for his age, even going into secondary school at Amman Valley Comprehensive School. Told that he was too small to play rugby, Williams took up football instead, playing for Cwmamman United A.F.C.; in his first appearance for the club's junior team, Williams had to play in goal as...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2092829 ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 2; Original Publisher: R. Bentley; Publication date: 1872; Subjects: Humorists, English; Biography ... Read more