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  As Time Goes By

  Alice Taylor

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  Alice Taylor brings the reader with her on her 80th birthday year.
  
  Alice had a big birthday on the horizon, the village was about to celebrate many milestones, and she had just received the gift of a book focusing her on the art of living well. So she decided to write about her year as it unfolded, to keep a journal of the big events, and record the twists and turns normal life brings to all of us in just one year.
  But 2018 turned out to be far from normal, with storms, snow blizzards, blistering sun, severe drought and water shortages. She describes the challenges of all these dramatic weather changes.
  Alice began the year wondering how she would feel about reaching eighty. She was pleasantly surprised to discover that it was just another milestone on a journey that is still varied and interesting. Here she writes about these feelings, and the many pleasant and challenging events of her eightieth year.

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  Early Italian Painting

  Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni...

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  Oscillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine tradition and the modernity predicted by Giotto, Early Italian Painting addresses the first important aesthetic movement that would lead to the Renaissance, the Italian Primitives. Trying new mediums and techniques, these revolutionary artists no longer painted frescos on walls, but created the first mobile paintings on wooden panels. The faces of the figures were painted to shock the spectator in order to emphasise the divinity of the character being represented. The bright gold leafed backgrounds were used to highlight the godliness of the subject. The elegance of both line and colour were combined to reinforce specific symbolic choices. Ultimately the Early Italian artists wished to make the invisible visible. In this magnificent book, the authors emphasise the importance that the rivalry between the Sienese and Florentine schools played in the evolution of art history. The reader will discover how the sacred began to take a more human form through these forgotten masterworks, opening a discrete but definitive door through the use of anthropomorphism, a technique that would be cherished by the Renaissance.

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  The Backyard Homestead - The...

  R.S. Rusbot

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  The Backyard Homestead: The Ultimate Guide to Organic Gardening for Beginners, Discover All The Essential Information About Growing Your Own Organic Garden.More and more families are now deciding to grow their own organic garden. Due to all the news of harmful chemicals being used on the fruits and vegetables that we buy in the stores, the popularity of growing their own food has increased. Knowing that the food you put in the table is safe is not the only benefit you get from growing an organic garden. You will considerably lessen your grocery bill and gardening is a fun way to exercise and spend time under the sun. This audiobook will teach you all the information you need about starting your own organic garden.  You will learn which crops you can grow and how to maintain your garden. You will discover all the benefits from planting and eating your own produce.This audiobook will discuss the following topics:- Choose Your Location Carefully- Test Your Soil- Use Planters- Grow Based on Your Location- Think Outside The Box- Pick Your Crops- Clean Your Garden- Call In Reinforcements- Pairing and Timing- Extend Your Growing SeasonYou might think that growing your own organic garden is difficult but it is actually now. If your worry is you don't have any space to grow one, this audiobook has suggestions to fix that.If you want to increase your food supply while lowering your grocery bills and also have fun with tending your own garden, scroll up and click "add to cart" now.

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  Toulouse-Lautrec

  Nathalia Brodskaya

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  Lautrec studied with two of the most admired academic painters of the day, Léon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon. Lautrec’s time in the studios of Bonnat and Cormon had the advantage of introducing him to the nude as a subject. At that time life-drawing of the nude was the basis of all academic art training in nineteenth-century Paris. While still a student, Lautrec began to explore Parisian nightlife, which was to provide him with his greatest inspiration, and eventually undermined his health. Lautrec was an artist able to stamp his vision of the age in which he lived upon the imagination of future generations. Just as we see the English court of Charles I through the eyes of van Dyck and the Paris of Louis-Philippe through the eyes of Daumier, so we see the Paris of the 1890s and its most colourful personalities, through the eyes of Lautrec. The first great personality of Parisian nightlife whom Lautrec encountered – and a man who was to play an important role in helping Lautrec develop his artistic vision – was the cabaret singer Aristide Bruant. Bruant stood out as an heroic figure in what was the golden age of Parisian cabaret. Among the many other performers inspiring Lautrec in the 1890s were the dancers La Goulue and Valentin-le-Desossé (who both appear in the famous Moulin Rouge poster), and Jane Avril and Loïe Fuller, the singers Yvette Guilbert, May Belfort and Marcelle Lender, and the actress Réjane. Lautrec was, along with Degas, one of the great poets of the brothel. Degas explored the theme in the late 1870s in a series of monotype prints that are among his most remarkable and personal works. He depicts the somewhat ungainly posturing of the prostitutes and their clients with human warmth and a satirical humour that brings these prints closer to the art of Lautrec than anything else by Degas.
  However, the truthfulness with which Lautrec portrayed those aspects of life that most of his more respectable contemporaries preferred to sweep under the carpet naturally caused offence. The German critic Gensel probably spoke for many when he wrote: “There can of course be no talk of admiration for someone who is the master of the representation of all that is base and perverse. The only explanation as to how such filth – there can be no milder term for it – as Elles can be publicly exhibited without an outcry of indignations being heard is that one half of the general public does not understand the meaning of this cycle at all, and the other is ashamed of admitting that it does understand it.”

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  Peter Mayle's Provence -...

  Peter Mayle

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  When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gray winters and damp summers for life in southern France, they entered an enchanting, wonderful, sometimes bewildering world.  Now, share their adventures, pleasures, and frustrations: the joys and occasional hazards of wining and dining in France, taking part in goat races, attending a Pavorotti  concert under the stars — and much more.  Meet Provence's unique characters: a wary truffle hunter, a gourmet in a track suit, the wise and crafty Massot — and many more.  Funny, touching, endearing — Peter Mayle's Provence proves the adage that while you may not be able to escape from it all, you sure can have fun trying.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Presidents Battles and Must-See...

  Cameron M. Ludwick, Blair Thomas...

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  Take a historical tour through the Bluegrass State, with fascinating facts, photos, and tips for travelers.   As a border state and strategic territory, Kentucky was fiercely contested by the Union and the Confederacy and had ties to both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. This book guides you to the sites of such battles as Perryville, Middle Creek, and Munfordville, and the childhood homes of both Lincoln and Davis as well as Mary Todd. You’ll also learn about Kentucky’s Confederate capital, Civil War governors, and its African American soldiers.   Kentucky natives and adventure aficionados Cameron M. Ludwick and Blair Thomas Hess plot the course for a fun-filled road trip through history and across the Bluegrass State in Presidents, Battles, and Must-See Civil War Destinations.

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