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The mine steals everyone I love. It's taking me too, piece by piece." - Bridie O'Doyle, 1887 Bridie O'Doyle lives a harsh life. The young daughter of a poor coal miner, she lives in a Pennsylvania mine patch town. When her father dies in the mine, she is left orphaned in the care of her relatives, struggling at the mercy of the cruel mine bosses and indebted to the company store. She swears vengeance upon Frank Gowen, the railroad and coal min...

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Meditating on her own experience of girlhood, marriage, and the mothering of a daughter, Getty combines a feminist outlook with a lively sense of connection to the natural and mythic realms from which the forces of generation emerge. Her poems, centered in domestic suburbia, range outward through those ancient realms and backward through the history of her family's women. Getty is concerned to explore the losses and absences of the spirit as r...

The autobiography of one of the world's wealthiest men -- this is the life story of one of the most extraordinary men J. Paul Getty. He was relatively unknown outside the pages of the Oil and Gas Journal until Fortune published a list of the wealthiest men in America. His name led all the rest.

Details from the painting "The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark, " by Jan Bruegel, present twenty-two different animals with their names in English, French, German, Italian, and Japanese.

Excerpt from The Gods of Northern Buddhism: Their History, Iconography and Progressive Evolution Through the Northern Buddhist CountriesIT is difficult for those who are unacquainted with the iconography of the gods of the Mahayana Pantheon to realize the degree of interest that may be attached to even a crude representation of a Northern Buddhist divinity.To the uninitiated the images of these deities are only of value as works Of art, or as ...

Excerpt from Notices of Chinese Seals Found in IrelandThe remote period to which these characters are assigned, leaves open a wide field for conjecture as to the time in which these Porcelain Seals found their way into this country.The situations in which some of them have been found are remarkable. Oneiwas discovered in ploughing a field near Borrisokane, county of Tipperary, in 1832 another was found last year at Killead, in the county of Do...

Excerpt from How to Read a Drawing I also wish the student to understand that, while I have divided the different classes of drawings under different headings, this work should be studied as a whole, as failure to understand thoroughly any part of it may result in a mis understanding of it all. The' main principles of drawing have been thoroughly explained and sufficient examples given to enable any one to understand clearly any drawing, but...

Learn J. Paul Getty's secrets on making money and getting rich in this "excellent How To book from a $$$ and sense man" (Kirkus Reviews).There are plenty of books on making money by men who haven't made much. But if J. Paul Getty, who Fortune magazine called "the richest man in the world, " doesn't know how, who does? Here the billionaire businessman discloses the secrets of his success-and provides a blueprint for those who want to follow in ...

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Now reissued, this lively autobiography introduces the famed tycoon to a new generation of readers and comes close to re-creating the essence of the man himself. 64 illustrations.

This first major study in English of Grandville allows him to speak for himself through a careful examination of his diary, fragments of which are to be found in a previously unexamined album of drawings in the Special Collections of the University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries. Since the majority of Getty's sources originate from the artist's diaries, this book provides valuable new insights into Grandville's life and work, particularly duri...

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Excerpt from Notices of the Round Towers of UlsterSeems to have been the same. Dr. Petrie. 8 This does not apply to the Ulster Towers as far as 1, Note at page 42.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving...

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