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Phenomenal... Utterly absorbing' Sunday Times, 'Book of the Week''[A] fabulous romp of a book'***** Mail on Sunday A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream. In the intervening years, the stretch of seaboard from the red mountains of...

Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, from Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel to Andre Matisse and James Baldwin.1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream. In the 185 ...

A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream. In the intervening years, the stretch of seaboard from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted a cultural phenomenon well in excess of its tiny size. A mere handful of ...

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This massive and lavishly illustrated book is amajor critical study of David Jones, the great painter and poet. It introduces Jones's better known visual achievements and combines them with a vast amount of previously unpublished material--sketches, watercolors, carvings, engravings, inscriptions, and ephemera. The accompanying text places Jones not only in the context of 20th century British art but also in relation to continental movements. ...

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P.O.W.E.R. to Get Wealth is the formula you need for next level living! It is an Apostolic expression of 3 John1:2, "Beloved, I pray that in every way you may succeed and prosper and be in good health [physically], just as [I know] your soul prospers [spiritually]. P.O.W.E.R., according to Deuteronomy 8:18, is the ability God has given you to manifest promises unto you and your family to enlarge your territory - financially, physically and spi...

What is myth? Why do myths exist? What do myths do? Where are myths going? This reader is organized into 4 parts which explore these questions. Drawing on over 10 years of experience teaching myth in religious studies and anthropology departments in the UK, USA and Continental Europe the editors have brought together key works in the theory of myth. Key features include: - a general introduction to the reader that outlines a comparative...

Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter the Great, St. Petersburg's dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly cemented by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city, in its successive incarnations—St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and, once again, St. Petersburg—has always been a place of perpetual contradiction.It was a window to Europe and the Enlightenment, but so mu...

Funny, bighearted...Miles specializes in giving fully rounded humanity to characters who might elsewhere be treated as stock figures...pitch-perfect."- New York Times Book Review"Miles is a writer so virtuosic that readers will feel themselves becoming better, more observant people from reading him."- Los Angeles Review of BooksA profound new novel about a paralyzed young man's unexplainable recovery-a stunning exploration of faith, science, m...

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St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on the western edge of Russia. It was a new capital in an old country. Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter-the-Great, its dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly fashioned by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers.This city, in its successive in...

Funny, bighearted...Miles specializes in giving fully rounded humanity to characters who might elsewhere be treated as stock figures...pitch-perfect."- New York Times Book Review"Miles is a writer so virtuosic that readers will feel themselves becoming better, more observant people from reading him."- Los Angeles Review of BooksA profound new novel about a paralyzed young man's unexplainable recovery-a stunning exploration of faith, science, m...

From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg-one of the most magical, menacing, and influential cities in the world. St. Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on the western edge of Russia. It was a new capital in an old country. Established in 1703 by the sheer will of Peter the Great, its dazzling yet unhinged reputati...

In June 1816, the Medusa, flagship of a French expedition to repossess the colony of Senegal from the British, set sail but ran aground off the desolate West African coast. This book presents the study of the Medusa tragedy.

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In Eric Gill and David Jones at Capel-y-ffin Jonathan Miles explores the four years which Gill and Jones spent in Gill''s religious and artistic community in the Black Mountains of Wales and discovers that it was hugely significant time for both. For Jones it was a cultural homecoming. For Gill it was an opportunity to experiment spiritually and sexually.

Bennie is traveling to his estranged daughters wedding when his flight is cancelled. Frustrated, he starts to write a letter which begins as a hilariously excoriating demand for a refund and soon becomes a cri de coeur of a life misspent.

This novel, a New York Times Notable Book, offers funny and occasionally devastating “portraits of humanity...as beautifully mundane and unique as a fingerprint” (Entertainment Weekly). ¶ “Wonderful...the work of a fluid, confident and profoundly talented writer.” -Dave Eggers ¶ A highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair-a young freegan couple living off t...

Vor über 20 Jahren hat er den größten Fehler seines Lebens begangen. Die einmalige Chance, ihn wiedergutzumachen, liegt nur wenige Flugstunden entfernt. Doch American Airlines storniert den Flug auf halber Strecke. Was tun? Bennie Ford, Mitte fünfzig, gestrandet auf dem Flughafen in Chicago, schreibt einen Beschwerdebrief ¿ der ihm aus Versehen zu einem Roman über sein Leben gerät.