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Prince FAQ

Autor: Arthur Lizie

Número de Páginas: 369

Here is the first comprehensive book that covers Prince’s forty-plus personal and professional years in and out of the public spotlight. Firmly grounded in a detailed chronological overview of Prince’s prodigious released and unreleased recorded musical output and epic live performances, Prince FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Purple Reign digs deep into Purple fact and legend as it explores the multiple number-one singles, the movie hits and flops, the exclusive and adventurous after shows, and the provocative TV appearances. But more than just a look at the music and moving images, this volume also highlights Prince’s relationship with those in the Purple Court—the Revolution, New Power Generation, Third Eye Girl and other band members, his musical influences (from Santana to Stevie to the Stones), the countless individual (Christopher Tracy) and group aliases (Madhouse), protégés (Carmen Electra), the cover artists (the Bangles) and recovery projects (Mavis Staples), and the wives, lovers, and multiple ingénues. And then there are the controversies—the rivalries with Rick James and Michael Jackson, the USA for Africa snub, the questions surrounding his...

Un Rey Sin Redencion

Autor: Virginia Camacho

Número de Páginas: 400

Aidan Swafford, en apariencia, es un hombre feliz y despreocupado, un cantante mundialmente reconocido que lo tiene todo; a las mujeres, el dinero, un par de escándalos... Pero todos desconocen que vive preso de la más profunda melancolía, y que esa sonrisa que a todos proyecta no es más que una máscara para ocultar que poco a poco su esperanza se ha ido extinguiendo, que se ha ido quedando sin motivos. ¿Qué será de él cuando al fin cumpla la promesa de vengar la muerte de sus padres? ¿Será el amor, el verdadero amor, el que lo traiga de vuelta a la luz? Tal vez este rey, como todos lo llaman, que se siente tan lleno de pecados, sí tenga redención. Tercera y última entrega de la Saga Príncipes - Hermanos Blackwell

The history of Florence; together with The prince, and various historical tracts. Transl

Autor: Niccolò Machiavelli

Número de Páginas: 570

The Black Shadow

Autor: Teddy Sabutey

Número de Páginas: 360

BY THE GRACE OF JEHOVAH GOD SINCE THE DEATH OF HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, Jesus Christ, every thousand years, a child is born to save humanity from hidden dangers of the evil one, as well as revealing Gods nature of grace to humankind. So, providence befell on the Attah- Keshei`s family of Ada, in Ghana, when Kofi was born. He became an American citizen and then a unique and notorious member of the elite unit of the Security Network of the USA, simply known as the A10, which has a constant membership of just ten people with given powers equal and above that of even the president of the USA. Kofi , who was nicknamed The Black Shadow, was tasked to unravel criminal killings, assassinations of presidents, prominent leaders business, social, religious, and political across the globe, and, particularly, family members of the The Blackwell Empire whose business empire controls most of the world socio-economic and political stage. This led to the shocking revelation of the true double identity of one man who cunningly managed his way through the rank and fi le of the American intelligence and political hierarchy to become the vice president of the United States of America, Nick Adams, known...

Earl Blackwell's Celebrity Register

Autor: Earl Blackwell

Número de Páginas: 516

The most insightful and least idolatrous of the celebrity references, this edition provides some 1,300 high-quality anecdotal essays on the stars of art, business, finance, religion and more from Michael Keaton and Marlon Brando to Art Buchwald and Connie Chung, to Mike Tyson and Barbara Bush. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

La casa del almendro

Autor: Laura Mcveigh

Número de Páginas: 278

Si pierdes todo lo que amas, ¿cómo sobrevivir y empezar de nuevo? La historia de una familia de refugiados que escapa del conflicto y la guerra en Afganistán en la década de 1990, e inicia un largo viaje en busca de libertad y seguridad. La emotiva novela de Laura McVeigh nos cuenta la historia de Afganistán después de la invasión soviética a través de las experiencias de una familia y de los ojos de una chica joven. McVeigh hace un tributo a la resiliencia de las mujeres afganas a través de la descripción de los horrores que tienen que sobrellevar y la fuerza que encuentran para sobrevivir. Samar, de quince años, la hija mediana, comparte la historia de su increíble viaje en el Expreso Trans-Siberiano, con la ayuda de Napoleón, el revisor, la Anna Karenina de Tolstoi, y sus padres y hermanos. Obligados a salir de Kabul cuando los rusos, y luego los talibanes, ponen su vida del revés, los niños y sus padres se enfrentan a la pérdida de todo su mundo y de su lugar en él. A lo largo de toda la historia, nuestra narradora, Samar, se aferra con valentía a su familia y a la esperanza, aunque muchas veces cualquier tipo de supervivencia parezca imposible. Con la...

Mientras las princesas duermen

Autor: Elizabeth Blackwell

Número de Páginas: 369

Una nueva visión realista de la historia de La Bella Durmiente protagonizada por una de las criadas. Bastan cincuenta años para que las intrigas de palacio se conviertan en un cuento de hadas repleto de conjuros, princesas malditas y castillos encantados, y eso fue lo que pasó con La bella durmiente. Bien lo sabe Elise Dalriss, una humilde anciana que durantesu juventud trabajó como dama de compañía de la taciturna reina Leonore y cuidó de su hija, la princesa Rose, de quien ahora los juglares dicen que durmió durante cien años. «¡ Ja! Sería un truco realmente hábil derribar a la hija del rey con un huso y verla revivir con un simple beso. A otros con esa historia...» , exclama Elise, protagonista de esta peculiar versión de La bella durmiente, una novela que está muycerca de las debilidades humanas y muy lejos de las versiones edulcoradas del cuento. El afán de poder, las conspiraciones y el mal amor son ingredientes vitales en esta espléndida historia de mujeres que no quisieron quedarse quietas mientras esperaban la llegada del príncipe azul. Reseña: «Una hermosa e original reinterpretación de un cuento que todos conocemos y que ahora nos traerá...

Midnight

Autor: Daryl Hemmerich

Número de Páginas: 149

Based on the story of Cinderella and fused with the epic-style majesty of Braveheart and Camelot, Midnight is a brutal and graphic saga of romantic love and vicious revenge. Living in medieval England, Cinderella is a beautiful and angelic young woman of eighteen, whose world is about to turn upside down. Orphaned by her mother, the equally beautiful Lady Victoria, and her father, the late great Sir Thomas Baldwin, first knight to the powerful King George, Cinderella’s welfare is now under the guardianship of Sir Baldwin’s icy fiancée, who sets out to have one of her two self-centered daughters marry the king’s dashing young son, Prince Edward. The courageous Sir Jonathan Winston assumes the role and responsibilities of the first knight soon after Sir Baldwin’s demise. However, and unbeknown to everyone, King George; his wife, Queen Miriam; and their son, the prince, are all about to be embroiled in a terrible vendetta with the evil and violent Sir Richard Blackwell II, also known as the Black Knight. Hell-bent on revenge over the death of his father, Sir Richard Blackwell I, committed by Cinderella’s father, and over the death of his mother, a result of the subsequent...

Medieval Family Roles

Autor: Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre

Número de Páginas: 264

This colelction of twelve original essays by European and American scholars, offers some of the latest research in three broad areas of medieval history: marriage, children, and family ties.

La maison éternelle

Autor: Yuri Slezkine

Número de Páginas: 1106

Après la révolution de 1917, le nouveau pouvoir soviétique s'engagea résolument dans la destruction de l'ancien monde et dans la construction du socialisme. Dans le même temps, il construisit à Moscou sa propre maison, sur le site d'un ancien marécage, près de la Moskova. Cet ensemble de 505 appartements équipés, modèle d'" organisation communiste de la vie quotidienne ", offrait aux hauts représentants du pouvoir bolchevique ainsi qu'à leur famille tous les services : une banque, une bibliothèque, un réfectoire, un théâtre, un bureau de poste, un court de tennis, etc. Ce livre est l'histoire de cette " maison éternelle ", et de tous ceux, hommes, femmes et enfants, qui y ont vécu. Cette grande saga familiale raconte la conversion au bolchevisme des socialistes de la première génération, elle relate l'exécution ou l'emprisonnement de 800 d'entre eux pour trahison pendant les Grandes Purges des années 1937-1938, et s'achève par la foi perdue de leurs enfants, et la fin de l'Union soviétique. Élaboré à partir de sources largement inédites, de lettres, journaux intimes, mémoires et de centaines de photographies, La Maison éternelle est une épopée qui ...

A Catalogue of the Redwood Library and Athenæum, in Newport, R.I.

Autor: Redwood Library And Athenaeum

Número de Páginas: 452

Great Houses of London

Autor: James Stourton

Número de Páginas: 330

Great Houses of London tells the stories of some of the grandest and most fascinating houses in this historic city, from their famous owners and occupants to their renovations and the many riches held within each.

Who's That Baby?

Autor: Diana Whitney

Número de Páginas: 237

DEAREST LUCY— When I first held you in my arms, I was Claire Davis, baby doctor. But soon I'll be "Mom." You looked at me with your dark, magical eyes—Johnny Winterhawk's eyes—and you instantly became the child of my heart. Your daddy's an incredible man, Lucy. Surely, like you, Johnny is one of God's perfect creatures. As a man, he's handsome, powerful, noble. As your father, well, there are none better. When he learned of you, he took you into his heart and home without reserve. I love him, Lucy, and I love you. And that's why I've agreed to marry him. And although he doesn't yet realize he loves me, too, soon he will…

Man . . . Mercenary . . . Monarch

Autor: Joan Elliott Pickart

Número de Páginas: 208

FATHER… John Colton had searched a lifetime for the sense of belonging he'd never had. And now a secret son signaled the end of his elusive pursuit. LOVER… But what of Laura Bishop, the sensitive beauty who'd also entered his world, penetrating his barriers with no more than a willingness to listen, to understand…to warm his soul—and his bed? PRINCE… Then his lover revealed her bombshell: He was a king's son, long denied his heritage, and she was in the royal employ. A one-time mercenary, Jogn didn't trust—or love—easily. Dare he let down his guard to become all he'd been destined to be: father, lover, prince…husband?

Dr. Mom and the Millionaire

Autor: Christine Flynn

Número de Páginas: 258

A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE Dr. Alexandra Lawson wasn't the type to swoon over a handsome man. But then she had never met anyone like Chase Harrington. The sought-after CEO had an unnervig way of making her feel more female than physician, and the normally staid surgeon found herself fantasizing of wedding bells and family albums when she accepted Chase's gallant offer to share his residence. Suddenly Alex had a lover to come home to, and a friend. But Chase had a secret agenda in Honeygrove, one she feared might never include making the doctor in his house a wife…

The Marriage Basket

Autor: Sharon De Vita

Número de Páginas: 213

Hunter Blackwell was fiercely proud of his Apache heritage and intended to rear his orphaned godson according to tribal tradition. Trouble was, the boy's strong-willed and stunningly beautiful aunt clearly had other ideas. Hunter couldn't deny that young Billy's life had been enriched by Rina Roberts's warm and gentle ways. Nor could he deny that she stirred this Apache's passion. But Hunter was a man who had been betrayed one too many times. Still, when he took Rina in his arms, he forgot all the reasons why he had sidestepped matrimony. And suddenly he was contemplating presenting Rina with a symbolic marriage basket and proposing the union of a lifetime!

City Politics, Canada

Autor: James Lightbody

Número de Páginas: 578

"City Politics, Canada will both irritate and please, but it should be read—it raises all the important questions about urban governance in Canada." - Caroline Andrew, Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa

The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens

Autor: Mike Ashley

Número de Páginas: 805

This book includes more than 1000 monarchs who have at some time ruled all or part of Britain. This includes the host of tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066 as well as famous monarchs such as Richard III, Elizabeth I and Charles II and all the rulers of Scotland and Wales. The book gives full details of the lives of the rulers as well as their wives, consorts, pretenders, usurpers and regents and is a geographical guide to where all Britain's monarchs lived, ruled and died including their palaces, estates and resting places.

Fire and Iron

Autor: Richard F. Allen

Número de Páginas: 271

Written in Iceland by an unknown author about 1280, Njals saga has been called the greatest work of vernacular prose fiction from the European Middle Ages. Allen's finely written and perceptive study is one of the first in English to offer a critical examination of the text.

Teaching Religion and Film

Autor: Gregory J Watkins

Número de Páginas: 324

In a culture increasingly focused on visual media, students have learned not only to embrace multimedia presentations in the classroom, but to expect them. Such expectations are perhaps more prevalent in a field as dynamic and cross-disciplinary as religious studies, but the practice nevertheless poses some difficult educational issues -- the use of movies in academic coursework has far outpaced the scholarship on teaching religion and film. What does it mean to utilize film in religious studies, and what are the best ways to do it? In Teaching Religion and Film, an interdisciplinary team of scholars thinks about the theoretical and pedagogical concerns involved with the intersection of film and religion in the classroom. They examine the use of film to teach specific religious traditions, religious theories, and perspectives on fundamental human values. Some instructors already teach some version of a film-and-religion course, and many have integrated film as an ancillary to achieving central course goals. This collection of essays helps them understand the field better and draws the sharp distinction between merely "watching movies" in the classroom and comprehending film in an...

Catalogue of Books in the Library of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec

Autor: Literary And Historical Society Of Quebec

Número de Páginas: 168

La realidad audiovisual como nuevo vehículo de comunicación

Autor: José Muñoz Jiménez

Número de Páginas: 524

La Universidad se encuentra en pleno progreso desde su tiempo cero; de hecho, halla su carta de naturaleza en la necesidad de mejorar el medio que la nutre y por y para el que existe: la sociedad.Rompiendo las viejas membranas de la enseñanza imperante hasta el siglo XX, las nuevas (r)evoluciones de contenidos y fórmulas, como lo fuera el EEES (o Plan Bolonia) o las TIC, suponen la respuesta a esas actualizadas necesidades docentes y curriculares. Las Humanidades, las Artes, las Ciencias sociales y la Docencia se reescriben, hibridando, gracias a los nuevos lenguajes y herramientas, contenidos otrora lejanos. La nueva Academia es poliédrica, ínter y multidisciplinar, dialógica y colaborativa. En este estado de cosas la colección Herramientas universitarias se erige como atalaya para agrupar bajo su égida al más amplio conjunto de autores internacionales que iluminen, con sus investigaciones, la panoplia de contenidos que conforman el mundo científico donde nace el futuro.La calidad intelectual queda refrendada mediante la rigurosa implantación del habitual proceso garante, basado en la revisión o arbitraje por pares ciegos (peer review) de estos capítulos, sin...

Warrior

Autor: Edoardo Albert , Paul Gething

Número de Páginas: 191

Warrior tells the story of forgotten man, a man whose bones were found in an Anglo-Saxon graveyard at Bamburgh castle in Northumberland. It is the story of a violent time when Britain was defining itself in waves of religious fervour, scattered tribal expansion and terrible bloodshed; it is the story of the fighting class, men apart, defined in life and death by their experiences on the killing field; it is an intricate and riveting narrative of survival and adaptation set in the stunning political and physical landscapes of medieval England. Warrior is a classic of British history, a landmark of popular archaeology, and a must-read for anyone interested in the story of where we've come from.

The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record

Número de Páginas: 1288

Humiliation

Autor: William Ian Miller

Número de Páginas: 292

'In an illuminating and darkly intelligent study, William Miller...has revealed...humiliation as the closet dominatrix she is, an emotion whose power to discipline us makes the world go round...Miller makes his pages blaze and roar...by throwing another handful of hollow complacencies upon the fire....The five essays making up this book...are about the persistence of the norm of reciprocity in our daily lives, about the ways in which shame and envy and especially humiliation sustain 'cultures of honor' to this day.'-Speculum

The Marvelous Saga of the MERCANARY™

Autor: David Reynolds

Número de Páginas: 311

Harrison Stockton Bueller thinks he's hit bottom when he makes a new friend. Enter: the MERCANARY™. This is The Marvelous Saga of the MERCANARY™. It's also the tale of Harry's nightmarish misadventures. Problematic Press is proud to present to you this gonzo picaresque novel... or something. Is there ever any solace? This is it. This is lit! ----- Somewhere between Holden Caulfield, Ignatius J. Reilly, and BoJack Horseman, you'll find Harrison Stockton Bueller playing with his G.I. Joes. MERCANARY™, a sells-word inspired by a typo, is a metafictional hero who's been drafted for lit's sake on land, sea, and air. His mission? Word. ----- In the words of the author: "This is a gonzo picaresque novel. It's a work of intermedial metafiction. It's a cautionary tale. It's a sob story. It's a farcical melodrama. It is high art. It adapts a 'zine of poetry and adventure. It adapts a memeoem, which is literally a new poetic art form that I invented for this. It is the culmination of my life's work in literature. It's ballsy and hubristic and vulnerable all at once. The protagonist is an anti-hero. The sidekick is really something else. The odds are against them, but they're in this to ...

Catalogue of the Illinois State Library

Autor: Illinois State Library

Número de Páginas: 534

Catalogue of the Illinois state library. W.H. Hinrichsen, librarian

Autor: Springfield Ill, Illinois State Libr

Número de Páginas: 534

Ancient Mysteries

Autor: Peter James , Nick Thorpe

Número de Páginas: 673

What was the Minotaur? Did a Welsh prince discover America? Did Robin Hood really exist? How does the Star of Bethlehem fit into the science of astronomy? Is the Vinland Map a fake? Can archaeologists use spirit messages to guide their work? For centuries, philosophers, scientists, and charlatans have attempted to decipher the baffling mysteries of our past, from the Stonehenge to the lost continent of Atlantis. Today, however, DNA testing, radiocarbon dating, and other cutting-edge investigative tools, together with a healthy dose of common sense, are guiding us closer to the truth. Peter James and Nick Thorpe, the professional historian and archaeologist team who created the acclaimed Ancient Inventions, now tackle these age-old conundrums, presenting the latest information from the scientific community--and the most startling challenges to traditional explanations of mysteries such as: - The rise and fall of the Maya - A lost cache of Dead Sea Scrolls - The curse of Tutankhamun - The devastation of Sodom and Gomorrah - The Nazca Lines These true mystery stories twist and turn like a good whodunit, as James and Thorpe present the evidence for and against the expert theories,...

Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland

Autor: Oren Falk

Número de Páginas: 336

Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject 'violence' itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we employ this term? How may we approach the category 'violence' in a specifically historical way, and what is it that we explain when we write its history? Astonishingly, such questions are seldom even voiced, much less debated, in the historical literature. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered Isle lays out a cultural history model for understanding violence. Using interdisciplinary tools, it argues that violence is a positively constructed asset, deployed along three principal axes - power, signification, and risk. Analysing violence in instrumental terms, as an attempt to coerce others, focuses on power. Analysing it in symbolic terms, as an attempt to communicate meanings, focuses on signification. Finally, analysing it in cognitive terms, as an attempt to exercise agency despite imperfect control over circumstances, focuses on...

Outlawry in Medieval Literature

Autor: T. Jones

Número de Páginas: 386

Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in medieval England in order to theorize the figure of the outlaw and uncover the legal, ethical, and social assumptions that underlie the practice of outlawry.

Historia de un plan

Autor: Osvaldo Flores Weber

Número de Páginas: 183

Christians and Pagans

Autor: Malcolm D. Lambert

Número de Páginas: 489

"Christians and Pagans" offers a comprehensive and highly readable account of the coming of Christianity to Britain, its coexistence or conflict with paganism, and its impact on the lives of both indigenous islanders and invading Anglo-Saxons.The Christianity of Roman Britain, so often treated in isolation, is here deftly integrated with the history of the British churches of the Celtic world, and with the histories of Ireland, Iona, and Pictland. Combining chronicle and literary evidence with the fruits of the latest archaeological research, Malcolm Lambert illuminates how the conversion process changed the hearts and minds of early Britain.

Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, 1840-1870

CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan

Autor: David Quiring

Número de Páginas: 377

Often remembered for its humanitarian platform and its pioneering social programs, Saskatchewan’s Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) wrought a much less scrutinized legacy in the northern regions of the province during the twenty years it governed. Until the 1940s churches, fur traders, and other wealthy outsiders held uncontested control over Saskatchewan’s northern region. Following its rise to power in 1944, the CCF undertook aggressive efforts to unseat these traditional powers and to install a new socialist economy and society in largely Aboriginal northern communities. The next two decades brought major changes to the region as well-meaning government planners grossly misjudged the challenges that confronted the north and failed to implement programs that would meet northern needs. As the CCF’s efforts to modernize and assimilate northern people met with frustration, it was the northern people themselves that inevitably suffered from the fallout of this failure. In an elegantly written history that documents the colonial relationship between the CCF and the Saskatchewan north, David M. Quiring draws on extensive archival research and oral history to offer a...

Operation Lock and the War on Rhino Poaching

Autor: John Hanks

Número de Páginas: 393

The aggressive poaching of rhinos needs to be countered with equal aggression. So argued Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the founder president of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), at a 1987 meeting with John Hanks, conservation expert and WWF’s head in Africa. The result was Operation Lock, a secret initiative funded by Prince Bernhard and staffed by former SAS operatives. Operation Lock set up headquarters in Johannesburg and extended its reach into neighbouring states: Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, Swaziland and Mozambique. Its operatives planned to train game rangers, to pose as rhino horn traders in order to entrap buyers, and to expose the kingpins who were driving the trade. It was a controversial approach, all the more because it was working within apartheid South Africa in the late 1980s. When the existence of the project was finally leaked, WWF denied any involvement, and John Hanks took the fall. In Operation Lock and the War on Rhino Poaching, John Hanks finally tells the story of these explosive events from 25 years ago. As a leading international authority on conservation, he also deals with the scourge of rhino poaching up to the present, and gives powerful...

Handbook Of Porphyrin Science: With Applications To Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Engineering, Biology And Medicine (Volumes 1-5)

Autor: Karl M Kadish , Roger Guilard , Kevin M Smith

Número de Páginas: 2438

This is the first set of Handbook of Porphyrin Science.Porphyrins, phthalocyanines and their numerous analogues and derivatives are materials of tremendous importance in chemistry, materials science, physics, biology and medicine. They are the red color in blood (heme) and the green in leaves (chlorophyll); they are also excellent ligands that can coordinate with almost every metal in the Periodic Table. Grounded in natural systems, porphyrins are incredibly versatile and can be modified in many ways; each new modification yields derivatives demonstrated new chemistry, physics and biology, with a vast array of medicinal and technical applications.As porphyrins are currently employed as platforms for study of theoretical principles and applications in a wide variety of fields, the Handbook of Porphyrin Science represents a timely ongoing series dealing in detail with the synthesis, chemistry, physicochemical and medical properties and applications of polypyrrole macrocycles. Professors Karl Kadish, Kevin Smith and Roger Guilard are internationally recognized experts in the research field of porphyrins, each having his own separate area of expertise in the field. Between them, they...

Video Games and Storytelling

Autor: Souvik Mukherjee

Número de Páginas: 327

The potential of video games as storytelling media and the deep involvement that players feel when they are part of the story needs to be analysed vis-à-vis other narrative media. This book underscores the importance of video games as narratives and offers a framework for analysing the many-ended stories that often redefine real and virtual lives.