Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
By:"Annie Shepley Omori","土居光知","Murasaki Shikibu","Izumi Shikibu"
Published on 1920 by Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
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Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
Girl, Stolen
Girl, Stolen
By:"April Henry"
Published on 2010-09-28 by Macmillan
Cheyenne, a blind sixteen year-old, is kidnapped and held for ransom; she must outwit her captors to get out alive. Sixteen year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills her prescription at the pharmacy. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, their car is being stolen--with her inside! Griffin hadn't meant to kidnap Cheyenne, all he needed to do was steal a car for the others. But once Griffin's dad finds out that Cheyenne's father is the president of a powerful corporation, everything changes—now there's a reason to keep her. What Griffin doesn't know is that Cheyenne is not only sick with pneumonia, she is blind. How will Cheyenne survive this nightmare, and if she does, at what price? Prepare yourself for a fast-paced and hard-edged thriller full of nail-biting suspense.
This Book was ranked 30 by Google Books for keyword girl.
Burning with Desire
Burning with Desire
By:"Geoffrey Batchen"
Published on 1999 by MIT Press
In an 1828 letter to his partner Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre wrote, \
This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword photography.
Thing of Beauty
Thing of Beauty
By:"Stephen Fried"
Published on 2011-12-06 by Simon and Schuster
At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and redefining the industry's standard of beauty. She was the darling of moguls and movie stars, royalty and rockers. Gia was also a girl in pain, desperate for her mother's approval—and a drug addict on a tragic slide toward oblivion, who started going directly from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to the heroin shooting galleries on New York's Lower East Side. Finally blackballed from modeling, Gia entered a vastly different world on the streets of New york and Atlantic City, and later in a rehab clinic. At twenty-six, she became on of the first women in America to die of AIDS, a hospital welfare case visited only by rehab friends and what remained of her family. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Gia's gamily, lovers, friends, and colleagues, Thing of Beauty creates a poignant portrait of an unforgettable character—and a powerful narrative about beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.
This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword beauty.
The Art Journal
The Art Journal
By:
Published on 1910 by
Vol. for 1867 includes Illustrated catalogue of the Paris Universal Exhibition.
This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword art.
Fashion and Fiction
Fashion and Fiction
By:"Aileen Ribeiro"
Published on 2005 by Yale University Press
Relatively few garments survive from before the eighteenth century, and the history of costume in the preceding centuries must therefore rely to a great extent on literary and visual evidence. This book, the first of its kind, examines Stuart England through the mirror of dress. It argues that both artistic and literary sources can be read and decoded for important information on dress and the way it was perceived in a period of immense political, social, and cultural change. Focusing on the rich visual culture of the seventeenth century, including portraits, engravings, fashion plates, and sculpture, and on literary sources--poetry, drama, essays, sermons--the distinguished historian of dress Aileen Ribeiro creates a fascinating account of Stuart dress and how it both reflected and influenced society. Supported by a wealth of illustrative images, she explores such varied themes as court costumes, the masque, the ways in which political and religious ideologies could be expressed in dress, and the importance of London as a fashion center. This beautiful book is an indispensable and authoritative account of what people wore and how it related to Stuart England’s cultural climate.
This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword fashion.
