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Free Download Dr A. Krista Sykes, "Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community"
English | ISBN: 1350298379 | 2023 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 13 MB + 155 MB
The renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (1920-2017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture. This intellectual biography of Scully’s life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, mapping his relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the past one hundred years.

Free Download Victoria A Life By A. N. Wilson
2014 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 159420599X | EPUB | 5 MB
[A] shimmering and rather wonderful biography. –The Guardian (UK) When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was a mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe through her children’s marriages. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique, an aging, stiff widow paraded as the figurehead to an all-male imperial enterprise. But in truth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch was one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous and unconventional women who ever lived, and the story of her life continues to fascinate. A. N. Wilson’s exhaustively researched and definitive biography includes a wealth of new material from previously unseen sources to show us Queen Victoria as she’s never been seen before. Wilson explores the curious set of circumstances that led to Victoria’s coronation, her strange and isolated childhood, her passionate marriage to Prince Albert and his pivotal influence even after death and her widowhood and subsequent intimate friendship with her Highland servant John Brown, all set against the backdrop of this momentous epoch in Britain’s history-and the world’s. Born at the very moment of the expansion of British political and commercial power across the globe, Victoria went on to chart a unique course for her country even as she became the matriarch of nearly every great dynasty of Europe. Her destiny was thus interwoven with those of millions of people-not just in Europe but in the ever-expanding empire that Britain was becoming throughout the nineteenth century. The famed queen had a face that adorned postage stamps, banners, statues and busts all over the known world. Wilson’s Victoria is a towering achievement, a masterpiece of biography by a writer at the height of his powers.

Free Download Vibrant Botanical Painting: The Life of Plants in Watercolour by Jarnie Godwin
English | March 26, 2024 | ISBN: 0719842654 | 208 pages | PDF | 117 Mb
This lavish book celebrates the timeless beauty of some of our most loved flowers, and explains how they can be admired and captured in vibrant watercolour. Combining practical instruction with personal insights into botanical painting, Jarnie Godwin takes us on a journey of discovery through the life of plants from emerging bud to the final flourish. Jarnie’s detailed botanical content provides colourful inspiration and detailed instruction for every artist.

Free Download Unstill Life: A Daughter’s Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction by Gabrielle Selz
English | May 5, 2014 | ISBN: 0393239179 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 6.4 MB
Luminous and revealing, a daughter’s memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father.

Free Download Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit (Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination) by Kerry Wallach
English | March 12, 2024 | ISBN: 0271095598 | True EPUB/PDF | 312 pages | 96.7/167 MB
Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888-1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings have been destroyed or gone missing. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, this biography recovers Szalit’s life and presents a stunning collection of her art.

Free Download There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow By Jeffrey J. Selingo
2016 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 006238886X | EPUB | 1 MB
New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents’ anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation.Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today’s college students are graduating into an uncertain job market that is leaving them financially dependent on their parents for years to come-a reality that has left moms and dads wondering: What did I pay all that money for?There Is Life After College offers students, parents, and even recent graduates the practical advice and insight they need to jumpstart their careers. Education expert Jeffrey Selingo answers key questions-Why is the transition to post-college life so difficult for many recent graduates? How can graduates market themselves to employers that are reluctant to provide on-the-job training? What can institutions and individuals do to end the current educational and economic stalemate?-and offers a practical step-by-step plan every young professional can follow. From the end of high school through college graduation, he lays out exactly what students need to do to acquire the skills companies want.Full of tips, advice, and insight, this wise, practical guide will help every student, no matter their major or degree, find real employment-and give their parents some peace of mind.

Free Download The sugar season : a year in the life of maple syrup, and one family’s quest for the sweetest harvest By Whynott, Douglas
2014 | 279 Pages | ISBN: 0306822059 | EPUB | 3 MB
Follows one New England family as they struggle to preserve an ancient, lucrative, and threatened agricultural art — the sweetest harvest, maple syrup.

Free Download The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League By Hobbs, Jeff; Peace, Robert
2014 | 406 Pages | ISBN: 147673190X | EPUB | 5 MB
Peace was a talented young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University, only to succumb to the dangers of the streets — and of one’s own nature — when he returned home. When Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with Peace, his college roommate for four years. Peace’s life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, and he carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, "fronting" in Yale and at home. Through an honest rendering of Peace’s relationships, Hobbs examines the collision of two fiercely insular worlds.

Free Download The good life : aspiration, dignity, and the anthropology of wellbeing By Fischer, Edward F
2014 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0804790965 | EPUB | 11 MB
What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups use the market in pursuit of the "good life." But what exactly is the good life? How do we define wellbeing beyond material standards of living? While we all may want to live the good life, we differ widely on just what that entails. In The Good Life, Edward Fischer examines wellbeing in very different cultural contexts to uncover shared notions of the good life and how best to achieve it. With fascinating on-the-ground narratives of Germans’ choices regarding the purchase of eggs and cars, and Guatemalans’ trade in coffee and cocaine, Fischer presents a richly layered understanding of how aspiration, opportunity, dignity, and purpose comprise the good life.

Free Download The beach beneath the street : the everyday life and glorious times of the Situationist International By Wark, McKenzie
2011 | 197 Pages | ISBN: 1844677206 | EPUB | 1 MB
Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a contemporary voice capable of putting it into the context of twenty-first-century struggles.McKenzie Wark delves into the Situationists’ unacknowledged diversity, revealing a world as rich in practice as it is in theory. Tracing the group’s development from the bohemian Paris of the ’50s to the explosive days of May ’68, Wark’s take on the Situationists is biographically and historically rich, presenting the group as an ensemble creation, rather than the brainchild and dominion of its most famous member, Guy Debord. Roaming through Europe and the lives of those who made up the movement-including Constant, Asger Jorn, Michèle Bernstein, Alex Trocchi and Jacqueline De Jong-Wark uncovers an international movement riven with conflicting passions.Accessible to those who have only just discovered the Situationists and filled with new insights, The Beach Beneath the Street rereads the group’s history in the light of our contemporary experience of communications, architecture, and everyday life. The Situationists tried to escape the world of twentieth-century spectacle and failed in the attempt. Wark argues that they may still help us to escape the twenty-first century, while we still can …The book’s jacket folds out into a poster, Totality for Beginners, a collaborative graphic essay employing text selected by McKenzie Wark with composition and drawings by Kevin C. Pyle