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Wild and Wicked Things
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 425

Wild and Wicked Things

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-03-29
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

"Haunting, immersive, and seething with dark magic."―Alexis Henderson Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022! In the 1920s, a lush, decadent gothic tale unfolds as a young woman slips into a glamorous world filled with illicit magic, tantalizing romance, and murder. On Crow Island, people whisper that real magic lurks just below the surface. But magic doesn’t interest Annie Mason. Not after it stole her future. She’s on the island only to settle her late father’s estate and, hopefully, reconnect with her long-absent best friend, Beatrice, who fled their dreary lives for a more glamorous one. Yet Crow Island is brimming with temptation, and the most mesmerizing may be her enigmatic n...

Japanese Dress in Detail
  • Language: en

Japanese Dress in Detail

With exquisite close-up photography of some of the most fascinating pieces in the V&A’s collections, this book reveals the full scope of Japanese dress over the past three centuries. A unique insight into the history and key themes of Japanese dress from the eighteenth century to the present, Japanese Dress in Detail reveals the elaborate embroidery, precise folds, and sophisticated dyes that form some of the most beautiful garments in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s unparalleled Japanese dress collection. This book provides readers with the rare opportunity to examine historical clothing, from breathtaking Edo-period kimono, court robes, and No— theatre costumes to indigo-dyed utilitarian garments and exciting contemporary designs. Featuring both garments and accessories, this book is an extraordinary exploration of the beauty and complexity of Japanese fashion. Specially commissioned close-up photography and authoritative texts accompany each garment, and front-and-back line drawings make this publication an invaluable resource for students, collectors, designers, fashion lovers, and Japanophiles.

I, Clodia, and Other Portraits
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 83

I, Clodia, and Other Portraits

By giving Clodia - the 'Lesbia' of Catullus's famous love poetry - her own first-person narration, Anna Jackson upends and reinvigorates the beloved classical sequence with biting wit and tender attention. The photographer in the second sequence reads, writes, gives presents and considers the art of portraiture. But who is examining, and who is being examined? Above all else, Anna Jackson takes us within and without a range of characters in her characteristically witty style.

The Do-it-yourself Film Animation Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 95

The Do-it-yourself Film Animation Book

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1975
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1892
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Pastoral Kitchen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 59

The Pastoral Kitchen

In this collection, Anna Jackson's poems deal thoughtfully and elegantly with motherhood, family, and the environment. Her ideas often assume unexpected forms, appearing as hens, vending machines, or grass within her poetry. Also addressed in these poems is the fate of today's animals in their restricted habitats, which is dealt with in poems such as 'Dodo', 'Butterflies' and 'The Pastoral Elephant'.

Actions & Travels
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Actions & Travels

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-03-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A brilliant introduction to how poetry works through one hundred poems.Through illuminating readings of one hundred poems - from Catullus to Alice Oswald, Shakespeare to Hera Lindsay Bird - Actions & Travels is an engaging introduction to how poetry works. Ten chapters look at simplicity and resonance, imagery and form, letters and odes, and much more. In Actions & Travels Anna Jackson explains how we can all read (and even write) poetry.

Jake's Fortune
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

Jake's Fortune

This February 2010 release by Ray Comfort is a novel. A worthwhile and unique read, powerful in its content. Ray Comfort and Anna Jackson have crafted a compelling novel of mystery and romance that breathes with suspense and intrigue. Greed over gold, a cold-blooded murder, overwhelming bitterness, abiding faith, romantic love, abuse, blackmail, secrecy, and intense personal struggles are the core elements of this great work that is set in the Wild West of the nineteenth century. You will identify with Jake's inner turmoil as he endeavors to come to grips with evil in this world. You will be amazed to see how he learns to deal with his own bitterness and his tumultuous emotions. Jake s Fortune will open the door to spiritual understanding and truth, and your reading of this book will challenge you and inspire you to find solid answers for your own life.

Blood & Irony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Blood & Irony

During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, this book argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity.

The V & A Guide to Period Styles
  • Language: en

The V & A Guide to Period Styles

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Anna Jackson explores key styles from the time of Henry VIII to the death of Queen Victoria. Lucid explanatory text accompanies photographs showing enlarged details highlighting the salient features of each style.