Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Merry Wives and Others
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Merry Wives and Others

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2010-06-28
  • -
  • Publisher: McFarland

In many ways, the history of domestic humor writing is also a history of domestic life in the twentieth century. For many years, domestic humor was written primarily by females; significant contributions from male writers began as times and family structures changed. It remains timeless because of its basis on the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, houses and inhabitants, pets and their owners, chores and their doers, and neighbors. This work is a historical and literary survey of humorists who wrote about home. It begins with a chapter on the social context of and attitudes toward traditional domestic roles and housewives. The following chapters, beginning with ...

Alien Nations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

Alien Nations

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2017-02
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

Alien Nations explores how artists convey a sense of people¿s alienation from modern society. During a time of great political upheaval around the globe, Alien Nationslooks at how a myriad of social issues affect the psychological state of the individual. Isolation, dislocation, absence of communication, human rights, immigration, and technology that directly impacts basic human relationships all exponentially intensify the sense of alienation in an age of anxiety. Curated by Bartholomew F. Bland and Yuneikys VillalongaThe exhibition presents a broad range of media by both emerging and established artists who express their visions through painting, photography, sculpture, installation, vide...

Winfred Rembert
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 59

Winfred Rembert

None

The Panoramic River
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

The Panoramic River

  • Categories: Art

Havell s work, (who also created many of the landscapes for Audubon s famous birds) includes panoramic publications and paintings of the Hudson River and the Thames like other artists in this exhibition such as Thomas Cole (Father of the Hudson River School), and noted artists Jasper Cropsey and John Kensett, who favored the chain of cities, suburbs, and countryside along these two rivers, where horizontal planes and historical associations gave form to both artistic and cultural expression. The Panoramic River features major loans from more than two dozen museums, galleries, and private collections. Museums lending paintings include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The New-York Historical Society; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Baltimore Museum of Art; Fenimore Art Museum; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College; Maryland State Archives; West Point Museum; Williams College Museum of Art; Princeton University Art Museum; and the Yale Center for British Art.

Lady Bountiful
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Lady Bountiful

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1922
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

Humorous sketches of West Ireland characters and others including the ex-king of Meglia.

World Engines: Destroyer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 539

World Engines: Destroyer

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2019-09-19
  • -
  • Publisher: Hachette UK

A hard-SF cli-fi saga set against the background of the birth of the solar system. Filled to the brim with big ideas and breathtaking worldbuilding In the year 2570, a sleeper will wake . . . In the mid-21st century, the Kernel, a strange object on a five-hundred-year-orbit, is detected coming from high above the plane of the solar system. Could it be an alien artefact? In the middle of climate-change crises, there is no mood for space-exploration stunts - but Reid Malenfant, elderly, once a shuttle pilot and frustrated would-be asteroid miner, decides to go take a look anyway. Nothing more is heard of him. But his ex-wife, Emma Stoney, sets up a trust fund to search for him the next time th...

Got Cow?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 54

Got Cow?

  • Categories: Art

None

The Island Mystery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

The Island Mystery

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2022-09-15
  • -
  • Publisher: DigiCat

"The Island Mystery" is an entertaining story set a year before World War I. It starts when an American buys an island in the Mediterranean Sea for his daughter so she can be a queen. She becomes the queen, but tension arises when weird hardware is found in a cave off the coast of her island, and now international powers want the island.

Paintbox Leaves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 50

Paintbox Leaves

  • Categories: Art

None

Constructor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 752

Constructor

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1961
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None