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Driven by Fate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Driven by Fate

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-02-16
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  • Publisher: CreateSpace

A sexy category romance from Entangled's Brazen imprint... The first rule is obey... and she already broke it. Francesca "Frankie" De Luca always pays her debts. Even when it means stepping inside Serve, the sensuous Manhattan club that caters to particular adult desires. For Frankie, it's a taste of something she's always wanted-and never received. Until a sharply dressed Brit orders her into his room, and instructs her to undress before delivering the carnal punishment she so desperately needs... She wasn't the woman Porter Evans was expecting. Not this wild thing with the pale, silvery eyes. And such cheek. But she violates Porter's strict rules of control. Temptation is a dangerous thing indeed. Yet everything about Frankie cries out for schooling about the tantalizing interplay of pleasure and pain. So Porter offers Frankie a deal she can't refuse-and the only thing she owes him is submission...

The Damned Season
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

The Damned Season

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A sequel to Carte Blanche. Commisario De Luca is recalled to duty to investigate a series of brutal murders motivated by political power struggles and ominous postwar machinations in the aftermath of the fall of fascism.

Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 373

Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum offers the first dedicated and comprehensive study of Vasari?s original contributions to the making of museums, addressing the subject from the full range of aspects - collecting, installation, conceptual-historical - in which his influence is strongly felt. Uniting specialists of Giorgio Vasari with scholars of historical museology, this collection of essays presents a cross-disciplinary overview of Vasari?s approaches to the collecting and display of art, artifacts and memorabilia. Although the main focus of the book is on the mid-late 16th century, contributors also bring to light that Vasari?s museology enjoyed a substantial afterlife well into the modern museum era. This volume is a fundamental addition to the museum studies literature and a welcome enhancement to the scholarly industry on Giorgio Vasari.

Living I Was Your Plague
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Living I Was Your Plague

From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life image Martin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona has left an indelible mark on the world today. Living I Was Your Plague explores how Luther carefully crafted his own image and how he has been portrayed in his own times and ours, painting a unique portrait of the man who set in motion a revolution that sundered Western Christendom. Renowned Luther biographer Lyndal Roper examines how the painter Lucas Cranach produced images that made the reform...

Ambitious Form
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Ambitious Form

  • Categories: Art

Ambitious Form describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. The book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors--Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti--as they negotiated the politics of the Medici court and eyed one another's work, setting new aims for their art in the process. Only through a comparative look at Giambologna and his contemporaries, it argues, can we understand them individually--or understand the period in which they worked. Michael Cole shows how the concerns of central Italian artists changed during the last decades of the Cinquecento. Whereas their...

Nematode Pathogenesis of Insects and Other Pests
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 532

Nematode Pathogenesis of Insects and Other Pests

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-08-11
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  • Publisher: Springer

Achieving a sustainable agriculture requires integrating advances in multiples disciplines, covering both fundamental and applied research in a common objective: enhancing crop health for better productions. This first volume of the Series “Sustainability in plant and crop protection” presents a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary compendium about the recent achievements in the use of entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) as biological control in a global scale. The volume is organized in a first section discussing the last discoveries on the biology and ecology of the EPN, a second section covering the advances on the EPN productions and release, and a third section with multiples case-studies in which the concepts and ideas on the two previous sections are integrated and discussed. An essential tool for researchers and professionals working to advance in the sustainable use of our resources.

Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 435

Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art

  • Categories: Art

The essays in Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art build on Marcia Hall’s seminal contributions in several categories crucial for Renaissance studies, especially the spatiality of the church interior, the altarpiece’s facture and affectivity, the notion of artistic style, and the controversy over images in the era of Counter Reform. Accruing the advantage of critical engagement with a single paradigm, this volume better assesses its applicability and range. The book works cumulatively to provide blocks of theoretical and empirical research on issues spanning the function and role of images in their contexts over two centuries. Relating Hall’s investigations of Renaissance art to new fields, Space, Image, and Reform expands the ideas at the center of her work further back in time, further afield, and deeper into familiar topics, thus achieving a cohesion not usually seen in edited volumes honoring a single scholar.

Advances in Molecular Plant Nematology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Advances in Molecular Plant Nematology

Plant parasitic nematodes are a main pest to crops. For ex am pie, the root-knot nematodes belonging to the genus Meloidogyne are worldwide in their distribution and attack almost every type of crop, causing considerable losses of yield and affecting quality of produce. The cyst nematodes within the genera Globodera and Heterodera constitute a major group of plant pathogens in many countries throughout the world, suppressing yields of potato, sugar beet, soybean and cereals. Several nematodes such as longidorids and trichodorids are implicated in the transmission of numerous plant viruses. Many others cause constraints to agricultural production either locally or on large areas. However, des...

Tempted by the English Marquis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 366

Tempted by the English Marquis

When Love Conquers Duty. For readers of Regency Historical Romance who like their stories with a little steam and a lot of heart. Gideon Kembal, Marquis of Holwell, vows to save those he loves from the shocking scandal which threatens to tear his family apart. Duty bound, he sails to Italy, determined to bring his wayward mother and sister back to England. Serafina de Luca is the obedient daughter of one of Rome’s most wealthy and powerful families. Despite her heart’s secret desire, she knows her future lies in a loveless, political marriage. Arriving in Rome, Gideon finds himself at war with his mother. His only respite is found in reconnecting with the enchanting Serafina, the woman h...

Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Celebrated at the heart of a notoriously unstable period, the Vacant See, papal funerals in early modern Rome easily fell prey to ceremonial chaos and disorder. Charged with maintaining decorum, papal Masters of Ceremonies supervised all aspects of the funeral, from the correct handling of the papal body to the construction of the funeral apparato: the temporary decorations used during the funeral masses in St Peter?s. The visual and liturgical centre of this apparato was the chapelle ardente or castrum doloris: a baldachin-like structure standing over the body of the deceased, decorated with coats of arms, precious textiles and hundreds of burning candles. Drawing from printed festival book...