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Romantics and Classics
Living today in the houses of the English countryside, owners blend contemporary style with the old, good bones of manor houses and country seats, redefining the notion of English country and creating interiors that are both chic and intimate. English country house style looms large in the collective imagination, inspiring fantasies of life in a centuries-old manor house, overlooking verdant hills dotted with sheep. This book allows us to enter some of the most exceptional of England's historic houses that are lived in and decorated for today by their imaginative owners and designers. Jeremy Musson and Hugo Rittson Thomas have assembled a stunning collection of twenty charming homes that rev...
Pablo Bronstein: Hell in Its Heyday
Fantastic and phantasmagorical watercolors of hell's must-see sites In these large-scale watercolors, London-based Argentinian artist Pablo Bronstein (born 1977) imagines hell as a city built up out of the architectural and technological fantasies of the last two centuries. Bronstein guides us through hell's concert halls, casinos, botanical gardens and car factories.
The Good Companions
First published in 1929 and now public domain in the US, ''The Good Companions'' focuses on the trials and tribulations of a group of stage entertainers between the World Wars. It was arguably Priestley's most famous novel, and the work which established him as a national figure.
The Borders of Inequality
Recently U.S. media, policymakers, and commentators of all stripes have been preoccupied with the nation’s border with Mexico. Airwaves, websites, and blogs are filled with concerns over border issues: illegal immigrants, drug wars, narcotics trafficking, and “securing the border.” While this is a valid conversation, it’s rarely contrasted with the other U.S. border, with Canada—still the longest unguarded border on Earth. In this fascinating book, originally published in Spain to much acclaim, researcher Íñigo Moré looks at the bigger picture. With a professionally trained eye, he examines the world’s “top twenty most unequal borders.” What he finds is that many of these ...
Remembering Iñigo
Remembering Inigo gives us an intimate picture of Saint Ignatius of Loyola as a person and as a religious superior. Luis Goncalves da Camara was the Jesuit whom Ignatius chose to record his personal recollections of his own religious experiences and development in a document that later came to be known as Ignatius's Autobiography. Da Camara was also convinced however, that, if a religious order was to maintain its pristine spirit and purpose, it would do so especially through imitation of its founder. So he set out to get to know, through direct experience, Ignatius's particular and special characteristics. Living for a time (1553-1555) with St Ignatius in the Jesuit headquarters in Rome, da...
Nuclear Intent
STONY MAN When the President has nowhere else to turn, Stony Man is there to get the job done. An elite group of black ops and cyber tech professionals, the team works under the cloak of stealth to strike before innocent lives are lost. Bound by honor and duty, they are willing to pay the ultimate price to uphold freedom. NUCLEAR INTENT Three agents end up dead and one of Stony Man Farm's own is injured after receiving covert information, sending up a red flag in the President's office. Someone is planning to ignite hostilities between Israel and Iran by unleashing a nuclear weapon that would force the U.S. to help their ally and go into battle. With the lives of millions at stake, Stony Man's Phoenix Force flies to Yemen to track the bomb before it can launch, while Able Team hunts down the masterminds behind the deadly plot...in the United States.
All That Glitters
An Economist, Independent and Waterstones Book of the Year pick for 2024 A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard 'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe 'A brilliant, devastating exposé' William Boyd 'Explosive... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history' Guardian 'Liar's Poker, but for art' Economist DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core. A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.
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