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Komorebi
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Komorebi

  • Categories: Art

Join illustrator Djamila Knopf on a magical journey through her life and art, including her Japanese inspiration and storytelling techniques.

The Lady with the Borzoi
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

The Lady with the Borzoi

The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who helped define American literature Left off her company’s fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as “the soul of the firm,” Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche also legitimized the hard-boiled detective fiction of writers such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler; signed and nurtured literary authors like Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowen, and Muriel...

Summary of Karl Knopf's Healthy Shoulder Handbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 12

Summary of Karl Knopf's Healthy Shoulder Handbook

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The incidence of shoulder dysfunction is caused by many variables. Some may result from falls, while others may come from overuse. Shoulder problems can affect the weekend athlete, the office worker hunched over a computer, and the home owner who paints a bedroom wall. #2 The shoulder is a complex joint, and pain can be referred from the neck or other areas of the body, creating different degrees of shoulder problems. The percentage of people experiencing shoulder problems depends on the definition of shoulder pain used. #3 The shoulder is a complex joint that can rock a baby to sleep, hurl a baseball at 90 mph, and generate a 100-mph serve in tennis. However, it is also the most difficult and complicated joint in the body to rehabilitate. #4 The shoulder is made up of four bones: the clavicle, the scapula, the acromion, and the sternum. The joint between the humerus and the scapula is known as the GH joint.

Venice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 466

Venice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Knopf

"Stunning, fresh, and very visual." -- "Bride's Magazine From the stately charm of "palazzos standing guard on the Grand Canale to intimate details of private homes lining the twisting sidewalks and waterways, Venice is a dream of timeless beauty. From its hand-blown beads and Puccini-singing gondoliers to the wild beat and dazzling costumes of Carnival, discover Venice, happily married to traditions that have put painters, travelers and poets under its spell for centuries. Find the Venice everyone dreams of, but few actually witness. Enjoy the city's fabulous architectural wonders -- ranging in age from 100 to 1,000 years old -- that are by turns intimate and majestic, and explore the twelve neigborhoods from central San Marco to the less-visited but charming Santa Croce. Learn not only where to hire a gondola and how much to pay, but also how these magical boats are built and navigated. Take a guided tour of the Accademia, with its grand collection of Titians, and find the small craft shops where the glass Venice is famous for is blown. Find the best beach on the Lido, choose a "pensione that is just right, and sample "fegato alla veneziana at a neighborhood "trattoria.

Dead Anyway
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Dead Anyway

New York Times critically acclaimed suspense writer, Chris Knopf, reaches a new imaginative peak in this outstanding revenge novel. Imagine this: You have a nice life. You love your beautiful, successful wife. You're an easygoing guy working out of your comfortable Connecticut home. The world is an interesting, pleasant place. Then in seconds it's all gone. You're still alive, but the world thinks you're dead. And now you have to decide. Make it official, or go after the evil that took it all away from you. Arthur Cathcart, market researcher and occasional finder of missing persons, decides to live on a fight, by doing what he knows best - figuring things out, without revealing his status as a living breathing human being. Much easier said than done in a post- 9/11 world, where everything about yourself and all the tools you need to live a modern life are an open book. How do you become a different person, how do you finance an elaborate scheme without revealing yourself? How do you force a reckoning with the worst people on earth, as a dead man?

I Am the Messenger
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 466

I Am the Messenger

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-01-01
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  • Publisher: Random House

From the author of The Book Thief comes this darkly funny and ultimately uplifting thriller which proves that anyone can be extraordinary. Ed Kennedy is just your less-than-average Joe who is hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. But after he single-handedly manages to catch a bank robber, he receives a playing card in the mail: the Ace of Diamonds. This is the first message. Four more will follow. But before this particular card game can end, Ed will be changed forever . . . Will Audrey love the man he has become?

Theater and Film
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 458

Theater and Film

This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other’s development.Robert Knopf here assembles essays from performers, directors, writers, and critics that illuminate this ongoing inquiry. The book is divided into five parts—historical influence, comparisons and contrasts, writing, directing, and acting—with interludes by major artists whose work and words have shaped the development of theater and film. A comprehensive bibliography and filmography support further work in this area.The book contains contributions from Susan Sontag, Stanley Kauffmann, Sarah Bey-Cheng, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Julia Taymor, Judi Dench, Sam Waterston, Orson Welles, Antonin Artaud, and Milos Forman, among others.

The Perfect Hostess Cook Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 499

The Perfect Hostess Cook Book

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1958
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Other Americans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

The Other Americans

Finalist for the National Book Award 2019 An Observer, Literary Review and Time Book of the Year 'One of the most affecting novels I have read. Subtle, wise and full of humanity' The Times Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters, deeply divided by race, religion and class. As the characters tell their stories and the mystery unfolds, Driss's family is forced to confront its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love, in all its messy and unpredictable forms, is born. 'A state-of-America family saga told as a slow-burn detective story' Observer 'Exceptionally rich' Sunday Times 'Confirms Lalami's reputation as one of our most sensitive interrogators, probing at the faultlines in family and the wider world' Financial Times

Speak, Okinawa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Speak, Okinawa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-02-25
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  • Publisher: Granta Books

Here's a story. On the U.S.-occupied island of Okinawa, an American soldier falls in love with a beautiful Japanese woman. He saves her from a life of grinding poverty. They settle in the States, to live out the suburban American Dream with their child. Here's another version. The U.S. military has occupied Okinawa since World War Two, after slaughtering a third of the island's population; the beautiful Japanese woman lives in poverty and marries the soldier as a way to escape. Here's a third version. A little girl grows up with a mother who can't pronounce her name. She meets blood relatives with whom she cannot communicate. She clings to a sense of whiteness that white peers will not let h...