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Venice
This work presents important sources - many previously unpublished in any language, and almost none previously available in English - for the history of the city-state of Venice from its zenith to its decline.
Some Kind of Wonderful
She’s had a perfect life, now it's time for Sandy Patterson to have a real one. The widowed southern beauty needs time away from her well-meaning but overly protective family. A carefree summer in Greece pursuing her passion for painting sounds good to her - once she gets a quick visit with her husband’s old college roommate out of the way. Expat businessman Alex Stoner turns out to be more than she’d bargained for. Irresistible Alex sets the summer temps to sizzling. He invites her to stay at his Greek isle villa where he manages to keep a respectful distance from upper class Sandy...most of the time. She soon wants him closer all of the time. Sexual tension crackles in the exotic, sensual world they inhabit. But why won’t he take her to his bed? What is behind the pain she sometimes sees in his soulful eyes?
Commentary and Ideology
Dante's Divine Comedy played a dual role in its relation to Italian Renaissance culture, actively shaping the fabric of that culture and, at the same time, being shaped by it. This productive relationship is examined in Commentary and Ideology, Deborah Parker's thorough compendium on the reception of Dante's chief work. By studying the social and historical circumstances under which commentaries on Dante were produced, the author clarifies the critical tradition of commentary and explains the ways in which this important body of material can be used in interpreting Dante's poem. Parker begins by tracing the criticism of Dante commentaries from the nineteenth century to the present and then e...
The Chandler Hill Inn Series
A family saga filled with love, a love story of a family with heart… In 1970, Violet Hawkins’ only wish at eighteen is to escape her life in the Dayton, Ohio, foster-care system and make her way to the west coast to enjoy a mellow life and find the love she’s been missing all her life. Lettie makes it to San Francisco, but soon learns she needs a job if she’s to live properly. A kind young man named Kenton Chandler offers her a sandwich and a job at his father’s inn and vineyards. With nothing to lose, Lettie takes him up on his offer and begins a whole new life in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. She immediately falls in love with the land and is fascinated with the idea of growing ...
Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy
In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; practical, aesthetic, and esoteric considerations of material and materiality; and the meanings associated with materials and the makers of sculptures. This volume brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to investigate how sculptors in early modern Italy confronted such challenges as procurement of materials, their costs, shipping and transportation issues, and technical problems of materials, along with the meanings of the usage, hierarchies of materials, and processes of material acquisition and production. Contributors also explore the implications of these facets in terms of the intended and perceived meaning(s) for the viewer, patron, and/or artist. A highlight of the collection is the epilogue, an interview with a contemporary artist of large-scale stone sculpture, which reveals the similar challenges sculptors still encounter today as they procure, manufacture and transport their works.
Statement of Disbursements of the House
Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.
Gender in Interaction
In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, institutional and ethnic frameworks, cultural and situative contexts. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds such as sociology of communication, anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, social psychology, and text linguistics. Masculinity and femininity are conceived of as varying culturally, historically and contextually. All contributions discuss empirical research of communication and the question of whether (and how) gender is a salient variable in discourse. So, one aim of the book is to trace the varying relevance of gender in interaction. Emotion politics, ideology, body concepts, and speech styles are related to ethnographic description of the contexts within which communication takes place. These contexts range from private to public communication, and from mixed-sex to same-sex conversations framed by different cultural backgrounds (Australian, German, Georgian, Turkish, US-American).
Rings on Her Fingers
Architect Steve Stratton knows what he wants for Christmas...a long-legged elf with an attitude! Even though Steve has enough charm to make an angel tumble, Gwen Mansfield is determined to keep her distance. Besides, she's busy enough this holiday season. Maintaining Scarborough Hall, her beloved mansion-turned-apartment house, has her moonlighting as a jewelry store "elf" at the mall to help pay the bills. With four broken engagements(she has the rings to prove it) there's no way she's going to subject herself to further humiliation by jumping into another relationship. She's intent on rebuilding her reputation by not losing Scarborough Hall to the mortgage company; besides, her tenants are...
