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Allison Levy

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Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

From Pliny to Petrarch to Pope-Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice. This book expands and nuances our understanding of Renaissance portraiture; the author shows it to be complexly generated within a discourse of male anxiety and pre-mortuary mourning. She argues that portraiture could defer memory loss or, at the very least, pictorially console the subject against his own potentially unmourned death. This book reco...

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Allison Levy

A look into the tantalising secrets of Florence's Palazzo Rucellai.When Italian Renaissance professor Allison Levy takes up residency in the palazzo of her dreams – the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence – she finds herself consumed by the space and swept into the vortex of its history. She spends every waking moment in dusty Florentine libraries, exploring the palazzo's myriad rooms seeking to uncover its secrets.As she unearths the stories of those who have liv...

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Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Whereas recent studies of early modern widowhood by social, economic and cultural historians have called attention to the often ambiguous, yet also often empowering, experience and position of widows within society, Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe is the first book to consider the distinct and important relationship between ritual and representation. The fifteen new interdisciplinary essays assembled here read widowhood as a catalyst for the production of a significant ...

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Allison Bee Levy

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Allison Bee Levy

Do you want to turn your pain into your power? Let Alli Bee show you how she did it..."Have faith and not fear" is what the other women in Nicaraguan jail said to Allison, a.k.a. Alli Bee, when she was curled up in the corner of her jail cell crying. She felt lost in the dark, but her future readers were her strength when she was weak. Through divorce, addiction, and toxic relationships, you see her raw, true, painful choices that have led her to where she is now. She chooses to be...

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Allison Pataki

“An inspiring, intimate memoir about faith, resilience and the tenacity of love.”—People“In this emotional tale, a young couple see their lives changed in the blink of an eye—and learn to find love again.”—US WeeklyFive months pregnant, on a flight to their “babymoon,” Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she di...

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Allison Pataki

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Allison Pataki

A deeply moving memoir about a couple whose lives were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future.Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she discovered that Dave--a healthy thirty-year-old athlete and surgical resident--had suffered a rare and life-threatening s...

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Vienna Pharaon

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Vienna Pharaon

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Pharaon (@mindfulmft, +683K followers) comes a profound guide to understanding and overcoming wounds from your Family of Origin—the foundation of how we relate to others, ourselves, and the world around us.**None of us had a perfect childhood; we are all carrying around behaviors that don’t serve us—and may in fact be hurting us. But it doesn’t have to be that way, says licensed ma...

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Admiral William H. McRaven

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Admiral William H. McRaven

**An instant New York Times bestseller!From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Make Your Bed—a short, inspirational book about the qualities of true, everyday heroes.**The Hero Code is Admiral McRaven's ringing tribute to the real, everyday heroes he's met over the years, from battlefields to hospitals to college campuses, who are doing their part to save the world. When Bill McRaven was a young boy growing up in Texas, he dreame...

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Alex Connor

A centuries-old conspiracy is about to explode into the present with devastating consequences.The first victim was forced to swallow stones. The second was whipped to death. The third was stabbed in the heart.A deadly serial killer is taking people down across London and New York. What did they all know? Why were they butchered? Who else is in the killer's sights? And how can they be stopped?Inspired by real events in the artist's life, The Rembrandt Secret is an in...

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Jane Rogoyska, Patrick Bade

“I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women…”Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt’s paintings speak of a world of opulence and leisure, which seems aeons away from the harsh, post-modern environment we live in now. The subjects he treats – allegories, portraits, landscapes and erotic figures – contain virtually no reference to external events, but strive rather to create a world where beauty, above everything else, is domina...

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Gabriel Séailles

Leonardo’s early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo’s teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sculptor: as a painter, representative of the very scientific school of draughtsmanship; more famous as a sculptor, being the creator of the Colleoni statue at Venice, Leonardo was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment. He was ...

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Eric Shanes

JMW Turner was a prolific master born to a barber in Covent Garden, London, in 1775. When he died in 1851, he left over 19,000 artworks. Selecting which to include in this book was a major feat in itself. Turner was a Romantic when it came to landscapes, with an inimitable flair for seascapes, and was a pioneer of new techniques for creating tone and hue, deeply impressed by Goethes theory of colours. It took the great art critic John Ruskin to interpret his works in full. Turner was also ...