A breathtaking selection of works from the largest and finest collection of Hudson River paintings in the world Hudson River School paintings are among America's most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Albert Bierstadt left a powerful legacy to American art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed during the middle of the nineteenth century. This book features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, recognized as the most extensive and finest in the world. Gorgeously and amply illustrated, the book includes paintings by all the major figures of the Hudson River School. Each work is beautifully reproduced in full color and is accompanied by a concise description of its significance and historical background. The book also includes artists' biographies and a brief introduction to American nineteenth-century landscape painting and the Wadsworth Atheneum's unique role in collecting Hudson River pictures.
Go out and about with ease! Out and About: Preparing Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders to Participate in their Communities is a short, to-the-point resource that is sure be used repeatedly by parents and educators. It focuses on everyday events and how to support individuals on the autism spectrum to be active participants in the world around them. Created as a blueprint to be filled in according the child's strengths and needs and the event being planned, the framework lists ten areas that have been identified in best practice as effective supports for children with an autism spectrum disorder. These include a waiting plan, communication supports, social intervention, visual need, hidden curriculums, rules, sensory support, motivation, behavior supports, transitions tools, and considerations for siblings or other students. The individualized blueprint will become second nature to its users as they become more familiar with the support the child needs and, therefore, serve as an indispensable tool in everyday life.
In a hot, sun scorched English valley, a young male is found dead. A few days later in Austria, another young male is found dead. Is there a connection between the two and if so, what is it? DCI Mark Morgan from Hipton, England, together with Chief Inspector Zweig, from Mayrhofen, Austria, try to solve what might be a double murder. But there seems to be precious little to go on and progress in the case is agonisingly slow until a letter is discovered in an attic of a house in the small Austrian village of Schwendau. Could this letter hold a clue about the deaths of the two young men? What seems to be a simple communication is far from that. It is a voice from the past, a letter which hints at a very dark time during the Second World War. There are references to Himmler and concentration camps, but this letter was never posted, so is it just a distraction for Morgan and Zweig, or is it crucial evidence in their quest to track down the killer? Time moves on and still the case is beset by complications and unknowns until a third murder is committed, back on English soil. Can Mark Morgan connect this murder with the other two and if so, what are the implications? The case goes from being an intriguing puzzle to a complex series of problems which need to be solved in a race against time, in case the killer strikes again. On the home front, Mark Morgan has problems of his own. His relationships seem to be taking a nosedive out of all control. Shocking news about his father finally comes to light and his brother is off to Russia for who knows how long, sending the family into confusion. This novel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story in its own right with a dramatic plot, full of complex twists and turns, or it can be read as a sequel to ‘The Quiet Deaths’ where the central characters are introduced; chiefly DCI Mark Morgan and his family and friends. As in the first book, there are plenty of back stories where the reader can find out what’s new in the lives of the central characters. There is a lot of humour in the novel for the reader to enjoy, despite the dark tone of much of the main plot. The novel will leave readers with a lot to think about, especially in the context of war, family, trust and loyalty and raises some thorny issues to grapple with.
Hudson Chase and Alessandra Sinclair's heartracing romance continues in this hot, new novella in the Chasing Fire series. Return to the dangerous and seductive romance that got pulses racing in the Chasing Fire trilogy... It took ten years for Hudson Chase and Alessandra Sinclair to find their happily ever after, and they’re not about to let anything get in their way... Nothing could stop the passion between Allie and Hudson—not time or distance. Not even tragedy, betrayal, and blackmail. But now they’re facing a new challenge: wedding planning. And while Allie’s social status demands she put on the event of the century, her well-intentioned family and friends have her doubting her walk down the aisle... Hudson knows tensions are pushing Allie to the brink, but he’s not letting her throw everything away over some flowers and cake. He has plans for his new bride, and unlike their last adventure, he's determined that this time there will be no unwelcome surprises. But for all his determination and control, there’s one element Hudson Chase has never been able to predict—and she has some adventurous ideas of her own... Praise for the Chasing Fire trilogy “Exceptional...Seriously sexy and sinfully steamy. Can’t wait for more from this writing duo!”—Tara Sue Me, New York Times bestselling author of the Submissive series “Walker and Rogers strike the perfect balance between blistering physical desire and heartfelt connections…”—RT Book Review
Timeshoppers by Amy FateWhen a lonely nuclear physicist accidentally invents a time machine over the Christmas holidays, his teenage daughters use it to go shopping! Professor Bill Zeitman has spent the last dozen years trying to find gravity waves. Massively in debt and about to lose their home, Bill blows the last of the family's money in a final, desperate effort to make it work. It fails. He's in despair. They're about to be homeless at Christmas. Then he discovers a miracle: he's accidentally invented a portal in time. To Bill the machine is a telescope on the past, and a way to land tenure and stave off foreclosure, maybe even win a Nobel Prize. But when he reveals it to Plum and Holly, his twin teenage daughters, and shows them ancient Pompeii, they rescue things lost in Mount Vesuvius's explosion. One rescue leads to another, and they soon use it to go shopping and get the clothes they need. To the creative, fashion-forward girls the machine is a Cinderella's coach. They want to land spots on the Fete Ball Committee, which runs their school's big holiday party, so that they can do something cool for a change, and also win their school's vicious social and fashion competition. Then Bill succumbs to temptation. For years he has obsessed over Lindsey Livingston, a classic movie star who who vanished just before Christmas in 1938. When he goes to take a peek, he winds up accidentally rescuing her from a stalker. Chaos ensues when Holly and Plum are mysteriously kidnapped. Lindsey helps Bill find a way to get his girlsand all of them home for Christmas. Along the way they all find the real, creative, gift of the holidays.
This dissertation explores the multiple ways in which late-eighteenth-century elite Americans employed the material culture of their homes as a performative system of visual communication about personal identity, social standing, reputation, and political affiliation. I focus on Philadelphia between 1790 and 1800 when the city served as the temporary seat of the new Federal government and housed what has become known as the "Republican Court"--The society revolving around the first two presidents, Congress, their families, and associates. Through an investigation of the material culture of this Republican Court, I demonstrate the competing values that shaped the founding generation and explore the many challenges these elite Americans faced in finding unity and consensus in their nascent republic. The four middle chapters in this dissertation engage different contexts or spaces of the Philadelphia town house and progress from a discussion of the architectural landscape itself and the market place in which architectural ornaments and household furnishings were acquired to the central entertaining spaces within those town houses--drawing and dining rooms--and their collections of furnishings. Through these various locales and materials, I address the role of objects and the built environment in elite identity formation, the rituals of gentility and civility, the performance of politeness and political sociability, and as visual modes of communication. The houses of elite families in the early republic emerge as material referents to people, places, and relationships beyond their physical walls as well as a visual language Americans manipulated to express not just their own sense of self but also their vision of their country's future. By furnishing the Republican Court, leading American families put on display both aristocratic and democratic leanings while simultaneously attempting to define republican virtue and simplicity for their generation. This study expands the discourse on eighteenth-century domestic architecture to encompass issues of gender and performance and to consider how men and women--together--built and inhabited their homes. In conceiving the house broadly both as a structure and as a container of artifacts, I return women to discussions of creativity and architectural design that are traditionally dominated by male craftsmen, master builders, and mostly male patrons. Moreover, in narrating how individuals gossiped about, as well as designed and decorated, their built environment, I show architecture's performative aspects and how houses in the Republican Court served simultaneously as a backdrop for nation building and as evidence of this negotiated process itself. These houses and their furnishings make visible the rhetoric of gentility, character, and republican virtue that underpinned the competing and often contradictory ideologies that informed America's earliest national political culture.
A body is found underneath the Severn Bridge. Is this another suicide or is there something else going on here? What connections, if any, are there with this death and an unusual rescue mission in Bristol in November 1940? Detective Chief Inspector Mark Morgan is called in to explain things, but it’s proving complicated with evidence found suggesting that the body on the towpath beneath the Severn Bridge has been moved. In such a geologically remarkable place, could the location of the body have anything to do with this death? Was it accidental or not? The more Mark Morgan delves into this mystery, the more unanswered questions he is left with and that’s just on the work front. At home, Selina is causing problems for the Morgan family, but isn’t that to be expected with someone nearly thirteen, or should people be worried? Her father, Joe, is still in Russia and doesn’t seem in any hurry to return until events at home force a change of plan.
Deaths are occurring in Hipton, a small market town in England. Each time they are explained. But what if these deaths weren’t natural deaths after all? What if they were murder? This is a psychological crime thriller where the reader knows the female killer, Agnes Brink from the first page. The novel tracks Agnes Brink as she plans and kills her victims and we learn why she is doing this. There is a fast pace to the novel which unfolds in both Hipton and Amsterdam, home of Agnes Brink, with each chapter alternating between the two places. We meet DCI Mark Morgan, based in Hipton who has the tricky job of solving what at first were deaths thought to be the result of natural causes. As the novel progresses, we delve into the past to learn more about Agnes Brink and the strange world she inhabits. Agnes Brink is a dangerous woman, whose preoccupation with researching what she thinks is her family tree, leads her to kill. Her mind steadily becomes more delusional as the novel progresses, leading to a total of three murders with an attempted fourth. She is desperately trying to create a family for herself, something that she has never truly had. But the way she goes about it is terrifying. There are also plenty of back stories to keep the reader interested which give us an insight into Mark Morgan’s busy and complicated life and those of his family and friends. The characters are colourful and set the scene for a series of five or six novels, each one set in Hipton together with another European location.
A riveting, deeply personal coloring book for 2021. In the stirring, highly anticipated first "Adult Coloring Book" series, Coloring Kate Hudson tells the story of Kate Hudson in an artistic and creative way through many beautiful designs and ornaments.
Prospect Park West' er historien om fire kvinder i det hippe Brooklyn, New York, der på forskelligvis forsøger at finde lykke i og mening med familie-, kærligheds- og sexlivet. Til tider på nogle ret finurlige måder. Forfatter Amy Sohn har skrevet adskillige bøger og klummer om det hæsblæsende New Yorker-liv. Amy Sohn (f. 1973) er en amerikansk forfatter, klummeskribent og manuskriptforfatter. Amy Sohns forfatterskab kredser ofte om storbylivet i New York, og særligt hvordan det tager sig ud i Brooklyn, hvor hun selv bor.
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