Churches and palaces in Florence have been the subject matter of book-length, often multi-volume studies over the centuries. This book is a compendium of the main churches in Florence and has been written with two distinct audiences in mind: English-speaking students of Renaissance art, architecture, literature and history and the well-read traveller to Florence who wishes to place the works of art and architecture into the wider context of Italian culture. The choice of churches discussed here was influenced by the author’s experience as teacher for several university programmes on site in Florence. The buildings described and analysed are those which students will most likely encounter in the course of their study-abroad stay in Florence, whether they wish to specialise in art, architecture or the history of the Florentine Renaissance. This book represents a textbook that offers concise information on the history, art, and architecture of 25 of the main Florentine churches, provides plans and photos of the façades, and introduces the student to some of the most important vocabulary and the main textual sources of the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
Lacey Wilson's whole life is a courageous battle. She overcomes neglect in childhood and abuse in her first marriage to achieve fame and fortune as a popular author, and finds true love and happiness with wealthy entrepreneur, Jake Edmonds. Then cancer strikes. Lacey believes that people should be able to die at home, with assistance if they wish, rather than be forced to suffer the pain and indignity of a prolonged death. Her beloved daughter, Jana, will help her. But her doctor does not approve. To complicate matters, Jana and the doctor are in love. Will Lacey get her wish?
In looking at the history of collecting, one may be excused for regarding it as an activity in which, traditionally, women have shown little interest or in which they have not been involved. As the present volume shows, women—particularly aristocratic women—not only resisted this discrimination through the ages, but also built important collections and used them to their own advantage, in order to make statements about their lineage, power, cultural heritage or religious preferences. That is not to say that there was not an increasing number of middle-class women who became draughtswomen, painters and natural scientists and who found it equally beneficial for their chosen profession to collect. In every case, the female collector chose to collect and what to collect; she chose how and where to present the collection and she also decided when to dispose of objects, thereby occasionally taking on a curatorial role. Women have been seen as gatherers of furnishings, jewellery, dress and objects of domestic life. This third volume in the Collecting & Display series of conference proceedings challenges such perceptions through the detailed analysis of different types of collecting by women from the early modern period onwards; it thus seeks to give a voice to a group of important female collectors from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century whose importance for the history of collecting has not yet, or not sufficiently, been acknowledged.
When Suzy and John moved house, their two guinea pigs, Holly and Bracken, had no choice but to go with them. Holly is excited and looking forward to meeting new friends, but Bracken is miserable and misses her old home terribly. What will it take to cheer Bracken up? And who will the pair meet in their lovely new garden?
Tia is a young girl and she is feeling lost and lonely, she has gone to live with her Aunt after the loss of her parents. She fi nds what she believes to be a horse in the forest. Then she fi nds this is not a horse, but that mythical creature, a Unicorn, which has been captured and tied to branches to stop it from escaping. She has to help the Unicorn to escape the clutches of its captors, and then has to help the Unicorn to escape to another World.
Worn out and on the run, Aries Bracken's life has quickly gone from bad to worse. Kidnapped by a team of mercenaries, she tries to convince their domineering commander that he has taken the wrong woman. She'll play the helpless female until they slip up and when they do, she'll be gone!Skin Walker Commander Conn Drago's mission was simple, retrieve the woman and deliver her for payment. However, he quickly discovers that not only is the beautiful and spirited Aries not the intended target; she's also unaware of the fact that she too is a Skin Walker. When Conn realizes others are hunting Aries as well, he can't fight his compulsion to protect her. He'll have to battle both her unknown enemies, his own Skin Walker kind, and Aries' desire to be free to claim what he has decided belongs to him.
For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver's license, verifying information for new employers, or claiming state and federal benefits. Yet as Donald Trump and his fellow "birthers" reminded us when they claimed that Barack Obama wasn't an American citizen, it plays a central role in determining identity and citizenship. In The Birth Certificate: An American History, award-winning historian Susan J. Pearson traces the document's two-hundred-year history to explain when, how, and why birth certificates came to matter so much in the United States. Deftly weaving together social, political, and legal history, The Birth Certificate is a fascinating biography of a piece of paper that grounds our understanding of how those who live in the United States are considered Americans.
Tia is a young girl and she is feeling lost and lonely, she has gone to live with her Aunt after the loss of her parents. She fi nds what she believes to be a horse in the forest. Then she fi nds this is not a horse, but that mythical creature, a Unicorn, which has been captured and tied to branches to stop it from escaping. She has to help the Unicorn to escape the clutches of its captors, and then has to help the Unicorn to escape to another World.
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