The Hammock: A Novel Based on the True Story of French Painter James Tissot
Title | The Hammock: A Novel Based on the True Story of French Painter James Tissot PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Paquette |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2020-10-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780578735221 |
THE HAMMOCK: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot portrays ten remarkable years in the life of James Tissot (1836-1902), who rebuilt - and then lost - his reputation in London. THE HAMMOCK is a psychological portrait, exploring the forces that unwound the career of this complex man. Based on contemporary sources, the novel brings Tissot's world alive in a story of war, art, Society glamour, love, scandal, and tragedy.
Maroon Cosmopolitics
Title | Maroon Cosmopolitics PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 2018-12-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9004388060 |
Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation offers diverse perspectives on the presence of the Guianese Maroon at the twentieth-first century, and on the contemporary lives of the descendants of those who fled from slavery in the Americas.
The Toilers of the Sea
Title | The Toilers of the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Hugo |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Action and adventure fiction |
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The eternal conflict between the will of man and the power of nature, as expressed by the sea. Contains a realistic and rhapsodical description of the Needles, the pointed rocks in the English Channel, and a man's terrifying fight with an octopus.
Hand-book of the Law of Torts
Title | Hand-book of the Law of Torts PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Ames Jaggard |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 700 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Torts |
ISBN |
Exhaustion
Title | Exhaustion PDF eBook |
Author | Anna K. Schaffner |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2016-06-21 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0231538855 |
Today our fatigue feels chronic; our anxieties, amplified. Proliferating technologies command our attention. Many people complain of burnout, and economic instability and the threat of ecological catastrophe fill us with dread. We look to the past, imagining life to have once been simpler and slower, but extreme mental and physical stress is not a modern syndrome. Beginning in classical antiquity, this book demonstrates how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon. Medical, cultural, literary, and biographical sources have cast exhaustion as a biochemical imbalance, a somatic ailment, a viral disease, and a spiritual failing. It has been linked to loss, the alignment of the planets, a perverse desire for death, and social and economic disruption. Pathologized, demonized, sexualized, and even weaponized, exhaustion unites the mind with the body and society in such a way that we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Mapping these political, ideological, and creative currents across centuries of human development, Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.
The Philosophy of Mystery
Title | The Philosophy of Mystery PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Cooper Dendy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 468 |
Release | 1841 |
Genre | Apparitions |
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The Life of James McNeill Whistler
Title | The Life of James McNeill Whistler PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Robins Pennell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 506 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Painters |
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