The Palace Complex
Title | The Palace Complex PDF eBook |
Author | Michał Murawski |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 366 |
Release | 2019-03-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253039991 |
The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace's visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the everyday life of the Polish capital as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from a "Palace of Culture complex." Despite attempts to privatize it, the Palace remains municipally owned, and continues to play host to a variety of public institutions and services. The Parade Square, which surrounds the building, has resisted attempts to convert it into a money-making commercial center. Author Michał Murawski traces the skyscraper's powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw; on its architectural and urban landscape; on its political, ideological, and cultural lives; and on the bodies and minds of its inhabitants. The Palace Complex explores the many factors that allow Warsaw's Palace to endure as a still-socialist building in a post-socialist city.
The Palace Papers
Title | The Palace Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Tina Brown |
Publisher | Crown |
Total Pages | 537 |
Release | 2022-04-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0593138104 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “addictively readable” (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years—only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises “Frothy and forthright, a kind of Keeping Up with the Windsors with sprinkles of Keats.”—The New York Times (Notable Book of the Year) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Elle, Town & Country “Never again” became Queen Elizabeth II’s mantra shortly after Princess Diana’s tragic death. More specifically, there could never be “another Diana”—a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy. Picking up where Tina Brown’s masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana’s blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet. Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey through the scandals, love affairs, power plays, and betrayals that have buffeted the monarchy over the last twenty-five years. We see the Queen’s stoic resolve after the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, and Prince Philip, her partner for seven decades, and how she triumphs in her Jubilee years even as family troubles rage around her. Brown explores Prince Charles’s determination to make Camilla Parker Bowles his wife, the tension between William and Harry on “different paths,” the ascendance of Kate Middleton, the downfall of Prince Andrew, and Harry and Meghan’s stunning decision to step back as senior royals. Despite the fragile monarchy’s best efforts, “never again” seems fast approaching. Tina Brown has been observing and chronicling the British monarchy for three decades, and her sweeping account is full of powerful revelations, newly reported details, and searing insight gleaned from remarkable access to royal insiders. Stylish, witty, and erudite, The Palace Papers will irrevocably change how the world perceives and understands the royal family.
The Last Palace
Title | The Last Palace PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Eisen |
Publisher | Crown |
Total Pages | 434 |
Release | 2019-09-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0451495799 |
A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past. From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s, and The Last Palace chronicles the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. There was the optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto Petschek, who built the palace after World War I as a statement of his faith in democracy, only to have that faith shattered; Rudolf Toussaint, the cultured, compromised German general who occupied the palace during World War II, ultimately putting his life at risk to save the house and Prague itself from destruction; Laurence Steinhardt, the first postwar US ambassador whose quixotic struggle to keep the palace out of Communist hands was paired with his pitched efforts to rescue the country from Soviet domination; and Shirley Temple Black, an eyewitness to the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by Soviet tanks, who determined to return to Prague and help end totalitarianism—and did just that as US ambassador in 1989. Weaving in the life of Eisen’s own mother to demonstrate how those without power and privilege moved through history, The Last Palace tells the dramatic and surprisingly cyclical tale of the triumph of liberal democracy.
Inside the Palace
Title | Inside the Palace PDF eBook |
Author | Beth Day Romulo |
Publisher | Putnam Adult |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in the Phillippines.
Playing the Palace
Title | Playing the Palace PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Rudnick |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2021-05-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593099427 |
One of Buzzfeed's 39 Excellent LGBTQ Books To Read This Month And Always THEIR LOVE STORY CAPTIVATED THE WORLD…THE CROWN PRINCE AND THAT GUY FROM NEW YORK When a lonely American event planner starts dating the gay Prince of Wales, a royal uproar ensues: is it true love or the ultimate meme? Find out in this hilarious romantic comedy. After having his heart trampled on by his cheating ex, Carter Ogden is afraid love just isn’t in the cards for him. He still holds out hope in a tiny corner of his heart, but even in his wildest dreams he never thought he’d meet the Crown Prince of England, much less do a lot more with him. Yes, growing up he’d fantasized about the handsome, openly gay Prince Edgar, but who hadn’t? When they meet by chance at an event Carter’s boss is organizing, Carter’s sure he imagined all that sizzling chemistry. Or was it mutual? This unlikely but meant-to-be romance sets off media fireworks on both sides of the Atlantic. With everyone having an opinion on their relationship and the intense pressure of being constantly in the spotlight, Carter finds ferocious obstacles to his Happily Ever After, including the tenacious disapproval of the Queen of England. Carter and Price Edgar fight for a happy ending to equal their glorious international beginning. It’s a match made on Valentine’s Day and in tabloid heaven.
Dinner at the Panda Palace
Title | Dinner at the Panda Palace PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Calmenson |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 1995-01-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780064434089 |
Guess who's coming to dinner! Join one hungry elephant, two carsick lions, three pigs running from a wolf, and dozens of other playful yet famished animals as they swing, bound, and bounce into the Panda Palace for a hearty meal.
The Palace
Title | The Palace PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Erdman |
Publisher | Tiger Books |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780747402596 |
THE FLASH OF A WHEEL, THE TWINKLING SPIN OF A BALL, THE FAT SLAP OF A HEAVY WALLET AS GLAZED EYES IGNITE AND BEJEWELLED FINGERS TREMBLE, URGING THAT FAITHLESS HARLOT, LADY LUCK, TO STRETCH OUT AND OFFER HER ALL. GAMBLING COMPELLING, GLAMOROUS, SLEAZY AND ADDICTIVE - IS WICKEDLY EXPOSED IN PAUL ERDMAN'S MASTERLY NOVEL OF FINALCIAL SKULDUGGERY ON THE BIG GAME CIRCUITS. 20/06/88 PROD LAUNCH--50000X20PX$3.50(60000X19P)-UK EDITION. A FORMAT.320PP.CHECK COVER IS AS OM EDITION.