Set in a `time of discovery, excitement, and intoxication with ideas', this breathes the very essence of the world in which Scott lived. Beautifully recreating the course of his life - his childhood, love of family, literary success, encounters with Wordsworth and Lord Byron, and later tragedies and financial disasters, Oliver brings to vivid life all the spontaneity and genius of this `mighty magician who rolled back the current of time'. ""Oliver was apparently scrupulous in her research and scholarship...a thumping good read."" - Books Ireland.

The blue heaven bends over all

Literature & Fiction

Oliver, Jane

Genre Fiction

Collins

Designed for Pleasure brings together paintings, prints, and illustrated books featuring images known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world. The carefully selected images present the principals of that realm - the actor, the artist, the courtesan, the poet, the publisher, the patron - and they also reveal the confluences and contradictions in a time of enormous social, cultural, and economic change in Japan.This book examines the floating world of popular culture centered in Edo [modern Tokyo] during the period between 1680 and 1860, when Japan transformed itself from an agrarian to a booming commercial economy. By 1710, Edo was the largest city in the world, with a population of over a million. We know so much about this time in part because of the vast body of imagery created and treasured by succeeding generations. The artists and writers held a looking glass up to their heady world and, in the process, to themselves. Fads and fashions proliferated, and this highly literate, consumer-driven society insisted on being up to date. Innovative color printing techniques fed the demand for ever-new information.Print publishers, mindful of a business opportunity, also responded to the clamor for representations of the public's cherished heroes. Their stables of artists not only produced mass-market prints and books, but used their connections in the literary salons of the day to secure commissions from the wealthy and elite for luxury paintings and printed works.Building on the existing body of ukiyo-e scholarship, a team of renowned experts presents a new perspective and an expanded view of the visual culture of Edo Japan and the way in which art became more accessible to a new class beyond the ruling elite. The volume authors showcase individuals - adding to the already substantial scholarship on Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Utamaro - including the father of ukiyo-e, Hishikawa Moronobu; the artist and publisher Okumura Masanobu; the color innovator Suzuki Harunobu; the master publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo; and the brilliant painter Katsukawa Shunsho. Rather than focus on one artist, one school, or one artistic medium, Designed for Pleasure presents the best of ukiyo-e, in their three primary manifestations: paintings, prints, and illustrated books.

Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860

Arts & Photography

Meech, Julia

History & Criticism

Univ of Washington Pr

Charlie Is My Darling

Hancock, K. W.

Contemporary

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

When a child is learning to read, every word counts! Nick opens big presents and small presents. In his smallest present was a packet of seeds. Nick plants them, waters them, and waits for them to grow. What is his surprise! Nick’s Birthday Surprise! is an innovative Lightning Reader that features a controlled word count to give readers practice with essential sight words. This leveled reader for ages 2 to 4 features less than 50 words and has been professionally leveled by reading experts to ensure that the language and vocabulary are age-appropriate. Word lists and comprehension questions at the back of the book reinforce fundamental reading concepts used in classrooms nationwide! This title is also available in a Spanish version! Children ages 2 to 8 will love to learn to read with our Lightning Readers series! Over 30 titles feature humorous, high-interest stories in a variety of styles including, fantasy, fable, and rhyme, which will appeal to both reluctant and enthusiastic readers. Controlled word counts in this one of a kind series help to build the word foundation for a lifetime of reading! Check out our other titles in this series. Each title is available in an English and Spanish version!

Nick's Birthday Surprise, Level P (Lightning Readers)

Children's Books

Brighter Child

When a child is learning to read, every word counts!     Nick opens big presents and small presents. In his smallest present was a packet of seeds. Nick plants them, waters them, and waits for them to grow. What is his surprise!     La sorpresa del cumpleaños de Nico (Nick’s Birthday Surprise!) is an innovative Lightning Reader that features a controlled word count to give readers practice with essential sight words. This leveled reader for ages 2 to 4 features less than 50 words and has been professionally leveled by reading experts to ensure that the language and vocabulary are age-appropriate. Word lists and comprehension questions at the back of the book reinforce fundamental reading concepts used in classrooms nationwide!     This title is also available in an English version!     Children ages 2 to 8 will love to learn to read with our Lightning Readers series! Over 30 titles feature humorous, high-interest stories in a variety of styles including, fantasy, fable, and rhyme, which will appeal to both reluctant and enthusiastic readers. Controlled word counts in this one of a kind series help to build the word foundation for a lifetime of reading! Check out our other titles in this series.     Each title is available in an English and Spanish version!

La sorpresa del cumpleaños de Nico (Nick¿s Birthday Surprise!) , Level P (Lightning Readers (Spanish)) (Spanish Edition)

Set in a 'time of discovery, excitement, and intoxication with ideas', this breathes the very essence of the world in which Scott lived. Beautifully recreating the course of his life - his childhood, love of family, literary success, encounters with Wordsworth and Lord Byron, and later tragedies and financial disasters, Oliver brings to vivid life all the spontaneity and genius of this 'mighty magician who rolled back the current of time'.

Blue Heaven Bends Over All: A Novel of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Blackstaff Press

Keto Diet Cookbook: Simple, Delicious Recipes for Weight Loss and Well-Being

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Quick & Easy

Chas. Cann Co Ltd

Complete Book of Dog Care Practical Advi

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Parragon Book Service Ltd.

This classic illustrated novel in letters sure to delight fans of Jane Austen and Winifred Watson. Hilary Fane is an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancé. After a nervous beginning looking for a job while her savings rapidly diminish, she finds work as a typist in the London department store of Everyman's (a very thin disguise for Selfridges), and rises rapidly through the ranks to work in the library, where she has to enforce modernizing systems on her entrenched and frosty colleagues. Business as Usual is charming, intelligent, heart-warming, funny, and entertaining. It's deeply interesting as a record of the history of shopping in the 1930s, and fascinating for its unflinching descriptions of social conditions, poverty and illegitimacy.

Business as Usual (Handheld Comic Classics, 2)

Humor & Satire

Handheld Classics

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