Words and Worlds, Lurie Alison

Автор: Lurie, Alison
Название: Foreign affairs
ISBN: 1784876240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784876241
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: `If you`re coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs` GuardianVinnie Miner is an American professor of children`s literature on her way to London for six months of research.

Автор: Lurie, Alison
Название: Foreign Affairs
ISBN: 0812976312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812976311
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 21580.00 T
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Автор: Lurie, Alison
Название: Women And Ghosts
ISBN: 0385518315 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385518314
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Автор: Lurie, Alison
Название: Last resort
ISBN: 1784876275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784876272
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Описание: Tajikistan Travel Guide - Travel tips and tourist information including Dushanbe highlights, hotels and restaurants, homestays, trekking and ancient sites. Also covering the Wakhan Corridor, Silk Road, Pamir Highway, Sarazm and the Tajik National Park UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Garm Chashma bathing springs, kashi and Tajik culture and Lake Sarez.

Автор: Lurie, Alison
Название: War between the tates
ISBN: 1784876267 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784876265
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Описание: Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. Things spiral when a protest against a sexist professor at the university ramps up and Brian, hopelessly compromised by split loyalties, gets caught up in the action. Can the Tates marriage survive?

Автор: Lurie Alison
Название: Real People
ISBN: 150405329X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781504053297
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Цена: 17460.00 T
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Описание: At an artistic Garden of Eden, one writer finds that serpents lurk in every corner
The mansion is called Illyria, but for the writers and artists who flock there each summer, it may as well be paradise. Away from family, friends, and ordinary responsibilities, the creative spirit can flower, nurtured by the company of other artistic souls. Janet Belle Smith's husband doesn't understand why she can't write at home--or really, for that matter, why she must write at all--but for Janet, the reason is clear. Only in Illyria can she be herself. But as the writer mingles with her fellow artists--including a Marxist novelist, a Beat poet, a wild-man sculptor--she begins to fear that the "real" her isn't who she expected, and Illyria is not the peaceful kingdom it appears to be. This creative paradise is rotting from inside out, and if Janet doesn't move quickly, she'll be trapped in the rubble when the walls come tumbling down. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alison Lurie including rare images from the author's collection.

Автор: Lurie Alison
Название: Words and Worlds: From Autobiography to Zippers
ISBN: 188328578X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781883285784
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 22990.00 T
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Описание: This engaging new collection of essays from the New York Times-bestselling novelist gathers together her reflections on the writing life; fond recollections of inspiring friends; and perceptive, playful commentary on preoccupations ranging from children's literature to fashion and feminism. Citing her husband's comment to her that "Nobody asked you to write a novel," Lurie goes on to eloquently explain why there was never another choice for her. She looks back on attending Radcliffe in the 1940s--an era of wartime rations and a wall of sexism where it was understood that Harvard was only for the men. From offering a gleeful glimpse into Jonathan Miller's production of Hamlet to memorializing mentors and intimate friends such as poet James Merrill, illustrator Edward Gorey, and New York Review of Books coeditor Barbara Epstein, Lurie celebrates the creative artists who encouraged and inspired her. A lifelong devotee of children's literature, she suggests saying no to Narnia, revisits the phenomenon of Harry Potter, and tells the truth about the ultimate good bad boy, Pinocchio. Returning to a favorite subject, fashion, Lurie explores the symbolic meaning of aprons, enthuses on how the zipper made dressing and undressing faster--and sexier--and tells how, feeling abandoned by Vogue at age sixty, she finally found herself freed from fashion's restrictions on women. Always spirited no matter the subject, Lurie ultimately conveys a joie de vivre that comes from a lifetime of never abandoning her "childish impulse to play with words, to reimagine the world."

Автор: Teresa Canepa
Название: Jingdezhen to the World: The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Late Ming Dynasty
ISBN: 191216809X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912168095
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Описание: This lavishly illustrated book celebrates one of the most comprehensive and meticulously assembled private collections of Chinese export porcelain from the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644) made at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province. The Lurie Collection, comprising about 170 porcelain pieces, contains examples that are exceptional not only for their aesthetic beauty and quality but also for their rarity or historical importance. This book makes a significant contribution to several fields of study, most notably those related to the production, design and trade of Jingdezhen export porcelain in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

An introduction places the diverse porcelains of the Lurie Collection in their historical context. It offers new insight into the European expansion to Asia in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, via both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which ultimately led to an unprecedented large-scale trade, transport and consumption of various types of Jingdezhen export porcelain throughout the world until the collapse of the Ming dynasty in 1644. The core of the book is the catalogue section, which is composed of 127 entries with comprehensive discussions and images of a selection of the Lurie porcelains. Whenever possible they are accompanied by images of excavated shards that originally formed part of similar porcelain pieces, establishing direct links to the Jingdezhen kilns where such pieces were produced. Multiple sources of evidence (textual, material and visual) shed light on the trading networks through which these Jingdezhen porcelains circulated, as well as the way in which they were acquired, used and appreciated by the different societies in Europe, the New World, Asia and the Middle East.

Highlights include six kraak plates made during the Wanli reign (1573-1620) with the egret mark, which is found on a small number of pieces usually of very high quality, and the only known kraak armorial specifically ordered for the Spanish market in the 16th century. This finely potted plate, also dating to the Wanli reign, bears the impaled arms of Garc a Hurtado de Mendoza, 4th Marquis of Ca ete, and his wife, Teresa de Castro y de la Cueva. It was most probably ordered via Manila during the time Hurtado de Mendoza was Viceroy of Peru, between 1589 and 1596. This plate, together with a kraak plate bearing a pseudo-armorial, and a few pieces decorated in the so-called Transitional style and one other recovered from the Hatcher Junk (c.1643) made after European shapes, attest to the influence that the European merchants exerted on the porcelain production at Jingdezhen at the time.