In the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent. Part of the Art through the Centuries series, this volume is divided into three sections that discuss the important people, concepts, and artistic centres of this period.
Analyzes the most important people, places, and concepts of the early Renaissance period, whose explosion of creativity was to spread throughout Europe in the 16th century. In this book, important facts are called out in the margins of each entry, and key elements are pointed out on each illustration.
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die, and hired guns Eli and Charlie Sisters will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's goldmining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living—and whom he does it for.
Traditonal Chinese version of Exit West, a novel about migration and mutation, full of wormholes and rips in reality, begins as it mostly doesn't go on.
From the bestselling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Shy is a novel about guilt, rage, imagination and boyhood. It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone.'Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world.' George Saunders 'Beautiful and haunting.' Kevin Barry 'The strangest, mo[Bokinfo].
For Pip, swimming is a necessity. With a hopeless mother, a drug-addled sister and a best friend more interested in her own love-life than in friendship, swimming provides a welcome escape. Swimming is a novel about growing up, about talent, and about having what it takes to survive.
Playboy millionnaire, l'ignoble Vivek 'Vicky' Rai est tué lors de sa propre garden-party. Six convives sont suspectés : un bureaucrate possédé par l'esprit de Gandhi, l'actrice la plus glamour de Bollywood, fan de Nietzsche, un tout petit aborigène très doué pour l'effraction, un gamin des rues voleur de portables au physique de jeune premier, un Monsieur catastrophe texan sous protection judiciaire, et le must du politicien corrompu, le propre père de la victime. Des palaces de Delhi aux bidonvilles de Mehrauli, des repaires terroristes du Cachemire aux cabanes des îles Andaman, des berges du Gange aux tapis rouges des premières de Bombay, entre soif de justice, vengeances, manigances politiques, quête d'un totem perdu ou d'une fiancée par correspondance, tous les chemins semblent mener au jardin du crime. Mais qui a tué Vicky ?
From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling changeOne morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover.Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an established order, to be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss wars with profound love.As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different a chance to see one another, face to face, anew.'A transformative tale . . . compellingly readable and strangely musical' Guardian'With this big-hearted novel of ideas, Mohsin Hamid confronts challenging truths with insight, wisdom, and - above all else - limitless compassion' Tayari Jones, An American Marriage
