When We Were Orphans
When We Were Orphans

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2001-01-16

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0375412654

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition—and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Author: Mary Roach

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004-05-17

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0393069192

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Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s “acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating” (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue. For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have helped make history in their quiet way. “Delightful—though never disrespectful” (Les Simpson, Time Out New York), Stiff investigates the strange lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the question: What should we do after we die? “This quirky, funny read offers perspective and insight about life, death and the medical profession. . . . You can close this book with an appreciation of the miracle that the human body really is.” —Tara Parker-Pope, Wall Street Journal “Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.” —Entertainment Weekly

To Life!
To Life!

Author: Linda Weintraub

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0520273613

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This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.

Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice
Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice

Author: Arie Wallert

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1995-08-24

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0892363223

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Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Waterproof Notebook
Waterproof Notebook

Author: Wiley

Publisher: *Wiley Nautical

Published: 2001-01-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781898660804

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Suitable for most writing tools. For multiple use, a pencil and rubber are recommended.

Notebook
Notebook

Author: Vernon Porter

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-05-10

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781097434800

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The minimal and classic design journal notebook is used for recording notes or memoranda, writing, drawing or scrapbooking. Specifications: Layout: Unlined Blank Paper Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" Paperback Cover: Matte Paper Color: White Page Count: 100 For other colors, please click on author's name (Vernon Porter).

Notebook
Notebook

Author: Vernon Porter

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-05-10

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781097438150

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The minimal and classic design journal notebook is used for recording notes or memoranda, writing, drawing or scrapbooking. Specifications: Layout: Unlined Blank Paper Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" Paperback Cover: Matte Paper Color: White Page Count: 100 For other colors, please click on author's name (Vernon Porter).