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A Thousand Glass Flowers
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Author : Evan Turk
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-08-18
A Thousand Glass Flowers written by Evan Turk and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-18 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This gorgeous and empowering picture book from award-winning author-illustrator Evan Turk paints the portrait of Marietta Barovier, the groundbreaking Renaissance artisan who helped shape the future of Venetian glassmaking. Marietta and her family lived on the island of Murano, near Venice, as all glassmakers did in the early Renaissance. Her father, Angelo Barovier, was a true maestro, a master of glass. Marietta longed to create gorgeous glass too, but glass was men’s work. One day her father showed her how to shape the scalding-hot material into a work of art, and Marietta was mesmerized. Her skills grew and grew. Marietta worked until she created her own unique glass bead: the rosetta. Small but precious, the beautiful beads grew popular around the world and became as valuable as gold. The young girl who was once told she could not create art was now the woman who would leave her mark on glasswork for centuries to come.
Thousand Glass Flowers
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Author : Prue Batten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Thousand Glass Flowers written by Prue Batten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
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Author : Prue Batten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
A Thousand Glass Flowers written by Prue Batten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fantasy fiction, Australian categories.
"Two people.. One an extraordinairy young woman, the other an embittered immortal man. Both seeking concealed spells that could annihilate Life."--Back cover.
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Author : Prue Batten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
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Favored Flowers
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Author : Catherine Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2007-07-10
Favored Flowers written by Catherine Ziegler and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-10 with Social Science categories.
Billions of fresh-cut flowers are flown into the United States every year, allowing Americans to choose from a broad array of blooms regardless of the season. Favored Flowers is a lively investigation of the worldwide production and distribution of fresh-cut flowers and their consumption in the New York metropolitan area. In an ethnography filled with roses, orchids, and gerberas, flower auctions, new hybrids, and new logistical systems, Catherine Ziegler unravels the economic and cultural strands of the global flower market. She provides an historical overview of the development of the cut flower industry in New York from the late nineteenth century to 1970, and on to its ultimate transformation from a domestic to a global industry. As she points out, cut flowers serve no utilitarian purpose; rather, they signal consumers’ social and cultural decisions about expressing love, mourning, status, and identity. Ziegler shows how consumer behavior and choices have changed over time and how they are shaped by the media, by the types of available flowers, and by flower retailing. Ziegler interviewed more than 250 people as she followed flowers along the full length of the commodity chain, from cuttings in Europe and Latin America to vases in and around New York. She examines the daily experiences of flower growers in the Netherlands and Ecuador, two leading exporters of flowers to the United States. Primary focus, though, is on others in the commodity chain: exporters, importers, wholesalers, and retailers. She follows their activities as they respond to changing competition, supply, and consumer behavior in a market characterized by risk, volatility, and imperfect knowledge. By tracing changes in the wholesale and retail systems, she shows the recent development of two complementary commodity chains in New York and the United States generally. One leads to a high-end luxury market served by specialty florists and designers, and the other to a lower-priced mass market served by chain groceries, corner delis, and retail superstores.
A Hundred Flowers
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Author : Gail Tsukiyama
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2012-08-07
A Hundred Flowers written by Gail Tsukiyama and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-07 with Fiction categories.
Gail Tsukiyama's A Hundred Flowers is powerful novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary times at the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution China, 1957. Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society: "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend." Many intellectuals fear it is only a trick, and Kai Ying's husband, Sheng, a teacher, has promised not to jeopardize their safety or that of their young son, Tao. But one July morning, just before his sixth birthday, Tao watches helplessly as Sheng is dragged away for writing a letter criticizing the Communist Party and sent to a labor camp for "reeducation." A year later, still missing his father desperately, Tao climbs to the top of the hundred-year-old kapok tree in front of their home, wanting to see the mountain peaks in the distance. But Tao slips and tumbles thirty feet to the courtyard below, badly breaking his leg. As Kai Ying struggles to hold her small family together in the face of this shattering reminder of her husband's absence, other members of the household must face their own guilty secrets and strive to find peace in a world where the old sense of order is falling. Once again, Tsukiyama brings us a powerfully moving story of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances with grace and courage.
The Book Of Fresh Flowers
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Author : Malcolm Hillier
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1988
The Book Of Fresh Flowers written by Malcolm Hillier and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Flower arrangement categories.
A wealth of inspirational arrangements for many indoor settings and special occasions.
The Storyteller
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Author : Evan Turk
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-06-28
The Storyteller written by Evan Turk and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-28 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In a time of drought in the Kingdom of Morocco, a storyteller and a boy weave a tale to thwart a Djinn and his sandstorm from destroying their city.
The Lotus Quest
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Author : Mark Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-08-31
The Lotus Quest written by Mark Griffiths and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-31 with Travel categories.
The lotus is the world's most iconic flower. Galvanised by receiving seeds from a three-thousand-year-old lotus, which flowered without difficulty in an English summer, Mark Griffiths set out to track the path of this sublime plant to its home in the Lotus-Lands of Japan. The Lotus Quest unveils a stunning vision of Japan's feudal era, as Griffiths visits shrines, ruins, gardens and wild landscapes, and meets priests and archaeologists, philosophers and anthropologists, gardeners and botanists, poets and artists, and even dines on the lotus in a Tokyo café. Beautifully illustrated, intensely atmospheric and full of suspense, The Lotus Quest shows how the deep crimson of the lotus runs like a tracer dye, tracking the spread, fusion and fission of the world's great civilizations.
Hello Moon
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Author : Evan Turk
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Hello Moon written by Evan Turk and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A parent and child explore the wonder and joys of the changing moon together in this captivating picture book from award-winning author-illustrator Evan Turk. Hello, Moon! You look so beautiful tonight! Do you mind if we sit with you? In this joyful celebration of a child’s sense of curiosity about the world, a parent and child explore the wonder of the changing moon together. Because sometimes all you need is someone to share the silence with.