The Venus Fixers
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The Venus Fixers
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Author : Ilaria Dagnini Brey
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2010-06-22
The Venus Fixers written by Ilaria Dagnini Brey and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-22 with History categories.
In 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries -- in the private sector and in the military -- committed to protect Europe's cultural heritage from the indiscriminate ravages of World War II. In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appointed the monuments officers—a motley group of art historians, curators, architects, and artists—to ensure that the great masterworks of European art and architecture were not looted or bombed into oblivion. The journalist Ilaria Dagnini Brey focuses her spellbinding account on the monuments officers of Italy, quickly dubbed "the Venus Fixers" by bemused troops. Working on the front lines in conditions of great deprivation and danger, these unlikely soldiers stripped the great galleries of their incomparable holdings and sent them into safety by any means they could. They worked with skeptical army strategists to make sure air raids didn't take out the heart of an ancient city, and patched up Renaissance palazzi and ancient churches whose lead roofs were sometimes melted away by the savagery of the attacks. Sometimes they failed. But to an astonishing degree, they succeeded, and anyone who marvels at Italy's artistic riches today is witnessing their handiwork. In the course of her research, Brey gained unprecedented access to private archives and primary sources, and the result is a book at once thorough and grandly entertaining—a revelatory take on a little-known chapter of World War II history. The Venus Fixers is an adventure story with the gorgeous tints of a Botticelli landscape as its backdrop.
The Venus Fixers
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Author : Ilaria Dagnini Brey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-06
The Venus Fixers written by Ilaria Dagnini Brey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06 with categories.
Venus Fixers Won Their War Too
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Author : Sumner McKnight Crosby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Venus Fixers Won Their War Too written by Sumner McKnight Crosby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Art thefts categories.
Saving Italy The Race To Rescue A Nation S Treasures From The Nazis
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Author : Robert M. Edsel
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2013-05-06
Saving Italy The Race To Rescue A Nation S Treasures From The Nazis written by Robert M. Edsel and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-06 with History categories.
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom Brokaw When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes—artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt—embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli. With the German army retreating up the Italian peninsula, orders came from the highest levels of the Nazi government to transport truckloads of art north across the border into the Reich. Standing in the way was General Karl Wolff, a top-level Nazi officer. As German forces blew up the magnificent bridges of Florence, General Wolff commandeered the great collections of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace, later risking his life to negotiate a secret Nazi surrender with American spymaster Allen Dulles. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, the New York Times bestselling Saving Italy brings readers from Milan and the near destruction of The Last Supper to the inner sanctum of the Vatican and behind closed doors with the preeminent Allied and Axis leaders: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Churchill; Hitler, Göring, and Himmler. An unforgettable story of epic thievery and political intrigue, Saving Italy is a testament to heroism on behalf of art, culture, and history.
Easy Beauty
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Author : Chloé Cooper Jones
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-04-04
Easy Beauty written by Chloé Cooper Jones 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 2023-04-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 * Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2022 * A Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, Time, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—an “exquisite” (Oprah Daily) and groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. “I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Jones learned early on to factor “pain calculations” into every plan, every situation. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as “less than.” The way she has been seen—or not seen—has informed her lens on the world her entire life. She resisted this reality by excelling academically and retreating to “the neutral room in her mind” until it passed. But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body), something in her shifts, and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she’d been denied, and denied herself. From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyoncé concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh, Jones weaves memory, observation, experience, and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths. “Bold, honest, and superbly well-written” (Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name) Easy Beauty is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world, and your place in it, with new eyes.
A Different Life
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Author : Quinn Bradlee
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-03-02
A Different Life written by Quinn Bradlee and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Ten percent of the population is affected by a learning disability, but few of us understand what being learning disabled (LD) is really like. When he was fourteen, Bradlee was diagnosed with Velo-Cardio-Facial-Syndrome (VCFS), a wide-spread, little-understood disorder that is expressed through a wide range of physical ailments and learning disabilities. In this funny, moving, and often irreverent book, Bradlee tells his own inspirational story of growing up as an LD kid -- and of doing so as the child of larger-than-life, formidably accomplished parents: long-time Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee and bestselling author Sally Quinn. From his difficulties reading social cues, to his cringe-worthy loss of sexual innocence, Bradlee describes the challenges and joys of living "a different life" with disarming candor and humor. By the end of A Different Life he will have become, if not your best friend, one of your favorite people.
Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus Edisi Kemas Kini
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Author : John Gray
language : ms
Publisher: PTS Publishing House Sdn. Bhd.
Release Date : 2018-05-04
Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus Edisi Kemas Kini written by John Gray and has been published by PTS Publishing House Sdn. Bhd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-04 with Family & Relationships categories.
Pada suatu masa dahulu, orang planet Marikh dan Venus bertemu, lalu jatuh cinta. Mereka hidup bahagia bersama kerana mereka menerima dan menghormati perbezaan masing-masing. Kemudian mereka berkahwin dan berpindah ke bumi. Pada suatu hari yang tidak disangka, mereka semua diserang penyakit amnesia, iaitu penyakit yang menyebabkan mereka terlupa bahawa mereka sebenarnya berasal dari planet yang berbeza. Menggunakan metafora ini bagi menerangkan konflik-konflik yang biasa berlaku antara lelaki dan perempuan, Dr. John Gray menjelaskan bagaimana perbezaan antara lelaki dan perempuan sering menjadi angkara dalam hubungan yang tidak bahagia. Berdasarkan pengalaman beliau memberi khidmat kaunseling kepada beribu pasangan dan individu, beliau memberi panduan bagaimana kita boleh mengatasi perbezaan dalam gaya komunikasi, keperluan emosi, dan perilaku bagi memupuk persefahaman antara lelaki dan perempuan. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus berjaya membantu berjuta-juta orang lelaki dan perempuan memahami pasangan mereka dengan lebih baik. Ia adalah alat bantu yang penting dalam membentuk hubungan suami isteri yang lebih mendalam dan memuaskan.
They Dared Return
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Author : Patrick K. O'Donnell
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2009-10-13
They Dared Return written by Patrick K. O'Donnell and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with History categories.
At the height of World War II, with the Third Reich's final solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who had barely escaped the Nazis did the unthinkable: They went back. Spies now, these men took on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. They Dared Return is their story—a tale of adventure, espionage, love, and revenge.
Mfaa The History Of The Monuments Fine Arts And Archives Program Also Known As Monuments Men
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Mfaa The History Of The Monuments Fine Arts And Archives Program Also Known As Monuments Men written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
A Fiery Peace In A Cold War
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Author : Neil Sheehan
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-10-05
A Fiery Peace In A Cold War written by Neil Sheehan and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-05 with History categories.
The US-Soviet arms race, told through the story of a colorful and visionary American Air Force officer—melding biography, history, world affairs, and science to transport the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. "Compulsively readable and important.” —The New York Times Book Review In this never-before-told story, Neil Sheehan—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award -- details American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever’s quest to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, and describes American efforts to develop the unstoppable nuclear-weapon delivery system, the intercontinental ballistic missile, the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger. In a sweeping narrative, Sheehan brings to life a huge cast of some of the most intriguing characters of the cold war, including the brilliant physicist John Von Neumann, and the hawkish Air Force general, Curtis LeMay.