This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

What Urig offers us in his book "Tips for the Contemporary Painter" is his version of artistic truths in painting. He has personally tested them all. He explains that we as artists need to set a good example. Developing a "Painters Code" will help rid our profession of myths and half-truths. Painters have an important role. What we create should add value and beauty to our world while providing respect for the painter and his work.

Focusing on fine art and documentary photography, this book provides a diverse and inclusive version of photography history and its contemporary manifestations. Through 40 interviews with and profiles of photographers from underrepresented communities—those of African, Asian, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander and Aleutian heritage, and other indigenous communities—this collection turns on its head homogenous visual culture. Essential reading for photography students and practitioners, this book celebrates the diversity of the real world with fascinating accounts of artists and the broad range of their challenges and successes: aspirations, photo series and photobooks, earning a living, discrimination, photography education, photographic practice, technical conversations, and more.

Leo Sidebottom, a clerk in a Birmingham Factory went to war in 1915. This book is a collection of his postcards to his new wife from the trenches of France during the Great War. The images and messages will give you an experience of life in the war which changed the world. It starts with a week from his diary when he gets engaged, enlists, gets married and leaves for war with the Royal Engineers. He talks of the Politics, the topics of the day and the "rumours." With over 200 postcards depicting scenes of the devastation this book will transport you back to a different world.

Once in a while, it's just pure fun to peek inside other people's lives. In Una Voce, author Jennifer Larmore offers a look into her life and the lives of opera singers, their thoughts, their struggles, and their feelings. She narrates the story of her journey and working in the industry for almost thirty years. Una Voce presents a study of people who conquer fear and insecurity to stand on a stage and bare their hearts and souls. Larmore puts a positive spin on everything from anger, how money- if you can get it-changes you, dealing with crazy directors and conductors, jealousy, homesickness, friendship, philosophy, and shares her ideas on sabotage, procrastination, fear, hindsight, manipulation, plus the thrill and glory of success. Filled with anecdotes and practical tips for new musicians, Una Voce shares one singer's story of her long and illustrious music career and her life at large-one voice in a sea of many and yet, unique.

The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern audiences. It also pays attention to the historical women creators themselves, who, be they saints or midwives, visual artists or poets and playwrights, stand out for their roles as active practitioners of their own arts and for their accomplishments as creators. Whether they delivered infants or governed as monarchs, or produced embroideries, letters, paintings or poems, their visions, the authors argue, have endured across the centuries. As the title of the volume suggests, the essays gathered here participate in a wider conversation about the relation between biography, historical fiction, and the growing field of biofiction (that is, contemporary fictionalizations of historical figures), and explore the complicated interconnections between celebrating early modern women and perpetuating popular stereotypes about them.

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

In this collection of short tales born in a creative writing group, Susan Widdicombe portrays the vicissitudes of an eclectic group of characters as they struggle to overcome life's many problems. A dog's fidelity to his mistress is put to the test in 'Taking Sides' while the joys and compromises of old age are highlighted in 'A Walk in the Park' and 'Sex and Love'. Some of the stories are set in Southern Africa while others take us to France, Italy or Spain. Some celebrate the comedy of the human experience while others highlight its tragedy. But all invite us to reflect on our options and on the consequences of our choices as we navigate through the changing kaleidoscope of our individual lives on Planet Earth and elsewhere. Tales of Inner Turmoil I offers us a set of quirky short stories as entertaining as they are thought-provoking.

Presence of the Body provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dialogue between theory and practice about the impact of the body on human awareness in the fields of art, writing, meditative practice, and performance. This dialogue benefits from the neuro-systematic integration of "embodied" knowledge in the cognitive sciences, but it also suggests creative and transformative dynamics of embodiment which, beyond conceptualisation, emerge in sophisticated acts of writing, performing and meditating. Exploring the presence and experience character of the body-awareness relationship, a double perspective beyond cognitive fixations is suggested: 1) a body-centred touch of the world which inspires life as a creative 'writing' process, and 2) in line with Buddhist thought, an empty space of 'pure presence' from which all conscious processes originate.

A compilation of paintings and illustration art by the artist Jacob Mantia

Based on Guilliam Forchondt's surviving business documentation in Antwerp and applying an aggregate and data-driven approach, Connecting Art Markets focuses on the role of art dealers in mediating the supply and demand for art, behaving in particular ways as to influence the markets for artworks in which they were strategically invested. Van Ginhoven presents her findings on Guilliam Forchondt's workshop production volumes and transatlantic art trade flows, and evaluates the relationship between the production of paintings in the Southern Netherlands, their local, regional and overseas distribution channels, and the markets for these works in Europe and the Americas during the seventeenth century.