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At Holiday magazine s peak, urbane editor, Ted Patrick, and
visionary art director, Frank Zachary, invited postwar America to
see and read about the world. On the journey, readers joined the
magazine s renowned roster of talent. Some of the most celebrated
writing by Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Joan
Didion, Truman Capote, Colette, and E. B. White (his piece Here Is
New York was commissioned for Holiday in 1949) first appeared in
its pages. Henri Cartier-Bresson documented a breathtaking Paris
and other cities; Slim Aarons captured the glamour of travel around
the world; and Al Hirschfeld and Ludwig Bemelmans contributed
showstopping illustrations of places and personages. Pamela Fiori
writes about the magazine s history, giving it context during the
era of the jet age, world turbulence, and the rise of Madison
Avenue advertising. Holiday was a vibrant original, inspiring
travel magazines that followed and leaving glorious photography and
art as well as thought-provoking journalism in its wake.
Photography by acclaimed photographer Michael Clinton. Global Snaps
is first volume in his acclaimed Global series, featuring the
design and architectural vestiges that make each of the countries
he has visited distinct and memorable. Basic supermarket shopping
has become a global affair: We buy strawberries grown in Peru, rice
cultivated in Indonesia and beef from Columbian ranchers. Michael
Clinton has created a global volume for a global age. Shot in
luminous four-colour, Global Snaps: 500 Photographs from 7
Continents celebrates the diversity of human culture and the
startling array of images. Bestselling author of Wanderlust: One
Hundred Countries, Clinton again takes us on a trip into the
tantalizing prospect of trotting the globe. Over thirty-five years
of travel, Clinton has compiled the photo album that we all wish we
had taken ourselves. Organised by continent with convenient tabbing
for quick reference, Global Snaps is part global tour guide, part
fantasy. Clinton's photos cover an astonishing one hundred and five
countries and every continent. His book is an incredible survey of
all the places everyone wants to visit - the Taj Mahal, Sistine
Chapel and Pyramids of Giza - along with many other sites that
provide inspiration for more exotic ventures, like Antarctic ice
flows and Turkish mosques. Clinton brings the same degree of care
and sensitivity to his "snapshots" of great monuments as to his
intimate portraits of local life.
Organised into three parts, replete with four 32-page photo inserts
that illustrate the past to the present. A memoir spanning eight
decades. The memoir bumps into people of distinction and interest -
Queen Elizabeth, Jacqueline Kennedy, Eddie Fisher, Ava Gardner,
Richard Burton, Joseph Heller, and Dirk Bogarde, to name a few.
When Giovanna Govoni, age seventeen, welcomed the allied troops
into Rome on June 5, 1944, never did she imagine that on this day,
she was opening a door that was to become an illustrious adventure
filled with glamour and excitement that rubbed shoulders with
luminaries ranging from American army generals to international
movie stars to corporate magnates. But such was her luck that she
happened to be on Rome's via Flaminia as the American liberation
troops entered the city and when overheard in the crowd speaking in
perfect English to her mother by "Stan the Donut Man" at the head
of the column led by General Mark Clark and the Fifth Army,
Giovanna's life changed. Salvadore was born in France, educated
until age six in England, and returned to her native Italy during
World War II. She was cosmopolitan before the word had any meaning.
An incredible chronicler of both fact and intuition, Salvadore has
always kept copious appointment agendas from the age of ten. In My
Dolce Vita, Salvadore describes her teenage school days and the
horrors of World War II, her exciting years as the first female
public relations executive in Italy for TWA and Howard Hughes, and
her more than four glamorous decades as the PR legend of Villa
d'Este on Lake Como.
A comprehensive look at the inner workings of the twelve zodiac
signs - their respective idiosyncrasies and relationships to one
another - by noted astrologer Katharine Merlin. Katharine Merlin
has been writing the monthly horoscope column for Town&Country
for over twenty years, one of the magazine's most popular columns.
This book differs from others on this topic in that it is full of
real-life people, experiences, and events. Merlin draws upon
decades of personal experience to bring each sign to life,
sprinkling her discriptions with anecdotes from people she has come
to know over the years. Foreword by luminary magazine editor and
author herself, Pamela Fiori, supports this book as a serious read
for the sophisticated lover of astrology. Astrology is a very
popular topic with a general audience. The About.com Astrology
website receives over 34 million visitors per month! For more than
twenty years, astrologer Katharine Merlin has penned monthly
horoscopes for Town&Country magazine, producing one of the
magazine's most widely-read and beloved columns and now the most
visited site on the Hearst corporate website for each of its 16
magazines. In The Private Lives of the Sun Signs, Merlin presents
in-depth analyses of each of the twelve zodiac signs - from Aries
to Pisces - illustrating their unique characteristics with
astonishing accuracy. Drawing upon wisdom gleaned over the course
of her forty-year career in astrology, Merlin provides invaluable
insight into the idiosyncrasies of each sign - the way they process
emotions, communicate, find motivation, relate to others, and more.
Through Merlin's illuminating descriptions, we come to understand
our inner selves more deeply - the way we think, work, love, what
makes us tick - and learn to harness the potential of our own
unique gifts. And, by familiarising ourselves with the signs of
friends and partners, we develop tolerance and appreciation for
their distinctive qualities, finding ways that different signs can
complement each other and allowing our relationships to blossom.
Full of illuminating anecdotes, The Private Lives of the Sun Signs
offers a fascinating and comprehensive look into the inner workings
of the zodiac signs, proving that this ancient science continues to
offer invaluable guidance to a contemporary audience.
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