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| Author | : Katharine Weber |
| Publisher | : Paul Dry Books |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2018-08-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 158988129X |
“A brilliantly crafted novel, brimming with heart.”―Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage “Rich and compelling . . . Her characters are vividly, achingly real, including the tiny, furry one at the novel’s center.”―Ann Packer, author of The Dive From Clausen’s Pier “Stark and compelling . . . rigorously unsentimental yet suffused with emotion.”―Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Duncan Wheeler is a successful architect who savors the quotidian pleasures in life until a car accident leaves him severely paralyzed and haunted by the death of his young assistant. Now, Duncan isn’t sure what there is left to live for, when every day has become “a broken series of unsuccessful gestures.” Duncan and his wife, Laura, find themselves in conflict as Duncan’s will to live falters. Laura grows desperate to help him. An art conservator who has her own relationship to the repair of broken things, Laura brings home a highly trained helper monkey―a tufted capuchin named Ottoline―to assist Duncan with basic tasks. Duncan and Laura fall for this sweet, comical, Nutella-gobbling little creature, and Duncan’s life appears to become more tolerable, fuller, and funnier. Yet the question persists: Is it enough? Katharine Weber is a masterful observer of humanity, and Still Life with Monkey, full of tenderness and melancholy, explores the conflict between the will to live and the desire to die.
| Author | : Douglas Preston |
| Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 2003-07-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0759528098 |
When a series of murders strikes small-town Kansas, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must track down a killer or a curse -- either way, no one is safe. A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland. No one is safe.
| Author | : Alivia C Tagliaferri |
| Publisher | : Ironcutter Media, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2009-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0978841727 |
For Dennis Michaels, a Vietnam combat veteran waging an invisible forty-year battle with survivor's guilt and PTSD, life changes when he mentors an Iraq War veteran undergoing rehabilitation at Walter Reed Medical Center. Seeking to transform pain into healing, this warrior of old and warrior of today share glimpses into a world seldom discussed as they navigate their journey home and honor their Marine code of conduct: Never leave anyone behind. Formerly titled Still the Monkey, What Happens to Warriors after War (ISBN 978-0-9788417-3-7), this revised 2nd edition is an acclaimed must read.
| Author | : Danny Gregory |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2016-02-15 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1440341176 |
Hear that voice inside your head? The one that nitpicks all your new ideas? That's your monkey. This hypercritical little critter loves to make you second-guess yourself. It stirs up doubt. It kills your creativity. But it can be stopped. And acclaimed author Danny Gregory is here to show you how. After battling it out with his own monkey, he knows how to shut yours down. Gregory provides insight into the inner workings of your inner critic and teaches you how to put it in its place. Soon you'll be able to silence that voice and do what you want to do—create. Now follow his lead and Shut Your Monkey.
| Author | : Suzanne Kaufmann |
| Publisher | : Compendium Publishing & Communications |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009-10 |
| Genre | : Monkeys |
| ISBN | : 9781932319521 |
A monkey decides to try to be something else but discovers that nothing is better than being yourself.
| Author | : Kyle Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
| ISBN | : |
Stuck in his own immaturity, New York tabloid reporter Tom Farrell reconsiders his life when he discovers that his peers have started families and achieved high-powered careers.
| Author | : Marcus B. Burke |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 1810 |
| Release | : 1997-01-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0892364963 |
This two-part book on collections of paintings in Madrid is part of the series Documents for the History of Collecting, Spanish Inventories 1, which presents volumes of art historical information based on archival records. One hundred forty inventories of noble and middle-class collections of art in Madrid are accompanied by two essays describing the taste and cultural atmosphere of Madrid in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
| Author | : Pata Jo |
| Publisher | : Rarete Art |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
| ISBN | : |
Vanitas Flower Collection : The Art of Dutch Golden Age Flower Still Life 127 This book introduces the fascinating genre of Vanitas Flower paintings, which emerged in the Dutch Golden Age of the 16th and 17th centuries. These paintings depict various flowers that symbolize the transience of beauty, the futility of worldly pleasures, and the vanity of human achievements. The term Vanitas comes from the Latin phrase "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity", which begins the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. This phrase also inspired the Memento Mori philosophy, which urges people to remember their mortality and live accordingly. In this book, you will learn about the history, culture, and aesthetics of Vanitas Flower, and explore the works and artists of this genre, from the Dutch Golden Age to the present day. You will see how these paintings reflect the social and religious changes of the Dutch Republic, as well as the artistic influences of other countries and regions. You will also discover the hidden meanings and symbols behind the flowers depicted in these paintings, such as roses, tulips, lilies, carnations, sunflowers, and corn ears. [Featured Artist] - Anthony Claesz I - Willem Van Aelst - JAN Davidsz. de Heem - Abraham Hendrickz. van Beyeren - Abraham Mignon - Alexander Adriaenssen - Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder - Johannes Bosschaert - Ambrosius Bosschaert II - Balthasar van der Ast - Christoffel van den Berghe - Rachel RuyschJan - Dirck de Bray - Elias van den Broeck - Hans Gillisz. Bollongier - Roelant Savery - Jacob van Walscapelle - Jan Brueghel The Elder - Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Elder - Frans Snyders - Jan van Huysum - Joris van Son - Otto Marseus van Schrieck - Christiaen Striep - Jan Brueghel II - Hieronymus Galle - Philip van Kouwenbergh This book is a visual feast for anyone who appreciates art and history. You will be amazed by the beauty, detail, and diversity of these masterpieces, and gain a deeper understanding of their significance and relevance.
| Author | : Lauren Fox |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2007-02-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307267342 |
Meet Emily Ross, thirty years old, married to her college sweetheart, and personal advocate for cake at breakfast time. Meet Emily's husband, Kevin, a sweet technical writer with a passion for small appliances and a teary weakness for Little Women. Enter David, a sexy young reporter with longish floppy hair and the kind of face Emily feels the weird impulse to lick. In this captivating novel of marriage and friendship, Lauren Fox explores the baffling human heart and the dangers of getting what you wish for.
| Author | : Alan de Queiroz |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2014-01-07 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0465069762 |
Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth? Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have conjectured that plants and animals were scattered over the globe by riding pieces of ancient supercontinents as they broke up. In the past decade, however, that theory has foundered, as the genomic revolution has made reams of new data available. And the data has revealed an extraordinary, stranger-than-fiction story that has sparked a scientific upheaval. In The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz describes the radical new view of how fragmented distributions came into being: frogs and mammals rode on rafts and icebergs, tiny spiders drifted on storm winds, and plant seeds were carried in the plumage of sea-going birds to create the map of life we see today. In other words, these organisms were not simply constrained by continental fate; they were the makers of their own geographic destiny. And as de Queiroz shows, the effects of oceanic dispersal have been crucial in generating the diversity of life on Earth, from monkeys and guinea pigs in South America to beech trees and kiwi birds in New Zealand. By toppling the idea that the slow process of continental drift is the main force behind the odd distributions of organisms, this theory highlights the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the history of life. In the tradition of John McPhee's Basin and Range, The Monkey's Voyage is a beautifully told narrative that strikingly reveals the importance of contingency in history and the nature of scientific discovery.
