Wanda Seasongood and the Almost Perfect Lie, Lurie Susan
Автор: Lurie, Alison Название: Foreign affairs ISBN: 1784876240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784876241 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `If you`re coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs` GuardianVinnie Miner is an American professor of children`s literature on her way to London for six months of research.
Автор: Lurie, Alison Название: Foreign Affairs ISBN: 0812976312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812976311 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 3237.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.)
Автор: Lurie, Alison Название: War between the tates ISBN: 1784876267 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784876265 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. Things spiral when a protest against a sexist professor at the university ramps up and Brian, hopelessly compromised by split loyalties, gets caught up in the action. Can the Tates marriage survive?
Описание: This lavishly illustrated book celebrates one of the most comprehensive and meticulously assembled private collections of Chinese export porcelain from the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644) made at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province. The Lurie Collection, comprising about 170 porcelain pieces, contains examples that are exceptional not only for their aesthetic beauty and quality but also for their rarity or historical importance. This book makes a significant contribution to several fields of study, most notably those related to the production, design and trade of Jingdezhen export porcelain in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
An introduction places the diverse porcelains of the Lurie Collection in their historical context. It offers new insight into the European expansion to Asia in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, via both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which ultimately led to an unprecedented large-scale trade, transport and consumption of various types of Jingdezhen export porcelain throughout the world until the collapse of the Ming dynasty in 1644. The core of the book is the catalogue section, which is composed of 127 entries with comprehensive discussions and images of a selection of the Lurie porcelains. Whenever possible they are accompanied by images of excavated shards that originally formed part of similar porcelain pieces, establishing direct links to the Jingdezhen kilns where such pieces were produced. Multiple sources of evidence (textual, material and visual) shed light on the trading networks through which these Jingdezhen porcelains circulated, as well as the way in which they were acquired, used and appreciated by the different societies in Europe, the New World, Asia and the Middle East.
Highlights include six kraak plates made during the Wanli reign (1573-1620) with the egret mark, which is found on a small number of pieces usually of very high quality, and the only known kraak armorial specifically ordered for the Spanish market in the 16th century. This finely potted plate, also dating to the Wanli reign, bears the impaled arms of Garc a Hurtado de Mendoza, 4th Marquis of Ca ete, and his wife, Teresa de Castro y de la Cueva. It was most probably ordered via Manila during the time Hurtado de Mendoza was Viceroy of Peru, between 1589 and 1596. This plate, together with a kraak plate bearing a pseudo-armorial, and a few pieces decorated in the so-called Transitional style and one other recovered from the Hatcher Junk (c.1643) made after European shapes, attest to the influence that the European merchants exerted on the porcelain production at Jingdezhen at the time.
Автор: Lurie Susan Название: Wanda Seasongood and the Mostly True Secret ISBN: 1368043151 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781368043151 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1972.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this Princess Bride-style fairy tale romp, a girl strikes out on a quest to find her rightful family--because the one she's been stuck with all these years is most definitely wrong.
Wanda hates her little brother, Zane. But don't judge her for it--Zane is an absolute terror, and her parents blame Wanda for his monstrous behavior. On her eleventh birthday, Wanda makes a wish: to find her true family, because she knows deep down that this one can't be hers.
She gets a surprise visit from a talking bluebird named Voltaire who seems wise and confirms her suspicion that someone has been meddling with her life. He knows the secret . . . he just can't remember what it is right now.
Together they venture into the Scary Wood, where they encounter many magical creatures as they search for the truth. None of these adversaries prepares her for the biggest one: a witch named Raymunda, who has put her and her family under a spell.
Will Wanda succeed in breaking the curse, or will she be stuck in the wrong life forever?
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