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Masterclass is a novel that operates at two interconnected levels. At one level it is, as the dust jacket breathlessly informs us, a story of intrigue and double-dealing in the shadowy and manipulative world of the world art market where art is an inflation-proof currency and the big institutions play for stakes that run into hundreds of millions.
A copybook, or copy book is a book used in education that contains examples of handwriting and blank space for learners to imitate. [1] Typical uses include teaching penmanship and arithmetic to students. A page of a copy book typically starts with a copybook heading: a printed example of what should be copied, such as a single letter or a ...
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is a memoir by American author Stephen King that describes his experiences as a writer and his advice for aspiring writers. Originally published in 2000 by Charles Scribner's Sons, it was King's first book after he was involved in a car accident a year earlier.
Millicent Borges Accardi, poet and recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, author of four poetry books; Mark Andrus, author of As Good as It Gets and Life as a House; Margaret Davis, author of biographies of William Mulholland and Edward L. Doheny; Frederick Johnson, Emmy- and WGA Award-winning writer of daytime television ...
FictionBook is an open XML-based e-book format which originated and gained popularity in Russia. [1] FictionBook files have the .fb2 or .fb3 filename extension, regarding to their version. All FB2/FB3 capable readers also support ZIP-compressed FictionBook files (.fb2.zip or .fbz). FictionBook2 and FictionBook3 differ in two respects: FB2 ...
Modern book illustration comes from the 15th-century woodcut illustrations that were fairly rapidly included in early printed books, and later block books. [1] Other techniques such as engraving , etching , lithography and various kinds of colour printing were to expand the possibilities and were exploited by such masters as Daumier , Doré or ...
George Bancroft's bookplate and signature. "εἰς φάος" is Ancient Greek for "Toward the Light". The tablet is an ancient Roman tabula ansata. An Ex Libris from ex librīs (Latin for 'from the books (or library)'), [1] [2] also known as a bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early 20th century), [3] is a printed or decorative label pasted into a book, often on ...
Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966) [1] is an American singer-songwriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina.After playing in several small independent bands throughout the late 80s and into the early 90s, Folds came to prominence as the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five from 1993 to 2000, and again during their reunion from 2011 to 2013.