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When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance.

Hidden in the language of Shakespeare's best-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing are several clues to an intriguing tale. It seems that the witty lovers Beatrice and Benedick had a previous love affair that ended bitterly. But, how did they meet? Why did they part? And, what brought them together again? When nineteen-year-old Beatrice is brought to live at her uncle's court in Sicily to be a companion to his daughter, she first meets Benedick, a...

Spanish Princess, Isabella, has been captured by the Aztec God Totec and despite losing her maids and crew, she soon finds herself in love with her captor.Unfortunately, things soon change when she realises that her Uncle, who went missing years before, is also a captive but in his case, he is not the God's love interest and is to be sacrificed.Can Isabella stop this ritual taking place and keep her love?This is the second in the series about Totec...

♥ A nobleman and a common girl ♥ A close-knit, meddling family ♥ A trunkful of jewelry ♥ A dastardly kidnapping ♥ Steamy romance! From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Royal comes the first novel in her beloved series featuring the "outrageously funny, loyal, compassionate, and unconventional" Chase family. Descended from generations of jewelers, Amethyst Goldsmith loves her craft nearly as much as she loves her family. But she...

This compelling novel takes the reader into the tumultuous period of the Renaissance and the origins of Leonardo da Vinci, the bastard child of a notary. Of da Vinci, the eminent art historian Kenneth Clark wrote, "no more complex and mysterious character ever existed than this Hamlet of art history." Clark noted that one had to be "familiar with all of Leonardo's writings in their chronological order (and) the state of learning in the Renaissance...

Love's Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. Beginning in fourteenth-century Italy, this book shows how Petrarch established a pattern of inequality between suffering poet and exalted Beloved rooted in political parrhēsia. Sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French and English poets reshaped his model into an idiom of extravagant brutality coded to their own historical...

There are several factors that have influenced modern thought and the delivery of education. Great thinkers like Socrates and Plato attempted to create a definition for knowledge and this study became known as epistemology. Over time, philosophers have debated many aspects of epistemology, but ultimately this discipline has led to many great breakthroughs in the study of knowledge and education. Readers will learn about how knowledge interacts with...

This book must be one of the best references in the science's invention department of the renaissance. Featuring three of the greatest men on history, this book is your lightweight partner in the academe and even your career life. You need this and you know that. Get a copy of this book now.

Considers the life and work of American impressionist Childe Hassam (1859-1935). With an introduction written by Ernest Haskell. With 64 b/w plates—additional colour plates have been added to this enhanced edition.