![]() ![]() He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. ![]() With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” ( The New Yorker).īased on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” ( San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. ![]()
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But Portia’s talents soon prove to be exactly what Tavis’s business needs, and when Tavis admits there’s more to her than sexy good looks, the smoldering tension between them explodes with a fiery kiss. Tavis doesn’t want an apprentice, especially not one whose freckles and curves set his mind to wandering lustfully. ![]() However, “Project New Portia” takes a hit when she finds herself wrong-footed with her new boss, Tavis McKenzie, on the first day. In Cole’s rollicking second Reluctant Royals contemporary (after A Princess in Theory), Portia Hobbs leaves New York for Scotland and a sword-making apprenticeship, determined to recreate herself and her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book 2: Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow.Original Male Character/Original Male Character.Original Female Character/Original Female Character.Morrigan Crow & Original Female Character(s).Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings. ![]() ![]() Language: English Words: 982 Chapters: 2/? Comments: 3 Kudos: 23 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 180īackground_eaglefoot Fandoms: Nevermoor Series - Jessica Townsend May include baseless lore thoĬh.1- Eight-years-old Morrigan practices her abilities by performing seven of the nine Wunderous Arts in a sequence. Smut_Whore Fandoms: Nevermoor Series - Jessica TownsendĪ one shot book featuring Mog's life if she was raised as Ezra's daughter. Language: English Words: 4,868 Chapters: 5/? Comments: 3 Kudos: 23 Hits: 229 The Crow family come to Nevermoor on official business and they stay at the hotel Deucalion. Wunderwriter Fandoms: Nevermoor Series - Jessica Townsend ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thereafter, he worked briefly in a bank in New York before studying law he graduated from Harvard Law School in 1888. Wister graduated from Harvard in 1882.Īt first he aspired to a career in music and spent two years studying at a Paris conservatory. As a senior Wister wrote the Hasty Pudding's then most successful show, Dido and Aeneas, whose proceeds aided in the construction of their theater. Wister was also a member of the Porcellian Club, through which he became lifelong friends with future 26th President Theodore Roosevelt. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a member of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon (Alpha chapter). Wister briefly attended schools in Switzerland and Britain, and later studied at St. ( November 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was the second Black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York State, and became famous, with the publication of the book, when she was aged 101. Delany earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree from Columbia University in 1923. Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany (3 September 1891 – 25 September 1995) was an American dentist and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her elder sister Sarah "Sadie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history, Having Our Say, written by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. This interview with the son of Sadie and Bessies brother complicates our image of the sisters, showing how Having Our Say changed all of the Delanys lives forever. Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable. ![]() ![]() She was the second Black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York State, and became famous, with the publication of the book, when she was aged 101. 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A View from the Bridge is written in the form of a play, and is therefore intended to be watched in performance rather than just being read. Writers choose all sorts of different ways, or forms, to write texts, such as novels, poems, and plays. The use of form in A View from the Bridge ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Oh yes, they’re all great guys, all easy-going guys, and I’m fond of all of them.” That’s one of the things about her: apparently no hint of darkness. And are they still her friends? Smiley’s infectious laugh punctuates her answer. Who are they, these merry, long-suffering, dedicatees, John, Bill, Steve and Jack? Smiley’s three ex-husbands of course, plus the incumbent. V irtually all you need to know about the novelist Jane Smiley is encrypted on to the dedication page of her new book, Some Luck, which thanks four men for “decades of patience, laughter, insight, information, and assistance”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" 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You can find the full review and more about this book on my blog! ![]() “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After a shocking betrayal endangers Lillian's safetyâ?and possibly her lifeâ?will Marcus be able to save her before it's too … ( more) ![]() What neither Westcliff nor Lillian suspect, however, is that a sinister conspiracy threatens to destroy any chance of happiness. and Lillian discovers that beneath the earl's reserved façade, he is the passionate and tender lover of her dreams. Then one afternoon, a stunningly sensuous encounter changes everything. Whenever they're in the same room, they can't stop themselves from battling furiously to gain the upper hand. But something about the audacious Lillian drives him mad. Marcus, Lord Westcliff, is famous for his icy English reserve and his supreme self-control. Except, perhaps, the powerful and arrogant Earl of Westcliffâ?a man Lillian despises more than anyone she's ever met. Unfortunately, no man is strong enough to tame the stubborn beauty's fierce will. Headstrong American heiress Lillian Bowman has come to England to find an aristocratic husband. ![]() |