2010, ISBN: 9780060733995

edizione con copertina rigida

London: HarperPress, 2006. Used. The bestselling author of ????~Maharanis????" recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to e… Altro …

London: HarperPress, 2006. Used. The bestselling author of ????~Maharanis????" recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to exercise their considerable charm, intelligence and acumen to make their mark on history. At the heart of Paris's intellectual movement, Germaine de Stael was a figure like no other. Passionate, fiercely intelligent and equally obsessed by love affairs as she was by politics, she helped write the 1791 Constitution at the salon in which she entertained the thinkers of the age. Her fellow salonni?? ??re, Mme Roland, was a bourgeois housewife who became a fervent and influential revolutionary, until Robespierre sent her, still defiant, to the guillotine. At the other end of the social scale, her working class counterparts patrolled the streets of Paris with pistols in their belts. Theroigne de Mericourt was an ill-treated mistress when she fell in love with revolutionary ideals. Denied a political role because of her sex, she nevertheless campaigned tirelessly until a mob beating left her broken in both mind and body. The mob in question was made up of members of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women, whose founder, Pauline Leon, agitated for women's rights and sought to push the Revolution to ever greater extremes. The glamorous merveilleuses, whose glamour, beauty, and propensity for revealing outfits propelled them to the top of post-revolutionary society. Exuberant, decadent Theresia Tallien reportedly helped engineer Robespierre's downfall ????" in so doing, she and her fellow 'sans chemises' ushered in a new world that combined sexual licence with the amorality of the new Republic. Her only rival was Juliette Recamier, whose elegance made her salons the most sought-after in Paris. Writing with vigour and sympathy, Lucy Moore reanimates the lives of six remarkable women from these very different segments of French Society. Through their lives, loves and failures, the wider history of the Revolution receives a compassionate retelling that illuminates, not only the brief, hopeful period in which equality seemed within reach, but also the ways in which it failed., HarperPress, 2006, 0, Thames & Hudson, London, 2010. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Epoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark. Early in the Roaring Twenties, Chanel made the first ever couture perfume - No. 5 - presenting it in the famous little square-cut flagon that, inspired by Picasso and Cubism, became the arch symbol of the Art Deco style. No. 5 remains the most popular scent ever created. Chanel knew instinctively that the road to success lay in being absolutely at one with her own time. And what a time! The era of Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Visconti - all of whom 'Coco' knew and collaborated with, even as she matched their modernist innovations by liberating women from the prison of 19th-century fashion and creating a whole new concept of elegance. Chanel went everywhere and knew everyone and, as this sumptuously illustrated volume clearly shows, her life and accomplishment - even her chronic failure in love - constitute one of the great stories of the modern age. Her life is eminently suited to the lavish visual treatment of this handsome volume, which features more than 600 illustrations from an extraordinary collection amassed over the years by Edmonde Charles-Roux, Chanel's official biographer and close friend. An authoritative and practised writer, Charles-Roux has used careful research and vivid eyewitness accounts to set the pictures in their context of time and place. She makes Chanel live again! All pictures shown are of the actual product offered for sale Size: 250mm - 320mm. 383 pages. Remnants of old price label on rear cover. Dust Jacket has some shelf-wear, as well as some bumping to corners & extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; France; Fashion, Fabrics & Style. Inventory No: 20169. ., Thames & Hudson, 2010, 2.5, New York:: HarperSanFrancisco / Harper Collins,, (2004.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A "wry, nimble memoir, Natalie Goldberg candidly depicts her father Ben, an old-fashioned man's man who knew no boundaries - a trait that is at once his greatest strength and most profound weakness. In capturing the essence of this larger than life Jewish bartender, she reveals the intricacies of a precarious father-daughter relationship. The tenuous relationship with her father leads her in many directions and ultimately to Dainin Katagiri Roshi, a dynamic, celebrated Zen Master. In light of an eye-opening discovery that shakes her ideal of this beloved teacher, Goldberg revisits the many years of loyal practice under Roshi's guidance. Elegantly weaving these tales together, this story is finally a search for truth." INSCRIBED on the title page "For Jennifer" with a drawing of a heart. 192 pp., HarperSanFrancisco / Harper Collins, 5<

2004, ISBN: 9780060733995

edizione con copertina rigida

New York:: HarperSanFrancisco / Harper Collins,, (2004.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. A "wry, nimble memoir, Natalie G… Altro …

New York:: HarperSanFrancisco / Harper Collins,, (2004.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. A "wry, nimble memoir, Natalie Goldberg candidly depicts her father Ben, an old-fashioned man's man who knew no boundaries - a trait that is at once his greatest strength and most profound weakness. In capturing the essence of this larger than life Jewish bartender, she reveals the intricacies of a precarious father-daughter relationship. The tenuous relationship with her father leads her in many directions and ultimately to Dainin Katagiri Roshi, a dynamic, celebrated Zen Master. In light of an eye-opening discovery that shakes her ideal of this beloved teacher, Goldberg revisits the many years of loyal practice under Roshi's guidance. Elegantly weaving these tales together, this story is finally a search for truth." SIGNED on the title page with a drawing of a heart. 192 pp., HarperSanFrancisco / Harper Collins, 5<

2004, ISBN: 0060733993

[EAN: 9780060733995], Gebraucht, [PU: HarperOne], This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library o… Altro …

[EAN: 9780060733995], Gebraucht, [PU: HarperOne], This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket., Books<

2004, ISBN: 0060733993

[EAN: 9780060733995], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 46.44], [PU: HarperOne], Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting… Altro …

[EAN: 9780060733995], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 46.44], [PU: HarperOne], Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Books<

2004, ISBN: 9780060733995

hardcover, Gebraucht, guter Zustand, Size: 88x12x132;, [PU: HarperOne]