Explore tips, opinions, and features on Empire Art Direct 60 in sold at 366.67 $ ; this product is listed in the Art & Posters category, produced by Empire Art Direct, and sold by Homedepot.com.
The gentleman pictured here has a sort of whimsical look on his face as he contemplates the unseen Is this person wearing a mask or is this the true personage Abstract art such as this leaves us with many questions for our imagination to answer and Primo is certainly a master in the field Crafting scraps of wood and metal into these types of mixed media wall sculptures Primo has his skill on full display here The Homme or gentlemens gentleman would complement any abstract or industrial collection Color Multi Color
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Letters from an American farmer, priced at 33.58 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
St John Crèvecœur wrote these Letters during a period of seven years prior to the American Revolutionary War while farming land near Orange County New York They are told from the viewpoint of a fictional narrator in correspondence with an English gentleman and each letter concerns a different aspect of life or location in the British colonies of America the letters are written in a spirit of touching simplicity almost better than Chateaubriand Youd think neither of them would ever know how many beans make five This American Farmer tells of the joys of creating a home in the wilderness and of cultivating the virgin soil
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Sulak french Language Soft Cover, priced at 31.26 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Il était jeune il était beau il sappelait Bruno Sulak Au début des années 80 il est lhomme le plus recherché de France Gentleman braqueur il défraye la chronique judiciaire sans jamais verser une goutte de sang et séduit tous ceux qui lapprochent jusquà Georges Moréas le policier qui mit fin à cinq années de cavale effrénée Lors dune tentative dévasion en 1985 Bruno Sulak meurt dans des circonstances jamais éclaircies De sa vie tourmentée Philippe Jaenada a fait un roman captivant
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Xenophons only true Socratic discourse the Oeconomicus is a dialogue between Socrates and a gentlemanfarmer on the art of household management and the art of farming as practiced on a gentlemans estate It is generally acknowledged to be the oldest surviving work devoted to economics and it constitutes the classic statement of economic thought in ancient Greece The dialogue examines the roles of husband and wife in the household and the division of labor between them and considers the duties of the farm steward and the housekeeper It discusses the goals of efficient management and the means for attaining these goals
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In the eighteenth century the received wisdom following Usshers careful biblical calculations was that the Earth was just six thousand years old James Hutton a gentleman farmer with legal and medical training and a passion for rocks knew that this could not be the case Looking at the formation of irregular strata in the layers of the earth he deduced that a much deeper abyss of time would be required for the landscape he saw to have evolved In the turbulent world of Enlightenment Scotland he set out to prove it He could not have achieved this without his friends Huttons entourage in Edinburgh would turn out to be the leading thinkers of the age His close circle consisted of such luminaries as Erasmus Darwin Adam Smith James Watt and David Hume These brilliant men would work together to develop the nascent science of geology but would also make spectacular advances in agriculture chemistry philosophy economy and engineering as well as devising steam engines and military tactics Huttons geological theory of the Earth would cause a profound religious debate as well as provoking decades of criticism His revelation however was ultimately one of the most extraordinary and essential moments in scientific history This is the littleknown story of a man who fought hard against orthodox beliefs to prove the antiquity of the earth and of the dedicated loyalty of an enlightened circle of friends
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Carl Crow A Tough Old sold at 37.39 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century working there as a journalist newspaper proprietor and groundbreaking adman He also did stints as a hostage negotiator emergency police sergeant gentleman farmer gobetween for the American government and propagandist As his career progressed so did the fortunes of Shanghai The city transformed itself from a dull colonial backwater when Crow arrived to the thriving and ruthless cosmopolitan metropolis of the 1930s when Crow wrote his pioneering book 400 Million Customers that encouraged a flood of businesses into the China market in an intriguing foreshadowing of todays boom Among Crows exploits were attending the negotiations in Peking that led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty getting a scoop on Japanese interference in China during the First World War negotiating the release of a group of Western hostages from a mountain bandit lair and being one of the first Westerners to journey up the Burma Road during the Second World War He met most of the major figures of the time including Sun Yatsen Chiang Kaishek the Soong sisters and Maos secondincommand Zhou Enlai During the Second World War he worked for American intelligence alongside Owen Lattimore coordinating US policies to support China against Japan The story of this one exceptional man gives us a rich view of Shanghai and China during those tempestuous years This is a book for all with an interest in Shanghai and China of this period and those with an interest in the development of journalism and business there
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Discover information, advice, and prices for All for Nothing My Life sold for 55.48 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
CG Tracey became a farmer at sixteen at the beginning of the Second World War Entrepreneuer businessman plantbreeder racehorse owner and breeder sanctionsbuster chairman and director of many companies husband father and gentleman CG was active and involved through the many unsettled years of Zimbabwes history This included the Central African Federation and its breakup Ian Smiths UDI followed by sanctions and the war Zimbabwean independence in 1980 and the search to put the country on a soundfooting Having had considerable influence in the development of our still fledging nation in the closing years of his long life he suffered the loss of his won farm in a period in which his brother sister and children were all tragically affected and his sisterinlaw was murdered
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Discover information, advice, and prices for The Animal Estate English and, priced at 24.17 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
When we think about the Victorian age we usually envision people together with animals the Queen and her pugs the sportsman with horses and hounds the big game hunter with his wild kill the gentleman farmer with a prize bull Harriet Ritvo here gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and by extension how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirationsVictorian England was a period of burgeoning scientific cattle breeding and newly fashionable dog shows an age of Empire and big game hunting an era of reform and reformers that saw the birth of the Royal SPCA Ritvo examines Victorian thinking about animals in the context of other lines of thought evolution class structure popular science and natural history imperial domination The papers and publications of people and organizations concerned with agricultural breeding veterinary medicine the world of pets vivisection and other humane causes zoos hunting at home and abroad all reveal underlying assumptions and deeply held convictionsfor example about Britains imperial enterprise social discipline and the hierarchy of orders in nature and in human societyThus this book contributes a new new topic of inquiry to Victorian studies its combination of rhetorical analysis with more conventional methods of historical research offers a novel perspective on Victorian culture And because nineteenthcentury attitudes and practices were often the ancestors of contemporary ones this perspective can also inform modern debates about humananimal interactions
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Before sunrise on August 6 1887 a respected gentleman farmer Capt Richard F Woolfolk was savagely murdered along with his wife their six children and his wifes 84 year old great aunt At daybreak local authorities crippled by mass hysteria made an arrest The state of Georgia abruptly awakened from its simmering post Civil War stupor and struggled to prove the one survivor of that tragic night Thomas G Woolfold the Captains eldest son to be the lone axe murderer Toms fate placed him in the turbulent epicenter of the Souths racial moral social political and ecomomic tempest Unconvinced of Woolfolks guilt a single reporter was determined to search out the truth while a valiant attorney courageously fought the prejudiced system for the sake of justice In the end they all went to their deaths carrying the burden of the Woolfolk tragedy on their shoulders
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Discover information, advice, and prices for All for Nothing My Life sold for 28 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
CG Tracey became a farmer at sixteen at the beginning of the Second World War Entrepreneuer businessman plantbreeder racehorse owner and breeder sanctionsbuster chairman and director of many companies husband father and gentleman CG was active and involved through the many unsettled years of Zimbabwes history This included the Central African Federation and its breakup Ian Smiths UDI followed by sanctions and the war Zimbabwean independence in 1980 and the search to put the country on a soundfooting Having had considerable influence in the development of our still fledging nation in the closing years of his long life he suffered the loss of his won farm in a period in which his brother sister and children were all tragically affected and his sisterinlaw was murdered
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on As You Like It Signet sold at 65.05 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
This wisely funny comedy which contains some of Shakespeares loveliest poetry contrasts a countrys world of envy and rivalry with a forests world of compassion and harmony In the Forest of Arden the banished young heroine Rosalind disguised as a gentleman farmer encounters an extraordinary assemblage of characters including a fool a malcontent traveler her own banished father and the banished young man she loves Romantic happiness triumphs even as we laugh at the excesses of love at the ways of court and countryside indeed at everything in this masterpiece of comic writing
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Xenophons only true Socratic discourse the Oeconomicus is a dialogue between Socrates and a gentlemanfarmer on the art of household management and the art of farming as practiced on the gentlemans estate It is generally acknowledged to be the oldest surviving work devoted to economics and it constitutes the classic statement of economic thought in ancient Greece
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Now a major motion picture The tale of a passionate independent woman and her three suitors Far from the Madding Crowd tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene and her relationships with the devoted Gabriel Oak the dashing Sergeant Troy and the reclusive gentleman farmer Mr Boldwood Through her wayward nature and a winding path ofnbspevents propelled by Thomas Hardys recurring feminist themes Bathsheba is led to tragedy and finally true loveWritten in 1874 Far from the Madding Crowd was Hardys first masterpiece Alive with lush idyllic settings that exert profound influences onnbspthe novels charactersnbspit is an unforgettable narrative of bothnbspbeauty and devastation Its portrait of rural life and compelling examination of social conventions has made it one of English literatures greatest works
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From the wilds of County Mayo in northwest Ireland to the oakbeamed tranquillity of Shakespeares Middle England 17 rural characters reminisce about country life Their occupations include parish priest village schoolmaster country solicitor farm labourer hedgelayer horseman forester and gentleman farmer They have all experienced more dramatic changes in rural life than any previous generation born before any car or tractor passed their way yet living to see man land on the moon The authors previous books include Tales of the Old Gamekeepers and Tales of the Old Countrymen
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on All Cheeses Great And Small sold at 44.57 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
This is the story of Alex Jamess transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s to gentleman farmer artisan cheesemaker and father of five All Cheeses Great and Small is the followup memoir to Alex Jamess first book Bit of a Blur the story of his excessive pop star lifestyle during the nineties But now Alex has grown up fallen in love and got married He has also fallen passionately for his new home an enormous rambling farmhouse in the Cotswolds set in two hundred acres of beautiful British countryside The farm represents not just a new house for Alex but also a new career As he breathes new life into the old farm he chances across an unexpected calling making cheese His cheeses Blue Monday Farleigh Wallop and Little Wallop have received widespread media interest and are now sold through many outlets The story culminates with an account of the triumphant reformation of Blur for Glastonbury 2009
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Xenophons only true Socratic discourse the Oeconomicus is a dialogue between Socrates and a gentlemanfarmer on the art of household management and the art of farming as practiced on the gentlemans estate It is generally acknowledged to be the oldest surviving work devoted to economics and it constitutes the classic statement of economic thought in ancient Greece
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An odd friendship develops between a farmer pig and an old man when the elderly gentleman asks the best way to Ripton and the talkative farmer considers the many ways not to get there
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