![]() ![]() Taking a fresh look at Leonardo’s celebrated but challenging notebooks as well as other, often obscure sources, Fiorani shows that Leonardo became fluent in science when he was still a young man. ![]() In this pathbreaking biographical interpretation, the art historian Francesca Fiorani tells a very different and much more interesting story. Shortly after Leonardo’s death, his peers and rivals created the myth of the two Leonardos: there was Leonardo the artist and then, later in life, Leonardo the scientist. But what was the connection between Leonardo the painter and Leonardo the scientist? And what can a mysterious, long-lost book teach us about how Leonardo truly conceived his art? He was the masterful painter who gave us the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, and the visionary inventor who anticipated airplanes, hot-air balloons, and other technological marvels. Leonardo da Vinci has long been celebrated as the epitome of genius. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews. ![]() Kenyon (whose name means Blond from the White Meadow) is a fantasy author. An introduction gives practical advice on naming characters and places plus tips on naming for specific genres, and sidebars within the entry sections tell how published authors solved their naming dilemmas. An explanation of naming practices and historical context is provided for each origin section, and there is a reverse lookup of names by meaning, as well as an alphabetical index of names. This reference for writers provides meanings for some 25,000 names and surnames from 45 countries, listed by origin. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author masterfully weaves together plenty of plot points, from the unresolved tension between Clio and her father, to the strange attraction between Clio and Aidan, which at times "practically crackled." Flashbacks to another adventurous father and daughter more than 100 years before add depth to the story and provide clues to the crew's secret mission. But after the money disappeared and Clio had a scuba diving accident (her father allowed her to get a tattoo over her scar), her parents fought nightly and eventually "sat down to tell her that sometimes parents don't get along and can't be married anymore." Now years later, circumstances throw 17-year-old Clio and her estranged father together for another adventure, this time aboard his luxury yacht he has assembled a strange crew, including his archaeologist professor girlfriend and her cute young assistant, Aidan, to embark on a mysterious expedition. When Clio was a kid, she invented a popular adventure board game with her father, which allowed them to live an adventurous life that included trips to Peru, Greece and Japan. ![]() ![]() Would result in the following HTML: Some Markdown text with some blue text. ![]() For example, the following Markdown text (as suggested by in a comment): Some Markdown text with some *blue* text. That said, it is not impossible as you can include raw HTML (and HTML is a publishing format). Thus, Markdown’s formatting syntax only addresses issues that can be conveyed in plain text.įor any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply use HTML itself.Īs it is not a "publishing format," providing a way to color your text is out-of-scope for Markdown. HTML is a publishing format Markdown is a writing format. The idea for Markdown is to make it easy to read, write, and edit prose. In my opinion, HTML tags are already easy to insert. The idea is not to create a syntax that makes it easier to insert HTML tags. Its syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of HTML tags. ![]() Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. ![]() ![]() Markdown’s syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a format for writing for the web. Markdown doesn't support color but you can inline HTML inside Markdown, e.g.: some *blue* text.Īs the original/official syntax rules state (emphasis added): ![]() ![]() ![]() And Aidan? Well he's refusing to even take her calls. Unfortunately, her family have other ideas. She's dreaming of leaving Dublin and returning to New York. ' Anna Walsh is covered in bandages and lying in her parents' Good Front Room. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human to be. ![]() It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. Winner of British Book Awards: Popular Fiction Award 2007 and Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance 2007. But what has driven her so far from everything she loves? 'I'd lost my place in the in the universe. 'A born storyteller' Independent on Sunday Anna Walsh needs her old life back- her home, her glamorous career and above all the love of her life, her husband Aidan. ![]() ![]() ![]() The actual end to the main Sailor Moon series. Y máscaras que ocultan rostros que a veces no pueden ocultar el amor. La luna, siempre presente, nos mostrará sus varios rostros y secretos.īuenos que se transforman en malos y extraños que se transforman en familia. para que triunfen la paz, la justicia, la amistad y el amor.Īparecerán muchos personajes, con una historia personal cada uno: los buenos y los malos. ![]() Quizás inspirada en una época en la que las mujeres se hartaron de ser consideradas las 'segundonas' en un mundo más bien lleno de mallas masculinas.Įn un Japón rodeado de seres malvados, unas estudiantes con traje de marinera, nos van a demostrar de lo que son capaces entre familia, amigos, colegio, chicos monos, gatos misteriosos, videojuegos, y que no se nos olvide el almuerzo. Una especie de 'episodio piloto' de 3 tomos, que ya avanza la trama de la serie. Entre el manga clásico y moderno de hace una generación.ĭebo aclarar que antes que ''Sailor Moon'', va ''Sailor V''. La serie de televisión la descubrí, en verdad, después.Įl dibujo es precioso, detallado, divertido y elegante. ![]() Otro de los mangas que compré en cuanto se editaron en España. Heroínas, superheroínas, magical girls, cómic, aventuras, acción, romance. Sagas manga leídas: ''Sailor Moon'', y ''Sailor V'', de Naoko Takeuchi. ![]() ![]() Turgenev is very deft in setting up his characters and bringing them together and that he is more interested in his main characters reactions and development following on from the events of the stories gives them an interest beyond the narratives themselves. Somebody else probably has written that novel, but it is not the story that Turgenev is interested in. ![]() He can manage to be concise because he is so focussed - in First Love we only learn about the narrator - and not that much about him, we don't know about the woman he loves or why there is a crowd of, rather unlikely, suitors around her. ![]() But you can enjoy it infinitely because of its artistry, Penelope Fitzgerald was a Turgenev fan and beyond his pessimism I can imagine that she was inspired by his concision, all of these stories are short and I felt the shorter they were the stronger they were, the longest story here - the King Lear retelling, was the weakest for me The song of triumphant Love was unfinished and is, I assume, only in the collection as a filler. ![]() This collection consists of the stories Diary of a superfluous man, Mumu, Asya, First Love, King Lear of the steppes and The song of triumphant Love Asya and First Love I had read before, back when I was a teenager, the edition was a hardback bound in green - though that could have been a library binding I suppose, from a Russian publishing house.įirst Love I imagine is one of the stories that inspired Freud, it is a very nice story, but it is not the kind of the story that you can read the same way twice. ![]() ![]() The jury praised her life’s work for “critically questioning the hopes and errors of her time, and portraying them with deep moral seriousness and narrative power.” Christa Ihlenfeld was born March 18, 1929, in Landsberg an der Warthe, a part of Ger Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, journalist, and film dramatist Christa Wolf was a citizen of East Germany and a committed socialist, and managed to keep a critical distance from the communist regime. ![]() She won awards in East Germany and West Germany for her work, including the Thomas Mann Prize in 2010. Her best-known novels included “Der geteilte Himmel” (“Divided Heaven,” 1963), addressing the divisions of Germany, and “Kassandra” (“Cassandra,” 1983), which depicted the Trojan War. Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, journalist, and film dramatist Christa Wolf was a citizen of East Germany and a committed socialist, and managed to keep a critical distance from the communist regime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the tiny people lose hope, their underlying pettiness, greed and jealousy become evident despite their polite words and pretty faces.” ― Los Angeles Times Hero Complex “A twisted tale that draws from the likes of Alice in Wonderland and The Borrowers, only Beautiful Darkness presents a much bleaker allegory about brutality. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Beautiful Darkness is a harrowing look behind the routine politeness and meaningless kindness of civilized society. The sweet faces and bright leaves of Kerascoët's delicate watercolors serve to highlight the evil that dwells beneath Vehlmann's story as pettiness, greed, and jealousy take over. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. ![]() Kerascoët's and Fabien Vehlmann's unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Even on her clover-high scale, as Aurora discovers, romance is decided by social pecking order and murderous deceit."―Douglas Wolk, New York Times render Aurora and her friends in the huge-eyed style of classic children's book illustrations, but cuteness is just another Darwinian survival strategy here. ![]() BEST OF THE YEAR NODS FROM AMAZON.COM AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY! ![]() ![]() War Lord opens with Uhtred where he’s always wanted to be, sitting in his home of Bebbanburg, content to spend his remaining years ensconced in its walls. War Lord manages to honor the many previous entries in the series all while telling its own story and bringing the whole thin to a close. Martin raved about War Lord, saying he “gulped it right down.”Īt the same time, Cornwell’s work is incredibly rich. A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. ![]() And Cornwell’s work can always be counted on to be both easy to digest and exciting. Thirteen books is a lot for any author, but Cornwell is nothing if not dependable, cranking out new books at a rate so regular you can set your watch to it. The thirteenth book gives us a satisfying ending for Uhtred son of Uhtred, even if we could still do with more of the elderly warrior. Happily, War Lord, the final novel in Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories series (which Netflix is adapting as The Last Kingdom) falls into the second category. Terrible endings can leave a bitter taste in fans’ mouths, while good endings can leave you wanting more. The conclusion of any beloved series - be it in film, television or book form - can be a bittersweet event. ![]() By Corey Smith 2 years ago War Lord, Bernard Cornwell’s final novel in his Saxon Stories series, brings Uhtred son of Uhtred’s tale to a satisfying end. ![]() |