In the words of Matisse and Picasso, Paul Cezanne was the 'father of us all', his approach to color and perspective paving the way for later modernist art movements such as Cubism and Expressionism, as he moved beyond the figurative tradition and towards abstraction.
Readers of The Sunday Times knew that the fashion journalist Ernestine Carter could spot a winner from a mile away, whether at a Paris couturier or a boutique on London's King's Road.
This long-awaited autobiography is a must-read for classical musical enthusiasts and those fascinated by some of the twentieth century's star performers.
Destroying the Altar of Incest, Rape and Molestation is a Powerful and informative book that tells the story about a young girl who becomes a victim of incest, rape and molestation as she maneuver her way through life, prior to what she goes through until adulthood, she learns to find the courage, to deal with the pain of her past by totally surrendering to God and allowing him to heal her from the inside out.
Silvio Berlusconi, a self-made man with a taste for luxurious living, owner of a huge television empire and the politician who likened a German MEP to a Nazi concentration camp guard-small wonder that much of democratic Europe and America has responded with considerable dismay and disdain to his governance of Italy.
Eddie Large and Syd Little dominated television screens across the nation for fifteen years, drawing in record viewing figures of more than 16 million at their peak.
Late on 8 December 1980, the world abruptly stopped turning for millions, as news broke that the world's most beloved bard had been gunned down in cold blood in New York city.
The third instalment in Craig Revel Horwoods frank and funny autobiography takes the reader through the highs and lows of the Strictly Come Dancing stars fab-u-lous life.
As a jazz musician, filmmaker, anthropologist, sexologist, and crime novelist, the boundlessly curious German autodidact Ernest Borneman exemplified the conflicting cultural and intellectual currents of the twentieth century.
The present volume is the biography of Oscar Tschirky (1866-1943), known throughout the world as Oscar of the Waldorf, who worked as maitre d'hotel of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City from 1893 to 1943.
Written by an outstanding authority and profusely illustrated, this is a comprehensive study of the Indians that lived from Yakutat Bay in Alaska to the northern coast of California.
In 1932, Sylvia exposed the foibles of the Hollywood system and her illustrious clientele in the book Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (1931).
In these warm, happy memoirs of one of America's most beloved radio, television, and stage stars, a woman who has delighted millions of people tells her own wonderful story, from the arrival of her grandfather in this country to her triumph in the Broadway hit A Majority of One.
A LUSTY, ROARING NOVEL ABOUT ONE MAN'S RELENTLESS BATTLE TO GET THE RAILROAD THROUGHThis is the story of FRANK PEACE, TROUBLE SHOOTER for the Union Pacific Railroad, handpicked as the only man in the West who could get the road across a thousand miles of rugged desert and mountains, through fighting Indian territory, past the organized bands of outlaws hired to kill him, and in the face of powerful interests determined to smash him.
