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    • They Made History (Collection)

      by Various artists : Luca Blengino, Davide Goy, Antonio Palma, Paulin Ismard, Mathieu Gabella, Paolo Martinello, Renaud Villard, Clotilde Bruneau, Vincent Delmas, Clemenceau, Arancia Studio, Renaud Dély, Christophe Regnault, Stefano Carloni, Jean Garrigues, Giusto Traina, Victor Battaggion, Aude Gros de Beler, Dobbs, Denis-Pierre Filippi, Jean-David Morvan, Noël Simsolo, Frédérique Neau-Dufour, Éric Adam, Didier Convard, etc...

      A collection of 48-pages graphic novel biographies of great historical figures. Each book is created jointly by renown historians or professors and comic book artists, to ensure that the content is based on historical fact. Each volume focuses on a specific aspect of the person’s life and achievements. At the end of each volume there is an 8 pages appendix written by the expert which provides further insight into the person, the historical context and the events covered in the in the comic. The art style is consistent across the series.

    • Biography & True Stories
      October 2013

      How Blue is my Valley

      The Real Provence

      by Jean Gill

      Humorous travel memoir about moving from Wales to France; amazon bestseller. Appeals to readers who enjoy armchair travel, who love France and Provence, who read Peter Mayle's books, who dream of changing their lives and moving to a rural haven, especially older readers about to retire from work or those wanting to give up their current work. The true scents of Provence? Lavender, thyme and septic tank. There are hundreds of interesting things you can do in a bath but washing dishes is not one of them, nor what writer Jean Gill had in mind when she swopped her Welsh Valley for a French one. Keen to move out of the elephant's stomach, that stew of grey mists called weather in Wales, she offered her swimming certificate to a bemused Provencale estate agent and bought a house with good stars and its own spring-water. Or rather, as it turns out, a neighbour's spring-water that is the only supply to the kitchen, which, according to the nice men from the Water Board, is emptying its dirty water directly and illegally onto the main road... and there's worse ... But how can you resist a village called Dieulefit, `God created it', the village 'where everyone belongs'. Discover the real Provence in good company ... Watch the book trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Rrn4CGw5A

    • Memoirs
      March 2020

      The Private Adolf Loos

      Portrait of an Eccentric Genius

      by Claire Beck Loos; Translated by Constance C. Pontasch and Nicholas Saunders

      An intimate literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect, told in lively, snapshot-like vignettes. The Private Adolf Loos reveals the personality and philosophy that helped shape Modern architecture in Vienna and the Czech lands. Includes an introduction, supplemental texts, writings by Loos and photographs. The Loos' trip to the French Riviera and his work in France are a significant part of the story. Recommended to all those interested not only in architecture but also in the dynamic era of twenties and thirties. Not only a recollection of an extraordinary and controversial personality, Claire’s book is also an excellent literary work. She has captured with a brilliant lightness and humor the tedious, but not boring, life beside a somewhat self-centered genius. […] We still feel Loos’ charisma.– “Annoyed on Vacation and Misunderstood on Site: Loos, We Do Not Know Him,” Lidovk.cz What makes the book most valuable is the fine-grained portrait it provides us of Loos’ last years, of his activities and his preoccupations. […] The English translation of her book, made by Constance C. Pontasch [and Nicholas Saunders], is fluent and accurate, conveying well the tone of Claire Loos’ original (which, in turn, to some extent mimics Loos’ own writing style). Paterson’s introduction and afterword, along with some forty previously unpublished family photographs, add to the story and help flesh it out. It is a richly informative.– Christopher Long, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture

    • Biography & True Stories
      March 2021

      Mozart in Prague

      by Dr. Daniel E. Freeman

      ISBN-13: 978-1-950743-50-6 Dismissed in Vienna as a compose of excessively complicated music with little popular appeal, Mozart found complete recognition for his talents in Prague, likely as a byproduct of the exceptional musical literacy of the general population. Accounts of the affection lavished on Mozart by the people of Prague can be deeply moving for those acquainted with his bleak struggles for recognition in Vienna. Indeed, he was manhandled like a rock star at the concert in 1787 that featured the first performance of the "Prague" symphony in a way that he never experienced anywhere else. And in contrast to the tawdry ceremonies that accompanied Mozart's burial in Vienna in 1791, his funeral in Prague, attended by thousands of mourners, brought life there to a standstill. It was the residents of Prague, not Vienna, who took responsibility to provide for Mozart's widow and children. Mozart in Prague tells the story of the amazing civic revival that was responsible for Mozart's unique personal and musical relationship with this beautiful city and the colorful characters who helped shape it, including Marie Antoinette and Giacomo Casanova.

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