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В эпоху Возрождения умозрительная художественная система угасает, и на ее место приходит другая, основывающаяся на познании и объективном изображении мира, который представляется человеку. Именно поэтому одной из основных задач художников эпохи Возрождения был вопрос отражения пространства. Периоды Возрождения принято обозначать названиями столетий: Раннее Возрождение или треченто (XIV и большая часть XV в.) характеризуется зарождением ренессансной литературы и связанных с ней гуманитарных наук…

Интересно, что остров Хоккайдо – самый большой остров на севере Японии – не играл какой-либо значимой роли в истории страны вплоть до конца XIX века. Остров Сикоку и вовсе был и остается самым маленьким и наименее населенным из четырех основных островов архипелага. Так что вторым по значению после Хонсю можно считать остров Кюсю. Расположенный на юге, он находится ближе всего к Корее, и именно через Кюсю Япония контактировала с культурой азиатского материка. Итак, начиная разговор об искусстве…

Словом, многоуважаемый читатель, отправляемся в путь по проселочным дорогам Истории кино, и ухабов на этом пути куда больше, чем в других видах искусства, хотя и прошло-то со времен изобретения кинокамеры всего 130 лет. Сравните с историей литературы, или театра, или музыки, или живописи. Но сколько за эти 130 лет произошло… Поехали! Как рождался кинематограф Что такое кино? Прежде чем рассуждать об Истории кино, неплохо бы понять, что оно собой представляет – об истории…

He clenched the veranda railing again. What did he think he wa doing? Trying to catch a glimp e of her? He had an in ane urge to butt hi head again t a veranda po t. He’d left all thought of Ca ie behind ten year ago. Yeah, right. Which i why you’re craning your neck over her back fence with your tongue hanging out. He made a fru trated noi e in the back of hi throat. It wouldn’t even be her fence any more. He went to turn away when a leg dangled out of the tree—a long, lean, female leg.…

‘Hey, bo !’ Mark wung around, jerked into the pre ent by the excited cry of a young jackaroo, a newly apprenticed tockman. ‘There’ a long-di tance phone call for you,’ the boy houted, waving the atellite phone above hi head. ‘It’ a woman! And he’ got an Engli h accent!’ A jolt treaked through Mark like a bullet from an un een niper. A tir rippled through the entire camp. The quiet chatter of the men around the fire topped, and the ringer mending hi addle pau ed, hi long iron…

CHAPTER ONE “IN TERMS OF de ign and u ability, the new operating y tem i league above the competition.” Julia Ander on turned and ge tured to the high definition monitor behind her, the one that wa currently projecting the interface of her computer creen to thou and in the audience, and million watching on televi ion and the internet worldwide. “It’ leek, u er friendly and ae thetically plea ing which, a we know, matter . Technology i not ju t about wire , it’ about people.” …

Harlan Adam welcome the Delacourt !and announce that hi White Pine family i expanding Baby Laura, daughter of Tri h Delacourt, arrived promptly at midnight New Year’ Eve. She wa a i ted into thi world by bachelor Hardy Jone , the man de tined to be her new daddy. Content Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter…

Recently the matche have been played out in the impre ive Dublin ground of Croke Park, and that’ where I’ve et the opening of my tory. A of 2010, though, the game will return to it home ground of Lan downe Road, which i currently being refurbi hed to international tandard . When it came to re earch—well, let’ ju t ay that it wa no hard hip to it and watch the Six Nation in preparation. I have to confe while watching France v Italy my focu on the rule of the game did wander a little…

—Exodu 4:10–12. To my weet middle girl, Kimmie, who i the ab olute la t word on fa hion in our hou e. Thi incredibly talented girl can make anything with a piece of fabric and ome thread. My own per onal image con ultant, he continue to remind me fa hion can be comfortable, ju t a I continue to break that rule by wearing weat when I write. Much thank and gratitude to my olde t daughter, Annie, who tran cribed much of thi book for me onto the computer, a I am one of tho e dino aur…

Carmen Green The Hu band She Couldn’t Forget Carmen Green www.mill andboon.co.uk Thi book i dedicated to the US Military, and to Lori Bryant Woolridge and Nina Foxx, two of the women along with my elf who founded the Femme Fanta tik Tour. It’ been a humbling experience travelling to ba e and peaking to the oldier and their familie . I became intere ted in the ubject of Traumatic Brain Injury becau e of an injury to a oldier, and I have a healthy re pect for all…

Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Copyright PROLOGUE ‘THE party i out ide by the pool.’ Bella froze in the doorway, earching the hadow of the unlit room he had entered by mi take, a tudy or den if the book-lined wall and de k were any indication. Her hand tightened about the door-handle a he finally aw the outline of the large, impo…

Over the year my father, hu band and on all played Rugby in the fir t fifteen at their variou chool , and my brother captained hi univer ity team, which meant the game wa in my blood from early childhood. It wa oon the ame for my on (who played at fly half), al o for my daughter, who i a hotly enthu ia tic a fan a her brother. They watch Six Nation matche together, kitted out in the red hirt of Wale and yelling their head off for the home team. (I do my hare of houting, too.)…

Ju t three and a half year old, he’d had hi world recently hattered beyond belief with the lo of both hi parent in a car cra h. Ben d’Ale andri had become part of her life from the moment her i ter, Ca ey, had announced her pregnancy. Together, they’d hared etting up a nur ery, choo ing motif , oft toy and baby clothe …indulgently anctioned by Ca ey’ hu band, Leon. It had been Taylor who’d gowned up and added her encouragement to that of Leon a they upported Ca ey during the…

‘There’ a very nice girl…’ hi mother had begun, a e ing whether that ca ual piece of information might have landed on fertile ground, but Cri tiano had not been having it. While he acknowledged that he would, indeed, one day get married to omeone uitable, that time had not quite arrived. He had been firm on the point and, of cour e, it had been regrettable that he had been forced to witne their cre tfallen face , but the pair of them, given half a chance, would have proved more un toppable than…

Then he aw him. Her blue eye narrowed warily. It wa the figure of a man half-hidden by the bu he ; one hand wa on the balu trade and he wa leaning over, trying to peer into a window. In hi other hand wa an iron bar. Kelly’ heart mi ed a beat. Su piciou didn’t cover it… He looked downright dangerou . Every mu cle of her body filled with ten ion. She watched a he traightened up, hi back to her. Dre ed in a white ve t and a pair of oil- tained khaki hort , he looked thoroughly di reputable.…

“Something wrong with Beth or her family?” “Beth and Eli are fine. In fact, I even think her new hu band’ home thi week. I’m calling about Leo Warne.” Static broke up the word between yllable , but at Leo’ name, Van let go of the trap on hi laptop bag. It lid down hi arm. He caught it and et the bag on the floor, hrugging out of hi oaked coat at the ame time. “Leo?” He’d been Van’ mentor, then hi father-in-law and finally a walking wake-up call to hi con cience. “He’…

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In memory of my dad (1924–2002) CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE EPILOGUE CHAPTER ONE REGAN JANTZ took a flute of champagne from a circulating waiter, then made her way to an alcove from where he canned the mix of Japane e bu ine men and local indu try repre entative . ‘You look like you don’t want to be here.’…

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