Authors:Ascanio Condivi,  Charles Holroyd, Dr. Charles
Publisher: Pallas Athene
Keywords: michelangelo, life
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1843680122
ISBN-13: 9781843680123

Michelangelo Buonarroti remains arguably the most powerful artist in the Western canon and a touchstone for all artistic endeavor. Painter, sculptor, architect, poet, he redefined not only the possibilities of the imagination, but also the very image of the artist. He was the first artist to be the subject of a biography in his lifetime, with the publication of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects in 1550. Dissatisfied with Vasari’s treatment, Michelangelo encouraged his close friend and fellow painter Ascanio Condivi to publish a rival bi

Author: Michael Holroyd
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: memoir, blues, street, basil
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-05
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393321746
ISBN-13: 9780393321746

Renowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own family was perfectly English, or at least perfectly ordinary. But an investigation into the Holroyd past—guided by old photograph albums, crumbling documents, and his parents’ wildly divergent accounts of their lives—gradually yields clues to a constellation of startling events and eccentric characters: a slow decline from English nobility on one side, a dramatic Scandinavian ancestry on the other. Fires, suicides, bankruptcies, divorces, unconsummated longings, and the rumor of an Indian tea fortune permeate this wr

Author: Michael Holroyd
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: biography, new, strachey, lytton
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2005-12-12
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393327191
ISBN-13: 9780393327199

"A triumphant success. . . . His prose is confident, clear . . . occasionally perfect." —Dennis Potter, The Times (London) "It is impossible to suppose that this ‘Life’ will ever be superseded . . . the best literary biography to appear for many years."—John Rothenstein, New York Times "Written with vivacity and scrupulousness. . . . [Michael Holroyd] has a great novelist’s sense of the obstinate mystery of the human person."—George Steiner, The New Yorker 30 b/w and 4 color photographs

Author: Trevor Holroyd
Publisher: T.Telford
Keywords: estimating, principles
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2000-08-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 072772763X
ISBN-13: 9780727727633

Current practice on most contracts dictates that the engineer deals with engineering matters and the quantity surveyor covers the commercial aspects. As a result, engineers have become increasingly uneasy at setting rates, evaluating claims and of pricing work generally. This book provides engineers with a sound all round ability and commercial adeptness in price estimating. Author Trevor Holroyd draws on his experience of consulting and professional training in his latest book which will appeal to civil and structural engineers, surveyors, contractors, consulting practices, further and higher

Author: Stuart Holroyd
Publisher: Old King’s Road press
Keywords: encounter, message, hope, mankind, unique, record, briefing, space, controversial, nine
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2005
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 1880941988
ISBN-13: 9781880941980

Authors:Charles Sanders Peirce,  Charles Hartshorne, P
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: papers, logic, published, mathematics, exact, simplest, volumes, charles, sanders, peirce, collected, iii
Number of Pages: 1064
Published: 1933-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0674138015
ISBN-13: 9780674138018

Volumes I-VIII of the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce are being reissued in response to a growing interest in Peirce’s thought--a development that was prophesied by John Dewey when he reviewed the first volume of these papers on their appearance in 1931. Writing in The New Republic, Mr. Dewey said , "Nothing much will happen in philosophy as long as a main object among philosophers is defense of some formulated historical position. I do not know of any other thinker more calculated than Peirce to give emanipation from the intellectual fortifications of the past and to arouse

Authors:Charles Darwin,  Charles W. Eliot,
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: part, classics, harvard, beagle, voyage
Number of Pages: 556
Published: 2004-01-11
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0766182142
ISBN-13: 9780766182141

1909. The text of the present volume shows without further comment the nature of Darwin’s labors and their results on his momentous voyage. A few sentences gathered from his autobiography will, however, throw some additional light upon the more personal aspects of the expedition. "The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career. I have always felt that I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind."