The Carpenter's Pencil

Author: Manuel Rivas
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468305255
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111

Book Description
The acclaimed Galician author’s novel of the Spanish Civil War is “a sincere and beautiful portrait of a brutal, ugly period of Spanish history” (The Guardian). Novelist and El País journalist Manuel Rivas has been heralded as one of the brightest in a new wave of Spanish authors. Originally written in Galician, his native language, The Carpenter’s Pencil was a bestseller in Spain and has been published in nine countries. Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, The Carpenter’s Pencil charts the linked destinies of Dr. Daniel Da Barca, a Republican who cheats death in General Franco’s prisons; Herbal, an illiterate Falangist and Da Barca’s shadow; and an unnamed painter with the carpenter’s pencil, the man who unites them in life and death. It is also the story of Marisa Mallo, loved by both Da Barca and Herbal; Pepe Sánchez, the bolero singer; “Genghis Khan,” the wrestler; and the legend of two estranged sisters, Life and Death. All of these and more are bound by the events of the war. And all are rendered, in Rivas’s skillful hand, with the power of the carpenter’s pencil, a pencil that draws both the measured line and the artist’s fanciful vision.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Calligraphy

Author: Jane Eldershaw
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028641546
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Provides information about how to get started writing calligraphy, the tools, the technique, where calligraphy is used, and different styles, including Roman, foundational, and gothic.

Ancient Carpenters' Tools

Author: Henry C. Mercer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486320219
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Over 250 illustrations depict tools identical to ancient devices once used by Greeks, Egyptians, and Chinese, including axes, saws, clamps, chisels, mallets, and much more. Invaluable sourcebook.

The Pencil

Author: Henry Petroski
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0679734155
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology today.

Graphite

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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Book Description

Adolph Menzel, 1815-1905

Author: Adolph Menzel
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300069545
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Book Description
Famous across Europe and America, recipient of the highest possible honours in Germany including the order of the Black Eagle and elevation to nobility, admired by Degas as 'the greatest living master', Adolph Menzel was perhaps the greatest German painter of the late nineteenth century. In this splendidly illustrated book - the only comprehensive volume on Menzel in English - photographs of the artist and contemporary Berlin accompany reproductions of hundreds of his paintings and drawings. Menzel specialists and art historians contribute chapters on his life and art, his visits to France, his critical reception, relevant social and historical background, and different approaches to his work. Until recently, Menzel's many paintings and drawings were separated from one another in collections on either side of the Berlin Wall. Now, in the wake of reunification, the Berlin Museums have put together the most extensive Menzel exhibit since the retrospective that followed his death in 1905. This book is the catalogue for the exhibit that had its debut at the Musee D'Orsay in Paris (April 15 to July 28), travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (September 15, 1996 to January 5, 1997) and returns to Nationalgalerie in Berlin (February 7 to May 11, 1997).

Popular Mechanics

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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Carpenter

Author: Peter James McGuire
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carpenters
Languages : en
Pages : 830

Book Description

Audels Carpenters and Builders Guide ... #1-4

Author: Frank Duncan Graham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 488

Book Description

Books Burn Badly

Author: Manuel Rivas
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409089495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 563

Book Description
On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruña and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. With this moment a young carefree group of friends are transformed into a broken generation. Out of this incident during the early months of Spain's tragic civil war, Manuel Rivas weaves a colourful tapestry of stories and unforgettable characters to create a panorama of twentieth-century Spanish history. For it is not only the lives of Hercules the boxer and his friends that are tainted by the unending conflict, but also those of a young washerwoman who sees souls in the clouded river water and the stammering son of a judge who uncovers his father's hidden library. As the singed pages fly away on the breeze, their stories live on in the minds of their readers.