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Leonard Stern II

Leonard Stern II

A K Binder

Independently Published
2019
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Teil 2 der "Leonard Stern" Trilogie: Nachdem die Agenten und Sonden aus Loco-Pacis viele Informationen gesammelt haben, entschlie t sich Loco-Pacis Erster Hegemon Leonard Stern dazu, mit Znaash, dem Herrscher der Garumas, zusammenzuarbeiten. Er und die Agenten wissen, dass auch die Echsen nur Opfer der Insekten namens Waasphs sind. Gemeinsam bereiten sie ein T uschungsman ver vor, w hrend die CONCORDIA, das zurzeit einzige Gro kampfschiff Leonard Sterns, die vor kurzem entdeckten Werften in verschiedenen Systemen der Insekten zerst rt, um eine weitere Expansion zu verhindern oder zumindest zu verz gern. Die CONCORDIA schafft es auch, eine Brutmutter aus einer unterirdischen Anlage der Waasphs zu entf hren. Die gefangene Brutmutter ist mit Untersuchungen einverstanden, die mehr ber den Brutzyklus der Insekten zum Vorschein bringen sollen. Auf Galorthh, der Heimatwelt der Waasphs und der Garumas, stirbt die alte Waasph-K nigin Shiraz und stellt die Insekten vor ein gewaltiges Problem. Nicht nur eine der Brutm tter verwandelt sich in eine K nigin, wie es seit ewigen Zeiten von der Natur vorgesehen war, sondern viele davon. Tausende von Loco-Pacis ausgesandte Robot-Aufkl rer sto en bei ihrer Suche nach weiteren besiedelten Welten der Waasphs auf ein System in dem sich zwei von Menschen bewohnte Planeten befinden. Stern und die Roboter kommen zu dem Schluss, dass diese Parallelentwicklung nicht nat rlich entstanden sein kann. In einem abgest rzten Schiff auf einer der beiden Welten finden sie Koordinaten, die Leonard mit seinem neuen Schiff, der VIDES PACIFICUM, anfliegt und untersucht. Aus den Speicherdaten der dort gefundenen Schiffstr mmer, die auf eine gewaltige Raumschlacht schlie en lassen, k nnen die Techniker weitere Koordinaten sichern und das Flaggschiff folgt deren Spuren bis in ein weiteres von Menschen besiedeltes System, das von fremden Schiffen bedroht wird. Leonard Stern ruft alle neu gebauten Schlacht- und Gro kampfschiffe aus Loco-Pacis zu Hilfe, um die dort lebenden Murundi zu besch tzen. Diese Menschen stammen von Ion-Gan, der der Ursprungsplanet der Menschheit sein soll. Gemeinsam k nnen sie die Flotte der Jorthrioser, wie sich die aggressiven Echsen nennen, besiegen. Doch die K mpfe gehen weiter, eine unbekannte Macht unterst tzt die Jorthrioser, kann es sich dabei um die sagenumworbenen Khool-Rhaa handeln?
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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Christophe Lebold

Luath Press Ltd
2024
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Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. Like Abraham, he moved from place to place and remained a stranger everywhere. But he never ceased doing what he did best: stepping into avalanches and reviving our hearts. From Montreal and New York to the Greek island of Hydra, Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall follows the singer’s cosmopolitan life and examines his perpetual dialogues with God, with himself, and with hotel rooms.After twenty years of research, Christophe Lebold, who spent time with the poet in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission the singer had set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light.'The first edition of my book was published in French in late 2013 to good reviews and few readers. Then came 2014. Leonard tells me that if we must meet, it should be soon. He tells me why. A few months later, I am on a plane to Los Angeles.From the first minute, we spoke like old friends, sometimes until late at night. Although he was not well, he let me watch him live for a little. We said things to each other that I can’t repeat. It is not that they are secret; they are just very delicate. Like butterflies or hummingbirds. To repeat them would destroy them.We met again in Los Angeles two months later (he seemed in much better shape). We spent a last afternoon together; we hung out; we had a laugh; smoked a cigarette. And it was time to go.We stayed in touch. We were now friends. In his emails, he always talked about his health as an amusing detail, a little whim of the body. Two weeks before his death, I got a last, humorous, loving email warning me that the “body ferociously insists on gravitational rights.” A little nod at my theme of the fall of men and angels. And then, he left. It broke my heart, of course, but that’s what hearts are for.'
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Leonard Cohen Poems

Leonard Cohen Poems

Leonard Cohen

Everyman's Library
2011
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This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm Your Man' and searingly memorable poems from many collections including Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers and Death of a Lady's Man. Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the mystical and the sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of dazzling intelligence and live-wire emotional immediacy.
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Leonard Russell Squirrell Rws Re: East Anglian Artist 1893 - 1979

Leonard Russell Squirrell Rws Re: East Anglian Artist 1893 - 1979

Josephine Walpole

ACC Art Books
2020
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Leonard Squirrell RWS RE (1893-1979), the 'Grand Old Man of East Anglian Painting', was known and loved by many people well outside the boundaries of East Anglia and admired by many more as an outstanding topographical artist. Ranked by many collectors and connoisseurs with John Sell Cotman, Thomas Girtin, Philip Wilson Steer (who taught him) and other famous East Anglian artists, his works are not only eminently collectable but, as pointed out by Michael Weaver in his foreword, 'a remarkable record of the twentieth century world, rural and urban landscapes that have disappeared or are rapidly vanishing'. While the author's earlier titles on the artist were appropriate at the time of their publication in the 1980s and '90s, it was felt that now was the right time to publish a larger format volume with more color images so that Squirrell's paintings could speak for themselves. It is hoped that this volume will remind previous Squirrell admirers of his work as well as show a new generation of art lovers what Leonard Squirrell was and what he did. Despite an almost life-long enthusiasm for art and artists, Josephine Walpole initially bowed to parental pressure and qualified as an accountant. Some years on, she was able to change direction and for three years trained privately under the late Start Somerville, from whom she learnt not only to paint, but also much of the philosophy of art and artists. She subsequently ran her own gallery for over twenty years which further qualified her to write about them. Her first full- length work was Anna, a biography of Anna Zinkeisen, published in 1979. Eleven futher books by her include Leonard Squirrell R.W.S., R.E.: A Biographical Scrapbook, Vernon Ward: An Edwardian Childhood, Art and Artists of the Norwich School, Kenneth Webb: A Life in Colour and A History and Dictionary of British Flower Painters 1650-1950.
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Leonard Manasseh & Partners

Leonard Manasseh & Partners

Timothy Brittain-Catlin

RIBA Enterprises
2010
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Leonard Manasseh was an ‘architect’s architect’, greatly admired by his contemporaries both on a personal and professional level. He came to prominence at the Festival of Britain and went on to be one of the leading British architects of the 1960s, designing private houses and offices as well as major public commissions. Timothy Brittain-Catlin, architect and architectural historian at the University of Kent, describes how the work of Leonard Manasseh and Partners expresses one of the central themes of the 1950s and 1960s – the apparent conflict between the architect as creative artist on one hand, and as rational technologist and scientist on the other. Leonard Manasseh and his partner Ian Baker were lauded for producing modernist designs that were in keeping with their historical settings or landscapes. Examples include industrial buildings in rural settings, a study for King’s Lynn, undertaken with architect-planner Elizabeth Chesterton, and the project that is most commonly associated with the practice, the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. Lavishly illustrated with images from Manasseh’s private archive and stunning new photography, this book is an essential read for architects, students and enthusiasts for modernism wanting to learn more about a key practice in British post-war architecture. This book has been commissioned as part of a series of books on Twentieth Century Architects by RIBA Publishing, English Heritage and the Twentieth Century Society.
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Leonard Freed: Police Work

Leonard Freed: Police Work

Reel Art Press
2023
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The definitive collection of Leonard Freed's acclaimed photographs of the New York police department during the turbulent 1970sMagnum photographer Leonard Freed worked alongside the New York police for several years, documenting the gritty reality of life on the beat at a notorious time of soaring crime and great social unrest, with the city near bankruptcy. Of his near-decade with the police department, Freed observed that "What I saw were average people doing a sometimes boring, sometimes corrupting, sometimes dangerous and ugly and unhealthy job." His nuanced essay has a poignancy and grace, capturing the camaraderie of officers alongside the people they are hired to protect. Freed accompanied the NYPD on murder investigations, drug raids, public demonstrations and community outreach initiatives, as well as documenting the ordinary daily grind of the job. This reedited and redesigned take on Freed's original 1980 book features several unseen photographs from the archive. It is a celebration of this complex and compassionate body of work, which has a social resonance and relevance in today's climate. Born in Brooklyn, New York, photojournalist Leonard Freed (1929-2006) rose to prominence for his portrayal of societal and racial injustices, particularly in relation to the black community during the American civil rights movement in the 1960s. He is also renowned for his numerous insightful photo essays on the Jewish community in Amsterdam and Germany, the Yom Kippur War, Asian immigration in England, North Sea oil development, Spain after Franco and his essays on the New York police department in the 1970s, among others.
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Leonard Freed: Black In White America 1963-1965

Leonard Freed: Black In White America 1963-1965

Leonard Freed; Eli Reed

Reel Art Press
2020
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The definitive collection of Leonard Freed's seminal and timely 1968 civil rights photo-essay, in a fresh and expanded editionIn 1962, white American photojournalist Leonard Freed was on assignment in Berlin. He photographed an African American soldier standing in front of the wall. The irony of this soldier defending the US on foreign soil while African Americans at home were fighting for their civil rights resonated with Freed. On his return to the States in 1963 he photographed the march on Washington and began a journey across the United States to document the anxiety and tension within Black communities in the North and South. From 1963 to 1965, he captured the plight of African Americans and the great struggle for racial equality within a deeply segregated, racist society.This extraordinary collection of images--from Martin Luther King, Jr. greeting an eager crowd in an open-topped car to incarcerated Black men in the Deep South and families living defiantly ordinary lives--conveys with power and dignity the exhausting, endless struggle of being Black in white America.The photographs in this new edition have been reproduced from the original negatives and using vintage prints created by Freed's master printer and widow, Brigitte Freed, as reference. Freed's Black in White America series has never been published in such quality and detail before, and many images are being published for the first time. The photographs are accompanied by text from Freed's original diaries from the time. It is published in close collaboration with the Freed Estate and features a foreword from fellow Magnum photographer Eli Reed.Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an acclaimed American documentary photojournalist and member of Magnum Photos. Born and raised in working-class Brooklyn, Freed rose to prominence for his portrayal of societal and racial injustices, particularly in relation to the Black community during the American civil rights movement in the 1960s. He is also renowned for his photo-essays on the Jewish community in Amsterdam and Germany, the Yom Kippur War, Asian immigration in England, North Sea oil development, Spain after Franco and the New York police department in the 1970s, among others.
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Leonard Rosoman

Leonard Rosoman

Tanya Harrod

Royal Academy of Arts
2017
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Drawing on the artist's substantial archives, renowned design historian Tanya Harrod takes the work of Leonard Rosoman OBE RA (1913-2012) and skilfully weaves analysis of his ouevre into a richer understanding of his context. The range of Rosoman's output is extraordinary. This book encompasses the period in which Rosoman created the bulk of his work: from his time in the Auxiliary Fire Service in London and as an Official War Artist in the far east, to his work for the theatre and as an illustrator, painter and teacher. Harrod places especial emphasis on Rosoman's large-scale murals for the restored chapel at Lambeth Palace and at Burlington House, home to the Royal Academy, an institution he was an integral part of for over half a century. In her engaging assessment of Rosoman's remarkable work, Harrod gives the reader a thorough grasp of this underrated artist and his world. Image credits: Woman Touching a Rhinoceros, 1982, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 152; The Backdrop, New York, 1983, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122; The Unbelievable Goldfish, 1986, Gouache on paper, 28 x 28; Self-portrait with Cat: The Huey Series, Gouache on paper, 36 x 25; The King and Queen, 1973, Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 126. (c) Roxanne Rosoman and the Estate of Leonard Rosoman; Photography: Jason Wierzbick.
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LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL

LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL

Ronan Hession

Bluemoose Books Ltd
2019
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LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL is the story of two friends who ordinarily would remain uncelebrated. It finds a value and specialness in them that is not immediately apparent and prompts the idea that maybe we could learn from the people that we overlook in life. Leonard and Hungry Paul change the world differently to the rest of us: we try and change it by effort and force; they change it by discovering the small things they can do well and offering them to others.
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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Jeffrey Lewis

Haus Publishing
2024
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The Leonard Cohen at the center of Leonard Cohen: A Novel is an everyman, a would-be artist, a would-be lover, a would-be tragic figure, yet a man haunted by the greatness of his namesake. He struggles to compete. He struggles to be more than a punchline in his own mind. He struggles, in particular, to write one song as great as the least of the great Leonard Cohen's songs. At the center of Leonard's life is Daphne. In their meeting on a Greek island, a contemporary fable of Daphne and Apollo plays out. But even with Daphne, Leonard is shadowed by the "other" Leonard Cohen, whom he fears is the real Apollo. The ancient myth haunts the fated lovers, and the “nobody” Leonard Cohen’s life becomes at once a mystery, a miracle, and a myth on its own terms. Once upon a time, Apollo fell hard for Daphne, who turned herself into a laurel tree. No less a fate awaits the protagonists of this slender yet universal novel, where art, love, and fame all fatefully intertwine.
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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Jeffrey Lewis

Haus Publishing
2025
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A man who shares his name with a famous singer must grapple with his identity, purpose, and love. The Leonard Cohen at the center of Leonard Cohen: A Novel is an everyman, a would-be artist, a would-be lover, a would-be tragic figure, yet a man haunted by the greatness of his namesake. He struggles to compete. He struggles to be more than a punchline in his own mind. He struggles, in particular, to write one song as great as the least of the great Leonard Cohen's songs. At the center of Leonard's life is Daphne. In their meeting on a Greek island, a contemporary fable of Daphne and Apollo plays out. But even with Daphne, Leonard is shadowed by the other Leonard Cohen, whom he fears is the real Apollo. The ancient myth haunts the fated lovers, and the nobody Leonard Cohen's life becomes at once a mystery, a miracle, and a myth on its own terms. Once upon a time, Apollo fell hard for Daphne, who turned herself into a laurel tree. No less a fate awaits the protagonists of this slender yet universal novel, where art, love, and fame all fatefully intertwine.
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Leonard Bailey and his Woodworking Planes

Leonard Bailey and his Woodworking Planes

Paul Van Pernis; John G. Wells

Astragal Press
2020
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New Englander Leonard Bailey was one of the inventive geniuses of the American Industrial Revolution. His designs and patented inventions solved problems with woodworking planes that had plagued craftsmen for centuries. His planes allowed woodworkers to transition from the age of wooden carpenter’s planes to modern, metallic, fully adjustable planes suitable for any kind of woodworking. His plane designs are still in use throughout the world and are essentially unchanged from the planes he first made in the 1860’s. He deserves more credit than he has received among America’s great inventors. This book covers the thirty-two-year period in Leonard Bailey’s life between 1852 when he began inventing, making and selling woodworking tools in Winchester, Massachusetts, through his years at the Stanley Rule & Level Company from 1869–1874, and ends in 1884 when he worked in Hartford, Connecticut, and sold his Victor Tool business to the Stanley Rule & Level Company.
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For lack of a sIlver spoon: Poetry by Leonard Wood Sr.

For lack of a sIlver spoon: Poetry by Leonard Wood Sr.

Leonard Wood Snr

Sea-Hill Press
2015
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Leonard Wood Sr. is a prisoner in the Ohio State prison system. This collection of his Bible-based Christian poetry has been written with thoughtful intent since his incarceration in 1996. His goal is to inspire and encourage others who are facing difficult circumstances and trials of life.This collection includes 50 of his inspirational works of poetry.
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Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years

Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years

Michael Posner

Simon Schuster
2020
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The extraordinary life of one of the world’s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best.Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon—there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and inspiring people everywhere with his work. From his groundbreaking and bestselling novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, to timeless songs such as “Suzanne,” “Dance Me to the End of Love,” and “Hallelujah,” Cohen is a cherished artist. His death in 2016 was felt around the world by the many fans and followers who would miss his warmth, humour, intellect, and piercing insights. Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories chronicles the full breadth of his extraordinary life. The first of three volumes—The Early Years—follows him from his boyhood in Montreal to university, and his burgeoning literary career to the world of music, culminating with his first international tour in 1970. Through the voices of those who knew him best—family and friends, colleagues and contemporaries, rivals, business partners, and his many lovers—the book probes deeply into both Cohen’s public and private life. It also paints a portrait of an era, the social, cultural, and political revolutions that shook the 1960s. In this revealing and entertaining first volume, bestselling author and biographer Michael Posner draws on hundreds of interviews to reach beyond the Cohen of myth and reveal the unique, complex, and compelling figure of the real man.
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Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: From This Broken Hill, Volume 2

Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: From This Broken Hill, Volume 2

Michael Posner

Simon Schuster
2021
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The second volume of the extraordinary life of the great music and literary icon Leonard Cohen, in the words of those who knew him best.Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon—there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and inspiring the world with his work. From his groundbreaking and bestselling novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, to timeless songs such as “Suzanne,” “Dance Me to the End of Love,” and “Hallelujah,” Cohen is one of the world’s most cherished artists. His death in 2016 was felt around the world by the many fans and followers who would miss his warmth, humour, intellect, and piercing insights. Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories chronicles the full breadth of his extraordinary life. This second of three volumes—From This Broken Hill—follows him from the conclusion of his first international music tour in 1971 as he continued to compose poetry, record music, and search for meaning into the late 1980s. The book explores his decade-long relationships with Suzanne Elrod, with whom he had two children, and various other numerous romantic partners, including the beginning of his long relationship with French photographer Dominique Issermann and, simultaneously, a five-year relationship with a woman never previously identified. It is a challenging time for Cohen. His personal life is in chaos and his career stumbles, so much so that his 1984 album, Various Positions, is rejected by Columbia Records, while other artistic endeavours fail to find an audience. However, this period also marks the start of his forty-year immersion in Zen Buddhism, which would connect him to the legendary Zen master Joshu Sasaki Roshi and inspire some of his most profound and enduring art. In From This Broken Hill, bestselling author and biographer Michael Posner draws on hundreds of interviews to reach beyond the Cohen of myth and reveal the unique, complex, and compelling figure of the real man. Honest and entertaining, this is a must-have book for any Cohen fan.
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