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Many Indonesian landscape artists in the early part of the twentieth century were clearly influenced by the somewhat romantic style landscape paintings of expatriate Europeans and Japanese living in Indonesia. However, there were also a number of indigenous and Indo- European realist landscape painters who, from the early to mid-twentieth century, developed a style commonly referred to as Mooi Indie. This book has its genesis in trips to England and southern Europe taken in the 1970s where the author experienced, and was attracted to, the beauty and technical skills of eighteenth- to mid-nineteenth century naturalist English landscape school painters and the derivative French Barbizon plein - air school. Although influenced by the above schools, Mooi Indie painters had their own unique subject matter, perspective, brush strokes and palette which make their work instantly recognizable and eminently worthy of respect. The largest concentration of Mooi Indie painters was in Bandung, West Java. Apart from Basuki Abdullah, Mas Pirngadie, Suriosubroto and Sukardji, most of their work is little known. One family living at Bandung included three superb Mooi Indie painters of which Basar Idjonati was the most distinguished.
Harlan Crumpton's Cow Barn Restaurant tells the tale of a mountain man who throughout his younger years has failed at everything he's tried. After years of being mocked and ridiculed by his own family and then co-workers at a factory job where he's employed, Harlan comes to view himself as a nobody. Then he finally finds acceptance because the one thing he can do well... cooking. After that he finds success when he becomes the head cook and manager of a cow barn that has been converted to a restaurant. However, once Harlan finally gets a taste of acceptance and success along with the money and prestige it brings him, it starts going to his head.So what is going to take to bring Harlan the back to the one thing he lost since the days of feeling like a nobody... a very important thing called humility. Come on into this fourth installment of the tales and taradiddles of Klufford's Holler to find out what happens to a proud heart that needs humbled, and what's cookin' in Harlan Crumpton's Cow Barn Restaurant
Tonto, a cross-eyed, ADHD affected little Weenie Dog with only one testicle is suddenly called upon to save the world from an alien invasion Can he do the job? Well, perhaps, if a compulsively cursing alcoholic super-genius and his co-ed groupies combine forces with an cigar-chomping Italian from the pentagon and his air headed secretary. And of course they have to have help from Tonto's owners, who think politicians aren't much smarter than lizards.Get ready for a wild and crazy ride with Tonto and his friends, the most amazing characters Darrell Bain has created in his eclectic writing career.This is a science fiction novel so insane it only begins to make sense when it's discovered that the aliens had a part in Tonto's conception to begin with
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher, who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities. Starting in 1657, Pascal began to write notes that would be posthumously organized and published as the Pens es ("Thoughts"). In this, his most famous work, Pascal often writes with great philosophical profundity about his position on faith, the human condition, the meaning of life, the way to happiness, and other philosophical and theological questions. The most often cited portion of the collection is Pascal's famed "Wager," in which he states that it is more advantageous for religious skeptics to embrace a belief in God as they ultimately have more to lose if the existence of God, in particular the Christian God, is revealed after death. In this book are collected the most profound and thought-provoking passages from the Pens es, along with occasional explanation and commentary by Darrell Wright.
The book Teacher Teacher, takes readers on a fantastic school voyage as seen through the eyes of Joshua Stephens, a 12-year old African American student. While moving from school to school and from grade to grade Joshua experiences many new scenarios, people, and of course new teachers. Being the new black boy, Joshua finds himself constantly having to prove himself as a literary genius to all his often times nonsensical teachers. Readers will quickly connect with Joshua Stephens, as Etienne takes us on his schooling journey using such wit, humor and vulnerability. This well crafted autobiographical work will leave you laughing out loud nodding your head, and maybe even shedding a tear. You wont want to put this book down.
